Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"No, I haven't heard of anyone named Wenzi," the round-chinned waitress responded. Noticing the kid behind Maori, she said in surprise, "Well, you can't be the famous..."

"Ah, I'm Maori..."

"You are Kinukawa Kazuki, right?!" The waitress ran to the kid in surprise, "It's really Kazuki! Toshiko, come here quickly, it's Kazuki!"

"Hello..." The short-haired waitress who was passing by with tea stopped, looked over here, turned and walked away.

"Oh," the round-chinned waitress wondered, "How strange, she is a huge fan of He Hui... Could she be shy?"

The waitress smiled, turned to the little brat and continued, "By the way, why did Hui-kun come to our place today? Do you want to stay here?"

The brat looked at Maori.

"Why are you looking at me?" Mao Li's face fell, "I knew I couldn't accept a child's commission... Let's get a room, the cheapest one."

"Uh, the cheapest one..."

The round-chinned waitress stared at Mao Li blankly, a drop of sweat running down her face.

"Sanzhi," the round-chinned waitress with long braids stopped, "Please arrange a room for Hehui and his agent, the room 308 that has been cancelled."

"it is good."

The long-haired waitress looked coldly at Maori and the little kid.

"This way……"

Mao Li and the little brat looked at each other, put their hands on their shoulders and followed. He really wanted to say that he was not an agent.

"This is Room 308," the long-haired waitress led Mao Li into the room, opened the door, and left with a cold face, "The yukata and quilt are in the closet, take them yourself..."

Mao Li looked at the long-haired waitress who walked away and asked, "Do we have to do it all by ourselves?"

"It's so annoying! I'm already very busy, how can I have time to entertain extra guests?! Don't think you're great just because you're a celebrity!"

"No, I said..."

Maori was confused.

“Is this how you treat your guests?”

The little brat nodded sympathetically: "You don't seem to be very popular..."

"Does she know me?" Maori stood at the door sullenly. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a sloppy man with long hair and a beard walking around the corner of the corridor. He had a shaggy face and looked at the little brat with a disgusting smirk.

"I just came here to check the situation, but I actually ran into the real owner. Now I have some good material..."

The man grinned and chuckled, then turned and left without paying any attention to Mao Li.

"Why are there so many strange people here?" Mao Li frowned and turned to the kid, "Do you know him?"

"do not know."

"Forget it, let's clean up and have dinner first. We're exhausted after a long day..."

……

In room 205, a sinister-looking man with a shoe-horn face in a bathrobe sat in front of the TV, put a videotape into the VCR and picked up his cell phone.

"It's settled, editor-in-chief. Please keep my page blank for now. As long as there are no problems with the material this time, it will definitely be a bestseller..."

The man watched the movie starring Kinukawa Kazuki on TV and said with a sinister smile, "The most popular child star Kinukawa Kazuki's father turned out to be a murderer. Such explosive news will definitely sell well, haha..."

After hanging up the phone, the man was still staring at Kinukawa Kazuki performing in the movie, when the phone in the room suddenly rang.

"Ok?"

The man stood up and walked towards the phone in confusion.

"It's a huge loss. I haven't received the commission yet, but I've already paid the money myself..."

After dinner, Maori put on a yukata and took the little kid to the bathhouse.

"Are we going to take a bath in the bathhouse?" the little kid asked curiously.

"Well, I heard it's an open-air mixed bath, maybe we can find the woman with the mole..."

Maori looked at the sign for the open-air bath at the end of the corridor.

In the mixed bathing hot spring, Maori, with a sullen face, went into the water with the little kids, his eyes sweeping over the grown men who were relaxing in the hot spring.

"Apart from the mole, don't you have any other impression of it?" Maori turned to the kid and asked, "Your mother may have changed her name to work here."

"Nothing."

"No other way. I'll just have to find a chance to ask the waitress again. It would be much better if I knew what those people often think of your performances."

Maori folded his arms and leaned against the pool.

There are time-limited open-air mixed bathing, and no hotel staff... It's a bit difficult to find Wen Zi by the mole, but judging from the contents on those postcards, Wen Zi behaves no differently from a number one fan, so someone should notice her in the hotel.

At the beginning, the short-haired waitress seemed to be a fan of the little brat. She even tried to avoid him when she saw him. There was a black mole near her mouth. Maybe we could investigate it carefully...

At around midnight, Maori found out that the short-haired waitress went to the mixed bathing hot spring after the guests took a bath, so he hurriedly took Kinukawa Kazuki, who was still awake, to the bathhouse again.

He got a rough idea and found that most of the waitresses in the hotel were fans of the little brat, but the only super fan seemed to be the short-haired waitress Bessho Toshiko...

The little brat got a little nervous and stammered, "Really, it was really that woman..."

"How should I know?" Maori looked around the changing room, and when he saw no one, he continued to walk towards the corridor leading to the hot spring pool. "Let's confirm first..."

"Ah!" The wooden door of the bathhouse opened, and the sudden appearance of Maori scared the waitresses.

There were exactly three waitresses in the pool, the short-haired waitress, the round-chinned waitress from before, and the long-haired waitress with a bad personality...

"No... sorry,"

Mao Li lowered his head hastily, and quickly glanced at the few people, "I thought you were just here to clean the bathhouse..."

Because they were both soaking in the water, you could barely see that the girl with the round chin and the long-haired girl both had a mole on their bodies. The former had a mole under her right collarbone, while the latter had a mole on the back of her neck exposed because of her hair being tied up. As for the girl with short hair, there didn't seem to be a mole on her collarbone.

"It's okay, come in," the older round-chinned waitress didn't care, but greeted her warmly, "I will never forget being able to take a bath with Hehui."

"No need, haha." Mao Li touched the back of his head and said, "We just have some questions to ask... I'll come after you finish taking a shower..."

