Chapter 1912 1920 [Passersby Suffer]
This kind of heavy blow is enough to make an ordinary person's wrist swell for several days, but it has no obvious effect on Hashimoto Maya.
But Hashimoto Maya still let out a hissing sound, and her grip on the sword loosened as if she could no longer hold it, and the sword fell to the ground with a clang - very good, there was no need to kill anyone, and it was not him who broke up this murder scene!
Hashimoto Maya suddenly felt a sense of relief that she had survived the disaster, and her eyes couldn't help but glance towards the door.
However, the black shadow had disappeared, just like a low-key director who only gave instructions when the actors went astray, and usually hid behind the scenes without a trace.
The others were all puzzled by Ming Mei and looked at her in surprise: in the actors' impression, this police inspector often came into contact with the theater troupe in the name of patrolling, and naturally he had seen the rehearsal of this scene of the drama.
In other words, Naruto should have known that it was a fake sword, but her reaction...
Jiang Xia walked forward and looked at the sword on the ground: "The murderer who killed four people in succession and called himself 'Santa Claus with red beard' is this police officer who can't be seen."
“?!”
Fuwa Narumi's breathing suddenly stopped and she stared at Jiang Xia.
Everyone on the stage was still confused, but they all took a step back and instinctively stayed away.
In the audience, Matsumoto Kiyonaga was also stunned for a moment: "..." He thought he was just here to help calm the situation and prevent those self-righteous local tyrants from covering up the truth... But now, how did the police officer commit the crime? ?
After a few seconds, Narumi Fuwa came back to her senses. She suppressed the trembling of her fingers and lit a cigarette as if nothing had happened: "Just because I dodged a sharp blade, you want to convict me? - Humph, don't forget, I'm a police officer. It's my instinct to disarm, even if it's a fake prop sword. What's the problem with that?"
Jiang Xia ignored her explanation and continued, "Before the performance began, you took advantage of your position to replace the prop sword hanging here with a real sword, and coated it with poison as a second insurance policy. If the female leader did not drink the poisoned wine in the first act of the death drama, then according to her character, no matter who died, the performance would continue, and the poisoned sword that was expected to stab the female leader would take her life."
"I see." Matsumoto Kiyonaga, "But it's too dangerous to use this sword as a tool..."
Jiang Xia showed an apologetic look: "Mr. Hashimoto is a prop master. I originally thought that he would be able to find the problem and would not really stab it. Who knew that he would actually..."
Then he turned to Hashimoto Maya and said, "You really didn't want to stab anyone at first, why did you suddenly change your mind later?"
Hashimoto Maya met his gaze and her heart skipped a beat: "?!" Why is it involving me again!
He thought Jiang Xia really just wanted him to act out his feelings out of consideration for his feelings, but now... now it seems that this was actually a silent test by Jiang Xia? !
Hashimoto Maya froze for a moment, and suddenly felt that it was so difficult to survive: if he did not follow Uzo's pace and messed up his stage, he would be targeted and persecuted more severely; but if he followed Uzo's pace, he would immediately arouse Jiang Xia's vigilance... Damn it, what did he do wrong to end up like this!
In an instant, Maya Hashimoto suddenly missed Ireland very much.
——If Mr. Ireland were here, both Uzo and Jiangxia would definitely choose this new target over their own insignificant substitute.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." But think about it carefully, even if Mr. Ireland really shows up, he will definitely not take the risk himself, but let his confidant take the risk in front...
Maya Hashimoto felt as if she was standing next to a bottomless whirlpool, and both her body and soul were on an express train to the underworld.
Just when his desire to live was plummeting, a voice pulled him out of the abyss.
Jiang Xia seemed to suddenly think of something.
He sighed: "Oh, I almost forgot, not only did Fuwa police officer treat Mr. Hashimoto as a murderer, he also killed his companions... Maybe Mr. Hashimoto saw something from Fuwa police officer's expression, and he couldn't hold back in the moment of impulse."
Hashimoto Maya: “!”…That makes sense!
Matsumoto Kiyonaga also nodded: "It's good that no one was stabbed."
Jiang Xia was very close to the stage just now, and now he has walked next to Fuwa Narumi and Hashimoto Maya. I think even if Fuwa Narumi failed to dodge in time, Jiang Xia would still attack.
It was just a small mistake made by the young man, and it did not cause any bad consequences, so Matsumoto Kiyonaga did not make a big deal out of it. He waved his hand and said, "Continue solving the case."
Jiang Xia nodded: "After all, Fuwa Police is an outsider in drama, and he made a small mistake in this matter - during the performance the night before yesterday, I saw a reflection on Conan's lens, and that beam of light seemed to be reflected from the decoration on the jewel hilt.
"But in theory, all props used in a play must be treated so that they do not reflect light. Many guests recorded videos at the time, and those videos must have contained images of the murder weapon."
Fuwa Narumi snorted coldly: "Even if it really exists, why do you say it is my sword?"
After a pause, she recalled the people she had come into contact with when she customized the sword, and then she continued, “To put it another way, even if it was really me who put it there, that sword was not a murder weapon.
"Don't forget, the woman died because she drank the poisoned wine on the stage. There were five glasses of wine on the stage at the time, and she was the first person to take the wine. She could have chosen any one she wanted. Could I have cast a spell on her to make her choose the poisoned wine accurately?"
Jiang Xia suddenly looked at Hashimoto Maya.
Then, under the other party's suddenly alert gaze, he said to Fuwa Narumi: "You did cast a spell on the female leader's script."
Fuwa Narumi's expression suddenly changed.
Jiang Xia: "I remember that no matter it was a rehearsal or a formal performance, the female leader always took the glass of wine in the middle. She is a very experienced old actor who has a photographic memory of the script. Therefore, she has developed a habit of starting to read the script two days before the performance.
"You just need to write a note like 'take the middle glass of wine' in her script in advance, and she will think that this is the effect the scriptwriter wants, so that she can accurately take the poisoned glass of wine among the many glasses of red wine."
Having said this, he suddenly looked at Hashimoto Maya again.
Hashimoto Maya: “!”
After the new younger brother showed some self-protective murderous intent, Jiang Xia continued, "Mr. Kurosawa was killed precisely because of this - during the rehearsal, the female group leader held the script in her hand, walked up to him and scolded him in order to stop him from filming.
"We were rehearsing the drinking of the poisoned wine scene, and the female group leader's script was open to the page with the annotations, and it was captured by the camera.
"Although you destroyed her script afterwards, Mr. Kurosawa's videotape unfortunately became irrefutable evidence. He therefore became a target that had to be silenced."
(End of this chapter)
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