The coroner opened the door.
Joshua, who should have been the first one to get out o f his chair, did not move at all.
However, his grip around Luna's hand tightened.
Luna knew that he was emotional over the impending news, so she gently released his head. She immediately stood up and asked the coroner in a soft voice, "How is it, doctor?”
The coroner removed his mask and let out an exhale." Mr. Lynch, Ms. Luna, you took a big risk, but it was worth it.”
Luna's entire face lit up when she heard this.
Joshua, who had been motionless in his chair, was relieved to hear this well. His furrowed brows immediately relaxed.
The coroner took out a description report and explained, "Because the object was removed from a dead body and, on top of that, was not in good condition at all, I can't show you the artifact itself. You'll have to look at this report instead.
"Mr. Lynch made a correct guess: When Ms. Lydia Hamilton was murdered, she swallowed a foreign object. According to the erosion of the object in her stomach, she was murdered less than a minute after
she swallowed it."
Luna immediately took the report from the coroner. Joshua, too, stood up and fixed his gaze on the report. The object that Granny Lynch had swallowed was a bloodstained bandage.
The doctors had already retrieved the DNA from the blood and confirmed that it did not belong to Granny Lynch.
This bandage...
Joshua felt the blood in his heart churn when he laid eyes on the report.
This bandage was made from a special material, so much so that only one person in Banyan City was using it.
Joshua still remembered that a few days ago, when he beat Michael up after he had tried to assault Luna, Celia had gone to Granny Lynch, wailing, and requested that Joshua buy a special bandage from abroad that was made from an advanced material.
At that time, Joshua was too busy dealing with Luna and Aura, and on top of that, he did not want Granny t o deal with such trivial matters like this, so he abided by Celia’s request and ordered the bandage that she wanted.
At that time, he had ordered plenty of it, but Michael still managed to use up all of them despite that. Therefore, just a few days later, he ran out of the
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