Hashimoto Maya sighed. "There's also the Disk. To use that as evidence for a conviction, we first have to establish that no one else entered the room where Bodhi Company kept the Disk. Otherwise, if anyone brought a Laptop into that room during that time, or if the employee responsible for entering the data recorded Torimaru Naoko's measurements, then she wouldn't have been the only person capable of making the wedding dress. In short, it was still an almost flawless manipulation."
...So the woman the police took away could still be Uzo. Yes, that had to be it!
But Jiang Xia shook his head. "A mistake is a mistake. You can't cover it up with an ambiguous word like 'almost.' The best way to avoid being caught by the police is to make sure no one notices you at all throughout the entire affair. Otherwise, once you're suspected of being the murderer and become a priority target for investigation, they'll definitely be able to find relevant physical evidence.
"For instance, Mr. Inozuka's expensive matching perfume, the materials for the 'burial clothes,' the drug used to knock out Takamori Masumi... Trace the channels through which those things were acquired or discarded, and it won't be hard to find related evidence.
"Also, when we left just now, I heard Torimaru Naoko tell the officer that she was actually the one who killed Takamori Masumi's ex-boyfriend. Takamori Masumi was too nervous at the time to kill him in one blow, and rushed to the mall after he passed out. After she left, Torimaru Naoko sneaked into his house to take photos, discovered that the ex-boyfriend was still alive, and helped finish him off. That process would have left plenty of physical evidence too."
With every word Jiang Xia said, Hashimoto Maya visibly wilted