"Woo~~"

"Click!"

"Click!

With the sound of a melodious siren, a black Crown sedan slowly drove into a secluded freight yard in the port area. When the police officers located outside the cordon guided the car to a specific parking position, a cadre of the first search section who had been waiting here for a long time hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully opened the door handle of the car.

"I'm sorry to ask you to come here while you're busy with other cases!"

"It's okay, the identity of the deceased has been confirmed, Aso-san!"

The identification class has already checked the fingerprints of the deceased, and now it can be confirmed that the deceased is the one who has been missing for many days after the murder of the president of the Sumiyoshi Association, Harushi Fukuda...... Tadamasa Amato. The deceased was shot three times, two of which hit the deceased's vital parts, which was also the cause of the deceased's eventual death......"

"Can the time of death be determined?"

"Hey, it should have been around two o'clock last night, and the body was found by the yard workers who came to work in the morning. Judging from the traces at the scene, there are no other clues other than some footprints and tire prints......"

"Ah...... It's a headache! Now the clue is broken again! Originally...... We also thought that after we caught Atento Tadamasa, we would see if we could gain anything, and now it seems that the murderer of Fukuda Harushi should be someone else!"

Hearing Kosuke Aso's report, Section Chief Matsuda couldn't help but scratch his scalp and said with some distress, and Lin Shuichi couldn't help frowning at this time, and suddenly thought of what he learned in the Tokyo Detention Center yesterday.

"Senior...... If I'm not mistaken, this Tadashi Tento was also held in the Tokyo Detention Center for a while! If so, his death ...... Could it be that it has something to do with Hojo Saishi?"

"Tadamasa Amato, this guy is Harushi Fukuda's right-hand man, I remember...... It is precisely for this reason that after Tento Tadamasa was released from prison that year, he was quickly honored by Harushi Fukuda. Since then, he has been rising steadily in the Sumiyoshi Society. It stands to reason...... Fukuda Harushi has the grace of knowing Amato Tadamasa, he shouldn't have a reason to kill Fukuda Haruma!"

Hearing Section Chief Matsuda's analysis, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but feel a little reasonable. Thereupon...... He and Goro Matsuda came to the place where the body was found together under the leadership of Kosuke Aso, and after Lin Xiuyi habitually saluted the deceased, he took out his gloves and gently put them on his hands, and then squatted down and examined them carefully.

"There seems to be some regular-shaped blood stains on my face......! Is this a shoe print?"

"Hey, there are also traces of being trampled on the gunshot wound on the thigh!"

Under the reminder of his colleagues in the identification class, Lin Xiuyi quickly took a closer look at the wounds on the deceased's thighs. After seeing the traces there, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but say with some sympathy:

"It seems...... The deceased was tortured by the murderer before he died!"

"Huh?"

"Senior, do you remember the appearance of Fukuda's body when he was killed?"

"Well, both of the fingers of that corpse were cut off alive, which means that he was also tortured before he was killed!"

"Hey! but ...... Do you remember that Goro Sakuraba once mentioned it in the video...... He said that there had been a collision with Fukuda's car at the Silver Imperial Hotel 20 years ago. If you take this into account. I think ...... Perhaps there should be a connection between the deaths of Harushi Fukuda and Tadashi Amato, and the escape from the Tokyo Detention Center. ”

"But...... If so, who is the murderer?"

Hearing Lin Xiuyi's analysis, Kosuke Aso couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.

Hearing Kosuke Aso's question, Lin Xiuyi didn't answer, only to see him slowly take off his gloves first, and then carefully received them in his arms. After doing all this, Lin Xiuyi said slowly:

"Perhaps...... Someone else besides us is looking for Mr. Kuroda's whereabout......s! In the short term, I will not be worried about Mr. Kuroda's safety. So...... Let's start with the deceased Saishi Hojo!"

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"Miki senior...... I found a copy of Hojo's health records before his death, you see......"

Hearing Urashima's call, Miki quickly stopped what she was doing, and then raised her head a little tired.

"What's wrong?"

"Senior...... I compared the health reports of Saishi Hojo in the first few years after his imprisonment and found that ...... In the two years before his death, various physical indicators had declined to varying degrees, but ...... In the death confirmation of Hojo Saishi, there is no mention of any illness he suffers from......"

"Huh?"

Hearing the question mentioned by Urashima, Miki couldn't help but pick up a few health reports and compare them carefully.

"Although I don't know much about medicine, judging from the values given in the report, it seems that Hojo's body has suddenly shown signs of drastic changes in just two years. According to the death records left at that time, there is no mention of what disease Hojo Saishi replaced. ”

Miki spread out several health reports and put them on the table, and then carefully compared each report, and indeed as Urashima said, Hojo Saishi seemed to have some kind of physical problem two years before his death. But...... In the death report of Hojo Saishi, there is no mention of his illness.

"It's so strange that the death report only says that Hojo died suddenly when he was in the past, but ...... Judging from the health report, it seems that Hojo Saishi has some kind of chronic disease. Anyway, let's let Forensic Officer Tanaka take a look at it first!"

"Hey, senior, did you find anything over there?"

"On my side, if I find out, this Hojo Saishi is really a person with a complicated background! You see...... According to the information we received from other inmates, after being imprisoned, Hojo Kishi first persuaded the prison authorities to hand over the management of the cafeteria to the inmates, and then ...... He also founded a number of other mutual aid groups for prisoners...... Some people even qualified as tax accountants while serving their prison sentences because of his actions...... It's just incredible!"

"Tax-lawyer, that must be a very strict exam!"

"Yes! I just checked on the Internet, and it is said that there are only about 80,000 people in the country who are qualified as tax accountants...... I really can't imagine that there are prisoners who are serving their sentences to be able to obtain such a difficult qualification. ”