After leaving the bathing area, the little brat raised his head and said, "You clearly wanted to go in just now, didn't you?"

"Who do you think I'm looking for?" Maori glared at the little brat.

Finally, I found a possible candidate, but there was no mole on his chest. If the kid remembered correctly, the only one left who met the requirements was the older waitress, but she didn't look like one...

"Oh no!" Suddenly a panicked shout was heard in the corridor outside. Several waitresses who were walking towards the bathhouse stopped and looked at a colleague who was running down from upstairs.

"what happened?"

"Something happened to the guest upstairs! It was the weird guest in Room 205," the waitress who ran down said in horror, "I went to deliver something to him, but... "

Maoli heard the commotion outside and when he stuck his head out, he saw several waitresses looking panicked.

"Can you take me there first?"

In the bathroom of Room 205, Mao Li stood at the door and looked at the man with a shoe-horn face soaking in the hot water in the bathtub, and his brows frowned.

The hot water faucet was still open, and in the steam, one could see the man's hideous face floating on the water, his eyes wide open with a look of disbelief.

Maori stopped everyone outside, walked over and turned off the hot water with a handkerchief, then carefully checked the man's condition.

He was already dead, with marks of being strangled by a thin wire on his neck and wounds on the back of his head from being hit...

"Call the police first."

Mao Li said something to the waitress outside, turned around to look at the entire bathroom, and picked up a flip phone that had fallen on the ground at the door.

The phone is not closed and is still in use...

"Excuse me..." A waitress looked at Mao Li uncertainly, "You are..."

"I'm a detective."

Mao Li frowned even more as he looked at the photo he had just taken on his phone.

It seemed to be a photo that the man took reluctantly when he was being murdered, which just captured half of the man's terrified face, as well as the murderer who was strangling his neck with a thin wire behind him, and a naked woman with a black mole under her collarbone.

This time it's really a big problem...

……

Atami Hot Spring Hotel, it was already past midnight but the lights were still on. Several police cars were parked at the door and several police officers were guarding outside.

"I see, Detective Maori happened to be here on business..."

"In other words, the waitress found the camera lens cap of the victim, Mr. Kamoshita, in the corridor, and when she brought it here, she found Mr. Kamoshita dead next to the bathtub..."

Officer Coral Head Yokogawa pondered as he examined the body.

"It does look like someone strangled her with a string or something... But, was the body placed in the bathtub to conceal the time of death? This is troubling..."

"Actually, I already know the time of the murder." Mao Li interrupted.

"what?"

"Mr. Kamoshita happened to take a photo of the criminal who committed the crime. The photo was taken at 11:48, which is the time when the crime was committed."

Mao Li placed the photo on his phone in front of Yokomizo.

"The prisoner doesn't seem to notice this..."

"It's true," Yokomizo took the phone in surprise, "The woman was strangled from behind and starved to death, leaving a black mole on her chest... So all we need to do is find a woman with a black mole on her chest who didn't have an alibi at 11:48!"

"Inspector Yokomizo!" A police officer came over and said, "According to the hotel staff, Mr. Kamoshita visited several waitresses at night and said some strange things. It seemed that he said, 'If you still remember the 20 million yen, come to my room. Otherwise, don't blame me for exposing the matter'..."

"Twenty million yuan? So the culprit is the waitress who was caught by Yaxia?" Yokogawa touched his chin. "Well, let's check it out right away. The waitress who has no alibi at 11:48 is very likely the murderer!"

"Yes!"

"Prisoner, prisoner..." Kinukawa Kazuki stared at Yokomizo who gave the order, and his whole body became dazed, "The prisoner is mine..."

"Huh?" Yokomizo looked at Kazuki in surprise, "You don't often appear on TV... You are the child star Kazuki Kinukawa, right?"

"The prisoner..."

The little brat seemed to have not heard Yokogawa's question at all. He gritted his teeth, turned around and hurriedly ran out of the scene.

"What's wrong with him?" Yokogome was stunned.

"It's okay," Maori watched the kid run away quietly, then walked out of the bathroom and said, "Officer Yokomizo, I'll come over after I find the waitress..."

At the entrance of the hotel, after greeting the police officer on duty, Maori looked at the little kid huddled in the corner of the stairs at the door.

Mao Li paused and walked forward and said, "Don't you dislike that woman? Why are you so worried..."

"I'm not worried about that woman!"

"Don't worry. Isn't it confirmed that the murderer is your mother?"

Maori sat down next to him.

"Before we finally see the truth, anything is possible... Go back and rest. I will solve this case."

The little brat raised his head and looked at Maori, then turned around and walked into the hotel silently.

"There's my mother's voice..."

"what?"

After reaching the corner, the little kid suddenly ran towards the kitchen where the sound of cutting vegetables came from, but he only saw a chef busying himself inside.

"Sorry," the uncle chef turned around blankly and said embarrassedly, "Because suddenly a customer wanted to have a midnight snack...did I disturb you?"

"Someone still wants to have a midnight snack at this time?" Mao Li touched his stomach, "Then prepare some for us too..."

"Ah?" The uncle chef almost didn't react, "Okay, okay."

The sounds of chopping vegetables continued to echo in the kitchen. Mao Li turned to the disappointed kid and asked, "Is this the sound of mother you are talking about?"

"Because when I was a kid, I fell asleep while looking at the mole, and I heard the sound of a kitchen knife cutting vegetables... Don't get me wrong, I just thought this might be a clue to finding that woman."

"Okay, I understand."

……

Room 205, the crime scene.

When Mao Li was called back by a police officer, the three waitresses he had seen at the bathhouse had already arrived at the scene.

"Detective Maori, they are the waitresses who had no alibi at 11:48. They arrived at the open-air bath at around 11:50..."