Chapter 2166 2177 [Case Closed] Asking for monthly votesヽ(〃〃)~
After a brief stalemate, the pretty boy took the lead and looked at the player with the earrings: "Kijima, you must hate that Saijo guy, right?"
Kijima snorted, "Now that things have come to this, let's not beat around the bush. No one in the entire club likes him, including you, right?"
For the sake of himself and his own happiness, the pretty boy kept attacking: "But there is a difference between hate and resentment. At most, we have some grievances with him, but he squeezed you out of your representative status and even changed your career to become a swimmer, completely giving up your future."
This was undoubtedly a ruthless move, and the police officers looked at Kimura Hisahisa with suspicion.
A trace of cold sweat slid down Mudao Jiu's forehead, and then his eyes became fierce, and he fought back with a more fierce move: "I do hate him, but don't you hate him too?"
He suddenly pointed at the pretty boy and said, "For example, you! You are obviously married, but you are still having an affair with President Saeki. I remember that Saijo has several photos of you dating the president - you have been getting poorer and poorer recently, isn't it because he blackmailed you and gave all your money to him?"
The pretty boy's heart trembled and his face turned even paler.
President Saeki looked at him distressedly, but before she could say anything to comfort him, Kijima looked at her again: "And President! When Saijo failed to blackmail you, he spread a lot of negative opinions about you, hoping to ruin tomorrow's opening ceremony. That guy is used to being arrogant and never hides his bad deeds from others. Everyone knows these things, and you have a motive to kill him!"
Inspector Megure: "..." Well done. He signaled with his eyes to Officer Takagi: Remember this!
Officer Takagi started writing quickly.
His other colleague was also busy. The door of the venue opened and Officer Sato walked in pushing an old man in a wheelchair.
Jiang Xia noticed the movement and turned to look: "This is..."
Miwako Sato introduced, "This is the painter I just mentioned who lives across the street. He is very concerned about what's going on here and said he wanted to come and take a look."
Although the crime scene was off-limits to outsiders, first-grade students were already running around, and the painter was an important eyewitness after all, so Sato Miwako turned a blind eye and brought him in.
As soon as the old painter came in, he looked around with shining eyes: it was obvious that he was more interested in this glittering glass venue than the murder case.
Then he walked around with interest and felt something was wrong. He turned around and suddenly found that many eyes were focused on him.
Old painter: “…”
He laughed dryly and got down to business. The old painter unfolded a painting he brought with him and said, "This is the scene at that time - it should be around 8 o'clock in the evening. I saw someone diving here, so I made a rough draft based on the scene at that time. It's not detailed yet, so you can just take a look at it."
Jiang Xia walked over and looked at his painting. It was indeed a picture of a person diving, with a diving platform and a full moon bigger than a person in the background.
Judy looked at him and felt that this was a coincidence: "Why did you choose to draw this scene? Did you have a premonition that something bad would happen?"
"Of course not." The old painter waved his hands repeatedly, "I would paint a few strokes at that time every day, but who would have thought that today's painting would become a portrait of a young man... Alas, it's also his own fault. He insisted on diving with the lights off. I couldn't see anything clearly. No wonder he had an accident."
After a pause, the old painter changed his words: "But speaking of this, it was precisely because the lights in the venue were turned off today that I was inspired to add a full moon to the painting. I have a feeling that this will be the most beautiful and artistic of all my paintings!"
"Dancing with the lights off?" Others were puzzled. "Why turn off the lights?"
"Alas, that's not the point."
The old painter waved his hands vigorously, immersed in the ocean of art alone: "The point is that the scene is really beautiful! Even his face is shining, and with the arc of the dive, it's just like a meteor sliding across the moon!
"I was overwhelmed by the scene at first sight, and ideas came to me like a spring - I want to name this painting "Leap in the Moonlight", it is really a memorable scene."
Jiang Xia nodded thoughtfully.
Now that we have all the clues, it's time to get off work.
After seeing off the excited old painter, he looked at the three people who were still bickering next to him and said to Inspector Megure: "I think I know who the murderer is."
The murderous aura of the three people froze: "?!"
Officer Takagi came over, ready to act at any time.
Before the suspects could react, Jiang Xia said quickly: "The murderer first found an opportunity to knock Mr. Nishijo unconscious, and then put earplugs used for practice on him. After that, he took the deceased to the diving pool and tried to create the illusion that 'the deceased accidentally hit the diving platform while practicing diving.'
"When the police find a body that has been knocked unconscious and drowned, they will go to the edge of the diving platform to collect evidence, looking for traces of flesh, blood and hair left over from the impact.
"But even if the lights were turned off, people outside could still vaguely see the scene on the diving platform. So the murderer couldn't really bring the victim to the diving platform and let him fall. To fill this loophole, the murderer put a swimming cap on the victim and then hit his head through the swimming cap.
"With the swimming cap as protection, even if the police did not find flesh and blood on the diving platform afterwards, they would think it was because the deceased was wearing a swimming cap, instead of thinking that the diving platform was not the collision site."
As Miwako Sato listened, she couldn't help but clench her fists: This audacious murderer actually dared to plot against the police in this way.
Jiang Xia: "Also, regarding the eyewitness. The old painter paints at a relatively fixed time every night, and since he can see the venue from his balcony, it is not difficult for others to see him in turn.
"So the murderer actually knew the painter's painting schedule a long time ago. Taking advantage of this, the old painter became the murderer's witness without knowing it, and provided the police with testimony that 'someone practiced diving alone at night.'
"With this testimony, combined with the only body in the pool, it would be easy to see that the deceased accidentally hit his head and drowned while practicing diving alone at night.
"But human behavior is difficult to fully predict. For example, the murderer might not have expected that the old painter would not only be invited to the scene, but also reveal the key clue that the victim jumped into the water with the lights off.
"When the lights are turned off at night, you can only see people diving in the moonlight from outside. You can't see what the divers look like. Even their skin color will be blurred."
Jiang Xia: "That is to say, the person who jumped into the water that the old painter saw was not the deceased, but the murderer himself."
(End of this chapter)
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