In the divination hall, Kimiko Arai's room was still in chaos. Karasumaying squatted next to the fallen demon statue and gently touched the iron thorns on its body with her gloved hands.
When I raised my hand, I saw that the gloves were covered with dust.
She has solved all the tricks.
But there was one last thing she didn't understand: what was the murderer's motive? For what reason 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, Officer Memu walked into the room. Behind him, Mao Lilan and his party, as well as the diviners 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 so much for being willing to be here again.”
"Miss Ying, what exactly do you want us to come over for?" Daijiro Arai asked doubtfully, still not quite sure of the situation.
"Of course it's time to start the high school detective's gorgeous mystery show, hehehe..." Kawai Souko said with a smile.
"Do you already know who the murderer is?" Mr. Yi asked quickly, looking nervous.
"I still think Kimiko should have committed suicide..." Ms. Edano said.
“Without jumping to conclusions, let’s 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 to open the door, we discovered Ms. Arai’s body..."
"Is the door confirmed to be locked?" At this time, Officer Megure asked.
"Yes, I personally confirmed this, and I was the one who opened the door later. There was a statue of a fallen knight blocking the door. This also means that the murderer did not leave through the iron door after the murder."
After explaining this, Karasumaying continued:
"Ms. Arai had been dead for a long time after we opened the iron door. She had multiple injuries on her body, among which the injuries to her thighs and abdomen were the most obvious.
The main cause of Ms. Arai's death was 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 the 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 committing seppuku?"
Officer Megure asked.
“Judging from the bloodstains around the floor, there was no trace of the blood that spurted forward from the victim’s abdomen to the front after being stabbed by the samurai sword.
But the injuries on the victim's body also showed that she was stabbed into the body from the front by the samurai sword. Therefore, it is common sense to infer that the blood spurted out by the victim after being injured would be somewhat blocked by the murderer in front of her... …Is it possible that the victim committed suicide? "
“It would be true if the murderer had struck in front of Ms. Arai, but in fact, the murderer actually hugged Ms. Arai from behind, and then held the samurai sword in his hand.
In this way, the blood spurting out from Ms. Arai's abdominal wound would also not be blocked by the murderer. " Karasumaying answered Officer Megure's doubts.
"But would Kimiko be so obedient and let the murderer get close to her behind?" Daijiro Arai asked.
"Of course not. The multiple injuries on Ms. Arai's body prove that she also struggled violently when she was killed."
"Then how did the murderer get close behind Kimiko? No...how did the murderer enter this room?
Obviously the keys to the room were all on Kimiko at the time, and even the spare key was something we asked Kousaka-kun to pick up from the administrator later..."
"Door."
Karasumaying pointed to the iron door and said with great certainty: "The murderer walked in directly through this iron door. The murderer of Ms. Arai was actually the guest she wanted to meet after the secret meeting!"
"What?!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Ms. Edano looked at Daijiro Arai and asked quickly: "Dajiro, who is the guest Kimiko was going to see at that time? Don't you know?"
"I don't know! Kimiko only said that she had guests to meet, but she didn't tell me at all!"
After taking in everyone's reactions, Karasumaying turned around, looked at the demon statue lying on the ground in front of her, and continued:
"After killing Ms. Arai, the murderer first completely messed up the room, and then used a very incredible method to leave the room..."
"You mean that the murderer messed up the room to cover up his escape method?" Officer Megure understood what Karasuma Ying meant.
"That's right."
"It's not a robber who sneaked in, right?" Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously.
“None of the valuables in the room were missing, and the safe showed no signs of being tampered with... It’s not so much a robber, but an acquaintance who was not looking 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."
Karasumaying reached out and wiped the thorns on the demon statue again, showing the dust on the 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..."
"etc!"
After hearing this, Zhuangzi Kawai immediately interrupted Karasumaying.
"There are so many thorns on this demon statue, and there are small thorns extending from each thorn. It can't take more than two steps before the shoes are punctured. 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."
Karasumaying said, picking up a beautiful handbag from the ground, and then hung it on the thorns of the devil statue in front of everyone.
"The murderer did not leave directly on the devil statue, but used the handbags in Ms. Arai's room, hung them on the thorns, and then used these bags as a foothold 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 pick up the passing handbag, and then throw it to the ground.
Finally, when he reached the skylight, he kicked down the demon statue that had been loosened by the murderer to secure the screws, and finally completed the layout of the room. "
"This, this is too exaggerated..." Mao Lilan couldn't help but said.
"As for the evidence."
Karasumaying picked up a handbag from the ground again and turned the inside of the handle string in front of everyone.
"There are dust of almost the same size on the inside of the handle ropes of these handbags, and there are corresponding traces of dust that have been inexplicably rubbed off on some of the thorns on the body of the devil."
(End of chapter)
