Either Satoshi-kun was smart, or very lucky.

Or maybe it wasn't him... The police found nothing at the crime scene to indicate his involvement in the murder.

Yet Satoshi-kun was still the prime suspect.

Considering his home environment, he had a strong enough motive.

He had no alibi.

The police had everything other than physical evidence.

It wasn't surprising that Ooishi took a chance.

He probably didn't expect me to step in. But what I did was too little to avert his suspicion of Satoshi-kun.

Ooishi believed that Satoshi-kun did it.

He was waiting for Satoshi-kun to fall apart and confess...

That's what

both Ooishi

and I were thinking.

But that hypothesis was destroyed later on.

I'll not talk about it now,

but Ooishi's theory will be disproven, and the police will be thrown into shock.

A question comes to mind.

That is....

who saved Satoshi-kun?

I can only think of the possibility that the Sonozaki family invented the culprit.