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When Makoto Nishimoto saw that Shota Aoki admitted it, he immediately looked at him and asked, "Shota, is that you?"

You killed Watanabe Yukiko?!

"It's not me!" Aoki Shouta quickly retorted, then looked away embarrassedly and said, "It's because Yukiko didn't come to the parking lot, so I went to the lounge to check, but Yukiko wasn't there. I waited for a while, but she still didn't come, so I had to return the key and go back by myself. At that time, the department store staff happened to move the musical instruments back."

"The guard did say that the key was returned immediately after five minutes." Maruta Ayumi said after looking at the investigation records.

Hearing this, Qing Mu Song looked at him and asked, "Excuse me, why did you wait for the victim, Ms. Kiko? From what you said, you two were not a couple."

Aoki Shouta was silent for a moment before he said, "Because Yukiko and I were invited to join another new band."

"What did you say?!" Yusuke Nakamura exclaimed.

After Aoki Shouta confessed, he became more open, but he also avoided the gazes of the other three people. He looked at Aoki Song and said, "Thomas Records asked us if we would like to join a new band and officially debut."

In a band, only two people are chosen to make their official debut. For the rest, they have to face disbanding and frustration.

Tanaka Risako, Nishimoto Makoto, and Nakamura Yusuke all looked at Aoki Shota in shock.

Nakamura Yusuke said with a bad look on his face: "So that's how it is."

"Mr. Aoki, when you left the lounge at 9 o'clock, did you find Miss Yukiko's body in the room?" Aoki Matsu asked.

Shota Aoki shook his head. "No, not even this blanket."

If he had, he would have called the police long ago.

Hearing this, Aoki Song looked at Aoki Shota and said, "Then you should have the phone number of the contact person of Thomas Records. Please tell us so that we can verify it and prove this matter."

"Okay." Shota Aoki cooperated and gave the police the phone number of the Thomas Records contact.

Aoki Matsu asked Maruta Ayumi to contact the other party and inform him to come over to cooperate with the investigation.

"Also, I want to know, do you know if Miss Tokiko has a boyfriend?" Aoki Matsu looked at the four people and asked.

The four shook their heads: "No!"

Aoki Matsu asked the four people to sit in the conference room first. He needed to sort out the chronological order of the case. It was obvious that the murderer wanted to play with time again.

According to the four people:

8:30: The performance ends.

Then Risako Tanaka, Shota Aoki, Makoto Nishimoto, and Tokiko Watanabe waited for the elevator. Before the elevator arrived, Tokiko Watanabe turned around and left.

8:35: Risako Tanaka, Shota Aoki, and Makoto Nishimoto arrived at the basement floor.

8:40: Tanaka Risako and Aoki Shota left the B floor and separated when they reached the door.

8:45: Makoto Nishimoto returned the key and left the basement floor.

8:50: After Yusuke Nakamura finished arranging his instruments, he went to Kogoro Mori's place.

8:55: Shota Aoki went to the basement floor and borrowed the key to the lounge.

9:00: Shota Aoki returned the key and left the basement.

9:05: Yusuke Nakamura and Ran Maoli went to the basement together.

9:15: The body of Yukiko Watanabe was found.

First is the lounge, a time period when only one person is there:

8:40-8:45, Makoto Nishimoto is alone.

8:55-9:00, Shota Aoki was alone.

9:05-9:15, Yusuke Nakamura is alone.

其次是休息室，一个人都没有的时间段：8:45——8:55，9:00——9:05，这两个五分钟里，休息室是没人的。

In terms of time, both Shota Aoki and Yusuke Nakamura had time to commit the crime and place the bodies.

As for Makoto Nishimoto, unless Shota Aoki is an accomplice, the body would have been discovered earlier.

In terms of motivation, Aoki Shota's motive is unknown to Aoki Matsu for the time being.

But looking at the situations of Makoto Nishimoto and Risako Tanaka, it is possible that Shota Aoki wanted to have two relationships at the same time, but Tomoko Watanabe refused, and so... a bloody drama happened.

Don’t say it’s impossible. The entertainment industry has left a bad impression on Aoki Matsu, with all kinds of sea kings and sea queens.

