Lion King

...Yuko isn't a waitress, she's a reader model for a magazine, which magazine is it?Um, my sister often looks like... she's working in a hotel to save for her tuition.Uh, she's actually a waitress..."

"So, what does this have to do with asking me to drink at night?"

Sakata suddenly became shy, and hummed like a child for a long time before telling me shyly.

"...It's friendship!"

"what?"

I didn't catch it for a while.

"It's...a get-together! I told Yuko that I have a lot of police officer friends who are single, so she asked me if I could organize a get-together... Both Kito and Takasago are free, there is one person missing, you are also single, I miss you You should be interested...Yuko's friends are either models or entertainers, they are all beauties!"

Mu Teng is still studying, so he is naturally free. Takasago inherits the family's dojo, and is worried that he will not have the opportunity to meet girls. It is quite suitable for the three of them to get together.

As for me?

Glancing at the VCR under the TV cabinet, I shook my head.

"I don't really want to go."

Sakata immediately let out a cry of disappointment.

"Please, please, please - I boasted to Yuko that there will be a young and promising police department! Kito and Takasago are the ones who make up the numbers, and the highlight is you! If you don't go, I won't be able to face it in the future It's Yuko!"

...You two just met yesterday, and it was after midnight, it's kind enough for the other party to remember your name, you guys stop being self righteous!

"Originally, Yuko's friend wanted to associate with the police officer, so Yuko took special care of me, but I was only the inspection minister, and Yuko's friend indicated that he wanted to associate with the police department. If Amu didn't go, I would really die. !!"

His voice was crying, according to his previous style, even if he knew I couldn't see, he would take out a handkerchief to wipe his eyes.I raised my head and let out a long sigh towards the empty ceiling.

I hate fraternities, fraternities never bring me good memories.

Sakata did not give up, and actively introduced the location of this friendship - it was a store that was very popular among girls recently, the name of the store was Romance, and it was also a place frequented by Kenji Fujima.

Every time I meet Fujima, I will always be ridiculed inexplicably. Occasionally, when I ask Li Yang how is she doing recently, she will get "I am very happy in the United States and I have a new boyfriend. Do you know Rukawa Kaede? I really like blablablabla" answers.The only time I was not perfunctory like this was in a convenience store near the Metropolitan Police Department a year ago. I spread out the magazine with Li Yang’s photo I was reading in front of him, and he stopped. The work based on the prototype has been on the bestseller list, did you know?" topic.

"So, Ah Mu, my happiness for the rest of my life depends on you! Huh——"

Sakata's fake cry came to my ears, I pressed my forehead, my thoughts turned back and forth, the air flowed heavily from my nasal cavity, and I let out an unexpected "um".

"Eh? Is this, did you agree? You hummed just now, right, Amu?"

"Huh? No, that's just—"

Cows also make humming noises when they pant, that doesn't make any sense!

"That's great! I love you, Amu! We'll see you at seven o'clock in the evening! Do you know the address? Come here by car. I'm not going to get drunk, so you have to take me home! Yea, ya, ya, yay—kacha .”

Sakata hung up the phone just like that, and when I called again, it became busy beeping.

All right.I resignedly put down the microphone.

Six hours later, I drove to pick up Sakata and arrived at Romance half an hour earlier.The reason why it took so long in advance was because he had never been to this store, and he was afraid of being underestimated by Yuko, so he came to investigate first.

What an innocent guy.

The lighting in the store is very soft, and Sakata and I sat in the couple's seat in the corner, always feeling weird.The other guests were all girls in groups, only our table was male.

Sakata ordered Long Island iced tea, and I could only drink tea because I was driving.This store has a wide range of drinks, and the main customers are girls, so there are also many non-alcoholic drinks.

The store is divided into two floors, the first floor is the lobby, and the second floor is said to be the VIP seat, which needs to be booked one month in advance to get a seat. After inquiring, the girls who go to the second floor are all dressed in fashion.While drinking Long Island iced tea, Sakata stared at the girls passing by from time to time, making me wonder if he had forgotten what he was here for today.

After sitting with Sakata for more than ten minutes, I couldn't stand the behavior of occupying the couple's seat with a man in a store with a good atmosphere, so I used the excuse to go to the bathroom.After washing his face in the bathroom, he felt much refreshed. When he was about to open the door to go out, there was a shrill scream outside the door.

