Jiang Xia looked at the maid, who stood with her head lowered in silence. "Afterward, you put on the armor, picked up the long sword, hurriedly hid the white bedsheet you'd worn on your way there in the wardrobe in the side chamber, then followed your own earlier footprints and walked step by step back to the Main House.
"Once you returned to the Main House, you went into the Audio-Visual Room, took off the armor, found Mr. Daimon sleeping soundly, stabbed him through the throat, and then dressed him in the armor."
As he spoke, Jiang Xia held out a hand toward the police officer beside him. "Officer Takagi, didn't you take quite a few photos of the crime scene just now?"
Officer Takagi understood at once and hurriedly handed over the Camera. At the same time, he looked at the brand-new Camera now filled with bloody photographs, his heart aching.
—He'd originally wanted to use it to document the wonderful trip he and Officer Sato had taken together, but now...
Sigh, perhaps this was the fate of a police officer.
As one police officer silently wallowed in sorrow.
Beside him, Jiang Xia flipped through a few of the photos contributed by Officer Takagi's Camera and quickly found a long sword with blood on its Knife Tip. He pointed at the sword in the picture.
"When we followed the footprints to the door of the Audio-Visual Room, the door was locked from the inside, so we had no choice but to smash it open with an Axe. Once we got it open, this Knife was found on the floor not far behind the door.
"Judging from its position, it wasn't merely the murder weapon. It was also a tool Miss Hatsuho used to create the locked room."
As he