"What do you want to ask?"

Walking to the corner of the living room with Karasuma Ying, Terumi Hoshino took out her phone and asked directly.

"I hope they can check the surveillance this afternoon, did Mr. Somei and Miss Maiko leave the TV station building?

If so, when did they return? ”

"Okay."

In the name of assisting the police in handling the case, Terumi Hoshino repeated Karasuma's request, and it didn't take long for the front desk staff to reply.

Somei left around 3 p.m. and then returned to the TV station building around 7 p.m.

As for Miss Maiko, she has never left the TV station building since she entered the TV station building during the day.

After getting these two crucial pieces of information, all the scattered clues in Karasuma's mind were connected at this moment.

I see, this is not a secret room murder at all.

The murderer is not Shogo Somei.

After a brief silence, she looked up at Shogo Somei, who was being questioned by Officer Twilight, and asked:

"Mr. Somei, may I take the liberty of asking where the Maiko Kuju who was with you during the day has gone?"

As if he didn't expect her to ask this, Shogo Somei suddenly had a little panic on his face, but he was quickly suppressed by him.

"Maiko got off work early today, so I'll go back first...... What's wrong? Karasuma-sama? Shogo Somei replied with a smile.

"Yes...... I see, Mr. Somei, can you let me see your phone? ”

"My phone?"

It's not clear why Karasuma Ying is looking at this, so Shogo Somei subconsciously handed the phone out.

In his call log, Karasuma saw a clue that matched her guess.

At half past six this afternoon, Shogo Somei had a phone call with the contact person who was noted as "Maiko".

"Thank you."

Returning the phone to him, Karasuma Ying didn't ask any more questions, but turned around and opened the floor-to-ceiling window and walked out onto the balcony.

Behind her, Officer Twilight suddenly glared at Shogo Somei with a suspect-like look.

"Mr. Somei, may I ask where you were at half past six this afternoon?"

"Huh? Police officer? Are you doubting me? ”

"It's just a normal inquiry."

On the balcony, it was raining heavily, and the slightest line of rain was blown by the wind and wet her clothes.

Karasuma Ying stood by the guardrail, looking down, but unfortunately in the darkness, she couldn't see anything.

If you jump from here, it will hurt, right?

"Is he the murderer?" Terumi Hoshino, who had been silently watching Karasuma Ying, stepped forward and stood beside her and asked.

"Sister Terumi."

Instead of answering her, Karasuma asked her a meaningful question.

"Do you think the truth matters?"

Without waiting for Hoshino Terumi to answer, she suddenly smiled, and said again in a slightly gloomy tone:

"Actually, I've never had any desire to pursue the so-called truth, after all, I've grown up in lies since I was a child......"

"Xiao Ying?"

"The murderer is not Mr. Somei, but that Maiko Kuzumi."

Looking at Hoshino Terumi, Karasuma Ying said slowly:

"Between six and half past six in the afternoon, the producer invited Miss Maiko to the room and locked the anti-leeching chain.

The two go to the living room, the producer goes to the kitchen to cut the cake, and Miss Maiko takes the opportunity to poison the coffee.

After witnessing the producer's poison death, Maiko-sama goes to the balcony and makes a phone call to Mr. Somei.

Subsequently, Miss Maiko committed suicide by jumping off the building.

Mr. Somei, who received the call, hurriedly returned and found Maiko-sama's body in the parking lot downstairs.

Perhaps because it was already dark and it was raining outside, Mr. Somei was the first to find Miss Maiko's body.

Then, Mr. Somei quietly hid Maiko-sama's body, pretended that nothing had happened, returned to the company, and coaxed me to the producer's room.

I think Mr. Somei was trying to disguise the producer's death as suicide in the first place, which is why he entered the living room first, closed the floor-to-ceiling windows, and hid the cup.

He wanted to erase the clues that Miss Maiko had appeared in this room, and as for the reason, it was probably to protect Miss Maiko's reputation......"

Karasuma doesn't have that very persistent sense of justice, nor does she have a strong desire to find out the truth.

Compared with these two, the emotions between people may also affect her choices more.

Just like at the previous fake engagement party, she concealed the truth about Yue Yexue's attempt to murder Kaoru Kusano.

She will also seek the truth, but she will never be obsessed with it.

Just like now, she has basically guessed the whole story of this murder, and even has guessed the motive of Miss Maiko for poisoning the producer.

In the afternoon, she heard Terumi Hoshino say that this producer has an extremely bad character, and he is a person who often uses his power to do mischief in the company.

It is said that when Terumi Hoshino was a rookie actor, he tried to make some improper demands on Terumi Hoshino as his own producer.

After Mr. Somei and Miss Maiko entered his program team, he fell in love with Miss Maiko, who was beautiful and capable, and tried to uncover the rules of Miss Maiko many times.

And this time, I'm afraid it's the same.

But he didn't expect that Miss Maiko's resistance would be so fierce this time.

There should also be Mr. Somei in this, after all, Mr. Somei and Miss Maiko are a couple, although the two don't seem to admit this to each other.

Because she couldn't "take" Miss Maiko for a long time, the producer may want to use Mr. Somei's future in the industry as a lever to blackmail her.

This directly touched the most sensitive bottom line in Miss Maiko's heart.

So, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and poisoned the producer, and then chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building.

And before jumping off the building, she called Mr. Somei.

In this phone call, in addition to explaining that she poisoned the producer, Miss Maiko probably also really expressed her heart to Mr. Somei, right?

That's all the stuff hidden behind this murder.

Karasuma Ying could even guess that if she revealed the fact that there was actually another person in the living room when the producer was poisoned, Mr. Somei would not hesitate to take the blame for poisoning the producer.

So she hesitated.

She didn't know how to tell the truth behind the murder.

It's better to follow Mr. Somei's inner expectations.,Completely hide the part about Miss Maiko.,Make Mr. Somei the murderer who poisoned the producer.。

She can do this, as long as she modifies the logic of reasoning a little and conceals some clues from the scene a little.

Karasuma Ying is absolutely sure that she can fool the police and completely remove Miss Maiko's existence from this incident with a reasoning that has no loopholes on the surface.

Even if the police later found out about Maiko's death, they would never link it to the producer's death.

"It's just, it's just me doing it...... I don't understand, I'm doing this...... Can it really be? ”

The expression on Karasuma Ying's face was extremely tangled, she was actually emotionally biased towards Shogo Somei, but deep down, her conscience didn't want her to do this.

"Xiao Ying."

Hoshino Terumi raised her hand and touched Karasuma Ying's head, and the tenderness in the depths of her eyes at this moment was really like an older sister looking at her own sister.

Faced with Karasuma's inner entanglement, she didn't say anything big, just asked her gently.

"Do you think Maiko would be willing to see Somei do that?"

This sentence woke up Karasuma Ying like a thunderbolt from the sky.

She shuddered, turned her head stiffly, and looked at Terumi Hoshino who was smiling at her.

"I see...... Thank you, Sister Terumi. ”