Yamamura Misao: "In short, with the struggle for the position of family head as a cover, everyone else would assume that Tatsumi Seimaru and Akanuma were killed by someone within the Tatsumi Family. That way, he could naturally escape punishment... Heh heh, but the net of heaven may be wide-meshed, yet nothing slips through it. He ran into a genius like me, Inspector Yamamura!
"Realizing his scheme had been exposed, Sentan Saruhiko hastily fled into the woods. Perhaps our people accidentally surrounded him. In his panic, he tried to shoot someone and break through the encirclement, but who knew the Hunting Rifle would misfire and kill him instead."
Just then, a young officer ran over. "Inspector, we've figured out why it misfired! The barrel of that Hunting Rifle had been plugged with lead, which caused the accident."
Tatsumi Ryunosuke's expression abruptly changed. "That gun was tampered with?"
Holding her cat, Tatsumi Moe calmly said, "While you were studying in the United Kingdom, our house was robbed. The thief tried to steal the Hunting Rifle. We put a great deal of effort into catching him, and afterward, because the gun was too dangerous, we plugged up its barrel."
The young officer flipped through the documents in his hand. "Everyone within the Tatsumi Family knew about this, but Sentan Saruhiko happened to be away at the time, so he didn't know... Tch, it's a good thing he didn't. If he'd removed the lead plug, there might have been casualties on our side."
Yamamura Misao broke out in a cold sweat. "Thank goodness, thank goodness..."
Curacao and Hashimoto Maya looked from one side to the other, sensing that something was wrong.
—It was too much of a coincidence.
Everything seemed perfectly logical, yet there were far too many strange coincidences.
And once something