Chapter 117: Investigation

Yusaku Shigemori stood on stage and watched as the prop master was swinging a set left and right, looking for the best lighting position. He glanced back at Sadako Yamamura, who was chatting with Su Jing in the audience, and felt a little irritable.

watched Su Jing ask Sadako Yamamura out of the city, and then the two of them took two days off at the same time...... Yusaku Shigemori's mood is complicated. In the past two days, he wrote at his desk, and his inspiration was like a spring, and he completed the outline of "The Girl in Black (tentative name)", and then wrote the lines of the five-act play in one go.

Now, he is urging the props team to complete the props, and what is being dragged around the stage is one of the most important stage sets - "The Castle".

But about the casting of the hero and heroine...... Yusaku Shigemori has been having a headache with this problem. If you follow his thoughts, then the most suitable actors for this drama are Sadako Yamamura and Su Jing. But these two people, one is a new extra, and the other has only been exposed to drama in a university interest group, and their acting ability is really very unreliable.

The Flying Theatre Company is now the leading troupe in the city, and there are more than fifty or sixty actors in the troupe on the roster. Being able to join the Flying Theater Troupe, Sadako Yamamura naturally has a talent for theatrical performance, but in terms of qualifications and stage experience, she can only rank at the bottom of the actors......

Japan is deeply influenced by the habit of "seniority." Perhaps due to the influence of Confucianism from the mainland, the system of monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons was transformed into a social order that was stricter than China's etiquette and religion. In Japanese society, seniority is a clear rule, and it is as harsh as an insurmountable shackle. Even after the Meiji Restoration, Japanese society was fully Westernized, but the "etiquette law" was still rigid to the point of being extremely procedural.

Oda Nobunaga, the most famous Sengoku lord in Japanese history, is famous for his "madness" that is not bound by etiquette. After he braved the world's condemnation to attack the holy place of Mt. Hiei, he slaughtered more than 5,000 monks and devotees, and later called himself the "Sixth Heavenly Demon King" in his letter to Takeda Shingen, fully demonstrating his unscrupulous domineering demeanor.

I think that the Japanese worship of the strong and the "hegemon" is also related to their rebellious mentality after being constrained by the "law" that is too monolithic in society, that is, they worship those who have the ability to break and ignore these rules and trample on all rules with an iron horse posture.

And the current Yusaku Shigemori is thinking about this problem. As an excellent theater director, he naturally knows the truth of meritocracy. However, the existence of the idea of seniority does have its truth. Compared to the more experienced old people, let the novice play the leading role of a drama in this way...... It's too dangerous. If you don't mention this gap in ability, let a newcomer like her play the leading role in the play, although it may play a role in some publicity, but the pressure from the veteran actors within the troupe will naturally be exerted on his head......

However, these problems do not need to be worried about by Su Jing and Sadako Yamamura. The current Sadako Yamamura looks much more cheerful, and when she was having lunch, she ran to the recording studio to deliver a bento to Su Jing in the surprised eyes of everyone.

Japanese residents have always had a habit of making lunch at home and putting it in a lunch box until noon before taking it out to eat. In countless novels, TV series, movies, comics, and animations, there will be scenes where the heroine makes a love lunch box for the male protagonist (usually who has not very good living habits).

"Uh...... I also made two copies. ”

Su Jing took out two lunch boxes from her bag, and the two looked at each other.

Su Jing has always believed that the root cause of a person like Sadako who can't control his own ability is that his willpower is too weak, not only does he not have enough strength to control his mental power, but he will also be dragged down by too strong natural power, and his body looks particularly weak because of the use of a large number of unnecessary abilities...... It's like Sadako Yamamura's current situation.

According to his estimates, the first thing to do in a situation like hers is to regain self-confidence.

People who like the performance industry, Su Jing inferred from his own situation, the first thing he has is a strong desire to perform, hoping to make the audience pay attention to himself and let others affirm his talent and ability. The second is that there is a strong desire to "want to be someone else". The causes of this desire vary from person to person, some people want to escape from themselves, and some people like to experience the lives of others......

