The bitter winter mountain winds are beginning to rage, and the sky is gradually getting darker, indicating that the people trapped in the Raven's House are about to enter a second night that is not destined to be peaceful.

Because they were afraid of being ambushed by the murderer hiding in the shadows after being left alone, the remaining eight people decided to deal with it for one night in the living room.

Of course, there is also the meaning of mutual supervision.

Although the possibility of an outside culprit is quite high based on the current clues, few people in the know are not prepared to tell anyone else about this information - God knows if there are any accomplices in the museum!

Nao was wrapped in a blanket and curled up on the sofa, next to Dr. Kurosawa who was flipping through a magazine, and the other three teenagers were lying or sitting on a long table not far away, all looking a little sleepy.

Silence is unbearable, and time passes unusually slowly in silence. After the pigeon in the cooing bell jumped out and crowed eleven times, finally someone could not stand the dead air and stood up and interrupted it.

"It's so late, can't we go back to our room?"

Lei Shan Xingxiang, who had been trimming her nails for two hours, couldn't help but throw her nail clippers heavily on the coffee table, and her carefully trimmed eyebrows almost stood up, "As long as you promise not to be left alone, is it necessary to pile them all here overnight?"

"Lei Shan, you just have to bear with it...... Hold on until tomorrow morning when the police come. ”

Her agent, Tsujimoto, took a big sip of the already cold black coffee, and persuaded weakly.

It was okay that he didn't speak, but when he spoke, it seemed to provoke Lei Shan's anger even more, causing her to bounce off the sofa with a sudden thud.

"Enough!!If you want to stay here, I'm not going to go crazy here! I'm going back to my room!"

After speaking, Lei Shan strode towards the corridor with black high-heeled boots.

Tsujimoto was stunned by her sudden furious roar, and hurriedly put down the cup and chased after her, "Wait, wait a minute, Lei Shan さん! Please don't do this, the murderer hasn't ...... yet"

"Isn't the murderer among you!"

Lei Shan turned his head suddenly, stretched out his hand and pointed at everyone present, "Since you are all here, what does it matter if I leave alone? Who knows what method 'someone' will use to kill us in a while, maybe it will be safer for me to go back to the room!" The delicate girl had a calm face, and her eyes flashed with resentment, "Or ...... I'm going back to my room alone, are you following me to kill me?"

The poor agent's mouth opened wide as he shook his head violently as he watched the fingers that almost poke the tip of his nose.

"Then don't keep up. ”

Lei Shan glared at him fiercely, turned around and quickly disappeared into the hallway. Except for Tsujimoto, who wanted to stop talking, the rest of the people watched her walk out of the living room with cold eyes, and there was no movement except for Nao's narrowed eyes and the corners of Dr. Kurosawa's upturned mouth.

"It's really willful~"

Nioh pillowed his hands and said coolly.

"It's not capricious anymore, is it?" Kurosawa Kazumi looked at Tsujimoto, who had returned to his position in frustration, and said in a tone that didn't know whether it was pity or ridicule, "It's really hard for you to be this agent." ”

"No, it's not Raiyasan's fault, I think she's just too scared. Tsujimoto shook his head coyly, "I've been her agent since her debut, and she's not usually like this...... It's really strange to say, since she came to this Crow House, she seems to be a different person, is it really too deep into the play?"

"What kind of drama can make her like this?" Yanagi pushed his glasses, "With all due respect, Miss Lei Shan's nervousness is already dangerous, and it looks like a sign of a mental breakdown due to great stress. ”

"It's the first movie since the debut of Raiyama Tsukiyama, and it's very important. Tsujimoto replied, "I can't say much about the specifics, but simply put, I play a rebellious woman from a samurai family, and because it's a period drama, there are a lot of fight scenes, which is why we came here to ask for the help of Master Kitaja." ”

"Samurai?" Kurosawa Kazumi smiled lightly, "Her image is not suitable for playing the daughter of a samurai, but it is suitable for playing a young lady who likes to wear complicated dresses." ”

"To tell you the truth, I think so too. Tsujimoto rubbed his face with a wry smile, "Raiyama was originally just a graphic model, and it was because of a rococo-style magazine cover that the company took a fancy to him, and he made his debut as an actor." So compared with period dramas, it is indeed still that kind of foreign-style film that is more suitable for her. ”

"-Rococo?!"

