Chapter 40: Hatred For Uchiha Ikeizumi
Senior Izumi finally ran up in front of Uchiha Ikeizumi. The girl was exhausted and panting heavily, her little face slightly flushed. She bent over, gasping for breath nonstop, but her hands still hurriedly handed over the documents.
“Se… Senior, this is the list of all missing persons in Konoha Village over the past five years. Until now, none of the people on the list have been found. There are a total of one hundred seventy-six missing persons.”
When she said this number, Senior Izumi herself was a bit stunned inwardly.
This was only the missing persons officially recorded on the surface.
There must be some that weren’t counted, especially some missing ninjas, who probably carried many secrets themselves.
People with secrets naturally wouldn’t appear on Konoha’s missing persons list.
Uchiha Ikeizumi didn’t take the missing persons list, because at this moment, another voice approached from far to near: “Lord Ikeizumi, we’ve found new bones meow, and this time there are quite a few!”
Kijiro hurriedly brought its cat children and grandchildren over.
Among them, many ninja cats were carrying various bone fragments in their mouths.
“They were all found in the sewer meow!” Kijiro leaped lightly and skillfully jumped onto Senior Izumi’s head, saying at the same time: “It’s just uncertain if they are bones from the same person.”
One ninja cat after another placed the bones they carried down.
Uchiha Ikeizumi crouched down, bent over, and picked up one of the bone fragments.
“Rookie, for now, exclude the male missing persons.”
He said.
Senior Izumi was stunned: “Has Senior already figured out the gender of the murdered person?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi stood up and said: “This is the inferior ramus of the human pubic bone. Males generally have a narrow V-shape with an angle less than 90°, while females have a wide U-shape or wide V-shape with an angle greater than 90°.”
He pointed to another bone fragment on the ground and said: “That’s the human supraorbital ridge bone. Males have it thick, prominent, and with obvious backward tilt; females have it relatively flat, with the forehead vertical or slightly tilted.”
Senior Izumi listened with her eyes wide open in shock.
Just how many victims’ corpses had Senior Ikeizumi processed to be able to summarize the skill of determining the corpse’s gender at a glance just from the bones?
Suddenly.
Senior Izumi keenly noticed Senior Ikeizumi furrow his brows.
As if he had made some new discovery.
She only saw the senior bend down to pick up two bones embedded with teeth, examine them for a moment, then say: “Rookie, narrow the age to the range of five to thirty years old. Pay attention to the photos on the list and pick out the missing females who look a bit buck-toothed.”
Senior Izumi hurriedly said: “Yes! Senior!”
While hurriedly flipping through the documents, she boldly asked out of curiosity: “Senior, why the age…”
Once again, before she could finish the sentence, Senior Ikeizumi saw through her thoughts with one glance and preempted her indifferently: “Because there are two different corpses. By the way, pay attention to the missing persons’ surnames. I suspect the two corpses are mother and daughter.”
“From the cross-sections of how the two corpses were cut, the culprit probably used the same tool to dismember them. It’s very likely the work of the same person, possibly even killed on the same day.”
“From the size of the bone fragments, after they were killed, the corpses were at least dismembered into more than a hundred pieces. That we could still find some of them is pretty lucky.”
Senior Izumi’s hand nearly trembled.
T… Two?
Mot… Mother and daughter?
“One large and one small. The older deceased should be between twenty and thirty years old, the younger deceased between five and eight years old.” Uchiha Ikeizumi said calmly.
Senior Izumi hurriedly flipped through the documents in her hand, feeling a chill run down her spine.
Based on the screening information provided by Senior Ikeizumi, Senior Izumi quickly found two missing persons with the exact same surname.
“Senior! Found them!”
She tried to calm herself down and hurriedly said: “Yamada Ryoko, twenty-seven years old, went missing four years ago, husband deceased early, has one daughter; Yamada Nobumi, four years old, went missing four years ago, father deceased early, mother is Yamada Ryoko.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “What do you think we should do next?”
Senior Izumi was stunned, not expecting the senior to throw the question back to her.
Right!
Maybe this was a test of her abilities by the senior!
Senior Izumi immediately said: “Find their former residence, investigate their relationships with surrounding neighbors and relatives before death, and also investigate their financial situation before death. Moreover, focus on investigating who inherited the Yamada family’s inheritance after their deaths.”
This was part of the content in the Uchiha Police Force intern handbook on how to solve cases.
Senior Izumi still remembered quite a bit of these basic theoretical knowledge.
“Let’s go.” Uchiha Ikeizumi said this to Senior Izumi first, then to Kijiro: “Take the corpse bones back to the Police Force.”
“Yes! Senior Ikeizumi!”
“Yes! Lord Ikeizumi!”
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“Hey, Yamada, tomorrow is the funeral of the Hokage’s eldest son. What are you spacing out for?! The Hokage instructed us to make the funeral grand and splendid, so that these deceased can rest assured on their way to the blissful afterlife.”
“If you’re not in good state, take leave quickly. Otherwise, if you make a mistake tomorrow and cause an accident at the funeral, how could ordinary civilians like us withstand the Hokage’s wrath? Our funeral home’s reputation would also be ruined!”
The man called “Yamada” suddenly shivered.
He shook his head and forced a smile: “Maybe I just didn’t sleep well last night. I have no problem.”
Actually, even he himself didn’t know why he was so uneasy?
Could it be…
No…
Impossible.
“I handled it very cleanly…” Yamada murmured to himself in a voice only he could hear: “And it’s been so many years already. How could it possibly be discovered?”
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“Hokage, tomorrow is Shinnosuke’s funeral. You are the Konoha Hokage after all; you need to pull yourself together a bit.”
A female Anbu ninja wearing a mask said softly behind Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed deeply.
He turned around, looked at the female Anbu in front of him, and said with a complicated expression: “You’re actually in as much pain as I am, right? After all… you’ve been married to Shinnosuke for many years, and the relationship between you two was very good…”
“Hokage, I think pain is useless. What’s already happened can’t be changed. All I can do is let Shinnosuke go to the afterlife in peace, take good care of Konohamaru in the future, and remember this hatred, that’s all.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen heard the other party’s voice was a bit hoarse.
Perhaps this daughter-in-law, who had experienced the pain of losing her husband, had already cried countless times.
Sarutobi Hiruzen was silent for a moment, then said: “Fujiko, I know you harbor hatred toward Uchiha Ikeizumi, but…”
“I know.”
Sarutobi Fujiko said: “Hokage, I will consider the village’s overall situation and won’t be blinded by hatred. Hokage, I request half a day off to go back and spend time with Konohamaru.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed inwardly.
“Go ahead.”
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