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Hashimoto Maya looked around at that amazing lover and couldn't help asking, "You found him that quickly?"
Inspector Megure awkwardly lowered his voice. "The deceased's phone was on him. After we got the family's permission, we opened the address book and flipped through it. We found him right away."
According to the records, the deceased had called her lover several times a day to chat for ages, and she had been brazen enough not to delete even the call history. She had even saved him under "Baby."
So they had called the number for this "Baby," and not long after, the lover had come running wildly over, arriving at the scene in a fury.
As Jiang Xia listened to him describe the situation, he looked to the side and saw the lover and the wife's legal spouse facing off like fighting cocks. Both of them were wrapped in a layer of killing intent. Unfortunately, the quality was only average.
Still, since it was an unexpected windfall he had picked up casually, having any at all was good enough.
The spirit medium took things in stride and patiently continued acting as a detective.
He walked over and greeted the new suspect. "Mr. Hirose?"
Hirose Shunzo turned his head to look over. Recognizing him as a detective, he knew perfectly well why Jiang Xia had come and introduced himself without any attempt to hide it. "I was the deceased's lover. I didn't kill her, and I did not have any reason to kill her—compared to me, that guy over there, who was about to divorce his wife, was far more likely to be driven into a corner and viciously murder her!"
Hashimoto Maya: "..." They had already started adding suspicion to each other. He really understood the procedure.
"Divorce?" Lawyer Tatsumi