14. What You Said Sounds a Bit Dangerous There

"Thank you for your hard work, Hayashi-Sensei."

"It's such an honor to have you here today."

After the show

When the audience left in an orderly manner, backstage, Matsuo Takashi shook hands with Hayashi Yoshiki with a sincere look on his face.

Nagai Ayako also came over and bowed to express her gratitude.

"No, I am the one who is being taken care of by both of you. Thank you so much. It was my first time participating in a program and I didn't realize how hard it is for the host."

"It was Hayashi-Sensei's first time on TV and he was not at all nervous. Some crossover guests were fine when they were talking about the program arrangement, but they were so nervous when they were in front of the camera that they didn't know what to do."

"That's just because I'm not obviously nervous."

"Haha, Hayashi-Sensei, can you give me an autograph?"

"OK."

There was a friendly conversation going on here.

Kisaki Eri also came backstage as a family member, along with Hayashi Yoshiki's editor Asamiya Nanae.

"Where's the director?"

Asamiya Nanae couldn't help but frown as the program director Suwa hadn't shown up for a long time.

Normally at times like this, the program director would definitely come over to communicate with the guests, and the staff were busy running around, so it was unreliable for the director to be nowhere to be seen.

Just as Asamiya Nanae was wondering if the director was being arrogant and disrespectful, a staff member ran over and said, "Mr. Matsuo, Director Suwa seems to be missing."

"Ah?"

"I called the mixing room on the fourth floor or his cell phone but no one answered."

"How could this happen? Would you mind going to the mixing room to take a look?"

"OK."

The staff came over immediately.

Matsuo Takashi turned his head and smiled helplessly, "Really? I don't know what's going on with Suwa. Hayashi-Sensei is still waiting here."

"Maybe he was distracted by something."

Hayashi Yoshiki didn't care much.

He looked at Kisaki Eri, and saw a mature and beautiful woman in a professional suit looking at him with satisfaction

"You behaved very well today, Shiki."

"Then let's find a nice restaurant to celebrate later, Aunt Eri."

"OK."

Kisaki Eri responded with a smile.

If her daughter hadn't gone out on a date today, she would have liked to take this opportunity to introduce the two to each other.

Several people waited in the backstage for a while, and the landline next to them suddenly rang. After a staff member picked up the call, his face changed drastically the next second:

"What?! Mr. Suwa is covered in blood?!"

His voice startled everyone.

The staff member looked nervous and hung up the phone and said, "The call seemed to say that Mr. Suwa died in the mixing room..."

"How come?"

"Let's go and take a look!"

When we suddenly heard the news that someone had died, everyone felt it was a bit unreal and wanted to go over and check the situation as soon as possible.

So several people immediately left the backstage of the studio.

The mixing room is on the 4th floor, and the current floor is the 9th floor. Just when everyone was about to take the elevator down, they found that the elevator was blocked and could not be used, so they had to take the stairs instead.

However, when they came to the 7th floor from the 9th floor, the stairs leading down were blocked by a large number of material boxes. I couldn't go any further for the time being, so I had to go down to the 4th floor via the stairs on the other side of the 7th floor.

At this time, there were many people gathered at the door of the mixing room.

"Make way, please make way!"

After finally separating the crowd that was blocking their view, everyone immediately saw the body of Suwa Michihiko, who was sitting on the ground with a bloody hole on his temple in the mixing room with the flip window splattered with blood in the background.

There were screams all the time.

At the same time, there were some who reacted quickly: "Has anyone called the police? Call the police quickly!"

"I've just called the police!"

"Then please do not enter the room without permission until the police arrive."

Hayashi Yoshiki's clear voice suppressed the restlessness and panic around him. He took a step forward and stood at the entrance of the room.

Even the sight of the bloody corpse did not change his expression. At this moment, the aura surrounding him was only tranquility... The onlookers looked at each other and took a step back at the same time.

About twenty minutes later, the police who received the report rushed over.

The team leader was a fat and friendly looking police inspector. Right from the start, he experiencedly arranged for people to cordon off the scene and let the coroner start his work, while also beginning to investigate the people around.

A shooting case is not like an ordinary murder case. Since a gun is used as the murder weapon, the nature of this case is much more serious.

"Inspector Megure."

"Hmm? Oh! Lawyer Kisaki!"

Megure Juzo, who was frowning, heard a familiar voice and looked over. When he saw that it was Kisaki Eri, he looked surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to accompany this child to record the show." Kisaki Eri gestured to Hayashi Yoshiki beside her.

"Who is this?"

"Hayashi Yoshiki, my nephew, is a mystery novelist."

"Nice to meet you, Inspector Megure."

"Mystery novelist?"

Megure Juzo's eyes lit up.

The mystery novelist he knew before was quite an amazing one, so when he heard this title, he felt a little excited... After coming to his senses, he immediately shook hands with Hayashi Yoshiki's outstretched hand.

At this time, the police and the coroner who were busy in the mixing room quickly came over to report:

"Reporting to Inspector Megure."

"The victim was Suwa Michihiko, a 37-year-old producer of this TV station. He was killed with a pistol. The bullet went through his head and hit the flip window."

"Also we found other bullets in the wall."

"There were two bullets under the poster next to the window, and one bullet next to the clock on the wall."

"Report, four shell casings were found in the corner of the room!"

Intelligence is gathered very quickly.

Perhaps because of Kisaki Eri, Megure Juzo did not prohibit Hayashi Yoshiki from listening on the collection of this information.

"The number of bullet casings found matches the number of bullet holes in the room. In addition, apart from that window, there is only one exit in the entire mixing room, which is this door in front of us, there is no guardrail outside the window."

"There is no doubt about it. The murderer must have come in from outside, forced the deceased to the window with random shots, and then shot him to death."

Megure Juzo quickly came to this conclusion.

In the crowd behind, Matsuo Takashi couldn't help but grin when he heard this.

At this time Hayashi Yoshiki suddenly asked:

"Inspector Megure, do you mind if I go in and take a look?"

"Did you find anything, Mr. Hayashi?"

"Well, because I write detective novels, I like to imagine some methods of committing crimes occasionally... I just thought of some interesting ideas, maybe some of them may contain the methods used by the murderer."

"Like imagining how to commit a crime?"

Hearing this, Megure Juzo opened his mouth.

Now, what you just said sounds a bit dangerous, little brother!