Yukinoshita's Correction Method

The two struggled downstairs for a while. Under Tanaka's instructions, Sasaki tied the fishing line to the blue ghost, placed the blue ghost at the corner of the special building, and pulled it hard to simulate the effect of the blue ghost's figure flashing by.

After trying several times, Tanaka was still not satisfied.

[“What effect do you want?”] Sasaki was a little impatient.

"Actually... I don't know either." Tanaka replied sheepishly, "I'm looking for a feeling. You know, a feeling? Like when you meet your girlfriend and instantly decide she's the one for you... that feeling."

[“I don’t understand.”] Sasaki replied coldly.

"It was that kind of love at first sight." Tanaka shook the camera. "Didn't you see I was always looking? I was afraid I'd miss that sudden flash of inspiration."

[“Did you have an epiphany then?”] Sasaki asked impatiently.

"I'm feeling it!" Tanaka turned his camera towards the prop room on the third floor. "Let's go up and get a smaller Aoki. That should be enough... Eh? Looks like your girlfriend is leaving."

Although it was not clear due to the distance, there was indeed a figure swaying in the prop room.

When the camera turned to Sasaki, it shook slightly.

[“Sasaki?”] Tanaka’s voice was trembling. [“What’s wrong with you?”]

Sasaki in the camera had a very gloomy expression on his face.

"...It's okay." Sasaki picked up a few blue ghosts and wrapped them with fishing line. "Let's go change our tools."

When we reached the second floor, Hojo was still drawing in the Film Research Club, but there was a model of Aoki in the activity room.

"Hojo wanted to use the props to get a feel for it," Miki explained a little sheepishly. "Since you weren't here, I went to get it myself. I'll bring it back to you later."

Sasaki said nothing, just looked at Miki.

"Right, right." Miki suddenly seemed to remember something. "Your girlfriend asked me to tell you that she left early because of something."

[“…I understand.”] Sasaki nodded and walked away quickly.

Tanaka hurriedly followed, and when he arrived at the prop room, Sasaki had already thrown the Ao Oni model at the door and walked in alone.

Holding the camera in one hand and untying the fishing line with the other, Tanaka took a long time to bring the Aoki models into the prop room one by one.

When the camera turned to the back of the activity room, the figure on the cloth was gone.

"This one's just the right size." The camera locked onto a puppy-like blue demon model the size of a human head. "Let's try this one again."

Sasaki didn't answer.

[“Please, please, this is the last time!”] Tanaka also felt a little embarrassed for always bothering the other party.

[“Yeah.”] Sasaki responded coldly and went downstairs with Tanaka to shoot again.

But this time, Sasaki was obviously absent-minded. He kept holding his phone, as if he was chatting with someone.

Tanaka worked for a while, but still couldn't find the feeling. ["Let's stop here for today."]

"Okay." Sasaki picked up the Aoki model. "You go back first. I can carry it up myself."

"Then I'll just take some photos myself... By the way." Tanaka lowered his voice. "When are you going to introduce your girlfriend to everyone?"

【“…We’re breaking up.”】Sasaki left without looking back after saying this.

The camera lingers on Sasaki's receding figure, expressing the photographer's homesickness... No.

After casually snapping a few photos of the surrounding scenery, Tanaka, still feeling uneasy, finally arrived at the prop room door and knocked. "Sasaki, are you okay?"

Sasaki opened the door: ["What's up?"]

"I... that... um..." Tanaka hesitated. "Let's go back together."

[“I have something else to do.”] Sasaki refused coldly.

[“Then I’ll wait for you.”] Tanaka walked into the prop room and found a place to sit down.

"...Never mind. We'll talk about it later." Sasaki walked out of the prop room. "Let's go."

Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 33 Breakup Suspicion

When I passed by the Film Research Society, Hojo was still drawing.

Sasaki handed the key to the prop room to Miki and asked her to put the Ao Oni model back into the prop room before leaving and lock the door.

After receiving Miki's affirmative response, Sasaki walked out on his own.

Tanaka followed behind him. In the camera, Sasaki's steps were very slow, and looking at his back, it seemed that he was fiddling with his mobile phone.

"Sasaki," Tanaka asked hesitantly. "Are you okay?"

Sasaki suddenly stopped and remained silent for a long time in front of the camera: [“I’m fine. I couldn’t be better.”]

“Really…really?”

"What else?" Sasaki turned around abruptly. His face in the camera was gloomy, almost ferocious, but he quickly calmed down. "It's like a dream... I wake up and then I wake up."

