Chapter 8 The Bizarre Disappearance

Chapter 8 The Bizarre Disappearance

In the afternoon, there was a rain in New Tokyo. In the evening, after the rain stopped, the setting sun cleared the sky, but the downstairs of the apartment building of Aragaki Detective Agency was full of gloomy atmosphere.

"Mr. Nishimaru, please control your emotions first and cooperate with our investigation."

"Please! Please find my daughter."

"Okay, don't worry we'll do our best to find your daughter."

After finally stabilizing the collapsing mood of the man who called the police, the two patrolmen from the Ogawa Town Police Station breathed a sigh of relief. After looking at each other, one of them clenched his fist and coughed dryly:

"Hello Mr. Nishimaru, please answer the following questions carefully, so that we can help you find your daughter faster."

In the crowd of onlookers, Higashinohara looked at Shunsuke Nishimaru, who was slumped on the ground. With messy hair and haggard face, he quickly nodded.

"Your daughter's name?"

"Nishimaru Mika."

"age?"

"Five. Oh no! Six! Just turned six!"

"Ok, missing time?"

"The school teacher called me in the afternoon and asked me if I had picked up my daughter and I said no."

"Has the school surveillance been checked?"

"The surveillance at the school gate doesn't have my daughter, and the surveillance in the school doesn't capture it. It's like it disappears after lunch."

"What time did you find it in the afternoon?"

"It's almost two o'clock. I'll check the records later. Well, it's two o'clock."

A patrol officer asked Nishimaru Shunsuke, and another patrol officer was responsible for recording and writing down important time points and details.

"Okay, so is there anything unusual about your daughter going to school this morning?"

"Anomalous? No, she went to school in the morning as usual."

"Did you give it to her?"

"Uh no, I can't get up at noon because I have to work the night shift. Mili is very considerate to me. In the morning, I go to the school by myself on the school bus."

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After the general inquiries were over, the two patrol officers glanced at each other helplessly, apparently not being able to obtain any information from Shunsuke Nishimaru that would help solve the case.

One person can only say, "Okay Mr. Nishimaru, the information you provided is very valuable, but we have to go to the school to obtain the surveillance video. You can rest assured that we will find your daughter as soon as possible."

Nishimaru Shunsuke also seemed to have calmed down from his previous breakdown, but he still grabbed the policeman's hand anxiously, "I'll leave it to you! My daughter has a congenital heart disease, please be sure to find her as soon as possible. , I really can't live without her"

While talking, Nishimaru Shunsuke started to sob again.

Do you have congenital heart disease?

Higashinohara frowned when he heard it. Nishimaru Miri usually looks weak and weak, but the little girl never mentioned it, and he never thought that he would be ill.

As for congenital heart disease, ordinary timely surgical treatment will generally improve, but some more complex or even deformed cases have little effect, and there are even hidden dangers of arrhythmia and hypoxia death at any time.

After making the record, the two patrol officers were also a little helpless about this. This kind of disappearance case with no effective clues is the most difficult to deal with.

Recently, Tokyo does not know why there have been several disappearance cases in a row and they are still under investigation, and they don't have much time to waste here, so they can only reluctantly reassure a few words and let Nishimaru Shunsuke sign it on the transcript. word and other notices.

"We will go back and do further investigation first. Please keep the communication open. We will contact you as soon as we find anything."

Leaving this sentence, the two patrolmen in Ogawa Town drove away.

The tenants around looked at the dejected Nishimaru Shunsuke. Although his popularity in this building was not very good, his daughter Nishimaru Miri was very lovable.

Many people went up to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, and some also said that they had forwarded the tracing information on their social networking sites.

Nishimaru Shunsuke froze for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he hurriedly thanked the tenants who said they would forward the missing information.

Higashinohara stared at him twice, and withdrew without expression as the crowd dispersed.

Suddenly, someone behind him pushed him.

When Higashinohara turned his head, he found that he was walking on slippers and holding a chicken coop head unscrupulous uncle Aragaki Satoru. The guy looked over Higashinohara and looked at Shunsuke Nishimaru who was standing there, and said with a smile:

"This guy. Lied, right?"

