Akai Shuichi: Uzo and Gin Are Mortal Enemies-Please Vote

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"Cough, that may sound a little exaggerated. To be honest, I was skeptical of this method at first too."

After saying all that, Okiya Subaru realized he had not seemed calm enough—and as an academic, he felt that he should not crudely judge the nature of something based solely on rumors.

However...

"Then something happened." Okiya Subaru began presenting evidence that "Uzo really does write murder scripts":

"—In this mission involving Mian Guan Yi Yi, we encountered a witness while solving the case.

"On the night of the crime, that witness got thoroughly drunk at an Izakaya to celebrate winning the lottery. On his way home, he took a shortcut past Mian Guan Yi Yi's house and the construction site where the body was buried, and happened to hear Mian Guan Yi Yi burying the corpse.

"Later, when the victim's older brother began his investigation, he happened to find this witness. The witness insisted that, that night, he had heard Mian Guan Yi Yi digging a hole in his own yard—he said that while passing through the alley, he lit a cigarette and glanced to the right, and the sound had come from there.

"But in reality, a strong east wind had been blowing that night. When the witness lit his cigarette, he had instinctively turned his back to the wind to shield himself from it. So the sound he heard had not actually come from Mian Guan Yi Yi's house, but from the construction site next door—his testimony was exactly backwards."

Hearing this, Akai Shuichi nodded, understanding what Okiya Subaru was trying to say:

"If that 'witness' had not existed, the victim's brother or the police might have expanded their search of the surrounding area instead of focusing solely on Mian Guan Yi Yi's yard.

"In other words,