Chapter VIII Second Case

"But if Hei is alone, he will be the same as us, if the murderer really targets us, then Hei may also be killed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"That's right," Tokuko agreed. "It's not a good thing to say, but if someone else is killed first, we can still unite because of Black, but if Black is killed, we probably don't know what we can do."

But at the same time as he said this, Kuro had already walked away alone.

"Black!"

"Don't worry, I'm definitely not going to die." With his back to everyone, Hei smiled in a relaxed tone. "Who do you think is the [protagonist] of this farce, I will definitely come back alive."

Although he was far away, he was on the same floor as the restaurant, and Kuro eventually found Fuji and Hikaru and several other people in the restaurant.

It seems that in order not to let the murderer get his wish again, they all stay in the same room.

"Chun's body has been removed."

"Ah, it seems that there is also a cold storage room in this castle for the temporary storage of corpses, it was Alyssa who carried him down just now, and just came back, what happened to you there?"

Listening to Fuji and Hikaru's tone, he still seemed to suspect that the former maid of this room, Alyssa, the current administrator, was the murderer.

Seeing Fuji and Hikaru's expressions, Kuro sighed.

If Alyssa wasn't present when the case just happened, then her suspicion might be on the rise again.

However, Black also noticed one more thing-

"Where's Yellow Spring?"

"That pervert? He went to the toilet, saying that with the protection of Shanaiduo, he would never be attacked, but it seemed that he had been gone for a long time, and he was thinking about what he was doing. ”

It seems that Alyssa is not the only one who does not have an alibi.

"Alyssa, we're in some trouble here, I need a key to the second floor room?"

"Doorkey? But the room on the second floor shouldn't be locked! ”

"Is that so......"

Black smacked his lips.

"Is something happening again?" Sirona asked, a little fear in her tone, despite her best efforts to hide it.

As the original champion, when encountering this kind of incident, she did not have the usual calmness. Hei always felt that if she wasn't a champion, she would be afraid of this kind of thing like an ordinary girl.

It's not a strange thing, it's not like it's strange that people can calm down after seeing all this.

Black, on the other hand, said the answer that everyone present did not want to hear.

"Meloyeta suddenly disappeared just now, and in our vicinity, although the other rooms in the vicinity have not been found, but one room is locked and has not yet been investigated."

"It's locked......" Fuji and Hikaru stared at Alyssa meaningfully.

"No—it's not me!" Alyssa shook her hand vigorously.

But generally speaking, she is suspicious, because Kuro and the girls have been together just now, and Fuji and Hikaru are here, and only Alyssa has left the room.

Moreover, Alyssa is also the only one who can open the door to the locked room.

"It's too early to tell." As if to see Fuji and Hikaru's thoughts, Kuro stopped. "Anyway, let's open the door and see how it goes."

……

Fuji and Hikaru and the others took the key to Alyssa's room on the first floor with Kuro, and went back to the locked room on the second floor together, where the girls who had been following Hei were still waiting.

"I've got the key, it's time to open the door." Black said solemnly to the others. "Get ready, you should think of what might happen behind the door."

The girls nodded, and Alyssa walked to the door.

With her trembling right hand, she inserted the key into the keyhole.

With a "pop", the door opened.

This room, like the others, was neatly tied.

On the right is a bed facing the door, on the left is a wardrobe without clothes, and in the middle is a table and chairs with their backs to the door, and a window that is wide open in front of everyone.

And on the chair, sat a long-haired woman.

It was still a heavy snowstorm outside the window, and the strong wind hit the window, and the snowflakes were blown on the woman's face, but the woman did not move.

It was not easy to see clearly in the dark room, but Kuro and the others immediately recognized it, it was Meroita.

"Meroyeta!"

Xiaoxian just wanted to run up, but Hei was deeply stopped by her.

Black walked up and touched Meroyeta's delicate neck.

Like Xiaochun, he has no pulse, and although he hasn't been dead for long, his body has also cooled down because of the heavy snow outside the window.

Obviously dead, her expression was still calm, the same as before her death, like a work of art, and there were hardly any flaws on her body.

If it weren't for the darkness that I saw so much of the dead, I might have thought she was still in a dream.

"I'm sorry."

Kuro said apologetic, removed his hand, and turned back.

"Although they are elves, in the eyes of the murderer, the elves who have become humans are the same as humans. Meloyeta was killed. ”

"How so?" Xiaoxian's legs weakened and she knelt on the ground.

"The cause of death is—" Fuji and Hikaru also walked up.

And Black looked at Meloyeta's body again.

Although there were no blemishes, it was clearly visible that a long needle only a millimeter thick was sticking out of Meloyette's left breast.

"It's really a bad way to kill people." Fuji and Hikaru said.

Kuro naturally leaned into the window, as if looking for evidence, while Fujiwa Hikaru continued to observe Meroyeta's corpse and looked out the window again.

"That's probably how it went." Hikaru Fujiwa concluded. "The murderer suddenly attacked Meroyeta while Kuro and the others were not paying attention, and dragged her into this pre-prepared room, while locking the door."

"Looking at the narrow appearance of this corridor, it is probably impossible to walk all the way from the opposite side of the corridor without being detected, so the murderer must have entered this room through the window."

"And it seems to me that during this time, only Alyssa, who knows this room very well, can do this."

"But if that's the case, Huangquan is also possible." Shirona asked.

"Huang Quan does have time to commit a crime if he is alive, but not to mention that he hasn't appeared yet, he shouldn't be able to judge which window from the outside can enter this room and commit a crime."

Just as Fuji and Hikaru pointed the finger at Alyssa again, Kuro refuted Fuji and Hikaru's statement.

"I don't think so."

"What?"

