Chapter 53 Section IX

Because of the new discovery, Yabe forgot to wash his face and sat back on the bed again. He had a hunch that there was a glimmer of hope in solving this incident, and the time to solve the case was not far away. premonition. What Yabe found now is a small clue. Although he has no evidence to prove that Kazuhiko Iseki took out the "portrait of the mule", it is purely his speculation, but he feels that this speculation is very likely to be true. Yabe knew that he was building a castle. Although he couldn't assassinate the opponent in the castle, but if he thought about it carefully, Kazuhiko Iseki was also in the castle built by Mariko Tajima with his diary. It should be possible to use this castle to destroy another castle. .The breakthrough that Yabe found was that the "Portrait of the Mule" was not smeared with red paint.

However, he immediately found that this speculation contradicted the facts.The face that Mariko Tajima saw in the portrait should really have been smeared with red paint, because it is impossible for her to write nonsense in her diary. (Mariko Tajima saw her face painted red.) However, on the day of the incident, the "portrait of the mule" was not painted with red paint, and therefore, Iseki hid it under the landscape painting and brought it out of Tajima's house. (So, how did the red paint disappear?) Yabe got an answer from his imagination. (Someone restored that portrait before the incident.)

So, who will fix it?It will never be Mariko Tajima, because she has run away from home and does not have the skills to restore portraits. Not to mention Kazuhiko Iseki, because he won't do anything against him, and he doesn't have time to restore that portrait.Only Kohei Tajima is left, because he has the time and the skills to restore portraits. Yabe recalled what Shinkichi Ijuin, a reporter from "True Japan", said. He went to visit Tajima Kohei the night before the incident. What Xing Pingfei has completed is probably not a new painting, but a restoration of the "Portrait of Muzi"?If this is the case, even if you don't hold a personal art exhibition or participate in the art exhibition of Xinjihui, you can understand the meaning of the word "complete".

Yabe changed his clothes and put on his shoes, thinking that he must investigate. "Ma'am, bring me breakfast." Yabe shouted.