"Okay, let's talk about it now. ”

Nao half-closed her eyes, holding her chin and lazily asking, "What's the matter with 'something to ask me for', but then sneaking after us?"

In a café next to a residential area in Kakudo Town, three people who had a skirmish on the street were sitting around a round table, and the blonde girl looked at the person sitting across from her, and for some reason was in a state of extreme excitement, while the black-haired boy who was scrutinized from head to toe kept pulling the brim of the baseball cap on his head, obviously a little embarrassed, and a little embarrassed. Nao looked at the boy who was clearly hesitant, then raised his wrist to look at his watch, and Fuer knocked on the table with a little irritation.

"Hey, I said you, did you call us here just to watch you be in a daze?"

“...... Sorry, sorry. The young man suddenly came back to his senses and pulled the brim of his hat that had covered his eyes down, "I do have something to ask you, but I don't know how to speak, so I ...... What a faux pas. ”

"Oh?" Nao raised her eyelids, "Isn't it an excuse to be found when you are caught peeping?"

"How can you ......?"

Before the boy could finish speaking, Shumi on the side jumped up as if she had been pricked by a needle, and pointed her finger at the boy opposite and yelled at Nao, "He's Inao Kai! The main player of the baseball club in Kabido Junior High School, who is second only to Kyogoku seniors, and is only a sophomore in junior high school, has already been followed by the coaches of many high school teams, and is known as the 'genius pitcher'! The girls chasing him are too many to count, how can he peep!!"

"Genius pitcher?" Nao leaned closer to the boy's face, squinting his eyes and looking at him from top to bottom, his face turned a little red with a laser-like green gaze, "Inao?" Speaking of which, I seem to have heard of this surname, but the name doesn't seem to be called 'Hai', it seems to be called ......."

"Yuki Inao. The boy smiled bitterly, "That's my eldest brother's name, and 'genius pitcher' also refers to him, I just practiced with him a lot since I was a child, so I unconsciously became a little better than my peers." ”

"Ahh

Listening to Shumei's praise, Inao Hai's face did not show a happy look, but his face became more and more blue, and even his body seemed to tremble slightly. Nao, who was sitting opposite, took in all the views of Yiqiē, watched his strange reaction thoughtfully, and for a while, stopped the increasingly fierce gushing of Shumei.

"Too much to talk about, wild boar. Nao said lightly, and finally Shumi, who was excited alone, noticed the discordant atmosphere in front of her. Nao let out a sigh and asked while gently tapping his fingers on the table, "So, what you want to ask me about should have something to do with your eldest brother Yuki Inao, right?"

"Ahh Inao Hai nodded and opened his mouth a little bitterly, "Actually, my eldest brother is ...... Passed away two days ago. ”

"Huh—?!" Shumi's eyes widened in disbelief, "But, he played in the high school baseball tournament last week......! Was it an accident?"

"No," Inao sneered, "the police said it was a suicide. ”

"Self, suicide?!"

"'The police say'?" Nao noticed his statement and frowned, "If you say that, you don't trust the police's judgment?"

"That's right!" the boy finally raised his head, revealing a pair of eyes that were unusually shiny with anger, "My brother, he ...... How could such a gentle big brother, a big brother who would never give up the game even if he was injured, commit suicide? And because of such a thing as losing the election-I absolutely don't believe it!"

"Injury? Could it be that I was removed from the main selection team because of the injury, so I ...... it"

"How could it be. Inao Hai laughed a little mockingly, "Because of the eldest brother, he withdrew from the main selection team after discussing with the coach." The injury to his left hand during last week's tournament was indeed severe, and doctors said it was likely to affect his baseball career, and even his daily life would be inconvenient...... I was sad, but I was comforted by my big brother instead. He said, 'It's okay, there's always a way,' and he started to practice using his right hand, and his enthusiasm for learning was much higher than before. But after that, ......," Inao took a deep breath, "because after the incident of the Kanagawa Kaihara Festival, I often heard the younger brother of my eldest brother's friend talk about you, and then I also watched the news of the 'chokeholder' and knew that the 'Katarina of the East' was your business." So I want you to investigate the truth about my eldest brother's death, there must be some inside story!"

"I see. Nao stopped tapping his hand on the table, crossed his fingers and pressed his hand to his lips and muttered, "If there is no motive for suicide but the police judge it as suicide, it must have been found that evidence 'can only be suicide', or the scene presented a state that could not be explained as homicide or accidental death." ”

"It's a suicide note," Inao said, "because I found my eldest brother's suicide note on the desk, so it was judged to be a suicide." ”

"It should be more than that. "If it's really a murder, there is also the possibility that the prisoner forged a suicide note." There should be more - more precise evidence that the police cannot explain with other phenomena. ”

"Speaking of which, the officer said, 'This room is completely secret...... or something. Inao frowned, "Because the door of the room where my eldest brother died was locked, the only key was left in the room, and the window showed no signs of being invaded, so it can only be judged that my eldest brother himself ...... his own life."

