"I did go there." Amuro Tooru was not in a very good mood right now, so he spoke bluntly.
"But it wasn't a normal delivery—the package had a specified delivery time. Someone deliberately had me deliver it after 7 p.m. The recipient's address was 1003, Room 3 on the 10th floor, but that apartment building only has two units per floor. There is no Room 3 at all.
"So I had no choice but to take the package back and check with the courier company. That was when I found out that the recipient's phone number couldn't be reached at all. There was something wrong with the entire delivery slip."
Inspector Megure: "..."
With him putting it that way, the whole matter was suddenly full of suspicious points, and Hashizume Akira's supposedly "solid alibi" became precarious.
Jiang Xia voiced the question in his heart. "That package was most likely arranged by Mr. Hashizume specifically to support his filming and create an alibi. There's a serious problem with this proof."
Amuro Tooru nodded. Actually, when he had gone there yesterday, he had noticed a glint of reflected light from a lens in the weeds beyond the wall. So he had deliberately used the Delivery Van to conceal most of his body, neither looking directly in that direction nor showing his face to the Camera.
When he left, he had observed it again and found that the Camera was merely filming the building rather than deliberately filming him, so he did not pay it any further attention. The neighborhood had a nice environment and convenient transportation, and plenty of celebrities lived there. He had guessed it was just some reporter waiting to catch a story.
Amuro Tooru had not expected, however, that it would be a reporter connected to a Murder Case—and