Hoda Hideo was still caught up in some kind of shock and hadn't come to his senses; his mood seemed rather low.
But right now, clearly no one cared how he felt. Noticing the suspicious looks from the police, he had no choice but to speak. "A while ago, I borrowed some money from Mrs. Izuki. She came to see me today to collect the debt."
"After all, I owed her a favor. I knew Mrs. Izuki really liked an out-of-print movie, so I specially borrowed the videotape from a friend and gave it to her as a way to express my gratitude."
"I didn't expect Mrs. Izuki to be so impatient. She wanted to watch it right then and there. As it happened, my house has an audio-visual room, so she went into my room and started watching the movie."
"The detective and I continued doing our own things elsewhere. But after a while, we suddenly heard the sound of a vase breaking inside the house, followed by the sound of someone running away. Someone rushed out the door."
"When we heard the commotion, these detectives and I immediately hurried over. We found that the vase on the shoe cabinet was gone, and when we pushed open the door to the audio-visual room, we saw Mrs. Izuki lying on the floor with blood all over her head... Sigh, why did something like this have to happen?"
Officer Takagi wrote rapidly. Only then did he come to his senses, feeling as if something was off. "Speaking of which, Jiang Xia and this Mr. Amuro—why were you in his house?"
The other officers were startled too. Right, why was Mr. Jiang Xia here? Although they had all long since taken it for granted that detectives would suddenly appear at crime scenes,