"Ugh——!"
Suddenly.
Nakajima Takuto heard Akikawa Sosuke let out a muffled groan and immediately covered his mouth.
Immediately after, he bent over the side of the bed and vomited up all the breakfast he had just eaten with a "wah" sound.
Nakajima Takuto watched Akikawa Sosuke, who was violently vomiting and coughing by the bed into the wastebasket, and his heart once again felt a mix of emotions.
When a person is under excessive psychological stress, it can cause physical discomfort leading to vomiting.
This is something that often happens during criminal case interrogations.
At this point, it could be confirmed that Akikawa Sosuke was truly on the verge of collapse.
Nakajima Takuto came to Akikawa Sosuke's side and gently patted Akikawa Sosuke's back.
At the same time, his tone became gentle and soothing.
"I'm really sorry, Akikawa-kun."
"I didn't want to see Akikawa-kun like this either. I'm truly doing this for Akikawa-kun's own good."
"There is one thing I must confess to Akikawa-kun. Actually, I am not a nurse at this hospital, but a Detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Investigation Department First Division."
"I guarantee you as a Detective."
"As long as Akikawa-kun tells me what happened yesterday, I guarantee that you will not face a very severe punishment."
"After all, the first one to make a mistake was Your mother, and you only just became an adult yesterday. You still have a long life ahead of you."
"If you keep hiding the truth, then when the Police catch you with evidence, the severity of the punishment will be completely different."
The whip had been used enough; it was time to offer candy.
Nakajima Takuto was absolutely confident.
Akikawa Sosuke, having received his decisive final blow, would definitely give up on hiding and confess his crimes to him completely.
As expected.
Nakajima Takuto noticed that Akikawa Sosuke's back, which had been trembling non-stop due to violent coughing,
suddenly stopped trembling after hearing him say, "the one who made the mistake was Your mother, and you only just became an adult yesterday."
"Rea... really?"
About a minute passed before Nakajima Takuto heard Akikawa Sosuke say to him in a hesitant tone.
"Of course! I wouldn't lie to you!"
Nakajima Takuto's heart rejoiced, and he quickly said.
He was indeed not deceiving Akikawa Sosuke.
If Akikawa Sosuke confessed honestly now, it could still be considered a surrender.
But when the Police obtain evidence and then make an arrest, the punishment would be much more severe.
However, there was one thing he didn't mention.
That was that the Police had not yet found definitive evidence that Akikawa Sosuke killed Akikawa Ryoko.
Therefore, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's detention period for Akikawa Sosuke was at most 48 hours.
Arresting him was even more impossible.
What Nakajima Takuto was displaying at this moment was absolute confidence that the Police had already obtained definitive evidence.
Only this way.
could he make the young man in front of him believe that he was truly thinking of him.
Akikawa Sosuke slightly raised his body and used the towel Nakajima Takuto handed him to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes caused by vomiting and coughing, as well as the saliva remaining around his mouth.
Then he said softly:
"Your mother had planned a long time ago to go out and celebrate my 20th birthday."
"Mhm, keep going."
Nakajima Takuto urged in his mind.
Although he showed no expression on the surface and still maintained his initial gentle and kind appearance.
But inwardly, he was extremely excited.
This case was finally coming to an end.
A case that even DetectiveSera Masumi, Officer Chiba, and Officer Sato couldn't solve.
He had touched victory in just one morning.
With this achievement, his promotion to Police Sergeant would surely be within reach.
"After finishing the celebration outside, Your mother drove towards home, and I was sitting in the passenger seat."
"That's right, just like that!"
Nakajima Takuto's heart grew more and more excited, and he forced himself not to let a smile show on his lips.
Akikawa Sosuke's confession would be completely recorded on the voice recorder, and that recording would then become the greatest evidence to replace the weapon.
"When we were passing by the National Highway, a motorcycle suddenly darted out in front of Your mother's car, so Your mother slammed on the brakes."
"Hmm? The braking wasn't caused by Akikawa Sosuke?"
Nakajima Takuto felt confused. It seemed his judgment on this point was slightly off.
But it wasn't a big problem.
"After Your mother braked suddenly, for some reason, the car suddenly lost balance and crashed into the guardrail on the left side of the road."
"Hmm, this should be a rear-end collision by the car behind."
Nakajima Takuto nodded and muttered to himself.
All of Akikawa Sosuke's descriptions matched the facts known to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
He was certain that Akikawa Sosuke wasn't deceiving him.
"I hit my hand because of the sudden brake, and my head was also in a daze from hitting the headrest. I don't really remember what happened then, but it seemed like the car door on Your mother's side was suddenly pulled open."
"Huh?!"
Nakajima Takuto was stunned and felt that something was wrong.
"That person was wearing all black clothes, and it seemed like it was the person on the motorcycle."
"Wait, wait! What are you talking about?! Shouldn't this be when you took out a knife and stabbed Your mother while she hadn't figured out what was happening yet?"
Nakajima Takuto felt more and more that the situation was developing incorrectly and started complaining loudly in his mind.
"Anyway, the person wearing all black clothes had a helmet on, so I couldn't see their face. Then that person suddenly took out a knife and stabbed Your mother many times."
"After Your mother stopped moving, that person then pried open my mouth, forced some kind of pills I didn't know into me, and then hit my head. When I woke up again, I was already in the hospital."
"What kind of joke is this!!"
Nakajima Takuto could no longer hold back and directly roared out.
He had thought Akikawa Sosuke wanted to honestly confess his crimes to him.
He never expected that at this point, he was still making up stories for him!
Nakajima Takuto felt like he had been played.
He no longer pretended to be kind, and directly grabbed Akikawa Sosuke by the collar, bringing his face close to Akikawa Sosuke, and said angrily:
"You killed Your mother! You murderer!"
"You bought sleeping pills in advance, prepared a dagger, and planned to kill Your mother and then commit suicide on the day you were taken out by Your mother to celebrate your twentieth birthday."
"You killed Your mother with a knife after the car accident and then swallowed sleeping pills to commit suicide."
"But you didn't know that sleeping pills are actually very difficult to be lethal, and you luckily survived!"
"This is how you committed the crime, isn't that right?!"
Akikawa Sosuke's face was already pale.
Now, being held by the collar by Nakajima Takuto, he was even more terrified and completely drained of color.
His already red eyes became moist again, and his voice also began to turn hoarse and tearful:
"What I'm saying is true! my mother was killed by that person on the motorcycle!"
"Nonsense!!"
Nakajima Takuto roared again, interrupting Akikawa Sosuke.
"No one else's fingerprints were detected on the dagger or on Your mother's body at all! Where did the person on the motorcycle come from? Pure nonsense!!"
"Then if no fingerprints were detected, how did Mr. Nakajima determine that I am the murderer?"
Akikawa Sosuke's light question, however, caused Nakajima Takuto to freeze instantly.