Nanahara Takeshi took a good turn at the scene of the crime, chatted with the client and the party concerned, and officially accepted the commission and began to investigate.

He first asked Kose to take him to the resort, and talked to the witness who saw Dadandai enter the villa last Wednesday, and found no signs of lying, so he asked Kose to take him to Odandai's residence to see if she would have a real conflict of interest with Kano, and she had to investigate it herself.

Kose Aimi is not disappointed that he did not solve the mystery "instantly", their firm also has long-term cooperative investigators, who have been tossing for almost a week, and have no clue about the matter of "blocked at both ends, and the person in the middle is gone", Nanahara Takeshi is already the last straw, and he can only despair if he can't figure it out.

At least, Nanahara Takeshi seemed to be very confident, and he was still not impatient in the face of such a problem, and he could laugh well, much better than those investigators who frowned and thought hard and began to lose their hair.

Nanahara Takeshi was not idle in the car, and asked with a smile, "Are Mr. Kose and Miss Daduan acquainted?" ”

"Not familiar." Kosemi said as she drove the car, "Iwato-san is a very high-quality customer, but he never causes trouble, I didn't deal with him much before, and I didn't know about her until after the incident." ”

Nanahara Takeshi was not disappointed either, and asked again, "What about Sugao Man?" ”

Kosemi thought for a moment and said, "I've heard of Master Kano's name, but I've never seen him. He has some fame in Hirarano, but it shouldn't be like you might guess, unlike those wealth-collecting sects, he rarely attracts followers, and spends most of the year taking his disciples to do penance in the mountains, and the disciples come and go freely. I once met a person who had followed him in his practice after a failed start-up, but then he started again and is doing well. ”

It was indeed not a cult, but Qiyuan Wu said with a thoughtful expression: "There are still disciples? The land occupied should not be small, does he pay the rent? ”

Kose was stunned for a moment, and said with a dumb smile: "They occupy the area of the mountain spring well on the mountainside, but Iwato-san won't care about the little money in the rent, if Master Kano is willing to speak, Iwato-san will give him more." ”

Nanahara Takeshi persistently asked, "Is that to give or not to give?" How much was given? He spent all the year on the mountain doing penance, always dressing and eating, but where did he get what he fed? ”

Kose was slightly stunned, couldn't help but tap the brakes, and hesitated: "The land rent should not be paid, and I won't ask for it if I give it to Iwato-san." As for life, his disciples are supporting him, and they are all people who voluntarily escape from the world, and I heard that they make a living by collecting mountain goods......"

Nanahara Wu nodded: "So, not only did they not pay the rent, but they also sold the production on the mountain?" ”

Kose Kanmi thought about it, accelerated again, and groaned: "But even so, Iwato-san won't take it too seriously, he has no reason to frame Iwato-san because of this, that won't do him any good, and Miss Daduan disappeared at the entrance of the villa, I can't think of anything to do with them?" ”

Nanahara Takeshi nodded, didn't say anything more, now this case has no clue at all, and more information needs to be gathered, so he closed his eyes and continued to wander around the "Iwato family" in his mind, wanting to see if he could find more.

…

As for the rest, I'll go to the mountains tomorrow and talk about it.

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Kosemi drove back the same way, and after driving for less than thirty minutes, she stopped in front of an ordinary apartment building on the outskirts of Hirano City, turned her head and said to Nanahara Takeshi and Kiyomi Ruri, "Here, Miss Odan's residence is in room 303." ”

Kiyomi Ruri was also thinking about how to change people directly from a "secret room" along the way, and when he heard this, he opened the door and got out of the car, turned around and habitually pulled Nanahara Takeshi down, but the people were all brought out, only to realize that he was not blind at all, and he didn't need to be helped, and he slapped his hand angrily.

Nasty, I'm used to taking care of you now!

Nanahara Wu glared at her, this low-level little employee is becoming more and more presumptuous, and when the compensation is finished, when this page is completely revealed, she can't turn over the old accounts and cry her nose, and she has to clean her up again, but it doesn't matter, it's important to make money now.

He followed Kose to room 303, Kose knocked on the door, a twenty-three or four-year-old young woman with a pretty face immediately opened the door, and when she saw Kose, she said enthusiastically: "Hello Kose-sensei, please come in." ”

Kosemei smiled lightly and said politely, "I'm sorry to delay your time again, Miss Yashima." After speaking, she turned her head and introduced to Takeshi Nanahara, "This is Miss Dadan's roommate, Miss Hachishima Kiku." ”

Takeshi Nanahara and Ruri Kiyomi also politely introduced themselves, and Yashima Kiku, when she heard Takeshi Nanahara's name, thought about it and was surprised: "It's the psychic detective Takeshi Nanahara in the newspaper...... Sorry, but is it Nanahara-san? ”

Nanahara Takeshi smiled, "It's me, but I'm not a detective." ”

"That's great!" Yadao Ju seemed to have an excellent relationship with Daduan Dai, and he was also quite intelligent, so he immediately bowed seriously and said, "Please, please save Adai as soon as possible." ”

"Do your best." Qiyuan Wu didn't dare to guarantee whether Daduan Dai was dead or alive, so he could only say so.

"Thank you so much, please come in." Yashima Ju became more enthusiastic, beckoned the three of them into the house, and by the way, he also bowed to Kiyomi Ruri, and said a word of thanks.

Although she delayed going to work, she didn't have the slightest impatience, and planned to take out the prepared refreshments and hot tea to entertain the guests, and Nanahara Takeshi looked around the small living room, feeling slightly uncomfortable, probably contrasted by Iwato Yu's super large and empty living room.

