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Chapter 80 The Depraved Police Headquarters
"That was the doctor that Miss Raku asked me to find in Kochi."
Renzo Koya gave out the doctor's address and phone number.
Seeing that he had already asked all the questions he needed to, and that further questioning would yield no further results, Matsuda put away the recorder.
“In a couple of days, the police may come looking for you. I’ve recorded everything you said today, so you’d better tell the truth then.”
Matsuda held the recording pen up to the butler's face and waved it as a warning.
“I understand,” the butler murmured to himself. “I will no longer hide it.”
As Kotani Renzo left his rented apartment, Koshimizu looked at Matsuda and said with amusement, "When did I record Nagasone Rakuko's friend's testimony with a voice recorder?"
“If we don’t lie to him like this, how can we force him to tell the whole truth?” Matsuda explained. “Many prisoners are like this; when they are sure you don’t know anything, they can keep everything bottled up inside.”
"But once they find out that you have some evidence, even just a little, under psychological pressure, they will imagine that you have a lot of evidence."
"If we can take advantage of this and break down their psychological defenses, they will tell us everything."
“You’re far more skilled at interrogation than the police in Kochi Prefecture,” Koshimizu exclaimed. “If you had been in charge of this case, Kana wouldn’t have gotten into trouble.”
"And what about you?" Matsuda voiced his thoughts. "Why do you have to be a detective? Haven't you ever thought about becoming a police officer?"
"Me, a criminal investigator?"
Yue Shui was stunned; clearly, she had never had such a thought before.
"Think it over carefully," Matsuda advised. "Although detectives don't have as much freedom as detectives, they are also investigating the truth of cases. Moreover, the responsibilities on a detective's shoulders are much heavier than those of a detective."
……
Following the address given by Renzo Kotani, Matsuda and Koshimizu found Dr. Ishigami, who was helping Rakuko Nagasone with her drug rehabilitation.
Unlike Renzo Kotani, he wasn't conflicted. After Matsuda revealed his identity, Dr. Ishigami immediately produced all of Nagasone Rakuko's medical records from her drug rehabilitation.
"To be honest, after hearing that the young lady committed suicide, I've been waiting for the police to come and investigate."
"But later I heard that she was murdered. I originally thought these things were useless."
Dr. Ishigami shook his head.
“That young lady has been taking banned drugs for a long time. I’ve helped her quit three times, but unfortunately, she doesn’t have enough willpower and couldn’t stick to it each time.”
"Are all of Chang Zenglezi's drug rehabilitation records here?" Yue Shui asked.
"It's not drug rehabilitation, it's quitting addiction to banned substances," Dr. Ishigami corrected. "These two are not the same."
“Yes, it’s definitely different,” Matsuda said irritably. “If you help someone quit drugs, you’ll at most be fined some money. But if you help someone quit drugs without authorization, you could go to jail.”
Dr. Ishigami chuckled twice, then didn't dare to say anything more.
As Matsuda reviewed the report, he took pictures of the entire report as a backup.
Meanwhile, Koshimizu used a recorder to repeatedly ask Dr. Ishigami about the details of Nagasone Rakuko's use of banned drugs.
The two worked together and quickly extracted everything that Dr. Ishigami knew.
……
Renzo Koya and Dr. Ishigami have both completed their investigations.
According to Yue Shui's suggestion, we can first go find the thief who removed the window.
But Matsuda had a different opinion: "Let's go find that thief last. After we get the information from him, I'll arrest him and bring him back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."
"Is this alright?" Koshimizu asked in surprise. "A case that happened in Kochi, and we're taking it to Tokyo to be processed?"
“There’s nothing we can do about it,” Matsuda shook his head. “If we leave that guy here in Kochi Prefecture, who knows what might happen.”
Even knowing they might have wrongly accused someone, the entire Kochi Police Headquarters still insisted that Koshimizu's friend, Kana Mizuguchi, was the culprit.
Matsuda simply couldn't trust such a police headquarters.
“I originally thought you would take the evidence to the Kochi Prefectural Public Safety Commission,” Koshimizu said.
“What’s the use of finding them? Although they are the superiors of the Kochi Police Headquarters,” Matsuda waved his hand and sneered, “they will definitely favor the Kochi Police Headquarters in this kind of matter. After all, once the scandal is exposed, they will also be held responsible for their dereliction of duty.”
"Let's go, let's go to the Kochi Prefectural Police Headquarters first, and see if we can find those screws that serve as evidence!"
……
The attitude of the Kochi Prefectural Police Headquarters was exactly the same as when Matsuda made his phone call earlier.
