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Turning and walking into the entrance hall, Mrs. Muraki first shouted loudly towards the inner room.
Could it be because Mr. Muraki was taking a break? Mrs. Muraki's shout was so loud that even Xiao Wuhuan behind her felt his eardrums tremble.
"Officer Baihe, is there anything else you need to ask?"
After shouting this, Mrs. Muraki asked the boy.
Under her leadership, several people walked into the living room of the room and sat down.
"I learned from the teacher at your daughter's school that Kyoko seemed to have had contact with some students from other schools before her death. How much does Mrs. Muraki know about this?"
The boy got straight to the point at the beginning without any unnecessary nonsense.
"My husband and I told you everything about this matter this morning. All of Xingzi's classmates and teachers at school said the same thing. We asked her, but she never told us the details.
Yesterday, after coming back from school, she suddenly said that she wanted to spend the night at a friend's house in another school. Although my husband and I were a little worried, we agreed when we thought about how Xingzi had never had many friends since she was a child, and she looked very happy at the time...
I didn’t expect that Xingzi would actually… wuwu… that silly child, how could she be so silly…”
As she spoke, Mrs. Muraki began to cry softly again, and tears slowly flowed from the corners of her already red and swollen eyes.
This scene moved Xiao Wuwan a little, and his eyes were sore, but the boy seemed to have seen similar scenes many times before, and did not react at all. He continued to ask in a calm tone:
"Didn't you ask her about the identity of this friend from another school?"
"We did ask, but Xingzi didn't want to tell us, so we didn't ask any more..."
"Before this, have you ever seen Kyoko-san meet her friends from other schools?"
"No, Xingzi never wants us to meddle in her affairs. She never takes the initiative to tell us if she has any problems..."
Mrs. Muraki was still crying quietly, and the boy frowned slightly.
The clues were completely cut off.
The information Kougamaru obtained at school was that the deceased had no so-called friends from other schools and that it was simply a rumor.
Although contrary clues were obtained from the deceased's home, the deceased's family members had no idea about the specific circumstances.
Who is this friend? What is his name? What does he look like? Has he appeared before?
None of this is clear.
Even the authenticity cannot be determined.
Of course, in addition to this, the boy actually has another clue that can be investigated.
"Officer Shirakawa?!"
Just when the boy was about to open his mouth to continue asking questions, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the living room.
Not long after, a middle-aged man with a big belly rushed in.
The man looked like he had just woken up, wearing a messy and wrinkled shirt, and his appearance was quite similar to the deceased classmate Anzi.
Obviously, he was the deceased's father, Mr. Muraki.
As soon as Mr. Muraki saw the boy, he hurried over and sat down next to Mrs. Muraki.
Mr. Muraki was slightly different from Mrs. Muraki. Although he also looked exhausted, his eyes were not red.
"Officer Shirakawa, do you have any other questions about Kyoko? Oh, by the way, let me pour you a cup of tea!"
Mr. Muraki seemed a little nervous. He just sat down and then quickly stood up again. While asking questions, he ran to the stove next to him to get teacups and teapots.
His eyes fell on this person. The boy just looked at him quietly and then said:
"Mr. Muraki, there's no need to be nervous. They're just some minor issues."
After saying that, the boy glanced at the wrinkled and messy clothes on Mr. Muraki and asked again:
"Was Mr. Muraki taking a break just now?"
"Yeah, it seems that I caught a cold when I went to the cemetery this morning. I felt dizzy after I came back, so I went to bed and took a nap..."
As he spoke, Mr. Muraki had already poured several cups of tea and brought them to the boy, Kokarasuma and another detective, placing a cup in front of each of them.
"Thank you."
It was Kougamaru who spoke. As she said this, she seemed to be feeling a little thirsty and subconsciously wanted to raise her hand to take the cup of tea.
However, at this moment, the boy next to her suddenly pressed down the hand she was about to raise.
【Eh? ! 】
Her hand was suddenly held by someone, and Xiao Wuwan's face turned red. She subconsciously turned her head to look at the boy next to her.
[Wooden man, what are you doing? ! ]
The boy didn't look at her, but just wrote the English word "no" on the back of her hand with his fingers imperceptibly, and then withdrew his hand.
?No?】
Xiao Wuwan was a little confused, but he reacted quickly and looked at the cup of tea in front of him with wide eyes.
[Are you asking me not to drink this cup of tea? ]
Is there something wrong with this tea?!
In an instant, all the scenes of food poisoning that he had seen on TV and in movies before flashed through Yu Xiaowuwan's mind.
Wait! What's going on?
How did things suddenly develop to this point? Why did the wooden man think there was something wrong with this tea?
What did I just miss?
Chapter 629: He Smiles Like a Human Being
Because the little actions between the boy and Kokarasuma were always covered by the table, the Muraki couple sitting opposite them did not notice it.
