Chapter 145 Shocking! The real murderer turned out to be...
Everyone was called into the restaurant by Shiratori Renzaburo.
Youya put his hands behind his back and looked out the window with a cold expression.
"Kamiya-kun, you said you wanted to uncover the truth of the case. What's going on? The murderer is not that Mizusawa Shozo. Has he committed suicide?" Kuji Kaito asked in confusion.
You also shook his head: "We are all wrong, Mizusawa Masazo is not the murderer at all, he was also killed by Yuki Yasha!"
"What? Didn't he commit suicide?" Everyone was shocked.
"But what about that suicide note..." someone raised a question.
"Anyone can forge a printed suicide note." Youye said calmly.
"Everyone, please look," Youya turned around and placed the suicide note and several signatures on the table. "These signatures were signed by Mizusawa Masazou for them before. Judging from the handwriting, although it is a little ugly, it was definitely written by the same person."
Everyone nodded in confusion - they could see it clearly, they were all equally ugly.
Only Shiratori Renzaburo showed a solemn look. As an excellent policeman, he was able to make a simple handwriting identification.
"Then the handwriting of this suicide note is obviously more neat, but even if you can't read the handwriting, you can tell that it was not written by one person, right?"
Now everyone nodded in agreement. Anyone with eyesight could see that there was a huge gap between the two.
The signature was ugly, even more so than that of an elementary school student, and did not look like something that a famous painter could have written. The name on the suicide note, although a little awkward, at least looked much more proper.
"I think everyone should know that Mizusawa is right-handed, right?" Youya looked around the room.
Everyone nodded, as Officer Shiratori had already said this.
"So," Yuya picked up the pair of scissors and asked, "Can anyone tell what's special about this pair of scissors?"
Everyone looked at the scissors with puzzled expressions.
Yuya looked at Shiratori Renzaburo.
Shiratori Renzaburo raised his eyebrows, walked over cooperatively, took the scissors, then picked up a piece of paper and started cutting.
However, he found that no matter how hard he tried, he could not cut the paper properly.
"These seem to be scissors for left-handed people, right?" Shiratori Jinzaburo explained professionally, "There are actually two types of left-handed scissors, one for left-handed and one for right-handed people. Because the left and right hands exert force in different directions, if you use the other type of scissors, you won't be able to cut paper properly."
Shiratori Renzaburo spread out the paper, and everyone looked and found that the paper was cut crookedly, completely different from their experience in real life.
"Oh, I know, I have a friend who is also left-handed, and it seems to be true!" someone shouted.
Yuya nodded in agreement.
"So, what do these scissors represent?" asked Jiuji Hairen in confusion.
Yuya smiled, picked up the box containing the scissors, showed the back to everyone, and pointed to the label on the bottom of the box and said, "Please pay attention to this."
"The price is 4399 yen, including tax. Any questions?"
Shiratori Renzaburo suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Neon didn't implement consumption tax until April 1989. That means that Himuro Kazusei, who died in a car accident 4 years ago, couldn't have bought this pair of scissors. Mizusawa Shozo bought it for himself."
“He’s actually left-handed!”
The crowd was in an uproar.
Yuya continued, "Mizusawa, who was disguised as Himuro, of course knew about the existence of the self-portrait, and that self-portrait was painted by Himuro Kazue himself a long time ago. Mizusawa saw that the portrait showed the pen being held in the right hand, so he thought that Himuro Kazue was right-handed."
"So when he signed for you, he forced himself to write with his right hand in order not to be exposed, which is why his signature was so ugly."
"So, if a left-handed person signs his last will before dying, will he still sign with his non-dominant right hand?"
"Mizusawa did not commit suicide. Instead, he was killed by Yuki Yasha and then disguised it as suicide. The murderer knew that Mizusawa was right-handed, so he deliberately placed the pen in Mizusawa's right hand."
"The murderer took the self-portrait away so that we could focus our investigation on the fake Bingshiro. Officer Shiratori and I did fall into the trap for a time."
At this point, Youya's expression darkened.
He actually walked into the murderer's trap. If he hadn't accidentally seen Himuro Kazusei's signature, he probably wouldn't have been able to see through it so quickly.
