"What do you say? I'm going to the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office? ”

"Ah, but it's not a big problem, it's just to confirm your identity, just tell the truth."

"Confirm my identity? What do you mean? ”

"The drug dealers will definitely take advantage of the fact that you are disguised as a woman to hide your identity on the island, and for the sake of safety, the prosecutor needs to confirm with you one-on-one what happened."

In Tokyo at midnight, the starry sky is mesmerizing.

Leaning on the railing of the balcony of his rented apartment, Katsumi Uehara shook the martini in his cup and smiled lazily in the bright moonlight: "The reason for sneaking into the island in order to investigate the truth about my father's death is justified. Don't worry, become real. ”

“……”

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone -

"I see. Thanks, Uehara. ”

After a long time, the sound of mahjong came out of the earpiece of the mobile phone. The man who turned around and put the wine glass on the balcony leisure table made a gesture in his hand, and then whistled like a nobody: "You're welcome, hang up, remember to come to the Metropolitan Police Department to look for me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." ”

"Shouldn't you have come to the hospital to see me? Your Officer Sato's car is still parked in my parking space, don't you want it? ”

"Sato has been working overtime for the past two days, and when he gets off work at night, it is estimated that the security guards at the hospital are asleep in the security booth, and he also takes a fart car, and I will occupy your parking space for two more days."

“…… You're taking my parking space to pick up a girl, where is my car parked?! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, this is called police-people cooperation."

“？？？”

"I'll apply to the Twilight Police Department for a pennant of the Good Citizen Award for you, and if I don't apply, I'll pay for you to print a copy myself. That's it, hanging. ”

"Uehara, you—"

Kakudo Town, Asai House.

In the entrance, it was obvious that Ma Sheng, who had just come back from a night shift, looked at the interface that had already shown the end of the call, and the full output was useless in an instant.

"This bastard ......"

Looking at the name of the note on the communication interface, the complaining Ma Sheng, who turned into a laughing and scolding, threw the key on the entrance cabinet at will, and collided with a "pop" sound.

Turn the corner of the hallway and turn on the light in the living room.

The three picture frames placed prominently next to the TV stand made Aso purse his lips, and he stepped forward in a few steps and leaned over to pick them up.

Father, mother, sister.

With his hand caressing the mirror of the photo frame, the memories of his childhood came to his heart in an instant, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously pursed.

"In order to investigate the truth about my father's death......

At this point, it doesn't matter whether Katsumi Uehara has found out some clues or is pretending to be stupid. The important thing is that he has a practical alternative method to get revenge-

You don't have to have bloodstained revenge on your hands.

He can also live in the sun and step by step towards a bright future.

Taking a deep breath and putting all the thoughts in his mind away, Asumi who put down the photo was about to take a bath, but suddenly heard a slight footstep from the entrance-

"Brother, shhh, Mom and Dad aren't there, right?"

The young man who was in high spirits held a box of chocolates with exquisite packaging tape in his hand, and poked his head out of the hallway, and when he saw that the person in the living room was his brother, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"What are you doing? Stealing something to the house? Amaki was really stunned and laughed.

"Don't mention it, I secretly took some of my father's hidden private money out today to buy this, isn't it afraid of being discovered."

The young man raised the gorgeous chocolate box in his hand, and hehe Zhile: "Brother, you came back from Moon Shadow Island and joined Rice Flower Central Hospital directly, which is considered a young man, is there a beautiful female doctor and nurse who asked you to go out to play tomorrow?" I've received offers from three girls, three. ”

"Going out tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, isn't it, brother, you work so hard that you even forgot such a big thing?"

Maybe the young man was too startled, his attention was all on his brother, and he didn't realize that a figure slowly walked out of the entrance behind him-

Because of the angle, the hemp that I saw was really about to stop talking, and what eventually led to it was ......

"I'll let you stinky boy steal my money! I'll let you stinky boy steal my money! ”

The old man Asai, who is in his fifties this year, flew up and kicked his own son's buttocks!

"Dad?! How are you- Mom! Mom, where are you! Dad, he's going to beat me! He hid his private money and beat me! ”

"Your mother is working overtime tonight, no one can save you, you stinky boy stop for me and don't run!"

"Brother! Save me! ”

"It's a pity, I still have to go back to my room to take a shower, I'm too tired from work." Seeing the warm scene of the old and the young fighting in front of him, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, and he really stretched his waist, waved his hand and walked up to the second floor.

