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"it is good."

In the name of assisting the police in their investigation, Hoshino Terumi repeated Karasuma Ying's request, and not long after, the front desk staff gave a reply.

Somei Shogo left at around three in the afternoon and returned to the TV station building around seven in the evening.

As for Miss Maiko, there was no record of her leaving the TV station building since she entered it during the day.

After receiving these two key pieces of information, all the scattered clues in Wu Wanying's mind were connected at this moment.

So that's it. This wasn't a murder in a closed room at all.

The murderer was not Somei Shogo.

After a brief silence, she raised her head and looked at Somei Shogo who was being questioned by Inspector Megure about what happened, and asked:

"Mr. Somei, may I ask where Miss Kuzumi Maiko, who was with you during the day, has gone?"

As if he didn't expect her to ask this, Somei Shogo's face suddenly showed some panic, but he quickly suppressed it.

"Maiko got off work early today, so she went home first... What's wrong, Miss Karasuma?" Somei Shogo replied with a smile.

"Really... I see. Then Mr. Somei, can you let me see your phone?"

"My cell phone?"

Not knowing why Karasuma Ying wanted to see this, Somei Shogo subconsciously handed the phone over.

In his call records, Karasuma Ying saw a clue that matched her guess.

At 6:30 this afternoon, Somei Shogo had a phone call with the contact person marked as "Maiko".

"Thank you."

After returning the phone to him, Wu Wanying didn't ask any more questions, but turned around, opened the floor-to-ceiling window and walked to the balcony.

Behind her, Inspector Megure seemed to realize something and suddenly stared at Somei Shogo as if he were a suspect.

"Mr. Somei, may I ask where you were at 6:30 this afternoon?"

"Eh? Officer? Are you doubting me?"

"This is just a normal inquiry."

On the balcony, it was raining heavily outside, and the raindrops were blown by the wind and wet her clothes.

Wu Wanying stood by the guardrail and looked down, but unfortunately she could not see anything in the darkness.

If I jump from here, it will definitely hurt, right?

"Is he the murderer?" Hoshino Terumi, who had been silently watching Karasuma Ying, walked up and stood beside her and asked.

"Sister Terumi."

Instead of answering her, Karasuma Ying asked her a meaningful question.

"Do you think the truth is important?"

Without waiting for Hoshino Terumi to answer, she suddenly smiled and said again with a slightly sad tone:

"In fact, I have never had any desire to pursue the so-called truth. After all, I grew up in lies..."

"Xiaoying?"

"The murderer is not Mr. Somei, but Miss Kuzumi Maiko."

Looking at Hoshino Terumi, Karasuma Ying said slowly:

"Between 6pm and 6:30pm, the producer invited Ms. Maiko to the room and locked the room with the security chain.

The two came to the living room, the producer went to the kitchen to cut the cake, and Miss Maiko took the opportunity to poison the coffee.

After watching the producer die of poisoning, Ms. Maiko went to the balcony and called Mr. Somei.

Afterwards, Miss Maiko committed suicide by jumping off the building.

After receiving the call, Mr. Somei hurried back and found Miss Maiko's body in the parking lot downstairs.

Perhaps because it was already dark and it was raining outside, Mr. Somei was the first person to discover Miss Maiko's body.

Then, Mr. Somei secretly hid Ms. Maiko's body, pretended that nothing had happened, returned to the company, and coaxed me into coming to the producer's room.

I think Mr. Somei originally wanted to disguise the producer's death as suicide, which is why he rushed into the living room first, closed the floor-to-ceiling windows, and hid the cup.

He wanted to erase all the clues that Miss Maiko had ever appeared in this room. As for the reason, it was probably to protect Miss Maiko's reputation..."

Karasuma Ying does not have that kind of extremely persistent sense of justice, nor does she have a strong desire to find out the truth.

Compared with these two, the emotions between people may have a greater impact on her choice.

Just like at the previous fake engagement party, she concealed the truth that Takeno Yuki attempted to murder Kusano Kaoru.

She will also seek the truth, but she will never be obsessed with it.

Just like now, she has basically figured out the whole process of this murder, and even guessed the motive of Miss Maiko for poisoning the producer.

In the afternoon, she heard from Hoshino Terumi that this producer had a very bad character and was a person who often abused his power to do evil things in the company.

It is said that when Terumi Hoshino was still a new actor, he tried to make some improper demands on Terumi Hoshino in his capacity as a producer.

