Coroner Coroner

"Then he should be in..."

A complex face slowly emerged in his mind:

"Miss Asai..."

If Lin Xin didn't go home at night and wasn't with his friends, he could only go to his "girlfriend".

I just don't know... How could Miss Chris come along with her.

Thinking of this, even though he didn't want to hear that inexplicably familiar voice again, Akai Shuichi still tried to call Ms. Asai's cell phone.

As a result, no one answered.

Called several times, but no one answered.

Ms. Asai also lost contact?

"Is it a coincidence, or..."

Or run away together?

Akai Shuichi suddenly had a very bad premonition.

A certain absurd idea that he dismissed a long time ago grew wildly like inexhaustible weeds.

"No...not possible."

"She's not Minmei at all."

"Mr. Lin didn't even know the existence of the organization before, and it is impossible for him to have any connection with Mingmei..."

In fact, there are.

Hayashi Shinichi and Miyano Akemi are classmates in elementary school, and they may have known each other from a long time ago.

Akai Shuichi couldn't help but think of this again.

"It's just a temporary loss of contact, maybe I'm thinking too much."

"But... let's go and have a look."

He was really restless, and finally couldn't sit still and walked out of the house.

All the way fast, the engine roared.

Driven by the hidden worries in his heart, Akai Shuichi quickly drove to the front of Miss Asai's villa at a speed that the old driver's vodka could not keep up with.

Then look up:

The lights were dim, and there seemed to be no one in the room.

"Miss Asai, are you home?"

Akai Hideichi stepped forward to ring the doorbell with some anxiety.

Sure enough, no one responded.

Tried calling again, still no answer.

"..." Akai Hideichi hesitated for a while in silence.

He knew he should go back.

But the lingering crazy thought drove him, and he unlocked and opened the door uninvited.

The door opened, and what came into view was the empty entrance.

As soon as Akai Shuu turned on the light and walked into the house, he immediately realized that something was wrong:

"Too clean..."

"No, not just 'clean'."

Akai Shuichi's heart sank.

The villa looked like it had just been cleaned.

It's just that it wasn't some housewife who cleaned it, but a trace expert.

Akai Hideichi only inspected for a while, and was shocked to find:

Those tea tables, cup walls, and doorknobs that should have left many fingerprints in daily life are so clean that not even a single fingerprint can be seen.

It is often seen that the bathroom floor, sink, and drain that have shed hair are also surrounded by a strange smell of bleach, making them appear clean and spotless.

Even if the professional investigation team from the forensic department came over, they probably wouldn't be able to find any useful inspection materials in this room.

Go to the bedroom and see:

The beds were all made, and the desks, wardrobes, and bedside tables were all empty.

It looked like someone had packed it up and taken it away.

With so many things to leave, it's almost like moving house.

But if it's just moving, why bother to clean up the traces so cleanly?

"..."

The air became more oppressive in the silence.

"no, I can not…"

Akai Shuichi still harbored a glimmer of hope.

But he soon discovers in despair:

Ms. Asai didn't seem to clean up carefully enough before leaving here.

At least one thing remained.

It was a stack of tear-off notes in the kitchen.

Although there was no writing on this stack of sticky notes, there was a faint line of words printed on the top sticky note.

Akai Hideichi found a pencil immediately, and painted out the lines of writing clearly.

I saw that it said:

"Bento prepared for Mr. Lin~"

"Good luck with your work~"

The content is very ordinary, it looks like a post-it note posted by a housewife to her husband's lunch box.

But this handwriting...

"It's Mingmei's handwriting!"

Akai Shuichi's expression froze suddenly.

He widened his eyes and examined it carefully several times before finally confirming that he hadn't misread it.

This is really Akemi's handwriting.

Mingmei is still alive? !

She has lived here all this time?

This should be good news.

But for some reason, Akai Shuichi only felt an unspeakable sourness.

"Bento prepared for Mr. Lin~"

This short line of words seems to have some magical power, making Akai Shuichi stare at it in a daze, and tremble all over for it.

He thought of the intimate date scene between Lin Xinyi and "Miss Asai" that he had witnessed with his own eyes.

Holding hands, hugging, kissing deeply in the street, never leaving before the bomb, flying together in the night sky of Tokyo...

How romantic and affectionate these pictures are.

But when the images of "Miss Asai" and "Akemi Miyano" quietly overlap, these romantic images are like sharp knives, piercing Mr. Akai's heart.

He never thought that things would really be like this.

The nightmare that was once thought to be absurd has become a reality.

"Akemi…"

Akai Shuichi slowly clenched his fists.

The knuckles of the fingers are crunching and deformed.

Although he tried his best to regain his composure, more pictures could not be restrained from appearing in his mind:

For example, the tape that Minmei left for him, the breakup declaration in the tape.

"Miss Asai"'s indifferent expression when she rejected him.

And the razor in her shopping bag, the men's slippers, the happy expression when she and Lin Xinyi are together...

Akai Hideichi stood numbly as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and it took a long time before he finally regained a trace of vitality.

"Sure enough...Lin Xinyi and Mingmei know each other, and they have been in touch all along."

"When Mingmei was in danger, he, an 'old classmate', should have helped her."

According to the existing clues, Akai Shuichi quickly made up a good show of a folk master hero saving the beauty.

Lin Xinyi must have rescued Miyano Akemi, and then asked his friend Asai Narumi to hide Miyano Akemi here.

Speaking of which, I actually have to thank Lin Xinyi.

If it weren't for Lin Xinyi, Mingmei might have encountered an accident.

So it can't be Mingmei's fault.

Akai Shuichi can only blame himself.

It was he himself who didn't show up when Mingmei needed it most, and pushed Mingmei into the arms of other men.

but…

"What's the relationship between Lin Xinyi and Miss Chris?"

"Are they really boyfriend and girlfriend? If so..."