I pushed open the door suddenly, only to see that the door of the women's washroom opposite was ajar, and the sound seemed to come from inside.Through the crack of the door, a pool of red liquid slowly spread.A girl in a white dress was kneeling on the floor, covering her mouth in horror and looking towards a certain point inside the door.

Pushing open the door, there were two people opposite the girl in white. One was lying on the floor in the same white dress as her, staring at the ceiling with big eyes. Blood flowed from her neck, soaking the beige floor tiles.Kneeling next to her was another girl, wearing a red dress, pressing the fallen girl's neck with her right hand, holding a small eyebrow trimmer in her left hand, staring blankly at the victim on the ground.

"Call for an ambulance!"

I yelled at the waiter who came over after hearing the sound, and the girl in the red dress shook her head.

"It's useless...the heartbeat is gone..."

I rushed to the victim and pressed my fingers against her arteries. The moment I touched the skin, a chill ran up my fingertips.

Hopeless.The body is cold.

"Wow - what's going on here?"

Sakata also rushed over, he called the police, and then showed the ID to the waiter.

"Miss, are you okay? Can you stand up?"

The girl in white who screamed at the beginning had already left the bathroom with the help of the waiter, but the girl in red remained silent for a long time.I went over and squatted down, trying to help her up, but her face was covered with blood, her neck and shoulders were covered with blood.Hearing my voice, the girl turned her head and looked at me like a puppet.

Those eyes were pitch-black and bottomless, with tears in their sockets, but their gaze was firm.

It was a pair of eyes I was very familiar with.

chapter51Lipstick

Chapter51

The name of the deceased was Tamiya Mayu, 25 years old, an artist under the famous artist agency Japan Project, and her stage name was Lilith.Among the two witnesses who found the deceased, the one in white was Haruko Akagi, a reporter from Sports Daily, and another artist from Japan Project, named Fujiwara Liyang, whose stage name was Rion.

Akagi and Fujiwara are roommates. In order to celebrate Akagi's report winning the President's Award, the two came to the Romance booked by Fujiwara at 10:[-] pm, and stayed in the box on the second floor until [-]:[-] pm.At five o'clock, the deceased Tamiya Yu came to Romance alone, and happened to meet Fujiwara who was going to the bathroom in the corridor, and Fujiwara invited Tamiya to have a meal together.At [-]:[-], Tamiya went to the bathroom and did not come back after [-] minutes, so Fujiwara and Akagi went downstairs to find her.

Akagi found Tamiya lying in a pool of blood and screamed.The cry attracted Mu Shenyi, the police department, and Sakata Kazuki, who were on vacation, the inspector.

Tamiya Cocoon was taken to the hospital immediately, but died before reaching the hospital, the cause of death was excessive blood loss caused by a cut carotid artery.

A large amount of the deceased's blood was found on the walls and floor of a cubicle in the restroom, presumed to be the first crime scene.According to the drag marks on the ground and witness Fujiwara's statement, she found that when she arrived at the scene, the deceased was already lying in front of the sink.

The folding eyebrow trimming knife in Fujiwara's hand was confirmed to be the deceased's item. The fingerprints of the deceased and Fujiwara and the blood of the deceased were found on the handle, but no blood was found on the blade.

According to Fujiwara's testimony, the eyebrow trimmer was in the deceased's hand, and the cosmetic bag, cosmetics and tools found in the compartment were scattered all over the place, and the eyebrow trimmer was missing.It is speculated that it was brought out when the murderer moved the dead.

There are only two cameras in the Romance store, namely at the stairway and in front of the gate, and the toilet is located in a hidden location. So far, no clues about the murderer have been obtained.

The above is the information we got one hour after the incident happened.

Since the victim was a well-known entertainer, within twelve hours after the incident, various rumors about the case had spread all over the sky, and internal investigation materials were also leaked before the press conference. Fans of the deceased even offered a reward of 100 million yen on the underground BBS for his capture. murderer.

As for me, less than 24 hours after the start of my vacation, I had to go back to work in the first search class.

When Mu Teng and Takasago arrived at Romance, the yellow cordon had just been pulled up.Mu Teng stood outside the cordon and asked me if the friendship would continue. If not, he would go back to do experiments, while Takasago insisted on seeing the girl before going back.Fortunately, Yuko and the others were not only not frightened, but became more enthusiastic, and took Muto and Takasago to another shop to drink.

