Episode 32: Hosoya-san who disappeared
“What about Hosoya-san,
Saeki?”
I call out to Saeki,
following him as quickly as I can.
“I pulled into a
parking lot and a guy showed up. Then
Kazumi-san told me to go get you! I
have no idea what's going on!”
“A man?”
“Yeah, it was a guy in
a suit with glasses!”
A man in a suit with
glasses?
“As soon as she saw the
man, Kazumi suddenly started shaking, mumbled a few words, and then told me to
hurry up and get you!”
Saeki jumped down the
stairs in the office, screaming desperately.
I followed him down.
When I ran through the
front door to the parking lot outside, there was no sign of Hosoya-san.
There was no sign of
the man Saeki had mentioned, only Hosoya-san's car.
“Kazumi-san! Where are
you! I've brought Yamato!”
“Hosoya-san!”
Saeki and I raised our
voices and called out to her.
But there was no reply.
Saeki, call her cell
phone.
“A-Ah, yeah, right.......”
When I said that, Saeki
called Hosoya-san in a hurry.
Then - I heard the
melody of a popular love song.
“That ringtone is
Kazumi-san's!”
I searched for the
source of the sound and found the phone under Hosoya-san's car.
“Kazumi-san's phone
...... Yamato, what does this mean?”
Saeki turns his face to
me, making no effort to hide his anxious expression.
“I don’t….know..”
As I was answering
this, something popped in my head.
After that, a senior
employee found out about the situation and called the police.
Three police cars
gathered in broad daylight, and the local residents began to gather around.
All of us were
questioned by the police officers and we answered to the best of our knowledge.
And when the officers
were leaving the office after questioning all of us.
“Please wait!”
Saeki, who was
exhausted, stopped the police officers.
“What is it?”
“When Kazumi ......
Hosoya-san saw the man I just told you about, she mumbled something like this… “Saburo
Yamazaki is”.......”
“Saburo Yamazaki? You think that's the name of the suspicious man you
mentioned?”
“I don't know, but I
think so.”
“Hmm. Saburo Yamazaki.
...... Okay, we'll look into that guy.”
“Please do!”
As Saeki bowed deeply,
the police officers left the company.
By the time all three
police cars had left, it was completely dark.
◇ ◇ ◇
Four days had passed
since Hosoya-san had disappeared.
The police informed him
that no one by the name of Saburo Yamazaki had surfaced around Hosoya-san.
As a precaution, they
did a thorough search of people with the same name living nearby, but found no criminal
record, so the case was treated as a disappearance.
But only Saeki and I
had a different guess.
“Damn it. It was
definitely that guy. That guy in the suit with the glasses must have done
something to Kazumi.”
“Saeki......”
“Yamato, do you really
not know anything? Why did Kazumi try to call you back then?”
“I don't know.......
I'm sorry.”
“Damn......”
Saeki stomped on the
concrete ground on the roof of the company.
Saeki suspects that the
man he saw is involved in Hosoya-san's disappearance.
And I also suspect that
the man is involved in Hosoya-san's disappearance. No, I didn't suspect it, I
was sure of it.
This is because the man
Saeki saw had very similar characteristics to the murderer Hosoya-san had told
me about.
[I just saw a
serious-looking man, about a hundred and seventy centimeters tall, with short
black hair all back, glasses, and a suit at the B-Mart near my office. I think
he's probably a murderer.]
This is a line message
I received from Hosoya-san earlier.
I don't know how
Hosoya-san came to know the name Saburo Yamazaki.
Maybe there was a new
spell Hosoya-san had that I didn't know about.
But one thing I do know
is that Hosoya-san has probably already been killed by the murderer Yamazaki
Saburo.
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