Chapter 410

Uesugi Muneyuki and the others returned to Sakuradamon and learned that Minami Ojou-sama had already gone to the hospital to visit Inspector Okada.

It was not that Minami Ojou-sama did not want to participate in the interrogation, but rather that even the Police Commissioner himself had come.

In the control room, the lowest rank was Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo, Police Superintendent.

In the Japanese police rank hierarchy, if the step from inspector to superintendent is one hurdle, then the step from superintendent to police superintendent is another.

Because the superintendent position can theoretically be greatly increased—for example, Investigation Division 1 can have only one police management officer, or one can be placed at each higher level—but the police superintendent rank begins a fixed position, one hole after another.

The predecessors do not yield their positions, and the successors can never ascend.

This is why many career tracks, if they fail to promote for two or three consecutive promotion cycles, will directly retire at the age limit and flee, for the reason is simple: since it is highly unlikely they will get a chance in this lifetime, it is better to step aside early.

Make way for the successors.

Minami, a superintendent, is not qualified to crowd into the control room where the big shots gather! Seeing that she could not squeeze in, she had no choice but to go to the hospital first to visit her injured subordinate.

Uesugi Muneyuki was blocked on the road for quite a long time, and when he returned to the Metropolitan Police Department, he had only just finished tidying up when he received a call from the lower-level control room.

"Uesugi-kun, please come immediately, Ikebukuro Phantom Guest Sakuma Kaito has requested to see you, as an exchange,

he agrees to confess everything." Sugishita Ukyou, Division Chief, said slowly.

"——Very well, I also want to see this mass murder case's perpetrator." Uesugi Muneyuki narrowed his eyes, he hesitated and nodded: "Ask him, how and why?"

Naturally, Igarashi Kai, Ikeda, and others also wanted to observe, but unfortunately they were not qualified—after the prosecutors arrived,

the control room was simply too crowded.

Thus, Uesugi Muneyuki finally, under the escort of four SAT members, got his wish and met in the interrogation room this "Ikebukuro Phantom Guest" Sakuma Kaito, who fifteen years ago committed the shocking mass murder case.

He and Sakuma simultaneously refused to be questioned through the control room, demanding face-to-face, and as compensation, Sakuma was not only bound full-body in a restraint suit, with wrists, ankles, and neck bound, but also the latest monitoring device was used—namely, whenever there was abnormal muscle contraction, it would immediately trigger an electric shock, and at the same time, the four SAT members continuously had at least two people pointing guns, with red dot sights always aimed at non-vital parts of this person's body.

It is not that the police are too nervous and sensitive, but rather this guy's previous performance was truly, comparable to many urban novel special forces soldiers and kings.

"I am Uesugi Muneyuki, Sakuma Kaito, if I have not guessed wrong, you should have watched that episode of the 'Hand of God' program?" Uesugi Muneyuki sat opposite Sakuma Kaito, speaking slowly, while observing this phantom guest who had at least six lives on his hands.

He is neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, even though his body is bound by the restraint suit he still has a streamlined musculature, his appearance is also ordinary and easily forgotten at a glance, if it were not for the DNA test matching, it would be hard to imagine this person is that mass murder killer.

Finally meeting Uesugi Muneyuki, Sakuma Kaito's mouth corner twitched into an extremely faint, hard-to-interpret arc, like mockery, yet like pure puzzlement: "How did you discover me?"

"The park. What of yours—touched you?"

His tone was as flat as asking about today's weather, yet carried a kind of hair-raising thirst for knowledge. He did not care about being caught, did not care about judgment, and even did not care about life or death.

He only wanted to solve the sole失控 mystery in his "perfect" crime—Uesugi Muneyuki, you bastard,

on what grounds did you recognize me at a glance?

Uesugi Muneyuki was silent for a moment, then said: "It was the gaze, I felt your self-light, according to criminal psychology, every killer likes to return to the crime scene, your gaze, is abnormal."

"Besides, this is it." Uesugi Muneyuki took out the excuse he had prepared long ago, he took several strands of hair from the evidence bag: "It is the hair."

"At that time, the wind blew, your forehead hair was disheveled, then the sun was rising from behind you, that unique color and texture."

"Those fibers left in the crime scene tool shed are actually your own hair? Mixed with Caucasian bloodline, rare hair quality, which from appearance actually looks no different from traditional Japanese black hair,

but if exposed to sunlight, it would show a special hue with brown."

Uesugi Muneyuki merely stated facts, for each sentence he spoke, he picked up an evidence bag from the control panel, held it up to the glass to show Sakuma Kaito: the bag containing the scene's "fibers" (actually hair), a close-up of hair strands in the 15-year-old crime scene photo, and a screenshot of the blurred moment when park surveillance captured Sakuma Kaito adjusting his hair.

Sakuma Kaito listened silently, looked at those evidences. The arc on his face disappeared, replaced by a near-idiotic blankness. After a long while, he extremely slightly nodded his head, as if solving a long-troubling math problem: "I see."

