In less than five minutes, Chisuya Akihara had examined Mayumi Hakusu's body. After confirming that there were no needle holes, she walked out of the house and reported the matter to Sosuke Takagi.
The absence of a needle hole indicates that Mayumi Shirasu was not injected with an anesthetic and fell unconscious, but rather was knocked unconscious by the murderer using a handkerchief soaked in ether. Therefore, the time of death must have been between the start of Yumie Masami's recital and the discovery of the victim's body. Between these two timelines, Mayumi Shirasu's death could have lasted no more than forty minutes.
After learning this clue, Fujiwara Yu went back into the house and began to investigate. He carefully stepped over the glass fragments on the floor, looked around and locked his eyes on the window. You must know that the door lock was opened with the spare key just now, so if the murderer wanted to leave after committing the crime, he could only go through the window.
"The window is not locked, and there are traces of rain on the windowsill and the floor. It seems that the murderer is very likely to escape from here." As a traffic officer, Chisu Akihara rarely comes into contact with homicide cases on a daily basis, but she did not study in the police academy in vain, and she is still very good at basic logical reasoning.
Fujiwara Yu nodded, but he did not jump to conclusions directly, because the murderer could also deliberately open the window and create the illusion of escaping through the window, so he was more inclined to believe that the murderer was an insider rather than an outsider.
If they were outsiders, they would not be able to determine the procedures of Huanzou Pavilion unless there was a mole inside who was assisting him.
"Takashi, look over here."
Fujiwara Yu looked in the direction pointed by Akihara Chisuga. When he noticed that the floor was clean without any traces, a look of surprise appeared on his face. He quickly realized the murderer's method of committing the crime. No wonder there was such a loud noise.
But this does not eliminate anyone's suspicion, it only reveals the method of committing the crime.
Chihiro Akihara crossed her arms over her chest, turned her head to look at Sosuke Takashi, and suggested:
"We can now roughly determine how the murderer committed the crime, but there's no indicative evidence at the scene. How about...considering a body search? Who knows? The murderer might be so confident that he's hiding his tools."
"Well, a body search is necessary. You'll be in charge of the women and I'll be in charge of the men."
"Then you have a lot of work to do."
The only woman still alive besides Chizuki Akihara herself was the maid, Arisa Tachiki. Fujiwara Yuu shrugged his shoulders. His workload had never been easy. Ever since joining the Osaka Police Headquarters, he had been constantly busy at various crime scenes.
As the saying goes, those who are capable should work harder. Since you have the ability, you have to put in more effort.
After a simple body search, no suspicious items were found on anyone. The meticulous murderer would not keep any physical evidence on his body. It seems that the only way to start the investigation from other directions.
"Well, officers," Fukuoka Ichiya hesitated for a long time before questioning, "you've been treating us as suspects since just now. Is it possible... that the murderer isn't among us? And Miss Hakushu's violin is missing. While her violin isn't as good as Yuge-sensei's Testa di Do, it's still a very valuable violin!"
Fujiwara Yu calmly bent down and dragged out the violin case hidden under the bed. He had noticed it when he was investigating the scene, but he just didn't take it out.
He stood up calmly and looked at Fukuoka Ichiya, rejecting his idea:
"At first I also suspected that it was an outsider, but after seeing the crime scene, I was able to rule out this possibility."
"Why?" Murasame Shion asked puzzledly.
"If the murderer's purpose was to steal, he wouldn't have smashed all the vases, because after causing a noise, we would have rushed over as quickly as we did just now, which would have increased the possibility of him being exposed. In addition, the floor in the house was very clean and it was raining heavily outside. If the murderer came from outside, he would not have left no footprints at all, so we can rule out the possibility of an outsider committing the crime." Fujiwara Yu patiently explained to everyone. At the same time, he observed their expressions, but did not catch any other emotions except worry.
There was a noise coming from the stairs. Yuge Masami, who had not been at the scene, noticed that everyone was gathered there. He walked over and asked:
"What's going on? What are you doing here?"
"Teacher Yuge, Hakushu was murdered." Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Fukuoka Kazuya had to answer honestly.
Yuge Masami, who had no expression on his face from beginning to end, became emotional after hearing the news of Shirasu Mayumi's death. His eyes fell on the tragically dead body lying in the house, and he suddenly felt a pain in his chest.
"No, teacher, hold on!"
Arisa Tachiki rushed forward to help, but someone noticed Yuge Masami's abnormality before her. That person was Sosuke Takashi. He stretched out his long legs and directly supported Mr. Yuge who was about to fall. Noticing the pain on his face, he turned his head to look at Tachiki and asked:
"Does Mr. Yuge have a heart condition?"
"Yes, yes, I'll go get the medicine!"
After confirming the patient's condition, Fujiwara Yuya slowly squatted down to allow Yuge Masami to sit down, and asked him to lean his upper body back as much as possible to reduce myocardial oxygen consumption. After waiting for Arisa Tachiki to bring the medicine, he quickly poured it out for Yuge to take.
With the change in body position and timely medication, Yuge Masami quickly stabilized. After confirming that there was no problem, he was helped by two men to return to the room to rest.
"It's getting late, why don't you all go to the restaurant and eat first? I'll go heat up the prepared food."
"Well, thank you for your help."
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