What made Fujiwara Yuu most suspicious was that if the victim, Hiromi Kitagawa, intended to commit suicide, why did she ask her husband to go to the convenience store to buy snacks? She knew she couldn't eat them, so why did she go through all the trouble?

Following this line of reasoning, there are two possible answers: First, the victim intended to commit suicide and put the blame on someone in the house, and she deliberately asked her husband to leave to ensure that he would not be regarded as a suspect by the police.

Second, Kitagawa Takahiro knew that Kitagawa Hiromi would die, so he lied that his wife wanted to eat some food and drink, creating the most perfect alibi for himself during the time period of the fall.

According to the current clues, Fujiwara Yu is more inclined to the second one, but he has not yet inspected the crime scene or listened to other people's descriptions, so he cannot easily draw a conclusion.

"I'm Chie Inoue, a close friend of Hiromi's. Around the time of the incident, I was playing games with Sayuri in the living room." Pointing to a carpet-shaped controller beside her, she continued, "We were dancing in the living room until Chongyu came running upstairs in a panic, asking where Hiromi was. Then we knocked on the bedroom door, only to find it open, leading to the balcony, and no one was inside."

If they were playing games, they wouldn't be able to hear any movement from the balcony.

But now that Fujiwara Yu's case has been treated as a homicide, even if the people present have alibis, they cannot clear themselves of suspicion... Because it is not difficult to make a delay device on the balcony, as long as no one goes to the bedroom, no one will notice anything wrong.

Therefore, the suspicion of this person named Inoue Chie cannot be ruled out.

Fujiwara Yuu looked at the next suspect, Kakizaki Sayuri, who pointed her finger in a rather silly manner and asked:

"Officer Takashi, should I say something too?"

"certainly."