The police seemed to have had the same thought.
"Immediately investigate the audience members who entered the Screening Hall and find that man in black as soon as possible. Right, check every surveillance camera that can be checked too."
Inspector Megure briskly assigned the tasks, but inwardly, he sighed. He was not optimistic about the outcome: tickets for the Screening Hall did not require real-name registration, and this Cinema was far too old. There were hardly any surveillance cameras, some of them were broken, and some had even been smashed by the victim himself... If that suspicious man had happened to avoid the cameras and left behind no image, finding him would be like looking for a needle in the sea.
Jiang Xia seemed to see his concerns and spoke up on his own initiative. "It's fine even if he ran away. Murder usually has a motive. If the killer really was that man in black, we should be able to find relevant clues by investigating the victim's relationships."
"Right, right, right." Inspector Megure hurriedly added to the junior officers, "Check his phone, and contact people from his company. Focus on anyone who had disputes with the victim."
The junior officers nodded. Those tasks had originally been part of the investigation plan, but there had been too much to handle at once, so they had temporarily been pushed back.
Now that Jiang Xia had brought them up and the inspector agreed, they naturally had to move them up the queue and prioritize them.
Several officers accepted their assignments and left with renewed purpose.
Since there was nothing else to do while waiting for Hashimoto Maya to be tracked down, Jiang Xia turned to the other person Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko had identified and pushed the investigation forward. "I remember you said that,