Event Story – House of Mystery: They Know All! ch.13

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Akira: Basically, it's created just like a ship in a bottle! How do you get a ship bigger than the mouth of a bottle inside... Well, you build the ship and then make the bottle around it.
So, what this means is that the culprit stabbed the master with a knife and then set up that room before escaping.
And you're the only one with the tools to do something like that! 

ーButler, you're the culprit!!

Butler: Eh...!

Nico: ... Haah?

Ren: Letting him speak was a mistake.

Gray: A- Akira-kun... It might be better to stop there...

Akira: W- Why!? That's the only explanation, ain't it!?

Ren: Are you out of your mind? Do you honestly think you can set up a room so quickly after stabbing someone with a knife?

Akira: Maybe, what do you know!?

Gray: Also, I hate to interrupt, but... a ship in a bottle is actually a model you take apart and then rebuild inside a bottle...

Akira: Huh... Really?

Gray: Yes. I've heard that you can also cut the bottom and place it in from there, but that's probably considered fake...

Akira: Are you kidding me... I always thought they were just making bottles around the ship...

E- Even so! It's clear that the butler's the culprit!

Wh...

Ren: What's this sound?

Gray: Perhaps it goes off when we get the wrong culprit...

Akira: Damn it... my impeccable logic...

Ren: Hmph, I had a feeling it would turn out this way.

The master's son: What, seriously? You got me good there.

Secretary: This was a waste of time.

Butler: Such an inconvenience, honestly...



Ren: Hold on, it's too early to go back.
The show is over. Now, how about you listen to my theory?

The master's son: Now what, you still have somethin' to say?

Butler: Are you still doubting us?

Secretary: There's not a single suspicious person here.

Man with a creepy mask: ......

Ren: No, the culprit is among us.

Suspects: !?

Ren: As that idiot said earlier, the door to that room is locked from the inside, and the only key was with the master who got stabbed.
The windows were sealed shut, showing no signs of having been tampered with.
However, since someone has stabbed the master, there has to be a way the perpetrator got in—and the answer is the fireplace.
The culprit broke into the master’s room and stabbed him with the knife they had... leaving the weapon behind and escaping through the chimney.
After that, they returned to the scene as if nothing happened.
That’s how you create a locked room.

Akira: Hold on a second! The fireplace's supposed to be closed off, right!?

Ren: That's just a misconception.

Akira: Misconception my ass, didn't you check it at the start?

Ren: We are the only ones trapped inside.

Akira: Ah...!

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