Chapter 100: Empathy

"What is the feeling of the receiving party?"

After listening to the fairy tale roughly told by Miwako Sato, Tang Ze couldn't help but flash this thought in his mind, and he couldn't help blurting it out.

The first empathy was from Mrs. Matsushita's point of view, a greedy and unrestrained guy who can still endure it, which is incredible.

So naturally, the only person with the motive to kill became the focus of Tang Ze's investigation.

At the beginning, the direction of their investigation was Mrs. Matsushita, whether there was any handle in the hands of the other party.

And Mrs. Mitori's constant greedy demand triggered the other party's murderous intention.

But as they investigated, Tang Ze gradually discovered some "abnormalities" in Mrs. Matsushita.

Just like the mental illness of obsessive-compulsive disorder (Note 1), Mrs. Matsushita's inability to refuse what the other party asks for seems to be a similar symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In fact, Tang Ze can almost understand the other party, and he also had obsessive-compulsive disorder about the switch of electric lights in his previous life.

And he has obsessive compulsive disorder with light switches, and there is a reason.

The initial cause was that one day the Tang Ze switch was not pressed properly, and the switch of the electric light was stuck in the middle.

Then the lights blink back and forth between "on" and "off".

As a result, the light bulb burned.

Although his parents said that the light broke down after a long time, Tang Ze often had to press it a few more times every time he turned off the light.

After a long time, it will slowly become serious, and you have to knock on the switch many times.

Although after crossing, for some reason there is no such problem, but he still knows this psychology very well.

And according to his guess, Mrs. Matsushita may have experienced certain things, so she will become the kind of "alternative obsessive-compulsive disorder" that will give the other party when she is asked for items.

And what happened to her daughter downstairs in the piano class before May, and May's words when she asked Tang Ze to help keep her hat, also really proved this.

But such an abnormality weakens the other party's killing ability.

Because OCD is such a painful condition, you know it's wrong, but you can't help but do it.

Mrs. Matsushita may have been dissatisfied with Sanae's request, but she knew that part of the reason was because of herself.

Instead of having the courage to kill, she only needs to turn her face with the other party to end it, and the contradiction between the two is not enough for Mrs. Matsushita to take the risk to kill.

Even the other party may be waiting for her husband to come back, presumably the other party's husband also knows about the wife's problems, maybe Mrs. Matsushita is just temporary patience.

When her husband comes back, whether he comes forward to warn Sanae Mitori not to come to her house, or directly takes his wife and daughter to the embassy to hide abroad, he can stop all this.

Therefore, Tang Ze feels that there are other factors that are influencing, at least to intensify the contradictions, so that Mrs. Matsushita has the reason for "impulsive killing".

I was puzzled by Mrs. Matsushita's "abnormal" question before, so when I was empathetic, Tang Ze always thought from the other party's point of view.

But now, after most of this doubt was solved, he suddenly realized that he did not seem to be looking at the problem from the position of Mrs. Mitori.

It's like in a fairy tale where a prince gives gold to a poor man, and he is rightfully grateful to the poor.

But what if the "poor" who received it did not achieve "happiness" as the prince thought?

We are always on the high side, unilaterally thinking that it is a happy story like the title of the fairy tale "The Happy Prince".

But what if the person receiving the alms actually feels "humiliated" instead of "grateful" in their hearts?

"What will the gifted person think?"

Hearing Tang Ze's words, the three of them looked at each other, they had never thought about this problem, everything was so smooth.

But after thinking about Tang Ze's words carefully, he couldn't help but understand the meaning of Tang Ze's words.

"Karasawa-san, are you saying that Sanae Mitori is actually dissatisfied with Mrs. Matsushita's behavior of giving her items?"

After all, Takagi was the partner who investigated the case with Tang Ze, and he quickly sorted out his thoughts and understood the meaning of Tang Ze's words.

"Well, when we investigated, Mrs. Mitori got a lot of things from Mrs. Matsushita, and even some of them were expensive items like necklaces."

Tang Ze touched his chin and said, "But what does Mrs. Mitori do with these items that Mrs. Matsushita wants?" ”

"This... I think most people take good care of it, right? Yumi Miyamoto interjected: "After all, it's what she asked for with a thick face." ”

"In that house?" Tang Ze's mind flashed over the messy room, and he couldn't help frowning, "The giving party and the receiving party, the minds of both sides are foggy." ”

"Ahh Hmmm..."Takagi smiled bitterly, from the meaning of Tang Ze's words, the work of the two of them this afternoon is self-evident.

Although Mrs. Matsushita knew about the other party's "abnormality", her psychology was still unclear, and there was no way to know what Mrs. Mitori thought.

Tang Ze can't be sure whether Mrs. Matsushita is the murderer now, judging from the current situation, the other party does have this motive, but only the motive.

And at this moment, the investigation has fallen into a bottleneck, since there are other ideas and clues, even if it is troublesome, Tang Ze can only continue to go deeper according to this clue first.

There may be a harvest afterwards, but it may also be empty, but it's better than nothing.

After eating, Takagi, who seemed to react from "love", felt the countless murderous eyes around him, and pulled Tang Ze out of the cafeteria in embarrassment.

Coming to the office, Takagi breathed a sigh of relief, "What are we going to do next?" It's going to be lunchtime, so it's not a good time to visit..."

But after waiting for a long time, Takagi didn't wait for Tang Ze's reply.

When he turned his head to look at Tang Ze, he found that Tang Ze was holding the hat that May gave him, and he was looking at something intently...

……….

After the lunch break, the two drove all the way to the house of the Mitori family.

The male owner of the Mitoria family is not at home at the moment, after all, it is the drastic change that his wife was killed at home, even if he can't get the body back for the funeral because of the case for the time being, he needs to contact his mother's family or something.

When the two contacted each other, Mitori Shuji was discussing matters such as the funeral at his father-in-law's house.

But fortunately, a cordon was drawn outside the door, and there were police officers standing guard outside the door, so the two of them entered the room smoothly after showing their documents.

But then it was very embarrassing, and when he came to the scene of the crime again, the messy room in front of him still made Tang Ze frown.

It feels like it's going to take a lot of time.

PS: OCD is medically classified as psychiatric rather than psychological.