Chapter 44: Jun Makura's motives

In the transfer room of the Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters, Aizawa sat in front of the suspect Makura Jun with a serious expression, quietly waiting for Makura's confession. At another table next to her, Hanagata sat in front of her laptop, waiting to record her entire interrogation.

"Excuse me, may I have a drink?"

It seems that Makura Jun has no choice but to confess his crimes, so he first makes a small request of his own. If it were for alcohol, I probably wouldn't have thought about it so much!

"I'm sorry! We can't satisfy you on that! Because then there is a suspicion of inducement. In addition, we can't provide you with too good food or other unusual requests, if you need it, I can pour you a cup of coffee or tea......"

Aizawa shook his head at first, and then gave an explanation to Makura. For the police, the last thing they want to see is that the fruits of their hard work are seized by the defense lawyers, so that they are not accepted by the court. Moreover, if it comes to the litigation stage, Makura Jun bites back and says that he confesses to the crime in a moment of confusion because he drank the good wine given to him by the police, then the police are really at a loss for words.

"Forget it, I have no regrets about being able to eat a bowl of Sapporo ramen before I get caught!"

Makura Jun comforted himself, then nodded, indicating that he could already start being questioned by the police.

"So, let's start with why you killed Shuntaro Kobayashi!"

"Hey, actually, I've never seen each other before I killed him again. During that time, I was actually struggling with one thing, and who knew that at this time, I unexpectedly contacted Naoto Asuda, who I hadn't contacted for a long time!"

"So, you and Naoto Asuda knew each other before?"

"Hey, when I was younger, I had this dream in my heart to go to Tokyo, and I met Naoto Asuta as a colleague in a real estate firm. This guy may seem unremarkable, but he is a very smart guy who will recommend some housekeeping staff to help clients clean their houses while selling their houses. At first, we thought he was not doing a good job, after all, as long as we sold the house we could get a big commission, but he quickly resigned from the firm and set up his own domestic service employment agency. Later, he became a partner of our firm......"

"So, since you took the initiative to contact the other party, that means that you proposed the method of exchanging killings?"

Hearing this, Aizawa suddenly took the initiative to ask this crucial question. After all, this involves the determination of the criminal principal offender (called the criminal principal offender in Japan, we call it the principal offender), if Makura first mentioned the suggestion of killing, Makura will be treated as a criminal principal offender, and the sentence will naturally be heavier than the other two.

"No, at that time, I just wanted to borrow money from Naoto Asuda, because ...... Because my girlfriend who was living together at the time was pregnant, and I was not young, we were always looking forward to buying a house and settling down...... However, when Asuda heard my request for money, he made a condition that I would not have to return the loan, and he told me that if I could help him kill someone, he would give me a sum of money, which would be enough for me to deal with the trouble at hand......"

When Makura said this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and his tone began to choke up a little, obviously he thought of the choice he made at the beginning, and now he regrets it.

"So, you're agreeing to him?"

"No, actually, at first, I refused! But at that time, I was really in a difficult situation, seeing my girlfriend's belly getting bigger day by day, but I couldn't tell him the cruel reality that we had to continue to live in a rented house. So, after thinking about it for a while, I decided to find someone to talk to!"

"So you got in touch with Takashi Kanai from the Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters, right? How did you two meet?"

Just last year, I got a call from someone who was pitching an investment. Originally, I never believed in pie-in-the-sky. However, at that time, I really wanted to give my girlfriend a stable home. So I ended up throwing some money into it with the idea of giving it a try, and who knew that I could actually make 20 percent in a short period of time. So I believed the of those guys and embezzled some of the customer's purchase money and invested in it. ”

"Is the customer you are talking about the same as Eiji Noguchi, who once bought real estate from you?"

"Hey, that retired professor at the University of Tokyo is really rich. The purchase of that house was paid for in full. However, I happened to be confused at some point, so I secretly changed his purchase contract to installment payment. In this way, I have a large sum of money on my hands. As long as I pay the interest on time, neither the bank nor the landlord will find out anything......"

"You really know how to use your brains, did you lose all the money you embezzled from Eiji Noguchi later, so you had to choose to kill the other party?"

Aizawa looked at the other party coldly, and then waited for the other party's answer. The murderer's motive for killing has always been one of the most critical places in the interrogation record. Because only with sufficient motivation can the prosecution convince the judge that the suspect is likely to have committed the murder.

"No, I only had a little money left to pay for the down payment on the house, but Professor Noguchi suddenly wanted me to propose that he wanted to sell the house and go back to Tokyo, I ...... I really can't help it......"

"You guy, do you have to fill in with someone else's life for the mistakes you made yourself, where has Professor Noguchi done anything wrong from the beginning to the end?"

"Hey, I'm ...... I really don't have anything to say!"

Makura Jun lowered his head in shame and cried a little uncontrollably. But Aizawa doesn't pity this guy at all, if the mistakes he made have to be compensated by the statements of the innocent, such a person is too selfish and too unresponsible.

Seeing that Makura, who could no longer continue to ask, Aizawa shook his head helplessly in the direction of the single lens. Lin Xiuyi immediately glanced at Miki, who immediately left the room in understanding and went to the next door to end today's questioning.