"Could this be what you hid yourself? I remember you went to President Ishimoto's company this morning. You had plenty of chances to plant evidence."
"!!" The councilman's secretary's composed expression finally shattered with a crack, revealing a twisted look as though he had been run over by a car.
Inspector Megure suddenly understood everything. Stroking his broad, square chin, he said thoughtfully, "I heard long ago that you were Councilman Takada's successor. But Councilman Takada never intended to retire, and the age gap between you isn't that great. If you kept waiting, you'd grow old... So you couldn't wait to take his place and took this risk?"
The councilman's secretary gritted his teeth and resisted stubbornly. "I-I... I was just guessing! I randomly picked a location. That doesn't prove anything!"
Jiang Xia looked at his knees, then at his shins, and decided to speed things along for him. "After the banquet ended, you eagerly sought out the hacker Scapegoat and pushed him down the stairs, successfully silencing him. But the hacker had not failed to take precautions against this. He hid the Motor used to control the shooting in a hole in the building's floor.
"Perhaps he had originally planned to use it to threaten you. But after your superior left, you were so delighted and excited that you acted too quickly, without giving him time to explain.
"After killing him, you could never find that Motor. You were worried that this oversight would expose everything. So, when you visited President Ishimoto and demanded that he take responsibility for the councilman's death, you took advantage of his panic and hid the Remote Control in his office.
"If the police had concluded that the hacker had acted alone, that would naturally have been ideal. But if they found clues at