After he finished speaking, he turned to Higashinohara.

Higashinohara remembered the appearance of Aragaki Satoru behind him in the morning. He probably saw it at that time, so he nodded and said, "Well, Xiaoweili shouldn't go to the school this morning, he got up very early."

Aragaki Satoru folded his arms around his chest, rubbing his unshaven chin, with a look of interest on his face, "It's so interesting, why did he hide it? What do you think?"

Higashinohara knew that Satoru Aragaki used to work in the Metropolitan Police Department, and I heard that he was still at the police level of the Criminal Department.

Later, I didn't know why I was dismissed, so I inherited the family business and opened this detective agency in the apartment building, but I still have some connections in the Metropolitan Police Department, otherwise it would be impossible to put my daughter Mai Aragaki after graduating from high school. Investigative Team Internship.

After thinking about it, Higashinohara looked at Aragaki Satoru and asked, "Did Mr. Nishimaru pay the rent owed today?"

"No, it was paid at noon, and I paid me extra interest." Aragaki Satoru was stunned, and responded quickly, "He said he was lucky and won a sum of money, what do you mean?"

"I have no idea."

Tonohara shook his head coldly.

He never speculates on the evil of human nature, but he also does not naively think that everyone has a bottom line.

Aragaki Satoru was very straightforward, after thinking about it, he took out his mobile phone and made a call.

After he said a few words, he laughed and scolded and hung up the phone, and said to Higashinohara with a smile, "I just contacted a friend from the Metropolitan Police Department, so when he drives over, let's scare them together. Scare that guy."

to scare?

Higashinohara did not expect that Aragaki Satoru would use his crooked brains to come up with such an outrageous solution, so he couldn't help but blurt out and asked, "Is it illegal?"

Aragaki Satoru slammed his mouth and said, "It depends on where the law is. As long as I can obtain criminal evidence and execute justice, I will not break the law."

Speaking of which, he looked up at the sky and said leisurely, "Tongye-kun, you have to remember that if you want to do things, you can't always be open and aboveboard."

It's no wonder that you will be dismissed - seeing the other person's appearance as a life mentor, Higashinohara couldn't help but complained in his heart.

However, he also really wanted to find the little girl who sweetly called him "big brother" as soon as possible, and he could only hope to Satoru Aragaki, a middle-aged uncle who had connections in the local area.

After a while, a police car that came from nowhere stopped downstairs, opened the door and jumped out a young man in police uniform, probably in his twenties.

On the third floor of the apartment, Aragaki Detective Agency.

Seeing the young man who pushed the door in, Higashinohara was a little surprised at the efficiency and speed of the other party.

However, after seeing Aragaki Satoru, the man's face was not very good-looking, but he endured that he did not have a seizure, and immediately turned his eyes to Higashinohara who looked like a high school student.

"I didn't expect your kid to come so quickly, don't worry, you are my own." Aragaki Satoru, who was lying on the boss's chair, waved his hand and smiled.

During this time, Higashinohara occasionally worked for him outside, but he was not really an outsider, not to mention he was very concerned about this matter, and nodded to him with a smile on his face.

"Introduction, this is my former proud disciple A Tuo"

Unexpectedly, before Aragaki Satoru had finished speaking, the young man named Morita Takuma complained with a straight face, "Master, please do well! Let me go! I might get a promotion next year, and keep me doing these things. What if I get caught? Do you want me to be a police department like you all my life?"

The laughing Aragaki Satoru's face froze, and he scolded a little too much, "What nonsense are you talking about, stinky boy? I also had the potential to be a police chief back then, okay? I'll look for you after a year. Keke five Six, seven or eight times?"

"A Tuo, you've changed. When you first joined the team for an internship and hugged my leg and called me master, you weren't so impatient."

Facing the greasy old fritters like Aragaki Satoru, Morita Takuya was obviously no match, so he could only sigh in defeat.

"Tell me, who is this time?"

Aragaki Satoru, who was bemoaning, changed his face quickly, and immediately said with a smile, "As expected of the master's good apprentice, I didn't hurt you in vain, let's go, I'll take you upstairs, you are the resident of 505 above, this is what I just sorted out for you. material."

