[L Yue] Give me a forever lie

Six, Side: L

The police surrounded the house we were renting.

I recognized Soichiro Yagami in the crowd. After all, he is also the chief in charge of this area. The only reason he came to the scene in person was for his son.Yuejun hid by the window, carefully glanced down.

"...It's still here."

Even I couldn't help being nervous for a moment, but Yue-kun probably didn't notice it.I asked him, "Are you a murderer?"

"Here we go again." He turned around. "I'm tired of you doubting me endlessly during this time. Look into my eyes, do you think I'm a liar?"

He came over, grabbed my shoulders with both hands, and forcibly pulled my eyes away from the computer to face him.

"Is there anything special about your eyes?" I said. "It's the whites of the eyes plus the pupils and the pupils. Maybe you should look at mine."

"Your eyes are really special." Yue Jun finished the second half of the sentence expressionlessly, and let me go.Now is not the time to fight, otherwise I will definitely ridicule him a few more words.

This is the last time.I think.I got out of the chair and took his hand.

"Are you running away?" I finally asked.

He nodded.it is more than words.

I took Yue to the kitchen and opened the locked cupboards there.Inside the closet is a ladder that looks like a fire escape, but only I know where it leads.This is the secret passage that has existed in this house since the beginning, but only I have been careful to maintain it so that it cannot be discovered.The dust was a little big, and Yuejun coughed loudly.

"Go." I urged. "They're coming up."

He looked at me deeply, and then, showing a small helpless smile.

"……okay, bye."

"Don't come back again," I told him ruthlessly, watching him nimbly crawl down the passage, cover the wooden board behind the cupboard, and lock the door.

The stairs were not soundproof, and the sound of those footsteps soon reached the door.I'm going to open the door for the police and welcome them into this room.

Since they couldn't find Yuejun, they had to take me to the police station.I insisted that their information was wrong, and at the same time I didn't know anything.The police had no choice but to let me go in the end.

However, in this farce-like interrogation, I was not completely in vain.

"Let me reason." I said to Soichiro Yagami. "Actually, the police have already locked Yuejun, but there is no evidence. In addition to your identity, they don't want to expand the matter. During this period of time, you finally found his clues, right?"

"All the evidence points to Yue. Since I have to come, I will come in person." Yagami Soichiro didn't answer my question directly.

I can only laugh, they really look like a father and son.I couldn't make up my mind what I should think, whether to be happy for Yuejun or feel sorry for him.

The reasoning of the police is simple: Yagami went out alone to look for him after his family was threatened by Otoharada Kuro.Finally, find an opportunity to kill the prisoner.He dragged the corpse outside to dispose of it, but he happened to meet me, so he had to lie that he was the first discoverer of the corpse.

There is no second explanation.When solving murder cases, the efficiency of the criminal police is also very high.

"What about the first killing scene?" I asked them.The man named Matsuda hesitated, but seemed to have the tacit approval of his superiors.

"It's on top of a nearby warehouse," he said.

"So that's how it is... After killing someone, when you push the corpse off the top, there is no trace of dragging. Could it be that there are no other people's footprints besides Yue Jun?"

"If there was, it might have been covered up by the snow ... Anyway, we didn't detect it."

There was no trace of a struggle, and the knife was stuck in the back of the corpse... This is probably only done by deliberate killing.If they arrested Yuejun for this reason, it would be impossible to judge them as self-defense, but only murder.When I think about it, I can't help but be thankful for what I'm doing in the kitchen.

"Do you think Yuejun will kill people?" I asked again.Everyone stopped talking this time.

"For the police, 'feeling' is meaningless. The police only talk about evidence," Soichiro said.

I went to the street where the case happened again, but, as the police said, all the evidence had disappeared in the snow, and it was impossible for me to find anything.I can only rely on memory to find contradictions - but there is nothing to say, because his truth and lies, I do sometimes have a hard time distinguishing between truth and falsehood.

The case became a sensation and hit the headlines of the newspapers, and Yue Jun was also wanted for a while.The way he disappeared before my eyes that day is still vivid in my memory.I knew the police couldn't catch him, and he was bound to be alive somewhere I didn't know—and that might be all right.I didn't expect that I would let a murderer go one day, which shows how vulnerable my belief in justice is.In front of true love.

I will always remember that if I hadn't happened to pass by that street that day, Yuejun might never have been noticed by the police, and he has plenty of ways to deal with those evidences.Yet that encounter would not have happened had I not happened to pass by that street that day.Life is such a wonderful thing.

According to the routine of detective novels, something will change at about this time, but I know it will not happen again.Because Yue Jun once accused those stories of being untrue, so some forced reversal must be added, which is not his favorite style.

Soon this winter passed, and I didn't hear a single word about him.Spring is over, and summer is coming with a shower of rain.I finished another long book manuscript, and rarely went to a nearby coffee shop to enjoy my summer.

The street outside the cafe is very crowded, and there is the cram school that Yue Jun mentioned.Indeed, as he said, advertising in mid-air looked annoying.Many people who look like students also stay around here.I really hope these kids are enjoying life too.

A burst of cicadas disturbed my thoughts.When I realized it, Soichiro had already appeared in front of me.

"We saw you outside the door, so we came in," he explained. "I'm sending Shuo Yu - my daughter here. Yue sent her here before."

"Has Yuejun contacted you? He told me a lot about family affairs."

Soichiro smiled bitterly: "No. I always wanted to pretend that he was dead, but I couldn't do it all the time. All I remembered was when he was a child... I regret not spending more time with him Together. Yue is a good boy, and it is my responsibility for him to become like this."

"Please don't blame yourself too much... You have done a good job. Yuejun actually admires you very much in his heart, and I can feel it from his memories."

"I'm very proud of him too - except this time."

We talked about many things, and Soichiro later invited me to their house.

The room where Yue-kun used to live is even preserved.I found a lot of things there, trophies for junior high school competitions, books for learning, various books on criminal investigation psychology and sociology, accessories for assembling computers by myself, and the only detective novel I wrote.We've known each other for longer than I thought.

I can't help but miss him in the summer.