Chapter 316: Double Chamber and Unethical Practices
As three high school detectives ran into the mansion one after another.
Behind the window on the third floor, a pair of eyes were hiding in the darkness, looking down gloomily at the downstairs.
This is a suite, consisting of two rooms. The outer room is very dark, with a bloodstain on the ground caused by dragging a corpse, extending from the center of the room to the door of the inner room, which is lit.
In this environment, anyone coming in from the door would immediately notice the bloodstains on the ground, and then follow the bloodstains into the lighted inner room without further searching outside.
At this time, Kikuto Morizono was hiding behind the curtains in the outer room.
After he broke the window, he glanced at the inner room with a hint of resentment while waiting for the guests or servants to run upstairs and discover and break into the secret room.
The body of Butler Shigematsu was lying there.
…
The love between the two generations of the Morizono family is quite magical.
Nearly thirty years ago, the sweetheart of Shigematsu came to visit him at the Morizono family. At that time, Master Morizono thought that the woman was visiting him, so he happily proposed to her. Not long after, the two got together smoothly, and Shigematsu could only silently wish them a happy marriage.
And now, in this generation, what happened back then is happening again - Katagiri Kaede comes to visit Butler Shigematsu's adopted son Sakuraba Yuji, but Butler Shigematsu thinks Katagiri Kaede is here to see Morizono Kikuto, and mentions the matter to Master Morizono.
The Morizono family quickly arranged the marriage between Morizono Kikuto and Katagiri Kaede. Later, Butler Shigematsu discovered that he had made a mistake. He did not want the tragedy of the previous generation to repeat itself on his adopted son, so he decided to prevent the two from getting married.
Whether out of guilt or other reasons, the butler did not confess everything to Master Morizono, but chose to start with Kikuto Morizono.
He asked Kikuto Morizono to cancel the engagement and threatened that if he did not do so, he would tell Mr. Morizono about the illegal activities of Kikuto Morizono's company.
In Kikuto Morizono's view, it was as if Butler Shigematsu had proposed a marriage to him, and then suddenly used company matters to threaten him to cancel the engagement. He was looking for trouble and had ulterior motives.
Morizono Kikuto thought of the secrets that the butler had kept and that could not be exposed, and felt that if he did as he was told this time, he would definitely face more threats in the future. So he decided to kill the butler who threatened him first, and then put the blame on Shigematsu's adopted son, so that no one could stop him.
After making up his mind, Kikuto Morizono drilled holes in the glass, got some fishing line tape, and designed a fancy secret room in preparation for framing the person.
After killing the people, he threw away the murder weapon, locked the doors and windows, and left bloodstains on the ground and lights in the inner room, intending to sneak in among them when others broke into the secret room and rushed into the inner room.
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Just as I was thinking about it, there was a fierce knock on the door and a voice asking questions.
Kikuto Morizono, hiding behind the curtains, listened carefully and recognized that it was the voice of Hattori Heiji.
The Osaka detective who had just been a guest at his home that evening knocked on the door and asked sharply, "Who's in there? What happened just now?!"
Immediately afterwards, the door lock was clicked and twisted by another person.
Kikuto Morizono heard a strange voice coming from the other side of the door: "It's locked."
Toyama and Ye were running down the corridor with a few servants, their voices a little panicked: "I can't find Uncle Shigematsu! Everyone said they haven't seen him since a while ago."
——This room is not a bedroom, nor is it someone’s specific study, so only Butler Shigematsu has the key here.
Kikuto Morizono was hiding behind the curtains. When he heard these words, he thought of the body of butler Shigematsu in the inner room and the key in the body's arms, and nodded secretly - in this way, the secret room was completely formed.
The group of people outside the door didn't get a response and anxiously pushed the door open.
Almost at the same time, Kikuto Morizono heard a scream from Toyama Kazuha after being frightened by the blood on the ground.
He breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it was just as he expected - the group of people who broke in must have focused their attention on the bloodstains on the ground.
After that, these people will follow the blood trail to the inner room. When they are startled by the corpse and have no time to pay attention to the surroundings, it is the time for him to quietly appear... Thinking of this, Kikuto Morizono raised a sneer of a well-planned person at the corner of his mouth.
However, before his smile could fully form, he heard that strange voice again.
The man suddenly said, "Wait, there's something wrong with the shape here."
Kikuto Morizono stared at the curtains in front of him, his whole body stiff.
"Where?" Hattori Heiji was originally walking quickly towards the inner room, but after the strange voice sounded, Morizono Kikuto heard Hattori's footsteps pause.
Stopped outside.
Morizono Kikuto held his breath, and cold sweat gradually appeared on his forehead: Don't stop! Keep going to the inner room!
However, the opposite happened. The next second, he heard Hattori Heiji's suddenly alert voice: "...Indeed."
Outside the curtain, footsteps were heard again.
But unlike what Morizono Kikuto expected, the footsteps did not follow the bloodstains and go to the inner room, but came straight to him. The sound was getting closer and closer...
“…”
...Go away! Don't come over here!
Brush——
Ignoring his prayers, the curtains were drawn open and a beam of light appeared in front of Kikuto Morizono. The light was not very bright, but he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
As Kikuto Morizono's expression was slightly distorted, Hattori Heiji looked at him in surprise: "It's you? What's with the blood in the room?"
Jiang Xia walked around the room, had a brief conversation with Mao Lilan downstairs, and then walked out of the inner room with a calm face: "The windows are all locked, the key is with Butler Shigematsu, this is a secret room."
Although this had been expected, once this fact was made clear, the way everyone in the room looked at Kikuto Morizono completely changed.
A secret room with two people in it, one dead and the other alive and hiding on purpose... Everyone can imagine what just happened here.
Kikuto Morizono stared at the man who had appeared out of nowhere and disrupted his entire plan with a few words. He felt a surge of anger rising to his head.
You are the only one who talks too much!!!
He suddenly pushed away the person in front of him and subconsciously wanted to run.
However, just as he took a step, he was grabbed by Jiang Xia. Hattori Heiji almost made a move at the same time and grabbed Morizono Kikuto's other arm. With a little effort, the two of them pressed the lazy young master back to the wall.
There was a lot of noise here just now, with windows being broken and doors being banged.
Kikuto Morizono struggled but failed to break free. He looked at the increasing number of people gathering at the door, and finally his vision went dark and he fell to his knees.
"…It's all Shigematsu's fault! He forced me to do it!" Morizono Kikuto didn't want to say anything, but under the stares of a group of people, he couldn't overcome his criminal instincts and said angrily, "If he hadn't threatened me to cancel the engagement, why would I have killed him!"
(End of this chapter)
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