Chapter 3: The Smuggling Case on Moonshadow Island

Asai is honest, formerly known as Asa Sheng.

The son of pianist Keiji Aso, due to his frail health at a young age, his adult body is thinner than that of ordinary men, and he looks roughly the same as a woman.

Twelve years ago, after his family was burned to death in a fire, Konari Minori, who was still being treated in a Tokyo hospital, was adopted and later renamed Makoto Asai.

Suspecting that the deaths of his father, mother, and sister were strange, Aso began to practice disguise as a woman after graduating from medical school, and after mastering the vivid camouflage and onomatopoeia techniques, he returned to his hometown of Moon Shadow Island as a "female physician Asai Honest" and set out to investigate the truth about his family's death.

I've been there for three years now.

A year ago, Minoru Aji, who was fully aware of the truth about his family's death, had been hesitant to carry out the planned revenge murder plan, and then he met Katsumi Uehara, a Tokyo police officer who had slipped into the Tsukagejima clinic because he was hiding from the rain.

He didn't want to have too much to do with the police, but he finally became friends with this man by mistake, and it was precisely because of this that Asa Sheng's heart began to be entangled more and more in whether he wanted to kill someone.

He wanted revenge, but the good education he received from childhood kept persuading him to stop;

He wanted to stop, but whenever he wanted to give up, the old text of his family dying tragically in the fire stimulated his nerves over and over again.

For this reason, he even had the idea of writing a warning letter to Shinichi Kudo, a well-known high school student in Tokyo, before he started to kill, to see if he could rush over to stop him before he killed himself.

Continuing and giving up these two thoughts have not been able to distinguish between Ma Sheng's mind until now.

He thought that he would continue to be distressed, but he didn't expect that today's Katsumi Uehara actually revealed his true identity in one word, making him forget his troubles and give him a sheet of music at the same time.

Theoretically, it should be the score left by his father, Keiji Aso, before he died.

"I-"

"Your reaction has already told me everything, so there is no need to say quibbles, so as not to waste everyone's time." Katsumi Uehara, who chuckled, withdrew his gaze, put his hands behind his head, and his upturned right leg shook regularly, and said loudly.

“……”

Asumi opened his mouth, and the next words swirled around his throat several times but never came out.

He didn't understand that his disguise was supposed to be seamless. In the past three years on the island, not even one has seen through that he is actually a man, why does Katsumi Uehara ......

"Who are you? Why do you know this? Where did this score come from? After quickly forcing himself to calm down, Asa Sheng, who gradually moved back a little more, asked.

How could an ordinary Tokyo policeman have the leisure to investigate him, there must be a ghost in it.

The moment his identity was exposed, Aso already doubted whether Katsumi Uehara, who had been a close personal friend to him for the past year, was really a police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department as he said.

Hearing this, Katsumi Uehara pulled out his left hand that was pillowing behind his head, leaned into the pocket of his beach pants and took out a document, and flew into Asso Minoru's arms: "My name is Katsumi Uehara, and I am currently working in the Third Department of Violent Crime in the Criminal Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, and I am a police officer, this is my ID."

"As you can see, I'm not lying."

Looking at the face with an exceptionally bright smile on the ID photo, Asumi was silent for a moment.

"As for why I know this, I have to mention a prisoner I arrested a year and a half ago."

As if he was ready to tell a story, Katsumi Uehara shook his hand, and the whole person simply sat up: "He was arrested on suspicion of murder and drug trafficking." Although the prisoner refused to confess, I still traced the source of his drug acquisition to the resort of Moonshadow Island.

"However, you know, this matter is usually not under the jurisdiction of the three violent crime departments I belong to, and according to my colleagues, the person from the source has been captured, so I came to Moon Shadow Island a year ago just to spend my vacation. As a result, I didn't expect to encounter something, which led me to remember my suspicions about the island, so I secretly started a little investigation. ”

Speaking of this, as if to strengthen the credibility of his words, Katsumi Uehara also raised his right hand and pulled the knuckle end of his tail finger with his thumb to indicate that he had really only checked a little.

"As it turns out, my assumptions from a year and a half ago were correct, and my colleagues had only caught a few minions. There are people on Moonshadow Island who are secretly selling drugs under the guise of a prosperous scene, and I, for example, found a very strange point in the transaction ledger of one of the drug trafficker leaders.

"There was a name called Keiji Aso that had appeared several times in the ledger, but since 12 years ago, the name suddenly disappeared from the ledger, leaving only the names of the other three drug trafficker leaders."

Speaking of this, Katsumi Uehara raised his eyes, and suddenly became sharp, and his gaze suddenly became sharp and looked directly at Asa Sheng, who was frowning: "I checked out of curiosity, and only then did I find out that he and his family died in a fire on a full moon night twelve years ago.

"I thought that was the end of the line, but later I found out that Keiji Aso had a young son who was being treated in Tokyo at the time, and his name was Minori Aso. After the fire, Asa was adopted by the Asai family and renamed Asai Makoto. ”

“…… No, that's not the case. My father didn't know it was drugs at first, they just asked him, a pianist, to help bring something back from abroad, and their accomplices gave it to my father. ”

Asa, who had been silent for a long time, spoke, although it was still a female voice, but the meaning in her tone was very different: "Because they are playmates who grew up together, my father helped a few times.

"But later, when my father found out that something was wrong and wanted to quit, the three came to my father and begged him to continue, claiming that he could share the dividends, but my father refused. So they killed him, and they killed my mother, and my sister......"

After coming to the island three years ago, Makoto Asai, who had been secretly investigating, met with the now-deceased former village chief Isamu Kameyama, and voluntarily confessed that he was the son of Keiji Aso, and wanted to ask him about something. As a result, the shocked Kameyama Yong directly died of heart paralysis, and the gods were difficult to save.

Everything that Aso knew about his father was also derived from Kameyama's self-talk before he died.

"So, you don't think your father was an accomplice to Isamu Kameyama and the others?" Katsumi Uehara, who heard the death of Keiji Aso from Aso's mouth, raised his eyebrows and was a little surprised.

"No, absolutely not." Asami took a deep breath and replied sharply.

"Then what did you come from Tokyo to Moonshadow Island in disguise as a man? If you don't inherit the inheritance, you want to take revenge in a different way? ”

“……”

Asa did not know how to answer for a while.

He really wanted revenge.

However, the key is that Katsumi Uehara is a policeman...... Can you say this to his face?