Hattori Heiji:"……"
Toyama Kazuye: "..."
This topic was changed too bluntly...
...Did something happen to that "Misha"?
But Takeda Yuzo looked like he didn't want to say anything, so he probably wouldn't be able to ask for a while.
Hattori Heiji didn't speak any more and just made a mental note of this.
At present, he still doesn't know what the client wants him to investigate. The letter Jiang Xia received did not include the reason for the commission, so he can only write down all the suspicious things for later use.
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Next to him, Jiang Xia turned his head meaningfully when Takeda Yuzo pointed at the "sleeping puppet", but his attention was not at all on the shapeless mountain.
He lowered his hand slightly and secretly touched the murderous aura that floated to his hand in the wind.
The murderous aura spread from Rob's body.
When "Misa" was mentioned, the murderous intent of this foreign friend was particularly strong. In addition, he was holding a fresh shikigami on his calf at this time.
Although Rob was lost and had never heard of the legend, he looked like he had "not been back for three years."
But in Jiang Xia's impression, this foreigner had actually been at Puppet Peak for several days.
Three years ago, when Rob recovered from his injury and left Puppet Peak, he had fallen in love with Takeda Misa, who took good care of him. He planned to learn Japanese well, handle his own affairs, and come back to fall in love happily.
As a result, after three years, I came back and found that Misa Takeda was dead.
——I heard that not long after he left, he suddenly hanged himself.
Rob knew that Misa's father, Takeda Shinichi, was very unkind to her, and felt that Misa must have been forced to death by her father. So after some investigation, he found out that Takeda Shinichi was a drug dealer, and came up with a series of plans.
Rob first killed Takeda Shinichi's partner in drug trafficking and hung him in the storage room. Then he stole a puppet containing drugs and used it to threaten Takeda Shinichi, intending to trick him into the warehouse on the second floor.
Then use the pre-arranged mechanism to kill people and avenge Mesa.
The letter of commission that Hattori Heiji received was actually written by Rob.
The chance encounter with the "lost fellow sufferers" just now was an artificial encounter - Rob planned to use this method to create the illusion that he was a "new arrival" and thereby eliminate his own suspicion.
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The truck bumped along the mountain road for more than an hour, and a vast yard appeared in the distance.
The courtyard walls and houses here are made of exquisite and solid materials, but they all look a bit old after being exposed to wind and sun for many years. At dusk, the setting sun gradually sets, the light dims, and the whole mansion exudes a spooky and eerie atmosphere.
breath.
As the vehicle approached the Takeda family's house, Jiang Xia's bored eyes slowly stopped in that courtyard.
He stared for a moment, then lowered his head to look at the ghost beside him as if confirming.
As if they were ghosts, they were picking up the sides of the car and staring at the Takeda family's yard.
The mermaid stared at it for a while, and then secretly hid the murderous ball in her arms. Her cautious demeanor reminded Jiang Xia of those happy housekeepers who hurriedly put away their precious figures before the naughty children came to visit.
...This kind of reaction seems to be really weird.
...But now that Hattori Heiji and Rob have just arrived, Takeda Shinichi should still be alive. Who dropped this ghost?
Jiang Xia was slightly confused for a while, then quickly thought about it.
No matter who dropped it, since he found it, it is his family's ghost...
He used the action of holding the frame of the car to poke a few ghosts who were still concentrating on sensing, and motioned them to catch the strange new ghosts... Ahem, please come and talk.
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The truck soon drove into the Takeda family's yard.
Along the way, although Hattori Heiji resisted asking Takeda Yuzo, he was very concerned about the "Misa" who made Takeda Yuzo abruptly change the subject. He planned to wait until he got to Takeda's house and find another person to ask about the situation.
After getting off the car and entering the "Spider Mansion", a group of people met a middle-aged woman with ordinary appearance and gentle temperament at the door of the house.
This is Takeda Yoko.
There are three brothers in the Takeda family - the current head of the family, Takeda Shinichi, the cultural man Takeda Ryuji who lives in the city, and the honest man Takeda Yuzo who just went to pick up Jiangxia and others.
Takeda Yoko is Takeda Ryuji's wife, and she is currently the only middle-aged woman in the family - the eldest's wife has passed away, and the third is still a bachelor.
Hearing Hattori Heiji ask about Takeda Misa, Yoko looked around and whispered: "Three years ago, she hanged herself in the puppet warehouse."
Jiang Xia sensed his own ghost running around chasing something more than ten meters away, as well as the vaguely sensed ghost fetus, and asked thoughtfully: "Suicide?"
"Yes." Takeda Yoko nervously mixed his hands together, thinking of the horrific corpse, and nodded in fear.
She looked at Jiang Xia and obviously recognized that he was a well-known detective. After suppressing her shock, she continued: "Not long after Mesa died, my sister-in-law, Mesa's mother, was also hanged in the same place.
Already."
"the same place……"
Jiang Xia frowned and repeated her words, pretending to think seriously, but her mind was already elsewhere.
Next to him, Hattori Heiji, who was really thinking seriously, felt confused at this time.
Seeing that Takeda Yoko did not take the initiative to elaborate, he asked: "Why did they commit suicide?"
"I don't know." Takeda Yoko looked even more confused than Hattori Heiji, with a hint of fear in his expression, "And it's not just that. A few days ago, Mr. Negishi - Nobu's assistant - also passed away.
"He hanged himself in the storage room during the day when we were not at home..."
Chapter completed!