Sano Izumi: "I actually got taken down by such a stupid woman—just as expected of a rich young lady pushing thirty who still spends her parents' money traveling everywhere. She knows all kinds of airports and actually came up with such a extravagant code, using airports to refer to friends."
Only now did Sano Izumi's companions fully come to their senses. "The murderer was really you? Why did you kill her?!"
Sano Izumi snorted. "Because of Narita, who died half a year ago."
"I remember you said that Narita died because a gun accidentally discharged."
Recalling the cases she had seen, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly slipped into detective mode. "Could that actually have been a murder rather than a suicide, and this victim was the murderer from back then? The victim tampered with the previous victim's gun?—Oh, you should've gone to Jiang Xia back then! There wouldn't have been so much trouble otherwise."
"Cough, cough, cough!" Inspector Megure's old face reddened. "It wasn't necessarily murder. Maybe it really was an accident or suicide."
"That's right." The one agreeing with him was actually Sano Izumi. "But Miss Suzuki wasn't wrong either—Narita did commit suicide, but he did so because of that woman. What I did today was merely avenging him."
The knit-capped woman froze. "Suicide? But that was clearly an accidental discharge..."
Sano Izumi gave a bitter smile. "Narita's 'accidental discharge' happened because Chihiro dumped him that day.
"That woman always treated other people's feelings like toys. I warned her so many times, but she never took a word I said seriously—and worse still, she was two-timing him!"
"On the day it happened, I had a terrible cold and was resting at home. Then I got a call from Narita. He told me this guy had gotten together with Chihiro behind his