“The young care worker who came in to help him had testified that he’d appeared dazed for a few days before his death. The overdose might have been an unfortunate mistake caused by the onset of dementia symptoms, and it was also possible that he had taken his own life. It had, however, been established that Motomatsu had had large sums of money squeezed from him by Kajii, that he was having doubts about her pinned on her reluctance to get married, and that he had been adopting a more confrontational approach, putting pressure on her and acting the detective as a way of establishing how serious her intentions were. Kajii had been seeing multiple men at that point in time, which made it hard to be certain, but it seemed probable that the pasta in the photograph had been made for him.” (Asako Yuzuki, Butter)
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