But if it was Nakamura Yusuke, it was nothing more than Watanabe Yukiko abandoning them and going to make her official debut. Whether it was jealousy or Watanabe Yukiko said something unpleasant at the time, it led to his passion to kill.

However, these are all Aoki Matsu's speculations, not hard evidence.

After taking another look at the schedule, Aoki Matsu suddenly discovered that there were two problems with the details.

First, Nakamura Yusuke said that he and the staff of the department store sorted out the instruments for 20 minutes, but this was not confirmed by the staff of the department store, so it is hard to say whether it was 20 minutes. A few minutes is enough to kill someone.

Second, after organizing the instruments, why didn’t they put them in the lounge, but piled them outside the lounge? !

Although musical instruments can be cheap or expensive, even the cheap ones are not low in price.

If you put it outside the lounge, aren't you afraid it might be stolen?

You have to know that looking at the subsequent actions of the four people, they just left the musical instruments there, and went home without caring about it, leaving the musical instruments there overnight.

In this case, it is really possible to be stolen.

Judging from their schedules, they all had time to spend a few minutes putting their instruments in the lounge.

strange!

Aoki Matsu thought about it and asked someone to find the staff who had sorted out the musical instruments with Nakamura Yusuke. He wanted to ask about this matter.

"Inspector Aoki, the preliminary examination of the body has been completed." Detective Tomi walked over and said, holding an examination form.

"Thank you for your hard work." Qing Musong took it and looked at it, his eyes fixed. "There is an unknown mark on the left calf."

"Yes." Detective Deng Mi replied.

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately walked towards the corpse. He wanted to see with his own eyes what it was.

There is a mark on Watanabe Yukiko's left calf, which is a rectangle about 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. It looks like it was formed by the long-term pressure of a heavy object of this shape.

This mark should be caused by the deceased coming into contact with something before or after death, and the contact lasted for at least five minutes, which is why the mark has not disappeared yet.

Although Aoki Matsu couldn't figure out what caused the mark for the time being, it also indirectly confirmed Aoki Matsu's previous guess that the floor of the lounge was not the murder scene and the body was moved from another place.

When the body is being moved or hidden, it may come into contact with something for several minutes, leaving a deep mark on its calf.

Aoki Song checked other places and only after finding no problems did he have the body carried away.

At this time, Aihara Yoji walked in and answered, "Inspector, I checked the elevator surveillance video and found that there was no video of Miss Yukiko taking the elevator from the top floor to the basement."

Qing Musong frowned when he heard this and asked, "Really?"

"Did Miss Tokiko take the stairs from the top floor to the basement?" Kogoro Mouri said with a blink of his eyes.

"It's possible." At this time, Shota Aoki, who was sitting next to him, said.

Qing Musong was a little surprised when he heard this, and looked at him and asked, "Why do you think so?"

"Mr. Sakamoto from Thomas Records also came to the Courtyard Beer House tonight. When we were about to take the elevator down, I saw Mr. Sakamoto going down the stairs." Shota Aoki replied.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

A police officer just happened to pick up Mr. Yuki Sakamoto.

In response to Aoki Matsu's question, Sakamoto Yuki nodded and said, "Yes, after their performance, I met Miss Yukiko in the stairwell between the top floor and the eighth floor."

Not long after Nishimoto Makoto sat down, he stood up from his chair excitedly, walked quickly to Sakamoto Yuuki, grabbed Sakamoto Yuuki's collar angrily, and said angrily: "So it was you who..."

“No, that’s not it.” Sakamoto Yuuki was sweating in the face of the angry Nishimoto Makoto, and quickly explained: “I just told her what I thought of today’s performance, and then I left immediately because she said she didn’t want other members of the band to see me talking to her.”

"You are a liar!" Nishimoto Makoto shouted excitedly.

"This person should not be the murderer." Maori Kogoro said at this time: "Because he and Miss Yukiko did not have the key to the lounge at the time, so they could not get in at all."

"Why are you so excited?" Tanaka Risako looked at Nishimoto Makoto, then quickly laughed and said, "Ah Cheng, could it be you who did this?"

Makoto Nishimoto let go of Sakamoto Yuuki's collar, turned around angrily and looked at Tanaka Risako and asked, "What did you say?"

"Because I know that Yukiko dumped you." Tanaka Risako smiled knowingly, "Yukiko came back before you returned the key, right? So you dumped Yukiko..."

