Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 454 Matsumoto Masakyu's Secret

Yuan Yuzi was the first to start clapping and the first to stop.

Fearing that Dr. Ma would leave, she quickly stepped forward and pressed for more information: Was Matsumoto Masakyu's mental instability caused by someone? If so, what was the other party's purpose?
Arima Toshio didn't want to waste time on a poor guy. He had already explained things to him for so long, and there was no consultation fee for continuing the conversation, so he impatiently waved his hand: "How should I know? This is your job as police officers..."

"Cooperating with the police investigation is the duty of every citizen!"

Yuan Yuzi slid forward and blocked the doorway to the conference room.

Seeing this, Ma Minfu turned to the others and asked, "Does she often do this?"

Fushimi Shika and Watanabe Shun nodded silently, while Abe Rokuro dared not utter a sound and shifted his gaze to the side.

Yuan Yuzi pouted, her face resolute. Even if Ma Minfu said she was controlling, she would accept it. In order to find out the whole story of the murder and to give the younger police officers an explanation, what did it matter if people said a few words?
Japanese detectives have a notorious and disreputable reputation. Toshio Arima didn't want to get involved, so he just considered it bad luck and patiently explained, "It's most likely caused by someone."

"How did you do that? Was it also instant hypnosis? Can Mr. Arima make someone feel like a dog?" Gen Tamako pulled out her notebook and kept asking.

"It's complicated, and hypnosis isn't a magic bullet. The suggestions you give can't go against someone's will... To put it simply, I can't make someone do something they don't want to do."

Arima Toshio paused, then changed the subject, diverting Gentama's attention: "You could try interviewing him to find out his preferences; maybe you'll find a breakthrough."

Before Yuan Yuzi could answer, he took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over: "This is my contact information. If you find any clues and need to consult professionals, you can call me."

Genji's attention was successfully drawn; she accepted the business card with both hands and bowed in gratitude. She assumed that Toshio Arima was promising to help her unconditionally in the future, but in reality, it was just a polite business remark.

Genji Tamako opened the conference room door, and Toshio Arima turned back and gave his assistant a look before hurrying away.

Miyazaki Yuko was very polite. Before leaving, she looked around at everyone, smiled, bowed to each of them, waved goodbye, and departed.

As she bowed, her ample bosom pressed against her shirt, the camisole clearly outlining her figure. Watanabe Shun stared, Abe Rokuro blushed and turned away, while Fushimi Shika secretly glanced at the top of her head.

"Yosh! Now we have a new breakthrough!"

Yuan Yuzi was in high spirits. She carefully put the business card into her pocket, gathered all the members of the reasoning team and the temporary external members of the reasoning team, and set off to investigate Matsumoto Masakyu's personal social circle.

Abe Rokuro was the first to respond to the call, asking Tamako-senpai where to start the investigation;

At the same time, Watanabe Shun made an excuse that he had to go to work at the Narcotics Bureau and slipped away.
For the first time ever, Fushimi Shika didn't make any excuses and actually prepared to go investigate the case together.

As Toshio Arima said, he was extremely wary of outsiders. Miyazaki Chiko had left a bad impression on him in the consultation room. Combined with the tape recording incident and the random assault incident, he was a little worried that Miyazaki Chiko might have been doing something strange to him at the time.

We have to figure this out, otherwise he won't feel at ease.

Minamoto no Tamako was very pleased that Fushimi-kun was willing to take the initiative to investigate the case, which relieved her of a lot of burden by not having to beg him like a cow.

Now that she has two more formidable subordinates, she will surely be able to easily solve this case!

Gen Tamako immediately assigned tasks to everyone, starting with Abe. Considering that Abe was a newcomer, she didn't assign him any difficult tasks. Instead, she sent him to Matsumoto Masakyu's workplace to ask Matsumoto Masakyu's former colleagues about the suspect's reputation.
Fushimi-kun will need to accompany her to the suspect's home to conduct a thorough search. If the scene is well-preserved, she might be able to make a profile.

The reason why two people are required to go to the house is that the relevant regulations for criminal police enforcement clearly stipulate that at least two police officers must be present when searching a private residence; otherwise, the evidence collected will be considered invalid. This regulation is mainly to prevent criminal police officers from committing perjury.

After determining the task, the three split up and took action.

Rokuro Abe excitedly headed to the bar where the suspect had worked, while Shika Fushimi and Tamako Minamoto took a taxi to the suspect's home.

