She patiently gave Rinna Makoto a lesson, starting with how Nanahara Takeshi discovered Kimimasa Manxiu's relapse into alcoholism through slight clues and traces, and continued to explain how he defeated a suspect with his strong confidence and deductive skills, resolving the first minor case purely through a war of words.
Indeed, she now believed that if it weren't for Nanahara Takeshi, given the capability of the Japanese police, the poisoning case was likely to be botched, with a high chance of it ending up collecting dust in the basement of the police station.
After all, Yoneda Asuka, being a writer, truly came up with a nice trick—actually using the victim to hide the poisoned alcohol for her, creating a "locked-room poison murder case." If it hadn't been for Nanahara Takeshi, an oddity of a spiritual medium, the police probably would not have reacted in time. Had she managed to destroy the poisoned alcohol successfully, her chances of escaping the charges were not small.
