Chapter 46 Chapter 21

For this murder case, I had doubts from the beginning.Hearing Sanzao's words, my doubts deepened.Even if Sanzao is an idiot, there is a door in the bathhouse exclusively for bathhouse personnel to enter and exit, and there are also peepholes to ask guests whether the water temperature is appropriate. If Sanzao was in the wood burning place, he would definitely notice that a murder happened inside, and the murderer knew it well. On this point, but still blatantly killing (or dismembering) the corpse, isn't it brave and foolhardy? Perhaps the murderer made sure that Sanzaoren was not in the next door beforehand, so he would do the killing.Even so, how could it be possible to complete such a big task in such a short time after supper?Isn't this a bit unusual?Or maybe the sound of water flushing that Sanzao heard was the sound of the murderer not knowing that the people from the bathhouse had returned and washing the blood on the floor of the bath?Is such absurd, nightmarish thing really possible?What is even more unbelievable is that Sanzao directly said that the person who flushed the water was Kono.From this point of view, even though this speculation is very absurd, the murderer is none other than Kono, and he wants to investigate himself?The more I think about this case, the more confused I get.

So, I just stood there and indulged in these inconsistent inferences for a long time. "It turns out that you are here, which made it easy for me to find." The sudden sound startled me, I raised my head and found that Sanzo had already left, and it was Kono standing in front of me at the moment. "What are you doing here?" he asked, looking straight at me. "Oh, I came to look for the guy's footprints last night, but there was no trace. Sanzao, who was in charge of heating the hot water, happened to be here, so I asked him something." "Is that so, did he say something?" Kono seemed very interested when I mentioned Sanzo, and asked eagerly.

"He spoke very ambiguously, indistinctly." Then I deliberately skipped Kono's part and repeated the question and answer between me and Sanzao. "That guy is weird. Maybe he's actually a clever liar, so you can't trust him casually." Kono reminded, "Also, I know who the owner of the wallet is. It's the hotel owner's wallet , said it was lost four or five days ago, and I’m looking for it. As for where it was lost, unfortunately, the boss said he didn’t know, anyway, I asked the maid and the shopkeeper, and they all said that it was definitely the boss’s thing.”

"Then that guy stole it last night?" "Well, it should be." "In that case, is that guy the same person as the suitcase man?" "I don't know. If that's the case, he has already escaped. Why did he come back last night... For what reason did he have to take such a risk? I can't figure it out at all." Then, we exchanged opinions again. Unfortunately, the emergence of new clues will only make the case more complicated, and we will not see the dawn of the truth at all.