"Fujiwara, does his face look a little strange to you?"
After hearing what Furuya Rei said, Fujiwara Yu focused his eyes on the male victim and immediately noticed that the victim's cheeks were slightly bulging, just like a hamster storing food in its cheeks. This was really strange.
He reached out and carefully tore off the tape covering the victim's mouth, instantly leaving the skin on his lips a bloody mess. Standing nearby, Rei Furuya couldn't help but cover his own mouth, feeling the pain as a bystander.
"How is it? Is there something in your mouth?"
Fujiwara Yu pinched the victim's cheek with a little force and could smell a foul odor mixed with blood, but he didn't bother to frown, because the thing stuffed in the victim's mouth made him feel incredible, and even felt that... this might be related to the murderer's motive for killing.
"There are a large number of small steel balls. It seems that the murderer put the seal not to calm the victim, but to force the victim to hold these small steel balls in his mouth. It is really torture."
"Steelball? I remember there was a pretty big pachinko place in Kamishihara-cho." Furuya Rei didn't choose to linger at the scene. Now that he had a clear direction for his investigation, he said as he walked out, "I'll go investigate that pachinko place. I'll leave this place to you."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
"Don't worry, I'm not a child!"
After watching Furuya Rei leave, Fujiwara Yu further examined the victim's body. The first thing he found was a blunt force trauma to the head. The murder weapon was not discarded but was directly thrown on a single sofa nearby. It was a blood-stained baseball bat.
The victim's cause of death was likely a subdural hematoma, a cerebral contusion caused by repeated blows to the head with a baseball bat.
However, the wounds on the victim's body were not only concentrated on the head, but all over the body - after the murderer controlled the victim on the chair, he used a sharp weapon to repeatedly scratch his limbs, but these wounds were not enough to cause death, they were just pure torture and venting of anger.
That is why there are a lot of splattered blood in the room, which shows that the murderer hates the victim very much.
"Mr. Fujiwara, I didn't expect to see you again."
Hearing this familiar voice, Fujiwara Yu turned around and saw Komatsu Shouya walking towards him with a helpless look on his face. He raised his eyebrows in surprise and said:
"Officer Komatsu, it's you."
"Yes, I heard this is a serious case. The body... Ugh!"
Komatsu Sho, who had just been promoted to the Fuchu Police Station not long ago, had never seen such a scene. When he saw the appearance of the victim, he couldn't help but run out of the house. If he hadn't had dinner yet, he would probably have vomited here.
Fujiwara Yu calmly took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Komatsu Shoya, who was retching while leaning against the door frame, and said:
"Do you want to wipe your mouth with it? You're drooling."
"……Thanks."
Komatsu Sho also picked up his handkerchief and wiped the corner of his mouth, but when he heard Fujiwara suddenly say, "Sorry, I forgot my handkerchief touched the corpse," his face instantly became ugly, and even his stomach churned. He really wanted to vomit.
Fujiwara Yuu didn't expect that the other party took his poorly made joke seriously. He turned away with a slight smile on his face and said in a gentle tone:
"Just use it, I'm just joking with you."
When did this kid learn how to write the word "humor"? Although this prank is not very funny, Komatsu Sho also saw a hint of humanity from this incident. Fujiwara seems not as otherworldly as before.
Fujiwara Yu returned to the victim's body and patiently explained:
"Officer Komatsu, based on the preliminary autopsy, we can draw three conclusions. The first is the time of death, which is likely between 11 PM last night and 2 AM this morning. The second is the victim's fatal injuries. Although his limbs suffered varying degrees of sharp wounds, none of them were fatal. The true fatal injury was to his head. Intracranial bleeding caused blood to accumulate in the subdural space, resulting in a subdural hematoma."
"As for the third conclusion, it's right here. Officer Komatsu, you can't see it from so far away."
Xiao Songxiang also smiled awkwardly and took two steps forward. He quickly put on his mask and asked:
"What do you want me to see?"
Fujiwara Yu directly explained it with his own actions, forcing the victim's mouth open to reveal a large number of small steel balls inside. After seeing these small steel balls, Komatsu Sho also reacted quickly and exclaimed:
"The murderer is giving us clues. I'll have the police investigate at the nearby pachinko parlor!"
"No need for that. My friend has already gone to the pachinko parlor to investigate and should have results soon. All we need to do now is identify the suspects. Don't tell them that the victim's mouth was filled with small steel balls."
"OK."
Komatsu Sho also silently followed Fujiwara Yu down the stairs. He didn't know why, but he always felt like he was just a follower at the police station. He was just a police academy student, so why did he feel like a Metropolitan Police Department detective?
But Fujiwara, who's already assisting the police with their cases while still in the academy, has a solid shot at joining the Metropolitan Police Department. More importantly, Fujiwara should be in the professional division, starting as a lieutenant, which gives him much more room for advancement than someone like him who's not in the professional division.
"Zhu Fu, how are your questions going?"
Zhu Fujingguang waved the police manual in his hand and responded with a smile:
"Don't worry, the investigation has been completed."
"I've just finished questioning the last person. Next, we're sharing information. Tell me, what clues did the victim's remains provide you?" Matsuda Jinpei calmly placed his hands behind his head. He walked over to Fujiwara and whispered, "There's nothing suspicious about the diner. It's more likely an inside job."
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