Chapter 944: This appearance is too tempting

Ando Reiko nodded: "In that case, let's depart from the hotel at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and let's return to the hotel at 11:30. Kaze-san, after that, we will go to Tamatsukuri Onsen to officially conduct the Renku showdown. You will also participate then."

"Do I also have to create sentences?"

"That's not necessary, but if Kaze-san is interested, you can also try it. Actually, Renku is not difficult at all."

"Good." Akaso Kaze nodded with a smile.

Night fell. Akaso Kaze walked out of the bedroom and bought a coffee from the vending machine. Suddenly, he heard voices talking in the hotel lobby.

Ubukata Gozo and Yagisawa Taku, who had his head down, were sitting opposite each other on the sofa.

"Have some backbone, Yagisawa! Who can you blame for your shop ending up like this? In any case, you must pay the money back to me next week! Otherwise, I will have no choice but to take over your pastry shop."

"Yes, I understand." Yagisawa grabbed his fingers and bowed, his expression dejected.

Kawaguchi Mizuki was watching from behind a pillar, a worried expression on her face.

"Miss Kawaguchi, what's wrong?"

Akaso Kaze asked in a low voice beside her.

"Kaze-san." I don't know why, but Kawaguchi Mizuki blushed as soon as she saw Akaso Kaze.

"Nothing, Mr. Ubukata is a loan shark."

Akaso Kaze said: "Miss Kawaguchi, if you have any difficulties, I can help you."

Kawaguchi Mizuki was very moved when she heard this: "Kaze-san, you are so kind."

They had just met, yet Akaso Kaze was willing to help her. Such a person was really too rare.

The next day, Yaegaki Shrine.

Akaso Kaze came to the Mirror Pond.

It's called the Mirror Pond, but it's actually a small pond enclosed by a fence. It's not very clear either; fallen leaves float on the water surface, and there is a small shrine opposite.

"If the paper can sink within 15 minutes, the love affair will have a result, and the faster it sinks, the closer that person is."

After reading the explanation on the wooden board erected by the pond, Akaso Kaze couldn't help but curl his mouth.

This is too perfunctory.

Ring-a-ding, the phone rang.

Akaso Kaze answered it.

"Miss Kawaguchi? What's wrong? Mr. Ubukata was murdered?!"

Akaso Kaze's brows jumped.

He suddenly remembered.

This is a case.

"Don't cry. Where are you? I'll come find you right now."

A space gate had already appeared in the corridor.

He pushed the door open, and Kawaguchi Mizuki immediately threw herself into his arms in surprise.

"Kaze-san, I'm so scared. Mr. Ubukata, he, he is dead. I found Mr. Yagisawa's eye drops at the scene."

Akaso Kaze asked: "Do you like Mr. Yagisawa?"

Kawaguchi Mizuki shook her head, "Mr. Yagisawa helped me. I don't want to see him get arrested. Can you help him?"

Akaso Kaze smiled: "But my fees are very expensive."

Kawaguchi Mizuki said pitifully: "I, I don't have money."

Akaso Kaze smiled and lifted her chin, "In that case, there is only this way."

He lowered his head and held the girl's lips.

After a long time, their lips parted.

Kawaguchi Mizuki looked at Akaso Kaze with hazy eyes and hummed with a tempting nasal sound: "Kaze-san~"

Akaso Kaze originally just wanted to kiss, but Kawaguchi Mizuki's appearance was too tempting.

It made one unable to help but continue.

He checked the time; it was a bit tight.

But it doesn't matter; anyway, it's fine to go back later.

He closed the bedroom door and put Kawaguchi Mizuki on the table.

In the park, Ubukata Gozo was lying on a path in a bamboo forest. The scene had already been controlled by the police, and the members of the Renku Society stood by with heavy expressions.

Akaso Kaze walked into the scene, hugging Kawaguchi Mizuki.

It was indeed Ubukata Gozo. His face still retained a painful expression. The fatal wound on the back of his head was caused by a heavy blow from a blunt object. His watch seemed to have been broken because of resistance, and the time stopped at 10:05.

Akaso Kaze curled his mouth. The murderer actually committed the crime knowing there was a detective.

It was really a mysterious self-confidence.

"It looks like he should have been beaten to death," Akaso Kaze said after watching for a while, "It should have been some kind of blunt object, hitting the back of the head to death."

"Hmm," the investigating police officer nodded and looked at Akaso Kaze, suddenly reacting, "Eh? Who are you?"

"I'm a detective from Tokyo," Akaso Kaze said casually, "I think when Mr. Ubukata was attacked, he must have used his left hand to block, which is why the watch was broken."

Akaso Kaze looked at the corpse. Ubukata Gozo's right index finger was stretched out as if pointing at something, and his fingertips were stained with blood, looking like he had touched something.

A black notebook fell next to the corpse. Akaso Kaze picked it up with a handkerchief and flipped through it, finding quite a few notes. The dates from yesterday were all stock information for several pages, one page in the middle was torn out artificially, and the last page seemed to be a poem written here at Matsue Castle.

"'Clear autumn air, like my life without frost...'" he read out, "Is this the hokku Mr. Ubukata created today?"

This poem is really not bad.