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"This is the color of blood. It is Miss Kaoru Kusano's blood, and the murderer is Miss Yuki Takeno."
Looking at this lip print of unusual color, Karasuma Ying said slowly:
"It was when Miss Yueye went to the bathroom to change her clothes. She first put on her raincoat and the gloves that had holes on the front of her fingers. Then she asked Miss Kusano to open the door in front of the bathroom and then used anesthetic to knock Miss Kusano unconscious.
Then, she used the hardest part of the human body besides the teeth - her sharpened thumb nail - to cut Miss Kusano's throat.
Unlike Miss Yue Ye's other nine trimmed finger nails, the nail on her thumb was really grown long, and the long nail piece pasted on it was just a cover-up.
After cutting Miss Kusano's throat, Miss Takeno Yuki first dealt with her raincoat and gloves, and then went to Miss Kusano's room to look for a nail clipper, wanting to cut off her thumb nail and completely destroy the evidence.
But what she didn't expect was that Miss Kusano always trimmed her nails when they just grew out, so she didn't use nail clippers on a daily basis, but a more convenient file.
This kind of file is simply not enough to cut Miss Yueye's sharp and hard thumb nail.
However, in order to avoid being suspected by the police later, Miss Yueye did not carry any nail clippers with her, so she had no choice but to use her teeth to bite off her nails bit by bit.
After finishing her nails, Miss Yueye put the nail piece back on her thumb, went to the bathroom to change her clothes, returned to the living room, and wrote her blessings to Miss Kusano on the cardboard.
Am I right, Miss Yue Ye? "
Wu Wanying suddenly turned around and looked at Yue Yexue who had been standing at the door of the room at some point.
At this time, Yue Yexue was holding the door frame with both hands, looking panicked and pale.
"You did a really good job. If it weren't for the lip print on the cardboard that revealed the blood on your lips, Ms. Yue Ye, I'm afraid it would take me a long time to realize that you were the murderer."
"Yue Ye..."
On the side, Hoshino Terumi looked at Yue Yexue with complicated eyes.
"Really you?"
The room fell silent for a moment.
Yue Yexue said nothing, she just bit her lips and stared at the blessing cardboard in Wu Wanying's hand.
"Huimei! Xiaoxue! The hospital called just now! They said Xiaoxun's operation was successful! She has woken up now... Hey? What happened to you?"
Yoko Okino ran over excitedly, then looked at the three people in the room with a puzzled look on her face. She felt that the atmosphere here seemed a little wrong.
Especially Yue Yexue, after hearing that Kusano Kaoru had woken up, she collapsed to the ground.
What happened?
"Xiaoxue? What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"I'll go inform Officer Megure."
Karasuma Ying didn't waste any more time and went straight to inform Officer Megure who was still in the living room.
"Wait a minute."
However, at this moment, Hoshino Terumi grabbed her hand.
"Little sister, can you wait a little longer? I'll call Xiaoxun. I think she might have something to say..."
In the next chapter tomorrow, Karasuma Ying will get a very important main clue in this book, hehehe
Group number, welcome everyone to come and chat~
Chapter 43: People from Years Ago, an Unreachable Promise
In the end, this murder case in which no one was killed allowed the murderer to escape legal punishment due to the victim's deliberate cover-up.
Just when Karasuma Ying was about to tell Inspector Megure the truth, Hoshino Terumi stopped her and called Kusano Kaoru who had already woken up in front of her.
On the phone, when Hoshino Terumi asked who the murderer was, Kusano Kaoru was silent for a while, and then said that it was a fat and short stranger who broke in from outside the apartment.
It is obvious that Kaoru Kusano is lying and she is protecting the murderer Yuki Takeno.
And Karasuma Ying, who was listening nearby, chose to remain silent.
She did not have a strong sense of justice, nor did she have a strong desire to make the truth public.
Therefore, if even the victim, Miss Kaoru Kusano, chose to protect the murderer, then she would naturally not say anything.
Just like that, in the silence of Karasuma Ying, Inspector Megure and others finally identified the murderer as someone outside this apartment.
Wu Wanying is convinced that as time goes by, this case will eventually become an unsolved case.
"Here, little sister."
In the parking lot below the apartment building, as the police left, Hoshino Terumi, who had been waiting there, waved to Karasuma Ying.
"Ms. Hoshino."
"Mind walking over there with me?"
"it is good."
Faced with Hoshino Terumi's invitation, Karasuma Ying agreed without any hesitation.
The two walked side by side in the open space around the parking lot.
"Actually, Xiaoxue has always had a crush on Kenzaki." Hoshino Terumi suddenly said.
"The crime was committed out of jealousy and hatred." With just this one sentence, Karasuma Ying understood the motive of Takeno Yuki to attack Kusano Kaoru.
Tonight's engagement party seems to be a farce in itself.
