Kamio Kaede recalled the causes and consequences of the entire disappearance case. This is the rough timeline. One night, after a phone call, a woman disappeared on the boundary of Sakata Road.

It was not until nearly 15 years later that the woman's body, which had long been turned into bones, was exhumed not far from Ginza Station. All her belongings were still there, and there were two stab wounds on her body.

Tomomi Koike specifically investigated Koda Fumi many times and basically ruled out the time when he committed the crime.

According to the distance shown on the map, a person with better physical strength may need 20 minutes to ride a bicycle, while a person with poorer physical strength may need 40 minutes, so the police compromised and calculated it as 30 minutes.

Moreover, the area near Bantian Road was a construction site at that time, and most of the land was in an undeveloped state. It was a very physically demanding job to dig out a pit nearly two meters long and half a meter wide to bury the body.

Therefore, two hours is a relatively optimistic estimate for killing someone, dragging away the body, finding tools to dig a hole, and burying people to fill it.

And the excavation of earth pits cannot be stopped at will. Although there are no people on Bantian Road in the middle of the night, there are still police patrolling at night. Unless you are an acquaintance who knows the terrain and police patrol times very well, it is difficult to dig at a huge risk.

Fill the pit with corpses.

Kaede Kamio thought for a while. Since Fumi Koda did not commit the crime at the time, it is possible that the construction site workers and gas company employees at the time committed the crime. So what does this have to do with the map?

The light in the office was getting darker and darker, and neither he nor Seto Rei had any intention of turning on the lights, just immersed in the dusk atmosphere.

The cigarette butt of Qixing Cigarette flashes brightly and dimly at the window, like twinkling stars, blinking playfully out of the corner of its eyes.

Kaede Kamio was lost in thought for a while, looking at the smoke, and then moved his eyes back to the whiteboard, trying to integrate himself into the map.

Looking at the circles on the whiteboard, he suddenly realized something and stretched out his hand to press the map to observe the changes on it.

I see!

A detail that everyone ignored was finally discovered! It was discovered by me. It turns out that we have been lingering around the truth!

Kaede Kamio was overjoyed. He finally understood the secret of the map. If he continued to investigate along this line of thinking, the murderer would soon be exposed.

He stared at the map on the whiteboard, then turned to turn on the light, picked up all the case files on his desk, sat on the ground and dug out all the information on Koda Fumi.

Everyone ignored this point, Fumiko Koda’s confession.

Perhaps at the time, this confession seemed impeccable, but today, 15 years later, it actually has flaws!

Because back then Nanae Yamamoto was treated as a disappearance case, but today it is a murder case!

The truth is hidden in Koda Fumi’s confession!

Kamio Kaede thought excitedly, and searched for what he wanted from all the file information of Fumi Koda, asking for confessions.

Although he didn't know why Koda Fumi did this, he believed that in the face of the truth, all doubts would eventually be solved.

Seeing Kamio Kaede sitting on the ground talking to himself, looking a little crazy, Seto Rei put out his cigarette butt, came over and touched his head and said, "You're not driven crazy by the case, are you?"

Kaede Kamio slapped his hand away, "Go, go, don't disturb my thinking. Please help me contact Koda Fumi. If I can't contact him, let Okudera hack into his mailbox and write him an email, telling him that the police know who the murderer is.

Who is it?"

Seto Rei looked surprised, "Why don't I know when the case was solved? Who is the murderer?"

Kaede Kamio quickly browsed several pages of information and said: "Who the murderer is will be known when you contact Fumi Koda. Go and do it quickly, don't waste time."

"Are you still doubting Koda Fumi? He had absolutely no time to commit the crime. This was studied from the beginning..."

"I didn't say he was the murderer, but the murderer was related to him. Go and do it quickly. Don't worry about it." Kamio Kaede patted his butt and told him to do it quickly.

Then, he grabbed a few pages of information in his hand, got up from the ground, and once again used the whiteboard pen to circle a few points on the map.

