Chapter 195: The Faded Rose
"My words, I used to have a happy family, and I believe Mr. Detective can also see that I am not very old, but my family is not happy, huh...... Yes, my father was a gambler and used to beat me and my mother, and my mother, who was beaten to death when I was seven years old, was still telling me to keep smiling before she died, and then on the day I turned eighteen, I turned into a clown and smiled and pushed my father down the well, hehehe...... I still smiled as he struggled to call for help. β
Kashima finished his story in a heavy tone, but he laughed smugly as he spoke.
Neither polygraph on the wrist of the man called the police.
Hasegawa listened to the other party's story, and there was no fluctuation in his heart, to be honest, this story was not the most ruthless he had ever encountered, after all, he had been a detective for more than ten years.
"Alright, Mr. Detective, we're done with the deal, and we'll be safe for at least the first two hours." Kashima Akira said and gave the order to evict the guest.
Hasegawa had no choice but to turn around and leave, this clown can be said to be doing things without revealing anything, he used to think that this clown was not as good as Kei Sakurai, but now it seems that the other party is not bad at all.
even had a murderous intent for a while, if he wanted to, there were more undetectable killing methods.
After all, whether it is a clown, Hasegawa feels that the other party has no scruples at all, and even his identity and the symbol of his existence in this world can be abandoned.
What else can't be given up?
But his long-term career as a detective still made him suppress this thought.
In the end, Hasegawa left.
The same deals are happening in different rooms, everyone is telling what is most precious in their hearts, and the dark side of humanity is beginning to be revealed.
Yupea Lily and the announcer are also facing different people.
Moreover, the microphone the size of a grain of rice in the ears of the yubean lily also faithfully transmitted the content of everyone's transactions.
After sending off the reporter in front of him, Yudou Lily sat back on the bed: "Sure enough, someone is disobedient......
She knew someone was lying.
And according to the rules, this will be the first to die!
......
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, music began to play on the radio.
It's mealtime.
Everyone went downstairs one after another, and Akira Kashima also found a new set of clothes from the house to change.
"You're a clown?"
The reporter looked at the clown's new appearance and asked with a questioning look, now the other party is wearing a purple suit, a green vest inside, the mask is still on his face, and his hair has turned green like seaweed, but now this dress seems to be ...... More in line with the image of the clown.
"Isn't it obvious?" Kashima tilted his head, and the clown mask on his face seemed to mock.
The reporter took a quick step in disgust and ignored Akira Kashima.
Lunch is served in the kitchen, so they still have to solve these things by themselves, holding their own plates and cutlery, and choosing the food they want from the kitchen to the table together.
Ten people sat in a circle.
The ladies didn't carry much of everything, including roses, and it was clear that the trip had not made her appetite very good.
The monk who called himself Fahai only took some vegetarian food and water.
The other men chose Sakura sake, which of course was recommended by Takashi Tsunada.
But by this time there were fewer roses on the table, and they had become ten.
This change was noticed by Hasegawa at a glance.
"You ...... Has anyone touched the rose on the table? β
The crowd shook their heads.
Hasegawa's face was a little unpleasant, but this was Takashi Tsuneta who came out to play a round: "Okay, Mr. Detective, don't you need these details, maybe the organizer has taken care of it?" β
Indeed, it is more likely that this is done by the organizers.
Otherwise, the entire manor is under the monitoring of the organizers, and anyone who wants to make a small move will not be able to escape the eyes of the organizers.
And the purpose of the organizers is to do this...... It should be to let them know that the organizer can change things under their noses, and they can quietly kill the one of them who does not follow the rules.
Just when everyone was thinking differently, suddenly on the side of the table, the person who called himself Q opened his mask and drank a sip of cherry blossom wine, but after a few seconds, he began to clamp his neck with his hand, and fell to the ground with convulsions, making a tearing sound in his mouth, and then seemed to be breathless, directly ripped off his mask, and breathed heavily.
The skin that is starting to turn blue and the hideous face look terrifying!