The strange thing is that only two girls came, and the other two girls seemed to be delayed by something.

On the second day after the incident, the police set up a search headquarters, and Sakata and I were assigned to investigate the deceased’s relationship. The first person to visit was Riyo Fujiwara, the first discoverer.

I never expected to meet her again in this way.

We haven't spoken since the moment we met her.

Li Yang was frightened. During the interrogation at the police station, Fujima came over aggressively, terminated the interrogation forcefully by various means, and took Li Yang home.

Before she left, Sakata and I were squatting at the gate of the police station to sort out clues. Li Yang got into the car and left without even looking at me.

I don't know if she recognized me.

Liyang's residence is located in a high-end apartment called Sky City in Harajuku District. The appearance of the building is very luxurious.The apartment was owned by her father, and she and her elder brother Fujima Kenji lived on the top and ninth floors of the apartment, respectively.

After looking up at the gorgeous exterior of this building for a while, Sakata and I exchanged glances, reading the shadow of the murder that happened in Akasaka a week ago in the other's eyes.

It just feels so bad.

The two of us walked into the magnificent hall, informed the residents through the front desk, and took the elevator after getting permission.

When I came to the top floor and rang the doorbell, I couldn't help being a little nervous-what should I say after seeing Li Yang?Such a terrible thing happened yesterday, she must be terrified, and she must pay attention to her wording when she asks questions later...

Just as I was thinking wildly, the door opened.

"Hi, I'm Mu from the Police Department's First Investigation Section."

"Hello, I'm Sakata from the Police Department's First Investigation Division."

I was so nervous that I even forgot to greet, I took out my ID and introduced myself, and Sakata followed me to show the ID.

"Hi, I'm Li Yang's brother, please come in."

It was Fujima who opened the door. He was wearing gray home clothes, his round eyes stared at me coldly, and he turned sideways to let me and Sakata in.

This apartment is large, with 4DLK, the living room is sunken, the floor is soft beige, and the curtains are lively black and white polka dots.From the interior decoration, we can see the owner's elegant and lively taste.

Fujima invited us to sit on the sofa in the living room, then went to the bedroom and called Li Yang.Not long after, Li Yang came out with a ponytail and a black dress. She sat beside Fujima, with her hands on her knees and her eyes on the floor.

Sakata and I introduced ourselves again, and she looked up.

"... Mu?"

Li Yang's two slender eyebrows moved, and she stretched her neck to stare at me. Her gaze was as straightforward as ever. I tried my best to restrain my urge to turn around and run away, and looked at her nervously.

"Mu Shenyi?"

"Yes... yes. I am Mu Shenyi."

Sweat dripped from his forehead and ran down his cheeks.I stared at Li Yang stupidly. Although I often saw her on TV and in magazines, when the real person sat in front of her, my heart would still beat wildly.

I even started to complain about why the murder happened at this time, why the murderer couldn't wait any longer.

Li Yang stared at me for a few seconds and then looked away, but those few seconds seemed like a century to me.After seven years, I finally saw her again.

The joy of seeing her again turned into a gentle flame, slowly burning my heart.

"What do you want to ask today? Haven't you asked enough questions yesterday?"

Fujima's rough voice came, pulling me back to reality.

"Ah, that...it's like this—" Sakata explained to Fujima. "About Ms. Tamiya's interpersonal relationship, we want to know if she has had any conflicts or emotional disputes with anyone? Yesterday the staff of the firm told us that Ms. Tamiya and Ms. Fujiwara have a very good relationship, so today we will Come to bother..."

"Cocoon she—"

"My sister and Ms. Tamiya are just ordinary colleagues. They don't have much contact in private, and I don't know much about her private life."

As soon as Li Yang opened her mouth, Fujima pressed her hand and answered for her.

"Although they are colleagues, they belong to different departments and rarely overlap in work. I think you have found the wrong person."

Fuji's attitude is tougher than imagined.He was right. According to the results of the investigation, Tamiya belonged to the modeling department. Although Li Yang also worked as a model, she was actually a manager of the firm, that is, a member of the agency team.In terms of position, Li Yang is Tamiya's superior.

