I live my life in Tokyo

"The next two days were sunny, and the soil dried quickly under the sun, preserving the footprints. The footprints were left behind in a similar way to rubbings."

"I see. Mr. Kanazawa really knows a lot." Mizuno Hayabusa praised with a smile.

Kanazawa Fumio lowered her head shyly in response to the class monitor's straightforward praise. In this respect, she was very similar to Doi Ying, the type of shy person who gets goose bumps when being praised.

"No... I just read too many mystery novels."

"Please follow me. I haven't finished what I want to say."

The three of them continued to follow Kanazawa Xun to the next room, which also had a faint smell of blood, and the hard ground under their feet was the blood that had long since dried.

"This is... the room where Incheon-san was murdered..."

Doi Ying sighed sadly.

"Keep your eyes out the window."

The three of them looked out the window at the same time and found that under the heavy rain, there were no footprints outside the window.

"this..."

Mizuno Hayabusa was stunned for a moment, "I remember that Sakura-san and Incheon-san were killed on the same day, but there are no footprints outside this window..."

He didn't need to say anything, the other three understood what he meant.

The murderer did not break in through the window outside, but went in through the front door.

He walked behind the defenseless Incheon and swung his stick.

"Boom!"

A loud thunder sounded, and the four of them looked out the window at the same time, their faces turned pale by the lightning.

"The murderer... is among us?" Doi Ying hugged his head in disbelief, his expression painful.

Although he had similar thoughts before, Doi Ying always comforted himself that all these were just guesses. The classmates around him were so loving and friendly, they couldn't be the murderer. The murderer could only be a brutal gang of gangsters.

But the new evidence found now has dealt a heavy blow to Doi Ying.

The truth that he didn't want to believe was now right in front of him.

"The murderer... is among the only ten people left." Doi Ying's voice was hoarse, and it sounded like he hadn't drunk water for a long time.

"Rather than a serial murder case, this is more like a murder method that has no plan but operates in a strange and complementary way."

Kanazawa Xun used his detective knowledge to the fullest, "At least we know that at least half of the people were killed by Uesugi and his gang of thugs. What about the other half? Who among us is it?"

The last sentence ends with a question, which is normal.

Even if everyone found a body, or even a gangster's weapon, they still couldn't figure out the method of murder and the exact time of the murder.

None of the students here are forensic pathologists, nor have they ever had experience in exhuming corpses. Although Mizuno Hayabusa comes from a medical family, it is still a bit absurd and presumptuous for him to judge what happened to the victim based on the corpse.

"What should we do next? Should we go back?" Kinoshita Ningning's face turned pale, and she was obviously frightened.

"No, I won't go now and it will make my classmates worry."

Mizuno Hayabusa sighed and nodded to Doi Ying, "If we continue with the current situation, how many people will be able to survive in the end?"

Doi Ying's lips trembled and he couldn't utter a word.

Anyone can be left alone, and this time is a good opportunity for the murderer to strike.

Not to mention the murderer inside the room and next to him, the rest of the gang members are eyeing them covetously and ready to avenge Uesugi.

"How about... we patrol in groups of three? It's still a bit too dangerous to patrol in groups of two - what if the murderer happens to be right next to us?"

"I have no problem. Let's go back and vote later."

Mizuno Hayabusa accepted Doi Ying's suggestion with a smile, "Well, but we still need to see what the students think later. It is still unknown whether they have this concept in their minds."

Everyone around you will be the murderer.

"About the murderer..."

"Don't talk about it for now."

Mizuno Hayabusa stopped Doi Taka from exposing the secret. He sighed, "This will only make the already devastated class even more devastated. This will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to morale and class relations."

Although it has almost collapsed by now, the students could still greet and communicate with each other with masks, but when the masks fell off, even more insane and ugly faces were revealed under the masks.

"If this person is a close friend, how can the investigation proceed?"

Doi Ying originally wanted to inform everyone about this matter to raise their awareness and tell them that a close friend of yours might be the murderer.

Hearing what Doi Ying said, Kanazawa Xun also nodded, "Um... I will keep my mouth shut."

