Chapter 305: Adjournment Time: Replay of the Scene
The police officers quickly made way to allow Gui Yueying to move freely.

But just after walking out of the door, the young prosecutor stopped again and looked up at the camera in the corridor on the left.

There was still a cover covering the camera, which was black tape.

In order to protect the crime scene, the Suzuki family staff did not clean it up.

(If Miyoshi Asako had walked out of the room with the body, she would have been discovered immediately.)
(The camera here is blocked by Kazuzo Sanada, so when did Kazuzo Sanada meet him?)

The silhouette of the murderer in front of Kizuki Hotaru disappeared, and was replaced by Sanada Kazuzo who hurried upstairs.

The White Magician appeared at the end of the corridor and quickly scanned the windows of each room.

Finally stopped in the first room.

“Here… was the murderer meeting Sanada Kazuzo for the first time? Then why didn’t the surveillance personnel say anything?”

“Logically speaking, the surveillance records here should be… Xiang Yuanguang.”

The young prosecutor suddenly realized something, and a shadow slowly emerged from out of her sight.

The black magician quickly walked up the external stairs to the top floor of Queen Cesaretha Bai with the intercom in hand.

The monitoring personnel adjusted all the surveillance images to the lobby to determine who Kaito Kidd was.

In the recreated scenario, the White Magician briefly converses with the murderer and then goes to cover up the surveillance footage.

Then he moved downwards and disappeared from Gui Yueying’s sight. Then the murderer came out with the body…

And this magic trick of making the dead die again seems very simple.

Kizuki Hotaru’s gaze fell on the shadow of Kaito Kid’s magic doll sliding past outside.

The murderer disguised as Kaito Kid took advantage of the fact that other people’s attention was distracted…

No, during the preparations before leaving the room, simple sliding wheels were installed on the deceased’s shoes, and a small hole was torn in the middle of Jiujiu Yuankang’s black magic cloak.

Pass a hook made of special wire through the opening, and when everyone’s attention is drawn, push the deceased out and swing the hook so that it falls on the railing of the guardrail.

The hook caused the body of the deceased to slide backwards, creating the illusion that the deceased was retreating in the sight of others. He then took out a pistol and pointed it at the body of the deceased.

Because the connection between the hook and the thin wire was not strong enough, the body would most likely fall backwards, so the murderer fired at this moment, allowing the kinetic energy of the bullet to knock the body down, causing the hook to fall off.

Finally, under the guise of recovering the Black Star, the hook and the thin line were retracted, and flash bombs and smoke bombs were thrown…

“Where did you escape from?”

Gui Yueying stood at the corner of the second-floor corridor, looking somewhat confused, her eyes scanning left and right.

Finally, it locked onto the guardrail next to it.

The height between the second floor and the first floor is almost insignificant to a magician who is good at magic.

In her sight, the murderer’s shadow pretended to retreat to the left corridor, but in fact he was throwing a flash bomb.

He blinded everyone present and then threw a smoke bomb so that no one could see his position clearly.

As a result, the police officer who went upstairs from the corner could not see anything and was able to escape.

The young prosecutor nodded her head in confusion and went downstairs.

As he moved along her body, he began to review previous situations wherever his eyes passed.

Finally, Guiyueying stood on the deck, and three possible escape directions appeared for the black silhouette.

One option is to flee towards the entrance to the underground first floor—but there is nothing in the surveillance records of the underground first floor.

Moreover, the white magician Kazuzo Sanada and the black magician Genmitsu Mukae were unaware that the surveillance cameras were installed there.

The murderer probably doesn’t know either, and there’s no sign of editing in the surveillance footage…

Well, the second possibility is to blend into the crowd…but does the murderer really have such disguise skills?

The young prosecutor fell into thought, the real Kaito Kid could change his clothes in one second. But the murderer might not be able to do it, so he quickly took off Kaito Kid’s clothes and threw him into the water…

If the clothes were the same as those worn by guests, then this possibility does exist…

“Ghost Moon Prosecutor, what are you looking at?”

Officer Chiba was a little confused, his eyes wandering between Kizuki Hotaru and the empty left deck.

I wondered if this young prosecutor was under too much pressure and became mentally ill.

“I wonder… is it possible that the murderer took off his clothes and blended into the crowd…”

“Impossible, absolutely impossible. Inspector Nakamori asked us to form a human wall to prevent Kaito Kid from blending into the crowd after killing someone. So the murderer definitely can’t blend in.”

