Chapter 244 Thirty-eight Gachapon
Why would Rum know? Why didn't Rum know?
From Rum's perspective, the story probably started when the incident in Kyoto came to an end.
Originally, Rum would not care about the death of a not very important partner like Masao Tsuji, and at most he would just read the news and move on. However, Rum was involved in the murder of Masao Tsuji's wife ten years ago.
It was Rum who discovered that some of the information seemed to have been leaked that year. He kept investigating and finally found out that it was Hinata Tsuji. In order to show his sincerity in cooperating with the organization, Masazō Tsuji killed his wife who intended to leak the organization's intelligence.
This case is nothing. What Rum cares about is the intelligence stolen by Hinata Tsuji back then. Although a lot of it has become outdated after ten years, the transaction list and the list of partners are still mostly correct. If it falls into the hands of the public security, it will be a heavy blow to the organization that is no longer as glorious as it was back then.
For this reason, Rum had originally planned to kill Tsuji Masazo and his daughter in the near future, and then burn down the manor to prevent future troubles. However, who would have thought that Tsuji Masazo was killed by the butler, and the information that had not been found for ten years continued to remain missing.
But Rum was worried. Who knew if the list of data or something had been obtained by those rats in the police or FBI?
In order to investigate this, Rum did not ask anyone else to help him. He directly used the clues he had planted in the Kyoto Prefectural Police, retrieved the case files and checked them carefully. Then, he saw a few familiar names in them.
Toru Amuro and Hikaru Midorikawa... Bourbon and Scotland, they are there too?
Apart from these two, there was only one name that Rum was concerned about.
Kenji Hagiwara.
Rum had seen this name seven years ago, but at that time he had just learned that the boss had a confidant codenamed Kaluya who had been hiding for many years. That Kaluya defected on the spot, and this Officer Hagiwara was the last person involved before Kaluya disappeared.
At that time, Rum had already noticed that Kaluya had strange intentions, so he was ready to kill him to prevent him from competing with him for power. Who knew that during the chase, the killer was not only thrown off by Kaluya, but the guy even had the leisure to help the police deal with a bombing case and caught two bombers! ?
Rum was stunned on the spot, but his stunned state did not prevent him from having doubts. It was not until he repeatedly investigated and confirmed that they were just two ordinary bombers that he turned his attention to the police officer who was almost killed in the explosion. He remembered that Kaluuya seemed to have been sent to the police academy as an undercover agent.
In other words, Officer Hagiwara was most likely someone Kaluuya knew in the police academy.
Rum really wanted to continue his investigation along this line, but unfortunately he was stopped here. That madman Kaluuya blew up all the laboratories under his management in one breath - both at home and abroad - and used a bomb to spell out a sentence in the villa he visited most often.
'Curiosity killed the cat.'
This was a clear threat, but Rum couldn't be sure whether Kaluuya went crazy because he was investigating Kenji Hagiwara or because he wanted to kill him, so he could only cautiously stop.
Of course, after Kaluuya disappeared without a trace, Rum did think about killing Hagiwara, an ordinary policeman, to avenge that guy. Then, the next day when he was about to take action, the research institute he had just rebuilt exploded again.
It wasn't done by Kalua himself, but it was definitely a backup plan left by Kalua before he disappeared.
That lunatic is really holding a grudge, isn't he? He didn't even have a chance to do anything to the policeman before he made such a fuss? The haunted fellow!
After these two warnings, Rum had no choice but to endure it. As a price, he remembered the name Kenji Hagiwara deeply.
After all, he was the man who caused him to lose so many laboratories, so much money, and so much research data! Seriously, was that Kaluya's lover? What kind of person was Kaluya into? I really don't know whether it was the luck or misfortune of the young policeman to have to deal with such a madman like Kaluya.
Anyway, it has come to this. Apart from secretly keeping an eye on whether Kaluya reappears, there is really nothing else Rum can do to that guy. Even in the organization, he and Vermouth are the only ones who know about Kaluya's existence.
After returning from the manor, Bermode said some ambiguous words to him and hinted at Kaluya's name in an ambiguous way, which made Rumple immediately think that Kaluya might have appeared.
Considering that if Kaluuya really cared about Kenji Hagiwara, he would definitely pay attention to the other party's situation, Rum also investigated the former policeman, and as a result, he saw the true face of the detective named Furuya Rei.
Who are they kidding! He will never forget this face even if it turns to ashes! This person is clearly that psychopath Kaluuya!! Are the police really out of their minds? Treating a psychopath as a collaborator detective?!
Rum almost choked up and fainted from the detective's photo.
He suspected... No, there was no need to doubt, that person was definitely Kaluuya himself. Not only did that lunatic come back to Tokyo, but he even dared to walk around without covering his face. There was definitely a conspiracy.
Having said that, Rum still cares about some things that happened seven years ago, especially the specific details of the boss's death and the research data related to Kalua, so he started to pay close attention to him again.
Therefore, when Rum learned that the detective was very close to Bourbon's cousin, he made a decision.
He wants to set up a plan to capture Kaluya.
After making the decision, Rum unexpectedly learned something very coincidental.
The two criminals who were arrested by the police with the cooperation of Kaluya seven years ago were released from prison a few days ago. They are very restless and seem to want to do something to avenge the policeman who was not killed in the explosion that year - Officer Hagiwara.
When a chess piece bumped into him, Rum enthusiastically helped them. He didn't expect these two to really blow up the young policeman. Even he couldn't do it because of that madman Kaluuya. It was even more impossible for these two bombers. He was counting on these two to create some chaos and make things difficult for Kaluuya, so that he could get Bourbon to cooperate and bring Kaluuya back.