Kinoshita Ningning leaned gently in Mizuno Hayabusa's arms and said, "I won't tell anyone else."

"Let's continue looking for evidence and check other rooms. This way we can figure out how each person died - was he killed by the gang or by a classmate next to him?"

This is a truly far-sighted proposal, Mizuno Hayabusa sighed, "When we figure out that a classmate has no alibi, that's when we can confirm his identity as the murderer."

"But do we really have time to calculate it?"

The voices were drowned out by the mighty storm, and the storm had already arrived.

"Good news, there are many heroines. Bad news, there are many heroines!"

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Chapter 45: "I'm back"

Kaede Sakakibara left the small room, holding his waist - after sitting for so long, the bandage was a bit loose, so he had to ask the prop team to re-bandage it.

The filming of the movie has reached its final stage, and now everyone left has a serious expression, and when they are rehearsing and rehearsing, they look at each other with a hint of suspicion in their eyes.

It was obvious that the murderer was among the surviving students.

One of the gang members was arrested by Kawashima and thrown off a cliff, and two others escaped. Only nine students were left living in the Western-style building.

"Sakakibara-san, who do you think the murderer is?"

During the break, Sakurajima Mai brought a plate of food to sit next to Sakakibara Kaede, picked up a piece of vegetable with chopsticks and put it into her mouth.

"In this case, there are only two possibilities."

The boy concluded that he had watched a lot of Bleach in the past, as well as every theatrical version, and had some understanding of every murder case and the murderer behind it, as well as the motives for the crime.

"Before discussing this possibility, I think it's best to discuss the motive for the murder."

"Is it because of Yuko Ogawa?"

Higuchi Madoka sat down opposite the boy and Sakurajima Mai and naturally joined their conversation.

"Bingo."

The boy nodded. "I believe all the actors present here have noticed this. Why did Director Takenaka describe such a female student who was unpopular in the class and committed suicide? If she was simply used as a background, it would be too abnormal... I'm not a writer who has to write a lot of words every day..."

The last bit of mumbling made Sakurajima Mai smile knowingly. Apart from anything else, Sakurajima Mai read several light novels in order to understand the current two-dimensional market, in which there were large passages of meaningless nonsense.

However, since she followed the boy's private account, the quality of the two-dimensional content she read has improved a lot - although she has not played the galgames forwarded by the boy so far, she has indeed read a lot of novels.

"For revenge?" Higuchi Madoka said softly. She opened the package she carried with her and handed one of the lunch boxes to Sakakibara Kaede.

"That should be the case, but the character of Yuko Ogawa in the script is just an unknown one. He seeks revenge for her... Could he be her friend?" The boy took the lunch box, but did not open it. Instead, he held his chin and said.

By the way, Sakakibara Kaede only knows the setting of his own character so far. As for the character settings of others, such as Sakurajima Mai or Higuchi Madoka, he only sees the surface and is not clear about the detailed character settings.

This is the requirement of director Kiyoshi Takenaka that the actors in the play cannot reveal their personalities to others - until now, the whole thing is like a foggy Werewolf.

No one knows who the murderer is, even the murderer himself...may not even know if he is the murderer.

"Wait wait wait, this is weird."

Sakurajima Mai frowned and slapped the table lightly, "Sakakibara junior, why are you eating Yuanxiang-chan's bento now? Do you have any leverage over Yuanxiang-chan?"

Then she turned to Higuchi Yuanxiang and said softly, "Yuanxiang-chan, is Sakakibara-san threatening you? I can call the police for you."

"Hey Hey hey!"

Sakakibara Kaede frowned in dissatisfaction. Does he look like a gigolo? And he even threatened her. Did he think he was a Japanese netizen?

"This is the lunch box that my aunt made for me." The boy raised his eyebrows and chuckled, with a sense of pride in his voice, "This is one of the rewards I got for tutoring Higuchi-san. My aunt is a good person..."

"Hey, it turns out that Yuanxiang's mother made it. It's so delicious."

Sakurajima Mai said with a smile, biting into the hard vegetable salad.

"Higuchi-san's mother is a kind person. She is gentle and generous to others and her cooking skills are perfect. She is really good." The boy nodded proudly.

