"The pulse had stopped, and there was a taste like almonds in the mouth, which was supposed to be cyanide poisoning.

Mr. Somei, don't call an ambulance, just call the police. ”

In the living room, Karasuma Ying withdrew the hand that was pressed on the side of the middle-aged man's neck on the ground, got up and said.

"Okay, okay!" Stunned for a moment, Somei Shogo hurriedly took out his mobile phone.

"So, that, is it the police? There's a homicide here, yes, someone died, and the address is ......."

"Is it suicide?" Terumi Hoshino stepped forward, looked at Karasuma Ying and asked.

In order not to spoil the scene, the cigarette in her hand was pressed off by her before she entered the living room.

Without answering her immediately, Karasuma Ying walked to the dining table in the living room, looked at the overturned coffee cups on the table, and frowned slightly.

The cups were knocked over on the plate, and traces of solidified brown coffee were scattered onto the table and then on the other side of the table.

From this scene alone, it can be inferred that the producer should have been sitting at the dining table, first drinking the poisonous coffee, and then poisoning, so that the coffee cup in his hand fell back on the table, spilling all the unfinished coffee inside.

With this in mind, Karasuma wrapped her hands in a white cloth and held the coffee cup along with the plate.

If her assumption is correct, there should be a "semicircular mark" left by the coffee solidifying along the bottom of the plate on the table top.

Alas?

Why?

On the table under the plate, there were no "semi-circular coffee coagulation marks" that Karasuma Ying expected, only very strange "traces of two thin lines".

It's as if there were two slender objects sitting here when the coffee was spilled.

And at the bottom of the plate, there is also no trace of coffee staining.

It's illogical.

If the plate is actually placed here when the coffee is spilled, then the bottom of it will definitely leave traces of coffee contamination.

That is, when this coffee cup is knocked over, this plate ...... Not really here?

And these two strange slender marks on the table should actually be the traces left by the side of the coffee cup and the handle after the coffee has solidified.

After the cup is knocked over, the side of the cup and the handle of the cup, which are in close contact with the tabletop, can indeed leave such traces.

It was further deduced that someone must have tampered with the crime scene before she entered the living room.

The door to the room was fastened with burglar chains, and the floor-to-ceiling windows were locked from the inside...... Considering these two considerations, there is currently only one person who can meet the conditions for tampering with the scene of the crime

Karasuma Ying looked back at Shogo Somei, who was still calling the police, and her eyes narrowed slightly.

"I think it's more likely that he'll be killed." Putting the coffee cup back in its place, she answered Terumi Hoshino's question.

She walked to the other side of the table and looked at the chair on the other side.

After the coffee cup is poured, the remaining coffee in the cup flows down the tabletop, almost all of it to the sides of the chair, and then flows down the two cylindrical legs to the ground little by little, and finally at the point of contact between the chair legs and the ground, leaving two pieces of coffee marks that are printed in circles by the chair legs.

[Not true!] 】

The two pieces of coffee on the side of the chair leg are not right!

The distance between the traces is too far away, and it has completely exceeded the maximum distance between the two legs.

However, there are indeed marks on the legs of the chair where the coffee has flowed, and these two marks on the ground should be the coffee flowing down the ......

Suddenly, Karasuma Ying thought of a possibility.

This chair has been moved!

And it was at that point in time when the producer had just been poisoned!

In this chair at that time, there was another person!

After the producer's poison, the coffee cup is knocked over, and the coffee is spilled down the table, onto the mysterious person and chair who were sitting in the chair at the time.

At this time, some of the coffee was already running down the legs of the chair, forming marks on the ground.

Then, the mysterious man got up and left, the chair was moved, and the coffee left on the chair flowed down the legs of the chair after it was moved, and finally formed a second trace on the ground!

This means that from the time the producer was poisoned to the time Karasuma Ying entered the living room, two people actually appeared and moved the scene of the crime.

The first is a mysterious person who is suspected of being a murderer who was present when the producer was poisoned.

And the second one, Shogo Somei, who entered the room only a few minutes ago and covered up the traces of coffee on the table with a plate.

Why? Mr. Somei is going to do such a thing?

What was he trying to hide?

“……”

"Sister Karasuma! Why are you here?! ”

Not long after, an old acquaintance who received the report arrived, Officer Mudui, came here.

"Huh? Well, for some complicated reasons......" Karasuma said with some embarrassment.

For some reason, she always felt as if she had been meeting Officer Twilight a lot at this kind of murder scene lately......

It's weirdly embarrassing.

"You......" Officer Twilight looked at her and said very sadly, "Sure enough, I've become the second Maori brother......

"Huh?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this, has the murderer been found?"

"Murderer? Didn't Mr. Producer commit suicide? Shogo Somei on the side hurriedly asked.

"Huh? This one...... Did it turn out to be a suicide? Officer Twilight looked at Karasuma Ying.

was decisive, and subconsciously thought that he had killed him.

"No, he should have killed him." Karasuma replied, her eyes slightly chilling.

This murder is a bit complicated, first the producer was poisoned, and the murderer quietly left the crime scene by incredible means after locking the door from the inside.

Subsequently, Shogo Somei rushes into the room first, covering up and destroying clues to the crime scene for unknown reasons.

Are the murderer and Shogo Somei the same person?

If so, how exactly did he complete the arrangement of this secret room?

If not, then why would he destroy clues to the crime scene?

Is it covered?

"Officer, the time of death of the deceased is out."

Just then, a police officer walked into the room and said to Officer Twilight:

"The preliminary speculation is that it should be around half past six this afternoon."

[Half past six......]

It usually takes about an hour for the coffee to solidify, which means that the plate containing the coffee cup is only put there after half past seven at the earliest.

This time basically coincides with the time when Shogo Somei entered the living room.

It can match.

"Xiaoying, the curtains here are wet."

At some point, Hoshino Terumi walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, reached out and touched the rain-soaked curtains, and turned back to Karasuma Ying.

"What?"

Hearing this, Karasuma Ying hurriedly stepped forward and opened the curtains.

At this time, it was still raining outside, and even through a layer of glass, the sound of the rain could be faintly heard.

However, since she entered the living room, she has observed that the floor-to-ceiling windows are obviously closed all the time, why are the curtains in the room wet?

A possibility suddenly came to mind.

Karasuma quickly turned around and swept the entire scene again.

Shogo Somei's soaked shoulders, the overturned coffee cups, the plates that had been moved, the strange traces of coffee solidification under the chairs, the equally soaked curtains......

And the two pieces of cake on the table that she had always overlooked, cut and placed on the same plate.

No, there must be something else, where is it hidden?

His gaze swept back and forth across the room, and finally, on the coffee table in the corner, Karasuma noticed a pen holder full of pens.

The pen holder has a strange shape, with a handle that looks exactly like the overturned coffee cup on the dining table.

Speaking of a pen holder, it looks more like a cup for drinking water.

Looking at this particular pen holder, Karasuma's eyes lowered, and she still needed to confirm one last thing.

"Sister Terumi, can you make a call to the front desk staff of the TV station for me?"