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"Miwako, don't blame your aunt for being nosy."
The middle-aged woman advised, "Sit down and talk about matters of the heart."
"It might be a misunderstanding, as long as it's explained..."
Sato Miwako waved her hands repeatedly: "No, we're not in that kind of relationship."
To avoid this topic, Sato Miwako introduced the four people to Itake Karuta. (107)
All four were their father's teammates on his high school baseball team.
The three men are a pitcher, a baseball player, and a key player in the baseball team.
The names are quite interesting: Hideaki Saruwatari, Shuji Kano, and Mitsuo Inugami.
The remaining middle-aged woman was the baseball team manager: Shinto Choko.
Ape, deer, pig, butterfly.
Izuki Karuta noticed that all four people's names contained animal elements.
Judging from the pattern of suspects identified by Ke Xue, such outrageous, arbitrary, yet uniform names...
It is likely that the murderer in the "Sorrowful Man" incident is one of these four.
"Could these four be the murderers in the Sorrowful Man's case?!"
Suddenly, Izuki Karuta spoke, his gaze sweeping over the four of them.
"How could that be? Yizhu, don't talk nonsense!"
Miwako Sato felt somewhat disgusted by this unfounded suspicion.
Then they discovered that Shuji Kano's legs suddenly gave way and he knelt on the ground.
Sato Miwako was startled: Could it be...?
"Luye, what's wrong with you?"
The other three quickly inquired.
"Nothing, nothing."
"It's mild hypoglycemia; I suddenly feel a little dizzy."
Shuji Kano waved his hand and quickly stood up again with help.
"Yes, as you get older, it's inevitable that you'll develop various health problems."
"I also just experienced a tightness in my chest."
The other three also sighed with emotion.
Upon hearing this, Sato Miwako secretly shook her head.
It's probably just a coincidence.
Chapter 189 Making Miwako Cry, Shiratori's Retribution
None of the four dared to meet Izuki Qingtian's gaze.
The look that swept over me just now was inexplicably unsettling.
"Speaking of which, how did the four of you end up together?"
Miwako Sato asked.
Pig Wu Manxiong said, "We just happened to get together, so we thought we'd have a few drinks together."
Hideaki Saruwatari placed the bouquet of flowers next to the daisies. "But before that, we'd like to say hello to Captain Sato."
Shuji Kano: "If we don't tell them, Captain Sato will definitely be angry."
Upon hearing this, Sato Miwako bowed slightly to her father's four old friends.
Before the four left, the Divine Bird Butterfly said, "We're going to have a few drinks at that old hotel. If you're free, Miwako, come along!"
Miwako Sato nodded and waved goodbye to the four of them.
Watching 4 leave,
Izuki Karuta took Sato Miwako's hand and walked towards the red Mazda.
"you……"
“I already know who the murderer is, or rather, the robber from 18 years ago.”
"Do you doubt Mr. Kano?"
"Yes."
"why?"
"Because he felt guilty."
Izuki Shigeta had subtly used her power to intimidate the four people during their questioning.
If he hadn't felt guilty, Shuji Kano wouldn't have been unable to stand steadily.
"You're saying his legs went weak just now? That's a far-fetched explanation."
Miwako Sato cautioned, "Solving a case requires evidence."
Izuki Qingtian said calmly, "Needing evidence now is really unnecessary. It would be better to let the murderer confess himself."
"?" Sato Miwako was puzzled, then realized what was going on and frowned, "You want to resort to vigilante justice?"
Izuki Karuta met Sato Miwako's questioning gaze: "What good is finding evidence in a case that has exceeded the statute of limitations?"
"For the past 18 years, it has been the righteous sheriff who paid the ultimate price in persuading him to turn himself in."
"If he had even a shred of remorse, he should have turned himself in long ago."
Izuki Karuta leaned close to Sato Miwako's ear and whispered, "Why bother talking about fairness and justice with people like this?"
Sato Miwako's eyes were already filled with tears.
She couldn't deny that this possibility did exist.
When my father died, he only had marks from the car accident, not from fighting with the murderer.
If the murderer is a close friend from the high school baseball team, the father would inevitably prioritize persuading him to turn himself in as soon as he discovers the crime.
"But what if you're wrong?"
"What if he wasn't the murderer?"
Sato Miwako bit her lip, stubbornly refusing to let her tears fall.
She couldn't believe that her father's best friend had killed two people and had shown no remorse for 18 years.
These are all just speculations at the moment, but Sato Miwako inexplicably felt that she had touched on the truth of the old case, and her heart was filled with excitement.
"Then I will bear the consequences."
Izuki Karuta felt a pang of sympathy, so she put her arm around Sato Miwako and gently patted her back.
Warm tears fell onto her clothes as Sato Miwako sobbed against him, her shoulders trembling slightly.
Izuki Karuta casually opened the car door and led Sato Miwako into the back seat of the Mazda, letting her vent the tears that had been building up for 18 years.
……
"Officer Shiratori?"
"How did you get into a car accident?"
Yumi Miyamoto looked at her colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department with some surprise.
After being chased away by Sato Miwako, Miyamoto Yumi drove a patrol car to conduct daily patrols along the road.
Just two blocks away, they discovered a car accident at the intersection, and one of the drivers was Shiratori Ninzaburo.
"I was waiting at the traffic light when a truck from the opposite direction suddenly crashed into me."
"I had no chance to back down..."
Shiratori Renzaburo was still shaken; a trace of bright red blood lingered in the corner of his eye, flowing down to his temples, the slow trickle of blood quite jarring.
The truck was carrying thin, long steel pipes.
After the impact, a bunch of steel pipes, propelled by inertia, hurtled straight toward the windshield, with one of them piercing through the glass and heading straight for Shiratori Ninzaburo's head.
If Shiratori Ninzaburo hadn't turned his head away in time, he might have lost an eye.
Aside from being startled, no one else on the bus was injured.
"Shiratori, why don't you go back and apologize properly to Mr. Itake?"
"What you just said was really offensive..."
Takagi Wataru kindly reminded him.
Just moments ago, Shiratori Ninzaburo called Itake Karuta a charlatan.
He was in a car accident shortly afterward and almost lost an eye.