Higuchi Madoka glared at Sakakibara Kaede coldly, then lowered her head and rummaged through her lunch box.

The boy smiled and said nothing, stirring the half-cooked egg with chopsticks. The egg liquid slid down the milky white egg white and stuck to the crystal rice.

Feeling touched, the boy took a bite of the meat pie, and a strange look immediately appeared on his face.

“Dig lotus roots.”

"What's wrong?" Mai Sakurajima, who was scrolling through Twitter, looked away and asked.

"a bit sweet."

The boy smacked his lips. The meat pie had too much sugar in it. To be honest, he had never learned cooking, but he still had some say in the amount of sugar and salt used.

But it was much better than the meat pie he had in the cafeteria of Dongda University before. That time it was so salty that he bought a bottle of yogurt to drink.

Maybe Mrs. Higuchi is not good at yakiniku, but why not be a food taster?

Although it was a bit sweet, it was not a big deal for the boy. The meat patties were eaten with rice. The originally sweet and greasy taste was neutralized by the egg liquid. The effect was unexpectedly good, and Kaede Sakakibara ate it with relish.

It tastes really good. There is something special about it, Mrs. Higuchi.

The boy nodded as he savored the food, his aunt was truly a treasure on earth.

Higuchi Madoka glanced at Sakakibara Kaede inadvertently, and the coldness in her eyes slowly melted away. After retracting her gaze, she focused on her mobile phone and started chatting with her childhood sweetheart who was eating lunch at school.

After picking up the rice, the boy wiped his mouth, handed the bento back to Higuchi Yuanxiang, and the three of them continued the topic that had not yet ended.

Sakurajima Mai put down her phone and said, "Could it be that he killed someone because of love?"

She lowered her forehead, with the upper part of her face hidden in the shadows, looking like a sickly school girl in the second dimension who kills people for love. She sneered, "A classmate secretly liked Ogawa Yuko, but Ogawa Yuko committed suicide, and that classmate immediately launched his revenge."

"This is revenge against the whole class."

Sakurajima Mai's deliberately lowered voice gave goose bumps to Sakakibara Kaede and Higuchi Madoka's arms.

"Hiss... Could it be that according to your idea?" Sakakibara Kaede's eyes narrowed, "Among the remaining students, only a few are ordinary students who will like Ogawa Yuko..."

"there is only one truth!"

The boy pushed his non-existent black-framed glasses and looked at Ken Sano who was chatting and laughing with some familiar actors not far away.

"It's Doi Ying!"

"The possibility that the male lead is the murderer is too small."

Higuchi Madoka responded to the hot-blooded boy with a cold voice. She nodded slightly and said, "We have come to the conclusion before that there is more than one murderer. Some of them were killed by Uesugi who jumped off the cliff. There are more than two murderers left."

"One of them is outside and one is inside. It's not clear who it is."

Mai Sakurajima added, "Whether these two people are a gang... is not clear at the moment."

The boy calmed down and crossed his fingers, saying in a low voice: "The mystery will be solved soon. In the not too distant future, the filming of the movie will be successfully concluded."

"What are your plans for the summer vacation?"

Both high school and college have a break of about one and a half months in July and August. Junior high and high schools will customize summer homework for students. The situation at college is currently uncertain and depends on the mood of Dean Kimura.

"Study." Higuchi Yuanxiang replied coldly.

"I think Sakakibara-senpai did it on purpose." Sakakijima Mai said unhappily, then chuckled after a moment, "Yuuka-chan and I are in our third year of high school this year, so we must be reviewing for the exam."

"Uh...it seems so."

What was Kaede Sakakibara doing at the time? She seemed to be switching back and forth between Minesweeper and Connect the Dots.

After lunch, the boy dragged his injured body and searched for new clues in every corner of the mansion with Ken Sano.

Although they were looking for clues, it did not have much practical significance. The two were not famous detectives, and they did not have any investigative tools, such as fingerprint identification.

There were no tools at the crime scene; the murderer must have obtained the murder weapon using materials available at hand.

Just as the boy imagined.