Nao, who was half-squinting, suddenly spoke, and her gaze, which suddenly became deep, shot out from under her eyelids and swept towards Tsujimoto on the other side.

"Yes, that TOKYOGIRL magazine cover photo is very famous. At that time, Lei Shan had just entered high school, wearing a black corset, dragging a ruffled skirt underneath, and the whole person's temperament was between the sweetness of a girl and the charm of a woman, and it looked very attractive against the background of the hanging veil! ”

Speaking of the masterpieces of the artists he cultivated, Tsujimoto changed his decadent appearance, his eyes sparkled, and his whole person seemed to shine.

But what he didn't notice was Nao's eyes, which grew sharper and fiercer with his words.

As Tsujimoto spoke passionately, the red-haired girl shook off the blanket draped over her shoulders and slowly stood up, her green eyes flashing a red streamer in the light—as beautiful as the finest alexandrite, so beautiful that the few who had been watching her from the moment she made a move could not take their eyes off her.

"I see......

She pursed her lips, her gaze gently brushing over the crowd, and spoke softly but confidently.

"I know what that death message means. ”

In the exotic corridors hung with colorful portraits, red-haired girls walked fast.

The uniform jacket she draped over her shoulders swayed in mid-air with her movements, and a pair of long legs with smooth and graceful lines stepped into dark brown leather shoes, stepping on the scarlet carpet without hesitation, followed by three teenagers with different temperaments one meter behind her, their solemn expressions and sharp eyes were the same.

Tsujimoto, with an incredulous, staggering face, followed the four teenagers, followed the rest of the two, but their faces drooped so that they could not be seen.

"Can you catch it?"

The dark-skinned teenager asked with a frown.

"Hopefully. ”

The man's glasses next to him flashed a white light.

Walking around the corner, a maroon painted door appeared in front of several people, and streams of steamy liquid trickled out from the crack under the door, leaching a large dark color on the carpet.

"Oops......"

Nao's eyebrows jumped fiercely, and he turned around and shouted, "Butler, open the door quickly!"

"Ah, yes, yes!"

Hirasaburo Hino, who had a mustache, trotted up with a clanging keychain and quickly opened the door, but to everyone's surprise, when the lock was opened, the door was blocked by a thin chain.

"Is it tied from the inside?" Hattori Heiji rubbed his hair anxiously, "I'm afraid it's too late to get the pliers now, it seems that I have to bump into the ......"

"Get out of the way!"

Before his words fell, Nao's voice was as cold as a blade. Hattori and Hino butlers, who were standing in front of the door, subconsciously dodged, and saw a straight leg slashing towards the center of the two with the whirring wind, bringing a crescent-like afterimage.

After a muffled sound, the chain crumbled into the distance along with the flying sawdust.

Looking back, it was Nao's movement to retract his legs.

But now no one is in the mood to praise her sharp swoop, and the eyes of several people can't wait to fall on the dark door-

There were no lights in the room, only the ajar glass door of the bathroom emitted a cool glow. The water in the bathroom rattled, and a thick mist rose from the plush carpet, and the pale red water could be faintly glimpsed gushing out of the bath.

"It's ......"

Nao's pupils constricted, and she walked quickly towards the glowing bathroom, each step felt like stepping into seaweed, and the slightly hot water spilled up from the soles of her feet, soaking through her shoes and socks.

The three teenagers looked at each other, and a cold bad premonition crept up the backbone from the bottom of their hearts.

Tsujimoto, who was walking at the end, pushed the people in front of him and rushed forward, but stopped abruptly when he walked behind Nao - he looked at the scene in the bathroom with wide eyes, covered his mouth and forcibly suppressed the involuntary whimper in his throat, staggered back two steps and sat on the ground, wading a cluster of splashes on the water-soaked carpet.

"Liar...... How could it be ......"

The moment Tsujimoto stepped into the bathroom, the lens was blinded by the heat, but he still clearly saw the scene inside the room at that moment-

The seventeen-year-old girl was lying on her back in the bathtub, the white jade-like ** was not slightly red under the hot water, but showed a miserable white that had lost her blood, her eyes were open in panic, but her pupils were not in focus, and a hideous wound two fingers wide was entwined by the long floating hair, imprinted on the slender and beautiful neck, and she knew where the overflowing and rusty reddish liquid in the bathtub came from without checking.

