Chapter 14 Nagoya Bar

one Two days passed. The agent sent to Osaka hung up the long-distance call.It was two agents, Inamura and Oshima. I have searched many places, but to no avail.Inamura, an older man, said by phone.I've been to almost all the places like that kind of bar, from Fei Tianyi to the ladyboy bars in the side streets around Tennoji, I've been to them, and I've even investigated the area around Kobe. Mihara thought for a while, and replied: In this case, go to Nagoya to find a way.It doesn't matter if you extend the time limit a few more days, and investigate in detail. knew. Are there any photos?

Twenty left. It is also enough.Arrange it in Osaka. After we leave, if something happens, report directly to Tokyo. That's good. So, we are going to Nagoya now. How hard. The two agents headed to Nagoya immediately after receiving Mihara's order. Inamura is a veteran, having worked in the Metropolitan Police Department for twenty years, and Oshima is only twenty-seven years old this year. The two sat on the express train bound for Nagoya.Because Inamura had traveled a lot in Osaka and conducted investigations, he couldn't help but close his eyes and rest. What is this place?

Inamura fell asleep for a while, then suddenly raised his head and looked out the window.Electric trains have traveled from the mountains to the plains. The Big Island agent is hesitating. Oh, we have reached the Takata area.Inamura looked at the scenery and talked to himself. drink, know much better.Mr. Inamura used to live nearby? No.The forty-five-year-old Inamura has wrinkles around his eyes. When he was young, he often walked around this area. Why? Go to the temple to offer incense.Those years were different from what I think now.Said, yawned.On the left, you will soon see the mountain next to Mu.

The young detective had no interest in that. Mr. Inamura, what time do you arrive in Nagoya? There are still three hours. This time, do a good search.Juezhi County Police Department has probably already contacted them. Probably got in touch.However, don't rely too much on the strength of others. Of course.They don't search as hard as we do. We also don't bother each other the way cops everywhere do, though.Many recent cases have involved Tokyo.People from all over the country immediately sent people to investigate.When these people arrived in Tokyo, they couldn't even tell the north from the south.As a result, it caused us more trouble.They also understand this situation very well.Reciprocity, so they will be helpful to us too.

In fact, people from all over the world often send people here. The young detective glanced at the scenery outside the opposite window, and seemed not very interested, so he took out the weekly magazine he read last night to read. Hey, this is the end of the Nara Plain, and further down, there is a mountainous area until Ise Bay.Inamura gives advice to his young agent.You see that mountain over there.That is Sanlun Mountain.See the white archway at the foot of the mountain?There are only worship halls, not main halls.The Buddha statue is that mountain.The mountain is regarded as a god, and this custom still exists today.

Oh, it turned out to be like this.The young agent only glanced that way. See that big roof on the mountainside?That is Haseda Temple.That's where Peony is most famous.Have you seen Zhongchen Zang come out? heard about it. Oishi Neizosuke planted peonies while living in Yamashina, which was transplanted from Hase Temple.It has been famous since ancient times. Oh, is it? This time it was the young detective who yawned.Inamura stopped talking. Oshima began to doze off. When he opened his eyes again, the train had arrived at Ise Nakagawa. How long is it from here to Nagoya?he asked sleepily.

Only an hour and a half. In this way, a long time has passed.Mr. Inamura hasn't slept all this time? I haven't been here for ten years, I miss it very much! hungry.Oshima looked out the window again.As dusk fell, every house was lit. Bear with me a little longer. Mr. Inamura, do you think of your own home when you see that people along the road are ready to have dinner? How can you ask such a question? No, whenever I see a family gathering for dinner, I think of my wife making dinner.I don't usually think so, but when dinner comes, I miss her. Not really.However, you are just getting started.You may have to stay in Nagoya for three days.You have three more days to think about your wife cooking dinner.

When the car arrived in Nagoya, it was completely dark.Enter the station restaurant. Mr. Inamura is very familiar with Nagoya? Not very familiar, but we know roughly where we are going.Just behind this station. That's convenient.Get out of the car, it's nearby, very good.However, it is necessary to settle the place to live early, so as not to have no place to live when it is full.Find a place to live first, and feel at ease no matter how late you work. That's nothing to worry about.If you can't find it, there are cheap hotels in this area.Living in such a place may be convenient for investigation.

