Chapter 145: Interrogation

Noon.

This time was the period when people took a break, and even the city seemed much quieter.

At this moment, Senichi and Takagi were resting in the car, patiently waiting for the results.

"Senichi, is your method really effective?" Takagi, half reclining in the driver's seat, asked with closed eyes.

"Eight or nine out of ten chances. His expression was off earlier, so he must be feeling guilty," Senichi replied with a smile, comforting the worried Officer Takagi. "Don't worry, what I'm doing will make him spill all the hidden information, even if it fails. There is a more troublesome method, and I don't want to waste time with him like that. This way is more convenient."

"Oh? So, Senichi, you've actually discovered something?" Takagi's spirits lifted.

"Well, in fact, the building where Yukihiro Otsuka died was one of the projects handled by their construction company," Senichi said.

"What?!" Officer Takagi suddenly sat up, looking excitedly at Senichi. "Then what are we waiting for? With such a connection, we can bring Koda back to the police headquarters for questioning."

"And then what? It's just questioning," Senichi chuckled and asked in response. "Do you really think that by bringing him back, he will willingly spill the beans?"

"Well... indeed..." Takagi's face froze at the remark. "If it were me, I would probably desperately continue to conceal it."

"I said I wanted a permanent solution. If we only bring him back because of this, he will definitely hide anything that's detrimental to himself. We need to gather all the intelligence," Senichi explained.

"I see." Takagi nodded involuntarily.

"So, we need to make him lose hope, make him realize that there's no need to hide anything anymore. Then he won't conceal these unimportant things either."

When they visited earlier, both of them actually sensed that the person in charge, Koda, was hiding something.

But compared to Takagi, Senichi saw an extra layer. He knew that the company had violated the law.

So he tested Koda by asking if they had technical personnel present at the construction site, which was a legal requirement.

Being a regular person, Koda, even though it was a momentary slip, still revealed a flaw in Senichi's eyes.

Dispatching company and contracting company.

These two terms may seem similar, but the former is illegal, while the latter is legal.

The difference lies in whether they dispatch workers to the construction site.

And the reason why Koda was concealing information about Yukihiro Otsuka was probably that he had something to hide and wouldn't be able to withstand an investigation.

As long as he confessed about Yukihiro Otsuka's matter, the things he wanted to hide would also be exposed, so he refused to say anything.

Therefore, Senichi directly contacted headquarters to investigate Koda's construction company, exposing the fact that it was an illegal dispatching company.

In this way, when asking about unrelated matters to the "side story" of Yukihiro Otsuka later on, Koda would be more willing to confess.

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Police Headquarters, Interrogation Room.

At this moment, Koda sat in the interrogation seat, with Takagi and Senichi sitting across from him, conducting the questioning.

Ten minutes after their conversation, someone called with news. After obtaining evidence from the construction site workers, it was confirmed that Koda's construction company was operating illegally.

In addition, the building where the deceased Yukihiro Otsuka was found dead was under the responsibility of Koda's construction company. With these pieces of evidence, the two easily brought him to the police headquarters for questioning.

Of course, it wasn't an arrest; they just requested him to come as a reference person. Once the suspicions were confirmed, the case would be handed over to the labor bureau for further handling.

"So, let me ask again the question I asked earlier. Where is your company's dormitory?" Senichi looked at Koda in the interrogation room. "You don't have any reason to conceal it now, right?"

"The dormitory? Hah... There's no such thing as a dormitory," Koda sneered. "Calling it a dormitory is just a cover-up. These temporary workers, who are just one step away from being homeless and beggars, are the cheapest labor force."

According to Koda, those dispatched to their company were all individuals who had been fired and had a hard time finding another job. They came to their company through introductions. However, there were no dormitories at all. When facing these temporary workers who requested accommodation, they would unanimously claim that the dormitories were already full.

But when faced with individuals who didn't even have their daily expenses guaranteed for the next day, who had no choice. They wouldn't give up just because there was no place to stay. After all, they had reached a dead end.

"If you're going this far, why do you still lay them off?" Takagi angrily questioned.

Takagi's anger was justified. Throughout their investigation, they saw Yukihiro Otsuka's downward spiral, ending up in a place like this to beg for food, enduring merciless exploitation, only to be fired in the end. It was truly outrageous, even for a kind-hearted person like Takagi.

"Because this company is here to help solve problems," Koda sneered, his tone mocking. "Those who come here are people who were fired at their companies. They would relentlessly protest, so those companies send them here to get rid of the trouble. They claim to provide them with job introductions, making them give up the protests. But once they arrive, they find even worse working conditions, forcing them to leave. If they still can't be driven away, they are made to complete the contracted period of work, and then their contracts are not renewed."

"Your company is truly rotten," Senichi shook his head and sighed.

"Hah, it's not just us who are rotten," Koda impatiently looked at the two. "Karma. Our company exists because those companies that fired them exist. It's because they know that they can get rid of those troublesome individuals by sending them here."

"Now, how much do you know about Yukihiro Otsuka?" After Koda finished talking about the company's shady practices, Senichi placed a photo of Yukihiro Otsuka on the table and pushed it in front of Koda. "This person."

"Oh, him," Koda looked at the photo and said, "I remember him. He came to pick up the Salary statement."

Takagi asked, "The Salary statement? When?"

"It was about two months after he was laid off."

"He said that during that period, he was staying in an internet cafe," Koda thought for a moment. "He mentioned that he was looking for a job related to public health, but unfortunately, no one wanted to hire him because he had no experience."

Koda sneered, whether mocking society or Yukihiro, it was unclear. "Isn't that obvious? If no one hired him, where would he get the experience? Then he asked me for the Salary statement from two months ago, saying he needed it to apply for public health."

"And did you give it to him?"

"Of course."

Koda glanced at the indignant Takagi. "I would do something convenient like that."

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