"Shota said that when he came back, there was no one in the lounge, right?" Nishimoto Makoto asked back, then pointed at Tanaka Risako with a meaningful look and said, "If anything, it was you who kept the lounge key during the day, wasn't it? Did you copy the spare key at that time?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Risako Tanaka stood up angrily after hearing this.

Makoto Nishimoto smiled calmly and asked, "You must think that Shouta will be snatched away by Yukiko, right?"

"Bang!" Nakamura Yusuke slammed the table, stood up and shouted, "Stop arguing! It's too embarrassing to have an internal fight at this time!"

Seeing that the group of people had quieted down, Maori Kogoro said, "Let me sort it out first. It should be like this. After Miss Yukiko separated from Mr. Sakamoto, she walked back to the lounge on the underground first floor. However, because she did not have the key, the person who opened the door of the lounge should be the murderer.

The suspects are Mr. Nishimoto before he returned the key, Mr. Aoki who came back once, and Ms. Risako who may have secretly made a spare key. It must be someone among you. "

[Hehehe! If we rule out Yusuke Nakamura, then it seems that Yusuke Nakamura's suspicion has increased by +1! ]

This was Aoki Matsu's reaction after hearing what Mori Kogoro said.

Do you understand what the gross profit elimination method is?

"What! How could I be the murderer?" Risako Tanaka looked at Kogoro Mouri with anger.

"Please be quiet!" Seeing that several people were about to quarrel with Maori Kogoro, Aoki Matsu quickly interrupted them.

Looking at Sakamoto Yuki, Aoki Matsu said: "Mr. Sakamoto, when did you and Yukiko break up? Where did you go after that?"

"I don't remember the exact time. I just said a few words to Miss Tokiko there, maybe only a minute, and then left. I walked to the eighth floor and then took the elevator away from there." replied Yuki Sakamoto.

"I understand." Aoki Matsu responded.

At this time, the staff who had cleaned up the instruments with Yusuke Nakamura after the performance also arrived.

Aoki Matsu looked at him and asked, "Excuse me, how long did it take you and Mr. Nakamura to pack up the instruments?"

The staff member replied: "About 10 to 20 minutes. I didn't check the time at the time."

"Did you deliver the musical instrument outside the lounge, or did someone else?" Aoki Matsu continued to ask.

The staff member replied: "We provided these instruments, so we should have kept them. But today I had a stomachache and went to the toilet. When I came back, the instruments had been taken to the door of the lounge."

Qing Musong looked at him and asked, "So you don't know who delivered the instrument to the door of the lounge? Have you asked your colleagues?"

The staff member nodded and said, "I have asked my colleagues, but they all said they didn't know. I almost thought it was stolen, but I went to the lounge and saw the instrument at the door, and I was relieved." You don't have to worry about losing money.

"Then why are the musical instruments placed outside the lounge instead of inside the lounge?" Aoki Matsu asked again.

Yusuke Nakamura answered this question: "Because the lounge is a bit small and the instruments are quite large, I always put them outside first. When I leave, I move the instruments into the lounge and lock the door."

"So, was it you, Mr. Nakamura, who brought these musical instruments to the door of the lounge today?" Aoki Matsu looked at him and asked.

Nakamura Yusuke shook his head. “It wasn’t me. After I packed up my instruments, I gave them to him and then went to find Mr. Mori.”

[There is something wrong with this. Who would do such a good deed for no reason and not leave their name? ]

But Aoki Matsu couldn't figure out the reason for the time being.

"Okay, I understand." Qing Musong then looked at the others and said, "Please wait here for a moment. We need to check the stairwell on the eighth floor."

After saying that, Qing Musong didn't wait for anyone's reaction and directly led everyone to the stairwell between the top floor and the eighth floor.

The entire stairwell was very clean and tidy, and there didn't seem to be any clues.

However, Aoki Matsu still noticed the paintings hanging on the walls of the stairwell. Those paintings were drawn by children, using crayons.

There were crayon marks on the body's shoulders.

Qing Musong carefully examined the words on the wall and indeed found a painting with obvious scratches.

So to speak - this place is most likely the first murder scene!

After realizing this, Aoki Matsu immediately ordered a search of the place.