Chapter 66: Karmic Fire and Flame
In Takashima Tomoyo's room, Takasari and Nanase stood at the door, and Takashima threw herself into Ogata-sensei's arms and sobbed lowly.
"Teacher, I'm going to be killed too!"
"Senior Sister Eagle Island," Gao Cheng crossed his arms, "you really have something to hide from us, right?" Something about Rika-sanpai......"
"I didn't do it!" Takashima Yuyo cried in a trembling voice, "I didn't hurt it! ”
"Calm down, Tomoyo," Mr. Ogata said softly, "and tell me what you know, it'll be better." ”
Takashima Yuyo looked at Takasari with red eyes: "On the day of the accident, it was me and Hidaka and Kiryu who called Riga to the science classroom......"
"And then?" Gao Cheng's eyes tightened.
"Because I'm always unwilling to be robbed of the scenery by Rika, we wanted to scare her, but Rika knocked down the sulfuric acid on the table......" Takashima cried with his face in his hands, "I didn't expect that to happen......"
Gao Cheng frowned at Eagle Island, who was trembling in Ogata's arms: "Why didn't you say anything after the incident?" Rika-senpai's suicide has nothing to do with you......"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" Takashima curled up in Ogata's arms, just crying vigorously.
"What now?" Nanase opened her mouth and looked at Gao Cheng at a loss.
"If this continues, Takajima-senpai is also in danger," Gao Changcheng exhaled and said in a deep voice, "Nanase, Ogata-sensei, she will trouble you to take care of it, the prisoner may have a crossbow in his hand, be careful not to go near the window." ”
"Where are you going?"
"I'll look for clues."
Takasei walked all the way through the corridor to the stage of the theater where Hidaka was killed, and checked it out again.
Many seemingly unreasonable and impossible places at the scene of the incident can often point to the truth, and in the cases he has encountered so far, many special techniques are designed by the murderer for a certain purpose, and the most common is to create an alibi, just like Takashi Ichieda in the last birthday party of Mitsui Qianjin.
Judging from Hidaka's death and Kiryu's death, Utsuki, who is now hidden in this opera hotel, is either a real pervert who imitates drama, or has some purpose that must be done.
Perhaps you can find out where the Utatsuki is from these clues......
Gao Cheng squatted next to the corpse of Hidaka Ori on stage, the steel frame had been removed, and the corpse was covered with a white cloth, but everything else remained as it was.
He hadn't paid much attention to it before, but this time when he saw that the bloodstains on the edge of the stage were quite neat, he thought that the stage curtain was lowered at the time of the crime.
Analyzing the thoughts and purposes of the prisoner through various details is a necessary ability to investigate the case, and for this he has been reading criminal psychology for several months, so he put down the curtain again with his own hands as soon as possible.
As the curtain splattered with blood stains and the stage, the entire murder scene was basically restored to its original state.
But it is still known why the murderer put down the curtain when he killed Hidaka......
Gao Cheng held his chin and fell into deep thought.
"Ah Yi!" Nanase found the theater and shouted at the stage where the curtain was lowered, "Aichi! The prisoner has been found! Ah Yi? ”
Seeing that Gao Cheng didn't respond, Nanase looked around and hurriedly rushed to the side of the stage in confusion.
"Joto!"
Nanase nervously lifted the curtain, and after seeing Gao Cheng who was contemplating inside, he complained, "Hey, aren't you right here?" I shouted that you didn't respond for a long time, and I thought you had an accident......"
"Did you call me?" Gao Cheng was stunned, looked at Nanase and said, "Why did you come here, didn't you ask you to take care of Eagle Island?" ”
"But the prisoner has already been caught......"
In the villa restaurant, when Gao Cheng hurried over with Nanase, the high school detective was already waiting with Boss Kurosawa, and Uncle Tianshu and the maid were standing next to him with heavy faces.
Seeing Nanase calling Gao Cheng, the corners of Kohashi's mouth raised: "I knew that the tenant of Utsuki was very suspicious, and now it seems that everything is just directed and acted by Boss Kurosawa." ”
"Boss Kurosawa is Utsuki?" Gao Cheng still can't react.
