Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 16: Uesugi is assassinated

"Eh? Wasn't the estimated time of death last night?"

Kuwahara came out of the room with his pockmarked face. Ever since he was praised by the Metropolitan Police Department for his continuous meritorious service, this guy's mental state has improved a lot. Perhaps he saw hope for promotion.

About 60% of the police in Japan are at the level of Patrol Chief, and nearly half of the non-professional group end their lives here. According to surveys, the average age of first-level patrolmen is only 25 years old. Not to mention that the second-level patrol chief is an informal comfort position, the average age of third-level patrol chiefs is as high as 38 years old.

But in fact, most inspectors will be promoted after working for five years (two years at the fastest). Those who have no way to be promoted will be automatically promoted to chief inspectors after working for five to ten years. The average age of the chief inspector is so high because there is a large group of old inspectors in their 50s and 60s who have worked at the grassroots level for their entire lives.

"Yes, the preliminary inferred time of death was last night, but Tanaka-san told me that the milk box outside has not been replaced for three days." Uesugi Munenyu pinched his chin and frowned: "So, I thought of another possibility."

"What's possible?" Tanaka Laodeng asked cooperatively.

Since meeting Uesugi Sosetsu, Old Deng has given up thinking most of the time and just focused on watching his performance.

"Wait a moment, I'll call Professor Okouchi first." Uesugi Sosetsu motioned to wait.

After leaving the apartment, Uesugi Muneyuki discovered that the female inspector, Miss Kosaka, was standing at the door, examining Ms. Kurosawa Yoko's collection. She had no intention of going in. "Wow, look, look, this Ms. Kurosawa has collected a lot of old items from the Showa and Taisho periods!"

After saying that, she didn't even put on her gloves and directly touched it, and played with the little things that belonged to Ms. Kurosawa's collection in her hands: "Wow, this is a money box, and this is a royal coin!"

"Hey! Kosaka! Don't touch the evidence!" Tanaka shouted angrily, "Didn't I teach you this in the previous class?"

"Japanese girls can say no! This is what Mai-yang taught me!" Miss Kosaka responded nonchalantly. She put the miko coin in her hand back with grievance and muttered, "Okay, okay, I won't touch it. Can you be nicer? It's not like I want to be in the field! I'm doing fine in the office. It's all the chief's fault!"

"Ms. Kousaka?" Uesugi Sosetsu thought that the previous case of the Ishizaka couple was the same. This guy was watching from outside the whole process. Did he really think of himself as an outsider?

"Oh? Uesugi-san, is it over? Can we go home?" Ms. Kosaka thought it was over and was very excited: "The sun is so bright outside. Tokyo is getting hot. Why aren't you guys done yet?"

You think you are a salary thief, right? Seeing this, Uesugi Munen was too lazy to say more to her. He called Professor Okochi and said, "Professor, I have a problem here. If the deceased died of drowning in the bath, the death was at least two days ago, but the autopsy..."

"Yeah, yeah, I understand, thank you professor!" Uesugi Sosetsu hung up the phone.

There is no doubt that this was a homicide!

Back in the apartment, Uesugi Sosetsu called Tanaka Laodeng and Kuwahara Mako over and said, "It's all right, Tanaka-san, Kuwahara-san, the deceased, Akiko Kurosawa, died at least two days ago, just as you have determined, and it was not a drowning accident. This is a homicide!"

"But why hasn't the body rotted?" Tanaka Laodeng naturally didn't dare to question Uesugi Munesetsu anymore. He just knelt on one knee in confusion and observed the body on the ground: "Brother Uesugi, didn't you say last time? The climate is warm and there is plenty of water. As long as one of these two conditions is met, the body will rot quickly. But if Ms. Kurosawa has been dead for two days, why doesn't the body show signs of rotting?"

