To avoid attracting attention, Shuichi Akai deliberately chose a relatively remote coffee shop.
"Here are your coffees, gentlemen."
The waitress put down two cups of coffee.
"Thank you." Shuichi Akai nodded slightly to express his gratitude.
"If you need anything, feel free to call me."
The waitress gave the two handsome men a hint that she was available for shopping, dining, and even sleeping.
"Okay, I'll call you if I need anything."
Shuichi Akai nodded again, indicating that she could leave.
As for Lin Yi, he didn't even look at the waitress from beginning to end.
There was no way. After seeing so many high-value beauties, it was really difficult for him to be interested in ordinary beauties.
The waitress left somewhat disappointed.
Lin Yi took a sip of coffee and said, "Speak, what do you want to know from me?"
Shuichi Akai took out a voice recorder from his pocket, turned it on with a click, and placed it on the table, saying, "Say whatever you know."
"Still recording?" Lin Yi frowned, saying with some dissatisfaction, "You're violating my right to privacy."
"If I really wanted to violate your right to privacy, I wouldn't have taken out the recorder."
After Shuichi Akai finished speaking, he picked up the coffee and took a sip, saying, "Let's start with... how you met the woman in the photo."
Lin Yi said somewhat nervously, "I... um? What should I call you? Officer? Or Public Security?"
"Just call me Officer Sera." Shuichi Akai said.
"Okay, Officer Sera... Did Yamei do anything wrong?" Lin Yi asked.
"Huh?" Shuichi Akai frowned: "You don't know?"
"I'm not very familiar with her..." Lin Yi shrugged.
"Not familiar?" Shuichi Akai frowned even more: "Not familiar, but you brought red wine to her house?"
"This..."
Lin Yi's expression froze, then he laughed: "We're just friends with benefits, not that close."
Shuichi Akai's face was cold. He really wanted to pick up the coffee cup and smash it over the other party's head.
However, he was also a well-trained ace agent, and he wouldn't lose his composure so easily.
Shuichi Akai endured his discomfort and continued to ask: "She's a robber."
"What? A robber?"
Lin Yi was shocked, and he hurriedly distanced himself from Akemi: "Officer Sera, I really am just friends with benefits with her, you have to believe me!!"
Shuichi Akai said coldly, "Then answer my questions truthfully! When you went to her house, what was that thing you were carrying that looked like a stick?"
"Stick?" Lin Yi frowned, then suddenly realized, "Oh! You mean the painting tube."
"Painting tube?"
"Yes." Lin Yi nodded and said, "She said she really liked painting, so I specially bought some cheap paintings on the market and took them to her house, pretending they were painted by me."
"Pretending?" Akai Shuichi frowned even more. He narrowed his eyes, then tapped the table with his fingers, and said in an unkind tone, "You said pretending?"
"Yes..."
Lin Yi didn't seem to notice that Akai Shuichi's emotions were a bit off. He continued, "I'm just a high school student, where would I have so much time to paint? Just going to class and club activities takes up most of my time."
"..."
Akai Shuichi took a few sips of coffee to extinguish the anger in his heart.
After regaining his composure, he continued, "Then tell me, how did you two meet?"
"My girlfriend is very close to her, so I got to know her," Lin Yi said.
"So... you saw that she was beautiful, so you became lustful and deliberately approached her."
Akai Shuichi's calm gaze was mixed with a strong killing intent.
"That's not the case."
Lin Yi shook his head: "She took the initiative to approach me."
"Hmm?" Akai Shuichi frowned after hearing this: "She took the initiative to approach you? Be more specific."
"After we met once, not long after, she called me and said she wanted to go out with me to talk about my girlfriend."
Lin Yi said: "After meeting, she asked me to treat Kanai well, otherwise she wouldn't let me go."
"Of course I nodded and agreed..." After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yi said with some annoyance, "Actually... my girlfriend had already warned me not to get too close to her."
"But I just couldn't control my curiosity. I felt she was a bit mysterious, so I deliberately tried to get close to her."
"The number of times we went on dates alone... wasn't actually that many, only twice."
Lin Yi said: "During the dates, she said she really liked painting and felt that painting could represent a person's depth of thought."
"Fortunately, one of my previous girlfriends especially liked painting, and I learned a lot about painting from her, so I had something to talk about with her."
"I specially bought some paintings on the market, intending to find a place to have a good chat with her and take our relationship a step further."
"However, she took the initiative to invite me to sit at her house."
Speaking of this, Lin Yi spread his hands and said: "The meaning is obvious enough, right? Of course I agreed... and specially brought a bottle of red wine."
"After that... I went to her place a few more times, as for what happened, I think I don't need to say it, Officer Sera, you should understand. A man and a woman, alone in a room, it's a matter of course, right?"
"Hmm..." Akai Shuichi tightly squeezed the handle of the coffee cup, feeling a little annoyed in his heart, but his face remained calm: "And then?"
"Then... one night, after we finished, she suddenly said to me that if one day, if the police came to ask for her alibi, she wanted me to help her make a false alibi."
Lin Yi looked regretful as he said this: "I knew there was no such thing as a free lunch..."
Akai Shuichi understood that Akemi was leaving a backup plan for herself regarding the robbery.
He asked: "Did you agree?"
"Of course I agreed... I already slept with her, how could I not agree?" Lin Yi said helplessly: "I'm not a cold-blooded animal, abandoning someone after having my way with them."
After hearing the words "abandoning someone after having my way with them," Akai Shuichi almost couldn't control himself and wanted to press that brat to the ground and beat him up.
"It's just that the police didn't come to me later, and I didn't go to make an alibi..." After a pause, Lin Yi said with some emotion: "I didn't expect her to die..."
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