But before Curacao's smile could fully rise, Jiang Xia said again, "And Miss Shirai as well. She's a very responsible lawyer, law-abiding, and when she went to Tokyo with us this time, she helped solve quite a few cases too."
Curacao: "..."
Under the gazes of a large group of people, she silently pushed the nonprescription glasses on the bridge of her nose, grateful that the anti-reflective film was thick enough—solving cases was one thing, but could they stop constantly bothering the innocent lawyer who just happened to be passing by?
Jiang Xia leisurely praised them for quite a while before finally lowering his hand. "In short, both of them are relatively neutral witnesses whose testimony would be very convincing. And neither of them has the strength to truss a chicken, so they'd be easy to deal with. To Mrs. Tatsumi and Sentan Saruhiko, they were the best candidates to serve as 'witnesses to Tatsumi Seimaru's death.'
"And in that case, another problem would be solved too—hiding and dumping the corpse.
"Disposing of a body has always been the biggest problem. Making Tatsumi Seimaru's body 'disappear' wouldn't be simple. But now, as long as they used the fact that 'Mrs. Tatsumi and Tatsumi Seimaru weren't related by blood' in reverse and fabricated a murdered 'Akanuma,' the police would help dispose of that body.
"The hardest part of Mrs. Tatsumi and Sentan Saruhiko's work was shared by the police. The two of them only needed to dispose of that one small head."
When Yamamura Misao heard this, he was so angry he wanted to slam the table. "How dare you use the police to do something like this? You've got some nerve! Good thing Jiang Xia discovered it—hmph, if you thought you could fool this brilliant detective, you're still a hundred