The apprentice froze for a moment, then hurriedly explained, "It's a drug that lowers your heart rate after you take it. Since the second half of the show involves an underwater escape that requires holding your breath for a long time, Master took one fifteen minutes beforehand. It helps with the performance and raises the success rate."
Inspector Yassa looked at him, then at Okiya Subaru, who was huddled in the corner. Suddenly thinking of something, he said pointedly, "Since there's nothing wrong with the water tank lid, let's look at it from another angle—what if someone switched that drug with a muscle relaxant or something similar? After taking it, the Magician's abdominal muscles would lose their strength, leaving him unable to hook himself onto the surface while upside down."
Okiya Subaru: "..."
Make your deductions all you want. Why are you looking at me?!
Stop hinting already. Fine, I'll agree to Uzo's proposal...
Okiya Subaru could not understand why this United Kingdom policeman was always so fixated on him.
But when he thought of Uzo, who was probably watching the show from some corner right now, he gradually found it all perfectly reasonable—perhaps the Inspector himself did not even know what he was thinking. He was merely an ignorant tool being manipulated by Uzo. Otherwise, why had he ordered the arrest of an innocent tourist who had merely passed by to buy clothes yesterday?
Okiya Subaru silently sighed to himself and decided that no matter how much the Inspector suspected him, he would insist that he was not the murderer and hold out until this murder case was over.
...After surrendering and lying flat, even the sky seemed bluer somehow.
Inspector Yassa stared at him with an intimidating gaze, thinking he might get some clues out of him.