"Miwako, get up, get up. Uehara-kun is about to drive over, what do you look like you're still lying in bed, really. ”

Early in the morning, Tokyo, Sato's house where every inch of land is valuable.

Sato's mother, who had returned from outside with a basket of vegetables, saw the breakfast in the kitchen that had not yet been eaten, and after changing her slippers at the entrance, she couldn't help but go up to the second floor and knock on her daughter's closed door.

"Hmm...... Okay, Mom, don't knock on the door, I'll get up right away, ...... right away."

In the bedroom, Miwako Sato, who has no image of a goddess, was sleepy-eyed, and her right hand struggled out of the quilt and grabbed the mobile phone placed at the head of the bed-

One Look at the Time, 7:11.

"Aha......"

Miwako Sato, who was scratching her messy short hair and wearing blue and white plaid pajamas, couldn't help but yawn several times in a row, and went through the mailbox first when she got up.

After confirming that there were no emergencies, we started to clean up the ad spam.

"Mom, is your wake-up call a little early?"

"It's still early? Uehara-kun has to pick you up from work every day these days, you can't let the family wait longer, you know, I'd rather get up early and finish eating and wait-"

"I'm brushing my teeth, Mom."

"Eh, you kid, you don't listen to what your mother says, do you? Let me tell you, you are not too old now, and your mother's college classmates are basically grandmothers and grandmothers, and you are still at home every day......"

The door to the bathroom was open, and my mother's nagging was as always.

Relying on God's posture of appreciating food, Miwako Sato, who quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face after a long time, quickly got refreshed, simply wiped some frost, and completely ignored the wind.

Sato's mother, who had been chattering a lot, could only sigh helplessly when she saw this: "You, you must learn to grasp the opportunity in front of you, and don't regret it when you lose it later." ”

Miwako Sato, who was changing clothes, was very melancholy when she heard this: "Mom, you should play mahjong with Uehara less in the future." ”

If she continued to fight, she wondered if her mother would one day take advantage of her sleep to tie her up with a rope and send her to the door.

"That's not good, I've never met a partner as good as Uehara-kun's technique. Let me tell you, I asked him to teach me several hands a few days ago, and these days he has killed the entire mahjong parlor to dominate. ”

“……”

Despite his mother's show-off and chatter, he responded to the stubble without saying a word, and after breakfast, Miwako Sato immediately jumped up like a spring on her ass after hearing the sound of a car whistle coming from downstairs outside: "Mom, I'm going to work." ”

A middle-aged beautiful woman in a kimono stood by the window, smiling as her daughter ran downstairs and walked out of the house and into the magenta Mitsubishi EVO.

"Auntie, good morning."

Katsumi Uehara, dressed in a British green suit, leaned on the side of his car, looked up and smiled and said hello to the woman upstairs.

"Good morning Uehara-kun, drive slowly on the road and pay attention to safety."

"No problem."

Miwako Sato, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had completely given up treatment, and she should not be able to shake this deep friendship for a while.

"You used to pay for Keio's tuition, shouldn't you really win by playing mahjong and poker?"

When Katsumi Uehara returned to the car after greeting his mother, Miwako Sato, who was sending an email to Chiba Takagi, glanced at him.

"Guess?"

"Do you guess me?"

"It's boring." Katsumi Uehara pursed his lips, closed the car door and twisted the key: "Did you notify Takagi that they didn't?" ”

"Just after the notice, they should have gone straight to Sayuri Matsumoto by now. What about you, are the autopsy results out? ”

"The preliminary results came out, and Chengshi emailed me. Oh yes, and you can take a look at this. As he spoke, Katsumi Uehara, who was just about to step on the accelerator, took a document bag from the back seat of the car and handed it to his partner.

"What is this?"

"One of the clues I found last night was that the seventh deceased in the serial murders, the truck driver, might have been able to get us to the killer."

Suzuki Cargo ...... What is the list of ingredients? ”

"Yes, I won't go back to the Metropolitan Police Department with you after getting the autopsy results, I need to go to Suzuki to make sure I'm right.

"If the number is right, then it is quite likely that the murderer took advantage of the convenience of the profession of truck driver to hide the bomb in the refrigerator where the ingredients are stored in the restaurant and was not discovered, and the murder should be a murder."

Katsumi Uehara, who drove straight to Yonhua Central Hospital, briefly elaborated on his conjecture last night.

If the list of goods found at Suzuki Cargo can match the bags picked up at the scene of the explosion, then this conjecture is very likely.

This is undoubtedly a direction worth digging into, at least at a time when this serial murder case is at a loss.

"Indeed, I hope the autopsy will give us good news."

Looking at the comparative data and speculative handwriting that Katsumi Uehara made overnight last night, Miwako Sato couldn't help but glance at his eyes.

