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After unhurriedly finishing the coffee in his hand—and harvesting a wave of ice cream during the agonizing wait while he was at it—Jiang Xia set down his cup and said seriously:
"Mr. Yamada has a considerable obsession with Dr. Shirai. After he transferred here as an inpatient, he spent two nights in a row insisting that he had seen footage of a murder. Today, he even sent Officer Takagi away and went to the murder scene alone... No matter how you look at it, he is extremely suspicious."
"?!" Vodka sprang up with a jolt. Wait, what the hell are you saying? Aren't you here to fish me out...? This isn't the script we agreed on!
Jiang Xia looked at him, paused for a moment, then continued with a hint of disappointment. "But that isn't because he's the culprit. It's because someone deliberately designed all this. That person wanted to use it to shift the blame for the murder onto the innocent Mr. Yamada."
Vodka's heart, which had leapt into his throat, dropped back down with a thud. "..." Finally, something human... Wait, the person who deliberately designed all this and tried to pin the blame on me is you, isn't it? How can you say something like that so calmly?!
Unlike the Organization Cadre quietly muttering in his heart, Inspector Megure beside him was extremely cooperative. He suddenly realized, "So that's how it is!"
Jiang Xia nodded. "Actually, I came to the hospital before and heard the general situation from the nurse. Mr. Yamada would suddenly fall asleep every night. This point was truly abnormal. What was even more abnormal was that every time he woke up, he could immediately see the 'murder scene' across from his ward.
"That means someone used some method to make him fall