The screenwriter continued recalling, "After I returned to the open-air dining room, a few minutes passed before I suddenly heard a gunshot. I hurried over to the railing with the others to check, but there was nobody across the way."
Officer Yamamura studied him, unwilling to give up as he sought confirmation from the others. "Is everything he said true?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
"Haah." Officer Yamamura sighed, then hopefully turned to the last person present who had been familiar with the victim. He asked the female agent, "Miss Tanigawa, what about you? What were you doing at the time?"
The female agent clutched her handkerchief and wiped away tears. "I was having dinner with everyone that night too. Later, Sunaoka drank too much and started talking nonsense. I was afraid he'd offend someone, so I quickly took him back to his room.
"After that, I no longer felt like joining the dinner, so I took a bath in my room and planned to go to bed early. But just after I finished bathing, I suddenly heard something outside that sounded like a gunshot.
"The Hunting Ground had long since closed by then, so I was worried I'd heard wrong. I went out onto the balcony and asked the people in the dining room downstairs.
"Everyone downstairs had heard it too, and they were looking toward the woods across from us by the railing. Then I suddenly remembered that I hadn't seen Sunaoka, so I glanced into his room next door. But to my surprise, there was a Bullet hole in his window..."
"Sunaoka was the male actor who died, right?"
Before the female agent could start crying again, Officer Yamamura's eyes lit up with a flash, like two dazzling Police Lights ready to arrest anyone they saw. He stared fiercely