…………………………………………………………

"Actually, I don't know if these results are good news."

Fifteen minutes later, Rice Flower Central Hospital, Aso's office.

Ma Sheng, who was dressed in a white lab coat, raised the papers in his hands and handed them to the man and woman in front of him: "Judging from the autopsy results, the arms and hands of the seven deceased have different degrees of bruises, which shows that they all resisted to varying degrees before they died, but they were finally tied up;

Among them, the first deceased, the doctor in the neurology department of the Rice Flower Central Hospital, had a wound on the inside of his cheek, indicating that he had been slapped in the face before his death. Of the seven dead, he was the only one with such a condition. ”

Accompanied by Aji's words, Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato, who opened the image text materials in their hands, couldn't help but be stunned: "Slap? ”

"That's right."

Asa nodded and pointed to the paper in the hands of the two of them, "In addition, the preliminary toxin examination showed that the blood alcohol concentration of the deceased was 0.2, and I also found a small amount of Edmi in the bodies of all seven deceased, and the results of the examination are on page seven." ”

"Edmy?"

Miwako Sato, who hurriedly turned to the seventh page, frowned: "What is that?" ”

"It's an amphetamine drug, and some models use it to help lose weight." On the side, Katsumi Uehara looked at the report in his hand and replied without raising his head.

“……？”

“……？”

"What's wrong? Why do you both look at me like that? Katsumi Uehara looked up and found that Miwako Sato and Minoru Aso were looking at him, a little strange: "Did I say something wrong?" ”

Asso gave his friend a strange look: "Actually, the right use of Edami is to treat people with ADHD, and it's not an unwise choice to use drugs like amphetamines to help lose weight." ”

Katsumi Uehara suddenly made a gesture of pulling a zipper: "When I didn't say it." ”

"But in that case, could it be that all seven of the dead had ADHD? The murderer singled out people with ADHD? Miwako Sato, who looked at the inspection report, was puzzled.

Asso shrugged his shoulders: "Not necessarily, if amphetamine drugs are taken for a long time and in excess, the human body is very likely to become addictive, so it will be strictly controlled." ”

“……”

"It doesn't look like the seven of us deceased are the good people in the eyes of their friends and family." Katsumi Uehara's eyelids jumped, and his gaze fell on the description of Edmy's composition and blood alcohol content on the autopsy report.

"My advice is that you'd better check on the first deceased, as a neurologist has access to these medicines. Moreover, ADHD is also within the scope of neurology. ”

Asa Sheng, who had completed the autopsy results, pointed to the last page of the report: "In addition, I made a simple reconstruction of the murder weapon based on the marks of fatal wounds on the seven deceased-

"At present, it can be preliminarily concluded that the murder weapon was an extremely narrow tetrahedron, thin at the top and thicker the closer to the bottom. In addition, there were many glass shards in the wounds of the deceased that were imperceptible to the naked eye, as if they had been brought into the body along with the murder weapon. ”

The two who turned to the last page glanced at the soul painting that looked like the flattened Tokyo Tower, and looked at each other, and when they saw this, Asanji couldn't help but cough in embarrassment: "Ahem, in short, the result of the examination is like this." ”

"I see, thank you for your help, Dr. Aso, the reward police will enter the bank account you provided." Miwako Sato, who closed the report, solemnly thanked her.

"You're welcome, the police and the people are cooperating." Glancing at the smiling Katsumi Uehara, the second half of the sentence was bitten extremely hard.

"Good brother, next time, please go fishing on Moon Shadow Island."

"Get out."

Aso couldn't help but laugh and scold.

Seeing that Katsumi Uehara had such a good relationship with this man, Miwako Sato was a little curious at first, until she received a phone call-

"Hello? I'm Sato. ”

"Sato, something happened."

Rice flower town, Sayuri Matsumoto house.

Chiba and Stretch out the general's belly and squatted down in the living room, picked up a metal card from the shards of glass on the floor, and forcibly suppressed the horror that was surging in his heart, and his voice was trembling.

"What? What happened Chiba? ”

"Sayuri Matsumoto was kidnapped by the prisoner, and he also left a card. However, compared to before, the content on the metal card is no longer the four letters "NEXT", but the text has been changed. ”

"Words?"

"Yes."

Chiba and Shin swallowed with difficulty, and read the message on the card word by word-

"The monstrous beast's eyes were red with hunger in the shouts of joy, and the mournful warrior swung his deadly spear at his companion in despair;

The bright flowers cheered for the victors, and the life in the cage shrank in a corner and trembled.

"Time passes, years change;

"God's chosen messengers listened to prayers and watched the absurd epic once again unfold in a world full of sorrow and sin.

"When the blood is accompanied by a cannon salute to awaken the dead gods, the punishment has begun;

"I am an oracle of God.

"May God have mercy on the world, Amen."