Please wait for me. The younger Oshima finished his meal first.Immediately stood up, walked out of the restaurant, and came back with a postcard in the blink of an eye. Inamura was drinking tea and picking his teeth while Oshima was writing something on the postcard.Inamura took a sneak peek, and Shang Hei was his wife. Behind Nagoya Station, there used to be a prostitute area. Since the abolition of the prostitution law, the area has changed on the surface, but in fact there are still many similar places.Bar and Japanese tavern signs and red lights line both sides of the road.Pimps and men and women are constantly coming and going.There was mud underfoot.It's incredible that such a place exists behind a modernized station.

They went into a bar, ordered a glass of cheap whiskey each, and talked to the waitress as they drank.The topic slowly moved to the text, and the woman said: Shemale bar?You go forward another fifty meters, there is a place called Rongzi Store, that kind of place. Rongzi? It's the name of the proprietress, about forty years old, and she has five or six callees in her hands. Do you know them? Heck, I don't know.Those places are filthy.Sometimes, guests bring them to our place to drink, dressed up very nasty. Inamura took out the photo from his pocket, did he know this person? The waitress took the photo in her hand and didn't recognize it.

It's not the same as when you were doing business, so take a closer look. When you say that, I seem to have seen it somewhere. The two detectives couldn't figure it out, so they found Rongzi's shop according to what they said just now.This place is also in a wet alley, a dilapidated house. As soon as you entered the door, several young men greeted you, you are here.They were all wearing kimonos with obi belts, loose necklines, colorful fabrics, and a seductive look all over their bodies. two The two sat down opposite each other in the booth with embarrassment, and a group of men and women, both men and women, came around and sat beside them. You are here. What wine are you drinking? He was originally a man, but his figure and tone were exactly the same as that of a woman. The two ordered beer.The gestures of those people pouring wine are also female gestures. You have a drink too!said the spy. Ah, that would be great. Thank you very much.These days, there are no guests entertaining us, thank you very much. May I have your name?Inamura asked the young man sitting opposite, who seemed to be only twenty-three years old. Hearing that, he narrowed his eyes and acted coquettishly. My name is Yangzi. Another relentless.Ah, you only ask what Yangzi's name is, I'm going to be jealous.Hey, why don't you ask me what's my name? This one was close to thirty, and there were still obvious traces of a beard on his chin. Disrespect, disrespect!Honorable name? My name is Tanzi, please take care of me, he grabbed Inamura's wrist. How many of you are the beauties here? No, there are still many people!Some people rest. How many rest? There are five or six people. Has this person ever worked here? Inamura took out the photo from his pocket, and Tanko snatched it right away. Very beautiful. show me. Four or five young people competed. Taking advantage of the situation, Inamura asked again: How is it, do you know each other? Ah, one of them yelled, isn't this Yoshiko? Yoko, who was sitting across from Inamura, also said, no, it was Yoshiko. Several people looking at the photo shouted.Inamura and another spy, Oshima, who was sitting across from him, couldn't help but watch their expressions carefully. Inamura asked: Yoshiko also used to work here? No, Yoshiko works part-time at the Butterfly Bar. You know him? yes!He used to take guests here to play. When was it before. He seems to be discussing with his companions, it has been about half a year.The people next to him really said, no, it has been half a year. Inamura's chest thumped, what happened next? After that, I never came again.Who knows what happened? Oh, I came here half a year ago, and since then, Yoshiko has never appeared here again.Has any of you here ever been to the Butterfly Bar? I've been there.A new voice came from behind. Ah, it's the lady boss. Good morning. It was a woman in her forties (?) wearing a beautiful women's kimono with a red belt and her hair in a big bun. The other men moved away, and he sat beside Inamura slowly. Tanzi handed over the photo: This is the person I was talking about just now. The landlady's face was covered in makeup, and she acted like a woman, except that she had a nuclei in her throat, and her fingers were covered with white powder, so she could tell at a glance that she was a man. Ah, isn't this Yoshiko?The proprietress spoke coquettishly, looked at the photo and said, it's not bad at all. The two spies looked at each other with great joy.Inamura asked him: The proprietress also knows this person? But no, very familiar.He often accompanies guests to our place to play.Speaking of which, I went to the Butterfly Bar a few days ago, and the proprietress there said that he hadn't returned to work for a long time, and he didn't give any notice. The two spies stood up abruptly and ordered: Settle accounts! Ah, you're leaving before you've had your