I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 169 The world of adults, the boundary between right and wrong

"Drunkard Rose Saint?"

Kitagawa Hide listened to the car radio, his brows gradually furrowed, and then all the dusty memories in his mind emerged in an instant.

No wonder he had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu when he saw the name.

Isn’t this guy the juvenile delinquent A in the original history who killed multiple children in succession and yet was still at large, and even changed his name and got a girlfriend?
This incident caused a sensation in 96 and 97 and became the top issue discussed by the Japanese people.

Kitagawa Hide doesn't remember clearly because he went to the University of Tokyo for graduate studies in 2018.

This historical event happened twenty years ago, and the juvenile offender A must have been in his thirties by then. He is rarely mentioned in the news anymore. If you don’t go out of your way to look up history, you may not know that there was such a sensational and vicious murder case back then!
The most profound memory of this guy is that he not only killed people deliberately, but also cut off the victim's head and placed it in front of the school gate as a demonstration, claiming that this was a "cat and mouse" murder game.

As long as the police don't catch him, he will keep killing!

After he was released, he changed his name and lived in anonymity under the protection of the state. He wrote an autobiographical novel with a strong middle school style, "Jue Ge", which recorded in detail the process of his murder and his psychological state.

The article is filled with a lot of words with a strong middle school tone, and constantly mocks and belittles the victims and their relatives, which is disgusting!

Later, when the book was published, he proudly said on the Internet that this was his childhood dream, to write a best-selling novel and become a best-selling novelist.

A lot of the content in the book was actually written in his diary at this time, so it looks very childish.

After all, at this age, he can only write a few words like this——

Death took away my loved ones one by one, but I used my own power to pull death, which was originally out of reach, to my side.

With my own hands, I gave birth to death.

I had perfect control over the death that was playing with me and making me go around in circles.

However, his understanding of "death" was so pale and shallow.

"How scary." Yumeko Agatsuma, who was sitting in the passenger seat, shrank her head like a kitten.

She couldn't even imagine how terrifying the murderer was.

That guy must be a devil walking in the world!
"About this matter. I'll have to ask Ms. Hikigaya about the follow-up later." In order to prevent Yumeko from worrying about these trivial matters, Kitagawa Hide did not mention to her that he had actually notified the police earlier.

Let them keep a close eye on the guy whose online name is "Drunkard Rose Saint Fight".

It seems that the police ignored his call for help.
Otherwise, the juvenile offender A would not have the opportunity to commit crimes again.

Kitagawa Hide gripped the steering wheel tightly, looking unhappy.

He racked his brains to think about the information related to this case. Now that things have come to this, he has to help the police identify the suspect as soon as possible.

Who knows if the juvenile delinquent A in this world will become even more brutal and vicious. If he is allowed to wander around, what if he attacks a child again?
The case that he least wanted to see happened in the area under his jurisdiction!

The elderly chief of the Kokubunji City Police Station hasn't slept for two days.

He looked at the evidence bag sent by the Investigation Department, in which lay quietly the provocative letter written by the murderer.

Contents of the provocative letter:
The game officially begins

Stupid policemen
Come and stop me
I really enjoy killing people.
I love watching people die.
Send death sentence to dirty vegetables
Let's wash away the hatred accumulated over the years with blood

SHOOLL KILL
——School Killing: Drunkard Rose Saint
Judging from the content of the letter, "shooll" should be the misspelling of "school".

This behavior and method of killing reminded him of the "Zodiac Killer".

The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who committed multiple murders in Northern California in the late 60s.

Until 1974, he sent many provocative letters to the media, signing himself as the "Zodiac Killer."

The letter contained four codes and encrypted content, and three of the codes have not been deciphered to this day.

If Fujiwara Kei and Hikigaya Nako had not given him information about the "Drunken Rose Saint", the elderly director might really have been defined as an adult man by the murderer.

After all, no one would have thought that such a brutal murderer was a junior high school boy with a history of crimes!

This can also reasonably explain a series of details such as the murder process was not meticulous and the English letters were spelled incorrectly.

Perhaps he was resentful that the crime he committed before did not cause a sensation in the country, so with his twisted mind, he chose to fight back against the police in this way!

This little devil deserves to die!

But what can I do with him?

And now, there is something even more worrying for him.

Previously, because he was afraid of trouble and offending Kitagawa Hide, he simply handed over Kitagawa Hide's report to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

The bigwigs at the Metropolitan Police Department naturally don't have the leisure to convict someone or take him from school to the police station based on some groundless speculation.

If we make a mistake, it will become a major scandal of the Metropolitan Police Department that will be reported by all the media!
So in the end, the alarm fell on deaf ears and did not cause any waves.

