Conan had heard the commotion over here long ago. He looked at Namihara Kasumi, who had angrily walked aside after snapping at Ruri Ujo, then at Nagumo's Son, who had followed her and was patting her back to comfort her. Stroking his chin, he pondered:
"Those two really are dating. It seems the affair Mr. Kazami mentioned before his death wasn't baseless after all. It's pretty credible."
"If that's the case..." He turned to the old butler and Ruri Ujo again. "I remember the affair Kazami Yoshiteru used to hold this old gentleman over a barrel was that he often met secretly with a lover—a lover much younger than him."
"After saying that, Kazami Yoshiteru gave Ruri Ujo a meaningful look... Could this old gentleman's lover be Ruri Ujo? An affair between people more than twenty years apart?"
As everyone knew, indiscriminate murder cases were exceedingly rare. In the overwhelming majority of murder cases, the killer had a grudge against the victim or some conflict of interest with them. That was why, aside from investigating alibis, the police questioned everyone's motives one by one.
"Kazami Yoshiteru had just revealed two pieces of gossip when his throat was immediately cut. No matter how you looked at it, the killer's motive most likely stemmed from those two scandals."
If that was true, then compared with the young couple nearby, who immediately huddled together whenever they had a break and made no attempt to hide their relationship, the gossip about the "young lover" was clearly much more worth killing over.
"Kazami Yoshiteru exposed the old butler's young lover, but he didn't say who that lover actually was. He only said that it would soon be confirmed... From that, the killer's motive was probably to stop Kazami Yoshiteru from revealing the young lover's true