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"Of course, this actually has little impact."
Having said this, Shirakawa Kiyoshi walked around Kurahashi Motoaki and left the room.
"Because I have figured out how the murderer killed Mr. Clyde and flew his body to the power plant...
Next, it's time to reveal the answer to the mystery to everyone, Butler Kurahashi, do you want to go with me?"
Chapter 433 Master and Servant
"How long will this continue..."
On the day at the annex, after Shirakawa Kiyoshi explained in detail how the murderer made Clyde's body "fly" to the power plant on the back mountain, everyone returned to the annex, rested, and then gathered in the hall for dinner.
Of course, just like the situation of Yang Douxin being poisoned yesterday, although Bai Heqing quickly cracked the murderer's method this time, he was unable to completely identify the murderer due to the lack of key evidence.
"What exactly does the murderer want to do again and again?" At the dining table, the second young master Tone Takahiro tightly grasped the knife and fork in his hands and couldn't help but say.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Kevin said with a smile while cutting the steak on the plate:
"Two of the original three heirs have been killed. Obviously, the murderer was after the inheritance.
Trying every possible means to get rid of the other two heirs so that he could take all the inheritance for himself, isn't this a sufficient motive for murder for our university professor? "
As he spoke, Kevin raised the fork in his hand and gestured to Kitakami Kazuhiko who was sitting diagonally opposite him.
"Well, that's true..." Mei Ling nodded in agreement.
"You two..."
Upon hearing this, Kurahashi Motoaki, who had been standing respectfully behind everyone, couldn't help but want to say something.
"It's okay, Kurahashi."
Kitakami Kazuhiko raised his hand to stop him, looked at everyone, smiled and said softly:
“What Mr. Kevin said is not without reason. Even if I don’t have such thoughts, as the heir of the estate, it is normal for me to be suspected in this way.
There are some things that it is time to explain to everyone.”
As Kitakami Kazuhiko finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on him. He faced everyone's gaze and looked at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary who were still quietly eating.
"Besides, our two detectives are both very good. Even if I don't tell them, they will find out the truth sooner or later."
Hearing what he said, Bai Heqing finally put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked up at him.
"Let's start with Kurahashi. Kurahashi and I used to be master and servant."
"Master and servant?!"
Mei Ling was a little surprised, and the two young masters of the Li Gen family who were also sitting at the dining table were even more surprised.
"What exactly is going on?"
"This was not the first time that Kurahashi and I met on this island. Fifteen years ago, Kurahashi worked as a housekeeper in my father, Haruki Kitakami's home in Singapore," Kitakami Kazuhiko explained.
"So that's what's going on?" The eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, suddenly realized what was going on and nodded.
“Fifteen years ago, just after the war, the British government launched a plan to rebuild Singapore, and the location of my home just happened to hinder the progress of the reconstruction plan.
Faced with the Singapore authorities forcing our family to move away, my parents have been trying to negotiate the matter, but…”
Having said this, Kitakami Kazuhiko looked gloomy and smiled bitterly.
“I don’t know if it was because of this reason, but not long after that, my father was kidnapped and disappeared, and my mother chose to commit suicide because of excessive grief.
Suddenly I became an orphan and was adopted by my current foster parents and returned to Japan, while Kurahashi was picked up by Mr. Eijiro Tone, a friend of my father..."
"For the fifteen years since then, I have been working as the housekeeper in this villa." Kurahashi Motoaki said at the right time.
“After this incident, Mr. Tone Eijiro has been searching for his missing father. I also heard that in order to protect our old house in Singapore as much as possible, Mr. Tone Eijiro also tried every possible means afterwards.
I think it is because of these past connections that Mr. Tone Eijiro chose me as one of the heirs to his estate, but…"
At this point, Kitakami Kazuhiko stopped, looked up at everyone, and said with a firm gaze:
"It has come to this. I no longer wish to inherit that inheritance."
"Mr. Kazuhiko..." The second young master Tone Kosuke looked at him blankly.
"Do you really think so?" Mei Ling asked curiously.
"Yes."
Kitakami Kazuhiko nodded, his eyes still firm.
“I am already very happy to see Kurahashi here again. As long as I wait for the rescuers to arrive, I will leave this island directly and never come back.
So, I hope that people will not think that I killed Mr. Yang and Mr. Clyde in order to keep the inheritance for myself.”
As he spoke, Kitakami Kazuhiko stood up from his seat and took a deep breath.
"That's all I have to say. Sorry, I want to go back to my room and rest..."
After saying that, he turned around and left, leaving everyone in the hall, each thinking about what he had just said.
"I never thought that such a thing would happen to Mr. Yi Yan..." After a brief silence, Mei Ling spoke first, still with a smiling expression on her face.
"Do you think what he said is true or false?" Kevin was still eating the steak on his plate calmly.
