Takagi Wataru was looking at these character-related products with great interest. Just as he was enjoying them, he noticed a change in Takagi Sosuke's expression from the corner of his eye and quickly waved his hand.

"Inspector Takashi, I'm not interested in that kind of stuff! I have a friend who really enjoys watching anime and tokusatsu. He'd drag me to Akihabara on his weekdays, so I learned a little bit about it."

"friend?"

Fujiwara Yu has the right to suspect that Takagi Shigeru is putting the blame on someone else, using the classic "I have a friend" rhetoric. He doesn't think there's anything shameful about liking this kind of thing, as human interests and hobbies are very broad.

Since these things were created, there must be a reason for their existence.

Seeing that Takagi Sosuke didn't believe him, Takagi Shigeru had no choice but to betray his friend "to prove his innocence":

"His name is Chiba Kazunobu, a junior I met at the Beika Police Station. Oh, and he recently transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division. He's the one who loves hamburgers!"

After hearing Takagi Wataru's explanation, Fujiwara Yu's mind also emerged the slightly plump young man whom he had met several times. If he remembered correctly, his eyes were quite big, and every time he saw him, he seemed to be eating hamburgers. It can be seen that he really loves hamburgers.

"He, I do have some impression of him."

After walking around the room and finding no useful clues, Fujiwara Yu went straight to the room at the end of the corridor. When he opened the door, he smelled a strong stench of corpse.

The victim was not wearing lolita clothing, but a very ordinary home clothes.

The beautiful boy who didn't dye his hair or wear anything colored obviously didn't meet the appearance characteristics of a foreigner.

If there is anything special, it is that her room is quite clean. No matter the walls, ceiling or floor, even the desk does not have those two-dimensional style ornaments. It can be seen that the person using this room is not interested in spending money on peripherals.

The bedroom is smaller than the previous two rooms. It should be a guest room rather than the master bedroom.

"It's really strange. None of the three sisters look like foreigners. Why are they called this name?" Takagi Shigeru scratched his cheek, completely unable to figure out where their surname came from.

Fujiwara Yu bent down to examine the victim lying on the ground. There were many white pills scattered in front of her body. Judging from the corpse spots, her death time should be the earliest.

He reached out and picked up the bottle of medicine on the ground. It was a blood pressure-boosting drug used to treat low blood pressure.

"Pre-hypertensive drugs? That's not right. I remember there was a shopping receipt for anti-hypertensive drugs in Andrade's room." Takagi Wataru came over and saw the words on it, and asked with some confusion.

Shopping receipt for blood pressure medication?

Upon hearing this, Fujiwara Yuu immediately examined Sophie Pattison's body and found that it indeed met the symptoms of death from shock and hypoxia. It seemed that the murderer had replaced her blood pressure-increasing tablets with blood pressure-lowering tablets, which caused shock.

But in this case, the murderer of Sophie Pattison must be her sister Andrew Pattison?

"Takagi, check the room to see if there are any receipts for the purchase of tetramethylene disulfone tetramine."

"Okay." Takagi Shigeru was about to start the search when he realized what Sosuke Toji meant. He widened his eyes in surprise and said in disbelief, "Inspector, are you suspecting... that they killed each other?"

"I don't rule out this possibility, but I still think it's a bit strange."

If the two sisters killed each other, why did Garcia Pattison die? What role did she play in this case is a mystery that needs to be solved.

Five minutes later, as expected, another unopened bottle of rat repellent was found in the drawer of the desk. This, like the shopping receipt for the antihypertensive drugs, was the decisive key evidence.

Takagi Shigeru frowned as he looked at the rat repellent in his hand and expressed his opinion:

"Inspector, could it be that Miss Garcia, seeing her older and younger sisters dead, panicked and fell down the wrong stairs and died?"

"No, if she missed the stairs, she would most likely have rolled down or landed face down. However, her fatal injury was on the back of her head, which doesn't seem to fit the description... She couldn't possibly have walked down the stairs backwards in that situation, could she?"

"Well, that's true."

This case is so bizarre, so bizarre that it's a bit dramatic.

Fujiwara Yu turned to look at Yonehara Sakurako, who had been standing at the doorway and hadn't come in. Noticing the hesitant expression on her face, he stepped forward and asked:

"Ms. Yonehara, if you have anything to say, please feel free to speak up. It might even be helpful to the case."

Yonehara Sakurako had been wanting to say something but not daring to. After hearing what Takagi Sosuke said, she whispered:

"Um, Officer... Actually, Miss Sophie's real name is Chiho Yamazaki. I call them that because Miss Garcia and Miss Andrade asked me to. You can call them by their real names."

pseudonym?

No wonder the three sisters don’t have any foreign features at all. It turns out that these foreign names are pseudonyms they came up with themselves.

With the explanation of Sakurako Yonehara, Fujiwara Yu and Takagi Wataru learned the real names of the three sisters: the eldest sister Yamazaki Chiho, the second sister Yamazaki Aki and the third sister Yamazaki Yasuza.

"This is bringing role-playing to reality." Takagi Shigeru muttered softly. He didn't expect that the last name Pattison was just a pseudonym. She really worked hard to fit the setting of the heroine of this otome game.

Fujiwara Yu rubbed his temples with a headache. He did not continue searching in the room, but went back to the crime scene of the victim, Gasia... No, it should be the crime scene of the victim, Yamazaki Aki.

He wanted to re-investigate the place, feeling that as long as he could resolve the incongruity of Yamazaki Aki's death scene, he could solve this tragic case of family annihilation.

He walked down the stairs and noticed water stains near the wall, though they weren't very obvious. Why were there water stains here, and... they looked a bit sticky.

Just when Fujiwara Yu was wondering where the water stain came from, Tsuda Usho, who had just finished his investigation, stepped on the water stain, making Fujiwara Yu's already stern face even uglier.

"Inspector Takashi, I just visited the entire neighborhood. All the residents at home said they didn't see any suspicious people. I also got a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Fujiwara Yuu had a sullen expression and showed no desire to make a choice. He put his hands on his waist and said coldly:

"If you have something to say... just say it."

He still suppressed the curse words that were about to come out of his mouth, otherwise he would definitely say "If you have to fart, do it quickly. If you don't, get out of here."

Tsuda Usho noticed that Takagi Sosuke's face was not very good, and he immediately put away the smile on his face and said seriously:

"Then I'll tell you the good news first. The good news is—"