When Matsuda revealed his identity and wanted to see the evidence of the Lavender Villa murder case, he was immediately refused!
"That case is closed; there's nothing to see here."
"It's me!" said Inspector Daimon, the section chief of the First Division of the Kochi Police Headquarters, who was receiving the two.
Dissatisfied with the other party's attitude, Yue Shui shouted angrily, "But my friend was clearly wronged!"
"Whether it's a false accusation or not, our police have already investigated it thoroughly!" Inspector Daimon stood up impatiently. "Officer Matsuda, if this is all you came here for, then please excuse me, I have other matters to attend to and will take my leave now."
After saying that, Inspector Daimon walked towards the door of the meeting room without waiting for Matsuda's response.
Koshimizu tried to stop him, but Matsuda held her back.
Matsuda shook his head, indicating that there was no point in arguing now.
In fact, after seeing Inspector Daimon's attitude, Matsuda already knew that obtaining evidence through legitimate means was impossible.
"Hopefully, Officer Cho's friend will be of some use," Matsuda thought to himself. Just as he was about to leave with Koshimizu, a policeman from Kochi suddenly rushed in, looking flustered.
"Oh no, Inspector, Matsushita... Matsushita is dead too!"
"what!"
Just as they reached the gate, the police inspector grabbed his subordinate by the collar.
"Can you say that again?"
"Matsushita, just like Oshima, suddenly hanged himself!"
The policeman who rushed in had a long face and was panting heavily.
"hateful!"
Inspector Damen kicked the door to the reception room hard.
"Those two policemen are actually dead..." Yue Shui was stunned when he heard this.
"You know them?"
Matsuda noticed that her expression was a little off and asked in a low voice.
“Yes,” Yue Shui nodded, replying with a complicated expression, “Those two detectives are the ones who interrogated Xiang Nai during the investigation of the Lavender Villa case.”
The two detectives who had interrogated Kana Mizuguchi were both dead? Matsuda frowned immediately.
"Um, could we also..."
Seeing that Inspector Daimon seemed to want to go to the scene, Matsuda wanted to go with him.
Chapter 81 The Older Generation
But before he could even open his mouth, Inspector Daimon shouted angrily, "This is a matter for the Kochi Police Headquarters. It's none of your Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's business!"
After saying that, he slammed the door shut and went out.
Although he was rejected, Matsuda naturally wouldn't give up so easily.
He pulled Yue Shui along, and the two of them left the police headquarters and immediately hailed a taxi.
After showing the driver his police handbook, Matsuda instructed him to drive behind Inspector Daimon's police car.
……
The police car belonging to the police chief at the gate was parked in front of a somewhat dilapidated yard.
Police officers had already cordoned off the area at the entrance.
Many nearby residents were gathered there, watching the police handle the case.
Matsuda and Koshimizu then got out of the taxi.
Upon seeing that the two of them had followed, Inspector Daimon, his face dark, ordered his subordinates: "Keep an eye on those two. Make sure they don't enter the scene."
Matsuda originally intended to take the opportunity to sneak in.
Given the current situation, there's obviously no hope.
He and Yue Shui had no choice but to stand in the crowd outside the cordon, but unexpectedly learned quite a lot from the gossip of the nearby residents.
It turns out that six months ago, the lavender case turned into a murder case, and the suspect, Koshimizu's friend, Mizuguchi Kana, jumped into the sea after being subjected to interrogation.
Officer Matsushita was suspended from duty and has been staying at home for the past six months.
For the first three months, Officer Matsushita's behavior was perfectly normal.
But after being suspended for three months, his mental state deteriorated further.
His neighbors often heard him scream in terror in the middle of the night.
Because of this, Matsushita's wife also took the children and ran back to her parents' home.
The courtyard, left unattended, gradually fell into disrepair.
“I noticed something was wrong when I looked at Officer Matsushita’s face before. It was as white as paper. I told him then that something might happen to him, but you didn’t believe me!”
An older woman, head held high and chest puffed out, spoke smugly to the others around her.
“Officer Matsushita was a really nice guy. He often helped us out. I never expected him to commit suicide,” a resident said sadly.
"I heard it's because of a previous case where Officer Matsushita drove a criminal to his death. He probably felt guilty about it and committed suicide," a well-informed source said.
……
Matsuda and Koshimizu were listening to the gossip of the surrounding residents, gathering information.
At that moment, a police car drove up and stopped directly on the side of the road in front of the police cordon.
An elderly detective with white hair and a serious expression stepped out of the car.
Matsuda glanced at his badge; at his age, he was still just a regular patrolman.