"Obviously, certain things could not have been done by Hirata, like leaving Fukui's dead body in the room," Feng Bujue said. "But your appearance, Shuichi, has explained everything. For me, when I deduced your existence, the case could not have been plainer.
"You would not have surrendered because that would have lowered the sentence. You merely took Haruko home and tried to scare her into submission so that she wouldn't dare call the police. It wouldn't have been hard. Her husband suddenly turned into a different person and murdered a man in cold blood. Furthermore, she was partly responsible for Fukui's death. Since the gun was emptied of bullet, you hid the gun in Hirata's room for it to be discovered during the police's investigation.