Hasegawa rushed over with an arrow, then smelled a subtle smell of bitter almonds, and hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his clothes, turned his head and shouted at everyone: "Cyanide poisoning!" Get water! Lots of water! β
In the end, it was the pumpkin head writer who quickly turned around and ran to the kitchen.
But when he returned to the table, Hasegawa had already put the other party down and stood aside with a heavy expression.
"What's the matter, the water is coming!"
"No, people died, someone poisoned the food."
The water in the pumpkin head writer's hand fell to the ground, splashing his trouser leg without noticing.
"Dead...... It's really going to die......" he muttered, his mind and body taking a terrible blow.
But this is Takashi Tonata who stood up: "Has anyone touched his food just now?" β
"No, he took the food himself, and weren't we all together when we took it?" MusclewomanβRose said.
"Then this should be the punishment of the organizers." Takashi Tsuneta said, "In that case, why don't we open his mask and take a look?" β
This is the best time, and Takashi Tsuneta naturally has to grasp it, after all, he is the only one who shows his true face now.
"I agree."
"I agree."
"Hehe, I'm ...... too"
......
Finally, Q's hood is pulled back.
"Akira Kadoya." Hasegawa spat out a name.
"You know?" The reporter glanced at each other.
"Well, I'm a detective, so I know him, this person used to be a police officer in the Compendium Department's forensic section, but then he quit for some reason, and later opened a photo studio in Tokyo." Hasegawa said and looked up, "Did anyone of you make a deal with him before?" β
After a while, no one came out to speak.
"Then since everyone is silent, I will reason according to the fact that he has no deal." Hasegawa began to say to himself: "If Akira Kadoya didn't trade, then one of us had personally traded, and the number was odd, which means that at least one person had traded with two people, and if you think about it, even three or four are possible.
The development of events was much more than I expected......"
As Hasegawa spoke, he suddenly noticed that a rose was suddenly missing from the table.
It was originally ten roses, but now there are only nine left!
And all the people present have been here since the beginning, under everyone's watchful eyes.
"This organizer ...... Something. "The detective soul in Hasegawa's heart is burning, it is foreseeable that the organizers will definitely kill people again in the future, the secrets are getting fewer and fewer, and when the secrets that all of them can trade are known to others, the only way out for them to survive is to ...... Homicide!
Or find the organizer and kill it.
Hasegawa didn't say this, but he believed that many people present could see it, but there were also many people who couldn't think of this key point.
But there was one man who died of food poisoning, and he was the first to drink alcohol
"Then our food ......," the reporter said hesitantly, and everyone was worried.
But while she was talking, Kashima Akira sat back in his seat, looking at the food and began to worry: "Damn, why didn't you think of eating?" β
Obviously, you can't eat with a mask like them.
Kashima Akira tried to lift the mask and eat it, but accidentally slipped his hand, and the leather band hanging on the mask contracted and directly bounced the mask back onto Kashima's face.
"Oops!" Akira Kashima covered his face, and his funny appearance was the same as that of a clown.
In the end, Kashima Akiichi was ruthless, looked at everyone, and directly ripped off the mask and threw it on the table, revealing the "true face" under the mask.
The green algae-like hair hangs on his head, the miserable white skin seems to have been brushed with paint, and the two big dark circles under his eyes still look a little cute if they are placed on the national treasure, but they only look more gloomy and abrupt when they hang on Kashima Akira's face.
But the most palpitating thing is his lips that seem to be slit.
It was more rude than Kei Sakurai's real cut, and it was more irregular across the entire face, and the bright lipstick applied on it outlined a smile.
After taking off the mask, Akira Kashima finally felt a lot more breathable.
Then he began to eat the food on the table in a big gulp, and he also drank half a glass of cherry blossom wine in one gulp, without worrying about the poisonous appearance at all.
The others who watched were stunned.
