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Meanwhile, for Hashimoto Maya and Inozuka Saburo, tonight was also a sleepless night.
Inozuka Saburo held his idol's photograph and mourned his lost youth.
Hashimoto Maya leaned by the window, reflecting on how he had survived yet another case. Then, as he looked at the deep well in the yard, something suddenly occurred to him.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Back on the deserted island, Inozuka Taro had wanted to find something in the Theater to bash Jiang Xia to death with, disguising it as an "accident." Yet Jiang Xia had not died. Instead, Inozuka Taro had been the first to get struck in the head by the murderer and had died on the spot.
Afterward, Inozuka Jiro had wanted to avenge his brother. He had still targeted Jiang Xia, intending to turn that unlucky Detective into the murderer and ruin his reputation... Then Inozuka Jiro, branded as the mastermind, had been shot dead by the subordinate he had cultivated for years. In the end, it had still been Jiang Xia who cleared him of that false accusation.
And there was Kurosawa Kazuma. As Hashimoto Maya remembered it, back on the deserted island, Kurosawa Kazuma had wanted to tamper with the hanging scene of the second victim and make Jiang Xia fall and break his neck. Yet now Jiang Xia was still perfectly fine, while Kurosawa Kazuma had been hit by a Crossbow Bolt, hospitalized, and finally, unfortunately, hanged to death in the restroom by the murderer to silence him.
...Why had everyone who targeted Jiang Xia died?
And their deaths had all been so dramatic, so fitting, so perfectly suited to the theme. It was practically as though they had been tailor-made.
He had heard that Uzo was the sort of person who held grudges. And every case he knew