Mrs. Kayama and the tour guide froze at that. The two stared blankly at each other before the tour guide reacted first. "That suitcase isn't with me. Even if I wanted to use it, I couldn't. And what good would someone dying do me? I'm a Travel Agency employee—I wasn't even on the random selection list for the membership vouchers. Mrs. Kayama, on the other hand, kept going on and on about those two Lifetime Membership Vouchers the whole way here..."
Mrs. Kayama immediately followed up, "My suitcase is still in my room too! And there must be plenty of other boxes and containers in the kitchen—you might have used something else to cross the river! Besides, besides..."
She looked out the window. Hearing the distant sound of water, her body began to tremble. "Besides, I'm terrified of water. Passing by it from a distance is one thing, but if you made me drift around in it, you might as well kill me! I only ever use running water even to wash my face, and I don't dare touch a Bathtub. There's no way I could've taken the water route to kill someone!"
"..."
Her fear did not seem feigned, and it would be easy to determine whether the suitcase had been in the water. For a moment, everyone's suspicions of her eased.
"Speaking of the membership vouchers..." Hattori Heiji frowned as he looked at Vodka and "Doctor Araide." "Would a murderer really kill so many people in a row just for those two vouchers?"
Vodka: "..." Your suspicion makes sense, kid, but why are you looking at me when you say that?
...Sure enough, anyone who spent too long around Uzo would unconsciously start targeting Uzo's targets. Hmph, foolish Kansai Detective. He had not even noticed that a vicious