Chapter 829 Extra - Light Rain
Tanaka Kentake thought about it carefully for a while, frowned and said, "But my father's grave is guarded by managers... I asked them, and they didn't see any cats like Xiaoyu, and no cat corpses were found near my father's grave."
Youye smiled and said, "You have to know that cats are creatures that act this way by nature. Some cats do not want to make their owners sad, so they will choose to run away from home and find a secluded and quiet place to end the rest of their lives."
Tanaka Kentake nodded. As someone who had raised a cat, he naturally knew this.
"This kind of place is hard to find. In most cases, you have to wait until the body stinks before you can find it, but..."
Tanaka Kentake asked anxiously: "But what?"
Youya was silent for a moment, then turned to look into the distance: "It's hard to express it in words, let's just go over and take a look."
Tanaka Kentake opened his mouth, but finally nodded in agreement, got in the car and drove Yuya and Miyano Shiho towards the cemetery.
On the way, Miyano Shiho couldn't help but pull Yuya's sleeve and whispered to him: "Are you sure you can find Xiaoyu there..."
Yuya patted Tuanzi's head - the little guy squinted his eyes, with a very comfortable expression - and whispered: "Actually, I'm not completely sure."
Miyano Shiho glared and said, "It's rare to hear such words coming out of your mouth."
Youye smiled and said, "This is my last hope. If I can't find Xiaoyu there, then I really have no other choice."
After all, Xiaoyu has been missing for two years, which means that Xiaoyu has been dead for two years.
Two years is enough time for a cat's body to turn into bones.
Yuya was worried that even if he found a pile of bones, he would not be able to confirm whether it was Xiaoyu.
They soon arrived at the cemetery. Tanaka Kenwu led the way, and the three people and one pet came to a remote corner.
Yuya looked around and couldn't help asking: "This location doesn't seem to be very good..."
Tanaka Kentake looked helpless: "This was my father's last wish before he died. He liked quiet places when he was alive, so we chose this location."
"If the other seats hadn't been taken..."
Mr. Tanaka's tomb is located in a very corner, almost at the edge of the cemetery. A little further ahead is a forest.
Tanaka Kenmu first cleaned the tombstone for his father, then took out a pack of cigarettes, opened the card, lit a cigarette, and bowed: "Dad, I'm here to see you..."
"...If you are still alive, please bless me to find Xiaoyu."
He muttered to himself for a while before standing up and smiling apologetically at Yuya, "Sorry."
Yuya shook his head in understanding.
Tanaka Kentake then asked, "Then...about Xiaoyu's whereabouts?"
Yuya first bowed slightly to the people around him, whispered "excuse me", then walked around the tombstone of Mr. Tanaka, and finally stood in front of the tombstone and looked up.
According to Yuya's speculation, if Xiaoyu was really here before his death, then he should have come here with the intention of accompanying the old man. In other words, his last position should be a place where he could easily see the old man's tombstone, and at the same time, in order to avoid being discovered by others...
Thinking of this, Youya's eyes fell on a towering tree outside the cemetery.
"Let's go and take a look near that tree."
Several people came under the big tree.
Tanaka Kentake searched anxiously and almost turned over the nearby grass, but still found nothing.
"Detective Kamiya?" He looked at Yuya with some disappointment.
You did not respond. He looked around carefully and suddenly looked up: "Mr. Jianwu, what season was it when Xiaoyu left?"
Tanaka Kentake was stunned for a moment, then replied, "It was near the end of autumn."
Yuya nodded slightly and tilted his head to look at Tuanzi.
Tuanzi tilted his head and suddenly understood something. He turned into a white shadow and rushed out, climbing up the tree trunk quickly.
Then there was a rustling sound of leaves, and a white figure could be vaguely seen shuttling back and forth between the leaves.
Miyano Shiho also guessed something and nervously grabbed Yuya's hand. The latter gently shook it back and gave a reassuring smile.
After a while, a sharp cry suddenly came from the tree.
"It looks like we've found it." Youye smiled slightly, walked to the tree and gestured, then used his hands and feet to climb up the trunk.
"Yuya, be careful." Miyano Shiho shouted from below.
Youye responded and followed Tuanzi's cry and climbed to the middle of the tree's branch.
Yuya pushed aside a bunch of leaves and saw a white ball in the green.
When Tuanzi saw Youya, she ran over happily, jumped on top of Youya's head, then pointed at the place where she had just stood and shouted a few times as if to ask for credit.
Yuya looked in that direction and his pupils shrank slightly - he saw a white cat sleeping quietly near the edge of a branch, with black dots dotted on the side of its belly like raindrops.
"Is that... Xiaoyu?" You was also stunned.
Because he had heard Tanaka Reiko and Tanaka Kentake describe Xiaoyu's appearance more than once, he recognized it at a glance. The sleeping cat was undoubtedly Xiaoyu.
It's not dead? It's asleep? Youye hesitated. His mind told him that this was impossible, but what he saw before him told him the opposite.
You’ll know what’s going on if you go over and take a look.
Youye took a deep breath and carefully climbed along the branches.
Fortunately, this tree is quite old, and even its branches are unusually thick, enough to bear Yuya's weight.
After finally reaching Xiaoyu, Youya tentatively called out, "Xiaoyu?"
But Xiaoyu didn't react at all and still remained in that sleeping posture.
Youye hesitated for half a second, grabbed the branch with one hand to prevent himself from falling, and reached out with the other hand to poke Xiaoyu's head.
Stiff and cold.
This was Yuya's first feeling when he came into contact with Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu still didn't respond after being poked on the head by Youye. Youye was now certain that Xiaoyu had died.
But why has its body remained intact after two years? When viewed from a distance, it looks like it is just asleep.
Could it be that he died recently and hasn't had time to rot yet?
There is no point in thinking too much. Now that we have found it, let’s take it down to show it to Tanaka Kenmu.
"Mr. Jianwu, could you please find a ladder?"
Tanaka Kentake was a little confused, but he still went to the cemetery manager to borrow a ladder.
Tanaka Kentake held the ladder with trembling hands, then looked up and shouted, "Detective Kamiya, you can come down now."
"coming."