"Is it a secret room...... It's going to be tough. Nao smacked her lips irritably, "It's cruel, but please tell me about your eldest brother Yuki Inao when he died." ”

Listening to Nao's words, Inao Kai closed his eyes, his expression was a little painful, and he clenched his fists tightly, so tight that the two fists on the table burst out with green tendons. However, after only a few seconds, he regained his previous appearance, and slowly opened his eyes, his dark brown pupils full of unflickering determination.

"Okay. The boy said calmly, "First of all, the night before......

Inao Kai trained late the night before Inao's accident, and didn't get home until it was dark, and when he went up to the second floor exhausted, he found that his eldest brother, Yuki Inao, had fallen asleep. The seventeen-year-old boy lay on his back on the bed, breathing steadily. He looked at his brother's peaceful sleeping face, and thought of the daily training he had done to become proficient with his other hand, so he didn't turn on the light to bother, but took advantage of the moonlight to lightly cover him with the quilt, closed his door, and went to take a bath and rest.

The next morning, because his parents were on a business trip overseas and his eldest brother's hand was injured again, he made his own breakfast. After making breakfast, he came to Yuki Inao's room to wake him up, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered, and turned the doorknob to find that Yuki Inao's door was locked. He had eaten his own breakfast, and when he knocked on the door again and received no answer, he finally noticed that something seemed wrong with the situation, and hurriedly stepped on his stool and looked in the small window on the door.

But what he saw was not his only eldest brother lying lazy in bed, but a figure with his feet off the ground and his head hanging in the middle of the room.

His eldest brother died.

Inao Yuki's neck was wrapped around a straw rope about four centimeters in diameter, the ends of which were firmly wrapped around the ceiling fan, the remote control of which fell at his feet - along with the baseballs scattered all over the ground. The only key to the room was placed in a tightly zipped key pouch and casually thrown on the bed about three meters away from the door and window, the hidden lock of the sliding window was also buckled, and the sash was left with a gap of less than 20 centimeters between the window lattices. On the desk in the room was a printed piece of paper, on which was written a sentence in a mournful tone—

I don't see hope anymore, I'm sorry.

"No other people's fingerprints were found on the window, and there was no sign of anyone intruding, I asked the people around, and no one saw the suspicious figure climbing the window on the second floor, and directly below the window was a row of very dense holly trees, of course, there was no trace of damage, not to mention that adjacent to the holly bush was a two-meter-wide drainage channel, it was impossible for anyone to cross the drain and the holly grove without leaving any traces. So my eldest brother's death was determined by the police to be a suicide. ”

"What if it's thrown away?" Nao thought about, "The key is in the key bag, and if someone breaks into the room through the entrance, kills the deceased, locks the door with his key, and then runs directly under the window and throws the key case through the window, the crime is possible." ”

"No, the police said that was impossible. Inao Hai shook his head, "Because the place where the key bag is located is a bed that is nearly two meters away from the gap in the window, it is impossible to fall in that place if it does not rebound; if it rebounds, the strength of the prisoner throwing the key bag needs to be very large, but if the strength is so strong that the key bag that has no elasticity can rebound, its accuracy will be reduced a lot, and even this baseball pitcher I can't throw 140/ KM's heavy ball still retains such a high level of accuracy, and it needs to be done right the first time, otherwise it will smash the glass. ”

“...... I see. Nao said softly, and Fuer raised his head as if he had decided something, "All in all, just listening to your account is not sure about the nature of this event, I need to go to the scene to take a look." Is it convenient?"

"No problem, you can go anytime. Inao lowered his head, "My parents' plane can't take off due to weather problems, so I'm the only one in the house now." ”

"Well, then, let's go now. ”

Nao stood up, her slender eyes glowing in the setting sun.

"Wait, wait, Nao!" Shumei, who was listening attentively, suddenly stood up, "Is it okay to go to the scene now?

"Natsu......" Nao shook the phone he had taken out at some point, "I've sent a message to someone who works hard in the office, and by the way, I asked him to check the information on this incident." ”

"When did you send the message, so quickly?" Shumei stammered, "So, the information on the case or something has been started?"

"No, not yet. ”

Nao sighed, "That guy has been being watched very closely lately, so he can't check the search materials of other classes. Fortunately, tomorrow is a rest day, so I have to ask the police officer who searched the first class. ”

"Is that okay?"

"Of course!" Nao curled the corners of her lips in pride.

Of course, the information can be checked - if today's search reveals something suspicious.

But if it was really a suicide as the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation was conducted......

Nao looked at the boy whose eyes were full of hope, and his expression became solemn

The author has something to say: I didn't write enough 4,000 words, scratching my head

Today is Yue Ren's birthday, so let him come out to play soy sauce in the next chapter~

(Actually, this chapter should be used to make soy sauce, but I didn't write enough words, so ...... Ahaha~)