"Sin deserves it? Anything else? ”

"No, he just told me to tell the police, and I didn't know anything else. Really, I don't really know anything.

"I just want my wife and daughter to come back safely, I just want them to come back...... Please, save them, please, ......"

After a long period of mental tension, the man's voice that finally vented his uneasiness choked up several times, and his emotions were close to collapse for a while.

Seeing this, Katsumi Uehara turned his head and exchanged a look with Miwako Sato, who was sitting next to him, and the latter immediately said with relief: "Mr. Kirino, don't worry, we will definitely save your wife and daughter."

"However, we still need to investigate and collect evidence about what you said, so I'm afraid you won't be able to go home tonight, I hope you can understand and cooperate with our work."

"I cooperate! I will definitely cooperate! If there's anything else you'd like to ask, I'll say it if I know the answer. ”

"You just said that the prisoner contacted you by phone, do you remember the phone number that the prisoner used to contact you?"

"Remember, remember! Not only do I remember, but the call logs in my phone haven't been deleted yet! ”

The man who nodded again and again hurriedly took the mobile phone out of his pocket, unlocked it, turned out the call record and handed it to the two policemen in front of him-

It's a familiar string of numbers.

Miwako Sato's eyes froze, and she suddenly got up and said, "Mr. Kirino, you wait here for a while, and there will be a police officer who will come and take you to the lounge to rest." In addition, we need to confiscate your phone for the time being. ”

With that, under the man's gaze, he and Katsumi Uehara opened the door of the interrogation room together - "Take Toshihiko Takasugi to the interrogation room, right away!" ”

Miwako Sato's voice was very loud, and Kogoro Maori, who was in the office area to introduce the case to the client, couldn't help but look back after hearing the voice-

"Is that him?"

Yuka Miyazawa, who saw Katsumi Uehara at a glance, was stunned, and immediately aroused the confusion of Kogoro Mori: "Mrs. Miyazawa, do you know Uehara Criminal?" ”

"No, I don't know each other, I just met at the door of the procuratorate before." The young woman in the blue trench coat with her long hair coiled behind her head gathered her eyebrows in surprise and shook her head.

Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato, who were in a hurry, quickly disappeared from their sight.

In another interrogation room, Toshihiko Takasugi, who was brought in again, already showed a little impatience between his eyebrows. After hearing the sound of footsteps from far and near outside the door, he immediately raised his head, and two figures pushed the door in—

"Officer Sato, Officer Uehara, how much longer do I need to stay here? 24 hours? Or 48 hours? There are still a bunch of things to be processed in my group, a bunch of documents waiting to be signed, and my time is precious, and I really can't waste it. ”

Suppressing the irritability in his heart, Takasugi Toshihiko described his difficulties in a calm tone as much as possible: "If you are still like this, then I am afraid that I will really have to complain to your boss." ”

His fiancée's father, Kiyocho Matsumoto, is currently the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1 Officer, and this person is technically the boss of Katsumi Uehara and others—even the head of the three lines, Twilight Thirteen, is under his jurisdiction.

"There have been a lot of people who have complained about me in the past year, Mr. Takasugi, and it may really not be bad for you." Placing the two phones on the table, Katsumi Uehara shrugged his shoulders as he pulled out the chair and sat down.

Relatively speaking, Miwako Sato's words are much more polite - "I need to investigate the case, and I ask for your understanding and cooperation, Mr. Takasugi." ”

"I understand, and I cooperate, but I've told everything I know, I really didn't buy any bombs, and if I really wanted to kill people, I didn't need to buy bombs at all."

Takasugi Toshihiko pursed his dry lips, very helpless: "Also, no matter what that damn prisoner did with my phone, I really don't know."

"This phone is one of my personal phones, it was lost once more than half a month ago, and it was not until my fiancée found it at her house a few days ago and handed it to me.

"I can swear to God."

"If the oath was useful, the world wouldn't need the police."

After unlocking the phone and flipping to the call history page, Katsumi Uehara pushed both phones in front of Toshihiko Takasugi and looked him in the eye: "Now, we have found out that your number has not only been in contact with the kidnappers of the Shinkansen bomb case, but also found that it has threatened another person as a robber." ”

"I've said more than once, this phone has been lost once in more than half a month, lost once! Don't you understand people? ”

With his right hand clenched into his fist and slammed the table a few times, the angry Takasugi Toshihiko took a deep breath: "I'm sorry I lost my temper, let my lawyer come in again, I really can't make sense with you." ”

Miwako Sato, who was frowning, opened her mouth and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Katsumi Uehara first-

"Mr. Takasugi, you said that your personal mobile phone was lost once more than half a month ago, but the only proof you can come up with is the testimony of your fiancée."

"Uehara Criminal, my fiancée is the daughter of the management officer of the first investigation section of your Metropolitan Police Department, do you mean that she suspects that she is cooperating with me to commit perjury to kill?"

"As a police officer, I never rule out any possibility. And as the daughter of the Inspector of the Search Division, your fiancée obviously knows more about the police workflow, which can provide you with a lot of convenience. ”

“…… I don't want to quarrel with you, let my lawyer come in, you want to quarrel with him. Toshihiko Takasugi, sitting on a chair with his eyes closed and rubbing his eyebrows, sighed.

Miwako Sato, who roughly understood something, didn't say anything, just sat on the chair and watched Toshihiko Takasugi, who was getting more and more emotional under the pressure of his partner-

Bell bell bell!

"Hello? I'm Sato. ”

"Criminal Sato, Matsumoto is here." On the phone, Wataru Takagi's cautious voice rang.

"Got it, I'll be there right away with Uehara."

Hanging up the phone, Miwako Sato glanced at Toshihiko Takasugi, who was sitting in a chair and really began to close his eyes without saying a word, got up and patted his partner on the shoulder: "Gone Uehara, the management officer Matsumoto is here." ”

Putting away the mobile phone on the table, Katsumi Uehara, who had a little anger on his face, changed his face instantly after walking out of the interrogation room, and all negative emotions disappeared in an instant.

"Your set doesn't work for him, change me next time."

"Don't worry, if he really doesn't have a ghost in his heart, he will not be able to stand the high pressure sooner or later. Judging from his performance just now, his psychological tolerance is not strong. ”

Katsumi Uehara, who put his phone back in his pocket, chuckled: "It's the complaint from the Takasugi Group, I'm afraid it will make the Twilight Police Department big." ”

Miwako Sato shook her head: "I will stop all the complaint letters, anyway, let's deal with the management officer Matsumoto first, Takasugi Toshihiko is his quasi-son-in-law after all." ”

Walking to the office area, Katsumi Uehara saw at a glance the middle-aged man whose majesty was obviously higher than the police officers next to him-

Hard cheeks, burly figure, and a straight scar on the left eye that adds a bit of ferocity.

The serious appearance of not smiling can give people great psychological pressure just by standing still and not moving.

Management Officer of the Investigation Division 1 of the Criminal Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, Kiyoshi Matsumoto.