Chapter 573: Suzu Chiga is Hattori's first love?

The house where Harutaro Mizuo lives is very much in line with himself, and it is a mansion full of Japanese style, and the yard is planted with cherry blossom trees and pine trees, and you can see that the cost of garden pruning every month is also a large amount.

Led by the domestic servant of the house, Fujiwara noticed that there were five different styles of Noh masks hanging high in the house, including not only the Buddha's style, but also the Prajna one, which was a bit scary to come to this room at night.

Harutaro Mizuo smiled and asked everyone to take their seats, he asked the maid to make tea, folded his hands in the sleeves of his kimono, sat on his knees and asked:

"Officer Takashi, Mr. Hattori, don't you know what's going on with you? Well? Mr. Hattori, are you hurt?"

Hattori Heiji, who was obviously still tied with a white bandage on his forehead, was too conspicuous, and he nodded and replied:

[In view of the general environment,

"Well, this wound is also the reason why I came. When I left the teahouse last night, I was attacked by someone suspected of killing Mr. Sakura, and if it weren't for Kazuha, I'm afraid I would have died there."

"Huh? You've been attacked?" Abbot Long Yuan looked dazed, he didn't expect the murderer to attack a high school student, which was somewhat puzzling about the murderer's purpose.

"Because the prisoner who attacked me was wearing an old man's Noh mask, we took the liberty of coming here to ask for Mr. Mizuo's alibi." Heiji Hattori didn't beat around the bush and chose to ask bluntly to see how several of them reacted.

Fujiwara Yoshi's eyes fell on the hands of the people, trying to find the connection between them and kyudo and kendo, and those who practiced often would definitely have calluses or scars on their hands, which was an inevitable trace.

Just like him, sometimes when practicing Juhedo, the slightest mistake can cause trauma in his own jaw.

"The old man's mask?" Harutaro Mizuo thought seriously for a while, he roughly guessed that the murderer wanted to blame him, so he simply told his whereabouts last night: "When I left the teahouse yesterday, I went straight home to sleep. But because I'm still single, and my mother is some distance from my room, my alibi doesn't hold up."

Fujiwara Yu looked closely and did not notice any traces of practice on their hands, he raised his eyes to look at the two in front of him and asked:

"Mr. Ryuen and Mr. Saijo, what did you two do after you left the teahouse?"

"I'm in the same situation as him, because I live alone on the second floor of the shop on Teramachi Road." Saijo Taiga tugged at his collar and replied with a natural expression.

"After I read the scriptures in the main hall for a while, I went back to my room and slept, so I had no witnesses."

None of the three had an alibi, and Miss Senga, who was not present, was also seriously suspicious, after all, there were traces left on her hands from practicing kyudo.

Seeing that none of the three of them could rule out suspicion, Hattori Heiji simply changed the question and asked:

"Then I would like to ask, are the three of you practicing archery?"

The three of them had different answers, with Saijo Taiga stating that he had not practiced archery, Harutaro Mizuo pulling an azusa bow on the Noh stage, and Ryuenju having the experience of drawing a bow to exorcise demons.

Fujiwara Yoshi and Hattori Heiji glanced at each other, and judging from their answers, none of them matched the characteristics of the murderer who was good at kyudo.

This is absolutely impossible, unless the murderer is Suzu Chiga...... But if Suzu Chiga is the murderer, there must be an accomplice.

Because before Sakura Masazo was killed last night, Suzu Chiga left the room on the second floor only once, and that was when Harutaro Mizuo went to the toilet, and she accompanied her because she was worried that Mr. Mizuo would have an accident with him.

Just as the two of them were thinking, a girl's voice came from the door, and when they looked over, they found that it was a woman in a kimono they had never seen before.

Fujiwara Yu turned his head suspiciously to look at Harutaro Mizuo, who was sitting on the main seat, and said curiously:

"Is this your girlfriend?" Did our sudden visit disturb anything?"

"No, Officer Eagle Division, she is

Miss Suzu Chiga!" Harutaro Mizuo hurriedly waved his hand.

Fujiwara Yo and Hattori Heiji were both stunned, they didn't expect that the difference between the geisha after removing their makeup was so big, it was like two people.

However, just as he was seated, Fujiwara Yu's face couldn't help but sink, it wasn't Chiga Suzu's movements that caught his attention, but someone else's. He clearly said that he had never practiced archery, but why did he hold half a foot?

He didn't tell Hattori Heiji about the contradictions he found, after all, this guy is still injured, and it's better for him not to get involved in dangerous things, and it's already the limit to take him to track down the eucalyptus.

After the visit, Fujiwara Yu was thinking about how to separate from Hattori Heiji, so he had to pin his hopes on Kudo, so he slowed down and took out his phone.

[I don't want to work overtime today]: Kudo, where are you now?

[Disciple of Sherlock Holmes]: I'm at Sanno Temple, and the police are here to discuss the eucalyptus.

[Disciple of Sherlock Holmes]: Anyway, where did you run away with Hattori?

[I don't want to work overtime today]: It's nothing, we'll come back.

Out of unfamiliarity with Kyoto, Fujiwara Yu saw Chiga Suzu in the same direction as himself, so he asked out loud:

"Miss Senga, can you ask how to get to Sannoji Temple from here?"

Chiga Suzu wore clogs with a small pace, and when she heard the inquiry, she crossed her fingers and recalled the children's rhyme, and sang as she spoke:

"Sannoji Temple is on Rokkaku Road, and we are passing through Ikawa Road now... Marutakeyi two, Oshigoike, sister three hexagonal, so Sannoji Temple should be on the sixth road."

"What song was that?" Fujiwara asked with some curiosity.

"We locals call it the Ball Song, which is a song that compiles the names of Kyoto's roads from north to south."

Suzu Chiga sang this ball song, and indeed sang all the roads in Kyoto, and told them that the children of Kyoto would use this song to remember the names of the roads.

"Well, Miss Suzu Chiga, can you take the liberty of asking your age?" Heiji Hattori asked suddenly.

"Huh? I'm 19 years old, what's wrong?"

Hattori Heiji had already decided in his heart that the Chiga Suzu in front of him was the first love of love at first sight as a child, but he didn't expect to finally see him again, but it was just a heartbeat when he was young...... It seems to have disappeared without a trace over time.

He realized that it was not polite for him to ask about his age rashly, so he hurriedly pushed Takaji Sousuke's back and said:

"Ah, it's nothing, then we'll go in the direction of Oshigoike, and take our leave."

Fujiwara Yu looked at the back of Chiga Suzu leaving, he glared at Hattori Heiji with half-moon eyes, and asked angrily:

"You don't think she's your first love, do you?"

"She's definitely right, a native of Kyoto, and she's the right age, and she can sing this song! But the lyrics are a little different from back then, my first love sang "Bride Hexagon", and she sang "Sister Sanjo", but this is not a big problem, I finally met her!"

Fujiwara Yoshi saw Hattori's excited face, and he was embarrassed to pour cold water on him, who made the suspicion of Chiga Ling not ruled out.

He took out his wallet from his pocket, took out two banknotes and stuffed them into Hattori's hand, and said:

"You go back to Sanno Temple and meet Kudo first, and I'll go find Ayakoji."

"Huh? Okay."

After making sure that Hattori Heiji obediently took a taxi to leave, Fujiwara Yu only then recruited a taxi to go to Teramachi Road, and just now Saijo Taiga said the address of his shop. If I guessed correctly, the murderer should be him.

It's just that I don't have the evidence yet, so I can only find a way to visit his house.