Chapter 1068

In the living room on the first floor, Megure led everyone down the stairs, looking a bit frustrated.

Nothing was found on the river embankment after all, and the case seemed to have returned to the starting point.

"Then let's stop here for today and continue the investigation tomorrow."

"Inspector Megure," Akaso Kaze walked out of the kitchen, "I think everyone is tired, so why don't we just stay and have a meal before leaving."

Megure hesitated: "How can we still eat here? And Mr. Funamoto and the others still have to go to the wake tonight."

Akaso Kaze's gaze landed on Funamoto Tatsuhito.

"Is that okay, Mr. Funamoto?"

"Ah," Funamoto looked at Akaso Kaze and realized, "Sure, Takami, go buy some groceries quickly; everyone is hungry."

The maid hurriedly responded: "I'll go to the supermarket nearby right away."

As the maid left, Megure's group and Uncle Mouri talked about the trash collection nearby, but didn't take it too seriously.

"In short, there are no pearls in the trash bags or trash cans in this house, so it shouldn't be related to that suspicious high-priced trash collection."

"If we can't find the pearl necklace and bracelet, we'll have no choice but to wait until we go back and screen for tall criminals with a history of jewelry robbery."

"Please wait a moment!" Kogoro Mouri said anxiously, "Maybe if we investigate a little more, we can find some connection, and also that accident from before."

"I said, you guy," Uncle Mouri said impatiently, "I already said it's impossible; could Inspector Megure's investigation be fake? Everything that should be suspected has already been investigated!"

"But?"

Kogoro Mouri was distressed and wanted to persuade them, but suddenly noticed Akaso Kaze calling Funamoto Tatsuhito away alone, and the two of them left the living room to talk outside.

"Hmm?"

"Excuse me," Funamoto Tatsuhito held the wheelchair's push wheel and looked at Akaso Kaze hesitantly, "Is there something?"

For Akaso Kaze to talk to him alone and also send away his son Toshi, Funamoto felt inexplicably uneasy.

"Let me introduce myself first; I am the Onmyoji Akaso Kaze; you should have heard my name, right."

"Lord Akaso?" Funamoto's face stiffened, "Oh, I remember now, so it's you... do you have any discoveries? My wife's case..."

"Toshi probably never imagined that the killer who murdered his mother was actually his own biological father."

Akaso Kaze looked at Funamoto with a calm gaze.

"Indeed, according to the police investigation, the culprit only seems to be a robber who entered the house from outside, but if you don't consider the missing necklace and bracelet, the killer can only be you, Mr. Funamoto."

Funamoto's expression was stiff: "Do you think I killed my own wife?"

"There is a method in detective work called crime scene reconstruction, which involves criminal behavior, criminal psychology, and the criminal environment. In fact, one can discover at the first glance at the scene that the killer is not an outsider at all."

Akaso Kaze looked at Funamoto Tatsuhito, who was clenching his fingers and remaining silent, and continued his deduction:

"I have already asked the maid; Toshi had been playing on the first floor since the evening, and even Mr. Tatsuhito, who was accompanying him, was exhausted, playing until 9 PM before the mistress was about to return home; the maid only started to get busy cleaning up after her friends left, and rested around 0 o'clock."

"We were indeed very tired from playing yesterday, so we rested early." Funamoto said.

"Is that really the case?" Akaso Kaze said seriously, "Judging from the situation in the mistress's room, there should have been someone familiar there at the time; she was hurriedly called to the balcony by an acquaintance to watch a meteor while taking off her earrings, and was shot from behind while looking up at the night sky, and then the scene was disguised as a crime committed by an outsider."

"But didn't the police search everywhere?" Funamoto Tatsuhito said anxiously, "If I were the culprit, where did the necklace and bracelet go? I haven't even stepped out of the door since Kanesayo's incident."

"There is one more place the police didn't search," Akaso Kaze interrupted, "and that is inside the vacuum cleaner."

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You and Toshi were playing a bean-throwing exorcism game yesterday, right? When the maid and her friends were discussing in the living room, you two father and son got beans everywhere on the first floor, especially on the carpet next to the stairs on the first floor."

"I think the reason for doing this was probably to handle the necklace and bracelet after murdering the mistress, for example, by taking all the pearls off, and throwing them onto the carpet on the first floor from the stairs on the second floor through the railing. The reason you played so late was also to make sure the maid would only have time to clean up after you had committed the crime."

Facing Funamoto Tatsuhito, whose expression was trembling, Akaso Kaze continued:

"Spreading the pearls on the dark long-haired carpet was to avoid making noise, and also to make the pearls and beans difficult to distinguish; because the maid started cleaning after her friends left, which was after 11 o'clock, she would naturally use the vacuum cleaner."

"In other words, Mr. Funamoto's plan was to wait for the police to leave, have the maid throw out the vacuum cleaner trash bag containing the pearls as combustible trash, and then have it collected by the person you hired in advance to the parking lot.

Perhaps you also planned to go to the parking lot yourself to retrieve the pearls after your leg healed, and hire a part-time worker again to dispose of the necklace as stolen goods, right?"