Chapter 36: Choose One

The player clicked on six suspects, including him, Xiao Hei, and the relatives of the deceased, and it turned out that each of them matched two or three clues, but none of them was enough to be confirmed as the murderer.

It is obvious that this lacks key clues.

The process of elimination failed, and the task flow shifted to investigating clues again.

The player was about to exit through the window when he suddenly remembered the achievements of his good teammates in the mission log. He turned around to look for Catherine, only to see that Toru Amuro had simply and quickly changed into his going-out clothes and pointed to the door.

"Let's go."

Predicted player: “?”

"You never told me about your cases before, but now you're asking me. I guess you'll ask me to go with you. I'll drive, and we'll start with his parents."

The player looks at the mission tracking on the map and sees two destinations, one is the deceased's parents' home, and the other is the deceased's uncle's home.

When Toru Amuro drives a car, there is a sense of beauty as if the player is driving the car himself and pressing the vehicle system to accelerate.

Although it was very fast, after sitting in the car for three minutes and watching three minutes of boring cutscenes, the player felt bored and thought it was a waste of time, so he simply abandoned his good teammate Catherine, teleported to the vicinity of the mission location, and ran over on foot.

Yuichiro Kyuki's parents moved out of their original mansion due to bankruptcy and are now renting an old house in a remote location with a wall outside.

The player flipped in directly and found a flashing spot on the ground in the yard.

After he clicked, the ground was automatically dug up, revealing a bottle of sleeping pills and two suicide notes buried inside.

[Clue: A suicide note from Kyuki Yuichiro's parents. It looks like it's been buried for a while, and the date of the note is the day Kyuki Yuichiro died.]

After confirming that there was nothing else found in the yard, the player entered the house.

The pitch-black night made the clues particularly bright. The player searched from the living room to the room and found three more clues.

[Clue: A group photo. The photo is signed by Yuichiro Kyuki and Norie Kyuki. They are so close that they don’t look like cousins.]

[Clue: Work permit. After his family went bankrupt, Kyuichiro went to work for his uncle's company. Although his position was just an ordinary employee, his actual power would be higher due to his relative status.]

[Clue: A thick debt. After the company went bankrupt, Kyuki Yuichiro's parents still had a lot of personal debts caused by trying to save the company. Maybe they can't pay it back even if they work hard for the rest of their lives.]

The player ignored the two NPCs trembling in fear in the bedroom, and played connect-the-doves with the newly found clues, and the debt book and the suicide note came up with new ideas.

Kyuki Yuichiro's parents thought they were being robbed and were just about to wait quietly for the other party to leave when they saw the intruder take two steps towards them, with his face exposed in the moonlight.

It turned out to be the famous detective - Hisashi Jouno.

This famous detective, who is often regarded as someone who does not play by the rules, took out a suicide note that they had buried long ago, and said that it was more of a statement than a question.

"You actually have a clear alibi for Kyuki Yuichiro's death, right?"

Even asking and answering questions by myself.

"After all, you were planning to commit suicide at the beach that day. In your suicide note, you repeatedly emphasized that you were causing trouble for everyone. I guess in order to prevent the suicide note from being lost and the body from causing trouble to society after death, you would leave some other record, such as surveillance cameras."

Toru Amuro almost drove the car into the air, and when he finally arrived, he saw this scene.

The black-haired young man's sharp reasoning was like a knife that cut through disguise. The two old men turned pale and finally hung their heads and sighed helplessly.

"Yes. You said it word for word."

Before they could say anything else, Hisashi Jyouno had already disappeared out of thin air.

Amuro turned on the light, boiled some hot water to comfort the two frightened elderly people, and slowly asked them about the whole story.

It turns out that on the day Kyuki Yuichiro died, his parents decided to end their lives due to many shocks.

They were afraid that they would cause more trouble to the society, so they wrote suicide notes and chose a camera on the way to record their wills, but in the end they were afraid of death and chose to give up.

The reason they lied to the police and said they did not go out that day was because they did not want to reveal something that they felt was extremely embarrassing.

Apparently, they were used to tolerating their son and had never thought that they would be listed as suspects in their son's murder because of their questionable alibi.

In other words, as long as they can watch the surveillance video they mentioned, their suspicion will be completely cleared.

Toru Amuro also asked about some other information.

For example, after his family went bankrupt, Yuichiro Kyuki was still fooling around outside, and it was only after his uncle's persuasion that he went to work in his uncle's company.

For example, uncle Kugi Susumu and adopted daughter Kugi Norie are both sports enthusiasts. Kugi Susumu is still in very good health and very strong.

For example, Yuichiro Kugi once wanted to obtain Kugi Susumu's property by pursuing Norie Kugi, but was stopped by them, and Kugi Susumu didn't know about this.

When they talk about their son, they are already using the tone of calling him a scumbag.

After making sure that the two of them were at ease, Toru Amuro said goodbye and left, setting off for the Kumiki family.

He already had some guesses in his mind, but he still needed more crucial clues.

The player that was teleported over is already searching for evidence.

Jiu Mujin's house is a mansion, but both the security guards and the security system are like wooden chickens in the player's case-solving plot mode, as if they do not exist.

The player quickly toured the entire house, even the underground wine cellar, and the harvest was quite rich.

[Clue: Trophies. The display case is filled with trophies that Kawaki has won in amateur sports competitions, the most recent of which was last year.]

[Clue - a report. A report written by a company subordinate to Kyuki Susumu, which stated that the core data of the project had been stolen. The surveillance confirmed that the person was Kyuki Yuichiro, and the date of the report was the date of Kyuki Yuichiro's death.]

[Clue: Hidden cell phone. Jiumujin's hidden cell phone in his study contains an email about a deal]

[Clue: The diary fragments. The diary fragments that Kyuki found in the room were not completely burned. Among the remaining names, Kyuki Norie's last name was crossed out with a red pen.]

[Clue: Will. Kyuuki Susumu's will. His inheritance will be entirely inherited by Kyuuki Norie]

[Clue: Traces of boots. Kumaki Susumu claimed that he only went back and forth between the company and home because he was busy with company affairs, but there were dried mud marks on the boots in the shoe cabinet.]

[Clue: Photos from a long time ago. Two old photos, one of a young Kumaki Susumu with a friend of a strange woman, and one of a family of three with the strange woman. On the back is written "In Memory of Kimie's Third Birthday"]

[Clue - Alibi. On the day of the crime, Kyuki Susumu and Kyuki Norie testified to each other that they were at home, although they only met in the restaurant when they were having dinner.]

...Such a huge harvest still gives people a bit of a headache.

The complicated clues added a lot of work. After the players connected the clues one by one, they finally came up with all the ideas.

Then he used the process of elimination on the three remaining suspects besides him and Kyuki Yuichiro's parents, and successfully identified the murderer.

In other words, there should have been only two suspects.

"Well then."

The black-haired young man turned around and looked at Kawaguchi Susumu and Kawaguchi Norie who were walking towards him one after another. He ignored the hunting rifle that Kawaguchi Susumu was holding and spoke in a cold voice.

"I already know the truth."

"Will you reveal your true colors next? Or will I expose you?"