Fujino looked at Sato, who had first worn an earnest, thoughtful expression before suddenly looking completely certain, and gave her a speechless look.
"So what exactly are you imagining?"
"Didn't you say the culprit trained crows to commit crimes?"
Sato Miwako looked at him in confusion. "If crows committed the crime, then someone must have trained them..."
"I said it was possible, okay?"
Fujino rolled his dead-fish eyes. "Has it occurred to you that I was using an absurd metaphor to rule out the possibility of murder? Why did you actually believe it?"
"Huh?"
"I only believed it because you said it!"
Sato Miwako froze for a moment, then realized she had overthought things. Her cheeks promptly puffed up.
Fujino: "..."
Why did this fierce woman feel like she had been led astray by him?
He grumbled inwardly, then glanced at Koizumi Akako beside him.
Of course, the exception was a witch who could control crows with magic.
Koizumi Akako: "?"
Why were you looking at me?
Sato Miwako had not actually been led astray.
She had believed it purely because she found it reasonable.
All she could say was that the cases and files she had seen were far more ridiculous than this. Compared to them, training crows to kill people actually seemed normal.
Her mind immediately conjured case files involving murder with dogs, or using piano wire on a roller coaster to slice someone's head off...
Thinking about it that way, controlling crows to kill someone did not seem so unacceptable.
And besides, Fujino, this god of death, was right here...
Whenever this god of death showed up at a crime scene, had the case ever developed the way anyone expected?
Could this possibly be suicide?
It was obviously murder!
Even if it had not been murder