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The boy's last light pat frightened him so much that he trembled subconsciously.
"so……"
In the dark night, the boy seemed to be completely unaware of the change in the gravekeeper. He put his hand on his shoulder and smiled in a gentle tone:
"Mr. Gravekeeper, if you have done something similar before, it would be better for you to surrender to the police as soon as possible. This way, at least you can get a lighter sentence, which is better than being caught by the police..."
"Police officer Baihe..."
"It's just a joke, don't take it too seriously."
They didn't know when, but they both walked out of the cemetery, and the boy withdrew his hand from his shoulder.
"But I'm speaking from the heart. If you have someone in a similar situation, please advise them to come over and turn themselves in."
"Officer Shirakawa, I..."
After saying this, the boy turned around and left without waiting for the gravekeeper's reply.
"It's late at night, watch your step, don't step into the pit and sprain your ankle."
The next morning, the boy did not rush to continue investigating the case, but went to a hospital in the city first.
It was only after he returned from the cemetery last night that he heard that Keiko Hatoyama was hospitalized yesterday.
It is said that the medical team that was invited from abroad has arrived and needs to treat Keiko Hatoyama for two days. In order to receive diagnosis and treatment more conveniently, Keiko Hatoyama went directly to the hospital.
This was not a very serious matter, but because the boy was busy investigating the case yesterday, and Keiko Hatoyama did not want to affect the boy's investigation progress because of her own affairs, she did not take the initiative to tell him.
As for Xiao Wuhuan, who knew about it, she simply understood what Hatoyama Keiko was thinking, and she was too excited to investigate with the boy, so she forgot about it...
So the next morning, the boy went to the hospital.
We could have gone last night, but he came back late, and because we didn't want to disturb Keiko Hatoyama's rest, we waited until this morning.
"Xiao Qing, you left the case you were investigating so early in the morning and ran to see your fiancée. This is not what a good and responsible police officer should do..."
In the special single room, Hatoyama Keiko looked at the boy sitting on the bed, put down the novel she was reading halfway, turned to look at the boy sitting beside the bed, and sighed softly.
"It's not time to go to work yet." The boy replied while slowly peeling the apple in his hand.
"As a police officer, you have to go when you are needed. There are no fixed working hours," Keiko Hatoyama corrected.
"But now no one in the Metropolitan Police Department has called me over, which means I can at least wait until the designated working hours."
The boy turned the tables on her and almost made Keiko Hatoyama angry.
That's right, as the grandson-in-law of the Hatoyama family, no one in the Metropolitan Police Department except old man Hatoyama dared to let the boy work overtime, and everything depended on his voluntary willingness.
Not to mention... the boy is not a real policeman at the moment, so the question of whether he goes to work or not does not exist.
"Glib tongue..."
“It’s about knowing right from wrong.”
As the boy spoke, he cut off a small piece of the apple with the fruit knife in his hand and handed it to Keiko Hatoyama.
"Hmph." After eating the small piece of apple without any hesitation, Hatoyama Keiko said:
"I won't talk to you about this useless stuff. Tell me, how did the investigation of yesterday's case go? Is there anything I can help you with?"
Chapter 635 is "God"
Keiko Hatoyama naturally knew the boy's character.
If the case had not been investigated to a certain extent, the boy would have come to the hospital to see her, but at most he would have only asked about her condition and expressed concern. He would not have had so much free time to stay here and slowly peel an apple.
This only means that the boy may have already figured out the case thoroughly.
"I have found out everything."
The boy's answer was just as Hatoyama Keiko had expected. He cut off another small piece of apple and handed it to her, then slowly said:
"I think this incident may be related to some evil cult organization."
"Chew, chew...is that so?" Upon hearing this, Hatoyama Keiko nodded, then turned around and ate the third piece of apple that the boy handed over.
Yesterday, when she heard Kogumaru's description of the deceased's body being tied up in a "praying" position, she already had this guess in her mind.
However, because Keiko Hatoyama knew too little at the time, she herself could not confirm this guess, so she did not say it in the end.
Perhaps due to the influence of various negative factors after the war, countless large and small cult groups emerged among the Japanese people at that time.
These groups are hidden in the dark corners of the city, using different yet similar methods to brainwash and manipulate the so-called believers and make profits from it.
In recent years, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and local police departments have invested huge police forces to eradicate this phenomenon. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the final results have not been very good.
"If my guess is correct, Kyoko's death should be a carefully planned murder, and the real murderer of this murder may be her parents..."
When the boy said this, his hand that was cutting the apple paused briefly, but soon returned to normal, cut off a small piece and handed it to Keiko Hatoyama.
“Perhaps the reason is that the Muraki couple wanted to pull their daughter into the cult they believed in.
According to the information we learned previously, in the few days before Xingzi was murdered, her mood at school was quite abnormal. According to her desk mate, she was in a daze and absent-minded almost the entire day, looking absent-minded.
It was probably during those days that Xingzi first learned that her parents were members of a cult, and they even wanted her to join.
