Vodka stared at the bloody words. The longer he looked, the more flaws he found in them.
"The 'ko' and 'nu' in 'komainu' on the ground are both missing their upper-right corners—this kind of writing mistake is actually rare in adults. Rather than a stroke error, it looks more like someone added a few strokes to the original writing and changed another word into the current 'stone lion.'"
Jiang Xia nodded approvingly. "You're becoming more and more like a detective."
Vodka: "..." It was clearly praise, but coming from Uzo, it somehow sounded like, "You're getting fatter and fatter. Time to slaughter you." It gave him goosebumps.
Inspector Otaki did not notice the strange aura between the two of them. He only found the argument increasingly convincing.
He immediately turned to a nearby junior officer. "See if the victim has anything that can verify his handwriting!"
Although mobile phones were advancing rapidly these days, most people here still had the habit of carrying a notebook or planner with them, filled with various schedules.
The officer quickly found a notebook on the victim and opened it to check. "He really didn't have a habit of leaving the upper right corner disconnected when writing kana."
—In other words, someone really had altered the victim's dying message.
Vodka lowered his head and examined the bloody words. Based on the unnatural parts of the handwriting, he removed one horizontal stroke and one vertical stroke, and the remaining word became: "Nimaime... 'handsome guy'?"
He froze. A moment later, his heart began pounding furiously as he abruptly looked at Jiang Xia. The victim had actually discovered the real killer and written it down?!
What a pity! Someone with such a sharp eye had actually died here. Of course, whether he died or not was beside