"It's very simple, because the deceased didn't take a bath before she died!" Uesugi Munen said coldly: "She was knocked unconscious and then transferred to the bathtub and drowned! Someone added a lot of ice cubes to her bathtub. The deceased first drowned in a mixture of a large amount of ice cubes and tap water. Then, as time went by, the ice cubes slowly melted. Due to the long soaking in ice water, the body's decay rate was greatly slowed down, which caused the estimated time of death to be biased!"

"There is no doubt that the deceased must have been murdered!" Uesugi Munen made a direct judgment: "And, it must have been someone I know who committed the crime!"

"Is this true, little brother Uesugi?" Tanaka Laodeng and Kuwahara Mako looked at each other, and the inspector crossed his arms in thought: "Taking an ice bath in the summer? An acquaintance committed the crime? Indeed, if what you said is true, there are no signs of intrusion in the deceased's home, and there are no obvious signs of rummaging, and the doors and windows are all locked, then there can only be one conclusion."

"Yes, the murderer has the spare key of the deceased's house!" Uesugi Munenchi calmly judged: "First, the murderer and the deceased must be acquaintances. The murderer and the deceased's spare key. Secondly, the murderer knew where the deceased's cash and valuables were hidden, so there were naturally no unnecessary signs of rummaging. Finally, there were no obvious scars on the deceased's body, which shows that there was no fierce fight between the two parties. The murderer must have attacked the deceased's head and knocked her unconscious, then dragged her into the bathroom and drowned her in ice water, disguising it as drowning while bathing, and confusing the estimated time of death, making people think that Ms. Kurosawa died last night."

"Tanaka-san, Kuwahara-san, immediately investigate which relatives of the deceased have spare keys nearby, and which relatives have been here two or three days ago. Then she is the murderer who killed Ms. Kurosawa!"

Uesugi Sosetsu finished speaking in one breath, then signaled to the police to start investigating.

Tanaka Ryouto and Kuwahara Asako sighed repeatedly. They admired Uesugi Sosetsu so much that they were so shocked that they couldn't say a word.

Finally, it was Tanaka who asked the last question: "If that's the case, why is there no obvious external injury on the head of the deceased?"

"Have you heard of ice compresses?" Uesugi Muneyuki pointed at the water in the bathtub. "If you apply ice compresses to the red and swollen parts that have been hit, the swelling will go down quickly... Okay, my task is done, it's your turn now."

"I see, little brother Uesugi, you are a genius!" Tanaka Laodeng immediately turned around and said, "Everyone, start investigating, go door to door, and ask Ms. Kurosawa's other relatives, and who has been here in the past two to three days! Move out!"

"Yes!" The policemen on duty outside responded loudly.

Only Uesugi Sosetsu had his hands behind his back, still a little doubtful in his heart.

What kind of person could devise such a technique to confuse the medical examiner and the police?

Your niece doesn't seem to be someone of this level, Ms. Kurosawa.

The evidence was conclusive and the direction of the investigation was clear. Two hours later, the police immediately identified the suspect, Ms. Kurosawa's niece, Aika Yamada, who lived three kilometers away.

"Yamada Aika, 28 years old, unemployed, currently living alone in an ordinary single apartment, often interacts with the deceased, has a spare key to the deceased's home, and a neighbor saw her entering and leaving the deceased's apartment three days ago." In the police car, Tanaka said to Uesugi Sosetsu, Kuwahara Asako and Miss Kosaka: "We'll go over now."

"Uesugi-san, you don't have to come here." Kuwahara Asako said casually, "We police officers will handle the arrests. Are you going to take over our work?"

"I'm just curious." Uesugi Sosetsu certainly couldn't say that he and Ms. Kurosawa Akiko had a dead soul contract to fulfill. Ms. Kurosawa Akiko's dead soul wanted to confirm with her own eyes why her niece killed her. Was it really for money?
"curious?"

"Well, it's hard for a normal person to come up with such an ingenious criminal design that can confuse the police and forensic doctors." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded: "So I want to see what kind of person the suspect is."

As they were talking, the police car stopped at the foot of an apartment building.