With that said, Satoru Aragaki typed on the keyboard to print, and the printer next to him quickly spit out a few sheets of A4 paper with photos of Shunsuke Nishimaru and personal family information on it.

Good guy. So fast?

Higashinohara just saw Satoru Aragaki lazily paralyzed behind the computer, and he thought that this guy was watching a variety show with Wano country characteristics, but he didn't expect to be surprisingly reliable at critical moments.

Morita Takuya said that such a master has already accepted his fate. He stretched out his hand to take the information and glanced at it. He frowned slightly and said, "His daughter. Missing today?"

Morita Takuya is the Second Division of the Criminal Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, and is mainly responsible for investigating fraud, counterfeit money, and public officials' dereliction of duty, bribery, and tax evasion.

Missing persons cases have never been dealt with.

"Yes, don't worry."

Aragaki Satoru had already stood up and took Morita to the door and went upstairs.

As he walked, he said to Morita Takuma who was beside him, "Don't say anything when you knock on the door and go in, just say you suspect that he is defrauding a huge amount of property, and I have prepared all the evidence for you."

"Where did the evidence come from?"

Higashinohara, who was following behind, interjected.

"Oh, I just faked it just now."

Aragaki Satoru didn't turn his head back.

"." Higashinohara.

Did this guy really work as a detective before?

On the fifth floor, at the door of Nishimaru Shunsuke's house, Aragaki Satoru and Morita Takuya, the two living treasures, immediately became strangers who didn't know each other.

dong dong dong-!

Shunsuke Nishimaru's voice came from the door.

"Who?"

Outside the door, Satoru Aragaki said leisurely, "It's me who disturbed Mr. Nishimaru. There was a policeman downstairs looking for you just now. I helped bring it up when I had nothing to do."

"Huh? Oh okay please wait."

After waiting for a while, the door of 505 was opened. Nishimaru Shunsuke seemed to have washed his face, and his face did not look as haggard as he had just below.

"Is there any news of my daughter?" Nishimaru Shunsuke asked Morita Takuma, who was wearing the uniform of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Morita Takuya didn't speak, but stared at Shunsuke Nisamaru with sharp eyes like an eagle's eye for a while, until Shunsuke Nisamaru dodged his eyes and took the initiative to avoid his gaze before slowly opening his mouth and said, "Mr. Please cooperate with the investigation."

Nishimaru Shunsuke raised his head in amazement.

"What?"

next development

Higashinohara can only be described as magical.

Of course, Nishimaru Shunsuke did not admit to his online fraud, but the aggressive Morita Takuya immediately showed evidence-a large amount of unknown funds flowed into Nishimaru Shunsuke's bank account recently.

At the door, Aragaki Satoru pointed his head to make up for the knife, "Mr. Policeman, Nishimaru-san really paid half a year's rent arrears in one breath today, and he is going to move in the near future, ah no! I didn't mean that. I suddenly remembered. This doesn't mean Nishimaru-san must be a swindler!"

At the corner of the corridor, Higashinohara was speechless, and Nishimaru Shunsuke, who was confronting Morita Takuya, was also anxious.

At first, he insisted that he had won a fortune in a lucky bet recently, but under Morita Takuya's pressing step by step, he couldn't say exactly when, where, where, and how he won.

A few minutes later, Nishimaru Shunsuke was incoherent, "I'm not Mr. Police, I really didn't cheat!"

"I don't care about this, Mr. Nishimaru. From the current situation, maybe you have to go to the Metropolitan Police Department with us. We have professional colleagues who will handle your case. When can you explain it clearly? you come back."

Saying that, Morita Takuma took out a pair of handcuffs from his arms.

Nishimaru Shunsuke's face changed when he saw this.

He struggled and hesitated for a while, then suddenly gave up, gritted his teeth and changed his mouth, "Okay, let me explain, I just lied, this money is actually my daughter's test fee."

Test fee?

Hearing this word, Morita Takuya frowned, and Aragaki Satoru at the door also glanced at Higashinohara in the corridor.

"What medicine? How much?" Morita Takuya asked.

