"For 20 years, I have been living in agony, wanting him to turn himself in, but I couldn't find him, until..."
"He suddenly came back more than half a month ago."
Sakaki narrowed his eyes and keenly noticed...
The key to catching Kiichiro Numabuchi is right here!
"It was drizzling that day, and I saw that there was no one outside, so I decided to close the store and take a break..."
Women say:
"But before I could close the shutter, Jiichiro stumbled in."
"This is also the first time I have seen him in 20 years."
"What happened after you met him?"
Kidd couldn't wait to ask, and he also realized that Kiichiro Numabuchi's whereabouts had been exposed.
"He was panicking, like someone was chasing him."
Wiping her eyes with her sleeve, the woman continued:
"He gave me some money and said he would take me away from Osaka, but I didn't agree."
"Then... he told me that he was hiding in a small wooden house in the mountains and asked me to send him food regularly..."
Kidd and Sakaki looked at each other...
"What cabin?"
"It's the small cabin on the northern slope of Minoh Mountain."
The woman said frankly:
"After I found out about this, I planned to report it to the police, but before I even left the house..."
"A policeman came to the door."
"police?"
With a frown on his face, Sakaki Makoto felt that things were beginning to develop in an uncontrollable direction:
"Did you tell the policeman where Kiichiro Numabuchi was hiding?"
"Um."
The woman nodded:
"But..."
"The policeman said that when he arrived, Kiichiro had already escaped."
"Do you know the name of that policeman?"
The woman thought for a moment and said:
"I saw in the police manual that it seemed to be..."
"Sakata Yusuke."
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