Mayuko...
"Mayuko Togaki?!"
—That was the assistant's name. She lived at the Shrine and had been the first person suspected because of the "Stone Lion" "dying blood message."
"..." So things had come full circle again?
Inspector Otaki rubbed his chin and muttered quietly, "Then my first guess was right."
The moment he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that such blind guessing seemed a little embarrassing. He coughed twice, pretending he had only been clearing his throat.
Kinoshita Yoko, however, froze and looked at Jiang Xia. "But I remember that when we left, the person disguised as the victim brushed past Mayuko... How could she be the killer?"
Beside them, the assistant director's expression changed several times before he suddenly spoke up. "Actually, I killed Anxi, then disguised myself as him. I want to turn myself in!"
"The person who disguised himself as the victim was indeed you, but you weren't the killer." With no interesting target for spoilers, Jiang Xia regretfully glanced at Vodka before turning back to the assistant director who wanted to confess. He dryly fast-forwarded through the deduction. "Blood splashed everywhere here, so the killer could hardly have stayed clean either. But you're still wearing the same clothes you had on this afternoon, and you never changed—among the crew, the only person who had time to change clothes and no alibi was Miss Togaki. That bloodstained outfit should still be hidden in the Shrine."
Vodka silently rubbed his chin. How complicated. So one person committed the murder, another discovered it and impersonated the victim to help the real killer escape blame, while conveniently framing a third annoying guy? The three of them went in circles, each with their own suspicions... Was it because they were all part of a film crew and usually dealt with "acting"