Matsumoto Masakyu lives in a studio apartment in Ikebukuro 2-chome. The apartment manager is an older man who wears a white t-shirt, has receding hairline, and sweats profusely after speaking a few words. He looks just like the NTR protagonist in a doujinshi.

"Matsumoto-kun...when will he be back? Lately, many neighbors have complained that there's a foul smell coming from his room..."

In Japan in 1991, apartment building managers had relatively high authority. Residents' personal information was generally not hidden from their managers, and residents could only seek help from them when they encountered housing problems.

So when Gen Tamako asked about Matsumoto Masakyu's personal situation, the apartment manager immediately remembered that this guy had gone crazy and urinated in the street a while ago, which made the newspapers. Everyone had been talking about him lately!

As the building manager led Minamoto Tamako and Fushimi Shika upstairs, he kept complaining, claiming that Matsumoto-kun owed water and electricity bills and it looked like he wouldn't be able to get them back.

Fushimi Shika picked at his earwax with his little finger, thinking of the previous building manager of Sugamo Apartment. Ever since that guy was dismembered on Cat Island, he hadn't had any contact with the building manager.

"Here we are. This is it."

The building manager stopped in front of room 258, took out a spare keychain from his waist, and searched for the key labeled 258.

Yuan Yuzi stood at the doorway, sniffed lightly, then looked disgusted, quickly pinched her nose, and said, "Ugh! It really stinks!"

Fushimi Shika also smelled it. He crossed his arms and wondered, "Could there be a rotting corpse lying inside?"

Upon hearing this, the caretaker froze, his hand still searching for the key. He turned around abruptly and asked, trembling, "Really?!"

“He was joking,” Gen Tamako quickly added, “That’s not the smell of a corpse.”

Fushimi Shika's nose isn't very sensitive; he occasionally suffers from allergic rhinitis and is quite insensitive to various smells.

In his previous life, he had also been to the scene and smelled the stench of the corpse. He felt it wasn't as mysterious as the internet made it out to be, something he couldn't forget once he smelled it; it was just a normal rotten smell. Later, he realized that there was something wrong with his nose, and he couldn't distinguish the specific differences in the smells at all.

"What? As a police officer, don't make jokes like that..."

The building manager muttered something as he used his key to open the apartment door.

A stench assaulted their nostrils, making it impossible for the three of them to open their eyes. It was the height of summer, and the smell was incredibly strong. The apartment was swarming with enormous greenbottle flies, buzzing around everywhere.

Seeing this, the building manager looked utterly desperate. He was responsible for cleaning after the tenants moved out.

Gentama adopted a professional search stance, taking out gloves, shoe covers, and a hood from her backpack. After putting them on, she added three more masks, but still couldn't block out the stench inside the house.

She sighed helplessly, took a few steps back from the apartment, took a few breaths of fresh air on the balcony, and then returned to search.

When Gentama returned to the scene, the apartment manager had already left. Fushimi Shika acted as if nothing had happened, with one hand on his hip and his right hand waving to shoo away flies, inspecting the room.

"Where is this smell coming from?"

As she walked into the entryway, Yuan Yuzi asked, "Did the meat in the refrigerator go bad?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Yuan Yuzi felt something soft and fluffy under her feet, a strong feeling of stepping on poop... These days, the feeling of stepping on poop isn't a marketing slogan for slippers, but rather a very bad premonition.

Fushimi Shika waited until she entered the door before warning her, "Watch out, there's dog poop behind the door."

"..."

Minamoto no Tamako suspected that Fushimi-kun did it on purpose, but she had no evidence and could only let it go. Anyway, she was wearing shoe covers, and as long as the shoe covers weren't torn, her little leather shoes would still be clean.

Fushimi Shika raised his camera and took photos perfunctorily as evidence.

What are you filming?

Yuan Yuzi leaned closer and glanced down. She saw a dog's corpse lying next to the bed in the bedroom. Judging from the degree of decomposition, it had probably been dead for some time. The corpse was full of writhing white maggots, and green-headed flies were flying around the rotting flesh. There was a lot of dried dog feces scattered on the floor. The scene disgusted her.

“It looks like we’ve found the source of the stench,” Fushimi Shika said.

It's no surprise that this was Matsumoto Masahiro's pet dog. Because its owner hadn't been home for a long time, it was imprisoned at home and starved or died of thirst.

