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Chapter 173 Motorcycle Rider (12)

Masumi Sera arrived at one of the rental car shops in Hakone at seven o'clock in the morning and waited.

Although the store’s official website shows that its opening hours are 9 a.m.

But Masumi Sera believed that the store staff would definitely come to the store early to prepare for the opening.

Masumi Sera was lucky. She only waited for about fifteen minutes after arriving here, and then she saw someone use a key to open the rolling door of the shop.

She hurried over and greeted the man who looked to be in his fifties:
"Good morning."

The man heard the voice and turned to look over.

"Sorry, we open at nine."

"I'm not here to rent a car. Are you Mr. Otsu?"

Masumi Sera found out through the rental car shop's official website that the store manager's name was Teppei Otsu.

"What can I do for you?"

The man looked at Sera Masumi with a puzzled look.

The man did not answer Sera Masumi's question, but asked it instead.

After he found out that Masumi Sera was not here to rent a car, he immediately became wary of Masumi Sera.

Looking at the other party's reaction, Sera Masumi knew that she was not wrong. The other party must be the store owner Teppei Otsu.

"My name is Masumi Sera, and I'm a detective from Tokyo."

"detective?"

The wariness on Teppei Otsu's face did not disappear.

Obviously he didn't completely believe Sera Masumi.

"What do you want from me, detective?"

"Excuse me, this car is from your store, Mr. Otsu, right?"

Masumi Sera took out his cell phone and showed it to Tetsu Tetsu that he had saved the photo of the motorcycle from Yumi Miyamoto's surveillance video yesterday.

And she noticed.

After seeing the photos on his mobile phone, Teppei Otsu's eyes widened in an instant.

His reaction made Sera Masumi feel a lot more relieved.

This means she guessed correctly.

In this way, there is no need for Masumi Sera to waste time going to another car rental shop.

"Please follow me in."

This time, without waiting for Sera Masumi to speak, Tetsuhei Otsu welcomed Sera Masumi into the store.

After Masumi Sera and Teppei Otsu entered the store, they saw Teppei Otsu pull down the roller shutter door outside again.

She went straight to the point and said:
"The rider of this motorcycle was suspected of a murder, and the surveillance camera only captured the body of the motorcycle, but not the license plate."

"But the 'わ' on the license plate indicates that this motorcycle is rented. And I found out that you and another store four kilometers away are the only ones in Hakone that provide motorcycle rental services."

"So I want to investigate whether this motorcycle was made in your shop, Mr. Otsu."

Although Teppei Otsu is much older than Masumi Sera.

But he is just an ordinary person after all.

When he heard that the motorcycle in his shop was related to the murder case, he was so scared that his face turned pale.

Otsu Teppei hurriedly said:

"This motorcycle is indeed from my shop, but I know nothing about the murder case!"

"Because after the motorcycle was rented out in August last year, the customer lost contact and the motorcycle has not been found."

"Although I have called the police, after so much time, there has been no news from the police."

"What day in August is it?"

Sera Masumi asked.

"Let me check."

Teppei Otsu came behind the counter, took out a pair of glasses and put them on his nose, then turned on the computer and started searching.

"It's August 8rd." "This motorcycle is a Kawasaki Z23RS, right? I remember the price was close to 900 million yen, but you don't seem to be in a hurry at all."

Masumi Sera stared at Teppei Otsu and spoke.

"After all, I have collected a deposit, and the motorcycles in my shop are all insured. Even if they are lost, the insurance company will pay the compensation."

Teppei Otsu said.

Upon hearing this, Masumi Sera nodded slightly, agreeing with what Teppei Otsu said.

"Then could you please tell me the information of the tenant at that time?"

Normally, Teppei Otsu would have refused outright if he had encountered such a thing in the past.

But after all, it involved a murder case, and the guest had committed the act of stealing a motorcycle, so Tetsu Otsu had no need to protect the other party's privacy.

"Give."

As Teppei Otsu spoke, he handed Sera Masumi the information that the customer had filled out when renting the motorcycle.

Masumi Sera took a look and saw that the person who rented the car was named "Rian Shumei" and his address was in Osaka Prefecture.

The purpose of renting a motorcycle this time is to use it when traveling in Hakone.

“Isn’t this all fake information?”

"Yes, that's what the police said. Not only the name, address, but even the phone number are all fake."

Teppei Otsu said.

"Have you scanned the other party's driver's license?"

Sera Masumi asked.

The other party will definitely show their driver's license when renting a car, and the rental shop will also scan and copy the driver's license.

"Yes, but the police officer in charge of the investigation also said that all the information on this person's driver's license was false."

"It doesn't matter. I just need to know what the other person looks like."

Sera Masumi said.

She never thought from the beginning that she could get the person's personal information so easily.

After all, if the other party is really the murderer of the car accident,

Then she must have decided to kill Akikawa Ryoko when she rented the car, so she would definitely not leave any real personal information.

The other party's deliberate concealment of personal information also shows that her purpose of renting the motorcycle was not pure.

Masumi Sera was basically certain that the tenant of this motorcycle was the real murderer who killed Akikawa Ryoko.

Even though the other party filled in false personal information.

But even if the personal information is fake, the photo on the other party’s fake driver’s license must be real.

Because if the driver's license photo that the other party produced was a completely different person from the person himself, Teppei Otsu would definitely not rent the motorcycle to her.

"That customer should be a pretty slim woman, right?"

"That's right. I'll find you the driver's license photo she provided at the time."

As Teppei Otsu spoke, he began to operate the computer.

At the same time, while recalling, he said to Sera Masumi:

"Come to think of it, I still have a deep impression of the woman who rented the car."

"That woman's makeup is pretty exaggerated."

"Most importantly, the woman had a very conspicuous tattoo on her face."

As Teppei Otsu said this, he clicked the mouse and turned his computer screen towards Masumi Sera.

Masumi Sera hurriedly looked towards the computer screen.

Then, next to the fake name "Rian Jiumei", there was a woman with short reddish-brown mushroom-shaped hair.

At the same time, as Teppei Otsu said, the woman in the photo has heavy makeup on her face and her lips are painted dark purple.

The most eye-catching thing is the swallowtail butterfly tattoo on the other person's left eye.

(End of this chapter)