Chapter 2135 2146 [Good Citizens]
Jiang Xia reminded him: "The handle of the knife is covered in blood."
Inspector Megure suddenly understood - when a normal person stabbed with a knife, they would hold the handle with their hand to stop the blood, but this handle was stained with blood.
After they finished looking at the knife, the forensic officer brought another evidence bag: "Several masks were stained with blood to varying degrees, all at the corners of the mouth - this one had the most blood."
Jiang Xia took a look at the mask and saw blood splattered on half of the mask with the mouth as the center. It looked like the mask had bitten through a human artery.
Forensic police officer: "The blood must have been splashed. The mask must have been very close to the victim at the time of the crime. And the angle is a bit strange, it splashed from the front, it looks like..."
He didn't dare say the following words because they were too unmaterialistic - judging from the blood splatter, it was as if the mask had bitten the victim to death.
Inspector Megure didn't think from a supernatural perspective: "Maybe the murderer happened to be wearing this mask when he committed the crime. Humph, that guy found so many masks and scattered them on the bed, it must be to confuse us and make us lean towards the legend - we are police officers, how can we be fooled by such a trick!"
After saying this with great passion, Inspector Megure's tone weakened again when he remembered that he had no idea who the murderer was. He cleared his throat nonchalantly and said, "Right, Brother Jiang Xia."
Jiang Xia nodded politely.
At this time, Sato Miwako came into the house with a chill on her body. She blew a breath of warm air into her palms and rubbed them while saying, "We searched the yard and the nearby woods. There were no footprints on the snow, and the snow had stopped yesterday evening. This means that no one except the police had entered or left the villa before and after the incident."
Jiang Xia looked at the crowd of onlookers who were watching the show with their ears perked up and said, "So the murderer is among us."
Everyone: “!” Damn, I still can’t dodge it…
Fortunately, everyone had seen many cases and was mentally prepared. At this time, they just became more vigilant towards the people around them.
Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief - it would be easy to deal with if he was not an outsider, he just needed to check the people in the house.
but……
"Not counting Jiang Xia and the others for now..." Inspector Megure glanced at Hashimoto Maya as she saw him looking anxiously, "With Mr. Hashimoto, the people in this room last night included photographer Katagiri Masaki, baseball player Matsudaira Mamoru, secretary Inaba Kazuyo, fortune teller Chang Ryoharu, rock singer Aikawa Touya, and two twin maids..."
Seven people?
How can there be so many!
Naoko Torimaru glanced at the anxious Masumi Takamori and said, "This house will be separated into east and west sides at night. Mrs. Sufang's bedroom is on the third floor, and it can only be reached from the west, so the murderer should be among the people on the west side."
Hashimoto Maya: "..." This woman is stealing the job of detective assistant again! What does she want to do? Is she really a colleague?
Inspector Megure's eyes lit up when he heard this. He took the statistical chart given to him by Torimaru Naoko and calculated: "The people living in the west are you, the secretary, the photographer, the baseball player, the fortune teller, uh..."
Five people is still a lot.
...But it's better than the seven just now.
Inspector Megure wiped his face and had to work diligently. Fortunately, he was familiar with the other processes, and there didn't seem to be any big differences among the three, five, or seven steps.
He simply stopped breaking down the details and gathered everyone in the restaurant, then asked about the alibi as usual: "Where were you all doing at 2:30 yesterday morning? Can anyone prove it?"
After saying that, Inspector Megure secretly glanced at Jiang Xia and found that Jiang Xia was distracted by the two maids.
Inspector Megure then also looked over and randomly pointed to the one who was closer: "Ms. Shimokasa, you speak first." The two people looked too similar, and he couldn't tell them apart. Fortunately, they had the same surname, so it must be correct to call them that.
Takamori Masumi, who was picked out first: "......!!" Why did the policeman call her so early? Did he suspect something? !
While she was panicking, she simply said in a trembling voice like a poor passerby who rarely encountered a murder case: "I...I stayed in my room and slept until Mr. Hashimoto came to call me."
Hashimoto Maya glanced at her: "..." This was a lie - when he went there, the woman was obviously not in a state of just waking up, she looked like she had already eaten some melons.
But he didn't point it out: there were only him and the maid in the room at the time, Conan was thrown away, and there was no third person to testify. Even if he did, the maid could change her story and say that she was awakened by the noise, couldn't sleep and didn't dare to go out, so she was waiting in the room very awake.
Of course, more importantly, Hashimoto Maya now suspected that the two maids were Uzo's people - although Conan, the king of rolls, always pitted him and seemed to be not shy about internal fighting. But Hashimoto Maya was new to the job and was not sure of the scale, so he did not dare to send his colleagues under the police's noses right away.
To be safe, he said nothing and just looked at the sky silently.
Without a third party interrupting, Inspector Megure didn't realize anything. He only heard that this was the maid who was with Jiang Xia and the others - on the east side, the people here were not suspicious.
He then relaxed a little, and his tone was no longer so serious: "After Mr. Hashimoto found you, you went to the mask hall together to open the door?"
Takamori Masumi thought about all her eighteen years of life experience, and finally managed to stabilize her weak and helpless appearance. She nodded: "We went to the kitchen to get the key first - the key was hanging on the wall in the kitchen, and then went to the mask room to open the door."
Inspector Megure suddenly realized: "The key is actually shared? That means even people from the east can run to the west to kill people at any time?"
Takamori Masumi was startled and said quickly, "There are two doors between the east and west, and there is no way to get through with only one key!"
"Oh, that's right." Inspector Megure felt a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and looked at others, "What about you?"
I turned my head casually and saw the direction of Hashimoto Maya.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Could it be that this police officer still subconsciously finds him suspicious? Damn it, he's a good citizen!
Feeling a little indignant, but being watched by a group of police and detectives, the skilled worker in Tokyo Bay Land Reclamation could only speak honestly: "I received an internal call from an unknown person in the room in the middle of the night last night. I was so panicked that I didn't know what to do, so I went to wake up Jiang Xia and the others..."
He described what happened last night in detail, and then said, "After meeting up with the maid, we entered the mask hall and found that the shelves on both sides were empty. The 200 cursed masks were gone."
(End of this chapter)
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