The major shareholder of Japan Project is Fujima's father, and as one of the heirs, it is normal for Li Yang to keep a distance from employees.

Both Sakata and I realized that as long as Fujima is around, we won't be able to get any clues from Leo.After exchanging glances with Sakata, we decided to say goodbye.

Fujima insisted on sending us all the way outside the apartment gate.After turning the corner, Sakata and I stuck our heads against the wall, poked our heads out from the corner carefully, and saw Fujima still standing in front of the apartment door, looking at the direction where Sakata and I left.

It took about a minute before he returned to the apartment.

"What a scary man... But it's understandable. My baby sister was involved in a murder case, and she's such a beautiful sister. Anyone would have an overprotective desire."

Sakata smacked his lips and asked me, "What should we do now? Fujiwara obviously has clues, but if we can't break through her brother's fortifications, we can only wait for the princess to let down her long hair."

In the usual situation, you only need to make an appointment with the witness alone, but the phone number Li Yang left during the questioning yesterday was Fujima's private number.We also went to the office to inquire, and it turned out that Fujima had already replaced the contact information on all Li Yang's materials with his own number.The other witness, Haruko Akagi, was taken back to her home in Kanagawa by her family to recuperate because she was greatly stimulated, and it is inconvenient to contact her now.

This time she really became a tower princess.

I rubbed my chin and thought for a while, and the picture of the TV show I watched yesterday suddenly flashed in my mind.

"I remember Fujima as Mizuhara's secretary, right?"

Sakata nodded.

"Last year, I just entered the campaign office and became a cadre. I heard from a friend of the "Politics and Economics News" that some reporters are already talking to Fujima. Suwon is now at the end of his battle, and it is rumored everywhere that Fujima will succeed him in two years. Constituency."

I have also heard related rumors. Because of his handsome appearance and tough style, Fujima received the attention of many female voters and reporters when he was campaigning with Senator Suwon. In addition, he was born in a chaebol, and the campaign funds came entirely from the family. It is easy to be constrained by money, so there are some voices who want him to run for election.

In other words, Fujima is also considered a half-public figure.As a public figure, the most concerned thing is naturally privacy.When he learned that his privacy might be violated, he might not be able to guard Li Yang so calmly.

I discussed with Sakata and decided to draw Fujima out first, and then contact Li Yang directly.

If the class leader finds out about this matter, there will be a scolding, but I have a hunch—Li Yang must know something, and maybe she is worrying about it.

I want her to live a happy life without any haze, so I have to see her both in public and in private.

I called Sato Mariko, who asked me to be her fake boyfriend when she was in college, and this favor has been kept until now.I asked her to contact Fujima, saying that she was pestered by several reporters and was very scared, and asked him to come to me as soon as possible.

At the same time, Sakata contacted his friends who worked in the newspaper and told them that Fujima was dating a producer of the TV station. Coupled with Fujima, a future political rookie and love triangle elements, it happens to be the favorite material of gossip magazines.

Sato immediately repented after listening to Sakata's explanation of the situation, so I had to threaten her that if she didn't cooperate, I would tell Fujima what she had confessed to me back then.

"Anyway, he has always hated it, so it doesn't matter if there is one more thing."

Sato was silent for a long time, and reluctantly agreed.

Sakata and I hid at the corner of the street and watched the gate of Sky City.Twenty minutes later, a figure rushed out and got into a taxi at the door.

"It's Fujima!"

Sakata called out in a low voice.

Watching the taxi carrying Fujima disappear from view, Sakata and I started running at the same time.

"Please help us pick up Ms. Fujiwara on the top floor!"

We rushed to the front desk, showed our IDs, and the two of us panted and said to the guards.

The guard hurriedly dialed the internal number, and a few seconds later, he told us:

"Miss Fujiwara said that only one person can go up, you see—?"

"I go."

Sakata poked my lower back and winked at me: "Remember to ask for the phone number!"

I backhanded him.

"Do you want to be scolded to death by the head teacher?"

He smiled and followed to the elevator entrance, and waved to me.

The contact information of witnesses can only be used for work and cannot be held privately. This is the professional ethics of a police officer.

But I guess I can't resist calling to say hello during the break.

The elevator quickly arrived at the top floor. I rang the doorbell. After waiting for a while, no one answered the door. I pressed the handle, and the door opened.

