evening.
Because of the rain, the light in the sky lacks the warm tones of sunlight.
Standing on the rooftop, you can see that the sky in the distance looks like a blue-white color.
The sky above was a cold white, and the closer to the horizon, the more obvious the blue-green color became.
It’s like the entire city is covered with a cold-toned filter, and from a distance the entire city looks a bit solemn and cold.
"My brother jumped from here..." Otsugai lay on the edge of the rooftop, looking at the traces of the scene below (Note 1)
"Yeah..." Takagi nodded and said, "Also, we found a knife in the ditch next to the building."
"You mean a knife?"
"Your brother's legs and hands showed signs of being cut by a sharp knife."
"I know that." Otsuga looked at Tang Ze and asked, "So, this knife is the murder weapon of the criminal who attacked my brother?"
"Judging from the results of the identification, this is the knife that cut your brother, but there is only your brother's blood and fingerprints on it."
"What does this mean?"
Tang Ze looked at Otsugai and explained, "We didn't find any traces of anyone else on the knife."
"Where are the criminal's fingerprints?" Otsuga asked anxiously.
"No, there is no such person at all." Tang Ze shook his head and said, "Your brother's fingerprints are very obvious on this knife, there is no trace of missing fingerprints, and there is not even any trace of glove texture on it.
This is actually very unnatural because even with gloves, blood will leave some texture or destroy the bloody fingerprints."
After all, the handle of a fruit knife is only so big, and Otsuga Tomoyuki's fingerprints are all over the handle. If another person took the knife, whether wearing gloves or not, it would definitely cover Otsuga Tomoyuki's fingerprints and leave traces.
But no.
On the handle of the knife, Otsuga Tomoyuki's fingerprints are very clear, as if Otsuga Tomoyuki had printed them by pinching them.
Otsugai frowned upon hearing this and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
At this time, Tang Ze opened the book with "Medical Affairs" printed on it and showed it to Otsugai, "This contains the notes made by your brother's diligent research."
"Illegal request for medical treatment..." Otsugai took the book, turned to the next page, and found the definitions of various wound marks printed on it.
"When you're getting medical reimbursement based on your medical history, the medical reimbursement for injuries sustained in self-inflicted injuries when you're attacked is different than for injuries sustained in self-inflicted injuries."
Tang Ze pointed to the wounds on the book that showed signs of being attacked and said, "And the injuries on your brother's hands and body are exactly the same as those sustained in self-defense.
In other words, there is a high possibility that he hurt himself intentionally.”
"No way!" Otsugai said in astonishment: "Could it be that my brother... committed suicide..."
"Unfortunately, that's how it is." Tang Ze sighed, as if he saw how desperate Otsuga Tomoyuki was last night.
In the pitch-black night, he went to the rooftop alone, cut his arms, legs, and hands with a knife, leaving traces of being attacked, and then jumped off the rooftop...
"How is this possible?! Why?!" Otsugai couldn't accept this explanation. "Why would my brother commit suicide..."
"The next step is our investigation." Tang Ze looked at Otsuga and said, "Perhaps the constant despair over the past year was the reason that led to his suicide.
In other words, he was killed by society, and this may be his accusation."
He could have become a full-time employee, but was fired by the company after just one month.
He couldn't rely on his family, and his fiancée ran away.
Temporary workers face poor conditions, low pay, and no place to live, and no matter how many times they look for a new job, they can't find one.
The qualifications he obtained through hard study were like fees, and no one was willing to hire him.
Abandoned by the Social Security Bureau, he was forced to embark on the path of selling "names" and there was no turning back.
I was kicked out of my comfortable sleeping place in the container, and I had to live in an Internet cafe, spending my remaining money day by day.
In order to fill their stomachs, they have to live the life of a homeless person, running around all day long.
The last straw that broke the camel's back was probably after he grabbed all the donuts.
After walking along the route that Otsuga Tomoyuki took to escape, Karasawa and Takagi soon arrived at the first place the two had visited.
That was the apartment where Tomoyuki Otsuga once lived.
According to the landlord, the rental house was lucky enough to find a tenant in the past two days.
But what was good luck for the landlord was misfortune for Tomoyuki Otsuga.
The hope that had sustained him for the past year was to find a new job, but even this last glimmer of hope in such a precarious life was shattered.
The fact that new people had moved into the apartment where he had previously lived meant that he could no longer use the mailbox there and would not receive any notification of whether his job application had been accepted or rejected.
The address he needed to find a job was gone, which meant he lost the possibility of finding a new job.
All this probably made him despair of life.
"Perhaps, he really hopes that someone can truly understand his despair."
Karasawa sighed. He and Takagi followed the clues from the apartment, following in the footsteps of Otsuga Tomoyuki, watching his failure step by step into the abyss.
Finally, I went back to the apartment and got the answer.
It seemed to be the starting point and also the end point of Otsuga Tomoyuki's tragedy.
The case ended with suicide, and Otsugai left with regret.
People killed by society
[Congratulations to the host for completing the side quest, and congratulations to the host for randomly obtaining Kendo (2 years) as an extra reward! ]
It seems that the rewards this time are not good enough, and the rewarded skills are not selected by yourself but are random.
But fortunately, the extra random reward skill is two years of kendo, which is also urgently needed for Tang Ze. It can be said to be a huge profit!
Although the reward this time was good, Tang Ze was not very happy.
This case is really too depressing, just like the cold blue-white sky at the moment.
He just wanted to try it like an ordinary person, but even such a humble wish could not be realized.
The people around him, and even himself, lost the courage to reach out.
No one was willing to sincerely lend a hand to help him, not the boss of the planning company, not Gota from the construction company, not Akira Yamakawa from the social security department, not his brothers, not his lover.
They all regarded Otsuga Tomoyuki as a trouble, a burden, or someone who could not be relied upon. They pushed him away, left him, and slowly left him with nothing.
In the end, the cold city and cold human hearts made Otsuga Tomoyuki choose to commit suicide in despair.
Became a person killed by society.
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Note 1: The white line drawn next to the body or bloodstains according to the edge of the body is called the scene trace fixed line
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