Chapter 4 Empathy
On December 16th, in the afternoon, Chaxian visited Miura's parents.
My father, Akira Miura, is the director of the largest hospital in Hokkaido. He is considered a local well-known figure. He personally received the Tea Fairy.
The pain of losing his son made him unable to sleep all night. The silver threads on his temples, thick bags of his eyes, and haggard expression made the middle-aged man under 50 look like an old man in his sixties.
But for the royal family, Akira Miura still insisted on showing enough humility and obedience. With his experience and identity, he naturally could come into contact with some people from the upper class. He knew the temperament of these people. As long as he had a tone, it would be better to try his best to meet their requirements, otherwise...
"I feel very sympathetic to your experience." After a few simple greetings with him, Chaxian was about to get to the point: "In order to find out the murderer who killed Miura Jun, we need to know some of the situation from you."
"I must know everything and say everything." Miura Akira replied respectfully.
But Chaxian understood that it would be difficult to tell him the matter: "Mr. Miura, do you know what the situation of Suzuki Kiyoko's family is now?"
When he heard the name Suzuki, Akira Miura seemed to have chicken blood injected, and his expression instantly changed from pale to blood red. A large amount of blood rushed to his head, and his eyes were filled with fear and shock.
The Tea Fairy remained silent, watching the other person's expression change, and her tone went from being polite and kind as before to an unfriendly tone: "Oh... it's this kind of reaction. Did you not expect me to find out about this? That would be too underestimating HL's ability."
"Sir...you...what are you talking about..." Miura Akira stammered.
Tea Fairy took this opportunity to take a sip of tea: "It's meaningless to pretend to be stupid now, please answer my question."
Aki Miura swallowed, tried to calm down, and replied: "After the Suzuki family left Hokkaido, I have never heard of them again. This... it has been more than a year since the incident, is it..."
"Don't worry, it's not Suzuki who killed your son." Tea Fairy knew it. It seemed that Miura knew that she didn't know the situation of the Suzuki family, so she said: "Suzuki Kiyoko is dead. On December 8 last year, she first stabbed her parents to death with a knife, then turned on the gas and burned her own home."
"Then... does this matter have any connection with Kazuya's death?" asked Akira Miura.
"It's my business. You don't need to ask questions. Then listen. If there is any problem, I will stop and ask you." Tea Fairy continued: "In September last year, Miura-kun entered the first grade of high school and met Kiyoko Suzuki, who was in the same class. On September 4, something happened, which caused Suzuki not to go to school the next day. Another day later, her bank account received a large amount of remittance. For families like Suzuki, it should be considered a huge sum of money.
After a week, the Suzuki family moved out of Hokkaido and then investigated. Suzuki Kiyoko did not transfer to school, but instead took a leave of school. After moving to Okinawa, she didn't seem to have appeared in public at all. Her parents had some records of buying depression drugs, but it was soon interrupted, until three months later, a fire burned everything."
Tea Fairy took a sip of tea, "Then, I can make such an assumption, the fundamental cause of all tragedies. That is, on September 4, Miura-kun committed a serious crime. Since he was already sixteen years old, he was likely to face a fixed-term imprisonment of about seven years. For a father, if things were allowed to develop, his son's studies, futures, and life would probably be ruined. So, you gave Suzuki Kiyoko's parents a sum of money to not report the case, keep their mouths tight and calm. Is there any inaccurate part of what I have said so far?"
Miura Akira lowered his head, like a criminal on trial, "No...no inaccuracy."
Tea Fairy sneered: "It's very good, it can be confirmed by the parties involved, which shows that this simple reasoning has not gone astray."
At this point, the Tea Fairy has speculated the reason why Miura killed Matsuo and confirmed the key clues of Tianyi's control of the situation.
"The next question, based on your understanding of your son, if there are enough conditions, will he kill someone to cover up his crime?" asked the Tea Fairy.
When Miura Aki heard this question, he immediately had a bad premonition. Could it be that his son wanted to kill someone to silence him because his crime was exposed a year ago, but he was killed?
Seeing that he was hesitant, Chaxian added: "What I mean by 'sufficient conditions' means that through a skillful method of committing crimes, evading legal sanctions after committing the crime. If Miura-kun gets this heavy guarantee, with his personality, will he take risks?"
Miura Aki was sweating profusely. He struggled for a long time and replied with some anger and helplessness: "Do you have to force a father to answer such a question in person?"
The tea fairy took a sip of tea: "No need now, I already know your answer." He is well versed in various techniques of psychological warfare. As the saying goes, the encirclement master must be missing. If you force someone into a desperate situation, you will definitely turn against you. Now this is not considered crossing the bottom line.
"The last question, where is the thing?" Tea Fairy put down the tea in her hand and looked directly into Akira Miura's eyes.
"What did you say..." He couldn't hide his panic and his body was shaking slightly.
"On the 12th day, Miura-kun was killed, and you learned the news that night. Today is the 16th, and about three days have passed. Mrs. Zun and a woman must be heartbroken and unable to control herself. I can still hear her sob in the second floor room.
During these three days, as a father, you must have entered your son's room. Whether it is intuition or speculation, you must have looked for something to try to explain your son's death.
You must have found something, and according to my speculation, you have read the content, but you don't understand its meaning, so you haven't destroyed it. Of course, you can't take the initiative to hand it over to the police for that kind of content.