There was a knock on the door of Room 203.

The door opened slightly, revealing half of a listless face. A thin and short lady poked her head out slightly. She had ordinary shoulder-length hair, dark circles under her eyes, sunken cheeks, and malnutrition. Her thin shoulders were against the door, and she felt a little uneasy when she saw the stranger.

"Hello, Ms. Yamada Aika, we are police officers." Tanaka Laodeng first showed his ID: "We are here to ask about Ms. Kurosawa. Can I bother you for a moment?"

"I don't know." Yamada Aika spoke softly, a little weakly: "I also feel sorry about my aunt's matter..."

"Yes, but we found some suspicious points during the autopsy and would like to ask for some details. May we bother you for a few minutes?" Tanaka Laodeng emphasized his tone.

"Okay, okay." The woman hesitated for a few seconds and finally opened the door.

When the door opened, a smell of food hit me in the face. The room was filled with a bad odor. The area inside was very narrow, with many garbage bags placed on the space. The small table on the tatami was filled with instant noodles and fast food, some of which had been eaten and some were still unopened. There were many women's underwear hanging on ropes under the ceiling.

The woman inside the door was thin, wearing only a simple T-shirt and shorts, with many private items scattered everywhere, and she habitually wanted to collect them.

Uesugi Sosetsu raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

It is exactly as Ms. Kurosawa described.

"Kousaka." When Tanaka Laodeng and Kuwahara Mako saw this situation, they immediately felt overwhelmed. They signaled to Ms. Kousaka that it was time to take action.

This is when the policewoman is used.

"Mo~Why me?" Kousaka planned to stand outside and act as a clown as usual.

The expressions of Tanaka Laodeng and Kuwahara Mako gradually became stern. Normally, they never assigned tasks to this female inspector, and tried not to call her as much as possible when they had field work. They let her do as much as she wanted when she was out on the case. Wasn't it just for this moment?
"Kosaka?"

"Okay, okay, I get it." Miss Kousaka saw that there was really no way to refuse, so she reluctantly entered the room first. The smell of rotting food made her nauseous: "Ah, I'm so annoyed, so annoyed, so annoyed."

Tanaka and Kuwahara were standing at the door. Uesugi Sosetsu took a few steps inside and said, "Ms. Yamada, who instructed you to do this?"

"Huh? What?" Yamada Aika raised her head in shock.

"Who instructed you to knock Ms. Kurosawa unconscious and then drown her in the bathtub? Who also taught you to put a lot of ice in the bathtub to confuse the autopsy results?" Uesugi Munen looked around and said, "I don't think you are someone who knows forensic knowledge."

"I, I don't know what you are talking about." The lonely woman quickly lowered her head, but she could not hide the surging fear. Uesugi Sosetsu's words were like a tsunami and landslide, directly hitting the deepest secret in her heart.

"Oh, let me guess what happened." Uesugi Munen continued, "You have been unemployed for a long time, and you often ask Ms. Kurosawa for money. The night of the incident was another day when you went to Ms. Kurosawa to ask for money." "In the past, Ms. Kurosawa always gave you some money because you were her niece, but this time, she didn't give you anything. Instead, she criticized you as an elder. So you got angry and pushed Ms. Kurosawa. Unfortunately, Ms. Kurosawa hit her head on something and fainted."

"Seeing that she lost consciousness, you thought you might have killed someone, and in a panic, you faked such a scene." Uesugi Sosetsu said coldly: "But ice water and hot water have different effects on people. Tell me, who taught you to do this?!"

The Dharma image of Aizen Myo-o radiates with light, and with the blessing of the Dharma image, Uesugi Sosetsu is as powerful as the tide.

“…………I don’t understand what you are saying. I just, I just.” Yamada Aika’s eyes widened and her pupils constricted. She really didn’t understand why Uesugi Sosetsu could reconstruct what happened at that time?
Impossible! This person is a forensic doctor, not a god or Buddha!

