New victims appeared even though no strong leads were found.
“The fatal wound on this corpse is also from a bite mark here. However, there’s evidence of a bite on the arm, and the body was covered in mud. There are also scratches on the shoulder. They must have encountered it and desperately tried to escape.”
I nodded at the doctor’s explanation. This man resisted desperately, tried to escape, and as a result, the wolf couldn’t finish him off in one blow. This suggests that Mary knew about the wolf. But if she had been in charge, the wolves wouldn’t be stealing sheep now that she’s gone.
We returned to the detention center to inform everyone about this. Cecilia was the first to speak.
“This must be the work of a werewolf. Is that what they’re called?”
“Werewolves? Aren’t they just fairy tales, transforming on a full moon night?”
Nina frowned through the iron bars. Everyone else had a similar reaction. I certainly didn’t expect to hear it from Cecilia, who would normally be the most dismissive.
“Werewolves exist. They live disguised as humans. The culprit is a sailor. Everyone here is Obithyros or Minotaur, but they are definitely in human form. And that woman, Mary, she’s in on it too.”
“Wait a minute, Mary was murdered. And she was in love with the sailor.”
As Philiana said, Mary had fallen in love with the sailor.
“That’s why! She knew their true identities and threatened them. For some reason, she threatened to expose them. So they no longer needed her and killed her. The other man who was actually killed, didn’t he show signs of trying to escape? They killed him because he saw them while on night watch.”
That made sense. Mary had seen the werewolf transform in front of her eyes many times. That’s why she never imagined the fangs would turn on her. And it was precisely because there was an inside informant that the theft went smoothly, and when we started investigating, she deliberately raised an alarm, acting suspicious. We were the real sacrificial sheep.
On this island surrounded by the sea, there are plenty of places where a small ship could be hidden. If that’s the case, they must still be around the island. And they are waiting for night to fall again.
“Let’s get ahead of the next attack. Look for sheep farms near the sea!”
I asked the man on watch, who had just returned, for the location of the sheep farms.
“Yeah, why should I tell you that?”
“Are you okay with more people dying?! We know who the culprit is, so let us out of here already!”
Nina’s ferocity as she shouted from the cell made the man flinch.
“Even if you say that, I can’t decide anything.”
“This is a matter of urgency, please cooperate. That’s right, it would be good if you could come with us as a guard, wouldn’t it?”
The watchman obviously made a show of displeasure. But he seemed to want to solve this case, or rather, not get himself killed, and was conflicted.
“F-Fine, I guess. But I’m not doing anything.”
Mumbling, he told us the location of the next likely target, a sheep farm near the sea.
