"The story after the spread of the 'Seven Ksitigarbha'?"
In the restaurant, Rosetta was intrigued by Reiko Arakawa's words: "How do you say this?"
"More than twenty years ago in Kyoto, the strange story of the 'Seven Ksitigarbha' suddenly spread explosively. Mr. Luo, do you know about this?"
Arakawa Reiko stirred the tea cup with a spoon and said.
Rosetta raised her eyebrows: "I have vaguely heard about it, but I haven't checked it in depth. So it seems that Miss Arakawa, you have some unique information?"
"Yes." The reporter lady nodded slightly and said: "When I was collecting information, I found that there was a theory that at that time, a horrific murder case actually occurred in the Kyoto area that resulted in the death of seven people one after another.
, and one of them left a horrifying recording about his witnessing of the 'Seven Ksitigarbha' just before his death."
"Is it a murder? Not a cold case?"
Rosetta keenly captured the important information from Reiko Arakawa's words, and he believed that the reporter would not mistake the difference between the two.
"If it is an ordinary supernatural story and an unsolved case, then there is no need for you to mention it, Ms. Arakawa." He paused and tapped his fingers on the table: "In the end, it can be accurately defined as a homicide. This shows that even if the police have not really
Catching the murderer also at least roughly identifies who the suspect is."
"Well, Mr. Luo, you guessed it right. At that time, the police had roughly locked down the scope of the suspect."
Arakawa Reiko sighed and said: "It's just that in the end, it was not the police who caught the murderer themselves, but the murderer took the initiative to come to the police station after completing the last ritual killing.
The first one."
"And, what is most worth mentioning is that the murderer of this murder also has a name - Tsukiyama Masao."
'Hmm? Masao Tsukiyama?'
The name of the murderer reported by the reporter made Rosetta feel a little familiar, but he was stunned for a moment before he recalled the information related to this name.
"Masao Tsukiyama? Are you talking about the novelist who is very famous in the Yingzhou literary world?"
"Well, that's him." The reporter knocked the tea cup with a spoon and said, "But to be more precise, it should be Tsuki who was only eighteen years old at the time and had not yet used the name 'Tsukiyama Masao' as his pen name.
Masao Yama."
Even though she was not a reader of it, Rosetta had heard the names of some of Masao Tsukiyama's works, and even recommended them by people around her. Because of this, at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder: How could such a person become a serial killer?
The murderer?
Rosetta frowned and said: "With his status as a well-known figure in society, I shouldn't have never heard of such a thing."
"That's because when he committed this murder, he was still unknown. It wasn't until the first trial was over and he entered prison to serve his sentence that Masao Tsukiyama, who was only in his teens, revealed his literary talent and named himself "Tsukiyama"
Under the pen name of "Masam", he wrote his first work in prison, "The Suffering of Life" in which he confessed his crimes."
Reiko Arakawa explained helplessly: "As for the death penalty system in this country, as a Dashun person who has also made strong calls for the abolition of death penalty in the country, Mr. Luo, you should also know about it."
"Because when making legislation, a lot of reference was made to the maritime law system of the Old Western Continent. According to Yingzhou's laws, even if the death penalty is sentenced, there are still a lot of appeals procedures to be completed, and the Minister of Justice who is responsible for signing the execution order,
It’s because of their own political opinions and many reasons that they generally don’t like to play the role of executioner.”
"Because of the murderer's status as a minor when he committed the crime, his outstanding literary talent, and the sense of repentance shown in his works, Tsukiyama Masao, a young criminal who killed seven people in a row, had his original death sentence changed to
He was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and escaped, and he became a performance and show tool for local politicians and officials."
"More than twenty years have passed, and the power of time has made people forget his past, but his works are still selling well, and he even received multiple commutations of his sentence, and established a special charity foundation with the royalties from the outside world.
.To help people who have experienced similar situations to him."
"The story you are about to tell me is not about a villain reforming and becoming a new person."
After hearing her tell Tsukiyama Masao's story, Rosetta didn't think that was all she wanted to say, and then said: "I guess you have a follow-up to this story."
"Yeah, the story doesn't end here."
Arakawa Reiko said meaningfully: "The longer a person lives, the more naturally he will fear death. Even if he has repented, it does not mean that Masao Tsukiyama is willing to spend his whole life in prison."
"The experience of escaping the death penalty made him understand the power of public opinion. So, using the contacts accumulated over the past two decades, he now wants to use public opinion to continue to exonerate himself and reduce his sentence, and give him a better life.
Fight for your own chance to return to society."
"So the foundation he set up outside has found the media that are best at weaving public opinion on his behalf?" Rosetta nodded, it can be said that it was clear at one point, pointed to herself and said: "In this case, how can it be
Doesn’t it mean that I also became an accomplice to help the murderer escape?”
"What do you mean by an accomplice? Pay attention to your wording. She has already repented and rehabilitated herself for many years." Reiko Arakawa corrected the mistakes in Rosetta's words, waved her hand and said:
"Besides, the decision to use the first episode of the new program to promote this great writer's new book was also negotiated between his foundation and the TV station's executives. As for those of us who work under him, we only need to do our own things well.
That’s it.”
"After eating this meal, I will drive you to the prison on the outskirts of the city to meet the great writer. At that time, your task is to answer his questions and help him complete the creation of his new book. As a folklore expert
Expert, I believe you should be completely competent in this regard."
"As for my job, I will definitely have no problem." Rosetta nodded, and then raised a curious tone: "But... according to what you said, the new book of the great writer is not intended to be written based on the work he did back then.
The strange story of the 'Seven Ksitigarbha' imitates murder, right?"
"Well, you guessed it right."
Arakawa Reiko said: "The final work in Tsukiyama Masao's "Bitterness" series is based on the ghost stories of the 'Seven Ksitigarbha' and combined with the great writer's own personal experience to create the semi-autobiographical novel "The Death of Death".