Chapter 36 chapter 2

Walking down the stairs, all the people stared at me for a moment, and then almost everyone turned their eyes away in the next moment.The only ones who didn't look away were President Yamamori and Yumi.Yumi should have turned her head towards me because she heard footsteps, but she didn't know that it was me who was walking up. "Are you okay?" President Yamamori walked over to me.I nodded, but it shouldn't be very obvious! Ishikura Yusuke got up and offered me his seat on the sofa.After I said "thank you" to him and sat down, the heavy fatigue hit me again.

"What happened...?" Since everyone present was deliberately looking elsewhere, I had no choice but to ask President Yamamori. "Mr. Moriguchi is taking people from the police station to the scene now." He answered in a low and bitter voice, always calm. "Our yacht must be cursed!" Shi Cang's voice was mixed with sighs, "Last year, we had such an accident, and this time it was another accident of falling off a cliff. I'm not joking, but It seems that exorcism is necessary!" "Accident?" I repeated, "Are you saying that Toko's fall from the cliff was an accident?"

Once again, I was surrounded by everyone's faces.It's just that I feel that the line of sight this time seems to be different from before. "Don't you think it was an accident?" In response to the question President Yamamori threw at me, I nodded clearly, and this gesture contained the mood of "Isn't this nonsense?" "This is an important opinion!" He said in a clearer voice, "If it's not an accident, it's suicide or homicide. Of course you don't think it's suicide, do you?" "Yes, of course not." After I finished answering, Mrs. Shansen immediately shook her head and said, "What stupid words. What do you mean by murder? Don't you want to say that the prisoner is one of us?"

"Well, if it was really a homicide, of course the culprit can only be found among us!" President Yamamori said with a calm and fearful expression on his face: "Now it is asserted that it was an accident, maybe It is indeed too early to say. And I heard that it is very difficult to distinguish in the case of falling to death." "So, I never expected you to speak as if the prisoner was among us!" Mrs. Sanson said hysterically.Lips painted with red lipstick squirmed as if they had a life of their own. "Could you please explain, why do you think it was homicide?" Noriko Murayama spoke in a calm tone that did not lose to President Yamamori.She didn't look embarrassed by the sudden situation at all, and the makeup on her face was so perfect that there was nothing to say.

"The reason why I don't think it's just an accident is because I think there are too many doubts in terms of accidents. Before these doubts are clarified, I can't accept the idea of ​​an accident." "What kind of question?" President Yamamori asked. "First, because there is a fence around the edge of the cliff. Why does she have to step over the fence and stand on the edge of the cliff?" "Maybe she has her own reasons!" Shi Cang answered, "Maybe she wants to see clearly under the cliff!" "The bottom of the cliff at that time should be pitch black, and nothing can be seen. Or do you mean, is there anything she particularly wants to see?"

"Then..." He closed his mouth halfway through his words. I continued: "The second question is the fact that she left the hotel itself. Isn't there a notice that the door will be locked after ten o'clock at the entrance? If she has seen that notice, I think she will definitely I won’t go out for a walk, because I might be locked out.” "So," President Yamamori said, "She just didn't see the piece of paper pasted at the entrance! Because she didn't see it, she left the hotel." "President Yamamori thinks so, probably because you don't understand her personality. As long as she goes out late at night, she will definitely confirm these things."

"Your words sound a bit biased." Noriko Murayama said in a voice desperately suppressing her emotions: "But even if you are correct in the above two points, it can't be said that Ms. Hagio has not left the hotel? If that lady went out for a walk If it's less than ten o'clock, maybe she thinks that she just needs to come back before the door is locked!" "No, that doesn't seem to be the case!" It was President Yamamori who answered instead of me.He said to his secretary: "I asked, Miss Hagio went to bed at ten o'clock. Then maybe she woke up suddenly in the middle or left the room for some reason, so she must have left the hotel after ten o'clock." It's—isn't it?"

"As you said." I replied. "But it's true that the young lady left the hotel? She died outside the hotel!" Madam's tone was full of meanness.I stared intently at the lady's face. "Even so, I don't think she left the hotel on her own will. It is very likely that she went out after being invited by someone. To take the example to the extreme, she may also be After being killed in the hotel, he was thrown under the cliff to abandon his body!" After Madam said "How is that possible", she turned her face away. "I see, what you said is indeed reasonable. No matter how much you talk about it like this, I'm afraid there's no way to know the truth!" In order to resolve the embarrassing atmosphere of tit-for-tat confrontation, President Shan Mori looked around at everyone and said: "Then please be present Everyone, explain your whereabouts last night, what do you think? If this is the case, it should be a little closer to the truth, right?"

"It's just an alibi!" Shi Cang's eyebrows were slightly displeased, "It really doesn't feel good." "But regarding this point, I think we will have to face it sooner or later! When the investigators from Tokyo arrive, they will definitely ask us what we did last night." "Do you want to take it as a prophecy at that time?" Shi Cang pouted his lower lip and shrugged. "What do you think?" President Yamamori's eyes slowly swept over everyone's faces.Everyone agrees very negatively while watching the other person's reaction.

That's how I started checking everyone's alibi.