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"Oh?" Hearing these words, Inspector Megure's eyes instantly lit up. "Brother Jiang Xia, you know who the culprit is?"
Jiang Xia nodded and picked up the video camera beside him.
He adjusted the footage to the moment the culprit fell in front of the lens, then pressed pause. "Look. At the place where the back of the hood is tied, there are a full four strings hanging down."
"There really are! It really does look messy..." Inspector Megure hadn't noticed anything just now, but now, following the circled focal point, he immediately discovered even more. "Come to think of it, this hood in the video camera isn't quite the same style as the one 'Wolf-Mask Warrior' is wearing—this one seems especially crude. Could it be a fake?"
Suzuki Sonoko earnestly fulfilled the duties of the detective's little assistant she had appointed herself as, speculating gravely, "It might be a shoddy counterfeit imitation—wolf-head masks are so popular in the fighting world, so someone would definitely try to ride the hype and make similar products."
"Not really." Mouri Ran loved both chasing celebrities and martial arts, so she looked quite professional in this area. Just now, when she heard Jiang Xia say he had found the culprit, she finally divided a little attention away from Jodie and looked over.
Now, hearing Inspector Megure's question, she explained, "The one in the footage should be the mask 'Wolf-Mask Warrior' wore when he first debuted—he used a lot of masks one after another later, and judging from what he said just now, all those masks were placed together by the staff.
"The culprit probably happened to pick up this old-style mask when he was pulling a mask out of the bag."
Jodie: "..." Happened to!
Although it had been a while since she had