fill of fun?The proprietress was very disappointed. The Butterfly Bar is also behind the train station, and all the nearby buildings are either pubs or hotels.There are especially many Turkish baths, and the Butterfly Bar is a small, dark bar. Yoshiko?The person who came out to answer the question was a young man whose face had been burned black by white powder, and who was also wearing a loose kimono. He hadn't come back to work for more than two months. Where is the proprietress, please come out and talk. What came out was a woman in her mid-thirties with a big bun and a kimono.Upon closer inspection, she looked more like a woman than the other proprietress just now. This Yoshiko didn't come to work without saying a word.The proprietress with high cheekbones couldn't hide the man's voice when she spoke.Yoshiko never wanted to take people from the store to the apartment.Before leaving this time, he said he was going back to his hometown for three days, and he would be back right away.Unexpectedly, he never came back.As far as I think, I must have tricked the guests somewhere and went to the hot spring to play. According to you, he never returned to the apartment? No. When the two secret agents asked about this, they felt at ease. three Inamura and Oshima, who returned from Nagoya to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, reported to Superintendent Mihara. The missing Yoshiko from the Butterfly Bar, whose original name was Shintaro Sugai, was 25 years old, from Hokkaido, and lived in No. XX, Matsubara-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya. She had been living alone for three years. Mihara asked: Since when did you work at the Butterfly Bar? Started a year ago.He used to be a young man in a bar, but later he joined a ladyboy bar, where he disguised himself as a woman. See his apartment? Searched.Searched together by the local police station.Nothing suspicious.Both suits and kimonos are available, and kimonos are all women's clothing, and there are wigs for women. Yoshiko is in the bar, has been disguised as a woman? half the same. What about his guests? They are all customers from Nagoya, and they often take customers to various bars to drink.We surveyed all these guests.During the week from February 6th, there were witnesses proving that he was in Nagoya. Any special acquaintances? I heard no.According to the bartenders and guests at the Butterfly Bar, Yoshiko looks exactly like a real woman when she wears a kimono, but they can't think of anyone who has a special relationship with him. When you checked the apartment, did you find any letters? There are, and they've all been seen.There are not many letters, they are all letters from friends in cafes and bars, and the content is nothing special.My hometown in Hokkaido did not believe it. He did not return to work after February 6th. Did he make it clear to the people at the Butterfly Bar beforehand? It just didn't, and it wouldn't come without making a sound.It is said that someone went to the apartment to look for him, but he was not there.Said to return home, in fact, is an excuse.He has never been to Hokkaido, and has no correspondence, so he must be lying. Which guest did you go out with? This has not been investigated. Mihara thought for a while, and asked a question from a different angle.Have you ever asked Butterfly Bar if Mineoka Monday is their guest. We showed the photo of Mineoka Monday to the proprietress of the Butterfly Bar and others, but they all said we couldn't remember it.Only one of them said that he seemed to have met once, but he couldn't remember clearly. So, what about Takeo Doi who was killed by Lake Sagami? I also showed them the photos, and they all said they hadn't seen them at all. Bar patrons come and go, maybe they've been there a few times, so they don't remember. However, this kind of business is different, face to face.It is easy to remember the appearance.As long as you have been there once or twice, you will never forget it. There are many automobile factories in Nagoya.Superintendent Mihara seemed to be talking to himself.The wife of the deceased Takeo Doi said that he often traveled to Nagoya for business.Mineoka often goes there on Mondays to buy new taxis. Mihara had this clue in his mind. It is said that Mineoka Monday has nothing to do with women.I'm thirty-seven years old this year, and I don't have a wife yet.But can it be said that he is not entangled with women at all?I'm afraid I can't say that without a thorough investigation. Therefore, it is not completely impossible for him to use female sex to achieve a certain purpose. As for the killed Doi Takeo, the situation is different again.According to the investigation, he has many relationships with women, which are completely different from Mineoka Zhou. On Monday, Mineoka was brought by Takeo Doi to the entertainment venue in Osaka.In fact, they may have also been to a ladyboy bar in Nagoya.In this kind of bar, men wear women's kimonos and accompany drinks.Mihara himself had the experience of seeing men as women and women as men before Tokyo Imperial City. Now, it is possible to guess who the woman that Takeo Doi picked up at Koenji Ichimachi on the Ome Highway on his way to Lake Sagami was.At