"What would you think of me if I was about to kill someone?"

"Huh?"

"What will happen? Shui Jing, will you hate me? Will you continue to be friends with me? ”

Shui Jing said that this was the question that Chun Chu asked her at the end of the holiday after the end of the third year of junior high school, and behind this question, Chun Chu told her -

"Shui Jing, I'm pregnant. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

I closed my eyes because this fact was what Kanegawa said the police had detected.

Then, ushered in the beginning of the first year of high school, when the beginning of spring saw Kihara in the same class as her, she was almost speechless, she didn't expect that the boy who kissed her backstage in the club would become her classmate.

No... It's not just kissing...

--It was the beginning of the holidays, you could go out, you could party with friends, you could even camp on the beach, junior high school was over, she was about to become a high school student, everything was exciting, after the first love affair with a girl, everything was full of dreamy feelings, everything seemed to be dyed in a delicate pink, and it was at that time when her heart began to want to be presumptuous and want to escape from all constraints, she met Kihara, the handsome boy, at a club performance.

When she watched that performance, she and Shui Jing went together, and Shui Jing told her that she liked Kihara, but at the beginning of spring, she hid her inner feelings, she was not good at expressing herself, and her friend liked the same person as herself, what should I do?

After the performance that day, Kihara invited her to the backstage, in the face of his initiative, she couldn't avoid it, or didn't want to avoid it, she also liked Kihara, such a beautiful face, the girl was not as good as him, how could people refuse? Her appearance was clear and delicate, and Kihara liked it at first sight, and he kissed her and whispered in her ear, "Elope with me." ”

She really "eloped" with him, and in the case of leaving Shui Jing, Shui Jing was still stupidly waiting for her to go back at the club performance, thinking that she had gone to the toilet...

... At the beginning of spring, he was pulled by Kihara to "escape" to Kihara's home, he was the only one, shyness and passion were intertwined, and in the room where the curtains were half-hidden, they tasted the tempting taste of "forbidden fruit"... And then once, twice, three times...

Ignorance has led to unbearable results.

When Shui Jing said to Haruchu again, "I like Kihara", the look in Haruchu's eyes changed-scared, dodged, and felt guilty for betraying his friend, and Chunchu told the truth under Shui Jing's questioning...

I thought of the day when Shui Jing looked resentful in front of the rusty iron fence on the roof of the building.

"-I'm angry, I can't tolerate friends hiding from each other, how can the friendship between Chunchu and I, which has been since kindergarten, be mixed with anything that I don't understand, don't know, and don't know what is unclean-"

The "unclean things" in that sentence confused me at the time, but now I understand that she called everything that happened between Haruchu and Kihara "unclean things", and perhaps meant the life in Haruha's belly later.

Shui Jing's presumptuous joke in front of Haruchu, Chunchu's unrebellious performance, Kihara's apologetic eyes... It turns out that all this is based on this thing.

However, at the beginning of spring, with that wrong and weak life, he ran to death.

"We were arguing about this issue after school that Friday, and Chunchu said that she was going to the hospital for surgery, but that would be killing her life, and she didn't want to bear that charge, and she asked me what to do, and I said that she was to blame and what did it have to do with me..."

"On Friday... You guys? ”

"Yes, I faked the photo, in fact, there is no photo of Xiaoxi and Chunchu together... I... I'm sorry, Nozomi-"

I want to be angry about this thing.,Shui Jing is taking advantage of my sick defect.,Then I also understood that the problem that Momoi wanted to confirm was related to this.,Maybe Shui Jing and Chun Chu were seen by Momoi when they were arguing.,Maybe he saw a school uniform that could prove to be a girl.,It's just that he's not sure who Chun Chu is with in the end.,Then Chun Chu had an accident.,So he asked me to confirm that problem.,I suppressed the fire in my heart.,Because what I want to know more is-

"Why? Why? I asked.

"If you don't say that Xiaoxi and Chunchu are together, it will be found that I killed Chunchu." Shui Jing replied.

I let go of my grip on my bag, and I felt a little unstable in my center of gravity under my feet, looking at Shui Jing's expression of twisting together before crying, I took a deep breath and sat down again, and Dr. Sennan also listened quietly.