But I don’t know why, maybe Xingzi herself rejects these beliefs, or maybe there are some perverted behaviors in this cult group that she cannot accept.
In short, Xingzi must have refused. Not only that, she might have had a conflict with her parents because of this matter.
This is also the reason why Xingzi's mental state was abnormal a few days before she was killed.
This conflict quickly fermented within a few days. Perhaps Xingzi threatened her parents and asked them to withdraw from the cult, or perhaps her parents chose to obey the cult's orders and wanted to get rid of Xingzi, who was likely to pose a threat to the group.
Anyway, they started fighting the night before yesterday after Xingzi came home from school.
The overall process is not complicated, because there is a possibility that Xingzi will be killed by someone seeking revenge.
According to the report I received from the forensic department this morning, there is a large amount of anesthetic residue in Kyoko's body.
They must have drugged the defenseless classmate Anzi that night, and then moved her to the cemetery, where they killed her while she was unconscious in front of the tombstone of Hanada, who had committed suicide after being bullied by Anzi.
There are three purposes behind this behavior.
One of them was to use Hanada's tombstone as a cover-up to frame Mr. Hanada for their murder.
After all, although Hanada was not directly killed by Kyoko, he died because of her. Mr. Hanada once asked the Muraki family for an explanation for his daughter's death, but was ultimately dealt with perfunctorily by the police who were in charge of the investigation at the time.
Logically speaking, Mr. Hanada has sufficient motive to kill Kyoko, and he is a perfect scapegoat.
All we need to do is to make Mr. Hanada 'disappear' after dealing with Kyoko, and then everything will make sense.
The second reason is that Kyoko was tied up in a 'praying' position. I don't really understand these religious beliefs, but based on my personal guess, they risked being discovered by the police and made Kyoko's body look like this, probably for some kind of warning to the believers inside.
It was probably like, 'See? This is what happens when you betray and go against our God.'
Of course, it is also possible that Xingzi's parents were too deeply brainwashed by this cult, and therefore had similar ideas that they hoped Xingzi could "get true salvation and convert to true faith" after her death. "
What the boy said was not fabricated, he had handled cases involving such cult groups before.
In his opinion, this kind of so-called religious belief, after going through layers of screening, is indeed very good at brainwashing its believers.
Things that go against common sense, such as instigating parents to kill their own children, are simply child's play. They may do more extreme things, and the boy has seen many similar incidents before.
"The third is that Kyoko-san's corpse is looking up strangely."
The boy stopped only after he had fed almost half of the apple to Keiko Hatoyama bit by bit.
This thing has a slightly high sugar content, and excessive intake is not good for Keiko Hatoyama's body, so the boy would only feed her half each time.
As for the remaining half?
"It was obvious that the head of the corpse was artificially fixed in an elevated position."
Cutting himself a piece of apple, the boy continued to explain while eating:
"I speculate that the purpose of their action may be to correspond to the location of their cult's base. Their 'god' is on the back mountain behind the cemetery. This move is to make Xingzi, who offended their 'god', kneel down and repent to their 'god'."
"Xiaoqing, do you think the base of this cult group is on the hill behind the cemetery?" asked Keiko Hatoyama.
"Well, this is just a guess. It was already late when I thought of this yesterday, so I plan to investigate again this morning."
Having said this, the boy finished the remaining half of the apple in his hand and stood up from his seat.
"If nothing unexpected happens, this case can be concluded today."
At the same time, in front of the grave where Kyoko was killed, Karasuma was standing there at school time again, looking at it thoughtfully.
"Is Mr. Hanada just a scapegoat? Then the real murderer is really..."
"Hmm? You are... the female classmate next to Officer Shirakawa?"
At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind Xiao Wuwan.
She looked back and saw that it was the gravekeeper who had reported the case earlier.
I hope this chapter can be published normally...
Chapter 636 Isn’t This Redemption?
"Huh...huh..."
That morning, on the forest path leading to the back mountain behind the cemetery, a figure was slowly walking up the winding path.
This figure had ordinary appearance and ordinary clothes, and was obviously the gravekeeper of the cemetery at the foot of the mountain.
On his back was an unconscious girl, who was wearing a high school girl's uniform. It was none other than Kokarasuma who had stopped in front of the cemetery before.
Relying on his identity as a reporter who was not easily suspected, the gravekeeper easily approached and knocked out the unsuspecting little Karasuma, and brought the unconscious her to the back mountain where he said no one lived.
"You're finally here."
Going forward along this path, after entering a dense forest halfway up the mountain, a somewhat old house appeared in front of the gravekeeper.
In fact, the gravekeeper had not lied to the boy before, because there was indeed no one living on this mountain. The only house was abandoned a long time ago and there was no trace of life in it. Even this winding path up the mountain was opened up by them bit by bit.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that this place was chosen as their secret base.
After simple renovations, it has become an important place for all believers in the surrounding neighborhood to gather and pray.
This naturally includes the gravekeeper, and...
"I didn't expect you to be so fast..."