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After the war, the demobilized boys returned from the front. Stray dogs were panting, the weather was unbearably hot, beer, popsicles and fans fighting for power, sweaty handkerchiefs and hats that couldn't help but fill every detail.
Murakami joined the criminal police team and became a rookie police officer. One day, on a hot bus, Murakami was stolen a Colt-style pistol. Murakami did not catch up with the thief. He was terrified and waited for the final sentence from the Metropolitan Police Department for his negligence, but his section chief encouraged Murakami, "Instead of waiting for the sentence, it is better to find the missing gun."
The rookie Murakami embarked on a gun-hunting journey. He recalled that a woman with inferior perfume squeezed beside him that day. With the assistance of the search department, he learned that the next person was a habitual thief. With the help of the senior, Murakami successfully found the woman, but she was unwilling to say anything. Murakami followed her closely for a day, and the woman who was overwhelmed was finally moved by Murakami's persistence and provided clues: "If you spend a day in the black market, someone selling guns will come to talk to you."
Murakami was wandering in disguise in the black market, but it was not a day, he waited for three days, and finally someone came to the door. He followed the clues and caught the woman who came to trade with him in the name of renting a gun. But it was still too tender, it wasn't his Colt-style pistol, and the man who borrowed his gun, who was planning to return it at the scene at the time, ran away in a panic when he saw this scene.
The clue was interrupted, but a case happened at this time. A young girl was shot in the arm and was robbed of 40,000 yen. Murakami rushed to the appraisal department and found the bullets that he had previously trained to miss for comparison. "Congratulations, it's the same gun," the appraiser said, but Murakami felt even more depressed. It was his gun that killed others. Murakami took the blame and resigned, and the chief tore up his resignation letter. "A disaster can destroy a person, or it can be an opportunity. Do you want to join this case?" "Yes"
The chief asked Murakami to partner with the famous criminal policeman Sato to investigate the case together. Sato is a completely different person from Murakami. He is experienced. Yesterday, Murakami intimidated a woman who failed, and he recruited everything under Sato's lure. Sato let Murakami relax, but Murakami was full of guilt.
Women are just tools, rice tickets used in prisoner exchanges, in the boss Ben Dona. Honda likes baseball. At a baseball game, an eyeliner who sold ice lollies bought by Sato and Murakami spotted Honda, and used the radio to find people. In a stadium with 50,000 people, he finally cornered him. Finally, I got the criminal's name, You Zuo, on the many rice tickets.
Murakami and Sato came to You Zuo's house. It turned out that You Zuo was also a person from a desolate family, living in a dark and unlucky wooden house. Because his backpack was stolen on the demobilized train, he has since complained about the degeneration of society. From the mouth of You Zuo's sister, they learned that You Zuo was with a gangster. They tracked down and found You Zuo's childhood sweetheart, a dancing girl Naomi. But Naomi, who is fragile in her heart, is dead set on You Zuo and refuses to reveal a bit of information.
The case is stalled again, there are still 6 bullets in the gun, and they must catch You Zuo as soon as possible. That night, Murakami came to Sato's house as a guest. Sato brought out beer and pumpkin to entertain Murakami, and the two had a heart-to-heart conversation under the circle of commendations on the wall. Murakami sympathized with Yuzuo, "There are no bad people, only bad environments." He himself had his backpack stolen, and he had doubts about life. And Sato Detective believes that bad people are bad people, and they cannot forget the kind people who were mutilated by them just because they are pitiful. Sympathy for bad guys can cloud judgment and cast doubt on your career. In Japan's environment at this time, there were a large number of demobilized people, and Murakami was used to seeing them lose their humanity on the battlefield because of a trivial matter. You Zuo, on the other hand, believes that it is up to you to choose what kind of person you want to support. A good person like Murakami and a bad person like You Zuo have experienced being stolen, but the paths they choose are very different.
On such a comfortable summer night, another family encountered misfortune. The tomatoes grown by the wife were still green when the husband was away on a business trip, but when the husband came back, there were only his wife's body and red tomatoes. The collapse of her husband made Murakami even more guilty. It seemed that Yuzuo had already started killing people at will. "There is only a straight road in front of the mad dog." Detective Sato firmly believed that Yuzuo, who was irrational, would definitely go to see his lover Naomi, and the two came to Naomi. At home, Naomi has nothing to say. Naomi's dependent mother didn't want her daughter to cover up the bad guys. She cried to persuade Naomi, but Naomi was stubbornly unmoved. "You Zuo has just been here," Mom said. The matchbox on the table belongs to Yuzuo, right? Following the name of the hotel in the matchbox, Sato borrowed Murakami's gun to track down, leaving Murakami in the room to continue to wait for Naomi to tell the truth. Naomi felt that the criminal police were persecuting him, and You Zuo had never done anything to hurt herself, so she could not betray You Zuo. Nearly collapsed, she took out a gorgeous skirt, which was a skirt in the window. She casually said that it was really beautiful. Next week, You Zuo gave her the skirt. Yuzuo did bad things for himself. It's all to blame for the window. If there is no such dress in the window, You Zuo will not commit a crime. "Do you really think so? Then why don't you put on this dress?" Murakami said Naomi. There was lightning and thunder outside the window, Naomi put on clothes inside the house, and said frantically in circles while saying I am so happy, so happy. The mother stepped forward and slapped the irrational daughter, and the two hugged and cried bitterly.
Here, under a layer-by-layer investigation, Sato found the hotel where You Zuo stayed. He called downstairs for help, but the proprietress accidentally leaked the fan. Yuzuo, who was about to run away, shot Sato, and Sato fell into the rain.
Murakami collapsed in the hospital. He prayed for Sato to come back to life and not die under the bullets of his own gun. After the real people in front of him were killed, Naomi also came to his senses. She told Murakami that Yuzuo asked him to be at Ohara Station early in the morning.
After losing Sato, Murakami began to face the case by himself. He rushed to the train station, only to find that he didn't know the criminal's appearance, and even forgot to take the gun on Sato. After forcing himself to calm down, he remembered the rainy night yesterday... You Zuo should be covered in mud! In the crowd, he met You Zuo's eyes. It was the beginning of the chase again, but this time, Murakami chased You Zuo, but unlike what he imagined, You Zuo held his gun and pointed at him. Both fell into a kind of passivity.
At this time, with the strokes of Akira Kurosawa, the elegant piano sound came from the manor in the distance, but the two people who were facing each other in the barren field were at a loss. Bang, Yuzuo fired, hitting Murakami in the arm. Murakami didn't move, he couldn't walk, there were still two bullets in the gun, and they couldn't let the two bullets hurt others. In panic, You Zuo missed two shots and lost the last two bullets. The two scuffled together, and with the sound of the piano, Murakami grabbed the gun and handcuffed Yuzuo.
The two lay exhausted in the vegetable field. The children in the distance sang the nursery rhyme "Butterfly falls on the vegetable leaves, and when you are tired, change to cherry blossoms." You Zuo laughed while listening to such a pleasant song. After confirming in horror that the gun was in his hands, Murakami finally lay down at ease.
At the end of the story, Murakami, who received the first commendation order, looked out the window with Sato in the hospital. Look out the window, there are a lot of people hurting under those roofs today. There will be another case soon, and if you catch more, you won't be sad.
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