"Huh? What does that mean? ”

Miwako Sato asked suspiciously.

"We have analyzed it just now, and the condition of the deceased does not look like he was attacked and killed by the murderer when he was about to take a bath."

Takato explained, "So, the question of why the corpse appeared in the bathroom wearing only underwear is worth considering. ”

After a pause, Gao Yuan continued: "At first, I thought that after the murderer killed someone, in order to cover up something, I deliberately took off the deceased's clothes and brought the body into the bathroom. However, after looking at the order in which the clothes were stacked in the bedroom, I rejected this view, and the clothes should have been taken off by the deceased himself. ”

"Why? Is there anything wrong with this order? ”

Miwako Sato couldn't understand Takato's jumping train of thought and asked.

"You see, the order in which these clothes are stacked, the skirt is on the T-shirt, that is to say, the T-shirt is taken off first, and then the skirt is taken off."

Gao Yuan pointed out the key to this.

"But what does that mean?"

Miwako Sato still couldn't understand what Takato meant.

Takato smiled and said, "Use your imagination, Officer Sato." It was not easy to rip clothes off the body of an immobile corpse. In this case, the murderer should start with clothes that are easier to take off, so if you think about it this way, it makes sense to take off your skirt and socks first. ”

Immediately afterwards, Gao Yuan made a detailed explanation:

"A T-shirt is different from a skirt in that you can take it off as soon as you unbutton it, but to take off a T-shirt, you have to pull your body out of the neckline and cuffs. So, it's obvious which one is easier to take off. ”

"So, in your opinion, it doesn't make sense that the T-shirts are at the top of the stacking order now, right?"

Miwako Sato barely understood Takato's thinking.

Gao Yuan nodded, "The corpse will not take off its clothes by itself, and if the murderer takes it off, it seems too unreasonable to take off the T-shirt first, then the reasonable explanation is that the deceased took off his clothes himself before he died!" ”

"But if so, why did the deceased take off his clothes in such a place? Is it a change of clothes, or is it a ......"

Miwako Sato continued to think along Takato's train of thought, but seemed to be unable to think of a better explanation and shook her head.

Gao Yuan pondered for a moment and asked, "By the way, when was the time of death of the deceased?" ”

"It's probably between ten and eleven in the morning."

Miwako Sato said.

"Ten to eleven in the morning?"

Gao Yuan thought, "It's not right to take off your clothes at this time." ”

A little helpless, Gao Yuan sighed.

"What reason would make a lady do such a thing during the day......

Looking at the pile of clothes on the bed, a possibility suddenly appeared in Gao Yuan's mind-

"She's not going to sleep with a man, is she?"

"Huh?"

Once again, in the face of Takato's jumping speech, Miwako Sato felt helpless.

It's just this momentary thought, Gao Yuan feels as if his train of thought has been opened, and the whole thing seems to be able to be explained clearly.

"If you think about it this way, the biggest suspect is Masato Komura!"

In this regard, Miwako Sato is a little used to it, and after a few times in a row, he can't hear the logic of Takato's words before and after, so he can only wait for him to explain himself.

"Officer Sato, there's no sign of a fight or mess in this room, right?"

Takato asked.

"That's right."

Miwako Sato said.

So, Gao Yuan couldn't help but smile, "This can be understood." ”

With that, he walked out of the bedroom and into the living room where he could see the door.

"From the very beginning, I ignored the question of how the killer got into the house. Officer Sato, there are no traces of a forced break-in at the scene, right? ”

"That's right."

Miwako Sato replied.

"Well, that makes sense. The murderer is someone familiar to the deceased, and it is the deceased who takes the initiative to let the murderer in. ”

Gao Yuan said.

"It looks like that, right."

Miwako Sato did not refute.

"So, the question arises, why did the deceased take off his clothes when someone in the house came?"

Gao Yuan said.

Hearing this, Miwako Sato understood what Takato said just now - "She won't want to sleep with a man, right?" ”

It makes sense to think about it that way.

"You mean that the deceased had an intimate relationship with the murderer?"

Miwako Sato said, suddenly shocked: "If you look at it like this! ”

"That's right. If you think about it this way, isn't there a ready-made candidate? ”

Seeing Miwako Sato's demeanor, Takato knew that she understood what she meant, "It's the husband of the deceased, Masahiro Komura!" ”

"So, what's the motive?"

Miwako Sato asked.

"Don't forget, what happened before."

Takato said, "Masahiro Komura was found to be embezzling public funds by the auditors sent by the group headquarters, so he designed to kill the auditors, and together with his wife, Ms. Komura Hatsu, made an alibi. And so far, the embezzled money has not been found! ”

"That's right."

Miwako Sato recalled the previous incident and said, "At that time, because of the existence of an alibi, I temporarily let Masahiro Komura go home. However, the next day, after Mr. Akechi cracked his alibi, Masaki Komura mysteriously disappeared in his garage. ”

"What's even stranger is that although there is a lot of blood dripping from the scene of Masahiro Komura's disappearance, the police can't find anything that can be used to match the DNA."

"This is obviously not normal, and it is likely that it is a deliberate disappearance, so that the police have no way to trace the whereabouts of Masato Komura." Without fingerprints and DNA, once Masahiro Komura changes his appearance, then the police will not be able to find the slightest evidence to find the whereabouts of this person. ”

"In fact, this may be the plan that Komura's husband and wife are jointly implementing."

Gao Yuan continued, "In order to perfectly keep the embezzled money for himself. There will always be times when the alibi method of murder is seen through, but if the person concerned disappeared directly before then, then as long as Ms. Hatsu Komura, as an accomplice, refused to admit to death, then the police would have no choice. ”

"And in the end, if the only person in the know, Ms. Chuxia of Komura, is killed, then the whole thing will be perfect!"

Miwako Sato said in surprise, after such logic, it seems that everything makes sense.

But soon it slowed down, Miwako Sato calmed down and continued to ask a question, "What about the hair?" Why did the murderer cut off the deceased's hair? ”

"Because, that's the murder weapon!"

Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Just imagine the situation at that time, the women are all off, and the other party must be naked." And in that case, the murderer suddenly starts to kill, so what is the best murder weapon at hand? ”