Everyone knows what the consequences are of giving a criminal suspect an apology by giving him marigolds, which symbolize "punishing evil."
The end of this apology was destined to be a bad one.
Of course, on the surface this is still an "apology", even if it is bound to make the other party unhappy.
This is also to give an explanation to the higher-ups. Although Boss Saitama is helping to take on the responsibility, he still has to pretend.
However, Tang Ze turned this apology into a "provocation", and both of them knew it very well.
As an expert in medicine, how could Kitagami Haruko not understand the language of flowers? When he first met her, he recognized belladonna, a rare plant that most people didn't know about. Naturally, he also had some knowledge about plants.
So Kitagami Haruko naturally knew that the other party did it on purpose to express his attitude.
The final fate of this bouquet of flowers was naturally to be thrown into the trash can after Tang Ze and the others left.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Tang Ze.
At this moment, he and Naoki Kamii were organizing the information they had investigated today about Haruko Kitagami.
Among them, the other party’s family background is their main focus of investigation.
First of all, there is Haruko Kitagami's mother, who died when she was in high school. The cause of death was subarachnoid hemorrhage.
According to nearby neighbors who have a good relationship with the Beishen family, the family of three seems to be very harmonious, and the husband loves his wife very much.
According to the neighbors, as long as Kitagami Haruko's mother was alive, she would always go out to eat on her wife's birthday every year, and the couple would be the only ones there.
After Tang Ze wrote this information on the whiteboard, he drew a line under it to mark it as the key point.
"Eh? Is there anything special about this message?"
Seeing Tang Ze mark it up, Naoki Kamii on the side couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Don't forget, when we went to Bei Shen's house, there was no photo of his mother in the room. If he really loved his wife so much, why was there no photo of her?" Tang Ze reminded.
"Ah, indeed... If I don't put up a picture of my beloved wife, everyone would think it's strange," Naoki Kamii said suddenly. "It would be really strange not to have a picture of her."
"So what did you think of?" Tang Ze asked with a smile.
“There’s actually no harmony between husband and wife…”
Naoki Kamii's eyes lit up as he recalled the information about the case: "Another possibility is that Kitagawa Haruko put away her mother's photo.
There might be some conflict between the two of them..."
"It's not wrong to say it's a conflict." Tang Ze's face was a little complicated: "Because they are fighting for a man."
"Huh?"
Naoki Uei was stunned when he heard what Karasawa said: "Mother and daughter fighting for a man...
You mean Kitagami Haruko's father? So, Kitagami Haruko is probably... in love with her father?"
"Judging from the age of the man she's dating, that's probably the case."
Tang Ze nodded and said, "I kind of understand why the other party killed someone."
"Detective Karasawa, are you talking about the motive for murder?" asked Naoki Kamii.
"That's right."
Tang Ze nodded and said, "If my guess is correct, the reason why Kitagami Haruko is dating men who are about the same age as her father is probably because she regards them as substitutes.
Do you remember the appearance of Haruko Kitagami’s father in the photo?
He is tall, dark-skinned, and looks very energetic, which is very similar to the appearance of the three people whom Kitagami Haruko killed.
And what you said to Kitagami Haruko once reminded me."
"Eh? Did I say that?" Naoki Kamii pointed at himself.
"Well, that's what you said after we exposed the relationship between Haruko Kitagami and Senior Managing Director Manabe." Tang Ze said.
"Is it the line 'If your father knew, he would cry?'" Naoki Kamii recalled, "But what does that have to do with motivation?"
"I think that's probably why she killed people."
Tang Ze explained: "If Kitagami Haruko really has an Oedipus complex, then the three people she is dating should only be substitutes for her father.
But a substitute is just a substitute after all. On the one hand, she needs to satisfy her "Oedipus" emotions, and on the other hand, she feels like she is betraying her father.
So in order not to make her father sad, she killed the substitutes, as if that could make the white paper stained black by ink turn white again.
Let her become her father's good daughter again."
This is a very twisted mentality, but also easy to understand.
"But even if that's the case, shouldn't Kitagami Haruko's mother's grave have been left in disrepair for so long?"
Naoki Kamii thought of the overgrown weeds when they went to investigate the cemetery, and said with some confusion: "Even if Kitagami Haruko doesn't like her mother, her husband should still take care of these things."
"I've already had the immigration authorities check for information about Kitagami Haruko's father, Kitagami Keisuke."
Tang Ze handed the printed entry and exit records to the other party: "Kitagami Keisuke's entry and exit records disappeared three years ago.
The last flight was from Brazil back to China, and there have been no records since then.”
"Eh? But didn't she say before that her father had left his lovely daughter on a business trip again?" Naoki Kamii asked curiously.
"Besides that, Kitagami Keisuke actually resigned from the university a long time ago. To be more precise, it was treated as a resignation."
Tang Ze picked up a piece of personal information about Kitagawa Keisuke and said, "This is the information I obtained by using my connections to ask the principal of Kitagawa Keisuke's school.
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