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"Of course, the Silencer wouldn't have been thrown into the courtyard." Jiang Xia looked at Officer Chiba. "The butler could casually discard the Towel used to block the gunpowder smoke reaction because whether that Towel was exposed or not had no effect on his plan."
"But the Silencer was different—for the sake of creating an alibi, he went to great lengths to distinguish the first shot from the later two. Yet if the Silencer turned up, we could easily connect it to that missing first shot and realize that it had been fired with a Silencer."
"...Ahem." Inspector Megure coughed guiltily. To be honest, he suspected that even if he found the Silencer, he would never have figured out all the twists behind it.
Still, as an officer leading so many policemen, he naturally couldn't show weakness in front of the murderer.
Inspector Megure cleared his throat. "Expand the search area! Find where the Silencer was hidden!"
Jiang Xia tactfully said, "The butler was pressed for time during the murder, so the area he could move through was actually very limited. And the maids in this house are extremely diligent—the corridor was spotless, with no clutter piled anywhere. Combined with the several surveillance cameras in this house... there really wasn't anywhere along his route where he could have hidden the Silencer."
Inspector Megure's head started to ache at the analysis. But as an experienced policeman, he knew exactly what he should do now.
"Then..." Inspector Megure looked at Jiang Xia and skillfully reached out for help. "Brother Jiang Xia, where do you think the Silencer is?"
He did not disappoint him. The High School Detective's gaze quickly settled on the old butler. "It was probably strapped against his calf, tucked inside his