Kaoru Kusano didn't really want to get married to Kenzaki Osamu. Although they were friends, they were not in that kind of relationship.
The person that Kaoru Kusano really likes is actually her agent, Atsushi Makuma.
However, Jianxiong Atsushi seemed a little weak in this regard, and he was always unwilling to take the initiative to express his feelings to Kusano Kaoru.
So, the furious Kaoru Kusano found Kenzaki Osamu, hoping that Kenzaki Osamu could cooperate with her to stage an engagement farce in order to force Xiong Du to speak.
There was another person who knew about this farce, Hoshino Terumi, which is why Hoshino Terumi wrote "My condolences" on the cardboard.
Hoshino Terumi thought that Kusano Kaoru's plan to force Kanuma Atsushi to propose to her had failed, and she could only wish her condolences.
However, Yue Yexue was unaware of all this.
Not only that, Yue Ye Xue has also been secretly in love with Kenzaki Osamu.
Completely unaware of the inside story, she finally attacked Kusano Kaoru out of jealousy. But perhaps she didn't have enough strength, or perhaps she was still thinking of the sisterhood they had in the past, so Yue Yexue didn't kill her completely.
After waking up, Kaoru Kusano also chose to protect Yuki Yue...
Human emotions are really complicated, and Karasuma Ying is not willing to think too deeply about it.
And her intuition told her that Hoshino Terumi called her not just to talk about what happened tonight.
Sure enough, Karasuma Ying didn't have to wait too long. After lighting a cigarette for herself, Hoshino Terumi finally got to the main topic of the night.
"Little sister, why do you want to be a detective?" she asked.
"A detective?" Karasuma Ying thought for a moment and answered truthfully, "It just happened naturally. I didn't deliberately want to become a detective."
When she first came to Japan, she was looking for a part-time job and happened to meet Kogoro Mori, so she became the assistant of this great detective.
For Karasuma Ying, the current situation is indeed just a choice she made according to the circumstances, nothing more.
"Is that so?"
Upon hearing this, Hoshino Terumi smiled helplessly, her expression a little gloomy.
"It's really enviable..."
When Karasuma Ying heard this, she did not ask any questions, but just looked at Hoshino Terumi curiously.
In fact, when they were in the apartment before, Karasuma Ying had already realized that Hoshino Terumi herself had certain reasoning abilities and the necessary knowledge of criminal investigation.
But that's about it.
After all, Hoshino Terumi is an actor, not a detective.
Although it seems like she really wants to be a detective?
"When I was very young, I once met a police officer."
Suddenly she stopped, looked up at the starry sky, and spoke slowly.
"It should be about 20 years, right? I was very young at that time, and I can't remember many details now.
I just remember that day, after I had a quarrel with my parents, I ran out of the house in a huff. I was alone on the street at that time and I didn't know how I met him.
The police officer seemed to ask me a lot of questions at that time, but I can't remember them now. I guess he asked me about my parents and where my home was...
But I definitely didn’t answer him well at the time, because he took me everywhere that day, to the beach, amusement parks, and even foreign restaurants…
I thought at the time that he must be a high-ranking officer in the police force, because my father said that ordinary police officers are very busy and would not have time to play with strange children.
I remember it was the evening of that day, a murder seemed to have occurred in the restaurant where we were having dinner. The police officer held me in his arms and quickly figured out the murderer's method and subdued the murderer.
At that time, I thought he was the most powerful person in the world, so I told him that when I grow up, I want to be a policeman. Guess what he answered me? "
Hoshino Terumi suddenly turned her head to look at Karasuma Ying. Of course, she didn't seem to intend to really let Karasuma Ying answer, so she retracted her gaze, looked up at the night sky again, and said:
"Police? Let's not do that, shall we? If you really want to, Huimei can become a detective, because the word police is a heavy one."
As Hoshino Terumi spoke, she lowered her head again. The cigarette in her hand had burned out at some point, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes.
"At that time, I didn't know the meaning of this sentence. I just changed my words and said that I wanted to be a detective when I grew up, simply because of my admiration for him.
He told me that detectives need to have their own offices, so I asked him to help me build one. He laughed and said that if I still have this idea when I grow up, he will help me..."
"What happened next?" Immersed in the story told by Hoshino Terumi, Karasuma Ying couldn't help but ask.
Although, she had anticipated the ending of the story.
"There will be no future..."
Hoshino Terumi gradually stopped walking. She still kept her head down, standing there, and seemed to be smiling.
"Because half a month later, that police officer died in the line of duty... He couldn't come any longer... It's really sad..."
Raising her hand to wipe her eyes, Hoshino Terumi took a deep breath, and smiled at Karasuma Ying.
"I'm sorry to suddenly tell you these useless things..."
"No, these are not useless things. For Miss Hoshino, these are precious memories." Karasuma Ying retorted.
In response, Hoshino Terumi just smiled.