Behind is the homely drama of the old and young masters, you chase me, upstairs is the corridor that always leaves light for yourself, and the more you walk, the more cheerful the mood of the masaki reality, and even the wail of feeling that my brother is beaten is particularly pleasant and beautiful.

"Thanks, self-denial."

There was no second person to hear, and the murmur drifted quietly into the distance with the cold wind of the winter night.

Rice flower town, Sato house.

Miwako Sato, who had just finished taking a shower, walked out of the bathroom with her hair wrapped, and looked around the bathroom for a long time but couldn't see any trace of the hair dryer, feeling a little strange: "Mom, do you know where the hair dryer is?" Mother? ”

"In the living room, you can come and get it."

"Living room? What are you doing in the living room—"

Untied the dry towel and rubbed her wet hair, Miwako Sato, who had just stepped into the living room with her front foot, saw her mother sitting on the edge of the coffee table seriously, and there were four hair dryers in front of her.

"Stop, come and sit down." took out the kimono of the head of the Sato family and the woman spoke indifferently.

"Uh, no need Mom, I suddenly remembered that my hair is short, and I can air dry it quickly and naturally without a hair dryer."

"Don't worry, my mother won't force you to go out on a blind date, I have already lost the thick stack of blind date rosters."

Miwako Sato, who heard this, blinked, and still seemed a little incredulous: "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, you come and sit down, Mom has something to ask you."

Seeing that the mother's tone of upright posture didn't seem to be fake, Miwako Sato relieved herself and walked directly across from her mother, sitting on the ground without any image-

The corners of the bathrobe slide down as the thighs arch, and the white and flexible toes light the futon rhythmically against the backdrop of the slender and powerful calves.

"What's the matter, Mom?"

"I saw that it was Officer Uehara who sent you back tonight, did he catch you? Are you going to spend your first Valentine's Day? Sato's mother, who was very serious one second, revealed her true form the next second, slapped the table, and approached her daughter with excitement on her face and asked.

“……”

Miwako Sato, who reached out and picked a few grapes from the coffee table and stuffed them into her mouth, couldn't help but roll her eyes: I know.

"I went out in the morning and got stuck in traffic, the car stopped at the Mihua Central Hospital, and I worked overtime late at night, and the hospital could only rub his car back after work."

Pushing away her mother who was too close with one hand, Miwako Sato drooped her face and responded weakly: "I'll take time to go to the hospital at noon tomorrow and drive the car back." As for Valentine's Day, my case hasn't been solved yet. ”

"What, Miwako, you can't do this. You're 28 years old, and you're going to 30 in the blink of an eye, and it's hard to find someone like Uehara-kun—"

"Ah, that's it, Mom, I'll go back to my room."

"Oh no, why don't you listen to what you say? If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you, and you will start going to kindergarten when you are your age......"

The Sato house, which had been lonely all day, was lively again, and the mother and daughter chased me away the cold in the dark night and brought the house into a warm spring.

"It's really ......"

Miwa Sato, who had returned to the room with difficulty, closed the door and was completely cut off from the hustle and bustle.

Wet hair was still dripping down, rubbing her hair with a dry towel, Miwako Sato truffled to the window edge with pink fur, and looked up at the crescent moon in the starry sky.

"Is it the eve of Valentine's Day......"

At this point, Katsumi Uehara is probably in a lively bar at the moment, preparing for his rumored Valentine's Day, which he never misses.

"Ahh

The body was shivering, and the man who had sneezed in an instant suddenly woke up from his sleep. Rubbing his nose and wiping his nose with a tissue, Katsumi Uehara looked around sleepily.

The almost bottomed out martini was placed on the leisure coffee table, but the blanket used to keep out the cold fell under the recliner at some point, and the one lying on the ground with the chaise longue blowing the wind also had a mobile phone with a bright screen -

The game of Snake, which broke the personal record, has not yet exited, and the interface announcing the failure of the game after biting his own tail is particularly clear in the reflection of the moonlight.

"Are you asleep...... Katsumi Uehara, who rubbed his temples, bared his teeth, bent down to pick up the blanket and mobile phone, and slowly stood up, his eyes subconsciously glanced at the balcony not far from him, which was also full of people-

There are children crying and calling for their mothers, and there are men and women in love kissing romantically in the moonlight;

A man who had just returned home from overtime was telling an interesting story to his wife on the balcony, and the two of them toasted to life on the balcony.