“It’s still easy to tell if there are unfamiliar faces at this time, not to mention there weren’t many or few people around at the time.”

Officer Chiba said as a matter of course.

“But after the murder happened, a guest told me that he saw a magician with a costume similar to that of Kaito Kid going upstairs, so I chased him and caught Xiang Yuanguang.”

“Oh, yes, I heard from Inspector Megure who was maintaining order at the time that Detective Mori later yelled for people to go to the monitoring room to check the surveillance, but the staff member next to him said that he was from the monitoring room…”

After the murder occurred, the staff in the monitoring room left the room… ?
A hint of surprise appeared in Gui Yueying’s eyes.

In other words, before the murder took place, Xiang Yuanguang was still heading to the top floor.

There were still staff in the monitoring room, but they disappeared after the murder took place.

Then the monitoring records were modified during this period.

“The surveillance cameras in the lobby are most likely handled by Kazuzo Sanada. The pigeons he trained can be used to block the view of the surveillance cameras, allowing him to remove them as quickly as possible.”

“After discovering that most of the surveillance cameras had lost their functions, the staff in the monitoring room left the monitoring room to check the situation. At this time, they heard gunshots and went directly to the deck… Sanada Kazuzo came back at this moment and came to the scene of the murder performance, attracting the attention of Inspector Megure.”

“The people from the First Investigation Division therefore identified Sanada Kazuzo as the primary suspect. Officer Chiba led a group of people to the top floor along the external staircase to arrest lawyer Mugen… The people from the Second Investigation Division were inexperienced in arresting violent criminals, so their efficiency was slow…”

From beginning to end, the murderer’s scene was completely recreated.

The young prosecutor narrowed her eyes slightly.

The murderer was performing a murder magic trick. Inspector Nakamori’s men went to the stairs behind the deck and spent some time dealing with Nanatsuki Koshimizu. After reaching the second floor, they only saw smoke but not the murderer.

In fact, the murderer threw various props directly into the left deck of the first floor in the smoke, and then jumped down, throwing the monocle and white magic suit into the water.

At this time, Officer Chiba had already led people to the top floor to look for Xiang Yuanguang. The murderer had no way to jump into the water and escape, otherwise he would be discovered by the officers from the Investigation Section led by Officer Chiba.

Then, Detective Maori discovered the surveillance camera and asked someone to check the surveillance. He found that the person in the surveillance room was on the deck. Inspector Megure immediately decided to take people to the surveillance room to check the situation, but his attention was attracted by the sudden appearance of Sanada Kazuzo.

At the same time, the murderer threw all kinds of evidence directly into the lobby, and went lightly to the monitoring room in the middle of the first floor to modify the monitoring records. The people from the second search section roughly looked through the rooms on the second floor at this time, and began to go down to the first floor from the left and right sides.

After the murderer modified the surveillance records, he returned to the lobby. Inspector Megure noticed something was wrong and personally led people to the left deck on the first floor to check the situation. The police officers from the Second Investigation Section should have also arrived at the left side of the first floor at this time, and the two sides met.

Afterwards, Officer Chiba took advantage of the absence of Inspector Megure and Detective Mori to carry away Lawyer Mukaigen and run away… He will have a hard time when his salary is evaluated at the end of this month… The real Kaito Kid comes to the deck at this moment, disguises himself, and assesses the situation.

At this time, the murderer had already reached the hidden platform and sent the magic dummy and other evidence into the secret room prepared by Jiujiu Yuankang… Then the police officers from the First and Second Investigation Sections had surrounded the first floor.

Inspector Megure and Detective Maori returned to the deck and learned about what Officer Chiba had done. After learning that Kaito Kid had killed someone on the cruise ship, the real Kaito Kid appeared as Kudo Shinichi and pointed out the discrepancies in the case…

“…The murderer had neither the time nor the opportunity to escape from the lobby. He, no, she didn’t leave at all.”

Gui Yueying closed her eyes, then opened them again, and her pupils had returned to their previous focus.

The replay scene had disappeared at this moment, and she murmured in confusion.

“But why would she do that? Isn’t Kujuku Motoyasu her teacher?”

“Miss Sanhao, why is this?”

　Yesterday’s second update

　
(End of this chapter)