He stopped Hachijujima's busy work and said with a smile: "Miss Hachishima, please don't be polite, it's important to get down to business, I want to see Miss Daduan's room." ”

"Yes, please come here." Yashima Ju was very docile and obedient, and immediately bent down slightly and walked him to the apartment, "The police also came to check before, but no one has touched it since then, and I didn't even dare to clean it." ”

Nanahara nodded with a smile, entered Daduan Dai's room, looked around, and found that Daduan Dai's bedroom was quite traditional, basically in the standard Japanese style. There are no beds, people sleep directly on tatami mats, there is a closet on the wall, there is a shamisen string, and there is an elegant small book table and a cushion in the window.

…

The only thing that is more modern is that there is a sizable dressing table full of bottles and jars, and there is a large dressing mirror on the side.

It is estimated that it is a professional requirement, and the requirements for makeup and clothing are relatively high, so it has to be so, which is a bit of a ruin of the overall style.

Nanahara Takeshi didn't shy away from suspicion and walked around the bedroom. I took off the shamisen string and took a look, and found that it was well maintained, and it was often played, not counting decorations, and I opened the closet to take a closer look, and inside it was bedding, clothes and some personal sundries, but there was no robot cat.

Kiyomi Ruri followed him, while also curious to observe the details, and at the same time also supervised Nanahara Takeshi not to mess around, and found that he was vaguely sniffing carefully, so he quickly moved his body to help him cover it, but she didn't say anything - she could guess that Nanahara Takeshi wanted to remember the smell of Daduan Dai, maybe it could help to find someone, but the eavesdropping on other people's clothes was a bit perverted, and it was not good for outsiders to see it, so she had to help him block it.

Nanahara Takeshi didn't care at all, he went to look through the miscellaneous items after flipping through the clothes, and after flipping through them, he thought about walking to the small book table, sat down cross-legged, and began to check the magazines and books placed on it, and Kiyomi Ruri rearranged his messy things and quickly followed.

The magazine is nothing special, mainly fashion clothing, only related to the nature of her work, Nanahara Takeshi probably flipped through it and put it aside, and the books are a little strange, mainly books that introduce the local customs of Hirano, and a detailed atlas.

He looked at them one by one, put aside what he had seen before, put what he hadn't seen on the other side, and prepared to turn around and take it back to torture carefully, and he had long remembered the map of Hirano, mainly concerned about what Daduan Dai was looking at - many pages of the atlas were marked, some places were circled, some places were crossed, some places were circled and then crossed, and some places were marked with asterisks.

Kiyomi Ruri glanced at it a few times and asked in a low voice, "Is she looking for somewhere?" ”

Nanahara Takeshi shook his head: "It's not her." ”

Kiyomi Ruri was puzzled: "It's not her?" ”

Nanahara Wu took a fashion magazine for her to compare, and Da Duan Dai sometimes circled the magazine to decide what to buy, "At least she wasn't looking for it at the beginning, the two people used different pen strengths, she was more serious, and her personality was more cautious, the circle was very neat, and the mark was also a board and a glance, but the one on the atlas was much more casual, drawing a circle was completely round or flat, and the cross was angry, and I hated to cut through the paper." ”

Then he flipped through the atlas and looked at the publication time at the back, "The publication more than thirty years ago, this map has long been outdated, there is no need to keep Da Duan Dai, it should be someone who wants to find a certain place, but he has not found it, and finally the atlas fell into the hands of Da Duan Dai." ”

Kiyomi Ruri asked curiously, "Then where are they looking?" ”

Nanahara Takeshi looked at it carefully for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, she didn't make any marks in the atlas, but I guess ......"

Kiyomi Ruri thought about it and reacted: "Could it be the mountain behind the Iwato-san villa?" Her purpose of approaching Iwato-san is not pure, in fact, she wants that mountain? Is this her conflict of interest with Master Pipetail? ”

"Not necessarily wanting that mountain, or maybe there's another possibility." Nanahara Takeshi touched his chin and muttered, "For example, someone has been looking for a certain place, but has not found it for many years, Daduan Dai is deeply impressed by this, but it was an accident that she met Iwato Yu, and it was also an accident to go up the mountain with him, but it happened that she saw a certain place that roughly matched her memory, and she suspected that it was the right place, and she wanted to find something on the mountain." ”

Kiyomi Ruri also touched her small chin and muttered, "As a result, Master Kano's group of people are too much of a hindrance, and if she wants to find something, she has to drive them away first, so she tries hard to become Mrs. Iwato?" Or maybe Master Sugao has been lying in the mountains for eight years, and he is also looking for something, so he eliminated his competitors in advance by some mysterious means? ”

Is this really a piece of fat?

But that piece of fat isn't Iwato Yu, it's something in his mountains?

Daduan Dai has nothing to do with Sugao on the surface, but is actually a competitor?

The modus operandi is so mysterious, but is the motive so complicated?

Kiyomi Ruri was a little overloaded with pig brains again, and Koseki Aimi was afraid of disturbing Nanahara's search, and she didn't think she could help, so she kept standing at the door and waiting, but seeing that their heads were together and muttering quietly, she couldn't help but come in and ask, "Nanahara-san, did you find anything?" ”

Nanahara Takeshi looked back and smiled: "Not yet." ”

Although Daduan Dai and Sugao are looking for something somewhere, it's just a guess without evidence, but Nanahara Takeshi can't rule out that possibility for the time being, then this matter is interesting, what are the two of them looking for?

Maybe it's valuable, he'll have to dig it out first!