Episode 3
What are you going to do?
We’re not going back home?
What the palace inspector said wasn’t a recommendation, it was an order!
Hey~ Don’t worry about it. What’s the big deal?
This isn’t the first time we’ve been stopped because of how young we are
We have the camera! We can go back whenever we want
It’ll be fine if we sneak around and investigate some more
And this isn’t because of my pride as a detective
There’s something strange about Dr. Edvard’s request and case
Think about it. Dr. Edvard must have called us here because he knew that his two colleagues were killed
But then why!
Why did he say it was for a robbery instead of murder?
He didn’t mention the other murders at all.
It’s odd to you too, right?
Did he feel like the clock treasure was more important than his life?
Could it have been?
Hey, Skylar!
Oh my. What brings you two back here?
Hello ma’am!
…Well if it isn’t the detectives who hated the smell of blood so much that they refused to come into the house.
We took a look at the carpet in the yard before coming in. It looks so clean now!
That may be true, but is it alright for detectives to enter a home like a pair of thieves now that there’s no owner?
Also, you’re too late
Members of the royal guard already came by to investigate and collected all the evidence
Do you think there’s really anything more for you to look over?
This is the only thing that’s still here
What is this?
It’s a record of patient visits
I guess they didn’t need it
Ma’am! Ma’am! Ma’am
You knew about the other royal physicians that died, right?
How many were there?
Of course I know!
It gives me the chills
There were originally five royal physicians. But now, if we include Dr. Edvard, three have passed away
They’re saying it was suicides
But with an incident every week, who believes that?
The first one passed away from being hung by the neck
And the second was found dead in his home
Now, Dr. Edvard met his end like this...
What treasure could possibly be worth hurting other people over…
Yikes! Agh! Oh my gosh!
Could it be…The ghost of Dr. Edvard…
Even on my last day at this house, he’s making me clean up after him
The difference between Dr. Edvard’s murder and the other royal physicians’ is that the culprit used a weapon
The smell from their gun should still be lingering
The smell of firewood… the smell of wooden furniture...
They all match up with what I scented before the murder… but the smell from the gun is missing
There’s also no trace of the smell from the card that was by the treasure that vanished…
Has too much time passed?
Hm? What’s this smell?
It looks like the last patient who came by was a Daniel
I’m seeing his name a lot. He must come by regularly
Ah~ That man is the princess’ royal guard captain
The princess’ health has been failing, so he’s been coming by often to get medicine for her
He was at the funeral yesterday, standing next to her highness
The one with the injured arm
Did you uncover any special smells?
Nope. It might be because it’s been a while
I can’t find a whiff of the accomplice or the culprit anywhere
The only new scent I picked up belonged to Dr. Edvard’s gun cabinet
Then how are we going to find the baby’s mother or the criminal?
Any useful evidence has been taken by the inspectors, which means we’re at a dead end
Let’s just turn back and go home
Ah…one more thing
I meant to tell you earlier but forgot
You two kept mentioning a woman with a baby before
And I remembered something while I was doing laundry…
About…3 weeks ago maybe
A baby’s mother came here
I recall that I was about to go home after finishing work…
But it was absolutely pouring outside so I couldn’t leave
While I was waiting for the rain to stop, someone knocked on the door
I opened it and found a woman standing there
She was soaking wet and looked poor, so I thought she was a beggar
But she told me that she was very sick and pleaded for me to let her to see the doctor just this once
She said she had a baby to take care of
Unfortunately, Dr. Edvard was a royal physician and wasn’t at liberty to treat her
I felt awful, but I had to send her away
Don’t people usually just visit their local town doctor?
Why did she seek out Dr. Edvard, a royal physician?
It’s most likely… that she did visit other doctors before coming here
But she had contracted an illness that’s quite difficult to cure…
You see, she said she had pneumonia
So you’re saying someone who was sick with pneumonia jumped from here?
Someone who was sick but had such a strong motive that they were willing to endure the pain
There must have been something in that house that she needed…
medicine…
She couldn’t die and leave her baby behind
That sentiment gave her the strength to steal medicine and make the jump
But jumping from here would still be too much for a patient with pneumonia
What if it caused her to cough, and that’s when the blood came out?
Even so, the plan was to break the window here and then jump over to the roof of that building…
Who has the skill to make that leap, especially while being sick?
Dunno. We’ll have to search for them
Someone with pneumonia who has a baby and is able to jump from high places like it’s no big deal
And we have to hurry
If this case really is a serial murder
There won’t be much time left until the next killing
If we find the accomplice, we’ll be able to catch the murderer quickly
To be continued...