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Chapter 135 Still Not Confessing?
"Officer Matsuda, what exactly happened?"
Rena Mizunashi glanced at Junya Tokitsu, who was trembling with his head down, a hint of doubt flashing in her blue cat-like eyes.
Holding up the microphone, she asked, "Is Mr. Shijin the one who discovered the locked room and got the police to change the nature of the case?"
"No, no! It wasn't me!" Tokitsu Junya suddenly looked up and shouted, "That wasn't me, I wasn't in Shikoku at the time."
"You're not here?"
Matsuda expressionlessly took out Inspector Daimon's diary, which the old patrolman Yoneya had just brought him.
Tucked inside was a photo of Kochi Prefectural Police investigating and collecting evidence at the Lavender Villa.
The image clearly shows the main gate, his two subordinates, and Tokitsu Junya.
Matsuda held the photo up to Tokitsu Junya.
"If you weren't in Shikoku at the time, then may I ask, who is this person in the photo? Your twin brother?"
"This……"
Tokitsu Junya stared at the photo in Matsuda's hand, speechless.
"Inspector Matsuda, you still haven't answered my question?" Hakuba Saguru urged. "Even if Tokitsu Junya was the one who discovered the locked room, there was nothing wrong with what he did, was there?"
"no problem?"
Matsuda shook his head with amusement, took an evidence bag from his pocket, and tossed it to Hakuba Saguru.
"See for yourself."
Hakuba Saguru took the item and examined it closely. The bag contained two severed screws.
"Was this taken off the window?"
Hakuba recalled the evidence he retrieved when Tokitsu Junya announced that he had solved the mystery on the island.
After muttering something to himself, he glanced at the cross-section of the screw and immediately noticed something amiss. He hurriedly asked, "In what month did that young lady die?"
“Mid-June,” Koshimizu replied, his face ashen.
"June, so that's how it is,"
Hakuba Saguru glanced at the trembling Tokitsu Junya and understood why Matsuda was targeting him.
"Hey, let me see too."
Hattori snatched the evidence bag from Hakuba Saguru, glanced at it, and immediately noticed the problem.
"These screws... that maid has been framed!"
The two of them understood, but Rena Mizunashi, standing to the side, and the viewers in front of the television were all completely confused.
How can you be so sure that the maid was wronged just by looking at the screws?
"Officer Matsue, could you explain this to us?" Rena Mizunashi asked on behalf of the viewers in front of the television.
“It’s actually quite simple,” Matsuda sighed. “These two screws are the fixing screws that were cut off from the windows when the rooms in the Lavender Villa were converted into a locked room. You should have seen the specific method used to create the locked room during the reasoning competition just now.”
"And Miss Nagatsu from Shikoku died in mid-June, which was already the rainy season. The weather in Shikoku was basically cloudy and rainy every day."
"If that young lady was indeed murdered, and the room where she died was converted into a locked room by the killer, what would happen to these two screws found in the grass below the window in a rainy weather?"
"Screws... Rainy day..."
Rena Mizunashi paused for a moment, then immediately said,
"The humidity is so high on rainy days, the cut surface of the screw will definitely rust!"
"But look at these two screws,"
Matsuda handed the evidence bag to Rena Mizunashi.
The female host took the screws, examined them carefully, and immediately exclaimed in surprise, "The cross-sections of these two screws don't show any obvious signs of rust. They weren't broken off during the rainy season?"
"Yes, actually, these two screws, as well as that secret room, have absolutely nothing to do with Miss Chang Zeng's death!"
Matsuda gave Tokitsu Junya a disgusted look, then gestured to the person he had been waiting for to bring the person up from below the stage.
"Officer Sato?"
Ran stared in surprise at the policewoman walking onto the stage, then looked at the balding, overweight middle-aged man next to Sato, who was wearing handcuffs.
"who is he?"
"Good question, Ran! Actually, the secret room in the Lavender Villa was created by this Mr. Tsuchio Hiroki."
Matsuda pointed to the prisoner next to Sato.
"Tell everyone what you did in that lavender villa!"
"Yes, actually..."
Hiroki Tsuchio meticulously detailed his plan to steal from the Lavender Villa.
So he revealed everything about how he disguised himself as a cleaner and altered the window of the room where Ms. Chang Zeng died.
Tokitsu Junya, who was standing to the side, became more and more surprised as he listened. After Tsuchio Hiroki finished speaking, he immediately questioned loudly, "No, impossible! How could you, a thief, have created that secret room?"
"you do not believe?"
Matsuda took out the evidence that Koshimizu had collected earlier and presented it to Tokitsu Junya.
"This photo was mistakenly taken when Hiroki Tsuchio was disguised as a cleaning worker."