"Although the window was open, there was no trace of snow being squeezed from the window, and it would be difficult to remove this trace even in a few minutes, even in such a large snowstorm. And it is quite difficult for the murderer to enter the room through the window without stepping on the eaves, and it is also difficult to find the right time to kill Meroyeta. ”

"So, you want to say that the murderer didn't come in through the window?"

Black nodded.

"When I first heard that Huang Quan and Shanaiduo were leaving together, it occurred to me that the murder in this world is not necessarily done by [humans] alone. Don't you think you can do a lot of things if you have the cooperation of the elves? ”

"Take Huangquan's Shanaiduo as an example, as a super-powered elf Shanaiduo, as long as he uses the skill of teleportation, for ordinary rooms that have no magic enchantment and no locked doors, he doesn't need to enter through the window at all, right?"

"That's right, but do elves really listen to trainers to help kill people?" Shirona asked.

"Who knows, although Darkrai said that the murderer was a person, that is, there was a person who replaced one of us, but he did not say that it was only [humans] who were transferred. If that person and the elf he was carrying were stand-ins, it would not be surprising that the elf would assist the master in committing the crime. ”

"After all, he is an elf who can completely replace someone's identity, and in this castle, what is there that he can't do, this matter is still uncertain."

"Theoretically, there is a Variety Monster, and an elf that can teleport skills, no matter who it is, as long as it is out of everyone's sight, it can create an alibi, of course, I'm not saying that Huang Quan is the murderer."

"So you mean, it's possible that every one of us could be a murderer?" Fuji and Hikaru asked with a bit of anger.

"Isn't it?"

"If you say something like that, there's no way to find out who the murderer is."

"As I said at the beginning, it's not that when you encounter this kind of incident, you must be able to solve the problem with reasoning. In real reality, it is not like in the novel, as long as there is a case, there will be enough evidence to surmise who the murderer is. ”

"But if the murderer is not found, it may not be long before someone dies!" Fuji and Hikaru gritted their teeth and shouted with some excitement.

"Indeed, if two people have already died, the murderer will probably continue to commit crimes, that is, among us, I am afraid that some of us will die."

"So—"

"But—" Black raised his voice deliberately. "Who else will be killed, it is by no means a reason why you can easily swing your sword at others!"

"Don't think that just killing someone who looks like a murderer will end like this. The mistakes of any one person involved in the incident can lead others to despair. ”

"What happens if you kill the wrong person? And then you kill yourself because of your guilt, and the murderer still kills my companions one after another, have you ever thought about the consequences of killing an innocent person? ”

Undisguisedly, Kuro stared at Fujiwa Hikaru with red eyes.

"Although it is your freedom to find the murderer, if you dare to wield the knife rashly, I must kill you now."

When it came to this, Fuji and Hikaru finally let go of their killing intent towards Alyssade, and he walked out of the door.

"As long as you find conclusive evidence, yes, I will continue to investigate, and I will definitely find out the murderer."

"Then I continued to look at him." Hibiki said, intending to keep up with Fuji and Hikaru.

"Eh, Hibiki Night, are you there!?" Hibiki asked in surprise as she spoke.

"Huh? Wasn't it you who left me to look at Fujiwa Hikaru just now......"

"Sorry, the presence was too low, so I forgot."

"Black, do you say that Xiang Ye is the murderer, even if this guy kills someone, probably no one will notice him."

"Hey, don't jump to conclusions!" Xiangye said with a flustered look.

"Just kidding, it's not right to identify the murderer just because of a low sense of existence." Black said. "But you better be careful, after all, if you die, none of us will find out."

"Hey!!"

Hibiki followed Fuji and Hikaru away, and Huang Quan disappeared, while Sirona and Alyssa followed the black team.

Ignoring the fact that there was a serious imbalance between men and women, Black read the diary again.

"Black, did the diary record the location of the entrance to that secret room?" Mei asked.

"No, it's not so much that there are no records, but that it's appropriate to keep it a secret. After all, the queen also expected that future generations might read her diary, so she deliberately didn't write this kind of thing into it. ”

"It's—"

"Wait."

At this moment, Black seemed to see something important again.

This is at the end of the diary -

"It's been about five years since I started writing a diary, and a serious illness has finally found me.

I inherited the throne at the age of 16, saw my country destroyed before my eyes at the age of 18, and I was about to die at the age of 23, and I felt that my life was unexpectedly short.

But enough is enough, for me, from that day 5 years ago, I was left with endless despair.

I encourage the people around me to live well, but I think in my heart that it would be good for everyone to die together.

I knew I would never have such a thought, but it grew bigger and bigger in my heart.

I was still thinking about what I was going to do in the future, and this serious illness that would probably take my life came.

The doctor didn't know the condition, but I knew it.

The source of this disease is the growing despair in my heart.

The ancestors of the royal family of Cyllus used magic, and so did I, and now, my magic has been controlled by despair, which eats away at my body and intends to burst out of my body when I die, destroying it all.

Oops, I almost thought it was a beautiful thing now, and it seems that I don't have much hope left.

Sure enough, it was the right choice for me to leave that secret room before.

There is a magic barrier set up in advance, and it is absolutely impossible to rush out from the closed beta.

Even if the power of despair emerges after my death, it will sleep with me forever in this chamber.

Those of you who may read this diary in the future should not try to find the entrance to the secret room, let alone open it.

Because what awaits you there is nothing but endless despair. ”

"Endless despair—"

Hearing this, Mei Yi couldn't help but feel a chill in her back.

"So that Darkrai is the embodiment of the Queen's despair?"

"Indeed, after the Shanaiduo incident in Huangquan, you probably also know that the strong will left behind after death sometimes becomes an actual spirit. This would explain why this Darkrai has a unique ability. But in contrast, I am more concerned about another thing. (To be continued.) )