Hashimoto Maya cautiously answered the phone with a "Hello."
After a pause, a seductive female voice came from the other end. "Oh my, I thought my husband would be answering. Who are you?"
Hashimoto Maya silently drew in a breath. Husband? Was this woman Lawyer Tatsumi's wife?
Why had Lawyer Tatsumi deliberately arranged for someone else to answer his wife's call... Wait! Was the person speaking to him on the other end even alive?
Perhaps because he had been through far too much lately, but in a flash, a script sprang into Hashimoto Maya's mind:
The woman was already dead, Lawyer Tatsumi had killed her, and the lawyer had recorded his wife's voice while she was alive, then set up a timed call and playback.
Afterward, Lawyer Tatsumi had arranged for a detective to come to the room and deliberately had an innocent detective answer this call, so that the detective could later provide him with an alibi: "Mr. Tatsumi's wife was still alive at this time."
Hashimoto Maya: "..."
The thought that he was talking to a dead person sent chills down his spine, especially when Uzo's puppet strings were floating behind that dead person.
For a moment, Hashimoto Maya wanted to slam the receiver back onto the landline and sprint away to thoroughly disinfect his entire body.
But how could an ordinary person instantly think of a murder case while answering a call? That was not normal.
So, as a normal person, he had to pretend he had noticed nothing and play the part of an ordinary innocent citizen to the end.
Thoughts raced through his mind, leaving him nearly unable to think. Fortunately, when he had followed Irish in the past, he had often answered phones as a secretary.
A practiced explanation spilled from his mouth. "Hello,