Inspector Yassa nodded. "According to the preliminary autopsy results, the victim did indeed drown. Given the special nature of your Magic Props, he must have been unable to escape from the water tank in time for some reason."
As he said that, something suddenly occurred to him. He looked suspiciously at the two Female Assistants. "Right. Since the prerequisite for him successfully pushing open the water tank lid was for you to secretly remove the pin from its latch, then if you hadn't removed that pin, he would have had no choice but to drown inside the water tank. Is that correct?"
"Wait." The two beautiful Female Assistants found this increasingly wrong the more they listened. "What do you mean? Are you saying we're the murderers?! That scumbag may have deserved to die, but how could we possibly commit murder? Look for yourself—"
The Magician's ex-wife searched herself, then took out a long, thin metal pin and angrily held it out in front of Inspector Yassa. "This is the latch pin from the water tank. We really did remove it. And the water tank lid could definitely be lifted normally. When Fuyujo was lowered earlier, didn't you fiddle with that lid yourself? Have you already forgotten?"
The Magician's girlfriend also took out an identical metal pin and swung it between her fingertips. "Don't tell us we removed the pins afterward—we never went anywhere near the water tank lid from the start of the performance until now!"
Inspector Yassa's momentum stalled as he looked at the latch pins in their hands. "I did fiddle with the lid, but your mechanism looked rather complicated. Before I could open it, I went to perform mouth-to-mouth..."
The Scriptwriter gestured. "After you left, I untied his feet from the water tank lid. The lid really