"...Have you told anyone about this?"

"No, you are the first."

"...Why?"

"You are the first police officer to help me, so if I find anything, I will tell you as soon as possible. What's wrong?"

"Alas..."

Manda sighed, and then looked at me seriously.

"Do you really believe me?"

"Relative to other police officers."

I didn't hesitate.

"I...I hope you will take responsibility for the case. There are already two murders. You should trust more capable people instead of me...I am just a trainee police officer."
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"You don't understand this~~"

I stretched out my finger and waved it in front of her.

"You know, in most detective novels, the crime solvers are inconspicuous little people, for example, trainee police officers——"

I pointed at her.

"And, private detective."

Then, he pointed at me.

"..."

"..."

"Pfft..."

Manda smiled.

"This is just the plot of a novel!"

"Compared with the big principles, this statement is easier to understand, isn't it?"

"Well...even if it's a big deal, I can understand it!"

"Oh, oh, oh~~ don't be brave."

"No need to be brave!"

......

"Hey, detective, can you give me some advice?"

As I left Mandana and walked deeper into the police station, I was stopped.

The speaker is the officer who called Chief Brooke "boss" last time...the police officer whose name cannot be named.

"Ah... who are you?"

"Just call me German."

He seems to be a more casual person...Why is he holding a stick?

I'm not very good at dealing with this kind of people, Ferrinold is an example.

"What's your opinion?"

"Opinions on the identity of the murderer."

"...Oh?"

Devin opened the "stick" in his hand - it turned out to be paper rolled into a cylinder.

He carelessly handed me the paper - it recorded the confessions of the people present at the inauguration ceremony, and then pointed at them one by one.

"Here - Ms. Evelin, the maid of the Earl's Palace, saw a strange waiter appearing on the fifth floor around nine o'clock in the evening, and that was the floor where the noble Lord was."

"And here - Mr. Berg, who was cleaning the house, saw a waiter-looking man hurriedly downstairs after ten o'clock in the evening."

"Also, here - someone picked up the waiter's uniform that was thrown into the fire and was not burned up."

......

Devon pointed to about seven such confessions in a row.

"According to the information at the crime scene, the noble man died between nine and ten o'clock, so the murderer must be this person pretending to be a waiter."

As expected of a professional police officer, the suspect was already identified within a few days.

"But where did the murderer's waiter uniform come from?"

"Bron and the others have already found out that a waiter's uniform is missing from the storage room on the third floor, and based on the style of the waiter's uniform, the murderer is a woman."

"That's it..."

To be honest, I don’t know much about the current progress of the case, but it’s not hard to tell from German’s words that this group of police officers had already uncovered many details of the Earl’s Mansion murder case while I was wandering around.<

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Since the efficiency is so high, there is no need for me to say anything.

"It's awesome, please continue."

So, I offered some dispensable encouragement.

"Hey, I'm not done yet, detective."

Seeing that I was leaving, Devin looked unhappy.

"What?"

"Actually, we have drawn the faces of all the guests who attended the ceremony, so we only need to ask the witnesses to identify them one by one to find the murderer."

"Well..."

"...Hey, what does 'um' mean?"

"It means 'I understand'."

Devin finally couldn't help but asked disdainfully.

"Did you hear clearly what I just said? I said, 'As long as the witnesses are asked to identify, the murderer can be found,' which means that the case will be solved after doing this, but you reacted like this?"
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"Well...otherwise, how should I react?"

I met Devin's gaze.

"Do you think the murderer was among the guests at the ceremony?"

"Yes, this is not natural!"

"Of all the guests who came to attend the ceremony, which one knows the noble lord? Do you know about this matter?"

"This...what's there to investigate?"

"If we don't investigate clearly, how can we know the motive of the murder?"

Or is it a matter of motive for the murder?

I always feel that as a murderer who dares to assassinate in the Earl's Mansion, it is impossible not to have a motive for the murder.

Therefore, it is too one-sided to arbitrarily define the range of murderers without knowing the motive for the murder.

"The motive for the murder... is inexplicable. Wouldn't it be clear to you after you catch the murderer? It's not like you can't catch the murderer if you don't know."

"This is not okay. I don't want to wrong anyone."

After I left these words, I left without looking back.

I heard Devin curse "bastard" behind him.
Chapter completed!