Tokitsu Junya stared wide-eyed at Tsuchio Hiroki in the photo, who was wearing a cleaning company uniform.
"In fact, when the Nagasone family hired a cleaning company to clean the lavender villa, it was already more than a month after the young lady died. At that time, the rainy season had passed, and Shikoku had more than half a month of sunny days."
Matsuda spoke slowly,
"Those two screws were cut off during this period, which is why there are no obvious signs of rust on the cut surface."
"Since the secret room was created after Miss Nagasone's death, does that mean Miss Nagasone did indeed commit suicide?" Rena Mizunashi asked, holding the microphone.
"That's right. In fact, we have also found evidence to support the claim that Miss Chang Zeng committed suicide."
Matsuda took out a voice recorder and played the conversation he had recorded when he and Koshimizu visited the housekeeper of Lavender Villa, Renzo Kotani.
It contains Renzo Koya's confession about Ms. Nagasawa's use of banned drugs, as well as his remorse for concealing the matter, which led to Kana Mizuguchi's death.
Next, Matsuda took out the medical records provided by Dr. Ishigami, who had previously helped Ms. Nagasone quit her medication.
"All of this is enough to prove that Miss Chang Zeng's mental instability was caused by her taking banned drugs, and in the end, she chose to end her life out of regret for her repeated failures to quit drugs."
"So this is the truth..." Rena Mizunashi sighed and nodded.
"But you can't blame me, I didn't even notice the screws at the time!"
Tokitsu Junya was still struggling in his death throes.
"Besides, it was the police in Kochi Prefecture who forced that maid to commit suicide by interrogation. What does it have to do with me!"
"First of all, you said you didn't notice the problem with the screws?"
Matsuda raised his hand in a gesture, and the staff who had been instructed by him in advance played the recording of the reasoning competition again on the large screen in the middle of the stage.
Chapter 136 They committed suicide to atone for their sins! What about you?
That scene was when Tokitsu Junya announced that he had found the answer.
On the big screen, Tokitsu Junya opened his tightly clenched hand, allowing everyone to clearly see the screw in his hand.
Then he said,
"I found these screws in the grass directly below the second-floor window. The screws are all fresh and have no trace of rust, so they must have been damaged in the last two days."
On the studio stage, after hearing the words spoken by himself in the video, Tokitsu Junya's legs immediately went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
"I deliberately arranged the mystery question for this Detective Koshien to be exactly the same as the locked room in the Lavender Villa, and with the lavender around the room, I wanted to remind you of what happened back then."
Matsuda looked at Tokitsu Junya.
"In this escape room, you can tell whether the room was renovated in the last two days by whether the cross-section of the screws is rusty."
"What about the lavender villa? It's the same problem, how come you didn't notice it back then?"
"If you didn't notice this problem when you were at the Lavender Villa."
"Then why did you notice it so quickly this time?"
Faced with Matsuda's questioning, Tokitsu Junya opened his mouth several times, but in the end, he couldn't find a single point to refute.
"As for the second question,"
Matsuda took out the Inspector Daimon's diary, which had been given to him by the old patrolman Yoneya, and handed it to Rena Mizunashi.
"Miss Mizunashi, this is the diary of the police officer in charge of the lavender case. Please read it to everyone!"
"Ok."
Rena Mizunashi opened her diary and began to read it aloud, page by page.
Inspector Daimon's diary is very detailed, from the moment he received the report of Miss Tsang's death to his investigation of the scene, concluding that she died by suicide.
Two months later, Tokitsu Junya suddenly appeared, holding two screws as proof that the locked room where Nagasawa died was deliberately created.
Inspector Daimon accepted Tokitsu Junya's explanation and changed the suicide case to a murder case.
Furthermore, under Tokizu Junya's guidance, he believed that the villa's maid, Mizuguchi Kana, was the murderer of Nagasone-san, and ordered his subordinates to begin interrogation.
Unable to bear the humiliation of being wrongly accused, Mizuguchi Kana chose to jump into the sea and commit suicide to prove her innocence.
All of this is recorded clearly.
"No, that matter has nothing to do with me... I really don't know anything about it..."
Tokitsu Junya noticed that everyone on and off the stage was looking at him with disdain.
He could already imagine the expressions on the faces of those watching Detective Koshien on television.
"You really don't know?" Matsuda sneered. "It's clearly recorded in the diary. When you first discovered that the room was a locked room, you were very flamboyant when you notified the police, as if you wanted all the police officers to know that the discovery of the locked room was your achievement."
"But afterwards, when reporters came to interview you, you refused them all. You didn't even dare to reveal your name to the reporters, and finally chose to leave Kochi secretly."