"The victim is easy enough to pick. Of these four, the captain is taciturn, Shirane Kiriko is warm and hospitable, and Kanaya Mineto, who helped her hand out fishing gear to the guests, kept praising Shirane Kiriko... Only that guy in the baseball cap spoke unpleasantly. He actually dared to Curse Uzo and get Skunked. He must be the victim."
"As for the murderer, though, it looks like anyone could be one."
Curacao held a hand of cards with so little intelligence on them it was practically nonexistent. Unsure what strategy to use, she could only examine them one by one. "A Captain who sailed away, plus three fishing enthusiasts who remained on the Breakwater and fished with the guests..."
Of them, the Captain, who had gone off alone, was undoubtedly the most unusual.
"However, if they were fishing on an island, he could still use the cover of trees and terrain to secretly do something to the victim. But a place like a Breakwater is completely exposed. Whether he sailed back or swam over, it would be hard for him to get close to that sharp-tongued victim.
"And there's surveillance footage on his boat. A murderer would normally sabotage the cameras in advance to avoid leaving evidence, right?"
Curacao silently ruled out the Captain.
"Of the remaining two, Shirane Kiriko is more suspicious—smiling do-gooders like her are the best at disguising themselves as murderers. And..."
Curacao looked at the webpage she had opened. Displayed on it was a piece of information she had just uncovered—Shirane Kiriko and Eshiri Taishi, the man with the unpleasant mouth, had actually been married before.
And they had divorced again a few years ago.
"During the time the fishing boat sailed to the Breakwater, neither Shirane Kiriko nor Eshiri Taishi showed any sign of