that time, Takeo Doi had no idea that this woman was Shintaro Sugai, and Takeo Doi was still full of joy, thinking that he was a real woman! According to this assumption, Mineoka Monday must have planned in advance, where to introduce Yoshiko, who was disguised as a woman, to meet Takeo Doi. Of course, Zhou Mineoka and Yoshiko had a relationship for a long time.Mineoka often travels to Nagoya to buy new cars for business. As for when Mineoka saw Yoshiko for the first time, it is impossible to know, but it was probably at the Butterfly Bar.But Mineoka doesn't often appear at the Butterfly Bar.This is because he already has a plan in mind, and he deliberately doesn't go to the bar. Mineoka's solution must be to call Yoshiko out of the apartment directly and give him a lot of money. Fangzi pretended to return to her hometown and would never return to work, but it was February 6th.She had probably taken the train from Nagoya to Tokyo that morning.Its mission is to lure Doi Takeo to the shore of Lake Sagami. This trap is also conceivable.After Yoshiko arrived in Tokyo, according to Mineoka's plan on Monday, she first called Doi and asked him to go to Sagami Lake.Doi then agreed that she would wait near Koenji Ichimachime Station.So, after Doi got on the commercial bus at the west exit of Shinjuku Station, he immediately told the driver that there was another person waiting for the bus ahead. This trick really worked, and Yoshiko was taken by Doi to Bitan Pavilion Hotel in Lake Sagami.Doi probably thought she was a real girl all the time, so he went to the hotel and kept asking her to agree, and stayed in the hotel that night. Yoshiko, that is, Shintaro Sugai, put on all kinds of gestures and did not give a decisive answer. I want to see the night view by the lake.She must be prevaricating like this.Doi Takeo quickly agreed, so the two went out for a walk together. As for where to go for a walk, Takeo Doi must have followed Yoshiko's words.Mineoka was already waiting there on Monday.After they killed Doi, Yoshiko fled the scene. During the initial investigation, it was still impossible to find out how the woman ran away. In fact, after the murder, she changed back to men's clothing and walked away carefree.Therefore, the ticket cutters at Sagamiko Station had no impression.The ticket cutter only searched his brains from the perspective of the passenger who looked like a wine girl, but never thought that he was a man. From the beginning, only women in kimonos were tracked down, of course it was impossible to track down. Thinking of this, I remembered the report that Mineoka had a suitcase in his hand when he arrived at the Kokura Hotel on Monday.When I first received this report, I always thought that traveling often would mean carrying a suitcase, but now it seems that my brain is too stupid.Little did he know that what was in the suitcase was Shintaro Sugai's women's clothes. Think again. When Subai and Takeo Doi arrived at the hotel by Lake Sagami, they didn't bring a suitcase.He was wearing a women's kimono and only had a lady's bag in his hand. Mineoka flew from Tokyo to Osaka on a Japan Airlines flight, then immediately changed planes and flew back to Tokyo from Osaka (arriving at 7:35 p.m.), and then took the Nanbu Line train (every twelve minutes), Come to Lake Sagami (9:48 p.m.), get off at the station.At this time, Mineoka Monday must have a suitcase with Sugai's men's clothes in it, which is the clothes Sugai wore when he died in Shuicheng. Mineoka flew from Tokyo to Osaka, and went directly from the company to the airport, and no one sent him.He probably deposited the box somewhere, and later took it into his hands on the way to the airport. That's it, Mineoka Yiyi carried the suitcase and quietly arrived at the dark murder scene.The arrival time had already been arranged with Shintaro Subai in advance, and Sugai also tricked Takeo Doi from the hotel to the lakeside at that moment.The place I went to was also agreed with Mineoka in advance.In order to be cautious, they also prepared a good hour for Mineoka in case he was late. Therefore, when Shintaro Sugai lured Takeo Doi to go out, Mineoka had already been hiding there for an hour. Mineoka jumped out of the shadows, and joined hands with Sugai to strangle Dohi to death.After he got it, Sugai took out the men's clothes from Mineoka's suitcase, took off the women's clothes and changed into them. Then, how to leave from the scene?Sugai carried the suitcase, entered Sagamiko Station with Mineoka in a grand manner, and boarded the train.After arriving in Shinjuku District, Tokyo, I changed to a car and rushed to the airport, and took the Moonlight Flight flight together.On the 333rd flight to Fukuoka at 1:30 a.m. on February 7th, weren't there two unidentified people (using false names)? At 5:10 in the morning, the two arrived at Fukuoka Airport, what happened after that?Thinking about it, Mineoka probably rushed to Xiaokura in a hurry, and he had to arrive at the hotel before 8:30, because he must have arrived at the hotel when the telegram reporting that Doi's body had been found arrived.When he left Tokyo, he must have told the duty officer of Aurora Company that if there was anything special, he must send a telegram to