Toyama Kazuha: "..." Heiji was indeed a little dark-skinned, but did he really look that suspicious?
Well, come to think of it, he did seem to have scared children into crying before—especially when he smiled at them in the middle of the night...
After identifying Hattori Heiji as the "suspicious person," the two high school students thought for a moment and remembered something else.
"Oh, right, we also saw a strange person leaving the villa—he was clearly wearing a full set of Kendo armor, yet he was carrying a bag for armor on his back. The bag was bulging, as if he'd stolen someone else's gear."
"!" Inspector Otaki recalled that enormous gear bag. After mentally calculating its dimensions, his eyes lit up.
"I see! It looks like the murderer used the gear bag to transport the body. There happened to be a Kendo tournament here today. Even if the murderer looked a little strange passing by in armor, people would at most think he was a thief—they'd never connect it to a Murder Case!"
Now that they understood how the body had been moved, and with the several College Students who had just argued with the victim being highly suspicious, Inspector Otaki speculated, "In that case, the captain is actually the most suspicious. After killing the victim, he put the body in the warehouse, then sent the others off to look for the victim. Once they left, he could get to the warehouse ahead of them. The other three saw the body and fled in panic, and the captain then took the opportunity to move it to the swimming pool—although Doguchi went to the Kendo arena to find him immediately after seeing the body, there were lots of people in armor today with their faces covered. Doguchi must