The travel group realized they had let something slip and hurriedly Changed Their Story. "Don't talk nonsense! We're only looking because we're interested. There's not even any proof that treasure exists—how could we kill someone over it... Ahem, of course, even if there really is treasure, we wouldn't kill anyone!"
However, the Detective seemed to have no interest in listening to them Argue and began reasoning on his own. "This Scroll has the character 'dragon' written on it, and just like the Dragon-Tiger Stone by Sakura Gate, it can reveal its traces after the rain. If that's the case, perhaps there's another corresponding 'tiger' Scroll.
"Besides recording the contents of the treasure, a treasure map Scroll would more importantly record its location. The 'dragon' Scroll never mentions where the treasure is, so perhaps the 'tiger' Scroll records where it was buried—if there really were a thousand gourds, Toyotomi Hideyoshi certainly couldn't carry them around everywhere. He would have found a place to store them."
Suzuki Sonoko looked thoughtful. "But the Thousand-Gourd was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Uma-jirushi. He would've taken it onto the battlefield, right? What would be the point of just leaving it in a warehouse?... Hmm, maybe he hung a few of the prettiest solid-gold gourds on the Uma-jirushi, stuffed the other gourds with gold chunks, and stored them in a warehouse?—Going into battle with golden gourds sounds pretty fun. If we really find them, I wonder whether the treasure hunters would be willing to sell..."
She was a little tempted. She did not plan to buy them herself, but she could recommend them to her father and have him buy them as exhibits for the newly opened Osaka Art Museum. Of course, before they were sent off for display, she could play with them herself for a while...
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