"The real culprit is...one of the seven missing people." Linton said in a loud voice.
"Uh..." Everyone looked at Linton without saying anything for a long time.
"No, just now you said that the real murderer was one of us, and now he is one of the seven missing people?" Nakiri Erina said.
"That's right, I have now completely solved the mystery of these seven corpses." Linton said and posed, "There is always only one truth, and I bet on my grandfather's name!"
"..." Nakiri Erina automatically filtered out some unintelligible words, and actually followed Linton's words and said, "Then... tell me what this puzzle is all about.
"Yeah, yeah, so don't look at the seven people missing now. There is a high probability that we will find seven bodies in the future. However, the real dead people are not seven at all, but six." Linton said, "
The reason why the murderer cut off parts of each corpse was to splice them together, splicing six corpses into seven..."
"Wait a minute." Nakiri Erina here couldn't help but said, "Let me interrupt your reasoning."
"Hey, is it very rude to interrupt my famous detective's reasoning at this time?" Linton said.
"But I must interrupt. After all, you, a famous detective, don't even understand the current situation." Nakiri Erina said, "Let's not talk about what you said about splicing corpses. I have no idea at all.
I saw that part of the body was missing, but only one part remained, okay? Is this the case you are talking about?"
"Huh?" Linton was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it carefully. It seems to be true. The current situation seems to be exactly the opposite of the Kindaichi case he knew. They cut off a part of each corpse. This case is
There seems to be no such thing as killing a person by leaving a part of each body.
"Ahem, um, I just mentioned that case just to lay the groundwork. Now I'm going to talk about the method of this case." Linton started to insist on nonsense, "Then look at this time
The case is somewhat similar to the case I mentioned, right? I mentioned this case just so that everyone can understand the background, right?"
Linton started to stall for time. After all, he had just said so confidently that the case had been solved. At this time, he was a bit embarrassed to say that he had made a mistake. So while talking nonsense, he began to seriously think about the situation of the case.
Seeing Nakiri Erina's brows begin to curl here, he continued to compile: "Then the cases you have seen twice have an obvious common feature, and that is... the reason for dismemberment."
"What do you mean?" Sure enough, Nakiri Erina, who was about to question, was interrupted and asked.
"The reason is obviously to pretend that the living person is dead." Linton also said smoothly, "It is obviously a human being who committed the crime, why do you have to pretend to be eaten by a demon? This is definitely intentional.
Right. So just like the case I just mentioned, this person’s purpose is most likely to fish in troubled waters."
As he talked, Linton explained it to himself: "Look, in ordinary detective dramas, as long as the person who doesn't see the real body will not die afterwards, and he is still the real murderer?
The one with the lower finger and the one with one palm left behind, have you ever seen a similar plot?"
"It seems, indeed..." A JING member next to him actually nodded along with Linton's words. It seems that he usually likes watching detective dramas. At that time, his words immediately attracted the attention of the group of people next to him, so he hurriedly
Lower your head.
"He left the palms and so on just so that you can determine the identity. He probably calculated the order in which we found the corpses. The first corpse left a head. This first person was obviously really killed, and
Everyone who sees this head will take it for granted that all the missing people may be dead. So when you see this hand, your first reaction is that this person is dead?" Linton
He pointed to the severed hand next to him and said.
"So what you mean is..." Aoki Hiroto heard Linton's words and instantly understood what Linton meant.
"You're talking nonsense!" Hasegawa Horihei, who was next to him, suddenly became excited, because Linton's words obviously meant that the man who left his hand was not dead, and he was the real murderer.
Even if he knew Linton's identity, Hasegawa Horihei couldn't hold it in anymore. After all, Tozai Amagi was his close friend. Of course he didn't believe that his friend would do such a thing, "What evidence do you have to say that?"
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"Uh..." Linton was indeed stunned by the question. After all, he was just talking nonsense along his own train of thought. Of course, there was no so-called evidence.
He didn't know whether this was the case or not. Just as he was thinking about what to do, a JING member from the identification department next to him suddenly said: "It's true. I don't believe that the victim is still alive. If nothing else,
Just looking at the amount of blood left at the scene, one can tell that with such a scale of bleeding, people would definitely be dead."
"This is it!" Linton suddenly felt a flash of inspiration like that of Conan, and pointed directly at the JING officer of the identification department and said, "This is the evidence."
"What? What evidence? Evidence that the prisoner you mentioned is dead?" Nakiri Erina said next to her.
"Look at you, tell me you don't understand." Linton said, "If my conjecture is correct, then such a large amount of bleeding is obviously problematic. If a person wants to live, it is impossible for him to bleed so much
.”
"So, you are saying that the blood here may not be all human blood, or may be someone else's blood?" A JING member next to him answered.
"Then...I think it's not that simple. It's so simple to test DNA now, so it's probably not that easy to see through the plan. It should be his own blood, but...it's probably drawn in advance, that is, prepared in advance..."
At this point, Linton paused: "But if you prepare in advance, there will be a problem, that is, the blood will contain anticoagulants. The test in this area should not be as routine as the DNA test.
He just needs to delay it until the time when demons are rampant."
"So he's betting that we didn't think of checking for anticoagulants before. Then I'm betting that there are anticoagulants in his blood. If so, is this irrefutable evidence?" Linton pointed to the thing on the ground.
Spreading blood said.
This time it really stunned the people around me.
At first, I felt like Linton was talking nonsense and it didn’t sound reliable. But how come it started to sound reliable as he said it?
Even Hasegawa Horihei was a little shaken this time. After all, what Linton said seemed too true.
Seeing that he had really frightened these people, Linton was very satisfied. As for whether what he said was true, I'm sorry that he doesn't know yet. It's enough to frighten people.