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Karasuma Ying asked curiously, raising her head and looking at the divination hall.
At the back of the Divination Hall, there is an emergency staircase extending from the ground to the roof.
【really】
"Oh, I'm looking for something like a bullet shell." Takagi explained, "Several people passing by said they heard gunshots around here before.
So I wanted to look for any bullet shells or bullet marks, but I couldn't find any, haha..."
"Don't look for it, it won't be there." Wu Wanying shook her head slightly.
"Huh? Why?"
"Because it's not a real gun, there's no chance of any shell casing left."
"what?"
"Okay, Officer Takagi, let's go back. I have completely uncovered the murderer's tactics."
Chapter 114: Incredible Escape Route
In the fortune-telling house, Kimiko Arai's room was still in a mess. Karasuma Ying squatted beside the fallen demon statue and gently touched the iron thorns on it with her gloved hand.
I raised my hand and saw that my gloves were covered in dust.
She has already solved all the tricks.
But there was one last thing she didn't understand: what was the murderer's motive? Why did the murderer want to kill Kimiko Arai?
To this point, she has not yet found the answer.
"Sister Karasuma, everyone has been brought here."
At this time, Inspector Megure walked into the room. Behind him, Mouri Ran and her group, as well as the fortune tellers and other staff also entered the room.
Karasuma Ying stood up after hearing the sound, turned around and bowed to everyone.
"Everyone, first of all, thank you very much for being here again."
"Miss Ying, what exactly do you want us to come here for?" Daijiro Arai asked in confusion, still a little unclear about the situation.
"Of course the high school detective's gorgeous reasoning show is about to begin, hehe..." Kawai Masako said with a smile on her face.
"Do you know who the murderer is?" Mr. Yi asked hurriedly, looking nervous.
"I still think Kimiko committed suicide..." Ms. Edano said.
"There is no need to jump to conclusions. Let us first recall the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Ms. Arai's body.
First, Ms. Arai locked herself in the room and caused a commotion. After Mr. Kosaka borrowed a spare key and opened the door, we found Ms. Arai’s body…”
"Is the door confirmed to be locked?" asked Officer Megure at this time.
"Yes, I have personally confirmed this, and I was the one who opened the door. There was also a statue of a fallen knight blocking the door, which means that the murderer did not leave through the iron gate after killing someone."
After explaining this, Karasuma Ying continued:
"After we opened the iron gate, Ms. Arai had been dead for a long time. She had multiple injuries on her body, with the most obvious injuries on her thighs and abdomen.
What ultimately led to Ms. Arai's death was mainly the wound on her abdomen, and the murder weapon was the samurai sword that fell next to her body.
By the way, the murderer stole this samurai sword from the display cabinet in Mr. Yi’s room.”
"No, that's right! It was stolen! I didn't know!" Mr. Yi nodded repeatedly, looking excited.
"Wouldn't it be hara-kiri?"
Officer Megure asked.
“Judging from the bloodstains around the floor, there is no sign of blood being blocked when the victim was stabbed with the samurai sword and spurted out from his abdomen.
However, the injuries on the victim's body showed that she was stabbed from the front by the samurai sword. Therefore, according to common sense, the blood spurted out by the victim after being injured would be blocked to some extent by the murderer in front of her... Is it possible that the victim committed suicide?"
“If the murderer had attacked Ms. Arai in front of her, then that would have been the case, but in fact, the murderer actually hugged Ms. Arai from behind and attacked her with a samurai sword.
In this way, the blood gushing out of Ms. Arai's abdominal wound will not be blocked by the murderer." Karasuma Ying answered Inspector Megure's doubts.
"But will Kimiko be so obedient and let the murderer get so close to her from behind?" asked Daijiro Arai.
"Of course not. The multiple injuries on Ms. Arai's body are proof of that. She struggled violently when she was killed."
"Then how did the murderer get so close behind Kimiko? No...how did the murderer get into this room?
Obviously, the room key was with Kimiko at the time, and we asked Kosaka-kun to get the spare key from the administrator later..."
"Door."
Wu Wanying pointed at the iron gate and said with certainty: "The murderer walked in directly through this iron gate. The murderer who killed Ms. Arai was actually the guest she was going to meet after the secret meeting!"
"what?!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Ms. Edano looked at Daijiro Arai and asked quickly, "Daijiro, who was the guest Kimiko wanted to meet at that time? Don't you know?"
