Chapter 42 Truth and Lies
Chapter 42 Truth and Lies
The police arrived a little later than them because they had to be adequately prepared and not act rashly.
There were some teenagers gathered together in the house, but they were all subdued and eventually put into the police car.
The girls who had been trapped for a long time were sent to the hospital.
My lips are dry and cracked. I haven't had any water or food for a long time.
Upon receiving the news that his daughter was finally found, Yuaki Kuwahara put down his bowl and chopsticks without even finishing his meal and rushed to the hospital.
As soon as I arrived near the ward, I saw someone coming out of the room where Weiyou was.
"Miss Tang!"
Qinghai Chuantang was stunned and looked at the person who came, "Mr. Sangyuan."
"Weiyou wasn't seriously injured. The doctor said she'll wake up soon."
Kuwahara Yuuaki looked a little excited. He held her hand and said solemnly: "Ms. Tang, thank you. Thank you very much!"
Qinghai Chuantang shook his head, "It's okay, go in quickly."
Just as she walked to the hospital entrance and was about to leave, she happened to meet Kawanishi Kigui and Takagi.
"Kawanishi Kiku, Officer Takagi. Are you here to visit a patient?"
Kawanishi Mugui did not answer her question, but asked: "Is Miss Weiyou awake?"
"It will be soon. But you look so serious, is there any case related to her?"
It turned out that Qinghai Chuantang's guess was correct.
Fingerprints were detected on the knife found near the body of Pian Lishan, and the fingerprints extracted from the notebook of Weiyou were compared and the results were consistent. In addition, the testimony of the group of children
"So, you two are here to arrest her? But before that, you should also listen to what the child has to say."
To remain silent or to defend, to admit or to deny, this is the right that everyone should have.
Kawanishi Kigui and Takagi looked at each other.
"I should have stopped him at that time, and should have told him to call the police." Weiyou sobbed, and then said: "Not long ago, Haozhang came to see me."
The two came to a deserted place, and Haozhang handed her a newspaper clipping, which was a report of a missing person ten years ago, and there was a photo of that person on it.
Haozhang told her that the person in the photo was his brother, and he was not missing ten years ago but was killed.
"The person who killed my brother was Brother Gui." He was extremely sure.
Because that was what Hasegawa Reki said himself when they were together.
"That person was thrown into the pipe by me at that time. His name was Takayanagi Taketa. He was a loser who lived with his brother in an orphanage. Who the hell did he think he was? How dare he stare at me with his eyes wide open?"
Haozhang remembered the other party's words clearly, and the tone that sounded like he was showing off.
When he said this, he had a devilish smile on his face, which was very creepy. Killing people seemed as easy as cutting fruit to him, and he had no guilt at all.
Weiyou told him to call the police, but they said: It's useless. Last time, the police investigated a few times and then ended the case. I want to avenge my poor brother.
"You mean, Takayanagi Taketa was killed by Hasegawa Reki?"
Nodding without hesitation.
"After knowing all this, Haozhang wanted to avenge his brother. He also said that if he didn't strike first, Brother Gui would never let it go."
"Then why did you take him away?"
"Because Brother Gui knew that Haozhang told me about it, he kidnapped me."
There was a slight tremor in her voice.
Yuaki Kuwahara patted her shoulder gently, comforting her, as if telling her: Don't be afraid, everything is over.
"But the surveillance video showed that you left with them naturally, holding an umbrella."
"That was Brother Gui threatening me."
Weiyou held her father's hand and continued, "He said that if I didn't obey, he would kill Haozhang."
But in the end, Haozhang still died.
"last question."
Kawanishi Mugui stared at her, carefully observing her expression: "Your fingerprints were found on the knife used to assassinate Gao Yanagi Hiroaki."
Weiyou raised her head and looked at him.
"I didn't kill Haozhang. It was Brother Gui who deliberately let me touch the knife after killing Haozhang."
"But everyone in the Ghost Group said that you killed him at Pianli Mountain."
"They are lying! Haozhang and I have never been there!"
Truth and illusion, truth and lies.
"I was in another room at the time and I seemed to hear them beating someone, but at some point it stopped."
"Then, I saw them dragging a man out. That was the last time I saw Haozhang."
"He was taken away barefoot. The shoes I gave to Haozhang should be in the secret base of the ghost group. They are a pair of black sneakers."
When Kawanishi Kiku opened his mouth to ask something else, Kuwahara Yuaki said, "Please leave. Miyu is very tired now and needs to rest."
Weiyou closed his eyes tightly, looking somewhat painful, and seemed to be in poor health.
Eventually, Kawanishi Kiyoshi and Takagi left the hospital.
One of the two, Guituan and Weiyou, must be lying.
Then you just need to go back to that place and check if there are the black sneakers that Weiyou mentioned.
"Due to the force, there was a broken shoulder, bruises on the arms and legs, and black mold was found on the hands and feet."
It's humid and there's no sun. This is the secret base of the ghost group.
To some children, perhaps a place they can call home.
In their original families, they were like invisible people and were not taken seriously.
Perhaps their parents pay too much attention to them, and the excessive pressure and burden make them feel suffocated.
So they chose to flee.
After escaping, where should you go?
Homeless, nowhere to go.
Children like this are the easiest to get together.
