Chapter 1757-1764 [Don’t blame me]
Maybe the comment of "not a serious person" triggered some key words of the brewery. The murderous aura of Amuro Toru floated out faintly, slowly dissipating in the night, which was very refreshing.
Jiang Xia was stunned, then looked at Kenzo Tajima and suddenly felt that he was much more pleasing to the eye than before.
But now that he has murderous intent, he is useless.
There is still work to do tomorrow, Jiang Xia said bluntly: "Your skills and identity do fit the police's description of the 'Edo Boy', and the itinerary of your troupe and the Edo Boy almost completely overlaps.
"Ito Tamonsuke grew up in the troupe and is very familiar with your skills and abilities. He probably guessed that the thief Edo Boy was hiding in the troupe. But he couldn't be sure who that person was, so he wanted to adapt the script and use it to find the person and make him surrender.
“But he is not the only one who has noticed this.
"When Ito Tamanosuke asked the screenwriter to help him adapt the script, the deceased screenwriter also guessed the situation while collecting information. He even guessed more. He accidentally learned the specific identity of the Edo boy.
"The disk of the screenwriter not only contained the script with innuendos, but also probably contained relevant information about Edo Boy. He used these things to blackmail Edo Boy, but he was killed by him instead, and the contents of the disk were cleared.
"After this incident, Ito Tamanosuke knew that it was a troupe member who killed another troupe member, and he further confirmed that the Edo kid was indeed in his troupe. He felt very complicated and wanted to solve the matter in his own way, so he wrote the threatening letter from the second murder scene, hoping to use it to lure out the real 'Edo kid'."
The more Tajima Kenzo listened, the more he felt something was wrong, so he interrupted him sharply, "This is just your speculation. There are many people with good skills among the people. Why do you only look for them in our troupe? Maybe someone is using our troupe as a cover and hiding behind them to laugh secretly - I saw that the golden-haired guy just now was very skilled, and he actually paid so much attention to the movements of me and the troupe leader. Maybe the Edo kid is him, he is the Edo kid!"
Toru Amuro: "..."
Fortunately, although Toru Amuro doesn't like to be on camera, as the boss of the agency where Jiang Xia works, he is often seen in the Investigation Section, and no one takes the dirty water thrown by Kenzo Tajima seriously.
Inspector Megure was not idle during this period. After the murder, he collected a lot of information related to this theater troupe, including the story of the "Edo Boy".
He thought for a moment and said, "According to the registration, the only people in the troupe who have that kind of skills are Ms. Shirai Yuri and Mr. Murakami Ryuichi. However, their alibis at the time were very solid, so they were successfully cleared of suspicion."
Jiang Xia pointed at Kenzo Tajima who was standing right in front of him and said, "Is this veteran actor not a suspect?"
Inspector Megure nodded. "Although he taught the other two young actors, he has suffered from back pain since a mistake three years ago. Since he has not performed stunts for three consecutive years, and there is a hospital diagnosis to prove it, we ruled him out."
At this point, he thought of the chase he had just seen from afar, and felt a little guilty: "Well, although it seems now that we may have ruled it out wrong..."
Jiang Xia nodded and looked at Kenzo Tajima again: "Some back injuries can be recovered. And in the first murder case yesterday, the only people who had the chance to kill the screenwriter were you and two other young stuntmen.
"Because the troupe is seriously short-handed, each of you will play two roles. You and Ms. Shirai Yuri need to go backstage to change clothes, and the male actor needs to use Naraku. During this time, the three of you will disappear from the audience's sight and can do whatever you want, legal or illegal."
"The 'Naraku' of this theater building is very deep. If the actor wants to reach the location within the specified time and ascend to the stage along the Naraku, he must keep on going. He has no time to go backstage and attack the screenwriter.
"In other words, in the first case, only you and Ms. Shirai Yuri had the time to commit the crime."
Tajima Kenzo's eyes lit up: "Then it's obvious, excluding me, the murderer is Shirai!"
When Shirai Yuri heard the news, she hurried over and heard these words.
She was stunned for a moment, a little at a loss: "Master..."
The actor was also stunned.
But even though Tajima Kenzo's reaction surprised him, he still felt that the murderer was not his two acrobatic colleagues: "Let's put the screenwriter aside for now. You can't put the blame on Master for the financial manager's incident! She accidentally fell into Naraku and died.
"We all received the note that said 'Come to the stage at 24:00, or I'll expose your true identity'. Judging from the handwriting and the way the message was left, it was written by the leader himself - there's no way the master forced him to write it!"
When Inspector Megure heard this, he suddenly frowned, thinking that this guy was a little suspicious:
"Wait, how do you know that the note was written by the captain to you? It clearly says 'Ito received' in romanization at the beginning. Anyone who sees it will think that it is a letter written by someone else to Ito Tamonsuke."
The actor snorted. "What do you know? That's the captain's habit of leaving messages. The first few letters are not the Romanized '伊東へ' at all, but the English 'I to E'. The 'I' in the front refers to the first letter of the captain's own surname, and the 'E' at the back must refer to a person with an 'E' in his name. But none of us has an 'E' surname, so it must refer to 'Ｅ多小子', which also starts with E.
"Edo-chan is the villain of our play, and I am the actor who plays him. In other words, this letter is written by him to me, 'Ito to Edo-chan'!"
Jiang Xia: "But he gave a copy to everyone."
The actor encountered something that he couldn't understand, and his momentum stagnated: "... Then I don't know. I received the letter yesterday, and when I thought that the head of the group actually spoke to me in this tone, I was very angry and didn't want to talk to him. So I deliberately stood him up and went to the pub to drink."
Jiang Xia: "You were right not to go. The letter was actually sent to the real 'Edo Boy'."
The actor was stunned: "The real Edo boy...you mean the Phantom Thief?! Impossible, how could the leader know such a person! "
He had just been staying in the hotel and had just rushed to the arrest site near the hospital not long ago, so he missed a lot of classes.
Although Yoko Kinoshita was also on this trip, she received a lot of information from Jiang Xia, so she whispered to the actor and explained the previous situation.
(End of this chapter)
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