After finishing his investigation of the girls' high school, he went to the café he had been to yesterday. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he plans to sort out his thoughts here. Pushing open the door, the faint aroma of coffee rushed straight to the door of Zunpei's head. The middle-aged man who served them yesterday was also there, and he didn't see any other waiters, so this person seems to be the store manager here. The store manager nodded slightly at Zunping, apparently recognizing Hirohei as a repeat customer. Huanping looked around, and in the dim light, the other guests seemed to be very familiar. Men playing with straws, men talking to themselves on their phones, and women staring intently at magazines. Hiropyeong shrugged, he didn't want to be in the company of these weirdos.

"What do you order? Iced coffee?"

"That's it. ”

He sat down in his old seat yesterday and began to pull out his notebook. After starting to pay attention to Tokitsuki Kazeno, Hihei recorded all the important information he found in this notebook. Every time he opens his notebook and looks at the familiar pages, he can put his thoughts away. This time he sneaks into the place where Yuko died and sees the entry and exit register of the guard's room. Yuko's name is not on the register. As a student who is not a student of this high school, Yuko should be able to rank if she has entered the school, so yesterday should be Yuko's first time at this girls' high school. So did Yuko come to this high school she hadn't been to for a purpose, or just to vent, so she casually broke into a place?

Hihei also saw Tokitsuki Kaze No, who often leaves early, in the register - does this have anything to do with Yuko?

The police officer went out of his way to find Pyeong and alert her to the matter about Sulfona. Although Pyei has long felt that Sulfur is very special, shouldn't he explore the secrets of her heart?

These questions stirred up in his mind like paste, and he couldn't help but think about his sister. Knowing nothing, she giggles happily, and her sister, who is in pain, laughs softly so as not to worry her brother. The brother and sister who are played with by fate smile and laugh like this every day, like hamsters running in a cage. Until the day the cage breaks......

The crisp doorbell rang, and Hiro Ping subconsciously raised his head. Sulfona's slender figure poked in from the doorway, like an illusory silhouette. Wearing the uniform of a female high school student, Sulfura looks more regular, very much like the female student who had been the class president for three consecutive years in the Shohei class - of course, Sulfona is far more flamboyant than the female class leader. The harsh sunlight streamed into the dimly lit café through the gap between Sulfona's arms and doorway, giving Sulfona's long side ponytail a hint of pale brown. Sulfona closed the door slightly, and then sat down on the chair opposite Hiro Ping, carrying her school bag.

Still in the same position as yesterday.

"That...... Hello Mr. Tsubihei. I just got out of school. Sulfona shrank back a little stiffly, "Could it be that there's something on my face...... Is it?"

"Huh?"

"Why do you keep staring at me like this?"

It was only then that he realized that he had done something quite rude.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... I'm just ......" Pyeong just accidentally sounded in his heart the officer's evaluation of Sulfona. I don't know what kind of world is reflected in her black and white pupils-Hirohei accidentally became inquisitive, so he stared at Sulfura endlessly. He seems to have read in a magazine that girls, especially beautiful girls, are quite sensitive to the vision of others.

"It's okay, I guess I'm disturbing Mr. Zohei's thinking. Sulfona smiled apologetically. Sure enough, as the officer said, Sulfura never seemed to be angry or angry. A complicated feeling welled up in his heart. He followed the small notebook and told Sulfur about the clues he had found today, and briefly explained his confusion.

"I see......" Sulfur nodded thoughtfully.

"Do you already understand?"

"Ah, no. Sulfona shook her head with a smile, her hair flicking cutely, "I just understand Mr. Zohei's thinking circuit." ”

"Eh, is there something wrong with my thinking?"

"Or is it a boy's thinking circuit?" said Sulfona, "When Tsupyei encountered yesterday's incident, his first reaction was to investigate why Yuko went to that girls' school......

"Because this is weird......"

"But, all I thought about yesterday was 'Cinderella'. Sulfur nodded on the table and said, "From the facts, Mr. Tsupyeong's idea may be more reasonable. But yesterday Kazeno Totsukatsuki's words lingered in my mind, so I read the fairy tale about 'Cinderella' on the Internet again yesterday. It's really eye-opening to say, it turns out that the original fairy tales circulated abroad are much bloodier than ours. In the Norse version, Cinderella's two sisters cut off their toes and the other off their heels in order to wear the crystal slippers. When the prince carried them back to the palace, he saw a mark on the ground behind them, and realized that it was not Cinderella. In some versions, the stepmother sprinkled the wheat in soot and asked Cinderella to pick it all up before going to the prince's ball. Later, after Cinderella became queen, her stepmother and two sisters were pecked out of their eyes by a bird, and since then they have been groping on the ground to collect wheat for a living. ”

"How can it be ......," Hirohei's eyes widened in surprise, "can such a story be told to children?"

