Chapter 118 A strange suicide case

"The deceased's name was Mako Araki. She was 28 years old and lived in this villa with a woman named Yayoi Hirotani who was engaged in photography."

Takagi said as he pushed open the door of the villa.

What comes into view is a living room with exquisite decoration and simple black and white tones.

A little worse than Suzuki's, but not much worse.

After all, in Fujino's eyes, there is no difference between the villas of these wealthy families.

Fujino looked at the luxurious living room, and immediately asked Takagi: "By the way, there have been murders here before, right?"

"Detective Fujino, how do you know?"

Takagi looked a little surprised, "A murder did occur here a year ago, and the victim died in the living room."

"My guess."

Fujino chuckled.

Even renting a villa like this will definitely cost a lot of money.

Logically speaking, if they are all renting together, then the financial situation of the two of them must not be optimistic, and it is impossible to rent such a villa.

But if a murder had ever occurred here, that would be a different matter.

"Ms. Hirotani, who shares the same apartment with the victim, Ms. Araki, went to a photographer's sleepover two days ago and did not come back until this morning."

Takagi led Fujino up the stairs to the second floor, "But when she came back in the morning, she found that Miss Araki's bedroom door was locked. After knocking on the door and asking questions to no avail, she felt something was wrong and reported it. police."

"Did Ms. Honggu call the police directly after she found the door locked and shouted to no avail?"

Fujino interrupted.

"Is such that."

Takagi thought for a while and continued: "After receiving the alarm, at about 9:15 in the morning, the nearby patrol police came to the villa, forced open the bedroom door, and found the man lying on the ground face to face. Miss Araki’s body.”

Hearing this, Fujino couldn't help but twitch his chin.

Generally speaking, after discovering that the door is locked, the normal behavior should be that the owner of the bedroom has gone out.

But how on earth could Yayoi Hirotani be sure that something happened to Mako Araki...

Just a guess?

Later, the two came to the bedroom door where the crime occurred.

Takagi, wearing white gloves, opened the door.

What came into view was a bedroom that didn't quite look like a girl's.

As far as Fujino is concerned, the only thing that looks like a girl is that the room is clean and smell-free.

Mako Araki's bedroom is neither too big nor too small, about thirty or forty square meters.

Directly opposite the entrance to the bedroom, there are two leather brown single sofas. There is a small table in front of the sofa that serves as a coffee table. The coffee table is made of wood. On the glass tabletop, there is a solitary ashtray.

The ashtray was made of glass, and inside the ashtray were scattered cigarette butts of two different brands.

He quickly looked towards the other side of the room.

What catches the eye is a window. At the end of the room to the left of the window, there is a large wooden gray bed. To the left of the entrance to the large bed is a large wooden wardrobe that is nearly two meters long.

Directly opposite the big bed, at the end to the left of the window, is a wooden writing desk.

The victim in this case was lying next to the chair in front of the desk.

In the small bedroom, in addition to the slightly crowded furniture, there are also many police officers from the forensics department wearing blue uniforms who are hurriedly surveying the scene.

Among the many blue figures, a figure wearing an off-white suit stood out.

"Officer Sato!"

"Fujino-kun, you are here."

Hearing the familiar voice, Sato Miwako looked back and saw Fujino wearing a suit and vest.

"So, the victim was shot to death?"

Fujino stepped forward, took a look at the body lying on the ground, and asked Miwako Sato about the victim.

"Yes, after preliminary inference from the forensics class, the death was indeed caused by a gunshot."

Sato Miwako replied: "But whether it was the bullet fired from that pistol or not, we still have to take it back to the police station for testing to determine."

"Is that so?"

Fujino continued to ask: "I remember that on the phone just now, the Megure Police Department told me that this case is a bit strange. What is the strangeness?"

"There is nothing wrong with the posture of the corpse. It slipped from the chair in front of the desk. The doors and windows are locked. Normally, this case can be concluded as suicide...

But the strange thing is that the muzzle of the gun on Miss Araki's head is on the left side, but the hand holding the gun is in the right hand. There is no key that can lock the door in her room. "

"key?"

Listening to Miwako Sato's description, Fujino was surprised, "Normally, shouldn't doors have knobs that lock from the inside?"

"Normally, this is the case, but this villa is a bit old. The door does not have a locking device from the inside. You can only use the key to lock it..."

"So I think this case may have been an armed robbery. The murderer shot Miss Araki in panic after being discovered by her. Then he disguised the crime scene as a secret room suicide and fled in a hurry. on site."

After a pause, Sato Miwako looked at Takagi Wataru: "But Takagi always feels that things are a little strange, so the Megure Police Department asked Fujino-kun to come over and take a look."

Hearing this, Takagi scratched the back of his head, showing an embarrassed look, "I just feel that since it was a robber who committed the murder, it stands to reason that the murderer should not let go of Miss Araki's obviously valuable watch. .”

"That's why I said that the murderer arranged the scene in a panic."

Sato Miwako let out a long sigh of relief, "Not only did they mistake the position of the gun, they even took away the key to this room."

"But since he was shot, the people around him must have heard something, right?"

At this time, Fujino, who had been listening, suddenly asked.

"The preliminary estimate of Ms. Araki's death time was around 11 o'clock last night."

Takagi Wataru replied: "I remember there was a fireworks show near here at that time last night. The sound of gunfire should have been covered up by the sound of fireworks..."

"Is it homicide disguised as suicide?"

Hearing this, Fujino murmured and walked slowly towards the window sill.

Is it really just a robbery case as Miwako Sato said?

But why do I always feel like something is wrong.

Since the system posted a strange suicide case instead of a robbery and murder case, there should be something fishy about this case.

After thinking about it, Fujino put on white gloves and came to the window sill.

After confirming that the window was locked from the inside, he turned around and looked at the desk in front of the chair where Araki Mako was sitting before naturally collapsing.

Placed in the middle of the desk is an unfolded leather notebook...

If you look closely, you can find traces of being torn off at the seams between the pages.

And in the pen holder on the left side of the notebook, there is also a high-end pen inserted.

Withdrawing his gaze, Fujino walked slowly towards the body, leaned down slightly, and began to look at the body of Mako Araki.

Mako Araki is wearing black short-sleeves and white casual pants. Her age is the same as Takagi said. Judging from her appearance, she is probably between twenty and thirty years old. She is not too stunning, but she has a certain A mature beauty.

However, the bloody flower blooming on her left temple broke this sense of beauty...