I sat in the position and breathed a sigh of relief, the dangerous scene of the previous fight with the island still appeared in front of my eyes, I took out the key and opened the drawer, a small black pistol in the drawer, it turned out that I forgot the gun here, no wonder I didn't touch the gun when I reached out to my waist before, fortunately I was only shot in the arm, but this is not glad that I didn't bring it, in case the gun is in my waist, is it not on the island will lose my life.

"How's the injury?" I looked up and saw that the person who came to me was Kudo.

"It's not a big deal." I say.

"What do you think?" Kudo's gaze fell on my pistol.

"It's nothing, just wondering if if I'm going to have to take another life with me."

"Guns are used to punish evil, congratulations to you are still as hesitant as before, you must not hesitate when punishing evil, but at the right time." Kudo said and picked up my pistol, "The M3913Ls 9mm pistol, a gun with a very small caliber, easy to carry, makes a crisp and small sound when shooting, it is a good gun, how can you hesitate when you use it?" ”

He paused and looked into my eyes as if he wanted to see through me, "Congratulations, but if it's because of Ms. Suzuki, would you hesitate?" ”

I was stunned, "What do you mean?" ”

"If Ms. Suzuki is harassed by someone else, that is, if her ex-husband Ito comes to harass him in front of you, have you ever thought about pulling the trigger on his head?"

My eyes widened in astonishment, and I looked straight at Kudo, and the alarms all over my body were turned on one by one, and this feeling was very uncomfortable, as if all my secrets were in the other person's insight.

"I believe you will, although you are such an upright person, but you are such an open-minded person in love, if the other party is Ito, you will not hesitate." He turned and walked out of the office, leaving me sitting in my seat with wide eyes.

January 8, 5 p.m

Watanabe walked into the office and handed the document in front of me, I picked up the document, the document was about a person's identity information, his name is Honda, he is a dwarfism patient, he is the suspect who is wanted, he is a native of Tokyo, he is a businessman, he used to do very well in business, but now he has disappeared, it is said that he has already sold his property and is missing, some people speculate that he offended others in business, some people speculate that he is bankrupt and owes a huge amount of money, Anyway, whether he was really as he had guessed or not, he disappeared like this.

"He must have absconded in fear of sin." Nakamura said.

"If he escapes abroad, it won't be easy to find." Watanabe said.

"Anyway, the case is finally solved." A colleague said with relief.

"It stands to reason that he is a dwarf patient, such an eye-catching person, but we can't get a little information about him, as if he had grown wings and flown away." Nakamura's doubtful words echoed in my ears, drifting away as I left.

The sunset has filled the entire sky, like an endless churning flame, I returned to the apartment, this building was full of haze not long ago, and now with the detection of the police case, everyone seems to have come out of the haze, the caretaker greeted me with a smile, the residents who passed by bent down to thank me, and the aunt who had just finished buying vegetables laughed and teased me that she had not gone out much because she was afraid of the murderer some time ago, and I smiled back one by one.

Although my mood did not get any better.

I came to the front of the house, and was about to take out the key to open the door, but suddenly found that the door of Chiyoko's house next door was actually open, I stared at it in surprise, and stepped into the door, only to find that the person inside was Kudo, who was sitting on the round soft stool, sitting quietly, as if waiting for someone.

"Shinzawa, what are you doing here?" I stared at him.

"I'm waiting for you."

"Wait for me?"

"Yes, congratulations, it's been ten years, and it's time for our gambling contract to have a result." He spoke calmly, his gaze resolute like that of a samurai.

"Isn't the case already decided? I've already lost. ”

"No, you didn't lose, and you know it yourself, the truth has not completely surfaced, how the murderer left the scene, and the entire process of the murderer's crime, we still haven't mastered it yet."

"But the murderer has not been caught, and we have no way of knowing the truth."

But Kudo stopped talking, and just answered me with calmness.

"Do you already know?" I looked at him.

He stood up suddenly, looking at the dazzling sun outside the shattered floor-to-ceiling window behind him, and at this moment his back was indeed so lonely, like a lone wolf in the wasteland.

"I couldn't figure out how the murderer left the scene before, although we came to the conclusion of how the murderer entered, but I thought about it for a long time, ruled out all impossibilities, and still didn't think of how the murderer left, but in this way there is a very terrible conclusion, the murderer must not have entered the scene in the way we came to before, because there must be only one way to enter and exit the scene, but we know how the murderer entered but we don't know how to leave, so our previous inference is wrong."

"Are you saying that the murderer did not enter the scene by hiding under the skirt of the deceased? But how do you explain it? I asked.

"No, that photo is true, my previous inference is not wrong, the deceased's skirt is indeed hiding from people, but the murderer did not enter the scene in this way."

"What do you mean?" I frowned, believing that if the others listened to what Kudo said, they would also be confused.

But Kudo stopped talking, just glanced at me, and then he kept pacing in the room, "When I came to the conclusion that the murderer did not enter the scene in this way, I overturned all the previous conclusions, rethought, I racked my brains, I haven't tried so hard all these years, and finally I came to the conclusion that impossible, impossible, if the murderer didn't pass through the main entrance and didn't pass through the balcony, this is a perfect impossible crime, but there can be no perfect crime in the world, As long as you've been in one place, you're bound to leave a mark, and I've never believed in perfect crimes, so I started watching the case again, the first ashtray falling sound between seven and eight o'clock, the second glass breaking sound after the call at nine o'clock, the fire that started at the scene, the lighter falling on the carpet, and the scene where it was cleaned and fingerprinted, and Ms. Suzuki's fingerprints on Shota's neck. ”

"After I rethought it, I found a lot of new suspicions, there was a sound of ashtrays falling at the scene, but there were no ashtrays at the scene, because no one smoked in the deceased's house, and the lighter that fell on the carpet, I once again suspected that this was really accidentally left by the murderer? We also think that this is a homicide, although I have previously concluded that the murderer deliberately left it in order to mislead the police with homicide as a suicide, but I don't think this is the main purpose of the murderer, and the same is true for the broken hole in the glass window, the murderer's purpose is not mainly to make this case a suicide case, this can only be regarded as one of the murderer's hole cards, but this is not the biggest one, so the murderer must have another purpose, and this purpose also determines his success or failure. ”