"Originally, fairy tales were basically the same as bedtime stories. "If a child is too excited to listen to it, he won't be able to sleep, so fairy tales always have some parts that intimidate young children." This can also help parents better control their children's emotions. On the other hand, these things may not have been a bloody story in the Middle Ages. ”

"Is that so......"

"After reading these fairy tales, I thought of Yuko. She beat her mother and sister badly at home, and according to Tokitsuki Kazeno's 'Cinderella', Yuko should be 'Cinderella', and her mother and sister correspond to the stepmother and stepsister in the fairy tale. I think Yuko's problem is likely to be a family problem. She had a conflict with her sister and mother at home, and she couldn't think about it, so she lost her mind. ”

"And what about her father?"

Yuko's father was away on a business trip for a long time because of work. It took some time for the police to contact him after the accident. But because of all kinds of willingness, Yuko's father has not been able to come back until now. ”

"So the cause of all this is 'family conflict', right? Yuko, whose father was away from home for a long time and was abused by her mother and sister, was under tremendous pressure in her heart, and finally collapsed...... In this way, there are some clues. Isn't Yuko her mother's own, or is it a child who remarried with her father?"

"It's possible......" Sulfura nodded slightly.

"It's so pathetic......" Huhei thought as he sipped his coffee. While abuse in the family may sound like a distant thing, it may actually be happening quietly around people. In remarried families, the parent-child relationship is generally not very good.

"So what was the last place where Yuko fell?"

"According to Tokitsuki Kazeno, that girls' high school is a castle in Cinderella's fairy tale - and probably the prince's ball. "But according to Mr. Tsuhei's investigation, it seems that Yuko never went to that school at all?"

"That's right. Xuan Ping said. "The Prince's Ball is something that Cinderella dreams of in Cinderella's fairy tale, and if it's in a real school, I think Yuko thinks that life at home is too painful, so she thinks of running away from school. ”

"It makes sense, but why don't you go to your own school?" Sulfur thought for a moment and stood up, "I want to go to the school where Yuko actually attends." ”

Sulfur shook her skirt and looked resolute. It was as if he had been infected, and his body was full of energy.

"Yes, after all, you have to really investigate to get the truth. ”

Yuko's junior high school is not far from here. After walking for more than ten minutes, Sulfur and Pyeong saw a small school hidden in a private house. The school gate looks quite shabby, with some cracks and fine cobwebs on the front. Although there is a small pavilion at the door, which seems to be used as a security room, there is a middle-aged man reading a newspaper sitting inside. The school gates were just open, and some students in uniforms were laughing and coming in and out. Looking at their expressions, as if thinking of the dead Yuko, Hirohei had a sense of dislocation.

Sulfona grabbed Shoping's hand.

"Huh?"

"Looks like we can get in between them...... said Sulfona with her arms around without a school uniform, "You see a lot of adults walking around without school uniforms." ”

He looked around and found that there were a lot of people who looked to be college students. There were also middle-aged people with sunglasses who came in cars. Some of them waited at the school gate, some walked into the school as if they were walking, and more of them left leisurely with the girls in junior high school in their arms. Obviously, it was a strange sight, but the people around him, including the security guards who were reading the newspaper, were a little accustomed to doing their own thing.

"I thought that by leaning on Mr. Zohei like this, I could block the bow tie on my chest, so that my school uniform would look similar to the school uniform here. Sulfura whispered in Shohei's ear, "Just pretend to be a couple of students and social people here, and easily blend in......"

"Love...... Couple?!" Pyeong felt his entire arm stiffen because of his nervousness. Sulfona, who was holding Tsupye's arm, noticed this, and she took a closer look at the beads of sweat on the side of Hirohei's cheeks.

Beads of sweat glistened in the setting sun.

"Could it be Mr. Zohei...... Are you shy?"

"Ahh......h

"You saw Mr. Tsuhei's funny face......

Huanping, who was teased by the younger ones, felt particularly embarrassed for a while, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into. By the time he looked back, the two of them had walked through the school gate to the school building without hindrance. Sulfona had already let go of her arms and followed behind with a somewhat unpleasant smile. Obviously, when they first met, they were quite serious and tight, and they unconsciously seemed to have changed their character attributes. Although it looks quiet and dignified now, it is still unbearable to tease others with honorifics and a flat tone.

PS: The version I saw when I was a kid was the version of Cinderella picking wheat.