"If that's the case, where did Mrs. Shibata hide during this time?" After hearing a series of reasoning, Yokomizo Sango couldn't help but ask for details again.
"It's probably around the corner of the upper floor. Even if I can't see it there, I can still hear the noises coming from my room downstairs."
Tang Ze chuckled and said, "Although the first group of people to visit were not Mr. Yoshikawa, but us."
"What about the photo?" Yoshikawa Takezo pointed at Ikenami Shizuka standing nearby and questioned, "Before Mr. Shibata died, he was holding that person's photo in his hand, right?"
"Well, that's very simple."
Tang Ze glanced at the uneasy Shibata Kyoko and said meaningfully, "That's Mrs. Shibata's way of diverting attention and hiding the evidence pointing to her!"
"Evidence?" Tang Ze's words startled Yokomizo Chanwu, but then his expression brightened. "You mean, Mr. Shibata left behind decisive evidence before he died?"
"That's right, Detective Yokomizo, please take a close look at Mr. Shibata's left hand." Kogoro Mouri's words made everyone's eyes unconsciously focus on the bandaged hand.
"This, this is..." Yokogami Chanwu took a closer look and suddenly realized, "The bandages on his fingers aren't stained with blood! There's clearly blood on the palm of his hand!"
"Next, please look at the palm of your right hand."
Yokomizo Sango picked up Mr. Shibata's right hand and looked at the palm. There was a bloody semicircular ring there. He was shocked and said, "This... Could it be..."
"Yes, this is the 'real death message' that Mr. Shibata left before Mrs. Shibata replaced the photo!"
Tang Ze looked at the pale-faced Shibata Kyoko and said in a deep voice, "What Mr. Shibata was holding at that time was the wedding ring that symbolizes the two of them being husband and wife!"
In the room, as the two of them reasoned, each sentence pierced through Kyoko Shibata's defenses like a knife.
When Tang Ze mentioned the wedding ring, which was the key evidence, she broke out in a cold sweat. She wanted to speak out in rebuttal but her dry throat made it impossible for her to utter a word.
But even if she could speak, she didn't know how to defend herself at this moment.
In Kyoko Shibata's opinion, these two famous detectives seemed to have the ability to go back in time and saw through everything she did.
She tried her best to stop it, but she was too weak to move. She could only listen to Maori Kogoro recount her actions as if it were a reconstructive of the incident:
"Mrs. Shibata returned to the house and found that her husband had not fallen in the entrance hall but had moved again. Naturally, she checked to see if he had left any evidence pointing to her as the culprit.
Sure enough, after checking, she saw that the wedding ring that her husband had originally worn on the ring finger of his left hand was missing.
After checking, she found that the wedding ring was held in her husband's right hand, so she immediately took out the ring pointing to her.
She wanted to put the ring back on her husband's left ring finger, but the body was already extremely stiff, so she had no choice but to take the ring away.
But in this case, the gesture of the husband's stiff right hand is very strange, which makes people easily think that he may have caught some important evidence.
With a sudden inspiration, Mrs. Shibata remembered the photo she had called to find and held it in her hand.
She used a bandage to hide the ring mark on her ring finger, and also bandaged her index finger to make it less noticeable.
"As for what you hold, it doesn't really matter. As long as the evidence doesn't point to you, that's enough."
Tang Ze spread his hands and said, "But the embarrassing thing is that Ms. Ikenami happened to come to our house today, and that photo happened to be of her younger self, so Mrs. Shibata unintentionally set a trap to divert attention."
Realizing that this was a very important piece of evidence, Yokomizo Sango immediately directed the trace examination personnel at the scene to remove the bandage from the deceased's hand, and then immediately collected evidence from the ring mark on the ring finger.
"Yoshi! Immediately have someone search the room for the ring!" Yokogami Chanwu immediately gave the order, "Search thoroughly! Don't miss a single inch!"
"There's no need to be so troublesome. I think the ring should be in Mrs. Shibata's hands." Maori Kogoro's voice interrupted Yokomizo Cango's order, and at the same time made Shibata Kyoko's face turn even paler.
"Even if bloodstains are cleaned, they will still be detected by the luminol reaction. This is common knowledge in crime dramas.
Knowing that the criminals would arrive soon, she was not sure she could hide the ring without being discovered.
Of course, the stairwell, a temporary hiding place, is also subject to criminal search.
So the safest thing is to carry it with you, and then find a place to dispose of the ring after you've dealt with the criminal."
Tang Ze walked up to Shibata Kyoko and slowly extended his gloved right hand. "Then Mrs. Shibata, please give me the ring that Mr. Shibata was holding before he died."
Kyoko Shibata slowly stretched out her right hand and placed the ring in Tang Ze's hand.
This is truly a piece of evidence of extreme irony.
Because the ring was always worn on his hand, Mr. Shibata was able to hold the ring in his hand before his death, leaving a message of death.
It was clearly a proof of love between two people, but in the end it became the key evidence used by Mr. Shibata to correct Mrs. Shibata.
"Heh, people... after all, shouldn't do bad things..."
Shibata Kyoko laughed at herself, then looked at the bald man and asked, "Why is it so unfair?
Why have you and my husband been doing such bad things for so long without being exposed?"
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