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Chapter 959 The Reversal of the Silk Thread (23)

Hotaru Onizuki's attempts to stop her did nothing to calm Kanami Saki down.

Instead, she screamed in even greater disgust.
"Stop talking nonsense here!"

"Since you believe I am the murderer who killed Tenma Junya, then prove it to me! Can you produce evidence to prove the method of murder you described?"

—Tenma Junya?
Xiang Yuanguang touched his chin.

He didn't seem to care much about Kanami Saki's public outburst.

The focus now is actually on how Kanami Saki addresses Gerald Pegasus.

That's right, Gerald Tenma's original name was Tenma Junya.

Gerard Pegasus was a new name he adopted after arriving in France.

Normally, everyone else would call Geralt Tenma Geralt Tenma, but the irrational Kanami Saki uses the abandoned name, Tenma Junya.

Perhaps, for Kanami Saki, the name Tenma Junya is the one that left the deepest impression on her.

Xiang Yuanguang gently tapped the inside of the coffee cup with his fingers.

He remembered it clearly.

At the beginning of the trial, Onizuki Hotaru, who was sitting next to her, mentioned that Tenma Junya and Kanami Saki were boyfriend and girlfriend ten years ago.

However, why did the relationship between the two break down, to the point that Junya Tenma went to France?

This is still an unknown.

His fingers unconsciously fumbled for the magatama in his pocket.

—In order to separate Prosecutor Gold from his original identity.

Xiang Yuanguang did not wear the magatama he usually wore on his chest.

Instead, he chose to put the magatama in his pocket.

He could now feel that the magatama seemed to be emitting a warm glow.

No need for excessive thinking.

He immediately realized that what happened ten years ago was of great importance to both Junya Tenma and Misaki Kanami, otherwise this situation would not have occurred now.

So what exactly happened ten years ago that would make these two people remember it to this day?
Could it be related to the lyric book from ten years ago that Hideki Kana mentioned?

Xiang Yuanguang's thoughts raced.

Ten years ago, Jellal Tenma, who was still Junya Tenma, had not yet debuted.

Kanami Saki keeps Junya Tenma's lyric book.

There must be other purposes... Of course, it could also just be a commemoration.

But in any case, that lyric book should contain a lot of useful information.

Perhaps we could have someone else find the lyric book from ten years ago that Hideki Kana described?
"Evidence that can prove this..."

"Ghost Moon Firefly said in a low voice."

She already had a general idea of ​​the evidence that could prove Kanami Saki committed murder.

Because, in the testimony of Tokudaiji Masayo, something that was overlooked was mentioned.

That was the bottle of red wine that Gerald's agent brought.

Perhaps this bottle of red wine is something that other witnesses would consider insignificant.

but……

In Guiyue Ying's view, this might be the key to breaking the deadlock.

She ignored Kanami Saki and looked at Kanami Hideki again.

She asked the most eloquent witness so far directly.

"Mr. Hideki Kana, could you please provide a detailed description of the wine from that evening?"

Kana Hideki, who was distraught because of Kanami Saki's current demeanor, looked up.

His eyes showed obvious confusion.

The reason was simple: he couldn't understand why Onizuki Hotaru would bring up that bottle of red wine at this time. However, Kana Hideki still answered the question.

"Red wine? You mean the red wine that Gerald Pegasus's agent brought over?"

"There's no wine cabinet in the villa because my family doesn't really like drinking. But the agent brought a bottle of imported French red wine, and we got into the mood and decided to have some."

“It was Misaki…it was my sister-in-law who served the drinks.”

"One glass per person, and the red wine will be empty... What's the point of asking this?"

He looked up blankly toward the prosecutor's bench.

Upon hearing this, Gui Yueying frowned slightly.

It seems that this bottle of red wine really has nothing to do with the case.

The reason she suspected the red wine was because...

It was because I could smell alcohol in the piano room back then.

However, the deceased Gerald Tenma had also drunk red wine before his death.

Therefore, it is quite normal to smell alcohol in a piano room.

But she felt that things were not so simple.

Looking at the young female prosecutor next to him, he saw her frowning.

Xiang Yuanguang took a sip of coffee and said directly,
"Witness, are you sure there's nothing strange about the events surrounding that bottle of red wine?"

"Are you sure... everyone here has drunk red wine?"

—Has everyone here ever drunk red wine?

This is a rather strange question.

Hideki Kana looked even more confused.

Since Kanami Saki distributed the wine, everyone got a glass, so how could anyone not have any red wine? Worrying about it doesn't seem to make much sense...

He glanced at Kanami Saki in the defendant's dock behind him, his gaze settling on her evening gown.

Then, as if he had just realized something, Hideki Kana said in surprise,
"Ah, I remember now, my sister-in-law has never drunk red wine!"

"At the time, Detective Kogoro Mouri accidentally bumped into his sister-in-law's wine glass during their conversation, causing all the wine in her glass to spill onto her dress!"

……what?
Ghost Moon Firefly immediately understood what was going on.

Last night, when she was at the villa in Kana, she felt that Kana Misaki smelled particularly strongly of alcohol.

At first, I thought it was just that Kanami Saki drank a lot.

But now that I think about it... how could drinking alone leave your clothes smelling so strongly of alcohol?
Similarly, the situation is the same in the piano room.

It's true that there was a smell of alcohol on the scene.

However, simply drinking alcohol does not make it difficult to leave the smell of alcohol in the piano room for a long time.

To achieve this, the alcohol must be allowed to evaporate in the piano room.

"But...it doesn't quite make sense."

She frowned and said in a low voice.

That's right. Following this line of thought, there must have been some alcohol evaporating in the piano room for her to still be able to smell it while she was investigating.

However, neither Kanami Saki nor anyone else could possibly bring a wine glass into the piano room.

Simply attributing the lingering scent to Kanami Saki's evening gown seems a bit far-fetched.

Unless, of course, we can find something on Kanami Saki that might have brought the wine into the piano room...

"...Is it that one?"

Xiang Yuanguang's voice rang out.

He held his coffee, his eyes fixed on Kanami Saki's chest.

There, hanging there was a gemstone brooch!
(End of this chapter)