After circling these points, he called up the Google search interface from his computer. After entering a few characters, all the information was immediately displayed. He then marked other points on the map based on this information.

Immediately adjacent to the point just drawn.

The system will never deceive me!

Mountains and rivers are full of doubts and there is no way out, and willows are dark and flowers are bright in another village. The truth is right in front of you.

At this moment, Kaede Kamio really wanted to hold the system and kiss it hard, but it was a pity that this thing was not a human being, otherwise he would have to agree with his body.

Looking at the two new densely packed dots on the map, Kamio Kaede was basically convinced that the murder case had come to an end and all the information was in hand. Next, he was waiting to contact Fumi Koda.

The murderer is about to surface.

Not long after, Seto Rei walked in holding the phone and handed it to Kamio Kaede.

"It was about ten o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles. Fortunately, it was working time. I called five or six times and finally succeeded. But the person who answered the phone was the secretary of Fumi Koda Law Firm. She asked us to wait for a while and not to hang up the phone."

Kamio Kaede nodded, glanced at the sunset outside the window, which was about to darken, and said a little embarrassedly: "Thank you for your hard work, stay here with me and work overtime."

"This is all trivial, but then again, do you really have clues about the murderer? Is it reliable?"

Kamio Kaede said: "A dead horse is a living horse. Whether he lives or dies depends on this phone call. I don't care what Fumi Koda's reason was at that time, as long as he still has some conscience and feels a little guilty about his wife, he should

Tell the truth."

Seto Rei murmured: "Looking at this, do you still doubt Koda Fumi? It's impossible, the time doesn't match up..."

Finally, a voice came from the other end of the phone. Kaede Kamio shushed, and then picked up the phone——

"Hello?" asked the other end of the phone.

"Hello, Mr. Fumi Koda, right? You should be able to understand the native language, right? Don't speak those foreign languages, let's speak our own language."

"Uh, okay, I'm Fumi Koda, who is your Excellency?"

"My name is Kaede Kamio, a detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Shibuya Police Station Criminal Division. A few days ago, our police discovered the skeleton of your wife, Yamamoto Nanae, who had been missing for 15 years in Sakata Town. You have been notified of this.

.

I believe that over the past few days, whether you are sad or ruthless, it is time to adjust. Now the police will definitely get to the bottom of this case and have some clues, and they need your help..."

"Actually, I have already gotten used to her absence for so many years, and I have also been mentally prepared for her to be killed..."

"Mr. Koda, let's not keep secrets. This skeleton case has been going on for nearly 15 years, and no evidence from that year has been preserved, whether it is the scene or witnesses. So it is quite difficult to solve the case now.

On July 20, 2016, your wife finished her overtime shift and took the train home from Kadokawa Magazine. She got off at Ginza Station around 22:20 and walked home along Sakata Street, which is where she was.

Missing and murdered…”

Kaede Kamio paused and carefully considered his words, "At that night, not many people showed up on Sakata Road... It takes time to kill people, dig holes and bury corpses, at least two hours...

Time is running out, I think you can understand what I mean. I won’t beat you in circles. The police have now traced the employees of that gas company. The personnel of that gas company have undergone major changes in the past ten years, and many old employees cannot be contacted.

…”

Kaede Kamio gritted his teeth and stamped his feet. When asked about success or failure, he bet that this was a guy who still had feelings for his wife——

"Please tell me who the murderer is! After more than ten years, it's time to bring this demon with blood-stained hands to justice and let your wife rest in peace! Oh, please (please), Koda-san!"

There was no words on the other end of the phone for a long while.

Seto Rei, who was sitting next to Kamio Kaede, had almost opened his mouth, so big that it could almost fit two golf balls into it.

Just as he was about to speak, Kamio Kaede raised his index finger to his lips to signal for silence.

Judging from the calm reaction on the other end of the phone, Kamio Kaede realized that he had been deceived. This Koda Fumi was indeed connected to the murderer. He knew who the murderer was!
Chapter completed!