Chapter 537: Seal Released
Last night, when they met Rum in the self-service restaurant, in order to prevent Jiang Xia, a promising young talent, from being spotted by the second-in-command of the evil organization, Toru Amuro reminded Jiang Xia to "be more restrained" and not show off too much.
In other words, it was just a one-time reminder.
...Who would have thought that Jiang Xia actually remembered it until now, and has always been "restraining himself".
…
However, after thinking about this, Toru Amuro quickly understood.
——This is normal.
After all, Jiang Xia didn’t know Rum and didn’t know the real reason why he “restricted himself” last night.
Maybe at that time, Jiang Xia just thought that Amuro Toru was in a hurry to complete the task and didn't want to cause trouble on the way, so he reminded him like that.
…
After figuring it out, Amuro Toru raised his head. He and Jiang Xia looked at each other with a slightly puzzled but not at all sad gaze for a moment, and the romantic tragedy in his mind collapsed by half.
"..." Could it be that he was overthinking it, and Jiang Xia actually didn't know Tadokoro Toshiya's sister, and this murder was just a coincidence?
...Well, to be on the safe side, we have to ask the department to investigate the specific circumstances, such as whether there is any evidence that Jiang Xia had contact with Tansho Kaori, or vice versa, evidence that he had no contact with her.
Toru Amuro made a new note on the task list in his mind, planning to send this new task to his subordinates later.
After a brief thought, he found an excuse to lift the seal on Jiang Xia: "There are no reporters or police here now, so just solve the case as usual."
"good."
Jiang Xia nodded, and it seemed that he had no special thoughts about whether to solve the case or not, or to restrain himself or not. No matter how you looked at it, he was a subordinate with a good temper... and not like the mastermind who secretly plotted to kill two scumbags over a year and sent a psychologist whom he disliked to jail.
As she was talking, Ikumi Qiangda noticed two people who were whispering to each other nearby.
She observed for a moment, and although she couldn't hear what the two were saying, she noticed that Jiang Xia was looking at Tadokoro Toshiya among the three suspects.
Qiangtian Yumei was stunned for a moment, and asked sharply: "Have you found the murderer?"
"I guess so." Jiang Xia said, "Although there is no evidence yet, I roughly know the method."
As he spoke, he looked at the map on the table and pointed to the collection room:
"The traces of snow show that no one has passed by the roof and balcony. So at present, the killer's actions seem to be to take the cypress nail from the collection room first, then carry it through the hall to the study. After killing the victim in the study, he drove the nail into his heart...
“But in reality, the order may be reversed.
"For example, they would steal the real cypress nail first, and then put a replica in the collection room. After showing us around the collection room and making us believe that the real 'cypress nail' was still in the collection room, they would find an excuse - such as delivering food - to go into the study, take out the real nail that had been hidden in advance, and use it to nail the body to the cross after killing someone.
"Then, all you need to do is find an excuse, such as checking if the doors and windows are locked, and take the opportunity to go to the collection room and get rid of the fake cypress nails. You can then cleverly reverse the steps in other people's eyes, creating the illusion that the murderer stole the nails first and then killed people, thereby clearing yourself of suspicion."
...Now that the most critical problem has been solved, the rest is not difficult to figure out.
Even though Toru Amuro was distracted for a while, he now followed the train of thought seamlessly: "The piece of wood you asked me to take a picture of is a one-time device used to get stuck in the window lock. Just now on the second floor, I could see two parallel indentations on the rain shield of the collection room window. Now it seems that someone must have placed a ladder across the collection room and the corridor, climbed outside the collection room window, opened the ventilation window that seemed to be locked, and used something like gardening pliers to replace the cypress wood nails from there."
"Yeah." Jiang Xia nodded. "After killing someone, the murderer could leave the corridor normally. As for the secret room in the study, it was probably set up using the projector that was moved to the door. If you stretch the film, wrap it around the hanger, and stick it to the locked screw, then as long as you start the projector, the film will be pulled back by the machine and the door will be automatically locked... By posing the dead body as a executed vampire and shining the projector on the dead body, you can conceal the real purpose of moving the projector to the door and using it to create a secret room."
“…”
In the living room, everyone digested these sentences silently. Unlike other detectives who liked to use question-and-answer and echo explanations, Jiang Xia solved the case like reading a script, a long list of concise methods were poured into their ears.
...The auditing experience was not very good.
Some people understood, while others were still confused.
But in short, no matter whether they understood the whole thing or not, everyone caught the key words.
——Although Jiang Xia never said who the murderer was, there were words like "for example, delivering food" and "for example, checking whether the doors and windows were locked", combined with everyone's movements tonight...
It seems very obvious who the murderer is.
A group of people looked at Tadokoro Toshiya one after another with complicated expressions.
Jiang Xia also looked over.
...Unless Tansho Toshiya was so arrogant as not to wear gloves when committing the crime, if he had been a little more stubborn, this case might have been successfully fooled - the imitation wooden nail could be said to be a toy he made himself because he liked the cypress wooden nail; the ladder and pruning pliers were originally used by him, and it was nothing to take them out to repair the roof late at night, as houses are prone to problems in snowy weather... In short, everything depends on his own desire to survive.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Tansho Toshiya sneer, looked at Jiang Xia, and shook his head:
“You said one thing wrong.
“I made that man look like a vampire not only to cover up the secret room method, but also because—he is indeed an ugly, damn vampire!
"If he hadn't bribed the attending doctor to only perform conservative treatment in order to extend my ghostwriting time...my sister wouldn't have died!"
Jiang Xia: “…” He is a straightforward person.
Just as he was thinking about it, the shikigami that was clinging to Tadokoro Toshiya's calf seemed to have heard words of confession, and at this moment, it fell quietly like a piece of paper that had completely lost its mind.
Jiang Xia: “…”
...Well, this guy is also a straightforward person.
Come to think of it, isn't he afraid that Toshiya Tanosho will meet an eloquent lawyer in the future and be released due to insufficient evidence? The tacit trust between the murderer and the deceased is really amazing...
...Anyway, I found the Shikigami.
As a psychic passing by, Jiang Xia soon stopped thinking about it.
He took the shikigami from the ghosts by warming his hands and put it in his pocket. He planned to sign it when Toru Amuro was not watching him, and then he could take the shikigami back to the seal space at will.
(End of this chapter)
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