many of Omiura’s customers engaged in multiple register trades if they were dissatisfied, and it was this fact that finally jogged Kido’s mind into a realization. The suggestion that X, aka Makoto Hara, had foisted his family register on Shozo Tashiro, making a mentally handicapped vagrant adopt the identity of an infamous murderer’s son, had nagged at Kido, making his drawn-out game of detective seem futile. As naive as it was, he simply could not reconcile that deed with the kind husband that lived in Rié’s
