Chapter 2660 2672 [Case Closed] Request for monthly ticket (`)
"Every Christmas, Mr. Zhengying would lead the visitors to this corridor. He would turn off the lights first, and then when he turned on the lights, a Christmas tree would suddenly appear in front of everyone, as if a huge Christmas tree had appeared out of thin air."
Jiang Xia looked at the group of magicians: "Only the person standing next to the mechanism room can control the mechanism and make the corpse appear and disappear according to his will - that is to say, when they talked about the 'Christmas Tree Magic' just now, Mrs. Masakage and Mr. Iida already knew who the murderer was. That's why their expressions became strange and they immediately stopped the topic."
"I see..." Inspector Megure finally understood why these magicians were all riddlers who only spoke half of their sentences.
Suddenly he thought of another thing: "But I remember you said that the person who proposed to have dinner here was Mr. Iida... Could it be that he and Mr. Xinghe colluded to murder their fellow disciples?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "When Mr. Xinghe proposed the dinner, he probably didn't have the intention to kill. What really made him want to kill was probably the magic trick the deceased mentioned after coming here - 'Witch Resurrection'."
"What witch resurrection?" Xinghe Douwu suddenly spoke, and he snorted coldly, "That magic should be called 'Demon King Resurrection' - that's the name that Mr. Zhengying gave this magic."
Inspector Megure didn't know what kind of magic this was and was a little confused.
The two high school girls next to them remembered it clearly. They were surprised and asked, "Are you saying that this magic trick was not created by Ms. Himemiya, but by Mr. Masakage?"
"Of course." When mentioning that fellow disciple, Xinghe Tongwu frowned and showed a look of disgust:
"After hearing what she described, I understood everything. Things like 'tying herself to the cross facing the audience' and 'asking the audience to tighten the ropes while the flames burn'... This is exactly a copy of the teacher's 'Devil Resurrection'! - She must have secretly read the teacher's magic notes and got the idea and inspiration from them."
"Although the magic trick was feasible to a certain extent, it was very dangerous. So even though the teacher liked it very much, he eventually gave up the performance and asked us to keep it a secret and never let this magic trick appear in the world."
Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure couldn't help but interrupt and said, "In other words, the deceased just wanted to steal her teacher's ideas - you could report her, expose her, and use more formal means to punish her... but why did you have to kill her?"
Mrs. Masakage sighed, "Zhenzi is the last student to join, and 'Demon King Resurrection' was a magic trick created by my husband before she joined - so normally, Zhanzi should not have seen it."
Xinghe Tongwu glanced at her and said apologetically, “Just now, in order to protect me, Master’s wife said that the magic notebook left by Master Zhengying was hidden in an unknown corner of the database... But in fact, that notebook has always been carried by Master and never leaves his body.
“But ten years ago, the teacher said he forgot the magic notebook somewhere, went out to look for it, and then he never came back.
"When Himemiya mentioned the magic of 'Witch Resurrection' just now, I was very concerned, so after everyone went their separate ways, I called her to the teacher's study to ask her about it."
"And then she..." Xinghe Tongwu clenched his fist angrily, "She shamelessly admitted that she was the one who stole the notebook ten years ago."
"She was so proud of her stealing speed that she said something like, 'I was just playing a joke on him and I'll give the notebook back to him when he gets home. But he was so upset that he never came back.'
'But think about it, the magic teacher who always encouraged me and wanted me to surpass him didn't even notice that I stole his things - he is so slow, as a magician, it's time for him to retire.'"
Hoshigawa Dougo: "When she said something shamelessly, 'Next, I will show the world the unpublished magic of Master Zhengying! If our teacher who is hiding somewhere sees this, he will probably be happy.' I finally couldn't help but picked up the vase next to her. And then..."
He didn't want to recall this experience, so he closed his eyes and sighed: "When I came to my senses, I saw Himiya Nobuko lying on the ground with blood all over her head, motionless.
"In a panic, I suddenly remembered the Christmas magic that my teacher often used, so I used it to set up the scene, trying to pretend that an outsider had broken in and committed the crime."
Jiang Xia walked to the window and tapped the heavy iron vase with his fingers. He sighed and said, "Is this the weapon you used to kill people? The blood in the cracks at the bottom hasn't even been wiped clean."
He turned around and looked at the black shirt on Xinghe Tongwu: "There's blood splattered on the clothes too. Speaking of which, you should be thankful for the black clothes you wore today - if it was a different color, you would have been exposed the moment you appeared in front of everyone as if nothing had happened just now."
Xinghe Tongwu was stunned and looked down at himself.
On the spotless black shirt, a few light stains appeared without knowing when. He reached out and gently twisted it, and the sticky touch of blood climbed up his fingertips.
He looked at the evidence and finally couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The evidence is really everywhere. There are so many loopholes, and a carefully prepared performance ended like this... I am really a failed magician."
Amidst the miserable sound of the wind, Xinghe Tongwu was taken away by the police.
Hashimoto Maya felt that her heart had died as well: "..." There are only two magician candidates here. Now that you've been caught, are you going to leave your brother, who has a weathered face, stubble, and a chin wider than a bottle of vodka, to me?
"Although Lord Usa has never clearly expressed his hiring standards, look at Suzuki Sonoko and Conan, look at the twins, and look at the beautiful secretary who climbed through someone's window in the middle of the night... I don't even need to test Iida Riki's skills. Just looking at his face that even his mistress finds suspicious, I can conclude that this man has absolutely no chance of getting a job on the island."
Hashimoto Maya counted and found that she had missed one: "Oh, the only special one is Izuka Saburo. But he looks a lot like Vodka. Rather than a subordinate, Izuka should be classified as a tool to tease Vodka. But Iida Riki doesn't look like anyone, so there is no way he can be admitted as an exception..."
As she thought about it, Hashimoto Maya looked at Xinghe Dougo with a resentful look: Look at you, you can leave so much evidence even after killing a powerless woman... Can't you just stand up for a poor interviewer like me!
...Alas, now that things have come to this, I can only give up on this unpromising guy and change the direction of my efforts.
(End of this chapter)
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