Ogura.In this way, others can know that he was in Xiaocang at that time. Mineoka went to Okura alone, and Sugai stayed near Fukuoka.Maybe it was Musashi Onsen who lived in Erikaichi, waiting for Mineoka to bring him back to Fukuoka.Torikai Shigetaro went to Musashi Onsen to search for a woman, no wonder he couldn't find it. Before Sugai entered the hotel, he probably went to a barber shop to change the neck-length women's hairstyle into a men's navy suit.Therefore, Tokai Shigetaro mentioned in the report on the inspection of the corpse of the Shuicheng massacre that the deceased had only cut his hair not long ago. Mineoka brought Sugai to Fukuoka to kill him, but why did Sugai happily follow Mineoka? This is probably because Mineoka tricked him into going to Fukuoka with me to have fun.This situation is similar to the relationship between ordinary men and women. Later, when Mineoka returned to Fukuoka from Ogura, where did he meet Sugai?This can also be agreed in advance.It was about five o'clock before sunset.The place is in the waiting room of Erkaichi Station near Shuicheng.When everyone is unfamiliar with the local geography, the station waiting room is the easiest place to meet. Before going to Erkaichi, Mineoka first went to the Fukuoka Daito Company to show off, and then went to the window of the West Japan Railway Office to buy a regular commuter pass. The two went to Shuicheng together.Mineoka tricked Sugai there, and it was easy to have an excuse.Xu Bei must like dark and quiet places, and transvestites who disguise themselves as women will also have this mentality. At the scene, Mineoka pretended to caress the fake woman Sugai, and suddenly strangled him to death and buried him with loess and dry grass. Before leaving, Mineoka took out Yoshiko's flesh-colored glove from the suitcase and left it nearby.This was to give the detectives the illusion that the murderer was not a man, but a woman. Mineoka carried a suitcase and returned to Tokyo from Fukuoka. He didn't take the Asakaze train as he claimed. Because the time did not match, he must have flown back.After arriving in Tokyo, the woman's clothes were either buried or sold. Mihara's deduction finally reached this point.He couldn't help but let out a long breath.I am quite confident in the above inference. However, there is another barrier that has not yet been lifted. It is a mystery about the eight film sheets of the Bukai Ritual.Failure to resolve this cannot defeat Mineoka's alibi. Thinking about it carefully, this was just the only evidence that Mineoka was not at the scene.His current situation is like standing on a cliff. It is conceivable that Mineoka will do his best to defend Film's tricks in the future and use them as a shield. Film's Trick This must be Mineoka's trick on the film, there can be no other explanation. Mihara had assumed in the past that Mineoka had an accomplice.This person was taking pictures at the Nunari Shrine, waiting for Mineoka to hand in the film after he flew from Tokyo to Fukuoka. And now it is evident that such a person does not exist.The only accomplice was the Nagoya ladyboy Sugai Shintaro who disguised himself as a woman and lured the deceased Doi Takeo to the shore of Sagami Lake. However, with Takeo Doi appearing on the shore of Lake Sagami between 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on February 6th, Shintaro Subai could not have gone to Moji to take photos of the ceremony at Nunakari Shrine. The Sagami Lake Murder Case and the Kyushu Suijo Murder Case should still be regarded as Mineoka Monday's solo murders.Especially in the Kyushu case, Mineoka killed the accomplice Sugai in order to conceal the Sagamiko case forever. This matter has no direct relationship with Film. In any case, the camera problem has been difficult to explain. On the other hand, Superintendent Mihara has doubts about Mineoka, which is justified from other investigations. The key lies in Mineoka's motivation to kill Doi. Doi's wife said that Doi gave her a fixed monthly living allowance, but sometimes gave her more. How did this extra money come about?Later, an investigation was conducted on this question, and unexpected results were obtained. More than two years ago, Traffic News published a report titled Public Opinion. Doi hinted in the report that there was some kind of deal between the Land Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transport and some powerful people in the transport business. This report not only reported the opinions of the attacking side, but also the opinions of the officials of the attacked side and big businessmen in the transportation industry. After Mihara saw it, he ordered one of his subordinates to conduct a detailed investigation secretly.Although it is difficult to investigate the real situation of this transaction, it was later discovered that an official had accepted bribes, and the whole inside story gradually came to light. In order to buy a new car for his company, Mineoka used bribes, and when he bought a new car, he raised the price of the car to make up for the bribe. These weaknesses were known to Takeo Doi a few years ago and were published in newspaper Don't let him go.It seems that Mineoka's motivation to kill Doi is sufficient.