One hundred ways to resist the Bandoli women

In the killer whale...the huge submarine, the second thing that Xianjuan's father said was waiting for him to deal with.

Meet someone.

Shengren glanced at the coffee and snacks in front of him, sorting out his thoughts.

After the knock, the door opened.

The person who had an appointment with Katsuto came in with the servant.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting. This is Teacher Yajo Juju."

Is it a woman?

Shengren originally thought it would be a tall man wearing sunglasses and a mask.

The reason I think so is because this is the image of Hachijo Juchi at the fan meeting that was published in the weekly magazine.

As if knowing what he was thinking, this Bacheng Shijuji spoke.

"…That was a stand-in prepared for me by the editorial department. The attendant standing in the back during the autograph session was me."

"That's surprising... Although I haven't read your works, I feel that you are probably more mysterious than your works."

"So-called readers are just pretending to read."

Although she is a woman, this Bacheng Shiba is very clear.

"If you only read books based on the author's name and brand, and think you have read them, then no matter what I write in my book, you will not be able to understand anything. It is just to pretend to be well-read so that you can feel that you are an intellectual who has read all the popular works at present without missing a single one..."

“Why should I reveal my true self to guys like this? Ah~ It’s so dirty.”

Really, you are so arrogant.

Let me introduce this person first.

Bacheng Shiba is a mystery writer who has been much talked about in recent years.

Although the work itself seems to have received high reviews, he became the focus of the spotlight because of his debut, which was more mysterious than his work.

Last year, she submitted her works to several mystery fiction competitions sponsored by major publishing houses under different pseudonyms, and then achieved the feat of winning various awards.

After that, one after another, the works of unknown writers with high acclaim were discovered to be her past works written under a pseudonym.

The author himself is very popular because he is even more mysterious than his works.

But even so, the author himself still refused to show up in public and remained shrouded in mystery until a few days ago, when he finally showed up at a signing event.

However, the masked writer who literally hid his face with sunglasses and a mask attracted even more attention...

However, even this was not me.

"I don't know much about you, Mr. Ushiromiya Katsuto, but there have been a lot of hype on gossip shows about your blood relatives, Ms. Enju and Ms. Wawa..."

"Don't mention these unpleasant things."

"Yes. Hey~ You are the only one who saw through Ito Kikuro O576, which is another pen name of me, Hachijo Juchi. It's really amazing..."

“Ito Kikuro O 11019960576. What a weird username. But if you convert it into numbers, it can be read as .”

11019960576.

This huge number is equal to 18 to the power of 8.

Eighteen cities.

Shengren saw through this when he was surfing the Internet before.

"…So, that's why you asked me out for this, right?"

That’s right, it was this Bacheng Shiba who made an appointment with Shengren.

Also, the location is not an outside cafe.

"…Welcome, son of man. Welcome to my house."

Although I only found out about this before coming here.

He really needed to have a face-to-face interview with the person in front of him.

However, the person that Katsuto wanted to interview and ask questions to was not the mystery writer, Yajo Juju.

…Instead, it was Ito Kikuro, a mysterious online writer who only published his works online.

Ito Kikuro is one of the famous witch hunters in the Japanese Internet community.

However, this person is not a leader of the criticism school like the professor.

Rather, he is one of those "pseudo-message-in-a-bottle writers" who are both praised and criticized and are always in the vortex of controversy.

The bottle-message forgery writers, as the name suggests, refer to a group of people who fabricate and publish articles in mysterious bottles recording the Rokkenjima incident.

They claim that a new message in a bottle has been discovered, and publish it in the form of a very similar forgery, or a new version with their own interpretation of the truth, passing it off as being written by Ushiromiya Mariya.

These people blatantly claimed to be Ushiromiya Maria, as if they were the person involved and knew the truth, and wrote new bizarre stories.

As the fourth message in the bottle in the third chapter, it was thrown into the newly opened ocean of the Internet.

They write witch stories based on their own arbitrary interpretations, and since some of their hypotheses sometimes gain support, there are even "creations" that seem to contain real truths and have begun to gain credibility.

Such people were called "fake writers", "counterfeiters" or "witches" by strict witch hunters and were extremely hated.

They clearly claim to have reached the truth, but they just refuse to tell the truth they have reached. They create a fake book of message in a bottle as if to test others.

