"What did you find?"
Guangyou leaned forward and glanced at the lines of black text on the report. He felt like he was back in his school days, taking math class, where he couldn't understand anything anyway.
Let me first introduce you to toad venom.
Ai closed the test report and said to Guangyou, "Bufotoxin, also known as bufotoxin-3-octanoylarginine ester, has a bitter taste and has a surface anesthetic effect when applied externally. It is used for toothache and can also relieve sore pain."
"Excessive intake of bufotoxin can cause poisoning, and in severe cases, death can occur within a few hours of the onset of symptoms."
These words made Guangyou ponder for a moment, but he couldn't figure out what connection it had with the deceased. After all, who would eat a toad for no reason? That would be courting death.
Guangyou looked up, slightly bewildered, and asked, "Is there any necessary connection between these two things?"
"Sigh, I just can't do anything with you."
Ai reopened the autopsy report, pointed to a line of text, and said, "It says the deceased had three cavities. Maybe she was having toothache at the time of the crime, and the murderer might have used that to get her to take an oral anesthetic, and then..."
Before she could finish speaking, Guangyou understood what she meant: the murderer might have taken advantage of the victim's toothache to render her unable to move, and then tied her to that cross.
"Officer Takagi, I have a lead."
Kōyū returned the test report to Takagi, then gestured for him to come closer. He leaned close to Takagi's ear and whispered, "The culprit should be Mr. Sonoda."
Before Kōsuke could voice his guess, Takagi interrupted him, his expression a mixture of disbelief and doubt. "Kōsuke, are you kidding me? Mr. Sonoda looks so heartbroken. Could he be the murderer?"
"As a police officer, you must never let personal feelings interfere with solving cases. You should know this."
This didn't happen to Kōyū, so as an outsider, he spoke of it without any burden, but Takagi found it somewhat difficult to accept.
He nodded, glanced at the man whose shoulders were trembling, and said in a weak voice, "But Mr. Sonoda looks really sad."
Guangyou also looked back. The man was looking down with his fists clenched, giving the impression that he hadn't come out of the situation yet.
"The acting is quite convincing."
If it weren't for the mark on his shoes, Kwang-woo might have actually been fooled by his performance.
He temporarily ignored Takagi's conflicted expression and his previous words, and instead asked Takagi, "Officer Takagi, what kind of case do you think this is?"
Since we've decided to have Takagi handle this, it's definitely not enough for him to just go up there and drag the criminal out on his own. The important thing is to help Takagi regain his confidence.
"nature?"
Takagi was successfully diverted from the topic. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I'm a little unsure, but I don't think the murderer killed for money, since the wedding ring is still on his hand."
Guangyou nodded in agreement and said, "That's right. Just as you said, that ring was designed three years ago by a jewelry master, Mr. Yingshan. It's very valuable. If the murderer killed for money, it wouldn't make sense if he didn't take the ring."
Takagi looked at Kōyū with surprise and asked, "Kōyū, you know about wedding rings?"
"Well..."
The point he noticed made Kōyū very embarrassed. Should he tell Takagi that he wanted to prepare for the future now?
"Judging from the condition of the clothes on the deceased, the murderer was not targeting anyone."
Guangyou decided to skip this difficult-to-explain topic and continued, "If it's not for money, and it's not for people, then there are only three possibilities left."
"First, it's about matters of the heart."
"Secondly, she has made enemies with other people, and they came here specifically to seek revenge."
"Thirdly, she was just unlucky; she happened to run into a brainless killer."
Takagi pondered for a while, and he had to admit that what Mitsuyu said was completely correct. He hadn't calmed down and thought about it deeply before, but now that he had sorted out his thoughts, he had also thought of these things.
"She's a journalist, so social skills should be her strength, and judging from her relationships with her friends, she should be quite popular."
Guangyou's eyes seemed to gleam, and he spoke without pause, "Her position isn't high, and she shouldn't have offended so many people in her work. It's unlikely to be her superiors, but it's possible among reporters of the same rank."
"However, the statement said that today's itinerary was proposed by the deceased on her own initiative, so her colleagues could not possibly have known about it, unless they were so deranged as to deliberately follow her."
Guangyou immediately ruled out this option and continued to explain, "It shouldn't be a murderer either. Anesthetic was detected on the deceased's body, and there were no needle marks on the outside, indicating that it was taken orally."
“If she doesn’t know this person, then as an adult she shouldn’t eat food from a stranger, so this option is ruled out.”
After listening, Takagi nodded repeatedly. Without needing Mitsuyu to explain the remaining option, he said directly, "Now there is only one possibility left, which is that they had a dispute over something in their relationship and ended up committing violence."
"But our investigation shows that their marriage is relatively harmonious, and her friends also say that they have a good relationship."
Takagi was suspicious. Based on the information he had gathered so far, he didn't think there was any reason between the two of them to kill each other.
Guangyou acknowledged this point, and the records of both parties in the transcripts serve as good evidence of it.
Sonoda Satoshi is 29 years old this year. He graduated from the Department of Commerce at the University of Tokyo. He started his own company at a young age. Although he is not top-notch in terms of economics, he has surpassed many people.
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