In the social hall of the hotel, Baoda and his party did not go to the living room to wait, but still sat on the sofa in the hall, and the atmosphere was silent.

When Uncle Maori came over, his face was already a little tired, and he looked at Gao Chengdao, who came back from checking on the ancestral hall: "I have already seen it, there are no suspicious traces on the cliff, if someone bypasses the leisure hall to go to the open-air hot spring, it should be obvious that it is right......

"In addition, the proprietress also confirmed just now that the murderous knife found in the bathhouse is the divine knife originally enshrined in the ancestral hall......"

The uncle said in a deep voice: "Plus the bloody headscarf of Miss Ema in the pool, if it is used to wrap the murder knife, the order of the murder should be Miss Ema first and then Miss Asuka." ”

"But how did the murderer do it?" Harumi Fukatsu clenched her fingers tightly, "Maybe it's the curse of the kimono sleeve god at all, only the kimono sleeve god can do this kind of thing......"

"Well," Xiaolan hesitated, "during the day, we did see two new dolls in the ancestral hall of the shrine in the village, and there were two new dolls dedicated to the kimono sleeve god......"

Gao Cheng glanced at Xiaolan.

He has also seen the ancestral hall of the shrine, and said that if the third watch wears a long-sleeved kimono in the middle of the night to worship, he can't avenge the revenge, and the kimono sleeve god will help take revenge.

Sure enough, it's pretending to be a god and playing a ghost, and the murderer has gone to such great lengths just to make people think about the curse of the kimono sleeve god, right?

In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, an elderly police officer from the county police of Yamagata County rushed to the scene, and the forensic personnel quickly collected evidence at the scene.

"In other words, the time when Asuka Shibasaki entered the open-air bathhouse was around 10 o'clock in the evening, and the time when Ema Anzai walked into the ancestral hall in the courtyard was around 10:30......"

The 59-year-old Shinsen Police Department summed up the map of the hotel: "Both of them died on the same magic knife, and the murder knife was later found in the open-air bathhouse, right?" ”

"Also," Uncle Mori added, "only Miss Ema's shoe prints were left outside the ancestral hall, and on the other side you had to go through the relaxation hall to get to the open-air bathhouse, but the relaxation hall was always ...... at that time."

"It's really terrible," the real police department added a headache, "Are both of them murders in a closed room?" ”

"What a police officer!" A policeman suddenly ran over from the ancestral hall outside, leaned over to Zhenxian, whispered for a while, and handed over several document bags to Zhenxian.

Gao Cheng followed and glanced at it, which seemed to be a note and an earring pendant.

didn't wait for Gao Cheng to be puzzled for too long, and Zhenxian directly showed the earring pendant to everyone: "This is an earring found on the corpse of Anzai Ema, but the other is not at the scene......"

"Ah," said the editor in surprise, "these are designer earrings!" One is at least about 200,000, and it seems that Harumi also has this type of necklace pendant......"

Harumi Fukatsu hurriedly explained, "That's right, but because Ema is not happy every time I see it, I put it away......"

"Is that so?"

Officer Shinsen did not continue to ask questions, but talked to his subordinates about the situation at the scene.

"The long-sleeved kimono and obi were originally stored in the ryokan's storeroom, but the storeroom is usually unlocked......"

"Everyone," after a few words, Shin first calmed down and turned to the others, "Now we need to confirm the whereabouts of everyone last night, first of all, Miss Akechi Eiri, starting with you, it seems that you entered the bathhouse around half past nine and left around ten o'clock, and Asuka Shibasaki entered the bathhouse after you......"

"Yes," said Wise Ekeri, who was sitting on the sofa, nodding slightly, "and then I went back to my room, and I ran into Mr. Maori and them on the way......"

"That's true," Uncle Maori said, "We met at 10 o'clock, and we were just about to take a bath......"

"Well, then there's Miss Yoriko Hoda." Officer Shinsen turned to the editor next to Akechi Eiri, "You stayed here until half past nine to sort out the interview, didn't you?" ”

"Yes, I saw Eri at the time, and after about five minutes, Ema walked to the back door alone."

"That's about 10 and a half...... Did you see anyone else going through the back door? ”

"No, just paint one."

Gao Cheng quietly looked at Baotian and the editors.

The sign for the charter was from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock, and the door was also locked from the inside at that time, so Xiaolan and Harumi Fukatsu were going to the leisure hall to play table tennis, and it was also at that time, Conan heard a popping sound when he was taking a bath next door, and the time was about 10:50.

