I am bit confused about the state of the investigation. If ナガル is the one who ordered the casket, wouldn’t he be the prime suspect in the theft of the the corpse? It didn’t sound to me like he was in particular trouble. The police just asked him to tell them who made the casket pretty please and he said no and that’s it? Did ナガル not know about the double bottom somehow?
And unrelated, but despite still begin skeptical about the state of Saikawa & Moe’s relationship, I love it when they have bonding moments/conversations, they’re really cute together ^^
It seems like 萌絵 is becoming more ‘human’ in her reactions - at the same time, she’s really taking her aunt’s ‘be a model woman, present yourself well at any time’ stick to heart. I think that’s an interesting contrast.
… More than the investigation itself, the character development stuck out to me this chapter. I thought this section in particular was easy to read, with a lot of dialogue.
To elaborate on this, they also didn’t seem to investigate the message that was shown at the end of the funeral, and that seemed to predict the disappearance. It all looked super staged. Who organized the funeral? Shouldn’t they be a huge suspect? And they didn’t seem to consider the possibility that this whole murder and disappearance was made for the purpose of making 有里匠幻 famous, which the very beginning of the book alludes to in my opinion (of course the cops don’t have access to this, and it may just be a red herring). They simply dismissed the possibility of suicide because he couldn’t have used the knife himself, but there are a lot more possibilities I think.
