Unlike Vodka, who was studying Uzo, everyone else was investigating something proper.
Officer Takagi continued reading from the collected interview report. "Mrs. Haitang usually had trouble sleeping and often needed Sleeping Pills to fall asleep. In contrast, Mr. Haitang strongly opposed this behavior. He believed it was bad for her health and that she should take as little as possible, saving them for when they were truly necessary."
Suzuki Sonoko wiped her mouth, looking confused. "But I remember there weren't any Sleeping Pills in the study. There was a bottle next to Mr. Haitang instead—so were the pills what Mrs. Haitang used to poison him? But if he wouldn't take them himself, nobody could force them down his throat..."
Jiang Xia nodded. "And the water cup that fell beside the female assistant's body should have belonged to Mrs. Haitang."
Looking at it this way, every item beside the bodies seemed to be somewhere it did not belong. That made this Murder Case, which had claimed three lives, unprecedentedly complicated.
Officer Takagi tried to sort out and connect the clues and people involved in the Murder Case in his mind. The more he connected them, the more his eyes began to spin. "..." What a mess, an absolute mess! What was wrong with this family?
At that moment, Jiang Xia noticed that he had gone quiet and turned to glance at him. "What else did that interview report say?"
"The rest didn't seem to have much to do with the Murder Case. It just mentioned some of that female writer's hobbies." Though he said that, since Jiang Xia had asked, Officer Takagi continued reading Mrs. Haitang's account from the magazine interview.
"'I enjoy taking long baths. The process gives me plenty of new inspiration. Of course, what I enjoy even more