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Chapter 7 A Breathtaking and Astounding Trick
Hideomi Uyama saw the counterfeit money case and seemed to have realized something.
Turn to the next page of the manuscript and you will see a detailed diagram (Figure).
The image depicts the missing body parts of six girls in the Astrology Murder Mystery.
The following is the truth behind the core trick of the astrological murder magic.
Everyone firmly believes that there are a total of six girls' bodies in the astrological murder mystery.
What appeared before everyone's eyes were indeed the corpses of six young girls.
However, there were actually only five real corpses!
The police have been unable to catch the murderer for forty years, and the root cause of this is that they were actually deceived by the painter's crazy diary!
Because from beginning to end, there was never any creation of the perfect goddess Asod.
The painter's mad notebook was actually forged by the murderer Tokiko using her father's notes.
The reason for forging the notes is not hard to guess: it was to use the notes to completely mislead the police!
The police were misled into believing that the mad painter would actually cut off the bodies of six girls to create the perfect goddess Asod!
Once the police fall into this misconception, they will treat all the bodies they find as belonging to the same person.
In reality, as long as we break free from the misleading influence of the murderer Tokiko and do not consider each corpse as the same person, the truth of the whole case will come to light!
The core trick of piecing together five corpses to create six has a fatal flaw.
Although DNA technology was not advanced forty years ago, these girls all had the same blood type.
No matter how powerful the deceptive ability of astrological murder magic is, the fact that six corpses are buried together still makes it easy for people to think that this may be the product of misaligned splicing.
Under these circumstances, Tokiko killed Ichigo, lured Takekoshi Bunjiro into making a mistake, disguised herself as the "Pheasant Agency," and had him disperse the six corpses throughout the country, setting up the six corpses into shallow burial groups and deep burial groups.
The first body discovered belonged to the painter's second daughter, Tomoko.
Since Tomoko's body was not cut in two, only her lower leg was missing, there was no trouble with identifying the cross-section, so her safety could be guaranteed.
So they simply covered him with a thin layer of soil so the police could find him.
The second body discovered was that of the painter's third daughter, Akiko.
Akiko appeared to have lost her waist, but the body that was actually discovered was composed of Akiko's upper body and Nobuyo's lower body!
Because this kind of splicing was not noteworthy forty years ago when DNA was not well-developed, Akiko only buried it fifty centimeters deep.
The third body discovered was that of the painter's daughter with his ex-wife, Tokiko, who was also the murderer in this case.
Since she did not have a body, her headless corpse was taken from Yukiko's body.
Normally, Tokiko should have delayed the discovery of the body as long as possible, since the body was a fake made from Yukiko's body.
But Tokiko was worried that the police had discovered five other bodies but had overlooked the headless one, which would mean that all her hard work in preparing the double would have been for nothing.
Therefore, in order to prevent the body from decomposing too much and people from realizing that she was not dead, Tokiko buried the substitute body seventy centimeters deep.
The above is the Asami group from Astrology Murder Mystery.
As for Yukiko, Nobuyo, and Reiko, who are buried deep within the group, the higher the degree of decomposition of their bodies, the better.
Because Yukiko's body was pieced together from Yukiko's head and Reiko's lower body.
Nobuyo's body was pieced together from Nobuyo's upper body and Tomoko's lower leg.
Reiko's body was pieced together from Reiko's upper body and Akiko's lower body.
By allowing these corpses to decompose to a high degree, the danger of having their wounds examined can be avoided!
In this way, the murderer Tokiko used five corpses to create six, making herself the true "Perfect Goddess Asod" and completing this amazing and astonishing scheme!
With his superhuman intelligence, Kiyoshi Mitarai finally solved this 40-year-old cold case using his almost supernatural reasoning ability!
The whole story also echoes each other.
From the painter's astrological murder mystery notebook that Tokiko forged at the beginning, to Takekoshi Bunjiro's letter of repentance in the middle, and finally to the confession letter that Tokiko left for Mitarai Kiyoshi when she was over sixty years old.
Whether it's a diary, a letter of repentance, or a confession, each piece of writing carries another meaning within the book.
That was a suicide note.
In her suicide note, Tokiko revealed the entire details of the case.
Similarly, Tokiko also revealed her motives for planning the "astrology murder magic" through the letter.
This motivation might seem ridiculous to the average person.
It was only because Tokiko resented her father's unfair treatment of her mother, and because she was bullied many times while living with her stepmother and several older sisters.
Tokiko wanted to kill those who had bullied and harmed her, so that they would receive the retribution they deserved.
However, such matters are inherently very private, and no one knows exactly what kind of suffering Tokiko went through at that time.
Perhaps, Tokiko was truly in an unbearable and painful situation back then, forced to take action?
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Uyama Hideomi turned to the last page of the manuscript and stared blankly for a long time.
Although he appeared calm on the surface, a turbulent storm was brewing inside!
Because this book, "The Astrological Murder Mystery," truly lives up to what Maijo Kyosuke said before: it not only has "heavenly riddles" but also "heavenly solutions"!
Even though Maijo Kyosuke arrogantly wrote two challenges to readers in the book.
However, Hideomi Uyama still believes that, assuming there is no leak of information...
Anyone reading this book for the first time will never guess its core plot!
After reading the entire book, Hideomi Uyama was indeed amazed by the killer's elaborate murder methods!
Uyama Hideomi rubbed his eyes hard, which had become dry from reading for a long time.
I looked up at my watch and realized that four hours had passed without me even noticing!
Based on my reading speed, this book has approximately 180,000 to 200,000 words.
Uyama Hideomi simply couldn't imagine that such a breathtaking and astonishing scheme, such a rigorously structured logic, such a complex and grand layout, and such an arrogant temperament could all appear in one book at the same time!
I have been an editor for fifteen years and have read at least tens of thousands of mystery novels.
However, most of these novels have both strengths and weaknesses.
This is the first time I've ever seen a book like Maijo Kyosuke's that's almost flawless!
If we were to find a Japanese historical mystery novel that could rival the Astrological Murder Mystery, perhaps only Seishi Yokomizo's "Gokumon Island" and Hideo Nakai's "Offering to Nothingness" could be considered its equals!