One hundred ways to resist the Bandoli women

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Chapter 89 The Weight of Goodnight.

This is a super luxury hotel in Tokyo.

...This high-end hotel, which is often visited by celebrities and wealthy people, attaches great importance to confidentiality in order to protect the privacy of its guests.

Therefore, this place is just right for Katsutsumi Yoshou who is escaping from pursuers.

The idea that fugitives would hide and look for cheap hotels is just the idea of ordinary people.

For Katsuto and Enju, who have all the wealth of the Ushiromiya family, life on the run may be more relaxed and comfortable than their daily lives.

just kidding.

Even if you don't have to worry about food and clothing materially, the mental pressure is still enormous.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Enshou sat on the bed and looked through Ushiromiya Maria's diary.

Katsuto had just finished his shower. He greeted Amakusa who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, then walked into the room wearing a yukata and lay down on his own bed.

There is three or four meters between the two beds.

"Why, reading your diary again? Not going to sleep?"

"I slept too long today, and now I'm not sleepy - but you, you haven't slept all day, right? Are you not resting now?"

Yuanshou turned his head, glanced at the suit that Shengren was hanging on the hanger beside him, and then looked at him.

"I'm going to bed soon, but before that I want to talk to you - what, did I interrupt your private conversation with Maria-sister?"

"..."

Yuanshou glanced at him with a cold gaze——

As if to say, of course.

In her words, she should have said "You, with such a strong anti-magic toxin, your mere existence will hinder my magic."

What magic, what witch, what Mariage Sorciere.

What are the Seven Sisters of Purgatory, what is Ronoway, what is Valkyrie, what is the Black Goat, what is the Shesta Sisters...

Forget it, it doesn’t matter, just let her be.

Katsuto raised his pillow and leaned against the back of the bed.

"What are you going to do tomorrow?"

Of course, this trip was planned by Yuanshou himself from the very beginning.

Where to go, who to meet.

Shengren didn't ask a single question.

He had only one condition.

Everything comes to an end during the golden holiday that shares the same name as the witch.

"Let's go to Niijima tomorrow. Dr. Nanjo, who was my grandfather's attending physician and also his chess friend, has a son who runs a clinic on the island..."

"Then, Mrs. Kumazawa's son is also on Niijima. Let's ask them what they know. If all goes well, we can go to Rokkenjima in the afternoon."

"so……"

"You should go to bed quickly. I'm not sleepy at all now."

Yuanshou certainly knew the reason why Shengren had not slept at all from yesterday until now - to be more precise, the reason why he had been awake all the time when he slept.

She understands it all.

She glanced at the door which was now locked.

"I'm going to bed soon, but before that, I want to talk to you about the message in the bottle."

"what?"

Yuanshou closed the diary and turned his head.

"Have you ever tried to interpret these two messages in a bottle in the manner of a mystery novel?"

"……Eh?"

Yuanshou was stunned.

"Mystery novel? This?"

Can witch fantasy be interpreted in the form of mystery novels?

This is what Yuanshou means.

However, from another perspective, the same evaluation can be drawn.

“When I examined the story using Knox.Ten as a standard, I found that although the answer was not unique, it could unexpectedly be interpreted as a mystery novel.”

The so-called Knox.Ten refers to the Knox Ten Commandments in the rules of detective fiction. The content mainly revolves around the arrangement of the story context, character types and personalities, and was once regarded as the golden age of classical reasoning.

However, with the evolution of the writing style and methods of detective fiction, some authors now deliberately violate the Ten Commandments when writing, while detective fiction writers do not deliberately abide by the Ten Commandments when writing.

"But there's no point in discussing the two messages in a bottle? There's also the question of which one is real and which one is fake."

Yuanshou said a little impatiently.

"You are right. There is no objection to discussing the method separately. However, I found some key points that both messages in the bottle follow in common."

"what?"

Yuanshou paused for a moment and looked at Shengren.

"In the message in the bottle, there were twin servants, right? Their names were Saion and Kanon."

"Yeah, it happens in real life too, what's wrong?"

Yuanshou had obviously seen them before.

"Did you notice that in the message in the bottle, your brother didn't see these two people at the same time?"

"what?"

Yuanshou used his new mobile phone to open the message in the bottle.

“The magic scenes in these two messages in bottles can also be interpreted as narrative traps.”

But Katsuto relaxed against the pillow.

"Your brother... you could say he's a detective. Only a detective wouldn't see unreasonable scenarios, like magic... and the appearance of twins at the same time."

So, if you try to put yourself in other people's perspectives, you'll end up looking confused.

But narrative traps can only be said to be very common operations.

The twins trick is also extremely common in detective novels to tell the truth.

There is also a provision in Knox's Ten Commandments that if there are twins or people who look very similar in a novel, the readers must be told in advance.

"Besides, Saion and Kanon are probably both pseudonyms."

Shengren said calmly—

As if all this had nothing to do with him.

"The twins should have another real body, X. Even if Saon and Kanon both "died" in the "plot", as long as this person's identity is not revealed, X can continue to act and kill people—"

"You mean, Saion and Kanon are the criminals? They...he committed the tragedy twelve years ago?"

Yuanshou widened his eyes.

"I didn't say that. The twins' trick might just be used as accomplices... and the message in the bottle may not necessarily be reality."

"However, based on this premise, Yuanshou, think about it, when you met them before, have you ever seen them at the same time?"

"…No, the memory is too old, I can't remember it."

Yuanshou couldn't help but shake his head.

"That's it."

It seems that this clue ends here.

About the message in the bottle, though.

"Although in terms of technique, these two messages in bottles do conform to the Ten Commandments of Knox, but... damn, where is the logic?"

I rely on.

That’s right, Katsuto swore.

"Which idiot wrote this novel? All the servants are made accomplices? And the family members can be bribed just like that? What are they trying to do? Even a billion tons of gold can't do it."

After all, as a member of the Ushiromiya family, generally speaking, no one would be short of money.

"If you have this ability, why don't you just control everyone and then line them up and shoot them?"

Is the person who wrote these two messages in a bottle a fool?

Are you only thinking about the techniques and ignoring the logic of the story itself?

This kind of story will be criticized to death, right?

Katsuto hopes that he is the only one who looks at the message in the bottle from the perspective of a mystery drama and sees that -

Just let him bear this bad anger alone.

"I'm going to bed. Good night."

Katsuto put the pillow down, then lay on his side and began to sleep.

He was probably really tired. Yuanshou soon heard the even breathing sounds from the other side.

"..."

Yuanshou was a little stunned.

No one had said goodnight to her since she was six—nor had she ever said goodnight to anyone.

To be honest, she had forgotten what this felt like...

Should I say good night to him?

Unfortunately, while she was hesitating, Shengren had already fallen asleep.

However, the time to make up for the regret is sooner than expected.

"I'm going to sleep."

"Oh."

At 2:30 in the morning, when Enju was talking to the imaginary sister Maria—

But what he got was a response from Shengren.

"Less than five hours of sleep?"

"Pretty much. An iced Americano tomorrow will be fine. Goodnight, then."

"……Good night."

I hope we can have the chance to say goodnight to each other in the future.

This was Yuanshou’s last thought before he fell asleep.

We will have the chance to say goodnight to each other in the future.

That's a beautiful thing to say.

However, this assumes that they can survive tomorrow and have a future.

Is this a serious statement?

Who said this was harsh? This is so appropriate!

After all, those eighteen people that day never left the Witch Island.

90

Chapter 90: The final Ushiromiya.