Perfikot's sharp gaze swept across the faces of the crowd, and she was keenly aware that someone hadn't spoken the truth.
After all, if everyone was telling the truth, how did the poison get into the soup? It couldn't be that the soup was brewed for too long and magically turned into poison, could it?
She meticulously sorted through everyone's statements, temporarily ruling out the possibility of the chef poisoning the food.
It was a simple deduction—if the chef truly intended to poison, he could have added the poison to a dish she particularly liked, ensuring she finished it. Even if she were poisoned, investigators would find it difficult to pinpoint which dish caused it.
In contrast, putting poison in the beef broth undoubtedly left a huge flaw.
As a seasoning, the broth is used so broadly that once it's discovered to be poisoned, it's easy to ascertain that the poison was added to the soup pot.
