Jiang Xia said, "Though the victim was careless, the murderer noticed the blood on his camera lens. So she had Mr. Futagaki take that bloodstained photograph during the day and arranged to meet him at dusk.
"When the time came, the murderer went to the meeting place, killed the victim, and put Goggles on him, making it look as though he had been attacked and killed during the day."
The more the group listened, the more wrong it sounded: she had noticed a detail the victim himself had missed, and she had been able to control his actions...
They turned around, their eyes instinctively falling on the victim's girlfriend.
Jiang Xia looked at her as well. "Ms. Yako, you killed him, didn't you?"
The female photographer froze. "?!"
She looked back at her stunned friend and hurriedly argued on her behalf. "That's impossible! Yako really cared about him—you forgot? Before it even got dark, as soon as it started snowing, Yako was anxious to go find him. If Yako wanted to kill him, why would she be so worried about his safety?!"
Jiang Xia shook his head. "Precisely because she was the murderer, she had to hurry out and look for him then—if she went too late and Mr. Futagaki decided the snowstorm was too severe and came back early, her entire plan would fail.
"Also, before that bloodstained photograph, there were two completely black photos on the roll—Ms. Yako deliberately used up those two shots as well.
"If she hadn't used them up, there would have been three Negatives with different scenery but the same bloodstains on the entire roll. Then no one would have believed that photo had been accidentally taken when the victim was attacked."
The female photographer was stunned. Only then did she realize that Amaguri