Faced with an overly suspicious police officer, the four suspects fell silent for a moment, then could only follow his instructions and recall what they had done that day.
The producer pointed at the screenwriter. "I spent all morning in Mr. Tahara's room, discussing the script for next season with him."
"At noon, Sunaoka said he was bored, so I accompanied this cash cow into the forest to hunt."
"In the afternoon... around six-thirty, I suppose, we returned to the Mountain Villa from the Hunting Ground and ran into Mr. Jiang Xia and the others. You all saw what happened afterward."
The screenwriter nodded, admitting that he had been with the producer that morning. He began from noon: "After discussing the script with the producer, I wanted to stay in my room and strike while the iron was hot, writing out the entire story."
"But I simply couldn't reconcile the protagonist of the story with Sunaoka's true personality, and I couldn't settle down. By evening, I didn't want to keep wasting time, so I just came out to eat with everyone."
After he finished, the female agent looked at him and the producer, then said thoughtfully, "I was in Sunaoka's room that morning, discussing his job transfer with him—some large company wanted to poach him. I didn't agree, and we had a bit of an argument."
"..." The screenwriter and producer had originally wanted to say that they had heard the female agent arguing with the deceased, but who knew this woman would bring it up first...
They could only awkwardly fall silent and keep listening.
The female agent said, "In the end, we parted on bad terms. You know that if Sunaoka changes companies, it'll have a huge impact on my work. I was feeling stifled, so I wandered