Through her mask, Yuan Yuzi pinched her nose and asked in a muffled voice, "Why didn't the apartment manager mention that the suspect had a dog..."

"Because dogs are not allowed in this apartment building."

Fushimi Shika looked down to check the film, making sure it was clear enough: "There are apartment residents' rules and regulations posted on the wall in the lobby downstairs, one of which clearly states that pets are not allowed... This is how it is in single apartments, the turnover is too high, keeping pets would be a lot of trouble."

He paused, glanced sideways at Gen Tamako, and added sarcastically, "If someone paid a little more attention, they would have noticed the notice on the wall. By the way, the bedroom door has soundproofing foam strips on the crack, so even if this dog barks its lungs out, no one outside will hear it through the two doors."

Minamoto no Tamako thought to herself, "He's back! The observant Fushimi is back! This is the spirit that the deduction team should have!"
However, Fushimi-kun's bad habit resurfaced. Why did he have to satirize her when he was just making a deduction?
Gen Tamako was quite dissatisfied, her eyebrows furrowing slightly. If she hadn't been in such a hurry to investigate the suspect's residence, how could she have overlooked the clues downstairs? Only someone as leisurely as Fushimi-kun, strolling around like an old man on a picnic, would be so bored as to look at the residents' bulletin board!

She snorted coldly, secretly determined to find new clues and regain the upper hand in public, so that Fushimi-kun would completely admire her as the captain!

Ignoring the stench, Yuan Yuzi waved her hands back and forth, shooing away the annoying flies. She had been so focused on the flies and the smell that she hadn't had time to look around properly. Now, looking around, she noticed the bedroom was filled with photographs.

When Yuan Yuzi looked closer, she saw that the photo frame was full of photos of Matsumoto Masakyu and his pets. The two looked very sunny and cheerful, hugging each other and smiling at the camera.

Before she could take a closer look, she noticed that Fushimi Shika casually picked up a pen from the scene and squatted down to start digging through the dog carcass.

As soon as the body was turned over, an even stronger stench assaulted the senses. The smell was so pungent that it brought tears to Yuan Yuzi's eyes and blurred her vision, making it impossible for her to continue investigating the scene.

As is well known, in order to increase profits, real estate developers will try to cram as many single rooms as possible into a building, especially single apartments, most of which have no windows and only an exhaust vent installed to comply with building regulations.

The smell fermented in the enclosed room, making people nauseous.

Yuan Yuzi wanted to turn on the exhaust fan, but found that the apartment had no power. She guessed that the manager had cut off the power to the room because of unpaid water and electricity bills.

Unable to stand the smell, she couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

Fushimi Shika pointed at the dog carcass's crotch with a water-based pen: "This is a female dog."

"So what?" Gen Tamako didn't follow his train of thought.

"Didn't Toshio Arima say that hypnotic suggestion can't go against the subject's own will? This means that Masakyu Matsumoto might have some impure thoughts about his pet, so his subconscious doesn't resist the psychological suggestion of 'becoming a male dog'..."

"Stop! Don't pollute my ears with these words!!" Minamoto Yuko shouted, covering her ears.

Fushimi Shikashin said that girls in the 1990s were really naive. In another thirty years, when the Japanese "Furi Connoisseur" (a term referring to a certain type of Japanese woman who is obsessed with beauty) appears, Minamoto no Tamako will truly understand the diversity of human aesthetics.

You don't even need to wait another thirty years. In 1955, Disney released a classic animated film called "Lady and Tramp," which tells the love and adventure story of Lady and Tramp. Its classic scene of kissing while eating noodles is still a childhood memory for many people today... The plot of this animated film is fine. The only problem is that the main characters and the female lead are two dogs.

That's just how I see it.

Fushimi Shika wiped the pen with the sheet, then put it back in its place. He stood up, looked around carefully to make sure nothing was missing, and then prepared to leave.

Undeterred, Minamoto Tamako felt there might be other clues to explain why Matsumoto Masakyu was hypnotized... For example, the explanation that Matsumoto Masakyu was an exhibitionist and had a strange habit of urinating everywhere was more acceptable than Fushimi-kun's reasoning.

However, when she opened the wardrobe door, the clothes that came into view completely stunned her.

Two adult dog costumes with faux fur hung on the clothes rack, their inner walls covered with a bunch of obscene photos.

Fushimi Shika stood behind her and whistled:

"See, I told you so."

(End of this chapter)