What is this, he still has a lot of questions that he hasn't thought through, and this high school student detective has directly found the murderer?
"That's right," Kenmi Kohashi said as he placed a photo of Rika on the dining table and stared at Kurosawa, who was silent, "because I thought that Utatsuki was probably hiding in the villa, so I searched it again, and just in time I saw that Boss Kurosawa had sneaked into a secret room, and from the secret room, I also found this photo and the costume of the weirdo in the opera house." ”
"Secret room?"
Gao Cheng looked at Kurosawa in confusion, and the boss had clearly said that he didn't know what the secret room was: "Mr. Kurosawa, what's going on?" ”
Kurosawa was silent and didn't speak, and Ken Kohashi said when he saw this: "Boss Kurosawa himself admitted to two murders, he used to be a drama teacher of Fukami Rika, and the suicide of his outstanding disciple has always made him haunted......"
"No, Mr. Kurosawa shouldn't be a prisoner." Gao Cheng frowned.
It's too strange to be that simple, and Kurosawa's performance is also unusual......
"What are you talking about?" Kenmi Kohashi smiled and pointed to the opera house weirdo costume and mask on the side, "Boss Kurosawa himself has admitted the crime, and the evidence is here!" This is the costume that Mr. Kurosawa stole from! ”
"Mr. Kurosawa once performed as an opera house freak, which may have been a previous costume, and," Gao Cheng looked at Kurosawa closely, "Is Mr. Kurosawa really Utatsuki?" ”
"What do you mean?" Kohashi Kenmi's face was gloomy.
Gao Cheng ignored Kohashi Kenmi and asked Kurosawa directly, "Mr. Kurosawa, do you remember the lines on the wall of Uchizuki's room?" ”
Kurosawa raised his head, looked at Gao Cheng suspiciously, and said affirmatively: "Of course I remember, it's the lines of the weirdos in the opera house, burned by the karmic fire of hell." ”
"Then we'll go back to that room."
Gao Cheng nodded, and led everyone out of Geyue's room in front of the restaurant first, and when he passed by the door of Takashima's room, he said to Nanase: "Nanase, you still stay here to take care of Takashima-senpai, and now the real prisoner may still be hiding in secret." ”
"Me?" Nanase stopped helplessly, his heart was like a cat scratching, only he knew that Gao Cheng was a famous detective in Tokyo, and he also wanted to follow Gao Cheng to reason.
Geyue's room was still messy, with windows leaking and torn curtains whirring.
"Alright," Kohashi Kenmi rushed into the room first, looked around and turned back to Gao Chengdao, "What the hell are you looking at?" It's just that the boss of Kurosawa deliberately messed up it in order to hide people's eyes, and the reason why the suitcase is empty is also because there is no need to bring anything at all......"
"Haven't you found it yet?" Gao Cheng suddenly spoke.
"What?"
"Boss Kurosawa hasn't performed for a long time, so I may not have noticed, but now the 'karmic fire' in the lines has actually been changed to 'flame'," Gao Cheng looked at the lines on the wall, "Yes, if it's Boss Kurosawa, the lines left here should be 'burned by the karmic fire of hell'......"
"This!" Kenmi Kohashi's face changed and he looked at the "flame" written on the wall, "This may be the deliberate ...... of Boss Kurosawa"
Gao Cheng shook his head and continued: "I'm afraid that the murder methods in the first two cases are not even clear to Mr. Kurosawa, right? The reason why I want to help to apologize for the crime is because of the photo of Riga in the secret room, and on the other hand, I want the murderer to stop...... Mr. Kurosawa, is that so? ”
Boss Kurosawa stared at the lines on the wall speechless, and lowered his head in default.
"Really?" Seeing Kurosawa's appearance, Kobashi Ken couldn't help but take a step back, gritting his teeth and looking at Gao Cheng, "Y-Who are you?" Are you the murderer? ”
"He's a detective too," Ogata said with a scrutinizing smile as he walked to the door, "the modern left character, a detective on the same level as the sleeping Kogoro...... Detective Joto, am I right? ”