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This is why Hagiwara Kenji had a grim look on his face when he came back after discovering the bomb.
It was truly a critical moment that year. The bomb, which had originally stopped counting down, started counting down again at the last moment. At that moment, Hagiwara Kenji's mind went blank, and he just reflexively picked up the bomb that was about to explode and ran in the opposite direction, allowing his teammates to evacuate quickly, while he tried to use his body to block some of the power of the explosion.
It was not until Jinpei Matsuda rushed up and punched him hard that he finally got rid of the thought of "why hasn't the bomb exploded yet?". He learned that the two criminals originally wanted to detonate it, but were punched by his classmate who disappeared after graduation, breaking seven or eight ribs, and the countdown stopped at the last few seconds.
Otherwise, he - Kenji Hagiwara would undoubtedly die there.
Because of this incident, Kenji Hagiwara was extremely familiar with the structure of the bomb from that year, and it was completely engraved in his mind. So after discovering the bomb in the haunted house, he simply removed the outer casing and recognized the structure of the bomb at a glance.
Compared to the bomb from seven years ago, it's a little more technically sophisticated, but basically the same.
Jinpei Matsuda also discovered this. At that moment, his expression looked like a devil, and his whole body was wrapped in darkness.
It's not like they haven't encountered dangerous situations in the seven years since they both started defusing bombs, but none of them were as close to death as they were seven years ago. Hagiwara Kenji also knew how much psychological trauma that incident had left in both of them, so when Matsuda Jinpei said without question that he would stay to defuse the bomb and sent him away to talk to the staff, Hagiwara Kenji acquiesced to this outcome.
He wasn't afraid of defusing the bomb, he was afraid of Xiao Zhenping's expression. He felt that if he stayed there any longer, Xiao Zhenping would get nervous...
In short, the two of them chose to act separately. While Matsuda was defusing the bomb, Hagiwara went to retrieve surveillance and question staff, trying to find the person who installed the bomb.
Just in case, they did not tell their colleagues there about their suspicions. After all, they considered that the two men were still undercover and it was inconvenient for them to participate in this kind of case, and the detective had amnesia and was taking care of a child.
Before the police arrived, Hagiwara had successfully communicated with all the staff in the haunted house, and all the staff at the exit had been evacuated. However, no one left, but gathered in a safer place in the front.
As for the suspect, Hagiwara considered that if it was really a bomber who had been released from prison and was seeking revenge, they would not leave too far before confirming the situation and would most likely still be observing nearby. So when he was checking the surveillance, he first checked the nearby surveillance, hoping to see if he could capture any suspicious figures.
In fact, Hagiwara didn't have much hope. The penetration rate of surveillance in Japan was not high. The surveillance equipment here was complete only because there was a wealthy consortium behind the amusement park. When he was handling cases in the past, he always encountered situations where the surveillance was either non-existent or broken and not repaired, so he was prepared for the surveillance to be destroyed this time.
However, when he went to the surveillance room, Hagiwara discovered that the surveillance camera had captured the entire process of the bomber installing the bomb, and even captured their clothing.
He suddenly remembered the most important thing: the two bombers were imprisoned seven years ago. If they were released in the last few days, it must be someone helping them to get the bombs. Isn't this a lack of knowledge about the technology seven years later...
For a few seconds, Hagiwara showed a subtle look of sympathy.
After confirming the identity of the bomber, Hagiwara checked other places. Unfortunately, the surveillance where the deceased was was destroyed, so he could not see the situation inside.
But this did not pose a problem for the clever officer Hagiwara. He deduced from the time when the surveillance was destroyed that the murderer was the previous group of tourists, and those people were likely not far away at this time.
So Hagiwara called Inspector Megure's cell phone, intending to contact him to quickly bring back those tourists to prevent the murderer from blending into the crowd and escaping.
The phone rang twice and then was connected, but before Hagiwara could say anything, he heard the voice of a detective on the other end.
"…The murderer is a woman wearing a purple long skirt, chestnut curly hair, and a Fusae's new spring pearl bag slung across her body. She is wearing flat shoes and is 1.71 meters tall. No, it should be 1.73 meters tall. She is almost at the bottom of the roller coaster with her companions. If we chase her immediately, we can probably find her in the crowd of tourists."
The detective said this lazily.
Hagiwara looked at the empty surveillance camera in front of him, then looked at the screen of his mobile phone which was on the phone, and fell into deep thought for a moment.
The person on the other side was obviously more shocked than him. He heard the officer Takagi, who was led by the squad leader, asked in shock: "Wait, why does Mr. Furuya know so much?"
Just by listening to the detective's tone, Hagiwara could imagine the other person's expression when he spoke. It must be a look of "Ah, do you have to explain something like this? How stupid!", right?
He couldn't help but laugh at his own imagination.
"She was in the group ahead of us." The detective explained uninterestedly, "The victim was the girl who was holding hands with him in the team at the time. The murderer probably used the excuse of 'she was too scared so she ran away, and we met up in the restaurant later' to fool his companions."
So why do you know she is the murderer?
The others didn't say anything, but Hagiwara knew they must be thinking so in their hearts.
The detective also noticed it. He paused for a moment and said as a matter of course: "Of course I can see it...Isn't it obvious?"
Hagiwara breathed a sigh of relief, and his mood, which had been bad because of the bomb, miraculously improved.
Although I don’t know how powerful his memory is to allow Xiao Nayue to remember the information of a passerby so clearly after just a casual glance, and I don’t know how he was sure that the criminal was that girl, but there is one thing that Hagiwara Kenji is extremely clear about, whether it was seven years ago or seven years later -
What did he have to be nervous about, whether it was a bomber or a murderer.
Because no crime can fool the eyes of detectives.