After Mr. Somei and Miss Maiko joined his program crew, he fell in love with Miss Maiko, who was beautiful and capable, and tried to take advantage of her many times.

And this time, I'm afraid it is the same.

But he didn't expect that Miss Maiko's resistance this time would be so fierce.

This may also have something to do with Mr. Somei. After all, Mr. Somei and Ms. Maiko are in a relationship, although it seems that neither of them admits this.

Since the producer has been unable to "take down" Miss Maiko for a long time, this time he may want to use Mr. Somei's future in the industry as a handle to threaten her.

This directly touched the most sensitive bottom line in Miss Maiko's heart.

So, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and poisoned the producer, and then chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building.

Before jumping off the building, she called Mr. Somei.

In this phone call, in addition to explaining that she poisoned the producer, Ms. Maiko probably also truly expressed her feelings to Mr. Somei, right?

This is everything hidden behind this murder.

Karasuma Ying could even guess that once she revealed the fact that there was actually another person in the living room when the producer was poisoned, Mr. Somei would definitely take the place of the murderer without hesitation and take the blame for poisoning the producer.

So she hesitated.

She didn't know whether she should tell the truth behind this murder.

Or should we follow Mr. Somei's inner wishes and completely hide the part about Miss Maiko, and portray Mr. Somei as the murderer who poisoned the producer.

She could do it, as long as she slightly modified the logic of reasoning and concealed some clues at the scene.

Karasuma Ying was absolutely sure that she could deceive the police and completely remove Miss Maiko's existence from this incident with a reasoning that seemed flawless on the surface.

Even if the police discovered Miss Maiko's death later, they would never link it to the producer's death.

"It's just that I do this... I don't understand, is it really okay for me to do this?"

The expression on Karasuma Ying's face was extremely conflicted. Emotionally, she actually favored Somei Shogo, but deep down in her heart, her conscience did not want her to do so.

"Xiaoying."

Hoshino Terumi raised her hand and touched Karasuma Ying's head. At this moment, the tenderness deep in her eyes was really like an older sister looking at her younger sister.

Faced with the inner struggle of Wu Wanying, she did not say any profound truths, but just asked her a question gently.

"Do you think Maiko would be happy to see Somei do this?"

This sentence woke up Karasuma Ying like a bolt from the blue.

She trembled all over, turned her head stiffly, and stared blankly at Hoshino Terumi who was smiling at her.

"I understand... Thank you, Terumi-nee."

Ah, this chapter is an extra chapter. Recently, many book friends have given me rewards, and I can't find where to set up the automatic thank you function in the background...

But if I copy the names one by one, it would be too tedious, so after thinking carefully, I will just add one more chapter to express my gratitude.

Thank you all ~Bow~

(Then tomorrow the plot will return to the brewery line, and the lazy Shirakawa Kiyoshi and the young Mamiya Shin, the two who are hiding in the dark, will have their first real confrontation)

Chapter 65: Shirley is the only bait

"Mamiya, the member of the organization who disguised himself as Amamiya Rui is very likely to be Regal."

In the rain at night, Judy sat alone in the car, talking on the phone with Mamiya Shin.

"The sketch that Conan brought here is the same as the one I have kept. It can be basically confirmed that it was drawn by him."

"This is really an unexpected answer. I didn't expect that he would come in person?" On the phone, Mamiya Xin was quite surprised.

"Ah, yes, if only I had discovered it sooner...!"

Judy's hand subconsciously tightened around the phone, and the expression on her face gradually became ferocious.

It seemed that whenever she encountered something related to Regler, her emotions would always get out of control to varying degrees.

"Judy, take a deep breath."

Noticing Judy's abnormality through the phone, Mamiya Xin whispered gently.

"I'm fine, Mamiya..."

Judy took a deep breath and calmed down her breathing. She said, "I'm just a little angry that this big fish slipped away right under our noses..."

"There's no need to rush at this moment. There will always be a chance." Mamiya Shin comforted.

In fact, the two belonged to different action teams, and investigating and arresting Regler was actually Judy's task, not his.

Mamiya Shin could have stopped focusing so much on Regal, but there was nothing she could do...

Judy is his girlfriend, how could he just stand by and watch?

Just as Judy was always worried that he would encounter danger while undercover in the organization, he was actually always worried that Judy would suddenly die inexplicably one day in the future.

Mamiya Shin knows Judy's past and is also aware of her unusual obsession with Regger.

This is the most difficult knot in Judy's heart to resolve, and there is only one way to completely resolve it.