I intend to HIGHLIGHT the old rich couple and LANDLORDS, the Setas that got murdered and their vast property burned to the ground last year. Almost behind my other house, the area was alive for a week with Media assholes, Media helicopters hovering about and Media 70,000 yen a day rental limos, blocking the Kawagoe Kaido for kilometers.
Local biddies were whispering in every nook and cranny of the area and although the cops stood by for a couple of weeks, they got tired of picking their hairy noses and decamped leaving one or two of those typical useless " Looking for witnesses " hand written billboards that in fact cover the most important spots that need to be open for cycles and wheelchairs alike to see the traffic clearly.
Like the Pachinko SHOGUN murder a few years back in the infamous HAPPY ROAD OYAMA aka MISERY ROAD OYAMA, not a whisper and the POLICE most probably know who did it in both cases but do nothing because whoever murdered both the Seta couple and the poor (?) schmuck on the Pachinko outer stairs in full public view, might just be one of them or related to them...
The SETA old geezers were famous for not trusting banks to of course public servants and had a lot of stash laying about in their large old style house. According to the gossip, they wasted a of minimum 100,000 yen per day on Pachinko and NOMIYA. The woman looked like what I call a SHONBEM GEISHA one of those old whores that entertained the McArthur GI's and the guy, a more quiet type, must have had a few MIZUKO around cos he looked like the bad ass type that went after young local girls, banged them and made them pregnant. The part about the old guy is speculation by me and some others : Everybody has a different opinion on the Seta couple, their activities and their perverted habits. We know that 'Opinions are like ass holes in that everybody has one'. Some even have two and some got their ass holes widened from being banged in the arse. Just like the opinions I keep on hearing every time I ask a different person about the SETA SATSUJIN JIKKEN.
I used to love to pass by their property. Beautiful old majestic trees where all sorts of birds sang, insects chirped and the whole view was enough to make a GAIJIN imagination run back to Meiji period. The main gate, always chained, too was unique pseudo European.
For me a touch of corrupted history. A fat cat too was often looking at me from inside that gate every time I took a pic of the it in a different season. Never as much moved a little bit. Just staring. Gossip goes that the cat died in the inferno that proceeded the murder. I got pics of it -the cat I mean.
But there was a white cat , that often followed me every time I passed by and went on stalking me up to the main station ( Naka Itabashi ) as if it had something to tell me. Once I reached the station area, it just sat in the middle of the alley and watched me going about my life. As time went by, I found that the local sushi shop, a local virago house, a barber and who knows who else, owned a cat like the Seta white one. They all shared the same looks except the Seta cat (SETANIYAN) as I called it, had almost humanoid features and almost every time I went by, it followed me from not too afar till the same spot, the alley by the station. The Sushi shop cat I named SUSHINHIYAN, the old virago's SHINNHIYAN cos the virago name plate started with a SHIN and the Barber's NOCCENHIYAN because it was in a barber shop and the famous opera, Figaro the barber of Sevilla title in Italian.
SETANHIYAN, I found out to my delight, is still around and has a smaller version with it. Although the area stank of burned wood and more for months - still does - yellow 'Do not cross' police tape is everywhere and in need of replacing. SETANHIYAN doesn't stalk me anymore although he approaches me and meows too. Maybe it was trying to tell me about the murder...
The SETA had official property from their house to Ikebooo station everywhere to the value of 90 OKU yen. Parking lots, buildings, some not in prime real state but well placed. The area from GEKIJO DORI till KANAI KUBO in Itabashi was the scene of the pre-war black market. Yakuza controlled. Use your imagination and it was ten times worse that you imagine. The SETAS took, filched and threatened their way around like the Komiyas and other now big fat landlords in my area. Families were literally wiped out during the Yankee air raids, some were Korean of origin and Hinin or ETA too. They were exterminated by the KEMPEITAI long before the yanks decided to torch EDO. The SETAS as the good hyenas they were, just registered the properties, bribed a few OHYAKUNIN and lived happy ever after until someone, I suspect, with a thirst for revenge or just greed, murdered them. How much of the stash they took out of the Mayhem, not even the cops, if they know are telling. A few million were left behind according to newspapers and the locals.
The property all is there. The other estate, not to mention the one I am not including here that goes all the way to Kawagoe doubling the sum I mentioned before, are still there BUT who is administrating it all? What will happen to the fortune? Some say the Itabashi Ward in collaboration with the Tokyo Government ( Ishihara Shintaro the depot ) including are wriggling their paws in anticipation. ( TEMOMI 手もみ) in Japanese. Pity I am not a tenant of the SETAS or I would stop paying the rent and see who'd show up to collect.
Can't let it all go like that into the Cold Case cardboard box to grow dust. The Statute of limitations means just that : It fills up buzzards like SHINTARO', Itabashi and Toshima Wards fat cats deep pockets. SHININ NI KUCHINASHI ( the dead don't talk ) is the all too popular creed scumbags use and they often get away with murder, LITERALLY. The blog novel I intend to publish monthly, I am hopping to wake the ever too silent but very curious public interest in the case. ZAPP the media and cops awake . I only fear that, like has happened in the past, the cops and the Koan etc., will lay the blame on some poor innocent bastard like the ASHIKAGA murder case, just to satisfy the public and the MoJ ( Ministry of in-Justice ) quotas but what has to be done has to be done. After a lot of thinking, the right way to do it is to write the SETA MURDER - Ask the cat ... Blog novel. It will be my way to pay back to SETANHIYAN for not having heard it's pleas BEFORE the murder happened.
I am a one legged GAIJIN with a conscience. The worst kind. If the REAL murderers and their accomplices in the POLICE and other PUBLIC SERVICES will be even more rattled it is worth the effort. Animals and plants of all sorts will be the main whistle blowers in this comedy mystery novel. From crows to snails, trees to wild plants, stones and even houses will be the WHISPERERS and guides to the real culprits. A sort of WATERSHIP DOWN fable. Fiction or non-fiction, parody or pure finger pointing, it's all up to the imagination of the few that will read the monthly rant.
All depends on the guilt some might feel, causing FEAR because inside us, we all have ( Not me I hope ) a ' I should have seen it coming and did nothing about it guilty conscience.
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