He was just thinking of what excuse to use to fool Kitagawa Hide, but he didn't expect a new murder case to happen suddenly!
It was a murder case of such a heinous nature!
Just now, the Assistant Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department called him specifically.

The assistant's meaning was clear.

You didn't send the things to the Metropolitan Police Department. As for how to deal with them later, it's your problem. If you mess it up, your retirement benefits will be messed up too!
It was impossible for him to take the blame for the Metropolitan Police Department. The Chief of Police also knew that he couldn't be taken too far.

In "Paradise Lost", the public opinion storm caused by Muramatsu Tomoshige, the deputy editor-in-chief of a large publishing house, who committed suicide due to being transferred out of the company due to being blamed for something else, has not yet subsided.

The former president of Kodansha has just died. If public opinion is not handled properly, it will involve political donations, members of parliament, and even the prime minister's cabinet.

So many bigwigs are desperately touting the influence of "Paradise Lost" and praising Kitagawa Hide for uncovering the dark side of big companies and government departments.

Now if the Superintendent of Police forced him to take the blame, and he took the risk, that would be great fun.

So what the Metropolitan Police Department meant was that everyone should just pretend nothing happened.

Just talk to the people who need to be talked to, and then check according to normal logic.

Therefore, the most urgent thing for him was to deal with Fujiwara Kei and Hikigaya Nako, who knew the inside story, as well as the teacher Kitagawa.

"Ah, it has to be at this time." He sighed.

The people who most hope that the damned juvenile offender will die right now are probably these affected police officers.

But the law protects the murderer.

They have no choice but to do their best to protect their own interests.

As for the victims and their families, we can just ask the Ministry of Finance to give them more consolation money.

As I was thinking this, there was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in." He put away his sad expression and replaced it with a capable look.

Hikigaya Nako and Fujiwara Kei pushed the door open and entered.

Both of them looked unhappy.

After the morning news reported the murder, Hikigaya Nako's first reaction was that the guy that Kitagawa teacher mentioned had killed someone again!

She was so angry that her teeth were itching. If the Metropolitan Police Department had acted faster, perhaps this guy would have been caught.

Then there will be no new victims!

Fujiwara Kei was also in a bad mood. He always felt that he had become an accomplice.

However, having been immersed in the workplace for many years, he soon smelled something strange and did not rush to ask the director.

The director pushed the bag of evidence to them.

The two looked at him in confusion.

"The Metropolitan Police Department is not aware of this." The chief said with a wry smile.

"How could they not know? They weren't..." Hikigaya Nako couldn't help but ask.

"Patrolman Hikigaya." The chief interrupted the most beautiful policewoman in the police station. "This is the truth. You just need to know that this is the case."

"I understand." Hikigaya Nako bit her lip. She was not a rookie in the police force, so she naturally knew that this was a way for the Metropolitan Police Department to shirk responsibility.

"As for the clues given by Mr. Beichuan, you should just pretend that they never happened." The director glanced at them, "If it gets out, your future will be affected, don't you understand?"

"I" Hikigaya Nako was speechless for a moment.

In fact, the matter had little to do with her.

She and Fujiwara Kei did all the work that was supposed to be done.

But now, asking them to cooperate and keep silent feels a bit like aiding and abetting evil.

This made Nako Hikigaya, who was always quite upright, very unhappy.

She wanted to loudly oppose the director's actions, but when the words came to her lips, she thought of her parents at home, her mother's teachings, and her own life.

I don't feel like I have the courage to say it out loud.

"Can you help contact Mr. Kitagawa and Patrol Captain Hikigaya and arrange a meal for him?" asked the director.

"I" lowered my head even lower than Kigaya Nako's.

"Let me handle this matter. I also have Mr. Kitagawa's contact information." Fujiwara Kei didn't want the newcomer around him to completely lose confidence in police work, so he reached out and patted her on the shoulder, then said to the director.

"That's fine. Anyway, invite Mr. Kitagawa to dinner in my name, and don't mention this matter for now." The director nodded, thinking that Fujiwara Kei could do a better job. He was more capable than the newcomer Hikigaya Nako.

As for Mr. Kitagawa, he was not worried about anything.

It's just a matter of a word from Mr. Kitagawa. He doesn't have much to lose. I will give Mr. Kitagawa a lot of support from the police force in Kokubunji City in the future, and everything will be fine, right?
He has already started thinking about what report to write.

By the way, in this case, we must follow normal procedures when dealing with external parties.

Let’s say the police, based on the thousands of clues they collected, concluded that the murderer should be a male between 20 and 40 years old, 170cm tall!

(End of this chapter)