"How long will this kind of thing continue..."
On the day of the annex, after Bai Heqing explained in detail how the murderer made Clyde's body "fly" to the power plant in the back mountain, everyone returned to the annex, and after rest, they gathered in the hall to have dinner together.
Of course, just like yesterday when Yang Douxin was poisoned, this time although Bai Heqing quickly figured out the murderer's method, he was unable to completely pinpoint the murderer's identity due to the lack of key evidence.
"Time and time again, what does the murderer want to do?" At the dinner table, the second young master Takahiro Tone couldn't help but said, holding the knife and fork in his hand tightly.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Kevin said with a smile while cutting the steak on the plate:
"Two of the original three heirs have now been killed. Obviously, the murderer is heading towards that batch of inheritance.
Trying to get rid of the other two heirs so that he can monopolize all the inheritance. For our university teachers, isn't this motive for murder very sufficient? "
As he spoke, Kevin raised the fork in his hand to signal Kitakami Kazuhiko, who was sitting diagonally across from him.
"Well, that's true..." Mei Ling nodded in agreement.
"You two..."
Kurahashi Motoaki, who had been standing respectfully behind everyone, heard this and 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 warmly:
"What Mr. Kevin said is not unreasonable. Even if I don't have such thoughts myself, as an heir to an inheritance, it is normal for me to be doubted like this.
There are some things that it’s really time to explain to everyone. "
After Kitakami Kazuhiko finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to him, and he faced everyone's gaze and looked at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mari, who were still quietly using their chopsticks.
"Besides, the two detectives we have here are very good. Even if I didn't say anything, they would have investigated it sooner or later."
After hearing what he said, Bai Heqing finally put down the chopsticks in his hands and looked up at him.
"Let's start with Cangqiao. Cangqiao and I used to have a master-servant relationship."
"Master and servant?!"
Mei Ling was a little surprised, and the two young masters of the Ligen family who were also sitting at the dining table were even more surprised.
"What exactly is going on?"
"This is not the first time Kurahashi and I met on this island. Fifteen years ago, Kurahashi worked as a housekeeper at my father Haruki Kitakami's house in Singapore." Kazuhiko Kitakami explained.
"Is that what happened?" The eldest young master, Takahiro Tone, suddenly realized what he said and nodded.
“Fifteen years ago, just after the war, the then British government launched a reconstruction plan for Singapore, and the location of my house hindered the progress of the reconstruction plan.
Facing the Singaporean authorities who forced our family to move, my parents have been trying to negotiate the matter, but..."
Having said this, Kitakami Kazuhiko looked sad and smiled bitterly.
“I don’t know if it was for this reason that my father was kidnapped and disappeared shortly after that, and my mother also chose to commit suicide because of excessive grief.
Suddenly I became an orphan and was adopted by my current adoptive parents and returned to Japan, while Kurahashi was picked up by his father's friend Mr. Eijiro Tone..."
"For the past fifteen years since then, I have been working as a housekeeper in this annex." Kurahashi Motoaki said in a timely manner.
"After this incident, Mr. Tone Eijiro has been looking for his missing father. I also heard that in order to protect our family's old house in Singapore as much as possible, Mr. Tone Eijiro also tried various methods afterwards.
I think it was precisely because of these previous connections that Mr. Eijiro Tone chose me as one of the heirs, but..."
Having said this, Kitakami Kazuhiko stopped. He looked up at the crowd and said firmly:
"The matter has come to this, and I no longer want to inherit that inheritance."
"Mr. Kazuhiko..." The second young master Tone Kosuke looked at him blankly.
"Do you really think so?" Mei Ling also asked curiously.
"That's right."
Nodding his head, Kitakami Kazuhiko's eyes remained firm.
"I'm very happy to see Cangqiao here again. As long as the rescuers arrive, I will leave the island directly and never come back.
Therefore, I hope that everyone will not think that I killed Mr. Yang and Mr. Clyde in order to monopolize the inheritance. "
Saying that, 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 the room and take a rest..."
After saying that, he turned around and left, leaving everyone in the hall, each thinking about what he had just said.
"I never expected that something like this would happen to Mr. Kazuhiko..." After a brief silence, Mei Ling spoke first, with the smiling expression still on her face.
"Do you think what he said is true or false?" Kevin was still eating the steak on his plate calmly.
"Everything Master Kazuhiko 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 and frowned slightly.
"My father told us at the time that he had found the 'Heritage of the British Empire' and there was no need to continue writing in the future. I have always felt sorry for this. After all, I have liked my father's writings since I was a child..."
"The legacy of the British Empire? It's really an exaggerated title..." Mei Ling joked.
"Hmph, what's the use of calling someone a big name?!"
The eldest young master Takahiro Tone, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but hammer the table with an angry expression on his face.
"He was obviously our father, but in the end he didn't even leave us 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. Eijiro Tone feels that this inheritance is not so 'clean' , that’s why you don’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 with a meaningful tone, "It sounds like our Mr. Kevin knows some inside information about this batch of inheritance?"
Not just her, but everyone in the hall, including Bai Heqing and Mary, looked over.
"I can't tell you the intelligence, it's just some immature guesses." Facing everyone's gaze, Kevin smiled faintly, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth.
"Okay, now that we've finished eating, it's almost time for me to go back and rest. Everyone, eat slowly."
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(End of chapter)