"Every word Master Yiyan said is true." Kurahashi Motoaki replied.
"Fifteen years ago, my father suddenly stopped writing and brought my brother and me to the UK from Singapore."
The second young master, Kosuke Tone, folded his hands in front of his mouth, his brows slightly furrowed.
"My father told us at the time that he had found the 'legacy of the British Empire' and there was no need for him to continue writing. I have always felt very sorry about this, after all, I have loved my father's novels since I was a child..."
"The legacy of the British Empire? That's such an exaggerated name..." Mei Ling teased.
"Humph, what's the point of having a big name?!"
The eldest young master Takahiro Tone, who had been silent the whole time, couldn't help but hammer the table hard, with an angry expression on his face.
"He is clearly our father, but in the end he didn't leave us even a penny!"
"Well, don't get excited, young master." Kevin glanced at him and said with a smile, "Old people always have their own ideas. Maybe... Mr. Tone Eijiro feels that this batch of inheritance is not so 'clean', so he doesn't want to leave it to the two young masters?"
"Oh?" As soon as he finished speaking, Mei Ling suddenly turned to look at him, and said meaningfully, "It sounds like our Mr. Kevin knows some inside information about this batch of inheritance?"
Not only her, but everyone in the hall, including Shirakawa Qing and Mary, looked over.
"I can't really say I have any intelligence, just some immature guesses." Facing everyone's gaze, Kevin smiled faintly and wiped his mouth with a napkin.
"Okay, we're done with the meal, and it's almost time for me to go back and rest. Everyone, take your time eating."
Chapter 434 The Identity of the Murderer
In the annex, after dinner, the people in the hall dispersed in twos and threes, while Shirakawa Qing and Mary walked towards the room together.
"Shirakawa, what do you think about what Kitakami Kazuhiko just said?" Mary asked as they walked in the corridor.
"do not know."
Shirakawa Kiyoshi replied very honestly.
"The intelligence we have now is not enough to determine the truth of his words."
The information that Black Rose had previously provided to the two only stated that Tone Eijiro had obtained the inheritance in Singapore fifteen years ago. As for how he obtained it and what he did in the process... the two knew nothing about this information.
Even the things that Kitakami Kazuhiko had said before about his father were the first time they heard about it.
"Indeed..." Mary nodded helplessly after hearing that.
"Of course, though."
After hesitating for a moment, Shirakawa Qing changed the subject and said, "But if we infer based on the reactions of the two young masters of the Tone family and the old butler at the time, what Kitakami Kazuhiko said before should not be false.
After all, these people were in Singapore fifteen years ago and can be considered to have experienced it firsthand.
In the panic situation in the annex, if Kitakami Kazuhiko had lied, they would have pointed it out without hesitation. "
"Unless they are all accomplices."
“But this is simply impossible. Among the three heirs designated by Tone Eijiro, his two sons are not included. If these two young masters want to inherit the estate, the three heirs must be dead.
There is a fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties, so there is no possibility of cooperation to seize the inheritance."
"What about Kurahashi Motoaki? What do you think, Shirakawa?" Mary asked. When she talked about the old butler, her tone suddenly became serious.
"I think he's the one who killed Yang Douxin and Clyde."
Shirakawa Qing stated his speculation directly.
"Although we currently have no evidence to directly prove this, I noticed a characteristic of the murderer in the murders of these two people."
"The murderer is very familiar with the situation in this annex and the people inside it." Mary continued.
Bai Heqing looked at her with a little surprise, then nodded and continued:
“When poisoning Yang Douxin and moving Clyde’s body, the murderer revealed his familiarity with everyone’s eating habits and the surrounding environment of the villa.
Kurahashi Motoaki, who was responsible for preparing meals for everyone during these few days and had worked on this isolated island for fifteen years, met these two criteria."
But there is no evidence.
During the day today, Shirakawa Qing specifically asked the two young masters of the Tone family whether there were things like fishing lines stored in the villa, trying to find a breakthrough from this aspect.
Their answer was yes, and quite a lot, but only Kurahashi Motoaki knew the exact number.
Okay, no need to look for it.
All the supplies in the annex are managed by Kurahashi Motoaki. The two young masters don't care at all. For things like how much fishing line there is in the warehouse, isn't it Kurahashi Motoaki who has the final say?
Without correct information, reasoning cannot proceed.
"What are you going to do next with this old butler? Keep an eye on him?" Mary asked.
“Personally, I feel that this may not be necessary…” Shirakawa Qing thought for a moment and replied, “According to my intuition, the reason why Kurahashi Benming killed Yang Douxin and Clyde may be because of his former master Kitakami Kazuhiko.
Under the current circumstances, unless something special happens to Kitakami Kazuhiko, he may not take any further action."
"The special incident you mentioned, is it referring to..."