"No, no!"

Hearing that Karasuma Ying wanted to touch it, Mr. Yi hurriedly ran over, and his fat figure was directly in front of her.

"No, that ......" Looking at Karasuma Ying's puzzled eyes, Mr. Yi barely squeezed out a smile and stammered to explain:

"These, actually, aren't a big deal, no, nothing to look at......"

[It seems that it should be a real knife]

Looking at his reaction, Karasuma Ying had already made up her mind in her heart.

"I see."

She withdrew her hand and said with a smile: "But Mr. Yi, speaking of which, I seem to have seen an empty space in the display case just now......"

"Uh, that's, that's ......"

"And in the gun display case next to it, why is there just an empty space?"

"This, I, how can I say it, no......"

"The murder weapon katana in Ms. Arai's room should be your collection, Mr. Yi, right?"

The words changed suddenly, and Karasuma Ying stared straight at him with a serious expression.

"Yes...... No, no, no, no! No! I don't know! ”

Deceived by Karasuma Ying's sudden revelation, Mr. Yi seemed to have panicked to the extreme, his eyes were glancing around, his hands were waving meaninglessly, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept sliding down his face.

Suddenly, he saw the sword in the display case behind him, and his originally flustered eyes appeared in a trance for a moment.

At this moment, a fierce color appeared in his eyes.

[The knife is here, as long as, as long as I ......]

"Mr. Yi, what do you want to do?" Karasuma Ying also saw the change in the expression on his face, took two steps back, and asked in a cold voice.

Her words seemed to recall Mr. Yi's consciousness, he suddenly came to his senses, looked at Karasuma Ying in front of him with some horror, and hurriedly waved his hand and shouted:

"You, get out! Get out! I won't answer your questions anymore! I don't know anything! I—I have the right not to answer! There you go! Get out! ”

"Understood, excuse me, Mr. Yi."

Smiling slightly at Mr. Yi again, Karasuma Ying turned and left the room.

After questioning the three soothsayers, she had roughly figured out the course of the case, but there were a few details that were not yet clear.

It just so happened that Daijiro Arai should be in the lounge with Xiaolan and them now, and she also had a few questions for him.

Karasuma Ying went straight to the lounge, and as soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, who were originally sitting on the sofa, quickly got up and said with concern:

"Ah Ying, how is the investigation going?"

"Don't worry, everything is going well."

Nodding at the two of them with a smile, Karasuma looked at Daijiro Arai on the other side.

"Karasuma-san, your shoes." At this moment, Qing Shui Jing suddenly spoke, gesturing to the place where the soles of her shoes had stepped on.

"Huh?"

Karasuma Ying looked down, only to notice that for some reason, there was a little shiny powder on the soles of her shoes.

[Strange? When is this? 】

"Ah Ying? Where did you get that? ”

"No, I don't know ...... either"

"Miss Ying, have you been to Ms. Edano's room before?" Daijiro Arai asked.

"Ms. Edano?"

"Well, Eno's room is covered with a layer of prismatic sand, and I heard that it is something that is ground up with glass and then wrapped in a thin layer of resin, and it easily sticks to the soles of her shoes, and every time people who have been to her room leave, they leave this kind of thing wherever they walk......"

[Lessa? 】

After hearing Daijiro Arai's explanation, Karasuma Ying looked at the soles of her shoes and frowned slightly.

Shaking her head, she reorganized her thoughts, looked at Daijiro Arai, and asked:

"Mr. Arai, I have a few questions for you."

"Miss Ying, please speak."

"I heard that there is a money dispute between Ms. Arai and Ms. Edano?"

"Well, there's such a thing, Edano often comes to Guimiko to borrow money, and she borrows a lot of times, and now the interest alone is a lot of money every month......"

"Is there still interest?" Karasuma Ying was slightly surprised.

According to this statement, this should not be called borrowing money, but lending, usury.

"Has Ms. Arai recently found a way to make money?"

"Well, this, there should be such a thing......"

When Arai Daijiro heard this, he said with some embarrassment: "About a week ago, I heard Miwako mention it, she said that she found a cash cow or something, and since then she has been nervous all day long......

But I don't know the details, and she didn't tell me. ”

[Are you even guarding against your husband? 】

However, the relationship between this couple is really not good.

Without dwelling on this issue, Karasuma continued to ask:

"Mr. Arai, can the skylight in Ms. Arai's room be opened manually?"

"No, that skylight is remote-controlled, and there is no way to open it manually."

"Whose hand is the remote control?"

"It's always been Kimiko who holds it."

"Is it the only one?"

"Well, that's the only one...... Oh yes, that remote control is not very good quality and can easily break.

Some time ago, after Kimiko accidentally dropped it off the table, it broke directly, and then I called someone to fix it......"

"Understood...... By the way, does Ms. Arai usually take care of those expensive handbags in her room? ”

"Well, Kimiko often wipes them clean, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, thank you."

Nodding his head, Karasuma Ying turned around and left directly.

"Oh! Sister Karasuma! So you're here? ”

As soon as she left the break room, she met Officer Twilight, who had come down from the second floor.

"What's wrong? Officer Twilight? Is there any clue? Karasuma Ying stopped and asked.

"Well, there is one, when Takagi-kun was searching outside the divination hall just now, a passer-by said that he had heard gunshots in the backyard of the divination hall."

"Is it in the backyard......

Bidding farewell to Officer Twilight for the time being, Karasuma Ying went to the backyard of the divination hall, where Wataru Takagi was lying on the ground and looking around.

"Strange, why not?"

"Officer Takagi?"

"Oh, it's Xiaoying." Takagi Wataru looked back, got up and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"What are you looking for here?"

Karasuma Ying asked curiously, looking up at the divination hall at the same time.

At the back of the divination hall, there is an emergency staircase that extends from the ground to the roof.

[Sure enough]

"Oh, I'm looking for something like a bullet casing." Wataru explains, "Several passers-by said they had heard gunshots in the vicinity.

So I wanted to see if there were any bullet casings or bullet marks left, but I couldn't find them, haha......"

"No need to look for it, it won't be." Karasuma Ying shook her head slightly.

"Huh? Why? ”

"Because it's not a real gun at all, and naturally there can't be any bullet casings left."

"Huh?"

"Alright, Officer Takagi, let's go back, I've completely unraveled the murderer's methods."

(End of chapter)