An Organization Cadre secretly watched a detective solve a case.
Meanwhile, having realized that the alibi offered no way to find the killer, Inspector Megure had no choice but to move on to the next step: working backward from motive.
After thinking for a moment, he asked the group of servants before him, "At the Fujieda Family, who was hired most recently?"
Torimaru Naoko, who had just breathed a sigh of relief: "...?"
She had just thought that, with Jiang Xia's help, she had escaped the range of suspects and could finally relax. Yet in the blink of an eye, this fat police officer had dragged her straight back into the spotlight. This really was...
She could only suck back in the breath she had just exhaled. Casting a covertly appraising glance at Inspector Megure, she stepped forward and replied with the detached attitude expected of an outsider, "My sister and I."
Hearing her speak, Takamori Masumi finally snapped back to her senses. Uneasy and wary, she looked at Inspector Megure. "That's right. Wh-what is it?"
Conan looked at them in some confusion. These twins really had very different personalities. And although they looked exactly alike, for some reason, he always felt that something was off...
Standing between the twins' gazes, Inspector Megure had no other intentions. He was simply worried that people who had lived in this household for a long time might cover for one another, so he wanted to question the newcomers. Their answers would be somewhat more objective.
Thus, amid their differing looks, after asking in detail when they had each been hired, Inspector Megure began questioning them with satisfaction. "Who do you think hated the deceased the most in this household?"
"Hated him?" Takamori Masumi muttered inwardly. Although there was no evidence, the one who