Until I just said 'sufficient conditions' to you, you should understand what that thing does..."
Tea Fairy said in an unquestionable tone: "Now... please give me the things."
The word "please" is not a joke, it is enough to scare Akira Miura who has a ghost in his heart to the point of being possessed.
…………
After leaving Miura's home, Chaxian got into the car again. In the past few days, Major Shimaki has basically served as the exclusive driver and private secretary of His Highness the Seventh Prince, and he did not dare to slackew on the slightest.
"Sir, what you are holding..." Shimaki asked when he saw that Chaxian had something in his hand after he came out of the house.
"Video tape." Chaxian said: "I met Akira Miura just to get this."
Shimaki started the engine: "Didn't you go to find out the case from him?"
"Even a second-rate policeman can reason about Suzuki's case, it doesn't matter whether he confirms or denies it; Miura's personality is the same as asking anyone; everything is to see his reaction and put pressure on him to hand over the things."
Shimaki said: "That kind of bastard, it doesn't need to be so troublesome to let him submit."
Tea Fairy said: "I know that the best solution is to ask him to hand over the things after entering the house. If he says the word "no", I will break one of his legs."
The tone didn't seem to be joking. It seemed that the Tea Fairy had really considered doing this, but he immediately said, "Haha... Tianyi will definitely do that." The Tea Fairy suddenly laughed. She had been chasing Tianyi's shadow over the years, causing him to unknowingly begin to imitate the other party's thinking patterns.
He immediately changed the subject: "It cannot be said that there is no gain from Akira Miura, most of the previous reasoning has been further confirmed.
According to the investigation progress left by the Whalenn police officer, Matsuo was undoubtedly murdered. Ikeda Ho was the first to discover the scene shortly after his death. He did not report the case, but chose to escape and tried to cover up the evidence that he had been to the scene. But he was not the murderer, and there was another person in the real murderer.
The motive of the real murderer is originally a problem, but if there is Tianyi in this case, it would be simple. He is a sin-trafficking dealer. There are some people in this world who claim to be smart and do this business. They only sell techniques. Tianyi not only provides techniques, but he can even give motivation. The most terrifying thing is that after years of investigation, I found that the motivation for those who died in Tianyi’s game was not actually "created" by Tianyi, but because they already have "sin" in their hearts.
Those who sin will be condemned by the cross.
What Tianyi did was as if he was tore off the hypocrisy of the man wearing on his face, tore off his skin and flesh, revealing all his sins and ugliness, and then people would be swallowed by their dirty souls until they died of that sin in the ugliest and most appropriate way.”
The weather outside the car window was pretty good, but the words of the Tea Fairy were creepy: "Matsuo died in the cross, and the person who killed him must also participate in the Tenchi game. Since it is not Ikeda Hok, it is either Ikeda Min, or Miura Kazuya, because the other three dead people died before Matsuo was killed.
On the night of the 10th, Ikeda Meng stayed in the Izakaya until very late before leaving. There was no time for the crime, so I could directly confirm that the identity of the murderer was Miura. Then, the question is what motive Tenchi gave him? Why did this high school student kill his teacher?
The police have done a lot of details about the investigation of Matsuo, which is also due to Whalebird, because he arrived at the scene as soon as possible, and the case was not handled in the form of suicide. The police completed the work more carefully.
After having a general idea of Matsuo's character, I focused on Miura. Last night, I looked through the fiscal expenditures at his family for nearly three years and found that Akira Miura had transferred a large sum of money to a local family named Suzuki more than a year ago. Then the family moved away. I followed the clues and discovered the intersection between Kiyoko Suzuki and Kazuya Miura. Then I transferred out the school's files and guessed the general situation of the matter.
Since Miura had such a handle, Tenichi could use this as a transaction content and asked him to kill Matsuo. But then I thought about it, this did not conform to Tenichi's style. He should not directly make a request to let others kill, and it did not conform to the law of dying due to "sin".
Matsuo must have done something to cause death.”
Shimaki also thought at this time: "Will this be the case... Tianyi told Matsuo the handle of Miura, so Miura would have the motivation to kill Matsuo!"
"It's very correct, which also explains why Matsuo died of 'crime'. He must have wanted to use this to blackmail Miura and eventually burned his body." Chaxian said: "If you know the murderer and the motive, then the remaining problem is the method. In the autopsy report of Lieutenant Kurahara, the suspicion of the location and depth of the marks was pointed out, which coincided with the initial judgment of Officer Whalebird. The police also concluded that they disguised themselves as suicide scenes after the murder, but they faced some difficulties in collecting evidence.
It can be seen that although this method of killing cannot be called "no leakage", it is by no means a random act. It is difficult for an ordinary high school student to achieve this level. Even if he has the psychological quality of committing a crime, it is difficult to achieve this level in actual actions.
The same thing is said, fortunately, we know that there is Tianyi in this case, so Miura's way of killing is undoubtedly Tianyi's method. He must have taught Miura somehow all the steps, tools required, details of the aftermath, etc.."
Tea Fairy subconsciously patted the videotape next to the seat with her hand: "I thought it was a book or comic strip. I had discovered similar things before, some were thrown away as garbage, and some were stored and archived. As for the videotape, this is the first one."
Shimaki stopped at the red light: "Why didn't Tianyi teach others how to kill people in person, but instead used books or videos?"
Chapter completed!