It is not difficult to imagine that serious witch hunters would feel extremely unhappy with them.

On the other hand, there are a small number of people who argue that they expanded this mysterious story and acknowledged the works as works of art.

And Ito Kikuro is the pseudo-book writer who is most highly regarded among these people.

"I have read several fake books before I came here."

Shengren started his own topic.

"Oh?"

"End Of The Golden Witch, Banquet, and Alliance."

In a sense, she slaughtered Shengren's relatives, whom she had never met, countless times using unknown methods.

but.

In terms of scale and completeness, these works of hers are considered to be infinitely close to the stories recorded by Ushiromiya Maria herself.

In particular, Ito Kikuro's first pseudo-book, "Banque Of The Golden Witch", describes everything from the time when Ushiromiya Ewa escaped from the disaster at Kuyubutorian.

People even discussed privately whether this was the true Rokukenjima Island, and even gossip shows reported on it...

However, none of this matters.

The most important thing is.

"You see through it, don't you?"

This was also what Shengren discovered in surprise after he briefly read the fake book on his way here.

Although Shengren didn't know, how many readers of the fake book saw through this point.

But, Yashiro Juju is undoubtedly one of them who has reached the heart of the witch.

"You're confused, aren't you? The Trinity's trick."

97

Chapter 97: Illusion returns to illusion, and then dream returns to dream.

This is a very tricky setting.

Since detectives are prohibited from using uncommon means to solve cases, the author cannot violate common sense.

The prisoner can switch identities at will and be considered dead. This hidden condition is not good.

Nowadays, when classical techniques have been almost fully used, it is not impossible to come up with this kind of trick, but it is still a stretch.

Yajo Shichi was silent for a while.

She looked at Shengren with a certain gaze, and Shengren accepted this gaze completely.

Then, she let out a hearty laugh that was totally unlike anything a woman could make.

"It seems that the person sitting in front of me is also a person who understands all the stories, reaches all the truths, and digs out the heart of the Golden Witch, Beatrice."

Very happy, very happy!

Facing Bacheng Juju, Shengren frowned slightly.

"I don't really like what you said, digging out the heart and all that."

"what happened?"

"... intestinal flow."

After a brief silence, Shengren uttered a word.

"I don't know why, but this statement reminds me of this word."

"Are you talking about the ancient Roman torture? The one where they disemboweled people?"

"It's even more extreme than that... It's strange, I've definitely never seen it, but when you mentioned the idea of digging out the heart, I saw something like this..."

"Then this is something from my previous life. People often say that they accidentally saw something they hadn't seen before."

"...Let's end this topic here."

Katsuto said, covering his head.

"I have only recently come into contact with the business of forged books. So, how many people have seen through this core trick?"

"No."

Eight cities and eighteen said decisively.

No apocryphal author has ever reached this point.

However, one has to ask a question.

"Why can you assert that you have reached the truth?"

As mentioned before, as a pseudo-book writer, Ito Kikuro reached a height that is almost impossible to achieve.

In his first fake book, "Banque Of The Golden Witch", the murderer Ewa described everything from the beginning to the moment when Ushiromiya Ewa escaped from the disaster at Kyuuba-no-Tori-an.

The Trinity's trick was followed.

She even proposed that Eiha not kill her husband.

So, there is more than one criminal.

Even Shengren felt that this was too close to reality.

but.

"…Do you think the sun ever revolved around the earth?"

Yashiro suddenly started talking about the geocentric theory.

"…In the past, humans supported the geocentric theory. However, in modern times, the geocentric theory has been denied. Does this mean that the moment it was denied, the sun stopped rotating and the earth began to revolve around the sun?"

“…How could that be possible?”

No matter what humans believe, reality exists objectively.

"So now, you deny my truth, which is just like this."

Before Galileo, there were many scholars who advocated heliocentrism.

...However, with the technology at that time, it was difficult to produce data and evidence that could objectively demonstrate the heliocentric theory.

Having said that, the truth remains unchanged.

"Even so, the earth is still turning."

"Yes. In the future. When all the truth is revealed to the world. Looking back, people will find that I have already reached the truth."

No matter where her inexplicable confidence comes from.

However, she is indeed a genius.