The Forensics Department officer outside in the corridor, checking for anything they might have missed, heard the commotion and stormed in furiously. "Don't tamper with the crime scene!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Yamamura Misao holding an iron pole.
Officer: "..."
After staring at each other for a moment, he slowly backed out and returned to work as though nothing had happened.
Yamamura Misao stood there awkwardly, holding the iron pole.
Jiang Xia said, "So you'd already noticed there was a gap here."
"!" Yamamura Misao looked at him gratefully. "Right, right! I knew it! The murderer couldn't have vanished into thin air. They must have escaped through the window!"
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Jiang Xia really was a good person.
Curacao: "..." Hmph, just one of Uzo's little tricks for handling police officers.
Jiang Xia looked at the other two iron poles. Yamamura Misao understood at once and hurriedly put on gloves to remove them.
However, the other two would not come out. Only the middle one could move.
"How could this be?" Yamamura Misao had just been convinced that the murderer escaped through the window, but now, after leaning in to compare the gap, he realized that a normal person could not possibly squeeze through it.
"If an adult man can't fit..." He turned around, his gaze falling on the elderly, weak, sick, and young people who had come with Jiang Xia. "Could it have been a woman or a child?"
Curacao, who had suddenly been classified as a suspect: "?"
Just then, someone knocked on the door. An officer poked his head in to report, "Inspector, we've gathered the victim's belongings. Would you like to come confirm them?"
When "Akanuma" visited last night, he had brought a leather bag with him.
The bag and