However, when Uesugi Sosetsu asked her who instructed her to do this, Yamada Aika's rationality finally broke.

No, you can't let him ask any more questions.

Can’t involve Yi, no way!!!

She suddenly jumped up without warning, turned over and twisted her waist, and her thin body rushed towards the kitchen chopping board as if she was throwing herself out.

Ms. Kosaka, who was inspecting, was stunned. Seeing Yamada Aika's ferocious look, Ms. Kosaka's first reaction was to scream and move away: "What are you doing?"

Ms. Yamada was able to grab the sharp kitchen knife "Sekiguchi Daiko" on the kitchen chopping board. She casually grasped the handle of the knife, the tip of the knife kept shaking, and she held the blade tightly with both hands facing outward. Accompanied by Ms. Kousaka's terrified screams, the kitchen knife in Yamada Aika's hand had already stabbed Uesugi Sosetsu!
“Ouch!” Ms. Kosaka looked up and saw that Ms. Yamada was stabbing her with a knife. She was so scared that her heart almost stopped. The policewoman screamed and then squatted on the ground with her hands on her head, her face facing the corner, shaking with fear: “No!”

what? !

Uesugi Sosetsu never expected that Ms. Kousaka would actually give up his position. He instinctively stepped back quickly, but his feet were hooked by the garbage bag behind him. With his balance unstable, Ms. Yamada's sharp knife was already close to Uesugi Sosetsu!

This woman?! Is she crazy?

Uesugi Sosetsu no longer cared about the possibility of being exposed. Facing the painfully sharp and blinding kitchen knife, Uesugi Sosetsu only had time to do one last thing.

Aizen Meiou!

The red light wrapped around Uesugi Sosetsu's body, but it could not stop Yamada Aika's kitchen knife. At the most critical moment, an old, dark green dead soul stood between Uesugi Sosetsu and Yamada Aika.

It was the dead soul of Ms. Kurosawa. The old lady took a last look at her niece with a crazy look on her face and sighed softly.

So you really want to kill me, Aica.

Just for that little money?

[Don't be afraid, kid, I'm here to help you! ]

The soul of Kurosawa Akiko penetrated into Uesugi Sosetsu's right hand, and her courage, wrapped in an iron will, quickly condensed into a tough substance on the surface of Uesugi Sosetsu's right hand. The long pointed kitchen knife pierced along the back of Uesugi Sosetsu's right hand, which he used to defend. The blade cut through the skin, creating a few sparks, and then bounced away.

It happened at this moment. Uesugi Sosetsu felt pain in the back of his hand and fell on his back in a pile of garbage. When Yamada Aika was about to stab him again, the two policemen at the door finally reacted.

Oops!

"Ah!" Ms. Yamada was not a strong and muscular woman. The blade bounced away after missing the target. She screamed and lost her balance. The knife in her hand almost hurt herself. She sat down slowly until she leaned against the wall.

Seeing Uesugi Sosetsu falling slowly with his hand covered, Tanaka Laoden and Kuwahara Asako thought that the knife had hit their vitals, and they were scared to death. Tanaka Laoden drew out his baton and rushed over with Kuwahara. They didn't care about anything else at this time. Tanaka Laoden swung the sword-shaped baton with his wrist and hit Ms. Yamada on the head, making her forehead red. Kuwahara even kicked the knife in Ms. Yamada's hand away, and then he pounced on Ms. Yamada and pressed her to the ground.

"Uesugi, are you okay?" At this time, Tanaka Laodeng hurriedly helped Uesugi Sosetsu out of the garbage pile.

"Uh..." Uesugi Sosetsu struggled to get up and found that the back of his right hand was bleeding profusely. He couldn't help but groan in pain, his face grim: "I should be... fine..."