"Really damn stupid, actually getting caught for this reason, I have nothing to say."

After a brief silence, Sakuma Kaito seemed to have lost all interest in conversation, he lowered his eyelids again,

as if about to fall asleep, Watanabe Eiji immediately seized this opportunity, asking his core question: "Sakuma! Your demand has already been met! Now reply, fifteen years ago, XX year February 23 to February 24

day! Intruding into the Toshima Ward Sato Kenichi household, killing a family of four, is it you?!"

Sakuma Kaito did not answer immediately, time passed second by second, his vital signs on the monitor were terrifyingly stable. Just as Watanabe Eiji was preparing to repeat the question, Sakuma spoke, voice flat and waveless: "Since you called Uesugi here, then so be it, he stays, I will tell you."

"Mm, correct, it was me who did it."

"At age 25, I completed another ocean voyage, returned to Tokyo, had no relatives, no friends, by chance I recalled the Kenichi Mr. and Miwako Mrs. who once took care of me, and thus wanted to visit them."

"Killing, at first, I did not think that way."

"But that family's laughter, the lights in the home, were extremely, infuriating."

"So I, entered the tool shed, found some tools."

"I waited a long time in the tool shed, I kept convincing myself that Kenichi Mr. is a good person, I cannot do that."

"But once started, I could not stop.

"Just because, that family looked,

too happy." He raised his head, again looked toward Uesugi Muneyuki, eyes hollow as the depths of the universe: "I heard you are nobility, parents both alive, you must also be very happy, unable to understand my feelings?"

"The reason, is just this."

Inside and outside the interrogation room, a deathly silence.

Fifteen-year cold case finally solved!

Watanabe Eiji's hands death-gripped the desk surface, joints making light clicking sounds from force, the middle-aged man's body slightly trembled, fifteen years of obsession, countless people's blood and tears, ultimately exchanged for, turned out to be such a平淡, absurd, yet bone-chillingly cold "reason".

National Police Agency Security Bureau Chief Shinzou Kamiya took a deep breath, suppressed his surging emotions, voice still steady: "Recorded."

Prosecutor Shinbayashi's face also looked extremely grim. He wanted the "perfect" motive statement, but did not appear, yet this平淡 demon whisper, its shock power far exceeds any bloody description. He waved his hand, signaling the assistant to record.

Sugishita Ukyou, Division Chief, closed his eyes, as if instantly aged ten years.

In the interrogation room, Uesugi Muneyuki was also deeply shaken by Sakuma Kaito's reason.

Although the other party only revealed the tip of the iceberg, but the information contained within, is so much as to make one's hair stand on end!

Sakuma Kaito clearly knew the Sato family, at least Sato Kenichi and Sato Miwako lady! Even he said he had received care!

Sakuma Kaito was then already an ocean-going crew member, no wonder the entire Metropolitan Police Department dug three feet deep in Tokyo and could not find this person! Because he himself was only briefly ashore, after committing the crime he boarded ship and left.

He himself was not here to commit the crime, but to visit, came to the Toshima Ward Ikebukuro Sato residence!

"You previously knew the Sato Kenichi family?" Uesugi Muneyuki frowned, asked.

Strange, Japanese police are best at interpersonal relationship investigations, how could they not have investigated him?

"I met him, Kenichi-sensei once took care of me, back then I was only seventeen, that was already twenty-three years ago." Sakuma Kaito suddenly smiled: "Back then my mother died, in a car accident, I was all alone, working as a fish market laborer in Tsukiji—one day I was really hungry and exhausted, when I fainted while delivering to Kenichi-sensei,

Kenichi-sensei not only saved me, but also gave me pickled radish and rice balls to eat.

After that I worked a few days as a temporary helper for Kenichi-sensei, Kenichi-sensei took good care of me, even shared cigarettes for me to smoke, but I actually didn't like him, every time he pulled out that Zippo lighter to light a cigarette, I knew he was about to brag again about how wonderful his wife and children were.

"Wait, wait!" At this moment, Watanabe Eiji finally couldn't help but speak: "What you're saying, we don't know any of it, Sakuma Kaito, we found no information related to you personally!

Tell me from the beginning, who is your father? Who is your mother? Why don't you have a birth certificate? What have you been doing all these years?

"Trash is trash, Japanese police are always like this." Who would have thought, Sakuma Kaito couldn't help but laugh, shaking his head: "Well, it's understandable that you can't find out who I am.

"Considering that Uesugi Muneyuki managed to discover me, I'll tell you guys.

"My father is called Benjamin J. Thomas, who served in the Yokota U. S. Military Base in Japan in the 1970s, Marine Corps.

"My mother is Sakuma Yumiko, a high school girl near Yokota, Japanese women of that era were as cheap as Argentinian steak! After getting involved with my father, she soon became pregnant, however my father only left two thousand US dollars, after his service ended he returned to the United States, only years later did I learn, he died shortly after returning home due to excessive drinking and an accidental gun discharge in Nevada.

"I, am a naturally born ghost!"