Holding the keychain, Hattori Heiji looked at everyone and said, "I've checked all the windows in the room, and they're all locked. Ran just said that no one escaped through the windows. That means if only Uncle Shigematsu had the key, this is a locked room murder."
"Is it really impossible that it could be suicide?"Yurie Morizono asked, noting the clear difference between suicide and homicide; she hoped this was a suicide if possible.
Aizen replied, "Besides what I mentioned before, if this were a suicide, the knife should have been left at the scene, but we didn't find it here." Morizono Mikio asked,
"Is it possible that Shigematsu threw the knife out the window?" Aizen shook his head, "That's impossible. When the window made a noise, I turned to look, and I only saw broken glass, nothing was thrown out."
"And look!"
Aizen said, turning and walking into the room. He pointed to the path between the body and the window, saying, "If a knife had been thrown out, there would definitely have been blood dripping down, but as you can see, it's very clean; there's no blood."
Morizono Mikio nodded; Aizen's reasoning was spot on.
"In that case, let's wait for the police. We won't leave until they arrive."
"Hey!!"
Hearing this, Morizono Kikuhito spoke up, "Please, my wedding is tomorrow! I don't care who did this, this is already embarrassing enough." Saying this, he turned to leave. "
Wait, Kikuhito, what are you saying? Someone's dead now, who cares about your wedding?" Morizono Yurie frowned.Tomorrow's wedding was indeed important, but the problem was that someone was dead, and it was a murder. The dead man was the family's butler, and she and her younger brother had been raised by him. How could they be so indifferent?
Sister, the person who died wasn't from the Morizono family, was he?"
Morizono Kikuhito walked towards the corpse and said, "Besides, I don't want to cancel my honeymoon plans right now. Although it's a bit unfair to the butler who has served our family for so many years, the wedding tomorrow will still proceed as planned, and be a grand affair."
As he spoke, Morizono Kikuhito went to the window, turned back, and said, "I think that way, Butler Shigematsu's spirit in heaven will be comforted, right?"
*Bang!
A heavy punch landed on Morizono Kikuhito's cheek. It was Yuji Sakuraba who struck him. Morizono Kikuhito was knocked back, his elbow hitting a windowpane, shattering the glass, and he fell to the ground.
Yurie Morizono glanced at Yuji Sakuraba with displeasure. Her displeasure wasn't because Morizono Kikuhito had been hit, but because Yuji Sakuraba dared to hit her brother in front of her, as if he didn't care at all about having forced himself on her and being exposed. This made her feel provoked.
Aizen walked up to Kazuha Toyama and whispered to her, "Kazuha, let's go downstairs and find Ran and Sonoko."
"Okay!"
Kazuha Toyama nodded in agreement, turning away and giving Kikuhito Morizono a disdainful look before leaving. She disliked Kikuhito Morizono's words.
"Hattori, I'll leave this to you. Kazuha and I are going downstairs to find Ran and Sonoko."
Aizen said to Heiji Hattori, and with Heiji Hattori's nod, he and Kazuha Toyama walked out of the room together.
Walking down the corridor, Toyama Kazuha turned to Aizen and asked, "Aizen, do you know who killed Mr. Shigematsu?"
Aizen shook his head. "How would I know? The only thing I'm certain of right now is that it was a murder. Why did the perpetrator deliberately move Mr. Shigematsu to the inner room? And why didn't they leave a knife? How did the perpetrator leave? Judging from the extent of the bloodstains and the wounds on Shigematsu's body, the perpetrator must have had blood on them. How did they dispose of it? These are all questions."
"Hey?"
Toyama Kazuha exclaimed in surprise, "Aizen, you've thought of so many questions! I hadn't even considered these."
Aizen smiled and said, "I'm a detective, so of course I think of more than the average person. Kazuha, you're not a detective, you don't think from a detective's perspective, so it's normal that you haven't thought of these."
"Anyway, Aizen, you're amazing!"
Toyama Kazuha smiled slightly, sincerely praising him.
Aizen smiled and said, "..." Thank you for the compliment, beautiful lady! Upon hearing this ,
Toyama Kazuha was taken aback. After glancing at Aizen, she shook her head.
Aizen looked at himself, puzzled, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just happened to think of something."
Toyama Kazuha smiled and shook her head. Actually, just now, she thought of the Jigsaw. The Jigsaw spoke in that way, but she immediately realized that Aizen couldn't possibly be the Jigsaw, so she shook her head.
If Aizen knew that Toyama Kazuha had made that fleeting connection, he would be shocked. Although it was just a thought and was quickly dismissed, it was still the truth. To be able to deduce that his two identities were the same person based on just one sentence was truly terrifying.
Aizen and Toyama Kazuha met Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki outside the villa. The two women still didn't know what had happened, but they guessed it must have been something important, otherwise Aizen wouldn't have taken so long to come down.
The four walked into the villa, and Aizen told Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki what had happened.
Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki were very surprised and somewhat saddened, as they had just spoken to Akio Shigematsu not long ago, and now he had been murdered.
The four of them went to the crime scene on the third floor... Everyone who came here stayed.
The only difference was that Yurie Morizono now had a cat in her hand—the same cat that Yuji Sakuraba had caught when Aizen and the others first arrived, but which had then escaped. Aizen learned that the cat had been in the room the whole time, behind Shigematsu Akio's body, which was why it hadn't been discovered.