Mrs. Masakage gritted her teeth, as if she wanted to say something but did not know how to begin.
At that moment, the kind-hearted detective shook his head for her. "She isn't the murderer, but she has already guessed who the murderer is."
Hashimoto Maya: "?!"
"If the murderer isn't this old lady, then wouldn't it have to be either Iida Tsutomu or Hoshikawa Togo?"
Only then did Hashimoto Maya remember his task of hiring a Magician. He began reasoning it out: "Iida Tsutomu's magic techniques are decent enough, but his looks are truly nothing to speak of. If I have to pick one of them as an employee, it can only be Hoshikawa Togo. And all of this is Uzo's will—I get it! The murderer must be Iida—"
"Mr. Hoshikawa." Jiang Xia looked at Hoshikawa Togo. "Don't you have anything to say?"
Hashimoto Maya: "???"
As they spoke, the group, each with their own thoughts, had already reached the staircase.
Jiang Xia stepped onto the second floor and asked the two high school girls, "When you first came up here, was this what you saw?"
The narrow corridor on the second floor remained dim, with the overhead lights still off. Only a little light spilling up from the First Floor and the moonlight illuminated it.
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko looked toward the end of the corridor and said in surprise, "That's right, it had this same dark and eerie feeling... Oh, and that Vase looks exactly like it did before!"
Jiang Xia nodded, then suddenly raised a hand and pressed the light switch in the corridor. The mechanism the murderer had set up was triggered, and the Villa lost power once again, plunging into darkness.
Seeing this, Officer Chiba, who was waiting in the bathroom on the 1st