Saboten Iyokawa's murder plan was derailed early on when her client, Fuika Monokaki, was killed. So she decided to cancel the locked room murder she'd planned for that day and see what would happen, but the following day, her other client, Funika Monokaki, was also killed. After that, there was no point in killing anyone. Saboten was the type of assassin who saw her crimes as art, but she was still an assassin. She was like an artist with a patron. There was no point in killing anyone if she wasn't getting paid.
Saboten had wanted to leave the village as soon as possible, but if she were to disappear right now, she would be an obvious suspect... So she decided to quietly wait in her room at the inn. She played with the unlit cigarette in her mouth. She really wanted to light it up and take a drag, but she still couldn't, so she just had to endure.
Then, late the night of the second day...
Someone came to visit her room.