Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime

If it weren’t for the gemstone being stolen from the ring, the ring on Sophia Wilson’s hand would have certainly caught the police’s attention, leading them to connect it to the second victim of the Black Rose case—

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The same throat-slitting, the same female, the same nudity, and the identical ring.

Hans Geoffrey, as the killer, would bring the Black Rose case to an end.

But there were still perplexing elements within this story.

"If your hypothesis holds true, then why wouldn’t the Black Rose simply be more straightforward, leaving Sophia Wilson dead in the bathtub with rose petals scattered around? Wouldn’t that be more fitting? Why hide her in the trunk?" Aria Jackson couldn’t help but ask.

"Indeed..." Purple Summers sighed slightly, "I can’t figure that out either. While Sophia Wilson’s death involved throat-slitting, it lacked the ritualistic and artistic feel of the previous two."

Sophia Wilson’s death was gruesome.

"There must be reasons we don’t know..." Purple Summers murmured.

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