They had no money, so as long as Brother Gui paid for them to eat, they could take them away. As long as they were brainwashed in a pyramid scheme, they could vent without restraint.
"You are still young, not yet in conflict with the law. At most, you will be sent to a juvenile detention center, and you will be out soon."
This is the principle that Brother Gui taught them.
But where did Brother Gui learn this truth?
He once mentioned that a very interesting lawyer taught him this.
Finally, the police found a pair of black sneakers with blood stains in the ghost group’s secret base.
"The criminal's DNA was found on Takayanagi Taketa's body, and it matches yours."
"so what?"
Hasegawa Reki smiled and said, "At that time, I was not even 14 years old. So I was just a juvenile delinquent."
The children from the Ghost Group who knew the inside story were unwilling to speak, as if they were afraid of something. Even though Brother Ghost had been caught, they were still afraid.
What can we do to get them to talk? You know, times have changed, and torture is absolutely unacceptable.
Just when they were in trouble, Yuaki Kuwahara came with his daughter and brought a cardboard box.
"This is what Takayanagi Hiroaki left for you."
This cardboard box was finally delivered to the group of children.
They knew Haozhang and had wandered together for a while.
There was no earth-shattering secret hidden in the cardboard box. It was just some points coupons and dining vouchers and the like, which he had kept.
“Curry rice, hamburgers.”
"Wow, that's a lot. What else?"
They were excited as if they had found some treasure.
The man in red found two photos in the box. They were photos of them and Haozhang. Everyone had a happy smile on their face.
“February 2th, the day we become a family.”
"On March 3, we must be happy."
Everyone suddenly became quiet.
You looked at me, I looked at you, and then lowered my head, as if remembering something.
The stolen money had been almost spent, and the remaining money was only enough to buy a bag of instant noodles, crush them up, and then a group of people gathered around to eat them, which was naturally not enough to fill their stomachs.
So someone suggested: "How about we go grab another one?"
"No, no more crimes."
Haozhang said: "We were quite happy sleeping on the street and eating instant noodles. Can't we go back to the time before we saw the ghost?"
Someone paused for a moment, but still grabbed a little bit of the noodles and put it into his mouth.
"It's too late."
"Yeah, it's too late." another echoed.
"No, it's not too late."
Haozhang tried to persuade them, "We didn't want to do those things. They were all instigated by that guy called ghost."
"So. I want to kill him. As long as we unite together, I have a plan and it will succeed."
He didn't notice at all that there was something wrong with their expressions, and their movements began to become stiff.
Just like his nickname "Ghost", he appeared behind silently.
“What a bold and interesting idea.”
Haozhang turned his head to look at the person who came, his expression became terrified.
"Who did you just say you were going to kill?"
Hasegawa Reki smiled. Behind him were several young men, all of whom were his subordinates and members of the Oni Group.
Like a devil, it approached them.
Hiroaki was beaten and kicked by one of Hase Reki's men, while the others knelt on the side and watched.
This is what Hasegawa wants to teach them: lessons.
It was also a warning to them that they must never betray him, otherwise they would die without knowing how.
Seeing that the fight was almost over, Hase Reki signaled his men to stop and threw the knife in front of the man in red.
"Now, it's your turn."
The man in red looked at the knife in front of him, then looked up at Hasegawa Reki lying on the sofa, feeling a little overwhelmed.
He dare not.
Hasegawa Reki saw through his inner thoughts and smiled.
He stood up, walked up to the man in red, and kicked him, sending him flying into the wall.
Then he picked up the knife and put it into the other man's hand.
"How about you come?"
The man in black looked at him with trembling hands.
"If you don't stab him, you will die together."
After saying this, Hasegawa Reki stepped aside.
"elder brother"
The man in black raised his head and looked at him with a trembling voice.
"I told you to stab!"
He was terribly frightened.
The man in black held the knife in both hands and stood up tremblingly.
But he did not stab Haozhang immediately.
Hasegawa Reki smiled and said to the person standing nearby, "Hey, go find Kuwahara Miu."
After saying this, he looked at Haozhang.
"Didn't I tell you that I captured your girlfriend? If they don't have the guts to kill you, then your girlfriend will have to do it for them."
Haozhang struggled to get up from the ground, walked up to the man in black and held his hand.
Then he stabbed himself hard.
Everyone looked at this scene in surprise, which was beyond their expectations.
"It's okay. You didn't kill me. I committed suicide."
As if he didn't want them to feel guilty, Haozhang said this, using up his last bit of strength.
Finally, they confessed the whole truth to the police.
The guilt towards Haozhang is also a kind of compensation for him. More importantly, it is a kind of relief for himself.
"Unlawful home invasion, robbery, arson, plus solicitation for murder and accessory after the fact, and so on. Are you trying to hit the grand slam by committing every crime in the Criminal Code?"
Hase Reki smiled, then slammed the table and looked at the group of teenagers outside the surveillance camera.
"You took in a bunch of kids who had nowhere to go, and ended up betraying me." Then he shouted at them, "I won't let you go!"
Several people couldn't help but shrink their bodies, and some were so scared that they took a step back.
Sato comforted him, "Don't worry, he's done for now, he won't have the chance to do anything to you."
The juvenile law in China has now been changed from 14 to 12. So when your child is 12 years old, you can tell him with a smile: You have reached the age for sentencing.
(End of this chapter)