Ibaraki Prefecture is part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, one of the three major metropolitan areas in Japan, and is only 40 kilometers away from the capital Tokyo.

He didn't bother Takagi and Sato to send them to Ibaraki Prefecture, but told them to keep their phones open and to take a limited express bus as fast as possible to help wherever they needed help.

Arriving in Mito City in Ibaraki Prefecture by car, this is still the return of Ritsu Sasashima to this side. Although he has lived in Japan for about 20 years, he is not very familiar with it except in Tokyo, and most of his trips are carried out in the organization.

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He closed the car door and looked at the streets around him, which were obviously not bustling in Tokyo, and said with a wry smile: "It's true that every time I go to a place, it's not a serious sightseeing, even when I went to Izu and Hokkaido before, something can happen." ”

"Huh? Brother Onizawa, what are you talking about? ”

The conversation along the way also made Kazaka Eita a lot more relaxed, and he didn't care about introducing the place where he lived to the two Tokyo police officers, so he reached out and grabbed Onizawa's wrist and said, "The scene of the crime is over there, Brother Onizawa Sister Hayasaka, come with me." ”

The crime scene was in the center of Mito City, and Ritsu Sasashima observed the surrounding facilities, including restaurants and convenience stores, and there were many surveillance equipment, so I really didn't expect that someone would choose to commit murder in such a place in broad daylight.

If you follow this reasoning, the probability of the murderer killing people at random is extremely high. However, according to the attitude of the Ibaraki Prefecture police and the fact that the public prisoner turned out to be a mentally handicapped homeless person, this shows that the police are shielding the real criminal, so the possibility of random murder is extremely low, and it should have been premeditated.

Even from the background of the prisoner, it can be inferred that the murder was hired to be extremely likely.

"Brother Onizawa, it was in this location that my sister was killed." Eita Kasaka pointed to a place where public bicycles were rented, and the place where she was killed was a rest bench next to it.

He folded his hands and bowed slightly to the bench and explained, "My sister is studying at nearby Ibaraki University, and she used to walk to the convenience store here to buy dinner, sit here and eat and then go to work at a fast-food restaurant across the street. ”

"So your usual dinner is leftover fried chicken sold in the store?" Ritsu Sasashima looked at the 24-hour convenience store more than ten meters away and asked casually.

"Huh? Brother Onizawa, can you guess this? ”

"When your parents died, you worked hard to go to school and work in order to make ends meet, and you can see from the band-aids on your hands that you don't cook on weekdays, presumably your sister wants you to focus on your studies and doesn't let you cook."

Ritsu Sasashima looked at the surveillance camera in front of the convenience store and said, "So your dinner should be the fried chicken left over from your sister's part-time job, it doesn't cost money, and it tastes good." ”

Yuna Hayasaka tilted her head and said strangely, "Onizawa, does this have anything to do with the case?" ”

"I just think it's ridiculous that the police who make up lies, the reporters who make false reports, and the netizens who follow the trend on the Internet are ridiculous, such a hard-working girl has become the guy they say sells herself for luxury... Don't you think that some humans are more terrible than beasts? ”

Ritsu Sasashima pulled out his finger stuffed in his pocket and pointed at the security camera at the door of the convenience store, and said indifferently: "Let's go, go check the surveillance nearby." The Ibaraki Prefectural Police would never have shown us the case file, and the story behind it must have been wonderful. ”

A convenience store less than ten meters away from the scene of the crime, after the three of them entered, Yuna Hayakasaka took the lead in taking out his police officer ID, handed it over and said: "Hello, we are police, we came here to retrieve the surveillance video outside the store, and I would like you to cooperate." ”

The clerk was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and he smiled awkwardly: "That, I need to send a message to ask for the password of the video file, the password was set by our store manager I don't know." ”

"Okay."

The clerk picked up the phone and turned around to send a text message, but before he could type a few words, the phone was taken away, and he turned around in a panic to see Takashi Akizawa, who had taken advantage of his height to complete this series of operations, staring at the phone screen.

"Store manager, do you want to tell Brother Xu about this when the police come?" After Ritsu Sasashima read out the content on the screen, the tail of his eyes rose to show a kind smile, and he pretended to be curious, "Ah? Didn't you say ask the store manager for the password? ”

"I... Brother Xu is our shop... Right! It's for our store monitoring! ”

Yuna Hayasaka had a cold face, directly took out the handcuffs and slapped them on the cash register, and asked, "Do you think we are as stupid as you?" Hurry up and hand over the surveillance, otherwise you will be detained for obstructing the police in handling the case. ”

The clerk realizes that something is wrong, so how can the police in Ibaraki Prefecture reopen the investigation? Aren't these two police officers from Ibaraki Prefecture?

"I'll give it to me, don't be angry, two police officers, I'll transfer the surveillance to you!"

"No, just get out of the way."

Ritsu Sasashima flipped the movable bezel up and walked inside, starting to control it on the computer, just in case the obviously problematic clerk deleted the video.

But it's a pity that the folder has obviously been cleaned once, not that it can be cleaned up, but that the surveillance video outside the store is cleaned every three months.

Is the clue actually broken here? No, there are still a lot of shops around, so there should still be a chance.

"There's nothing, what do you care so much about?" Ritsu Sasashima turned his head to look at the clerk who was huddled in the corner and didn't say a word, and asked, "Who is the 'Brother Xu' in your mouth?" ”

The clerk pretended to count the goods, and pretended to be stupid: "I made a mistake just now, since you have seen what you want to see, don't disturb the business, the store manager will deduct my salary." ”

Ritsu Sasashima stretched out his hand to stop Hayasaka, who wanted to say something, and said politely: "Then I won't disturb your business, I hope we don't meet again." ”

Leaving the convenience store, Yuna Hayasaka was dissatisfied: "Don't you see that he is lying so obviously?" Why are you holding me back? ”

"We don't have the right to formally investigate the case, so try not to make a big deal out of it. However, Brother Xu mentioned in his mouth still makes me quite concerned, this convenience store may be inseparable from the case. ”

"This case is really complicated, but now that the clues are broken, where should we investigate?"

"Are you hungry?"

"Huh?"

Not only was Yuna Hayasaka stunned by this sentence, but Eita Kasaka, who had been listening quietly to their conversation, was also dumbfounded. When did you still want to eat, and there were no useful clues.

Ritsu Sasashima looked at the fast-food restaurant across the street and smiled, "You invite me to a burger, and I'll tell you what to do next." ”

“…… Onizawa, you are really indebted sometimes, you know? ”

"I know, ouch!"

Ritsu Sasashima didn't expect Hayasaka to really move roughly, and it was really sour to be kicked in the calf, and he smiled bitterly with a half-lame leg: "I'm your boss, as for being so hard?" ”

Eita Kasaka frowned and said seriously: "Brother Onizawa, you are such a straight man." Although you are very handsome, you can't find a girlfriend like this. ”

Yuna Hayasaka, who was still a little angry, couldn't help but laugh, and Ritsu Sasashima, who was educated by a minor, winked at her and even forgot to refute this sentence with "fictional girlfriend".

Good guys, kids are so sharp nowadays.