[“Ah… th-that’s how it is…”] Tanaka responded.

Sasaki's phone vibrated slightly. He glanced at it, then continued walking out while fiddling with it. "Let's go."

[“Okay.”] Tanaka followed behind Sasaki, was silent for a while, and then started to find topics to talk about, trying to find out Sasaki’s mental state in a roundabout way.

Sasaki responded intermittently, saying "um," "ah," "hey," and "yo," with an indifferent reaction like a supporting actor on stage listening to a crosstalk.

As they were talking, the two of them had already left the special building and walked to a farther place.

Tanaka tentatively turned the topic towards his girlfriend, and seeing that Sasaki didn't react much, he gradually became bolder in asking questions.

Then happened the process that the first few people saw. Sasaki turned the camera away, and Tanaka discovered a twisted green smiling face between the branches outside the special building.

Sasaki takes Tanaka away and the scene ends.

"Tanaka came to the school to reshoot scenes and met Miki. After filming for a while, he went upstairs and saw Hojo and Miki from the Film Research Society. He went to the prop room to ask Sasaki for help. The two of them filmed with the props for a while, went upstairs to change props, and then Sasaki went back to the prop room first. Tanaka followed him out of concern, and finally the two left together and filmed a blue foreign object." Yukinoshita Yukino briefly summarized, looking at Hikigaya Komachi, "And you want to know what that thing is, who put it there and for what purpose, right?"

"That's not right." Before Hikigaya Komachi could say anything, Azuma Yunshan spoke first, "Komachi wants to eliminate Tanaka's fear."

"Yeah." Hikigaya Komachi nodded, "That's right."

"So," Yukinoshita Yukino placed her right hand across her chest, lifted her left elbow, bent her left index finger into a fist, and lightly touched her fair chin, "We just need to figure out what that thing is, who put it there, and for what purpose."

Dong Yunshan sighed helplessly, "No..."

"Hmm? What's the difference?" Yuigahama Yui looked around in confusion, and when she noticed that Azuma Yunshan was in a dilemma, she suddenly realized, "Ah! Azuma Yunshan, you already know what's going on, right?"

This girl's ability to read people's expressions is extraordinary.

"Let me be clear, this is just a vague guess, and it doesn't mean it's the only truth." Azuma Yunshan smacked his lips. "The key is, according to what Komachi said, Tanaka is terrified, Sasaki is heartbroken, Miki is gentle, and Hojo is busy painting, so it's difficult to approach them for investigation. Right now, we can only guess based on the information we have. If we're wrong, it's useless, and if we're right... it's not good either."

"You mean... your guess will hurt others?" Yuigahama Yui blinked. "Once you have a guess, you can verify it indirectly, in a way that won't hurt others."

"If the truth hurts," Yukinoshita Yukino took out a notebook, "then lies can't save anyone."

She wrote down several names:

Tanaka - Photography, Editing, Post-production, Eyewitness

Miki - actress, Hojo's childhood sweetheart

Hojo - Director, Miki's childhood friend, poster artist

Sasaki——Prop Master, Poster Artist

"There are very few people left in the school at this time." Yukinoshita Yukino circled the names of the last three people, "The culprit should be among them."

"And Sasaki's girlfriend." Yuigahama Yui reminded, then looked at Hikigaya Komachi, "By the way, Komachi, how about you?"

Hikigaya Komachi stuck out her tongue. "I'm a script writer. I can do it at home. I finished it a long time ago."

"You must have thought about it for a long time." Dong Yunshan gently squeezed the Coke can. "Komachi, who do you think it could be?"

Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes were icy, and her voice was even colder, "Are you starting to formulate lies now?"

Azuma Yunshan avoided Yukinoshita Yukino's gaze and said, "Just asking."

"I feel..." Hikigaya Komachi thought for a moment, "She should be Sasaki's girlfriend."

"Yeah." Dong Yunshan nodded, "People outside the club."

"I don't want to be suspicious of anyone in the club, so this is the only way." Hikigaya Komachi smiled sheepishly. "I heard about Sasaki having a girlfriend a while ago from other people. They must be in the honeymoon phase of their relationship, wanting to have happy dates together every day... But because of the filming, Sasaki has been busy the whole time, and even needs his girlfriend to come over to help."