His favorite artist, who had high hopes and loved the most, lost his life.

The three teenagers who followed looked at the corpse of a poignant girl in shock, although they already knew what she had done, but no one thought that this delicate lady would end her life in this way, and even Kurosawa Kazumi, who had always looked at her wayward character, couldn't bear to close her eyes.

"I'll be here for you, so let's go out first. Nao said calmly.

"Got it...... If you can't hold it, you can make a sound, I'm outside. ”

Nioh gave her a deep look, and dragged Tsujimoto, who had fallen into a trance, out of the room with Yanagi.

The guest room where Aikoka Lei Shan is located is a one-bedroom suite, and the bathroom where the body was found is located in the bedroom, which is very small, and you can see all the corners of the entire suite when you stand at the bathroom door. The living room has two windowsills with deep and quaint Indian-style windows, with floor-hanging double-blackout curtains, and the latticework engraved with narrative poems is inlaid in the window without a single gap, and the unique design makes it impossible to open the windows outwards or inwards. The chandelier in the ensuite room appears to be broken, and only the lighting in the bedroom and bathroom remains intact.

Lei Shan Xingxiang's dress was neatly hung behind the door, but the underwear and shoes and socks were messily thrown on the bed and the ground.

After taking pictures of the corpse and the interior setting, and with the help of Dr. Kurosawa, Raizama's body was placed on the bed, and Nao finally had a moment to rest. Nioh, Yagyu, and Hattori, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, walked in and looked at the body of Raiyama who was lying on his back on the bed covered by a sheet with complicated expressions.

"I didn't expect to find the murderer of the first case, and then I ......"

After a moment of silence, Yanagi was the first to speak.

"YES, THE DEATH MESSAGE THAT GRABBED THE RIGHT CHEST HAS BEEN DRAGGED ON BY US FOR SO LONG," HATTORI SAID WITH A GLOOMY FACE, "ROCOCO, THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF THE HEART (KOKORO...... It's no wonder that this eldest sister's personality is so weird, and she seems to have endured a lot of mental pressure, but she doesn't know what her motive for killing Okawa Grind is. ”

"And the relationship with the second case, or with that Mr. 'R.K'. Nioh curled the pigtails around his cheeks and narrowed his eyes, "But whatever the relationship between them, it's certain that the murderer of this young lady is Kitaja Rintaro." ”

"Murderer?, didn't she commit suicide?" Yanagi asked in surprise as he raised his glasses, "She has been under pressure to kill the first victim, and her spirit has been on the verge of collapse, and she thought that she would not be able to escape knowing that the police would come tomorrow, so she ...... Isn't that so?"

"Moreover, this room is a secret room!" Hattori Heiji was also a little puzzled, "I just looked carefully, the door of this room does not have any traces of mechanism, and the window is also embedded in the wall, if it is said that he killed, how did the murderer get in and how did he get out?"

"I said ......"

Nao exhaled and patted her forehead, "Lei Shan Xingxiang is a right-hander, and the wound on her neck is on the left, if it is suicide, the flexibility and strength of her left hand are not enough for her to cut the artery cleanly, you must know that the carotid artery is buried in a strong neck muscle." ”

"Ahh......h I didn't notice that. ”

Hattori Heiji's eyes were a little evasive, and a flush seemed to rise on his dark cheeks, and Yanagi Bilu Shi on the side also coughed embarrassedly;Of course,Although he took it as his mission as a detective,But suddenly seeing the body of a young girl,He couldn't help but be a little embarrassed when he was in the age of blood,It's still a bit of a psychological barrier to do this kind of thing when you look at the wound carefully,And what about Yanagi...... Shortly after entering, before he could see the body, his glasses were already hazy.

In short, I didn't see anything.

Nao glanced at Nioh with a smirk, and the latter looked back with a smile, the hairs on his spine standing on end.

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I didn't come home for a few months and found that my computer was messed up by my little brother, and the outline and ideas were all gone, so I had to rewrite ......

Mina-san ~ His aunt !! QAQ so much that I miss them ~~~~~ group MUA~~~~!