Evening.

Because of the rain, the whole sky is less lit by the warm tones of the sun.

Standing on the rooftop, you can see the sky in the distance as if it were a blue and white color.

The sky overhead was a cold white, and the closer you got to the horizon, the more noticeable the blue color became.

It's like putting a cool filter on the whole city, and the whole city looks a little cold from a distance.

"That's where my brother jumped..."Otsu Kakai leaned on the edge of the rooftop, looking at the fixed line of the scene below (Note 1)

"Well," Takagi nodded, "and we found a knife in the ditch next to the building." ”

"Knives, you say?"

"Your brother has cuts on his legs and hands."

"I know that." Otsu Kakai looked at Tang Ze and asked, "So, this knife is the murder weapon that attacked my brother's prisoner?" ”

"Judging from the results of the identification, this is the knife that cut your brother, but there is only your brother's blood and fingerprints on it."

"What does that mean?"

Karasawa looked at Otsu Kakai and explained, "We didn't find any traces of others from the knife. ”

"What about the prisoner's fingerprints?" Otsu asked urgently.

"I didn't find out, no, there was no such person at all." Tang Ze shook his head and said, "Your brother's fingerprints on this knife are very obvious, there are no missing traces, and even no traces of the glove texture can be found on it.

This is actually very unnatural, because even with gloves, blood can leave some texture or destroy the fingerprints of the sticky blood. ”

After all, the handle of a fruit knife is so big, and Otsu Kayuki's fingerprints are all over the handle, and if another person takes the knife, whether they wear gloves or not, it will definitely cover Otsu Kayuki's fingerprints and leave traces.

But no.

On the handle of the knife, Otsu Kayuki's fingerprints are very clear, as if Otsu Kayuki printed them in a pinching way.

Otsu Kakai frowned when he heard this, "What the hell is going on?" ”

At this time, Tang Ze spread out the book printed with "Medical Affairs" in his hand and showed it in front of Otsu Kakai, "There are notes made by your brother who studied hard. ”

"Illegally soliciting medical compensation..."Otsu Kakai took the book, and when he turned to the next page, he found that it was printed with definitions of various wound marks.

"When you get medical treatment based on your medical history, you don't get the same medical treatment for the wounds you caused when you're attacked than if you were injured yourself."

Tang Ze pointed to the wound marks on the book and said, "And the injuries on your brother's palms and body are completely consistent with defensive injuries.

In other words, there is a high probability that he deliberately injured himself. ”

"No, it won't!" Otsu Kakai was stunned: "Could it be that my brother... It's since... Kill..."

"Unfortunately, that's it." Tang Ze sighed, as if he saw how desperate Otsu Kayuki was last night.

In the dark night, he came to the rooftop alone, and used a knife to cut wounds on his arms, legs, and palms, causing traces of being attacked, and then jumped off the rooftop...

"How is that possible!! Why!! Otsu Kakai couldn't accept this statement, "How could my brother commit suicide..."

"Now it's time for us to investigate." Tang Ze looked at Otsu Kakai and said, "Maybe the constant despair in this year is the reason why he committed suicide."

In other words, he was killed by this society, which may be his accusation. ”

He was able to become a regular employee, but he was fired by the company just one month later.

Can't rely on the family, and the fiancée also ran away.

Temporary workers are poor, pay is meager, there is no place to live, and no new job is found no matter how many times you look for it.

The qualifications obtained by studying hard are also like the cost, and no one wants to hire him at all.

Abandoned by the Social Security Bureau, he was forced to embark on the road of no return to selling "names".

I was kicked out of the place where I slept peacefully in the container, and I lived in an Internet café and spent the only money I had left.

In order to fill his stomach, he had to live the life of a homeless man who kept running around every day.

And the last straw that overwhelmed him was probably after he grabbed the doughnut.

Karasawa and Takagi followed the escape route of Otsu Kayuki for a short time before arriving at the place where the two had first visited.

That's the apartment where Tomoyuki Otsu used to live.

According to the landlord, this rental house has been lucky to find a tenant in the last two days.

But the luck for the landlord is the misfortune of Otsu Kayuki.

The hope that supported him over the past year was to find a new job, but even the last glimmer of hope in such a precarious life was dashed.

The fact that the apartment he had previously lived in had a new lease meant that he could not use the mailbox there, and he could not get any news of his job offer or rejection.

The address he needed to find a job was gone, which meant that he lost the possibility of finding a new job.

All this is probably for him, and he has to despair of life.

"Perhaps, he would have liked someone to truly understand his despair."

Karasawa sighed, and he and Takagi followed the clues from that apartment, following in the footsteps of Otsuga Tomoyuki, watching his failure step by step into the abyss.

Eventually, I went back to the apartment to get the answer.

It seems to be the starting point of the tragedy of Otsuga Tomoyuki, and it seems to be the end of the tragedy.

The case ended in suicide, and Otsu Kakai left with remorse.

[People who have been killed by society]

[Congratulations to the host for completing the side quest, and congratulations to the host for randomly getting kendo (2 years) as an additional reward!] 】

This time, it seems that the reward is almost there, and the skills rewarded are not self-selected but random.

But fortunately, the extra random reward skill is two years of kendo, which is also urgently needed for Tang Ze, and it can be said to be blood earning!

It's just that although the reward this time is good, Tang Ze is not very happy.

This case was a little too depressing, as cold as the cold sky of blue and white at the moment.

He just wanted to try it like an ordinary person, but such a humble wish could not be realized.

The people around him, even himself, lost the courage to reach out.

No one was willing to really reach out to help him, the boss of the planning company, the village of the construction company, the Akira Yamakawa of social security, the brothers, and the lovers.

They all regarded Otsu Kayuki as a trouble, a burden, or someone they couldn't rely on, pushed him away, left him, and slowly left him with nothing.

In the end, the cold city and the cold hearts of the people made Otsu Kayuki choose to commit suicide in despair.

became a person who was killed by society.

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Note 1: The white line drawn next to the corpse or blood stain according to the edge of the corpse is called the scene trace fixation line