Countless photos are stored in folders. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In groups of about every ten photos, different groups are photographed with different characters.

But there is one obvious thing these roles have in common.

For example, in the first photo, a brown-haired man is curled up on the ground with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and a man is stepping on his body with his legs raised, in the seventh photo, a woman with a mole on the corner of her mouth is tied to a chair and someone slaps her, and in the twenty-sixth photo, there is even a person who is stripped of her clothes and forced to kneel on the ground......

"It's all pictures of bullying. Kudo Shinichi raised his eyebrows and looked sideways at Sasaki, who was so angry that his lips were trembling, "And from the perspective of the photo shoot, it was deliberately magnified the humiliation of these people, your brother...... It's probably the perpetrator. ”

"Shut up—my brother can't be this kind of person! there must be some misunderstanding!" Sasaki's eyes turned completely red, and her voice was a little choked.

"There may have been a misunderstanding. But this is highly unlikely. Kudo Shinichi's expression was serious and serious, "If your brother is not the perpetrator, where did these photos come from, and why are they hidden in this secret file?"

"This ......" Sasaki was speechless for a moment, but after a moment she defended herself, "Didn't he use a message to let us open this secret file......

"You also said that it was a message. Kudo Shinichi's hand on the edge of the table straightened, his waist gradually straightened, and his eyes looked at Sasaki at this time with a somewhat condescending taste, "That kind of secret message is not found by ordinary people, and your brother actually doesn't want people to find out about the photos in this file." ”

"......"

"He left a message just to gamble. Kudo Shinichi replied unhurriedly, "If he survives unharmed, he will destroy the paper ball on the ground afterwards to prevent his relevant secrets from being revealed, and if he does not live, the paper ball on the ground is the key clue in this case - the clue he has to leak." ”

Kudo Shin tilted his head, raised his right hand and tapped the computer screen.

"All in all, the photographs in this secret file are very important, and may even capture the murderer - because your brother is likely to have bullied the murderer, so the murderer holds a grudge and finally takes revenge on your brother and designs your brother to die by accident - of course, the murderer is the family of the person who was bullied by your brother. ”

"Why ...... like this" Sasaki's face turned pale all of a sudden, and the whole person seemed to have lost his soul, and his eyes were scattered.

"Please accept the facts, Miss Sasaki. Kudo Shinichi patted her on the shoulder, tried to control his tone calmly, and comforted, "I know that in your opinion, your brother is very gentle and kind, but everyone has an unknown side......"

"No...... I...... I actually know ......"

"Huh?" it was Kudo's turn to be stunned for a moment, "You know, what do you know?"

"My brother...... is violent...... When he was in high school, he was publicly punished for beating a classmate into a cripple...... But he told me afterwards that he would change...... Whining...... He—who would have thought that he would end up lying to me......"

Sasaki burst into tears.

"......" Kudo really didn't know how to comfort him.

It wasn't until he tossed for a long time that Sasaki wiped his tears, calmed down, and whispered sorry to Kudo.

Kudo shook his head and said it was okay.

He then asked Sasaki to get up and sit on the edge of the bed in this bedroom, then sat down on the computer desk himself, and moved the mouse to pull down the page to view the photos inside.

There is a huge amount of information, and Kudo certainly can't easily find clues about the murderer from it.

He noticed, though, that there was a code underneath each photo.

The first two numbers represent the year, the next four numbers represent the date, and the victim's name is written in katakana.

Kudo summed up the pattern and stared at the screen for a while.

He first typed 1910 to search, then 1223 to search.

Needless to say, the number 1223 is December 23 on the envelope.

Kudo wanted to see if he could find any clues in the folder with the help of the two numbers, but unfortunately, he found nothing.

It's not that he can't find the photos, it's just that the photos in there obviously don't meet his requirements......

"Sure enough, it's not that easy to find......"

Kudo's expression was a little depressed.

But he soon thought of something.

"Maybe you can try to start with katakana......"

It just so happens that these cases are all related to mint.

Shinichi Kudo's fingers rested on the keyboard and involuntarily typed out the words.

ミ…… ン…… ト……

ミント is the meaning of mint.

But there's no way anyone can have a name like that.

Kudo couldn't help but shake his head while thinking about it, but when he pressed Enter, the relevant photos suddenly popped up in the folder.

Kudo was stunned.

"It's really ......"

He narrowed his eyes and stared at the code first.

Katakana is indeed ミント That's right.,Date...... It's been a long time.

If the killer is really related to the people in these photos, then why did it take so many years to take revenge on the persecutors?

Or is it just a coincidence that there is ミント in the coding of these photos?

No, most of the coincidences in the world are man-made, there are not so many coincidences at all.

He still carefully examined the photos first.

Kudo began to look at the filtered photos.

But looking at him, he frowned.

There are a lot of photos with ミント as the protagonist.,About thirty in total.。

Judging from the style of the clothes,At the time of shooting,ミント was still an elementary school student.,So the bullying he received belongs to school bullying.,For example, walking was splashed with water or paint.,The desk was graffiti.,Homework was torn or something......

However, there are seventeen or eighteen photos of bullying, and some photos are in different styles.

There's an extra protagonist in it, with black hair, brown eyes, a red birthmark on his neck, and ......

Kudo couldn't help but glance at Sasaki, who was sitting not far away, and found that the two looked somewhat similar, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes.

It seems that the boy was Sasaki's older brother when he was a child.

Kudo turned his head and continued to move the mouse to scroll down the page to view the photo taken earlier...... Seeing the end, Kudo released the mouse.

Brother Sasaki and ミント used to be friends. Brother Sasaki sent a seasoning with a mixture. The clothes of ミント have become simple from the original luxury. ミント's situation has become lonely from the original stars and the moon.,Even fell into the point of being bullied.。

There is no doubt that Sasaki's brother betrayed ミント.

Is ミント ready to retaliate now......

Kudo's gaze fell on the bright smile on the face of ミント in the photo at the beginning.

The familiar smile reminded him of a man.

No,It doesn't seem to be ミント preparing to retaliate.,It's a relative.,It's just that I've been bullied recently.。

"Miss Sasaki, I know, who killed your brother. Kudo stood up.

Sasaki, who was sitting at the head of the bed, was stunned for a moment, and the next second he was already a conditioned reflex and jumped up: "Mr. Edogawa, what did you just say-"

"Let's go to the café you said now. Kudo turned and walked towards the door.

The computer in the room rang with the sound of automatic shutdown.

Sasaki looked at Kudo's back, looking a little stunned.

After being stunned for a moment, she hurriedly rushed up: "Wait, Mr. Edogawa, don't go, finish talking first, Edogawa first-"

She suddenly bumped into Kudo's back, which had stopped.

Her voice stopped, and the whole person staggered back two or three steps, and couldn't help but cover the tip of her aching nose.

Sasaki wanted to ask Kudo why he suddenly stopped, but he saw that there were two more people in police uniforms in her living room......

Huh, police, how did they come?