I almost died here!
"It's okay, it's just the right hand that's injured, I thought..." Tanaka Lao Deng originally thought he had been stabbed in the heart when he saw the red light all over the wall, but he heaved a sigh of relief when he found that Uesugi Souyuki was only stabbed in the right hand, and the wound was not deep. He quickly helped Uesugi Souyuki up, and when he looked at Ms. Yamada again, the greasy middle-aged Lao Deng in his forties had a ferocious look in his eyes: "Cuff her!!!"

"Understood!" Sangyuan struggled to get handcuffs from the back of his police vest.

But at this moment, Ms. Yamada, who was no longer able to struggle, screamed: "Don't touch me, you are violating me! I will sue you, I will sue you!!!"

Seeing Ms. Yamada twisting her body, she was wearing very little and her clothes were about to be torn by the struggle. Kuwabara didn't dare to attack her anymore. He could only quickly get up from the woman and signaled Ms. Kosaka, who was still squatting with her head in her hands, to control her.

"Kosaka?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Kousaka!" After shouting several times, Ms. Kousaka finally responded. She held down Ms. Yamada instead of Kuwahara in a daze.

"Uesugi-san, are you okay?" Kuwahara rushed over: "Call an ambulance!"

"Kousaka, you handcuff her first. We'll take Uesugi to the hospital. Support will be here soon!" Two male police officers helped Uesugi Souji up and immediately called for police reinforcements using the intercom.

"Okay, okay..." Ms. Kosaka was dazed and didn't understand what was happening. She first watched the three people go downstairs, and then reached out to touch the handcuffs.

"It hurts!" Ms. Yamada said on the ground, her expression looked very painful.

"Ah? Hug... I'm sorry, Kuwabara went too far. Did he hurt you? It's okay, I'll be gentler..." Ms. Kosaka also felt that Kuwabara was too rough. When she heard Yamada crying out in pain, she quickly let go of Ms. Yamada. She also felt that it was inexplicable for Yamada to suddenly stabbed someone with a knife.

Why would a woman who looked thin, malnourished and poorly off do this? She must have had her reasons, right?

It's all Uesugi's fault! He made up stories based on his knowledge of forensic medicine. That's too much!

How could you do this to a poor lady?

Seeing Ms. Yamada gasping for breath on the ground, Ms. Kosaka felt even more distressed. She was still reaching for the handcuffs in the leather bag on her waist, but because she had hardly ever handcuffed anyone during field work, she was unexperienced and couldn't find them after groping for a long time, so she had to turn her head back.

However, just as she turned her head to touch the handcuffs, Ms. Yamada, who had been gasping for breath on the ground for a long time, finally recovered and noticed the clothesline next to her.

"Boom!"

Downstairs, after waiting for a few minutes, the supporting police car finally arrived.

"Tanaka, Kuwabara, I'm not seriously injured, at least my legs are not hurt, you don't have to hold me!" Uesugi Sosetsu had recovered by now. Tanaka Laodeng had bandaged his right hand early and signaled the patrolman who had arrived to send him to the hospital immediately.

Hands are a doctor’s life!

"I'm sorry, little brother Uesugi, it's all our fault!" Tanaka Laodeng was so distressed and annoyed that he almost knelt down to apologize: "You go to the hospital first, we will catch the person and come right away."

"Damn you, you actually dared to attack the police!" Sang Yuan gnashed his teeth, his eyes red, "This matter is not over yet!"

Before he finished speaking, a cry for help suddenly came from the second floor of the apartment: "Help! Help, someone come quickly!"

The people downstairs looked at each other. At this time, Uesugi Sosetsu no longer cared about his hand injury, and ran into the apartment with Tanaka Kuwahara and several police officers who arrived.

Go upstairs, room 203, open the door.

The scene before them left everyone stunned.

I saw that one of Takasaka's hands was handcuffed, and the other handcuffed to the window railing. The window was wide open and the curtains were hanging from the second-floor window.

Tanaka and Kuwahara pulled out their pistols and pointed them at the window. By the time they climbed to the window, the female suspect, Ms. Yamada, had disappeared.

Ran? !
　There should be another update today, I think~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)