Sadako Yamamura, with a bewitching beauty that can impress any man, and a powerful telepathic talent that completely surpasses her mother, should have become the most famous idol in the world and a person who has been recorded in history. But because of her unfortunate family conditions, she had to work as a small actress here to satisfy her humble psychological demands - and in the plot of the original movie, her father cut down by the well with a wood knife, and then pushed down......

In the dark and lightless well, she survived for more than twenty years before dying. The resentment of her death is attached to the tape at the resort and contributes to the beginning of the story of Midnight Bell.

This kind of unfairness of fate made Su Jing extremely unhappy. Perhaps because of some psychological empathy, he could feel Sadako Yamamura's heart. He had a strong sense of empathy for the unfortunate woman and decided to reach out to her. And he was pretty sure that if Su Luo was standing here, he would have made the same choice.

"Take this and listen to it every day when you get home." Su Jing sat in the recording studio and handed Sadako Yamamura an audio tape, and the long-haired woman took the tape a little ignorantly, "This is the prescription I prescribed for your current psychological symptoms, listen to it every day, and then cultivate your self-confidence." ”

Sadako held the tape and closed her eyes to feel the contents, and then her face turned red and she shook it off as if she was holding a soldering iron. She fled from the studio in a panic and ran back to the women's lounge, forgetting to even bring her lunch box.

"Uh...... Is there anything wrong with that? Su Jing picked up the tape from the ground and scratched her hair suspiciously, "Just complimenting her on her beauty, and then listing her advantages one by one - nothing wrong." Ideas from Lee X's crazy X-talk...... Doesn't she like this way of boosting her self-confidence? Need me to read it to her myself? ”

In the afternoon, during the actor's lunch break, he was called into the director's office, and Yusaku Shigemori handed him a copy of the script, asked him to read it, and then asked him to try to play one of the characters called "Crow". Su Jing spent more than half an hour reading through the script, and then tried it on the spot in the office. Yusaku Shigemori nodded noncommittally, and then let him go back.

He only left the sound room for forty or fifty minutes, and when he returned, he found that half of the lunch boxes had been taken away, and the cassette tapes he had placed on his workbench had disappeared.

“…… It turned out to be shy. Su Jing tapped his head with his fingers and showed a narrow smile.

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Japan's public security and police are two agencies that belong to two separate departments, the police are operated by each local government, and its hub is the National Police Agency, which is the official unit of the Japanese government, and belongs to the Cabinet Office in the same way as the National Public Safety Commission. Because the police system varies from region to region, the National Police Agency only plays the role of "supervision and guidance", and its direct department is only the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which is located in the capital.

The "public security" is a higher level, with an independent command system, its nature is equivalent to the national security department, its predecessor is the establishment of the Japanese special high school in 1911, is responsible for national security and intelligence affairs of the secret police, its function and the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Wei is very similar, the power is great, can even override the police officer class. At its head is the National Public Safety Commission, which belongs to the Cabinet Office, and has the power to supervise and direct the public security system and the police system. There is also the Public Security Investigation Office, which is directly under the Ministry of Justice, but this Public Security Investigation Office does not have the power to arrest, only the power to investigate, and it does not belong to the public security and police system.

Takayama returned to his office with a cup of coffee, a stack of case files on his desk.

Originally, this file was just a thin stack, but recently, investigators have discovered new trends. One investigation after another has added up to the current situation.

Had it not been for the testimony of witnesses and the fact that he had done an on-the-spot investigation, he would not have believed that anyone could have staged a play of ancient mythology in Tokyo, a metropolis that is gradually modernizing. Fly the eaves and walk the wall, rob the rich and help the poor...... Hmph, Ishikawa Goemon? Rather, it would be more appropriate to say that it is more appropriate to grant the Yamanaka Tengu the martial arts of Gen Yoshitsune.