The second to start eating was Fahai: "Let's eat, it's not the same thing to carry the body out and put it here after eating." β
At this time, the announcer, who had been relatively silent but dressed as a hot girl with heavy makeup, suddenly spoke, "The organizer is hiding among us, and according to Mr. Detective's reasoning just now, we can know that the ultimate goal of the organizer is to kill people or let us kill each other, so can we find out the organizer, the main organizer is dead, we don't have to worry about the dead, just wait for rescue with peace of mind?" β
It was only a little more than two hours before they came to the Rose Manor, but they had all thought about this idea, but no one was willing to put it forward first, for fear of being opposed by the organizers.
But now that people are really dead, they can't afford to sit back and wait for death.
"Yes, then we need to find the source of the broadcast first." Muscle Female Rose was the first to pro.
However, at this time, Takashi Tonata, who has always been optimistic, said with some frowns: "However, we also have to consider a situation, that is, what is said in the broadcast is actually a disguise, the real organizer is actually monitoring us remotely, and among us, someone has been bribed, after all, everyone has a handle in the organizer, it should be easy to be bought, right?" β
"Hey, hey, hey, it's worthy of being the son of a politician, and sure enough, the angle of thinking about the problem is different, but since the road is broken and the police can't get in, can the organizers get in? Besides, even if it was bought, we didn't know who was bought, and it didn't say anything in the rules, right? Akira Kashima finished the last bite at this time, drained the cherry blossom wine in one gulp, and said in a sharp and deep voice.
Hasegawa made a summary at this time: "Well, then that's it, we all want to live, and we also want to keep our secrets, if you want to eat, you can stay, and if you don't want to, you can go back to the room to rest, and wait until the next transaction is over, let's test another round, if there are still people who die, then let's go and check the details of the organizer, how about it?" β
The idea was well received by everyone.
Immediately after that, Hasegawa, the announcer, Takashi Tsunada, and Yuriko chose to stay and eat, while the others chose to go hungry and then go back to their rooms to rest.
"But during this time, it's best for you not to run around, try to go alone, or with everyone, and try to avoid being alone with another person except for trading." Finally, Hasegawa admonished again.
Now everyone is thinking differently and is terrified.
Even Takashi Tsuneta and Rose are just calm on the surface.
Although mobile phones cannot be concentric, they can record things and set alarm clocks, and most people plan to lock the door and sleep and rest.
Sleep for an hour and spend the remaining hour trading.
But there are three more people who have chosen to do some small actions.
While the other five were sleeping, three figures left the room.
One quietly enters the other's room, one chooses to take a look at the sea of roses, and the last one begins to investigate the entire house.
Finally, less than an hour later, they were back in their rooms.
An hour passed quickly.
Then people started trading.
Takashi Tsuneta went to the reporter's room.
Shirayuku knocked on Yuriko's door.
Fahai surprisingly went to the announcer of the hot girls.
And Hasegawa also entered the announcer's room after Fahai left the announcer's room.
Finally, there is the rose, and after Takashi Tsuneta in the reporter's room left, the reporter came to the rose.
As for Akira Kashima's room.
Everyone thought this man was crazy, so they didn't want to go to him.
The second two hours passed, that is, at two o'clock in the afternoon, when everyone gathered in the hall, and by two and ten o'clock, the clown was nowhere to be seen.
At this time, Hasegawa subconsciously glanced at the roses on the table.
Eight!
One less one!
Suddenly he felt that the situation was not good!
"Oops! Let's go to the clown's room! β
After saying that, he took the lead and ran upstairs, followed by the others.
The Joker's door is locked, and it is impossible to enter normally from the outside.
"The door is locked!" Hasegawa shouted, "All the men come with me and bang on the door!" β
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
After more than ten hits, the clown's door was finally knocked open.
Unlike the anxious situation outside, the clown was still lying on the bed at this time, but such a big movement outside could not wake the other party up.
Hasegawa walked closer quickly, put his fingers on the other party's neck and stopped for about ten seconds before opening a heavy opening and saying:
"He's dead."