conan but winery

Chapter 64 Does the truth matter? (Additional update)

"what do you wish to ask?"

Walking to the corner of the living room with Karasuma Ying, Hoshino Terumi took out her mobile phone and asked directly.

"I hope they can check the surveillance this afternoon. Did Mr. Somei and Ms. Maiko leave the TV station building?

If so, when did they come back? "

"it is good."

In the name of assisting the police in handling the case, Hoshino Terumi repeated Karasumaying's request, and it didn't take long for the front desk staff to reply.

Shogo Somei left at around three o'clock in the afternoon and returned to the TV station building at around seven o'clock in the evening.

As for Miss Maiko, she has never left the TV station building since she entered it during the day.

After receiving these two crucial pieces of information, all the scattered clues in Karasumaying's mind were connected at this moment.

It turns out that this was not a secret room murder at all.

The murderer was not Somei Shogo.

After a brief silence, she raised her head, looked at Somei Shogo who was being interrogated by Officer Megure about what happened, and asked:
"Mr. Somei, may I take the liberty of asking where the Kuju Maiko lady who was with you during the day went?"

As if he didn't expect that she would ask this, Shogo Somei suddenly felt a little flustered on his face, but he quickly suppressed it.

"Maiko got off work early today, so she went back first... What's wrong? Miss Karasuma?" Somei Shogo replied with a smile.

"Yeah... I understand. Mr. Somei, can you let me see your phone?"

"My cell phone?"

Not sure why Karasumaying wanted to see this, Shogo Somei subconsciously handed over the phone.

In his call records, Karasumaying saw a clue that matched her guess.

At 06:30 this afternoon, Shogo Somei had a call with the contact person noted as "Maiko".

"Thank you."

After returning the phone to him, Karasumaying didn't ask any more questions, but turned around, opened the floor-to-ceiling window, and walked to the balcony.

Behind her, Officer Megure seemed to realize something, and suddenly stared at Shogo Somei as if he were looking at a suspect.

"Mr. Somei, may I ask, where were you at 06:30 this afternoon?"

"Huh? Officer? Are you doubting me?"

"This is just a normal inquiry."

On the balcony, it was raining heavily outside, and the raindrops were blown by the wind and wet her clothes.

Karasumaying stood by the guardrail and looked down. Unfortunately, in the darkness, she could not see anything.

If you jump from here, it will definitely hurt, right?
"Is he the murderer?" Terumi Hoshino, who had been watching Karasuma Ying silently, stepped forward and stood beside her and asked.

"Sister Terumi."

Karasumaying did not answer her, but asked her a meaningful question.

"Do you think the truth is important?"

Before Hoshino Terumi could answer, she suddenly smiled and said again in a slightly sad tone:

"Actually, I have never had any desire to pursue the so-called truth. After all, I have grown up in lies..."

"Xiaoying?"

"The murderer is not Mr. Somei, but Miss Kuzumi Maiko."

Looking at Hoshino Terumi, Karasumaying said slowly:

“Between 06 p.m. and 30:[-] p.m., the producer invited Ms. Maiko to come to the room and then locked it with an anti-theft chain.

The two came to the living room, the producer went to the kitchen to cut the cake, and Miss Maiko took the opportunity to poison the coffee.

After watching the producer die from poison, Miss Maiko came to the balcony and called Mr. Somei.

Later, Miss Maiko committed suicide by jumping off the building.

After receiving the call, Mr. Somei hurried back and found Miss Maiko's body in the parking lot downstairs.Perhaps because it was already dark and raining outside, Mr. Somei was the first person to discover Miss Maiko's body.

Then, Mr. Somei quietly hid Ms. Maiko’s body, pretended that nothing happened, returned to the company, and coaxed me into the producer’s room.

I think Mr. Somei initially wanted to disguise the producer's death as a suicide, which is why he entered the living room first, closed the floor-to-ceiling windows, and hid the cup.

He wanted to erase the clues that Miss Maiko had ever appeared in this room. As for the reason, he probably wanted to protect Miss Maiko’s reputation..."

Karasumaying does not have that very persistent sense of justice, nor does she have a strong desire to find out the truth.

Compared with these two, the emotions between people may have more influence on her choice.

Just like at the previous fake engagement party, she concealed the truth that Yue Yexue tried to murder Kaoru Kusano.

She will also search for the truth, but she will never be obsessed with it.

Just like now, she has basically surmised the entire story of this murder, and even guessed the motive of Miss Maiko's poisoning of the producer.

In the afternoon, she heard Hoshino Terumi say that this producer has extremely bad character and is a person who often takes advantage of his power to do mischief in the company.

It is said that when Hoshino Terumi was still a new actor, he tried to make some improper demands on Hoshino Terumi as his producer.

After Mr. Somei and Miss Maiko entered his program group, he fell in love with Miss Maiko, who is beautiful and has outstanding abilities. He has tried to hide the rules from Miss Maiko many times.

And this time, I'm afraid it will be the same.

But he didn't expect that Miss Maiko's resistance this time would be so fierce.

This should also be because of Mr. Somei. After all, Mr. Somei and Ms. Maiko are in a relationship, although the two of them don't seem to admit this to each other.

Since they have been unable to "capture" Ms. Maiko for a long time, the producers may want to use Mr. Somei's future in the industry as a lever to blackmail her this time.

This directly touched the most sensitive bottom line in Miss Maiko's heart.

So, finally unable to bear it any longer, she attacked the producer and committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Before jumping off the building, she called Mr. Somei.

In this phone call, in addition to explaining her poisoning of the producer, Ms. Maiko probably also truly expressed her feelings to Mr. Somei, right?
This is everything hidden behind this murder.

Karasumaying can even guess that once she reveals the fact that there was actually another person in the living room when the producer was poisoned, Mr. Somei will definitely replace the murderer without hesitation and take over the poisoning. Producer culpability.

So she hesitated.

She didn't know whether she should truthfully tell all the truth behind the murder.

We should still follow Mr. Somei’s inner wish and completely hide the part about Miss Maiko, and portray Mr. Somei as the murderer who poisoned the producer.

She could do this, as long as she slightly modified the logic of reasoning and concealed some clues from the scene.

Karasuma Ying is absolutely sure that she can deceive the police and use a seemingly flawless reasoning to completely remove Miss Maiko's existence from this incident.

Even if the police discover Miss Maiko's death later, they will never link it to the death of the producer.

"It's just, it's just me doing this...I don't understand, I'm just doing this...is it really okay?"

The look on Karasumaying's face was extremely tangled. She was actually emotionally biased towards Shogo Somei, but deep down in her heart, her conscience did not want her to do this.

"Xiaoying."

Hoshino Terumi raised her hand and touched Karasumaying's head. The tenderness deep in her eyes at this moment was really like an older sister looking at her younger sister.

Faced with Karasumaying's inner struggle, she didn't say anything serious, but just asked her a question.

"Do you think Maiko would be willing to see Somei do this?"

This sentence woke up Karasumaying like a bolt from the blue.

She trembled, turned her head stiffly, and looked blankly at Hoshino Terumi, who was looking at her with a smile.

"I understand...Thank you, Sister Terumi."

　Ah, this chapter is an extra update. Recently, many book friends have given rewards one after another. I can’t find where to set up the automatic thank you in the background...

　　But it would be too tedious to copy the names one by one, so after thinking about it carefully, I just added an update to express my gratitude∠(　∠)＿

　　Thank you everyone ~ take a bow ~
　　(Then the plot will return to the winery line tomorrow. The lazy Shirakawa Kiyo and the young Mamiya Kokoro, each hiding in the dark, will have their first real confrontation)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)