Event 90: Slight investigation

In the middle of a long and crowded hallway Haruta stood by the side of a window looking inward in complete silence.

Nobody paid attention to Haruta, the doctors and nurses passed by the black-haired man but not a single one looked at him, it was as if he practically did not exist, it was all due to the use of the camouflage skill that had allowed Haruta to sneak in to see the Yamamoto's situation.

"..... Kuk ....."

Just on the other side of the large glass Yamamoto lay on a stretcher with his eyes closed connected to several machines of various kinds while his body was wrapped in different gauze and his head was bandaged.

Haruta calmly entered the room to take a closer look at his friend, Yamamoto's left arm had traces of a large burn and his entire body had various bruises at various points.

Haruta's hand couldn't be tighter than right now, her fingernails were embedded in her palms leaving behind a slight line of blood that spilled onto the ground in drops.

It was difficult for Harute to see his best friend in that state without knowing who was responsible for such an atrocity.

Sitting in a chair Haruta was silent for a moment looking at his friend who showed no signs of regaining consciousness "The doctors had to sedate him so that he did not wake up, treating him awake would be a problem and the consequences of what happened will be more problematic but he is the only one who knows who is responsible "

Between whispers Haruta could tell where Yamamoto's belongings were being kept. "These are Yamamoto's things or at least what is left of them," Haruta muttered, checking things out a bit.

"This is ridiculous, if it were an assault there would be no need to hit him until a murder attempt, burning his arm or even hitting his entire body is not something that an assailant would spend his time on, there is something more to it"

Haruta was silent a moment longer as he tried to recall the last conversations he had with his friend.

"Yamamoto's injuries and condition are not the product of an assault, this is much more behind, it is more as if he was tortured, the people who did this were looking for something, something that Yamamoto had and was important"

"Yamamoto is a very peculiar person who dreams of being a reporter and wants to show the truth to the world, the last time we saw each other he said something about investigating something special and that he was nearing the end of his investigation"

"If my assumptions are correct, those responsible for this are also involved in the Yamamoto investigation, they stole his phone and all his belongings to make sure they took everything that could instill them ...."

As Haruta continued to mutter aloud to blow off steam and search for clues about those responsible, an idea soon lit up his head.

"The computer in Yamamoto's house!"

"It is impossible that Yamamoto will keep all the information on his laptop, the backups must be in his house and perhaps the identities of those responsible can also be"

Haruta got up from his chair and quickly left the room without giving his friend another glance, just seeing Yamamoto's condition caused more than a negative emotion in his head, controlling his impulses later would be very problematic for what he had. you keep calm and cool head.

Returning to the common room, he comforted Yamamoto's parents for a moment, got the key, and together with Kiyoko they went to Yamamoto's house.

"I thought your friend's room would be a little more different than usual" Kiyoko commented upon seeing Yamamoto's orderly room.

A clean, cozy room that only had a bookcase, a bed, a desktop computer, and a microwave oven on one side.

"It is because you do not know how to appreciate the peculiarity of Yamamoto. All the books in that bookstore are quite unusual, that is, they are old or they include advanced computing topics, that microwave oven is nothing more and nothing less to eliminate chips or memories in a short period of time, and this computer here is really a monster in disguise "Haruta said, turning on the computer.

The home screen asked for a password, there was nothing strange but haruta knew very well that Yamamoto had thought of the people who could infiltrate his computer.

"You can take out the hard drive and check it on your Haruta laptop." Kiyoko was going through the books while glancing at what Haruta was doing.

"That is what I should do but it is sure that Yamamoto already had all that thought, anyone can take out a hard drive to check it on another laptop, any password would be useless then" Haruta started to think and gave a look to all the room "Yamamoto is not so stupid to leave the information on his computer, he has to have something here where he keeps everything ..."

"But you were the one who said he would be on the computer" watching as Haruta was focused on his thoughts, Kiyoko decided not to continue claiming and just crossed her arms to wait.

'Books? .... No, it's too classic from movies, it should be a more obvious but more difficult place to think .... Microwave oven, window, door, floor, ceiling, under the bed, nightstand, clothes ? Where could you have hidden all the information? '

Haruta's train of thought was running at full speed to search for the next clue, soon Haruta's gaze focused on the bed.

"So he's in bed then?" Noticing Haruta's gaze, Kiyoko was the first to react following Haruta's gaze

Haruta on the other hand just smiled as he walked to the head of the bed "Yes and no"

"Yes and no?" Kiyoko asked fixing her glasses without understanding what Haruta was referring to.

"If he is in bed but not necessarily in the bed itself, but rather in the bed bases" Haruta gave a movement with his hand quickly inverting Yamamoto's bed "The USBs are inserted in the bed bases, they are all made of wood and hidden. Obviously Yamamoto was not conducting safe investigations so he had more than one enemy in the city and as expected he knew that one day the inevitable will happen "

"Shall we review them?" Kiyoko asked curious to see the contents of the USB

"Sure, we'll take a look at it, but it won't be right now, let's go home before we start checking everything" Haruta kept the USB sticks in his jacket and left the bed as it was before "Let's go"

"I follow you..."