Chapter 12 My neighbor is…… (Ch 12)

The police soon withdrew and took away Kenzo Hirota’s body. Even so, the residents still felt uncomfortable because a murder had occurred in the apartment building, and they asked the landlord to move out.

The landlord was considerate and did not argue. He readily refunded the rent to the tenant according to the remaining days. After careful consideration, Mochizuki also chose to check out. No one likes to live next door to a crime scene.

As for whether the landlord would cover up the news and rent the apartment to someone else in the future, that was not something Mochizuki could consider.

With the returned rent, Mochizuki found a new apartment in Asuka-cho. Like the previous apartment, it also had an outside staircase, three floors in total, and three rooms on each floor. He moved into Room 202 on the second floor.

“Here are the keys. Take them and don’t lose them, or you’ll have to pay for the lock changes.” The landlord was still an old woman with permed cauliflower hair and rings on her hands. She handed the keys to Wangyue and said, “After all, no one would feel at ease living in a room where they have lost their keys before, so we have to change the locks.”

“Okay, I’ll be careful.” Wangyue took the key.

At this moment, a woman came up from downstairs. She was wearing big black-framed glasses and had bangs. She was probably in her twenties or early thirties. She was carrying a lot of things in her hands, as if she had just come back from shopping.

The landlady saw the girl and greeted her with a smile, “Miss Huiyuan, you’re back!”

“Yeah.” The woman nodded slightly but didn’t say anything.

Miss Huiyuan? Hearing this surname, Mochizuki looked at the woman carefully. Who knew that after seeing the woman’s appearance clearly, Mochizuki was stunned for a moment. This woman…isn’t she Miyano Akemi?

She changed her name to a fake one? But… isn’t the last name Huiyuan a little too coincidental?

The woman also looked at Wangyue and was also stunned.

Mochizuki was not mistaken, the woman was Akemi Miyano who had fled with her sister. She naturally could not guess that Mochizuki was the god of death who helped the two sisters. Her only impression of Mochizuki was that she had met him once in the apartment building where Kenzo Hirota lived when Kogoro Mori took her to look for her relatives yesterday.

The landlord asked in confusion: “Why? Do you know each other?”

“No, I got the wrong person.” Wangyue smiled.

Mingmei opened the door and entered the house. The landlord said to Wangyue, “She just moved in this morning. She brought a little girl with brown hair with her. I heard she is her sister. They just came back from abroad and have no place to live…”

The positioning mark on Akemi’s body had not yet expired. Mochizuki checked and found that the person was indeed Miyano Akemi.

Isn’t this too much of a coincidence? I just moved randomly and ended up living next door to the Miyano sisters?

But that’s not a bad thing.

…

In Room 201, a little girl with brown hair stood facing the door, seemingly waiting for her family to return.

The little girl was the shrunken Miyano Shiho. After Mingmei entered the room and closed the door, she asked slowly, “Who was that person just now? Do you know him?”

Mingmei looked towards the window and immediately understood. The window here faced the corridor just like the door, and Shiho must have been hiding behind the curtains and observing what was happening outside.

“I don’t know her, but I’ve seen her before.” Mingmei explained: “I asked Detective Maori to find my missing accomplice, and that young man happened to live in the same apartment building as my accomplice. His name is Mochizuki, and he seems to be a classmate of Detective Maori’s daughter.”

Xiao Zhibao asked again: “Did he recognize you just now?”

My sister and I are being pursued by the organization, so we must not be recognized. Even if Mochizuki doesn’t know her sister’s true identity, if she recognizes her sister as Hirota Masami, it will also cause serious consequences.

“Don’t worry, it’s okay.” Mingmei smiled and reassured Shiho, but she herself was on guard because Mochizuki’s eyes seemed to have discovered something. “What we really need to worry about now is the money. In order to avoid being discovered, I definitely can’t use the money in the card. And the cash I brought with me is almost gone.”

Shiho asked, “Sister, do you mean to find a job?”

“It doesn’t necessarily mean finding a job, but you have to find a way to make money…”

…

It was getting late, and Mochizuki went out to have dinner. On the way back, he was still thinking about the fact that Akemi and Shiho lived next door.

“By the way, people in country R seem to have the habit of bringing gifts when visiting relatives and friends after moving. Should I also follow the local customs?” Thinking of this, Wangyue went to a roadside dessert shop to buy some pastries. He didn’t expect that he could buy Chinese desserts here.

It was completely dark when he returned to the apartment building. He first visited the neighbors on the first and third floors to give gifts, and they all accepted the gifts politely. Then he went to Room 203 on the second floor.

201 is Mingmei’s residence, 202 is his own residence, and Mochizuki has never seen the resident of 203.

I knocked on the door and heard a voice in unstandard Japanese, which sounded like a man, “Who is it?”

Wangyue looked surprised. A foreigner?

The door of Room 203 opened, but not completely, only about ten centimeters. The resident inside showed half of his face and watched the situation outside the door vigilantly.

When Wangyue saw that half face, she was sure that the resident of Room 203 was indeed a foreigner. This person had a face full of flesh, was half a head taller than Wangyue, and looked full of hostility.

“Hello, I just moved here. My name is Wangyue. I live in Room 202 next to yours. Please give me your guidance!” Wangyue handed over the gift in her hand. “This is a small gift. It’s not a token of respect.”

“Hmph. No need for my advice.” The man did not accept the gift. After saying this, he slammed the door shut, leaving Wangyue standing outside the door holding the gift box in a daze.

What the hell? I gave you a gift and you dared not to accept it?

Wangyue was a little angry. If you don’t want it, then don’t want it. Isn’t it better for me to keep it and eat it myself?

But then again, this foreigner’s behavior is a bit strange. Why is he so alert? He only opened the door a crack and didn’t like to interact with outsiders. Could he be a fugitive?

Wangyue couldn’t help but think of the neighbor who was the billion-dollar robber…

“Haha, that shouldn’t be the case. Maybe he’s just a foreigner with a weird temper.” Mochizuki left the door of Room 203 and came to the door of Room 201, which was where Miyano Akemi and Miyano Shiho lived.

After knocking on the door a few times, Miyano Akemi’s voice came from inside, “Who is it?”

“Hello, I am the resident of Room 202.”

The door opened, and Miyano Akemi was still wearing the same large black-framed glasses as during the day. “It’s you, what’s going on?”

Wangyue pretended to be clueless and smiled awkwardly, “My name is Wangyue, I just moved here. I heard that people in R country seem to have the habit of bringing gifts to visit relatives after moving, so I bought some gifts, please accept them…”

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