Chapter 535: Detective matters are not shameful
One of them was a student named Toshiya Tadokoro who, after delivering the meal, went to the collection room to check whether the doors and windows were closed.
The other was the vampire researcher, Shuichi Hamura, who went to the underground library next to the collection room to check the classics and returned to the hall a long time later.
Among them, Toshihiko Tanosho checked the doors and windows for only a few minutes and had no time to do anything.
So let’s rule it out…
Gunda Ikumi looked at Hamura Shuichi: "At the moment, it seems that you are the only one who has the time to commit the crime."
Hamura Shuichi was stunned for a moment, then pushed his nose glasses and shook his head to refute: "There is a hall between the collection room and the study. I did go to the collection room, but during that time, you were all sitting in the hall. Even if I had the chance to get the wooden nail, I couldn't have gone to the study to commit the crime."
“There’s more than one way to the study, it’s just that the other paths are less conventional.”
Qiangtian Yumei walked upstairs and walked towards the second-floor window: "If an accomplice lowers a rope ladder from the second floor and helps you climb up from the underground library, you can first reach the second floor, and then follow the roof--"
As she spoke, she pushed open the window on the second floor corridor and completed the second half of the sentence: "—Go to the study."
As the window opened, a long, slightly sloping roof appeared in front of everyone in the moonlight. One end of it connected to this side, and the other end connected to Torakura Daisuke's study. The bricks and tiles were evenly covered with white snow that had never been stepped on, and there were no footprints on the snow.
——No one passed by here.
Gunda Ikumi: "..."
She stared out the window in silence for a moment, then raised her hand and closed the window again as if nothing had happened.
...Proposing hypotheses and then verifying them one by one is the basic operation of a detective. If the reasoning is correct, of course it's great, but if it's wrong... it's wrong, it's just a hypothesis, there's nothing shameful about it.
Suzuki Sonoko looked at the corridor, remembered something, and whispered: "The murderer should not have come from the roof - when Mr. Hamura went to the library, I stayed in the corridor on the second floor, and no one passed by here."
Qiangtian Yumei was startled and looked at her in confusion: "What have you been doing in the corridor on the second floor?"
Suzuki Sonoko blushed: "...Look, look at the scenery! This place is higher than the first floor, and the scenery is better than down there."
"..." In other words, another person without an alibi.
Ikumi Gunda began to stare at her with suspicion.
However, looking at Suzuki Sonoko's thin arms and legs, I always felt that it would be difficult for her to carry an adult man like Torakura Daisuke, let alone tie him to a cross.
So after a few seconds, Ikumi Qiangda hesitated and moved her eyes away from Suzuki Sonoko and looked at Jiang Xia again - she heard from her colleagues that this high school detective solved cases as fast as reading a script, so why didn't he take any action today?
Is this case particularly difficult? Or are there some key clues that they have not yet discovered?
…Then it was normal that she guessed wrong just now. Qiangtian Yumei tucked her slightly curly hair behind her ears, nodded secretly in her heart, and felt much more relieved.
At the same time, I decided to put my mind at ease and continue reasoning - making bold assumptions and carefully verifying them, so that I could find a path to the truth in the impossible crime.
She looked at the window slowly, then pushed it open again and looked at the eaves outside.
——Not only on the roof of this section of the corridor, but also further away, even on the roof of the study, there are no footprints.
In other words, the criminal should have never been on the roof. In addition, the door of the study was locked, and the only key was in the possession of Daisuke Torakura. The French window was located close to the cliff. When she was in the study just now, she carefully checked it out - the cliff was not only bottomless, but also the protruding parts were covered with snow, and there was no sign of climbing.
All roads are blocked... There's no way the murderer could have flown over like a vampire.
The reasoning was briefly in a dilemma.
Ikumi Gunda had to change her approach - starting from the motivation.
She still felt that judging from the timing, only Hamura Shuichi could have committed the crime: "Come to think of it..." She suddenly looked at Hamura Shuichi, "You and Mrs. Torakura, you are a couple, right?"
“?!”
Etsuko Torakura's heart skipped a beat and she nervously grabbed Shuichi Hamura's arm.
Just now, she heard Jiang Xia's boss talk about a bunch of knowledge that sounded very useful. She just tried to digest part of it and felt that her ability to cover up had improved. Who knew that not long after, she was exposed... Torakura Etsuko subconsciously glanced at Amuro Toru.
Toru Amuro looked away and ignored her.
...He remembered that when he entered Torakura Daisuke's study and saw the horrible corpse, Torakura Etsuko instinctively ran to Hamura Shuichi and grabbed his arm, instead of asking for help from Tadokoro Shunsuke who was right beside him...A normal person could see that something was wrong, let alone a detective like Gundam Ikumi who was not stupid, so the blame would not fall on him anyway...
Beside her, Torakura Etsuko panicked for a while, then slowly calmed down: "Oh, by the way, Torakura Daisuke is dead. Now that he's suspected of cheating, it doesn't seem to matter... Wait, speaking of this, who is the murderer? Could it really be Shuichi...?"
However, Hamura Shuichi still refuted:
"No matter what my relationship with Etsuko is, I am not the murderer who killed Torakura Daisuke. If you are looking for a motive, you should actually look at others - such as Editor-in-Chief Doi."
As he spoke, he looked at the editor next to him, whose forehead was sweating:
"I heard a rumor in college - the content of novels submitted to the Horror Times Weekly would be plagiarized by Daisuke Torakura. However, the plagiarism was quite clever, and their manuscripts have not been published yet, so no one can prove that Daisuke Torakura is wrong..."
As Shuichi Hamura's eyes fell on Editor-in-Chief Doi's luggage, Doi sweated even more.
——At this time, what Chief Editor Doi had in his bag were indeed the original submissions. They were the ones that Daisuke Torakura had copied and that he was going to take back.
Although Daisuke Torakura has not published any vampire novels in recent years, he is still writing them privately. Therefore, Daisuke Torakura's computer may contain fresh evidence of plagiarism.
Editor Doi always felt that if he refused to admit it and concealed the news, he might be charged with murder...
...Must find someone more suspicious!
Thinking of this, Editor-in-Chief Doi also decisively dragged people into the water:
"To be honest, Torakura Daisuke actually ran out of ideas a long time ago. Seven years ago, I failed in stock trading and owed a large debt. Torakura paid it off for me, but he asked me to give him the manuscripts I received for his review first..."
At this point, Editor-in-Chief Doi felt that the way people looked at him was increasingly strange, and realized that he seemed to have sufficient motive to kill.
So I quickly got to the point: "That's not the point! The point is that five years ago, I felt that it was not a good idea for him to continue copying, so I recommended a ghostwriter to him - that is, Tansho! In fact, all the novels published by Torakura Daisuke in the past few years are the works of Tansho. As for motivation, he has more than me!"
(End of this chapter)
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