Without exception, they all had the lights on.

Rubbing his eyes, Katsumi Uehara, who was wearing a blanket, yawned, turned around and pushed open the glass door of the balcony, and his hand subconsciously fell on the light switch on the wall-

"Forget it, save some electricity, the electricity bill is not cheap......"

Katsumi Uehara, who went back to the bedroom and touched the remote control of the air conditioner, turned on the heating directly, and the whole person fell on the soft pillow and fell into an unfinished sleep.

The next day, Katsumi Uehara was awakened by the heat.

"Damn! Did I drink martini last night and drink stupid, driving at such a high temperature! ”

…………………………………………………………

"So, that's why you don't have time to blow dry your hair in the morning?"

In front of Sato's house, in the pink EVO, Miwako Sato, who was sitting in the co-pilot, looked at Katsumi Uehara, an artist whose hair was obviously full of messy beauty, and the corners of his mouth grinned, and then quickly stifled the smile.

"This is to pick you up, but if you don't pick you up, you'll be late." Glancing at the woman angrily, Katsumi Uehara, who stepped on the accelerator, drove the car and slowly left under the gaze of Sato's mother.

"Okay, okay, thank you. My mom prepared breakfast for you and put it here for you. ”

"It's not enough to have a breakfast, but you have to add a dinner or supper."

"I'm not sure when I'll have dinner, next time." Miwako Sato, who began to sigh when she said this, turned her head to look out the window: "The main culprit in the bomb case is relieved, he admits that he sold some of the bombs on hand, but he doesn't know the true identity of the buyer." ”

"Buying and selling over the phone?" Katsumi Uehara, who was on the steering wheel, looked at the six roads and asked.

"Yes."

"What about the bank account and mobile phone number?"

"I have entrusted a colleague to investigate, but the results are estimated not to be so fast."

"Looks like you're going to be busier than me today."

Seeing that there was a traffic jam ahead, Katsumi Uehara, who decisively changed his way, smiled at the corner of his mouth: "It's blind this Valentine's Day." ”

"What about you? What are the arrangements? ”

"How's it going to be with a bunch of drug dealers in the prosecutor's office, is it romantic?"

Miwako Sato, who heard this, raised her eyebrows and said noncommittally: "Sounds good, at least it's much better than me following a few bombs." ”

"That's far from it, those bastards can just blow my head off with a gun in their hands, and their attitude towards me is just as enthusiastic as they get."

Katsumi Uehara, who turned the steering wheel and turned quickly and went straight on the road, whistled, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a somewhat familiar figure standing under the three-story building marked "Maori Detective Agency" in front of him-

"Huh?"

"May I ask who you are?"

Mori Detective Agency in Rice Flower Town, second floor.

Kogoro Maori, who had already eaten breakfast but had clearly not fully recovered from his sleep, opened the door impatiently when he heard the doorbell, and immediately changed his face when he saw a well-dressed lady in front of him.

"Excuse me, this is a Maori detective agency...... Is it? ”

The woman, who wasn't quite sure, stepped back slightly, her expression visibly skeptical.

"Of course, it's the owner of this office, Detective Kogoro Mori." Kogoro Mori, who quickly completed the clothing management in just one minute, performed a "costume magic" comparable to a big change of life in front of the female customers who came to the door, which stunned the eyes of the visitors.

"You, hello, my name is Yuka Miyazawa, and I'm here to ask you to help investigate the real cause of my husband's death and overturn the police's argument that he died unexpectedly."

The woman who had recovered from her stupor, handed her business card to Mori Kogoro and slowly walked into the living room to sit down at the latter's invitation.

"Shhh...... I would like to take the liberty of asking Mrs. Miyazawa, who is your husband? ”

"Letter, Miyazawa letter. He was in a car accident a month ago, and after being admitted to the hospital, he died after being rescued, and the name of the surgeon at that time was Natsukigawa Jiya. ”

A plump young woman named Yuka Miyazawa told what she knew: "I suspect that he was assassinated by the heir of the Takasugi Foundation, because he has some terrible secrets. ”

"The heir of the Takasugi Foundation? The one who was getting married on the news lately? Maori Kogoro was stunned.

"Yes, that's right, it's him, Toshihiko Takasugi, the rich second generation who is going to marry the daughter of the management officer of the first search section."