I felt something was wrong, so I carefully pushed open the door and walked in. As soon as my back foot stepped into the door, a black shadow flashed in front of my eyes, and I was hit hard in the abdomen.

"--Well!"

Li Yang threw me to the ground and rode on me—she was holding a No. 7 golf club, the iron head of which just stabbed me hard in the stomach.

"Fuji, Fujiwara—"

"shut up."

Li Yang interrupted me impatiently, threw the cue aside, pinched my face with her left hand, reached into my suit jacket with her right hand, pinched the flesh on my stomach, and pinched me hard.

--it hurts!I tried my best to endure and looked up at Li Yang.

"Cocoon has a boyfriend who has been with him for seven years. I have never met her. I only heard that she works in a small steel ball shop. She goes there twice a week. Last week, she said that she lost contact with her boyfriend and was very worried. The small steel ball shop where my friend worked couldn’t find anyone. It seemed to be involved in some incident. Cocoon hired a private detective to find her boyfriend, and it seemed that she found it. When we met yesterday, she was very depressed and told me that I broke up with my boyfriend. She just-"

Li Yang lowered her head, her eyes became sad.

"Me and Cocoon have very little contact in private, and we are not friends—this was during dinner yesterday, and she said that if someone asks about my relationship with her, she must tell the other party so. Although I am not in the same department as her, every day Zhou will have dinner together, and she will confide in me when she has troubles... I don't know why Cocoon is doing this... Maybe you can help me find the answer."

"...I will find out who killed Tamiya... who killed your friend. I will."

There was severe pain in my abdomen again, I couldn't help opening my mouth wide and let out an "ah", and Li Yang pinched harder.

"Does it hurt?"

She asked me blankly.

Watching her expression carefully, answering "no pain" should be the correct answer.

"...It doesn't hurt."

As if to test whether I was lying, Li Yang increased the force on her hand, and her nails were deeply embedded in my skin.

"No, it doesn't hurt..."

Then she withdrew her hand and stood up from me.

Immediately after getting up from the ground, I rubbed my stomach that was still hurting, and said something to her, but I didn't know how to say it.

Li Yang stared at me for a while, snorted, and said to me in a disgusted tone:

"You haven't changed much. Being a policeman is hard work, isn't it?"

"fine……"

She grabbed my arm and walked out the door.

"I've told you everything I need to say, can you go now?"

When I walked to the door, I remembered that I didn't have her contact information, so I asked her to give me her phone number.

Li Yang narrowed her eyes and raised her chin at me.

"Unbutton the clothes."

"……Eh?"

"I said take off your clothes."

I unbuttoned the suit jacket, but Li Yang was not satisfied, so I unbuttoned the three buttons of the shirt.

"I'll write, you remember, take out the notepad."

I quickly took out the notepad and prepared a pen to give to her, but Li Yang pushed my hand away.She went to the bathroom to get a lipstick, pulled off the cap, unscrewed a short piece, then opened my skirt, tiptoed to my ear.

"3--"

The lipstick moved on the chest, drawing two coherent arcs. At the same time, there was another severe pain in the abdomen. Li Yang twisted my abdomen while slowly painting and drawing with the lipstick on my chest.

"Remember!"

I was so painful that cold sweat broke out on my forehead, Li Yang tapped my notepad with her lipstick, and reminded me dissatisfied.

"Good, good."

"9--"

While enduring the severe pain to write the number on the notepad, Li Yang bit his ear, this kind of hell-like torture only Li Yang could have imagined.

I don't know how I provoked her again, so I can only endure it silently.

After finally remembering the number, Li Yang gathered my skirt, walked to the door with my arm in her arms.

"Come on, Shepherd Police Department, find out the truth as soon as possible!"

She slapped my butt hard, sent me out the door, and slowly closed the door.

While waiting for the elevator, I re-buttoned my shirt. The lipstick on my chest stuck the shirt to the skin on my chest, making it sticky and uncomfortable.

As I touched the piece of clothing exuding a sweet fragrance, my heart was beating wildly.

chapter52Kagi

On the third day after the incident, Sakata and I went to the residence of the deceased Tamiya Mayu, and we found a business card of a credit bureau among her belongings.According to the clues provided by Li Yang, this should be the credit agency commissioned by Tamiya to find her boyfriend.

