"yes, I didn't find the murder weapon in the whole room......"

In the living room, Officer Twilight listened to Officer Takagi's report, and his eyes were a little sad.

"Yes." Wataru Takagi nodded and said, "Whether it's indoors or in the drain, we've looked for them all, but none of them." ”

"What about the stars? And what about others? Have you checked them all? They don't have it on them either? Officer Twilight asked, unrelenting.

"Yes, including Miss Takeno's fake nails, Miss Hoshino's earrings, and Mr. Kenzaki's necklace, we have all investigated, and there is no reaction of blood at all."

"What about the agent who followed Miss Kusano to the hospital? Did he find anything over there? ”

"No, no, according to the police officer over there, they even checked Mr. Makuma's glasses, but again, there was no reaction to any blood......"

"That's ......" nodded, Officer Twilight touched his chin and said, "That's the case, the murder weapon should have been taken away by the murderer, it seems that the murderer is very likely to be the person outside the apartment......"

[Not true.] 】

On the side, Karasuma listened to the conversation between Twilight and Takagi, her eyes lowered.

If the murderer knew that Miss Kusano was going to take a bath early on, it would be easy to say, but from the beginning, Miss Kusano's decision to go to the bath was a temporary decision made after arguing with Mr. Mama.

In other words, if the murderer is really someone from outside the apartment, then before the murderer sneaks into the apartment to commit the murder, he actually doesn't know if he can have a chance to find Miss Kusano's chance to be alone and kill her.

It's too brave and far-fetched.

She was still inclined to the possibility that the murderer was someone in the apartment.

It's just, why can't I find the murder weapon?

"But, Officer Twilight......"

At this moment, Wataru Takagi suddenly continued: "Although we didn't find the murder weapon, we found a doll with a bug in the victim's room, Miss Kusano, and there were also some traces of someone turning it over in the cabinet of her dresser. ”

"Bugging?"

Officer Twilight nodded, feeling that he had the truth.

"In this way, even if the murderer is outside the apartment, he can know about Miss Kusano's bath, and there will be a chance to commit murder......"

On the other side, after hearing Wataru Takagi's words, Karasuma Ying came to Kaoru Kusano's room.

She walked straight to the dresser and opened the cabinets one by one.

The inside of the cabinets above is very neat, except for the cabinet containing pens and scissors, which has obvious signs of being turned over.

And in the cabinet in the lower left corner, Karasuma Ying also found a special photo.

The reason why I say it is special is because it is a photo of two people together.

Not Kaoru Kusano and Osamu Kenzaki.

It's Kaoru Kusano and Atsushi Mama.

[Is that really the case......]

Glancing at the photo, Karasuma silently put it back in its place.

"Little sister, are you looking for clues?"

Just then, Terumi Hoshino walked in, holding the cardboard full of blessings in her hand.

"Yes, Hoshino-san." Karasuma replied.

"So, who do you think the murderer will be?" Putting the cardboard on the dresser, Terumi Hoshino looked at her and asked.

"I think the murderer is still ......"

The words paused, and Karasuma Ying subconsciously fell on the cardboard, and after seeing a place on it, the whole person was stunned.

"I see......"

"What?"

"I know who the murderer is, and I also know what kind of murder weapon she used......"

The bits and pieces in his mind were all coherent in this instant, and Karasuma Ying picked up the cardboard and pressed her index finger to one place.

Hoshino Terumi looked over, and the place where Karasuma Ying's finger was pressed was the lip print that Yue Yexue had left on the cardboard before.

However, the strange thing is that in the center of this lip print, corresponding to the middle of the lower lip, there is an unusually blackened red, which is incompatible with the lipstick color around it.

"This is the color of blood, it is the blood of Miss Kaoru Kusano, and the murderer is Miss Yue Yexue."

Looking at this unusually colored lip print, Karasuma Ying said slowly:

"The time was when Miss Yueno went to the toilet to change her clothes, she first changed into a raincoat, put on the gloves that deliberately left holes in the tips of her fingers, and then after asking Miss Kusano to open the door in front of the bathroom, she stunned Miss Kusano with anesthetic.

She then used the hardest part of her body except for her teeth, her sharpened thumb nails, to slit Miss Kusano's throat.

Unlike Miss Yue Ye's other nine trimmed fingernails, the nails of her thumb were really long, and the long nail pieces pasted on them were just a cover-up.

After slitting Miss Kusano's throat, Miss Yue Ye first disposed of the raincoat and gloves on her body, and then went to Miss Kusano's room to look for nail clippers, wanting to cut off her thumb nails and destroy the evidence completely.

But what she didn't expect was that Miss Kusano always trimmed her nails when they first grew, so she usually used a more convenient file instead of a nail clipper.

With this kind of file, there is no way to cut Miss Yueno's sharp and hard thumb nail.

But originally, in order to avoid being suspected by the police afterwards, Miss Yue Ye did not have nail clippers on her body, so she had no choice but to bite off her nails little by little with her teeth.

After finishing the nails, Miss Yue Ye reattached the nail piece on her thumb, went to the bathroom to change her clothes, returned to the living room again, and wrote her blessing to Miss Kusano on this cardboard.

Am I right? Miss Yue Ye? ”

Karasuma Ying suddenly turned around and looked at Yue Yexue, who was standing at the door of the room at some point.

At this time, Yue Yexue was holding the door frame with both hands, her expression flustered, and her face was pale.

"You did a really good job, if it weren't for the lip prints on the cardboard that exposed the blood on your lips, Miss Yue Ye, I'm afraid it would be a long time before I realized that you were a murderer."

"Takeno ......"

On the side, Hoshino Terumi looked at Yue Yexue with a very complicated look.

"Is it really you?"

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Yue Yexue didn't say anything, she just bit her lip and looked at the blessing cardboard in Karasuma Ying's hand with her eyes.

"Terumi! Light snow! The hospital just called! Said that Kaoru's surgery was a success! I've woken up now...... Alas? What's wrong with you guys? ”

Yoko Okino ran over excitedly, and then looked at the three people in the room with a puzzled expression, she felt that the atmosphere here seemed to be a little wrong.

Especially Yue Yexue, after hearing that Kaoru Kusano had woken up, the whole person was paralyzed to the ground.

Is something happening?

"Xiaoxue? What's wrong with you? Feeling unwell? ”

"I'm going to inform Officer Twilight."

Karasuma didn't waste any more time, and went directly to inform Officer Twilight, who was still in the living room.

"Wait a minute."

However, at this moment, Terumi Hoshino took her hand.

"Little sister, can you wait a little longer? When I give Kaoru a call, I think she should have something to say......"