At noon the next day, Room 102 of the Kuramae Apartment.

"What? DO YOU COSS INTO DIABLO AND TIE THEM UP INTO THE 'JESUS FRONT' DRAG RAC, WITH THE BACK STILL SITTING ON HOT TIRES? Hey, the manager of the 71 convenience store in the Kanto region, who tortured the guests, this is the first time I've seen it, and it's really cruel, hahahaha. ”

On the phone, Higashino Kohei laughed exaggeratedly.

"Hey, don't mention it, over there at the convenience store, even if those three guys go to clarify and apologize early in the morning, I can't be the manager of the reserve store, and it would be good if I could work as an hourly worker in the future."

Sousuke Araki, who "lost his career in a convenience store", rolled around on the tatami mat with a phone and sighed.

"It's not okay for you to look for a job so blindly, how about discussing with that guy before the second and learning from the experience...... I don't have any position to give you advice...... That guy is a full-time civil servant. ”

Higashino Kohei proposed.

"Two before? I haven't seen you for a while, and I heard that guy is very popular......"

Sosuke Araki thought so and dialed the phone called "Nimazen Ryoma".

Two years ago, Ryoma was also one of the worship brothers who grew up in the welfare home with Sosuke Araki and Kohei Higashino.

Unlike a violent idiot duo like "Yokohama Two-Headed Dog", Ryoma, a few years older than the two, is unexpectedly gifted in learning.

After graduating from high school, that guy was admitted to the Japan Metropolitan Police Department Police Academy in Tokyo as a guaranteed student.

Currently, he is serving as an inspector at the police station next to Shinjuku Gyoen Gyoen...... That is, ordinary patrol officers.

On the other end of the phone, Ryoma enthusiastically said that he was free now and made an appointment to have lunch together.

Just then, someone rang the doorbell of the room.

On the screen of the video doorbell is a man in a police uniform.

The strip came to the door...... Could it be that I was caught illegally dumping garbage?

Do you want to pretend to be absent?

No way, I've made sure there are no items in it that reveal their identity.

Calm, Sosuke Araki, as a repeat offender, this dignity and self-confidence still need to be had.

Thinking so, Sosuke Araki opened the door with a weak heart and an unchanged face.

"Resident, great, we knocked on a lot of doors, and it seems that no one lives...... Have you ever been in contact with Ms. Rika Okinamoto in room 304? ”

304, it seems to be the tall woman.

"I've only just moved here, and I've seen it a few times through the window downstairs, and it seems to be a tall, short-haired woman...... What's wrong? ”

"New residents? I don't think you can ask for any useful information...... It's a shame......"

As he recorded his testimony in his notebook, the young policeman sighed.

"It's a bit of a mess in the room, let's go out and talk."

Sousuke Araki closed the door, expertly handed a cigarette to the other party, and walked outside.

There are still a lot of "goods" in the room that have not had time to be put in, and if someone finds clues from the packaging, they will have to go to jail.

In front of the Kuramae apartment, several police cars and ambulances were parked at the door with flashing sirens.

Many residents of the surrounding community and passers-by watched outside the door of the apartment.

Sosuke Araki lit the cigarette for the other party, and then answered some routine questions according to the other party's request, most of which were about the situation of the 304 household.

At this moment, several medical staff walked down carrying a body bag on a stretcher.

Looking at the shape, it should be a petite woman inside.

"What's wrong? Did something happen? ”

The two who were standing under the eaves and smoking quickly stepped aside.

Seeing the body bag, Sosuke Araki whispered curiously.

The young policeman whispered with some hesitation: "Hey, Ms. Rika Okimoto's mother has not been able to contact her for more than a month, so she came from her hometown to check on the situation, and found that the door was locked from the inside, and when the police opened the door, they found that she had already hanged herself by the window......

"Huh? That's a shame indeed. ”

Sousuke Araki also looked surprised and regretful, although he only said two words through the door, but the people he had only seen in the morning were gone.

Japan's suicide rate is extremely high, and the police have become familiar with handling suicide cases, and the bodies are quickly loaded and transported away.

After leaving a business card for Sosuke Araki and telling him to contact him at any time if he remembered any information, the young policeman also left with the team.

"Based on the extent of the body's decomposition, it's been at least a month or more, and the smell in the room is really ...... It's a pity that you're young and become bacon......"

What Sosuke Araki didn't hear was that when he left, the young policeman was still looking at the information recorded in his notebook and whispering words.

……

"Life is really impermanent."

Half an hour later, Sosuke Araki squatted at the door of Kuramae's apartment, smoking a cigarette depressedly.

Although I had only seen it from afar a few times and said a few words through the door, I could feel that the lady in 304 was a very gentle person, and it was a pity that she committed suicide like this.

Just when he was sad, a latest-model black BMW stopped in front of him, with a smooth and delicate paint finish, reflecting his frowning face.

"Just park your car in front of someone else, is it great to be rich?"

Sousuke Araki, who was already in a bad mood, immediately put on a stinky face.

"Yo, Sousuke, why do you have an expression of eating poop at noon?"

The window rolled down, and sitting in the driver's seat was a man with a hard face, a sense of justice, and a face that said "I am a policeman".

"Dragon...... Ryoma? ”

Sousuke Araki looked at each other with some surprise, and the cigarette in his mouth fell off.

The tough man in the car, who was wearing a police uniform and looked upright, was his best friend, Ryoma before the second.

After so many years of working together in the welfare home, he never thought that this guy Ryoma would one day drive a BMW to pick him up.

"The latest BMW is just different...... The interior, the engine ......."

"This is the latest model with a 360-degree camera...... Hey, be careful, don't suddenly speed up in the city...... Scratched to the paint very expensive ......"

A black BMW is driving on the road, and the person in the driver's seat has become Sosuke Araki.

Soon, the two drove to pack some Chinese food and came to the bachelor apartment next to the police station.

Second, the bachelor apartment of this guy Ryoma before was as messy as Sousuke Araki's "kennel".

The two used to pack food and have dinner here.

Because you can take off your shirt and throw off your arms to play.

As soon as he entered, Sousuke Araki immediately opened the small refrigerator in the corner and rummaged through it.

In addition to beer, there are all kinds of suspicious bottles and cans in the refrigerator.

"Lucky for you, I just happened to take a turn off today...... What kind of wine are you going to drink......

Seeing Sosuke Araki curiously checking the contents of the refrigerator, Ryoma explained them to him one by one.

"These bottles are sake, red snake wine, and eel wine...... You say this? I can't drink this snake whip wine that I just brewed...... You don't know the snake whip? The scales at the anus of the snake are uncovered, and there is only a thin one underneath...... That can't be touched, that's the last time I cracked the illegal selling of X organization, 'Qiang' came to the high-tech product, it is said that eating one pill can drive piles continuously for a whole night......"

Saying this, Ryoma was still crossing his hands in front of him decently before the second one, and he gestured at the action of the electric buttocks.