"My daughter has a congenital heart disease, and the other party said that it is a special medicine for this disease." Nishimaru Shunsuke's eyes were even more dodged, and he whispered with a guilty conscience, "The cost is five million yen."

Hmm. Two years' salary for a normal office worker is indeed a lot of money for someone like Shunsuke Nishimaru who owes rent for half a year.

Morita Takuya's eyes were not good, "Where did you know someone? You never thought that the other party might be a liar? Is the medicine fake?"

Nishimaru Shunsuke was stunned for a moment. He didn't seem to have thought about this question, but he distinguished in his mouth:

"No! It won't be a liar! It was introduced by a friend of mine in a nightclub. The other party is very rich, and he paid me half of the deposit in advance. This is where my money comes from. If you don't believe me, I will show you the transfer record. I really didn't cheat, Mr. Police!"

With that, he hurriedly took out his phone.

Money can't be a liar?

Higashinohara sighed, it was really sad that Nishimaru Miri had such a father.

Morita Takuya glanced at the transfer records. There were two transactions in total, one last night and one this morning, totaling 5 million yen. It seemed that he didn't panic.

He glanced at Shunsuke Nishimaru, who was full of panic, with contempt, then turned his head and looked at Satoru Aragaki, who smiled and nodded in thanks.

So Morita Takuya patted Nishimaru Shunsuke on the shoulder, "Okay, congratulations on clearing up the suspicion of fraud, then I'll go first."

Morita Takuya was a bit resolute in his work. He turned around and said to leave, and went straight out the door.

Is this gone?

Nishimaru Shunsuke in the room was stunned for a moment.

At the door, Satoru Aragaki leaned lazily against the door frame and asked, "After trying the medicine in the morning, Nishimaru-san, will you send your daughter to school?"

"Well, yes, I even bought her sushi on the way." Nishimaru Shunsuke said hurriedly.

Aragaki Satoru glanced at him, "But Nishimaru-san, when you just reported this matter. Why didn't you explain it to the police?

"me."

Nishimaru Shunsuke opened his mouth.

After all, it's not a glorious thing to make money from her daughter's drug testing. The key point is that her daughter was still missing at school in the afternoon, so how could he say it?

But people always find reasons for themselves.

Nishimaru Shunsuke said hesitantly, "The drug testing agency told me that they are a gray industry and do not want to contact the police. One million of the five million is a hush money. I thought it should have nothing to do with my daughter's disappearance at school. .so there is no mention of it.”

At the end, he added in a low voice, "Those people look very fierce, I'm afraid I won't be able to provoke my daughter."

"Then your daughter has disappeared, do you want to find her?" Aragaki Satoru asked.

"Of course I do." Shunsuke Nishimaru said quickly, looking anxious and not pretending.

Aragaki Satoru said leisurely, "Hehe, if you really want to, then I advise you to contact the police again and report the matter to them completely. Maybe this is the clue to solving the case."

"Really?" He hesitated.

"Don't you want to get your daughter back?"

"Of course I want to!"

Nishimaru Shunsuke's face struggled, and he didn't know whether he was telling the truth or a lie, but he suddenly gritted his teeth in the sight of Aragaki Satoru's half-smile, "Okay! I'll report it! Anyway, I won't live here anymore."

With that, he picked up the phone.

After a while, a siren sounded from downstairs—two patrolmen from the Ogawa Town Police Station received the call and drove back.

Nishimaru Shunsuke closed the door and went downstairs uneasy.

In the corridor, Higashinohara pretended to be passing by, looked at Nishimaru Shunsuke, and suddenly asked casually:

"Mr. Nishimaru, I just passed by and heard some. If you don't mind, I would like to ask what those special medicines for congenital heart disease look like? Does it really work? A relative in my hometown also has such a disease."

Nishimaru Shunsuke looked up at Higashinohara, recognized him as the high school student who took care of his daughter last night, nodded and said:

"It's a peeled orange. They say it's a fruit medicine, and a patent issued by the world government. If it's curative, it's sweet on the way back."

orange?

Why is it an orange again?

Higashinohara was startled when he heard the words.

In his mind, he subconsciously recalled the image he saw in the cut-away drawing of Tianhu girl Xia Li - it was also a smooth, plump and bright orange.

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