"Is this the gap?"
The fence at the mountaintop was mostly intact, so the police quickly identified the broken section.
Officer Sato switched on her flashlight and aimed it at the ground.
This small platform had a level concrete path in the middle, surrounded by a ring of untouched soil.
In the flashlight beam, two intersecting bicycle tracks stood out clearly on the rarely visited ground.
Inspector Megure walked over and cautiously leaned over to look down. Soon, he nodded repeatedly. "This direction leads exactly to where the victim fell."
Officer Sato, meanwhile, looked at the College Students. In her experience, the "helpful passersby" Jiang Xia ran into were often not as helpful as this High School Detective believed. There was always one or two hateful murderers among them, harboring evil intentions.
Thinking this, she gave the remaining three people a suspicious look and asked cautiously, "When you reached the mountaintop, didn't you notice these strange traces?"
"We did notice them." Hanai Takuto sighed. "But who could have imagined something this serious had happened? And since we didn't run into Taimei on the way up, we thought this section of railing had been damaged earlier by someone else who came here."
Officer Sato frowned, about to press further.
But at that moment, Officer Takagi shouted from the road below, "Jiang Xia! Inspector! Mr. Amuro! We found the bicycle the victim was riding!"
He pointed beyond the Guardrail at the dense bushes. "It was caught in these branches. It was hard to spot because it was so dark—when Tanaka drove over earlier, the Headlights flashed across it, and a piece of metal on the bicycle reflected the light. That's how I saw it."
"Really?!" Inspector Megure had heard the first piece of good news that night and perked up. "Excellent! This