"A powerful strange power, a strange prop, a man with long black hair, and a height of about 1.8 meters...... Such an obvious feature should be very conspicuous. Takayama Twilight lit a cigarette, didn't take a puff, just put it in front of his eyes and watched the smoke rise. Based on his years of investigative experience, he listed several suspicious points:

1. What prisoners wrote Chinese characters on the wall? (Chinese?) Lovers of ancient culture? ）

2. What kind of work is he engaged in with his strange strength and tall body? (Manual laborers?) ）

3. A person with strong strength is usually accompanied by a great deal of blind confidence and the habit of relying on the strong to bully the weak, and the prisoner in this case appears to be extremely restrained in his use of violence. Moral cleanliness?

The Mitsui Foundation, whose reputation has been dealt a major blow, has not only exerted significant pressure on the public security department, but also contacted the gangs of the Tokyo underground gang, offering a reward, trying to catch this arrogant madman in a two-pronged manner. Sometimes, those violent gangs are more efficient than the police, but after a week, the desk of the Takayama Twilight is piled with the details of more than ten people, each of whom is suspected of committing a crime.

Takayama Twilight had ruled out most of them, some of which either had alibi evidence on the day or did not quite match the characteristics of the prisoner. And his eyes gradually locked on the thinnest piece of information.

According to the information, the long-haired man suddenly appeared on the streets of Tokyo a week ago, and there is no detailed identification information. It looks very conspicuous on the outside, and is about 1.8 meters tall or taller. followed the clues all the way back to investigate, and found that his whereabouts that day basically met the time conditions of the suspect. It's not that there is definite evidence, but Takayama Twilight, with his keen sense of smell cultivated over the years of experience, instinctively thinks that this person has a serious suspicion.

The photographs in the archives, somewhat blurry, were taken from a street photographer. The man was standing in the street, hands in trench coat pockets, looking up at the sky, looking like a rather fashionably dressed artist, or pop star or something.

"Section Chief, we have investigated the suspect information of 'Tengu'." The young agent hurried in, only to be glared at by Takayama Twilight before he remembered that he had forgotten to knock on the door first.

"Let's talk about it." Takayama took a sip of coffee, took the document from the agent's hand, and unhurriedly flipped through the contents.

"It has been found that the suspect bought the house from someone only a week ago, and it was all in cash. We've already checked the codes, and the money that the seller received was the one that was stolen from the bank. ”

"Nor can this be conclusive evidence...... You know, that day, this 'tengu' once sprinkled more than three million in cash on the street......" Takayama retorted slowly. In fact, he also agreed with the judgment of the young detective in his heart, but he thought that the young man should polish it more, and he would definitely not give these little cubs a good look unless it was absolutely necessary.

"However, after comparison, the number of banknotes in this batch is extremely huge, and it is definitely the 'Tengu' himself!" The young detective argues with reason. Takayama waved his hand to calm him down.

"So, what about this man's whereabouts now?"

"Yes, we are already monitoring his residence. According to the investigation, he is now working as a sound engineer for the city's 'Flying Theatre Company' – we did not alert the company's insiders during the investigation. Also, two days ago, one of the extras of the Flying Theatre Company spent the night with him at his house, and only returned to the Flying Troupe on the third day. Although we had not yet launched a reconnaissance strategy at the time, the commissary near her residence, as well as the homeless people, had an impression of this woman. ”

"Extras?" Takayama Twilight laughed a little, but he didn't expect this tengu to be quite good at soaking women, and he hooked up with one so quickly. Of course, this little actor should be an insignificant role, but the most worrying thing is the unbelievable strange power of "Tengu......

Takayama Twilight still has a photo of the guy's footprints on the roof of the building on the table, and if the guy with this kind of non-human strength is forcibly arrested now, then he needs to plan carefully......

"Flying Theatre, huh? We might need to check this guy out......"

Twilight Takayama reached for the microphone of the telephone on his desk, and decided to buy a ticket to the theater and try to see the mysterious ...... "Tengu" up close.