"What?"
The officer who was so confident just a second ago suddenly became flustered, and his tone rose slightly, "Your shoe prints are mixed in with those shoe prints too?"
"Shh..." Uncle Mori looked around and, seeing that no one was paying attention to them, explained, "The reason we came here is because we received a request from the deceased, Ryoko Morozumi."
“She said there were suspicious people loitering around in the middle of the night, so she asked us to come and investigate,” Hattori Heiji continued, “but the woman told us that it was just her being neurotic and canceled the request.”
"Later, we waited outside her house for a while," Uncle Mori said truthfully without thinking too much about it. "A strange man who claimed to be a feng shui master came to see her."
"We had no choice but to run out into the yard and observe the situation inside through the window, and we made a very unusual discovery."
"Oh?" Officer Gong Chang calmed himself down and asked, "What's unusual about this?"
"That man seems to have an ambiguous relationship with Ms. Ryoko. He searched the room in a mess in order to find a videotape that proves their relationship!" Uncle Mori's tone suddenly rose.
"Mouri, why are you shouting so loudly? I could hear you." Inspector Yuki took a step back, looked at Uncle Mouri, and said sarcastically, "As I see it, your behavior is much more unusual, isn't it?"
"Huh?" Uncle Mori realized what was happening and immediately felt a little embarrassed.
"Alright, you don't need to say anything more." Officer Gong Chang patted Uncle Maoli on the shoulder and said to the group, "You guys will also need to leave your shoe prints for the police later."
Upon hearing this, Uncle Mori swallowed hard, turned to look at the hands on his shoulders, and asked, "No, really? Are we suspects too?"
Looking at Uncle Mori, whose expression seemed a little off, as if he were an idiot, Inspector Yukichi explained speechlessly, "I'm telling you, Mori, you should know that you're doing this to distinguish your shoe prints from the arsonist's, right?"
"Oh...I see." Uncle Mori coughed lightly, trying to ease the awkwardness.
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