Perhaps the police would notice the difference in the scissors when they checked the room afterwards, but if they subjectively believed that Mizusawa Shozo committed suicide, would they notice that he was actually left-handed?
By that time, the murderer would probably have escaped to who knows where.
"But, isn't that room locked? It's the so-called..." Jiuji Kaito raised his hand and asked.
"You want to talk about the secret room, right?" Youya chuckled, "This is just a simple use of human psychology, and this approach has become the killer's fatal flaw!"
"There is only one person who can perform this trick."
"The real murderer is among us."
The murderer is among us? Everyone was shocked and looked at the people around them suspiciously.
"Kamiya-kun, please stop keeping us in suspense. Who is the murderer?" Kuji Kaito was a little overwhelmed. This young detective seemed to be just like the rumors said. He liked to be a riddle teller.
Youya slowly raised his hand, "The real murderer, Yuki Yasha..." and pointed to someone sitting in the middle.
"It's you—Tamura Mari!"
"What?!" Everyone was shocked and looked at Tamura Mari in disbelief.
Mari Tamura's expression remained unchanged, and she even showed an expression of confusion and grievance.
"Why me? Yuya-kun, please don't make such jokes, okay?"
Yuya had a blank expression on his face and said coldly: "I'm not kidding."
"When we rushed into the room, everyone was looking at Mizusawa's body. Why were you the only one who found the key in the opposite direction? We only found the key after you reminded us."
"After you poisoned Mizusawa Masazo, you used the typewriter in the room to print out a suicide note, signed Mizusawa Masazo's name, and then locked the door with the key."
"Finally, when we broke into the room, you were the last one to come in. While we were all paying attention to the body, you threw the key on the carpet where it wouldn't make any noise, and then pretended to find it and alerted us."
"Please recall, was the person walking last at that time Miss Mari?"
Someone responded weakly and said it was indeed her.
Yuya said calmly, "That's right, so there is no one else who can perform this technique except you."
Tamura Mari's expression gradually turned cold, and she looked unhappy because of being suspected by Yuya. She slowly said: "This only proves that I can complete this method, and it cannot be used as evidence that I am the murderer."
Yuya said calmly, "Of course I have evidence." He picked up the script that Kuji Kaito had thrown away and said, "I just asked the director. You gave him this script. It was sent to me via a fax machine."
"And this one is a fax document sent from the Hokkaido Police Headquarters to Officer Shiratori, containing information about a car accident that happened ten years ago."
Yuuya pointed to the top of the page and said, "Generally, documents sent by fax machines will have information such as the sender, the time of sending, and the number of pages sent. However, your copy has nothing on it, and there are obvious signs of cutting."
Tamura Mari was noticeably silent.
Yuya continued, "This is the script you changed in order to kill Mitsuka Kaori and create the possibility that she would stay alone in the main building.
At the same time, in order to prevent people from noticing that there is a huge gap between the time the script was sent and the time you handed it over to the director, the part with the information at the top was deliberately cut off.
This is probably because although Kaori Mitsuka has a chaotic private life, she is very disgusted with overly revealing scenes in movies. In addition, this is a mystery movie, and deliberate sex scenes will amplify this disgust.
You have a good relationship with Mitsuka Kaori, so you know this very well."
“As for whether the script has been changed, we just need to check with the writer who wrote the script to find out.”
After saying that, he looked at assistant director Hiragaki Yuko.
Hiragaki Yuko quickly said: "Yes, I have just contacted the writer, and he will send the script again soon."
Tamura Mari's composure finally broke down. She stood up suddenly and said angrily, "But I don't have the time to commit the crime. It takes me 25 minutes to drive from the main building to the annex. How could I possibly kill Kaori?"
"When you saw Xue Yasha killing people on the camera, I was still halfway there!"
"How do you prove that I killed Sister Kaori?"
"Of course," Yuya pushed up his nonexistent glasses, "If I wasn't absolutely sure, I wouldn't be standing here."
Shiratori Renzaburo was cheered up and said, "Here it comes," this is Yuya-kun's classic catchphrase.
He couldn't help but look at Tamura Mari. Maybe she hasn't realized the seriousness of the matter yet?