Inspector Megure froze for a moment, then suddenly understood. "Could it be that before you, someone had already used this method to find out where Mr. Itakura was staying?"
Sure enough, Officer Takagi soon hurried back.
"Mr. Jiang Xia, Inspector, I found out!" Takagi Wataru, eager to solve the case, was remarkably efficient. "The front desk said they received two strange calls. Both callers first said something in the room was broken, then immediately said it had already been fixed—one of the calls was just now, and the other was two days ago, when Mr. Itakura had just checked in."
"The first time they received that kind of call, they specifically sent staff upstairs to check. But Mr. Itakura flew into a rage and threw them out, so when the same thing happened today, they didn't dare come up."
Jiang Xia nodded. "If that's the case, then this is simple."
Inspector Megure's eyes lit up. "You know who the murderer is?"
Jiang Xia said, "Mr. Itakura had been living in isolation these past few days and wasn't in contact with anyone. The reason we know he borrowed three kinds of board games from the hotel is because he sent a video to each of his three clients."
"Someone used the same line of thought to locate him, which means the murderer was probably also someone who watched that video."
At that, Inspector Megure's gaze shifted toward the three clients standing quietly to the side.
The clients: "?!"
"Wait, how did we become the murderers?!"
"If we hadn't come looking for Mr. Jiang Xia, Itakura Suguru would still be rotting here!"
"Exactly! What kind of idiot kills someone and then brings a Great Detective back to the murder scene?"
The first few remarks were one thing, but at the last sentence,