The entrusted detective was named Sasaki. After a brief questioning, he gave us a copy of the investigation report handed over to Tamiya Mayu at that time.

Sitting on the sofa where the credit agency receives customers, I opened the investigation report.

The first page is the information provided by Tamiya Cocoon to the credit agency, and a photo of her and her boyfriend is printed on it.

In the photo, she is hugging her boyfriend's neck, kissing his cheek intimately, her hair is simply tied behind her head with a hairpin, and she doesn't seem to have much make-up, which is much more plain than her usual image on TV.Behind them there is a sign for a small steel ball shop, probably taken at the place where the boyfriend works.

And that mysterious boyfriend——

I turned my head and looked at Sakata, who was also looking up at me.

"...No."

The corners of Sakata’s mouth twitched, and we both looked at Detective Sasaki at the same time. He was lowering his eyes and blowing out smoke rings unhurriedly. When we saw him, he seemed to have expected it and said to us:

"That's right, it's this guy. Akasaka Midori (Midori), the suspect in the Akasaka Polaris apartment murder case who was arrested a few days ago."

"Slow, slow—"

Sakata raised his palm and made a stop gesture.

"That is to say—Miss Tamiya's boyfriend is Akasaka?"

Sasaki nodded: "Exactly."

The scene of arresting Akasaka came to mind immediately—he whispered to me, drooling, "Oh, what a young police officer."

The reason for the arrest was that three days after the incident, a valuable sapphire necklace from the deceased’s home appeared in a pawn shop in Tokyo. After calling out the surveillance video, Akasaka came into our view.After two days of investigation, the place where he worked was locked - a chain of small steel ball shops, and he was finally arrested in a business hotel.

That chain of pachinko shops happened to be the same one in the Tamiya photo.

"But when we were investigating, we didn't find any clues that Akasaka had a girlfriend."

Akasaka pawned the necklace and fled overnight. At that time, the police judged that someone might help him escape, so they carefully sorted out the interpersonal relationship around him, only to find that he had neither lover nor friend, and the adoptive parents in his hometown also had three years ago died.

Now, he has a girlfriend who is also a famous idol?

After leaving the credit agency, Sakata and I went to the detention center to see Akasaka.

"I just asked straight to the point, do you know Tamiya Cocoon?"

Akasaka's face was redder than when he was arrested. He tilted his head and let out an "ah" when faced with my question.

"...Who?"

Sakata pasted the first page of the investigation report on the glass, and Akasaka narrowed his eyes and looked closer, his face gradually gloomy.

"What is this?" he asked.

Sakata put away the investigation report impatiently and tapped his fingers on the table.

"Stop pretending to be stupid, what's your relationship with Tamiya Yu?"

Akasaka leaned back and raised his head slightly: "I don't know Tamiya Mayu, you must be mistaken."

Sakata wanted to stand up in a rage, I patted him on the shoulder and pushed him back.

"Akasaka, take a closer look—" I pasted the first page of the investigation report on the glass again, and I said to Akasaka: "The girl in this photo, her name is Tamiya Mayu, do you know her?"

Akasaka quickly glanced at the photo, then looked elsewhere.

"I do not know her."

His tone lowered, noticing this subtle change, Sakata and I looked at each other and leaned closer to the glass.

"Tamiya said you are her boyfriend, is that true?"

Akasaka didn't answer, the corner of his mouth twitched.

"...This person is a famous entertainer."

Akasaka glanced at the photo again and sneered.

"How can a person like me get involved with this kind of person on the cloud? The other party must have made a mistake. My face is quite popular... I'm sorry I can't help you, I'm a little tired, you guys Please come back."

After speaking, he stood up and was about to leave, but Sakata yelled "Slow down!" in desperation, and Akasaka turned his head slowly and looked at us indifferently.

"Tamiya is dead."

I said to Akasaka.

He looked at me blankly, and said "ha", as if I was telling an ugly joke.

"What did you say?"

He raised his eyebrows, tilted his mouth to one side, walked over unsteadily, propped his hands on the glass, and stared at me motionlessly.

"Officer Mu...what did you say just now?"

I took a deep breath and looked straight into Akasaka's red eyes.

"Three days ago, Tamiya died, and it was determined to be a homicide. No clues related to the murderer have been found yet. Tamiya commissioned a detective to investigate you before he died, so I think you may know something."

