Chapter 1047: A beautiful night has arrived

"The culprit committed the crime quite hastily. Actually, if you investigate the primary crime scene and the murder weapon carefully, it's easy to find the problem. Everyone was just entangled in the mystery of the corpse's sudden appearance. As long as the mystery is solved, it's nothing."

Kaze Akaso said slowly.

"Lord Akaso has already deduced it?" Inspector Megure asked hurriedly.

"This is a house built by a magician. If one says it was built with such a narrow corridor simply because they didn't understand architecture, it really doesn't make much sense."

Kaze Akaso walked outside Master Masakage's room and opened the door again.

"This door can't be opened completely, but it happens to press against the wall to form a 45-degree angle. And don't you think this door is too thick?"

"This is..." Kogoro Mouri's eyelids twitched, and he immediately rushed to the door. Sure enough, he discovered the door was far thicker than usual, and there was a vertical slit in the middle of the side of the door.

After applying a little force, the door actually split from the middle, becoming one ordinary door on the inside and one mirrored door on the outside.

The mirror at the handle of the mirrored door could be moved; that was how it was joined onto the ordinary door.

"Could it be?"

"That's right, it's mirror reflection."

Kaze Akaso led the way into the room and looked up at the curtain retracted on the ceiling.

"The distance from the curtain to the wall, and the length of the curtain just reaching the front wall, and the wall wardrobe door that is the same as the archive door—these were all specially designed. If you lower the curtain, doesn't it look very much like the corridor?"

Kaze Akaso moved the cabinet holding the telephone to a floor-to-ceiling window against the wall, blocking the lower half of the floor-to-ceiling window.

He took out a vase from the cabinet with the same shape and pattern as the vase in the corridor, and finally lowered the curtain.

Megure stared blankly at Kaze Akaso's actions; in a short while, he had actually set up another corridor.

"Could it be a fake corridor projected from the room through mirror reflection? But is it really possible to do that?"

"Of course, why not try it and see?" Kaze Akaso exited the room and smiled.

"These arrangements were specially designed by the missing Mr. Masakage for performing magic. They must have been tested countless times. Coupled with the dim light in the corridor, it can almost pass for the real thing, and one wouldn't notice unless they were paying special attention. However, there is a flaw after all."

"A flaw?"

"It's the shadows. If the window isn't covered, the angle of the moonlight is different, so the direction of the shadows is naturally different."

Kaze Akaso opened the mirrored door and pressed it against the corridor wall. The specially designed mirrored door immediately integrated with the wall and ceiling, and the fake corridor presented itself to everyone in place of the real corridor.

"So what we saw when we came over was the fake corridor. What we saw after the power outage was the real corridor with Miss Tenko's corpse. Mr. Togo took advantage of us checking the corpse to make an excuse to call the police and restore the room's arrangement."

Kaze Akaso said, looking at Mrs. Masakage.

"The lady must have known immediately that Mr. Togo was the culprit, right? Because Mr. Masakage used this place to perform magic in the past, and there are photos from that time in the album."

Mrs. Masakage stammered and avoided his gaze, glancing at the silent Togo Hoshikawa behind.

"That's enough."

Togo Hoshikawa lowered his head.

"Just as Lord Akaso said, I was just acting on impulse. If you check for bloodstains, evidence should be everywhere. It's completely different from when performing magic..." ===== CHAPTER 1049 =====