"That makes sense," Higashi Yunshan continued, following Hikigaya Komachi's lead. "Because they don't spend enough time together, his girlfriend is unhappy. So she wrapped a foam ball in a blue cloth and hung it outside, specifically to scare Tanaka and vent her anger."

"But..." Yuigahama Yui questioned, "Why do you want to scare Tanaka?"

"Tanaka interrupted my happy time." Dong Yunshan pointed at the handheld game console. "Isn't Sasaki's shirt a mess?"

Yukinoshita Yukino looked at her unkindly, clearly very dissatisfied with Azuma Yunshan's attempt to rationalize the lie by following Hikigaya Komachi's speculation: "Then why did you break up?"

"After Sasaki left, Miki went back to the prop room and ran into Sasaki's girlfriend." Dong Yunshan adjusted the video. "I don't know the specific reason, but neither Sasaki nor his girlfriend wanted to be known, so when they were discovered, they simply broke up."

For example, as Tanaka guessed, Sasaki's girlfriend is a teacher.

"The round window of the prop room door is sealed. Sasaki's girlfriend could hold the door from inside and prevent Miki from coming in without revealing her identity. Or she could just talk to Miki from inside and tell her not to come in." Yukinoshita Yukino narrowed her eyes. "It's not difficult to hide your original voice. Your lie is unreasonable."

"Ah... indeed." Dong Yunshan said meaningfully, "The human voice is very varied. Sometimes we can even make sounds that we ourselves wouldn't believe."

Yukinoshita Yukino: "..."

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Volume 2 Club Activities: Chapter 34: Elimination

"what?"

Yuigahama Yui seemed to have thought of something and suddenly started adjusting the progress bar. The picture on the screen finally froze on Sasaki's extremely gloomy expression as he looked up at the third floor.

"Look..." Yuigahama Yui moved the progress bar forward a little more, "Just looking at this figure, you can't tell who it is, right?"

"At this distance, it's already quite difficult to see anyone moving inside." Hikigaya Komachi took a closer look. "And it's probably not a person moving, but someone moving the Aoki models inside. After all, there are so many of them piled up inside."

"After discovering someone was tampering with the models in the prop room, Sasaki's face turned so grim..." Yuigahama Yui looked at Hikigaya Komachi, "Would his girlfriend touch anything in the prop room?"

"I haven't even seen his girlfriend..." Hikigaya Komachi thought for a moment, "but his girlfriend often comes to help. If it was his girlfriend who did it, then he shouldn't be angry."

"So... he was angry because someone else entered the prop room." Yuigahama Yui murmured, "But downstairs, it's impossible to tell who moved the props. But when he saw someone moving the props, he concluded that someone else had entered the prop room."

"You mean..." Hikigaya Komachi's eyes widened. "He was sure his girlfriend couldn't move, so when he saw movement in the prop room, he immediately concluded that someone else had entered the prop room, and that's why his face turned so ugly."

"But why can't her girlfriend move..." Yuigahama Yui pondered, her eyes swirling around, suddenly stopping on Azuma Yunshan, "Ah, just like Azuma Yun!"

Dong Yunshan: "What's the same as me?"

"Hobbies! Sasaki's girlfriend has the same hobby as you." Yuigahama Yui made a motion of tightening the rope, "So his girlfriend can't move, and can't make a sound to stop Miki from entering the prop room."

"What do you mean by 'the same hobby as mine?'" Dong Yunshan protested dissatisfiedly, "I don't have any special hobbies. Besides, aren't you too knowledgeable?"

"I..." Yuigahama Yui blushed, "I heard it from a friend..."

"But what if that's really the case?" Hikigaya Komachi blushed at the thought of that possibility. "Why didn't Sasaki lock the door?"

"For excitement!" Yuigahama Yui clapped her hands, "Now we know the reason for the breakup, because Sasaki didn't lock the door!"

Even Sasaki's girlfriend's revenge on Tanaka makes sense.

Dong Yunshan: "Your knowledge is a bit too rich."

"I heard it from a friend..." Yuigahama Yui turned her head and looked to the side, "I listened critically..."

It's not easy to learn good things, but it's easy to learn bad things.

"Even after such a serious incident," Yukinoshita Yukino asked expressionlessly, "Sasaki still wants to go down to film with Tanaka?"

"That's right." Hikigaya Komachi realized, "I should go comfort my girlfriend right now."

"Don't get stuck on it. We haven't confirmed it was Sasaki's girlfriend who did it yet," Dong Yunshan reminded. "It could be someone else."