Born To Villain: The Snow Queen's Revenge
Chapter 68: Murder Case on a Passenger Boat

"I'm a detective, can I come in?" the attendant looked at the badge held by Vero meticulously and he suddenly glared after.

"b-good... You can come in."

"Oh! And another one..." Vero turned his head towards Bianca and Giselle who were standing behind him.

"They're my assistants, so they'll come with me."

"Assistant?" tanya Bianca muttered.

But they both obeyed Vero and entered the room.

The three of them saw a man hanging himself using a rope and a chair that fell not far from him.

Vero checked the condition of the victim's body and found a paper in his pocket.

"A theater ticket..."

He looked closer at the victim's neck and found something. " Excuse me... Can you guys drop him down?"

Meanwhile, Bianca saw a rope cut out near a large box.

"Why is there a boat rope in the food warehouse?"

"boat rope?" Vero approached the queen and took a closer look.

He looked towards the rope used as a suicide device.

"It turns out he used this rope." said Bianca and Vero immediately checked the victim's neck.

"Squeaky..."

"Weird why?" ask Giselle.

"Look at the marks on his neck. Blush until blackened. Usually if suicide is not blackened like this. There must have been someone who strangled his neck too strongly."

Then, Vero found a paper bearing the name "Olivia".

"Let's see" pointed Bianca at the food warehouse door.

"It appears that this room was locked from the inside and opened from the inside as well."

Vero seemed to be thinking hard.

Maybe it's an alibi. Because this is suicide, it must be convincingly locked from the inside.

But something is awkward...

"It looks like there is no other evidence" said Vero stood up and asked one of the ship's officers.

"Who found the body there?"

"He. He found it" he said heading towards a young man standing there.

Vero walked over to him. "Have you found the victim there?"

"Yes. That's me."

"Then may I ask you something?"

Bianca and Giselle can only be silent with a sense of fascination with Vero's actions.

It was like seeing a scene of a detective movie that he was watching.

"good. I'll try to answer."

Then Vero asked, "When did you find the victim?"

"Around lunch. An hour after the ship leaves."

Vero nodded and asked again. "Has anyone else besides you here?

"none. I'm the only one who went there."

"alright... This is enough."

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"You've found the victim's name?' ask Vero to Giselle.

"His name was Albert Ford, he was just a theater artist who was returning home to Dawn Forest Village. And his room's at 207."

"Then we have to go there."

The three of them looked for other evidence in the victim's room.

"Hm... Does he seem to be having a problem?" Vero and Giselle turned towards Bianca.

"That's the matter?"

"Yes. Looky... I found a paper on the nominal-nominal debt paid by him to someone."

"How much did he pay his debt?"

"8 Million."

"8 Million you say?" Giselle and Vero are shocked to hear the debt Albert has to pay.

"I-it's... That's so big. Moreover, his job is a theater artist only."

"It's a debt problem, right? Maybe he wants to end his life by suicide" Bianca guessed.

"No" Bianca and Giselle turned to Vero.

"Your guess is almost correct, but it's unlikely that he committed suicide because of an unpaid debt problem."

"Let's remember, her neck is blackened. Where there are people killing themselves, jumping from a chair, a rope hole the size of a head that can enter it to blacken so. That must be some rag guy involved."

"Keep... What about being locked from the inside?"

"Ah... Very good question."

"But, before that, was someone else coming with him?"

Giselle. " no. He just came alone."

Bianca glanced over and realized that there was someone peeping at the three of them.

"Where are you going?" A man in his 30s was surprised that someone was aware of his presence.

"Damn..." He soon escapes and Bianca chases after him.

"Both of you!! You guys continue the investigation, let me catch him!"

The two of them chase each other until Bianca is forced to use her ice magic to catch the man. .

"Where are you going, huh? You can't run away anymore."

Bianca finally returns with a man suspected by the queen.

"Have you found any other evidence?" Vero and Giselle nodded.

"alright... Now we execute him..."

"Punish me, miss..."

"Why are you peeking at the three of us, huh?" ask Vero to the point.

"I want to meet Albert."

"Your relationship with him, what?"

"We're just coworkers. And it just so happened that our hometown was the same, so we left together."

"Do you know Olivia?"

"Olivia? You mean Olivia Douglass? What happened to him? I heard he was coming with us to go to Dawn Forest Village." .

"He's here?"

"He's at the 3rd floor bar."

Then Vero presented a paper with the nominal debt to be paid.

"Do you know about this paper?"

"I-it's... Where'd you find him?"

"From this room. You seem to know something."

The man immediately hesitated to hear Vero's words. " l-no... I don't know anything."

"li... I can tell from your face," Bianca replied knowing that the man was lying.

"Really!! I don't know anything."

"What about Olivia's relationship with Albert?" giselle changed the topic.

"Ah... They have a special relationship. I heard they were getting married. Albert owed him 8 million for his father's medical expenses. But until now, he hasn't paid anything."

The three of them instantly fell silent with the man's testimony.

"You two... Chase him. Let me take care of this guy."

"Wait-wait!! Don't go there. I could be killed"

"I thought the killer was her" Giselle and Vero immediately chased after Olivia, while Bianca watched over the man.

Arriving at the bar, the two of them meet the bartender and ask about Olivia.

The man pointed towards a woman who was sitting alone in the right corner.

"Are you Olivia Douglass?"

"Yes. That's me."

"Sounds you having fun?" ask Giselle suddenly.

"Yes. I'm having fun right now."

"Oh yeah... What'sthat?" olivia was drunk.

"Of course get rid of the useless fool. That stupid guy... Never pay my debt just because I'm busy... "

"And now I can finally get rid of that son of a bitch."

"means... You killed him?"

Olivia turned to Vero with a heavy hangover.

"Yes. I killed him."