Jiang Xia said, "That would make it easy to miss things, and easy for the killer to point to the wrong spot. But if they had to lower their head to check where the words were while pointing them out to Chizo Ogura, that much interaction would definitely have been noticed by Officer Takagi."
Officer Takagi felt a little proud, but also somewhat guilty. "..." In that situation, if someone had pointed out words to Chizo Ogura... would he really have noticed?
Jiang Xia had only praised him in passing and did not actually wait for a response. Very quickly, the Great Detective reached a conclusion. "So there's no need to read every word. We only need to focus on the large headlines and the pictures."
Officer Sato nodded. As she thanked the off-duty artifact that had reduced their workload, she flipped through the newspapers.
"Come to think of it, the killer seemed to have pasted several words cut from newspapers onto that fake bomb bag. If we could find newspapers with rough, uneven holes in them, this would be simple."
Full of hope, she gave the three newspapers a rough once-over, only to discover with great disappointment—there were no holes, no bloodstains. No matter how she looked at them, they were merely three utterly ordinary newspapers.
...As Jiang Xia had said, they would still have to search the headlines and pictures for clues.
"There don't seem to be any words like 'toilet,' 'OK,' or 'action' in the headlines."
Five minutes later, Officer Sato had gone through every large headline on every page and could not help sighing. "The coffee can was the same. Could the killer have sent the instructions some other way?"
Checking the headlines of three newspapers was not a particularly difficult task. So while Officer