Akasaka's mouth slowly opened, making a sound of "Guuuuuuuuuuu", he covered his mouth and slowly fell to the ground.

"Ma, mayu...?"

Then there was a beast-like cry.

At the search meeting that day, I reported clues related to Akasaka, and the search headquarters fell into silence for a while.

"How is Akasaka's current state? Can I ask you?"

asked the minister.

"Now he refuses to meet, even with the court-appointed nationally elected lawyer."

Not only did he refuse to meet, but shortly after Sakata and I left the detention center, Akasaka broke the handle of his toothbrush in an attempt to commit suicide, and is now reflecting in the isolation room.

The evidence collection of the two first discoverers also encountered trouble.The detective in charge said that Akagi Haruko was hospitalized due to acute gastroenteritis caused by the blow, and as for Fujiwara Ryo——

"The police chief personally ordered it, and there is no need to ask the eldest lady."

The director sighed and wiped his shiny forehead.

"I heard that the Chief Cabinet Secretary took special care of them. What a terrible family."

The power of Fujima's family spreads all over the Kanto area. Mariko Sato once mentioned that Li Yang's great-grandfather was a professor at Keio Gijuku, and most of his students were in high positions in politics and the police. His great-grandmother was the eldest lady of the public family. Shunfeng, who took off, founded the Fujima Foundation, which later funded many young politicians. Today's Chief of Police, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Posts have all been under the care of the Fujima family.

I don't know if Li Yang will be angry when she hears the news?She hated Fujima very much in the past. According to Sato, after returning to China, she had a big fight with her family about being an artist, and moved to Tokyo alone.

Recalling the phone number she drew on my chest yesterday, I made an excuse to go to the bathroom and dialed her number from the cubicle.

"maki?"

Li Yang's crisp voice came from the microphone, and at that moment tears welled up, I quickly wiped my eyes and cleared my throat.

"I'm Mu, is it convenient for you to speak now?"

"Is it a matter of inquiry? I heard from Kenji that the mummy of Fujima's family plans to seal my mouth with tape."

She smiled slightly.

"Are you coming to save me?"

... Of course, of course I will, if that is your wish.

At five o'clock that afternoon, Sakata and I drove to a beauty salon in Ginza.After parking the car, Sakata complained again and again.

"Hey, hey, aren't we going to the brokerage company, what are we doing here?"

He stood at the door of the store and looked in. I pushed him and pushed him directly into the store.

"What, what are you doing!"

The clerk in charge of the reception came over with a smile on her face, and after telling her my name, she took Sakata and me to the barber area.

"Cut your hair? Let me explain in advance that I don't have that much money, you have to hire me."

Sakata muttered, and the young barber put on his apron with a smile on his face. Within a few minutes, Sakata's snoring came.

After the haircut, the two of us drank the black tea brought by the clerk and ate some snacks before leaving.

"What are you doing, you look like a girl... What's wrong with you? You will be scolded to death by the director if you desert during work hours—ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?!"

Sakata's complaints stopped when he saw a luxury sports car parked outside the store.

"She, she, why is she here?! No, don't you need to ask?"

Beside the bright red sports car, Li Yang took off her sunglasses and looked at Sakata with a funny face.

"What the hell is going on here?"

Sakata opened his mouth wide and asked me in a stuttering manner.

"It's a deal." I whispered to him.

"If we are the Black Knight and rescue the eldest lady who is under house arrest, she will tell us clues about Tamiya."

Sakata looked disbelieving.

"Stop lying to me! You can still drive such a cool sports car under house arrest?! You still dress so beautifully and smile at me!"

Hearing being praised for being beautiful, Li Yang smiled and said thank you to Sakata.

In fact, I also had doubts about this plan at first—just go to a beauty parlor to get her hair cut and drink tea to save her—if it is to let Fujima drink tea mixed with drugs, then it makes sense.

But Li Yang's order is undeniable, I can only keep my mouth shut and carry it out.

Sakata circled the car several times, and suddenly the door opened, which startled him.

"...can I go?"

A girl stepped down from the driver's seat, and upon closer inspection, it was Mariko Sato.

"If Kenji finds out, I will die a miserable death..."

She grabbed the corner of her clothes uneasily, completely ignoring me beside me.

"Don't worry, he