She and Shichimura spent twenty minutes investigating the empty room where the prisoner had disappeared.

However, the girl didn't realize anything in particular. She just felt that it took such a long time to investigate more fully... But in fact, the time was completely under the control of Nanamura.

"So, do you mean that Mr. Nanamura and the prisoner colluded to commit the crime?"

"No, we can't say that they committed the crime together. To be more precise, it can be said that Mr. Nanamura saw through the prisoner's plan and used him for his own purposes."

"What's going on?"

"The prisoner's purpose is revenge, but Mr. Nanamura's purpose is money. By cooperating with the prisoner's plan, he can get a large sum of money without any effort. In fact, he now has 100 million yen in hand, although

That was originally Mr. Ochata’s funds.”

"...That guy! He is really abnormal! Does he only have money in his mind?"

The purple girl just shook her head slightly when she heard this.

"In fact, we don't have a complete understanding of his character."

"To ordinary people's thinking, his choice would indeed be unreasonable, but in his eyes, which can quantify everything in terms of value, money is equal to time."

"For example, if you spend money to rent a helicopter on Christmas night, the time shortened is the extra part of your life. To put it simply, money is the visible life span. We should have thought of what he will do when faced with money early on.

What action was taken?”

"Hmm... we can't let him go..."

Nanamura's behavior is tantamount to tarnishing the reputation of the detective.

What's more, as a person with the honorable title of Double Zero, he actually did such a thing, which might put the professional ethics of all their detectives into question.

"Okay..." Kirigiri still had a calm expression on his face, "Let's get back to the business and go back to the secret room at the beginning."

"Okay, okay."

Her words helped May Yuyue regain some of her calmness.

For now, let’s listen to Kirigiri’s reasoning first.

"The prisoner trapped Mr. Nanamura and Mr. Yui in an empty room, and took advantage of this opportunity to secretly commit murder in a secret room."

"He first led Mr. Ochata to the window. I think Mr. Ogashita followed the prisoner's instructions and used 100 million yen to step on his feet, and then looked out the window. But the next moment——"

The hanging prisoner appeared.

This scene made the girl very frightened when she thought about it.

"I think that in order to secure the victim to the window, the prisoner should have put a tight rope around the victim's neck and tied him in place."

"The prisoner put the noose around the victim's neck in the same way as throwing a noose. This was to prevent the victim from escaping from the window, or perhaps to prevent the victim from screaming. The prisoner strangled the victim's neck tightly.

live, but did not intend to strangle him to death."

"But isn't this rope just for killing people?"

"Well, in addition to pinch marks, there are also traces of a rope on the victim's neck. The reason should be this rope. After the prisoner fixed the victim in place, he directly strangled the victim's neck with his hands."

"As for why the prisoner deliberately strangled the victim with his hands, it was to make us think that the prisoner had been in and out of the secret room. After all, the victim was strangled to death, so it could only be that someone broke into the room and directly killed him."

"We ended up being really confused by him."

"The prisoner was naturally wearing gloves at the time. This was to prevent the victim from injuring his hands when he resisted, and also to cover the fingerprints and handprints left on the victim's neck."

"You are really cautious."

"Yeah, but he probably didn't expect that the upside-down pinch marks would be clearly left on the victim's neck."
Chapter completed!