I'm sorry it took me so long to update this story. I just been having so much writer's block lately. Well on with the story and I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 6

Shinichi was still at the crime scene searching the victim's body for any clues. While inspector Meguire was questioning the suspects for their alibis.

Meguire got a list of all the actors and actresses that knew the victim. So he was only questioning them. So everyone on the list was gathered and brought to him.

The rest were sent home. But the number of actors on the list didn't match up with the people that were gathered. So Meguire knew one of the actors was missing.

The actor missing was Seichi Erashino. "Where is Seichi Erashino?" he asked. All them shared confused looks. "He was here during rehearsal." a actor said.

"Do you know when he left?" "He left before Touma Monasawa, but we don't know where he went." said a actress. "He said he was taking a break, but he never came back." said an actor.

"When was this?" "Around... three, I believe." said an actor not really sure of his answer. Meguire was wondering where the missing actor disappeared to, but he had more questions, about the victim, that needed to be answered.

"When was the last time any of you seen the victim?" asked Meguire. All of the actors and actresses started thinking about this until one them remembered.

"The last time I saw him was this afternoon during rehearsal." said a actresses. Everyone else agreed with her. "Does anyone remember when he left rehearsal?"

"I think he left around four." said a actor. 'So there was a four hour time period when the murderer could have killed the victim. ' Meguire thought. So now he knew what his next question would be.

"Did anyone see anyone else leave around the same time the victim did?" Everyone thought about this carefully, so they wouldn't give any wrong information.

"No, I don't think anyone else left besides him." said a actress. No one thought other wise so they agreed with what she said. "Can we leave now? All of us have alibis. We were all at rehearsal." asked an actress.

"What's your name miss?" asked Meguire. "Ryoko Kazuya." she replied. "Well, miss Ryoko Kazuya no can leave until the investigation is over."

"But she's right. For all we know Seichi Erashino could have done it." said a actress. "And who are you?" "I'm Yumiko Konisano." "Why do you think he could have done this?" asked Meguire.

"He was the only other person that left rehearsal." she replied. Everyone, except one actress, thought she was right, no one else left rehearsal so the only person that did must be the killer.

"It can't be him, why would he ever want to kill Touma?" asked Ryoko. "Ryoko's right Seichi never had anything against Touma, so he had no reason to kill him." said a actor.

Everyone agreed that there was no reason to accuse Seichi of murdering Touma. Ryoko was relieved once everyone stopped blaming him.

Meguire almost forgot to ask Ryoko a couple more questions. He couldn't believe he almost forgot something so important.

"So, Ryoko, you were the victim's fiancee correct?" Ryoko went a little stiff when he asked her that. She never expected him to as her that.

"Correct." "Did you notice anything about him when he left rehearsal?" "No, nothing. Why?" "He could have been drugged so it would be easier to get to him and hang him."

"So is that all of the questions you have?" asked Ryoko. "Yes, that's all for now." he replied. Then he walked away from them to see if the forensic guys had any new information about the crime scene.

Shinichi was still looking over the body until she finally noticed something in the victim's pocket that was sticking out. It looked like a piece of paper.

She took the paper to get a better look as to what it was. 'It's a check for...' Shinichi couldn't believe how much money was on the check.

She noticed there was a piece of the check missing, the part that said who gave the victim the check. 'But why would someone have a check for this much and were is the other piece to it.' she thought.

Shinichi was interrupted from her thoughts by inspector Meguire. "Have you found anything yet?" he asked. "Nothing important. Have you found out anything from the suspects?" she asked.

"Only that our victim left rehearsal around four and that a actor named Seichi Erashino went missing after leaving rehearsal around three."

Shinichi was a little to find out an actor was missing. 'Why would he suddenly go missing right before the victim was murdered?' she thought.

Nothing just didn't seem to add up to Shinichi. 'First the check and now a missing actor. They just don't seem to fit together. I know I'm missing something. But what? What am I missing? And how are the check and missing actor connected?' she thought to herself.

Thanks again Kat-Sakura for names for these actors and actresses.

I'm sorry again for the long update, but I promise to have the next chapter up before almost 2 months like last time. I'll try to get the next chapter up in 2 weeks.

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