"I don't know! Kimiko just said she had a guest, but she didn't tell me at all!"
After taking in everyone's reactions, Karasuma Ying turned around and looked at the demon statue lying on the ground in front of him, and continued:
"After killing Ms. Arai, the murderer first messed up the room completely, and then left the room in an incredible way..."
"So, the murderer messed up the room in order to cover up his escape method?" Inspector Megure understood what Karasuma Ying meant.
"Yes."
"Could it be a robber who sneaked in or something?" Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously.
“No valuables in the room were missing, and there were no signs that the safe had been tampered with… Rather than being a robber, it would be more like an acquaintance who committed the crime not for money.
In other words, the murderer of Ms. Arai is actually among us.”
"Well?!"
"The murderer's method of leaving the room is actually hidden in this demon statue."
Wu Wanying reached out and wiped the thorns on the demon statue again, showing the dust on his gloves to everyone.
"After messing up the room, the murderer stepped on the thorns on the demon statue and climbed under the skylight, and finally left the room through the skylight..."
"and many more!"
Upon hearing this, Kawai Jōko immediately interrupted Karasuma Ying.
"There are so many thorns on this demon statue, and each thorn has small thorns extending from it. Your shoes will be pierced after just two steps. It's impossible for anyone to step on it, right?"
"That's the normal situation, so the murderer came up with a very clever idea."
As Karasuma Ying spoke, she picked up a beautiful handbag from the ground and hung it on the thorns of the devil statue in front of everyone.
“The murderer did not leave by stepping directly on the demon statue. Instead, he used the handbags in Ms. Arai’s room, hung them on the protrusions of the thorns, and then used the bags as footholds to climb up the skylight step by step.
During this process, every time the murderer took a step up, he would use his feet to hook up the handbags passing by and then throw them to the ground.
Finally, when you reach the skylight, kick down the demon statue whose screws had been loosened by the murderer, and finally complete the arrangement in the room. "
"This, this is too exaggerated..." Mao Lilan couldn't help but say.
"As for the evidence."
Wu Wanying picked up another handbag from the ground and turned the handle strap inside out for everyone to see.
"The inside of the handles of these handbags all have dust of almost the same size, and some of the thorns on the demon statue also have corresponding traces of dust that were inexplicably rubbed off."
Chapter 115 The murderer is you, Miss Death
"Takagi, send someone from the forensics department to check whether the dust on the thorns and the handle rope is consistent!"
After listening to Karasuma Ying's reasoning, Inspector Megure immediately gave orders to Takagi Wataru.
"Yes!"
Ms. Edano at the side asked, "Who is the murderer? Mr. Yi?"
"Huh?! Why do you think it was me?!" Mr. Yi was shocked.
"Because the murder weapon is yours."
"Well, but, but I..."
"The murderer cannot be Mr. Yi."
Wu Wanying looked up at the small skylight above her head and said, "Mr. Yi is too fat. There is no way he can pass through this skylight."
"Yes, that's right! It's impossible for me to do that! I already said that the murderer stole my knife!"
“Among us, there are only two people who can pass through this skylight and have no alibi at the time, Ms. Edano and Ms. Kawai.
And the real murderer, I think, is you, Miss Kawai."
Karasuma Ying withdrew his gaze and looked at Kawai Shoko behind him.
"Ah my...why did it suddenly become like this?"
After being pointed out by Karasuma Ying, Kawai Shoko was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said:
"Obviously, besides me, there are many people who can pass through that skylight, such as Ms. Edano? And Mr. Kosaka?"
The Mr. Kousaka she mentioned was Tomohiko Kousaka, the host of today's secret meeting, and the person who borrowed the key from the administrator.
Although he is a man, he is very thin and does have the conditions to pass through the skylight.
"Mr. Kosaka cannot be the murderer. He was meeting other guests in the hotel before and after Ms. Arai was killed. The police have confirmed this through investigation."
"Yes, that's true." Inspector Megure nodded, agreeing with what Karasuma Ying said.
"Then the murderer must be Ms. Edano, right? After all, she is smaller than me, so it would be easier for her to pass through the skylight than for me, right?"
Kawai Masako turned her gaze to Ms. Edano.
"Death God, what did you say?!"
"No, it can't be Ms. Edano."
Shaking his head again, Wu Wanying continued to explain:
"Ms. Edano's room is covered with ridge sand, a kind of artificial particles that easily stick to the soles of shoes. People who have been to her room will have this stuff on the soles of their shoes.