"Have Miss Xiaolan and Miss Harumi been staying at the leisure center all the time?" Officer Shinsen continued.

"No," Harumi Fukatsu shook her head, "I forgot to change my contact lenses, so I went back to my room once, and I stayed for about 10 minutes......"

"Then Mr. Mori leaves the bathroom at 11 o'clock," Officer Mazen thought, touching his chin, "Miss Yoriko and Miss Keri are having a meeting here at this time, but what about Mr. Bando?" ”

"I came here around 11:15 to talk about things, and then Mr. Mori came here to say that Hika had been killed in the bathhouse......"

"This time is connected," Zhenxian nodded slightly, "Miss Xiaolan, that kimono sleeve like a doll, you didn't see it in the first place, and the second time you went to the bathhouse, you found out?" ”

"Hmm!" Xiaolan affirmed, "At that time, the sleeves of the kimono were still cold, as if they had just been taken out of the snow!" ”

"But then again," Gao Cheng asked, "how could Miss Ema go to a place like the ancestral hall alone?" ”

Shinsen smiled and took out the ID bag: "This is what we found in Miss Ema's pocket, 'Miss Ema, I have a little secret I want to tell you, tonight at half past ten o'clock, I will wait for you in the ancestral hall in the courtyard, Bando Shang'......"

"Nonsense!" Hanto's face changed drastically, "How could I write such a letter?!" ”

"But the reality is, you don't seem to have an alibi before 11:15......"

"This ...... I didn't have any motive to kill Asuka and Miss Ema! ”

"That's right," Shinsen nodded and turned to Harumi Fukatsu, "If you think about the motive, the only one who has a motive to kill is Miss Harumi, because you have always hated them, thinking that they killed your senpai, plus you didn't have an alibi at all in the 10 minutes you went back to your room......"

"How-how?" Harumi Fukatsu reacted violently, "I'm not a murderer!" I didn't kill either of them! ”

After the interrogation, several editors returned to their rooms one after another, and Gao Cheng also planned to re-investigate the scene.

"Miss Harumi," Gao Cheng looked at Harumi Fukatsu, who was worried and absent-minded, "You seem to care about that Suzuka-senpai." ”

"Well," Harumi Fukatsu came back to her senses, "I was raised by my uncle and aunt when I was a child, and Sakurako's parents also died in an accident when she was a child, so they have always taken special care of me......"

"I see."

Gao Cheng and Harumi Fukatsu separated and went to the ancestral hall again to investigate.

To be honest, he doesn't really like a woman with a personality like Harumi Fukatsu, who looks weak and wants help from others, but it's just another form of self-centeredness.

It's still much better for girls like Xiaolan, Yuanzi and Heye.

But......

This case, he almost had a little speculation in his heart, including the murderers of Asuka and Ema.

Using the unique hotel environment to design two seemingly perfect secret room murders, a lot of information was exposed.

Take advantage of the legend of the kimono sleeve god and take advantage of the inn environment...... All of them fully illustrate that if you don't stay in the hotel for a long time, if you don't know enough about this place, you can't design such a sophisticated crime.

The storage room for long-sleeved kimonos is unlocked, but not everyone knows what's inside.

There is also a seemingly unsolvable order of killing.

Due to environmental reasons, it is impossible to determine the order of Asuka and Ema's deaths, and all kinds of clues indicate that Ema was killed......

Sherlock Holmes said that if all impossibilities are eliminated, what remains is the truth, no matter how inconceivable, but what if this remaining inconceivable truth is also one of the impossible that has been eliminated?

Elimination doesn't solve all problems, but clue deduction can still find the slightest possibility in the mystery.

Starting from the purpose of the criminal's method and thinking backwards, this kind of investigation method has been seen in many reasoning and world-famous reasoning cases, and he has relied on this to solve many cases in the past.

Back to square one.

There are two problems now, the first is the footprints in the courtyard, and the second is that no one has been to the female bath in the open-air bath after half past 10, that is, the presumed time of the crime, and the murderer cannot normally appear at the scene of the murder.

In addition, the key to the problem is the order of the murder of Asuka and Ema, logically, Asuka in the bathhouse should have been killed before half past ten, that is, before Eima Anzai, but the murder weapon that killed Eima Anzai and Eima's headscarf appeared in the bathhouse.

Solve the problem of footprints first.

Gao Cheng followed Anzai's footprints in the courtyard back to the back door of the hall, and turned his gaze to both sides.