"It's unforgivable to act like that at the beginning of spring, isn't it? Xiaoxi? I'm really angry that at the beginning of spring she... How can she be with Kihara-san... It's unforgivable, it's absolutely unforgivable, I hate her, and I'm crazy and uncomfortable, so - it's all you see in the toilet... Moreover, after school that Friday, I secretly stuffed the letter I had written earlier into my schoolbag at the beginning of spring... It's in the name of the lily of the valley puppet..."

She lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes, as if waiting for me to judge her.

"Shui Jing..."I was speechless for a while.

The opposite of liking is hate, even hate, if the premise of "liking" is dead, then the subsequent hatred must be distorted like this? I really don't understand.

"But... Nozomi, but things have taken a terrible turn—"

Shui Jing's expression suddenly panicked, she rushed over and grabbed my hand and continued: "Xiaoxi, please believe me, what I said next is all the truth, I don't need to lie to you when it comes to this extent, I regretted it a little at the time, thinking about the time I spent with Chunchu in the past, I began to be unbearable, so I called Chunchu that night, and then told her that the letter signed by the lily of the valley puppet in the schoolbag was written by me, let her not worry, it was just a joke I made... But do you know what she said to me? ”

Shui Jing said with a crying voice: "-She said... In her school bag... There are two letters from lily of the valley puppets—"

Naturally, one of them was written by Shui Jing, and the other one...

"Xiaoxi, I told you that 'it' is here that day, it is really here... No kidding. ”

Shui Jing couldn't control her tears, and Dr. Sennan helped her to the seat, but she had completely lost her inhibitions, her legs were as soft as mud, and she scratched her hair and said what she was very afraid of.

"--Xiaoxi, do you remember when I told you that I counted the letters of the whole class, remember?"

"Hmm."

"I said at the time that Momoi forgot to reply to the letter, but, that's not the case, in fact-it's one more, Nozomi, one more reply, I don't know who wrote it..."

"That's more..."

I suddenly had the look of "that thing" in my head, yes, I remember that time, I was hiding behind the podium, and "he" was standing next to the mailbox without a sound, the extra letter... Was it "he" who threw it in?

"Have you seen the content?"

"There is no content, but the letter is signed by... Lily of the valley golem. Shui Jing's face was stiff at this time, and her eyes were looking straight at somewhere...

"Huh?"

"Xiaoxi, you understand, that is to say, the lily of the valley puppet is among us, and he also replies with us..."

I was caught up in mixed thoughts.

Why did the "lily of the valley puppet" reply to the "lily of the valley puppet"? Why...

"Xiaoxi, I think someone did it on purpose?" Dr. Sennan also let out a stunned voice from the silence.

"Did Dr. Sennan mean that someone replied to two letters? One of them in the name of the lily of the valley puppet? ”

"That's probably what it means."

"But what about the purpose?"

I think it's a bit far-fetched to think that this is a bit of a problem, because people are already suspicious of "bad luck" and are very cautious about implementing "countermeasures", and it would be too risky for anyone to do so, because they don't know if they will bring bad results after disturbing the "order" of replying to the letter.

All three fell into silence...

"Shouldn't anyone mess around like this?" Shui Jing muttered quietly.

"By the way, Dr. Sennan... Do you know any of the students in Class D of Senior 1 2003? Maybe you can ask about something. ”

"Zero three years... I'm afraid I'm going to have to look for this, what? Was there anything special about that year? ”

"That year was the turning point of 'bad luck', I heard that when there was an accident that year, someone did not die on the spot, but in the case of serious injuries, the student revealed a piece of information - he said that he saw the lily of the valley puppet when the accident happened, and he pointed his finger at his classmates..."

After finishing speaking, I looked at Shui Jing, and she nodded that I was right, and that was what it was.

"Huh? You mean... Lily of the valley puppet mixed in the class? But..."Dr. Sennan said in a tone that was eight degrees higher, and he was obviously very difficult to accept this conclusion, he opened his mouth to think about it and said, "But the 'lily of the valley puppet' has never referred to a specific 'person' at all, so I don't know what it is?" ”

... The three of them fell silent again.

A few minutes later, Shui Jing suddenly raised her eyes, and a light flashed in her pupils.

"Nozomi, Dr. Sennan, I thought of one thing - I think the guy in the class is a little weird..."