Chapter 2967 2979 [New colleague? ]
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Wait, wasn't Jiang Xia just testing himself? How come in the blink of an eye, the key target has changed? - How many backup assistants does this detective have?
"Could this squinty-eyed guy also be my colleague?" Hashimoto Maya looked Okiya Subaru up and down and thought about it instinctively.
But soon, he felt that it was not the case: If getting close to Jiang Xia and then harming Jiang Xia was considered a job, then the current state of this graduate student could be described as passive resistance.
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When one employee secretly studies another employee.
Next to him, Subaru Okiya was forced to take up his post and answered Jiang Xia's question: "At first, each person had a glass of wine, but when we clinked glasses and sat down, Senior Togashi accidentally sat on the lame stool. In order to avoid falling, he subconsciously grabbed the tablecloth and in a panic knocked over the wine glass in front of the birthday boy.
"The bottle of imported wine has been completely distributed. In order to let the birthday girl have some wine to drink, Senior Togashi gave his own glass of wine to the birthday girl, so there are two wine glasses in front of her."
Miwako Sato nodded and added to Jiang Xia: "The poison was detected from the cup at the back. In addition to the fingerprints of the deceased and the restaurant staff, there were also fingerprints of Mr. Togashi, Mr. Okiya, and Ms. Kojima on the poisoned cup."
Jiang Xia: "So many people, have they all touched the same wine glass?"
Subaru Okiya finally came back to his senses from the sudden death of his birthday senior, and slowly remembered his job. He explained in a low voice: "When delivering the wine, Togashi-senpai handed the glass to Miss Kojima, who was closest to him, and then to me, and finally to the deceased."
Jiang Xia looked at him thoughtfully: "It seems that you have a good relationship with the deceased, so you sit next to him."
Okiya Subaru immediately remembered that in a murder case, the better the relationship, the easier it is to become the murderer. He couldn't help but reveal a bitter expression as if he was named by Usa: "It's not that good actually."
Hashimoto Maya noticed something and suddenly asked, "Who brought that bottle of wine?"
Okiya Subaru: “…It’s me.”
Hashimoto Maya said "Oh" meaningfully: "You didn't poison the wine when you poured it?"
"Of course not." The old professor who was watching with sadness nearby spoke up. He had already lost one of his favorite students and didn't want to lose another one for no reason. "After Okiya divided the wine into different glasses, we raised our glasses together to celebrate for Keiko. If he really poisoned the wine when he poured it, then there must be more than one student dead now."
Jiang Xia also nodded: "The murderer should be one of the people who left fingerprints on the wine glass. Speaking of which..."
He looked at Senior Togashi and said, "I remember the poisoned wine the deceased drank originally belonged to you. Did you drink that glass of wine?"
Before Senior Togashi could say anything, the old professor nodded like a busy old hen protecting her chicks: "He drank it. I was right next to him and saw him take a big sip with my own eyes."
Senior Togashi responded, indicating that the old professor was right.
Jiang Xia: "Don't you feel uncomfortable now?"
Senior Togashi pressed his chest and felt it carefully: "I don't feel anything special... When I drank it, the glass should not have been poisoned."
Sato Miwako lowered her head to take notes while muttering to Jiang Xia: "Since he is fine, the poison must have been put into the wine glass during the process of passing the wine."
"!" Hearing this, the two students who helped pass the wine suddenly felt nervous. The short-haired senior student waved her hands quickly, "We don't have time to poison! I just held the handle of the wine glass and passed it to the next person. During this time, everyone subconsciously stared at the wine glass. If we really threw something into the wine, we would definitely be discovered on the spot!"
The old professor tapped his cane and said, "That's right, neither of them put poison in the wine glass. I can prove it."
"..." Officer Sato couldn't help but look at this old man who holds a high position in the academic world. "Well, the murderer is probably among these students. If you testify casually and side with the murderer, you will only harm other innocent students."
"?" The old professor was startled, and then he flew into a rage, "Such a simple truth, do you think I don't understand? - I'm telling the truth!"
Officer Sato was busy trying to calm the angry old man.
Next to her, Suzuki Sonoko looked at the beautiful cake on the table and thought of her own birthday party.
Suddenly, an idea struck her, and she snapped her fingers: "Come to think of it, before blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, the lights are usually turned off - could it be that during those few seconds when the lights were turned off, someone took advantage of the chaos and threw poison into the deceased's cup?"
Officer Gao Mu, who was running around to help, was stunned when he heard this: "Yes, there is such a possibility!"
After receiving the police's affirmation, Suzuki Sonoko found the fun of being a detective even more. She cleared her throat like a serious detective and looked at the graduate students: "How about this, you all go back to your seats first, so that it will be easier to see who is most convenient to poison!"
This suggestion made sense upon closer thought, so soon after the police finished collecting evidence, the group returned to the table and sat around it.
Subaru Okiya looked at the empty seat next to him where the birthday boy sat, and was silent for a moment, with a vague feeling that something bad was going to happen.
At this time, Suzuki Sonoko looked at the light switch and asked: "About how long has the light been off?"
Senior Togashi, who was closest to the gate, recalled: "It took only four or five seconds. I turned off the lights, waited for the birthday boy to blow out the candles, and then I turned on the light switch immediately."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded thoughtfully: "Candlelight can also illuminate, which means that the actual time available for poisoning is only a short one or two seconds after the candle is extinguished. The deceased's wine glass is placed on her right hand side, and on her left is the short professor."
The old professor snorted, as if he was very dissatisfied with this adjective.
Suzuki Sonoko, who was immersing herself in the detective life, didn't notice anything. She continued: "The professor sitting on the left wanted to stretch his arm to poison the high-heeled glass on the right of the deceased. I'm afraid he would have to lie on the table - this behavior is too conspicuous, so he can be ruled out as a suspect."
"In this case, there is only one person left who can poison the dead!" Suzuki Sonoko looked at Okiya Subaru, who was sitting on the right side of the dead man. He was young and agile and looked like he could poison the dead man's cup five times in one second. She showed a sad expression, "Mr. Okiya, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person."
"..." Okiya Subaru looked at her angrily but dared not say anything: I did think you were this kind of person...
Next to them, Hashimoto Maya looked at Suzuki Sonoko, then at Okiya Subaru, her eyes became complicated, as if she understood a lot in an instant.
(End of this chapter)
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