After letting go of Kokarasuma's hand, the boy looked at Mr. Muraki and asked:
"Mr. Muraki, I learned from Kyoko's classmates that during the holiday after graduating from junior high school, one of Kyoko's junior high school classmates seemed to have committed suicide by jumping off a building because he could not stand her long-term bullying. Is this true?"
"Woo!"
As soon as the boy finished speaking, Mrs. Muraki, who was originally crying quietly, cried even louder.
"Officer Bai, please don't talk nonsense..."
Although Mr. Muraki's reaction was not so intense, he also showed obvious nervousness. He smiled and said:
"That classmate, that classmate committed suicide by jumping off the building. This was her own problem. It has nothing to do with our Xingzi... Those rumors that she jumped off the building because she was bullied by Xingzi are all rumors. They are all false information. Don't take them seriously..."
When the boy heard this, a sunny and kind smile suddenly appeared on his face, like that of an older brother next door, and his voice was also extremely gentle.
"Please rest assured, the police have always acted based on solid evidence and will not simply listen to unfounded rumors."
The boy's reaction stunned Xiao Wuwan who was sitting next to him.
No, it turns out that a wooden man like you can have such an expression like a normal human being?
You look very pretty when you smile, so why don’t you smile more often?
"That is to say, Anzi-san did have a junior high school classmate who committed suicide by jumping off a building, right?" The boy asked immediately without paying attention to Kokarasuma's inner turmoil at the moment.
Mr. Muraki did not directly deny the suicide by jumping off the building, but instead immediately distanced himself from the incident and his daughter.
That means this incident really happened. And judging from this person's reaction, although he said that it had nothing to do with his daughter, in fact, the rumors about this incident are probably mostly true...
Of course, despite this, the boy had no intention of intervening in this "suddenly added case".
After all, school bullying is a very difficult problem to deal with in any country in the world due to its various particularities.
Those involved are children who are "favored" by the law. The school authorities want to minimize the incident for the sake of the school's reputation. The parents of the bullies will also try their best to reduce the impact of the incident in order to protect their children. Local officials also don't want to cause more trouble for the sake of their own future...
Under the influence of these multiple factors, many cases of school bullying are difficult to be dealt with fairly.
Not to mention that the boy is now facing a situation where both his former bullies and victims have been killed one after another. Even if he wants to investigate, he has no way to start.
"This, this is indeed the case..."
Although Mr. Muraki was evasive in his words, he did not lie about this matter in the end. Perhaps he knew that it would be useless to lie about such a matter, as the boy would be able to find out everything clearly if he went back and checked.
"But Officer Shirakawa, this matter really has nothing to do with Kyoko..."
"Mr. Muraki, tell me about the classmate who committed suicide by jumping off the building."
Without wasting any more words on such meaningless matters, the boy asked directly, his tone becoming tougher.
This was the second thing he wanted to ask this time.
When he learned from Kokarasuma's good friend Akina this morning that the deceased, Kyoko, had bullied a classmate to the point of suicide in junior high school, he already had a similar guess in his mind.
It is obvious that Anzi was murdered. If it was just the kind of bullying in the general sense, perhaps she would not have brought disaster upon herself. But if the other party has been forced to the point of suicide and has not received relatively fair treatment, then the possibility of the bullied person's family seeking revenge on the bully in private will soar rapidly.
And in the short two sentences of testing just now, the boy was even more certain of this.
The deceased this time, classmate Anzi, might have really pushed one of her classmates into a desperate situation.
"Yes Yes……"
Under the invisible pressure from the boy, Mr. Muraki nodded repeatedly and stuttered as he told the story of the girl who committed suicide by jumping off the building.
That being said, he didn't seem to know much specific information.
A few months ago, suddenly one day, a man ran to their door holding a black and white portrait, crying loudly, saying that his daughter was killed by their daughter.
This movement attracted a lot of onlookers from the neighborhood, and some even called the police. The police took the man away, and then there was news that the man’s daughter had committed suicide by jumping off a building that day. It was said that the reason for her suicide was that she had suffered long-term bullying from her daughter, and she eventually suffered a mental breakdown and did this...
Although this incident was widely spread, one fact that cannot be changed is that the man's daughter undoubtedly committed suicide by jumping off the building.
As for the rumors that he had been bullied for a long time, the police found it difficult to collect specific evidence and conduct further investigations because the school and students who knew about it actively or passively refused to cooperate. In the end, they simply closed the case as suicide...
"That's all I know..."
Standing up and escorting the three boys to the door, Mr. Muraki smiled apologetically and said:
"Officer Shirakawa, this matter has nothing to do with Xingzi. That man deliberately made things up to extort money from us. You must prove our innocence and not believe those false rumors outside..."
"Mr. Muraki, I've already said that the police will only act based on concrete evidence and will not just listen to unfounded rumors."
"Haha, I know, I know. Especially Officer Baihe, you are young and promising, and you look like a fair and good police officer..."
When he reached the door, Mr. Muraki hurried forward and opened it.