Furthermore, my bedroom and the entrance hall both have concealed active alarm systems that can call security over at any time, but they were all nonfunctional at the time. When those two robbers pried open the window and entered, there was no reaction; it was only after a later inspection that it was discovered the communication cable running from the alarm to the resort had been dug out and cut earlier."
"Had been dug out and cut earlier?" Nanahara Takeshi contemplated with a thoughtful expression, not because the alarm was so easily disabled. This house was built in the early eighties; the alarm was most likely a civilian product from the seventies, so one couldn't expect too much from it.
Iwafuji Tomo could guess what he was thinking and sighed, "The police also suspected that I did it myself, believing that an average person wouldn't know where the cable was buried, but I really didn't cut it."