Chapter 4: The Dead Hole
Teidan High School, behind the reading room.
Behind the reading room is an overgrown open space, and in the open space is a utility room where a statue of Yukichi Fukuzawa, who has retired from the hallway of the school building.
Even if it is a private Didan High School, there are plenty of cleaning staff, but there will still be untended wasteland, which is the case behind the reading room.
"I didn't know there was such an open space at the back of the reading room."
"That's because you don't even come to the reading room to read."
"Then you knew it before?"
"I ......"
The onlookers were whispering to each other, most of them unaware of the fact that there was such a place behind the reading room.
"Hey, don't get together, hurry back to the classroom and study." The academic affairs teacher drove away the onlookers, "This is the scene of the crime, it has nothing to do with you, leave quickly." ”
But the shouts of the teaching teacher did not have much effect, most of the students of Didan High School were second-generation, and they were not afraid of the majesty of the teacher, and those who dared to gather at the scene of the murder were all bold students, and they had already gone through a round of screening.
With such a thing that can watch the scene of the murderer, who will honestly go to class.
"Click, click."
A Metropolitan Police officer took a picture of the deceased with a camera, while Reya Hanabuchi's mother was crying next to the body.
Even though it was already a corpse, it didn't affect Reya Hanabuchi's stunning and beautiful face in the slightest.
It's just that the school uniform on her body is a little messy, although it doesn't show any sensitive places, it looks like the body has been rummaged through.
The blood flowing from the back of Hanabuchi Reya's head had coagulated, and it was supposed to be a blunt object hit and killed, and Mito Tsuki glanced around the area where the debris was placed, probably with a baseball bat placed on the upper part of the shelf.
But the baseball bat is gone.
Was it taken away and disposed of by the murderer?
The bloody scene, the terrifying scene, the people involved at the scene were surrounded by grief and anger, and the Twilight Officer came with the 'prisoner' high school student.
"You killed Reya, why did you do such a cruel thing!"
Reya Hanabuchi's mother was even more about to step forward and behave irrationally, but fortunately she was stopped by two policewomen and a girl on the side.
"......" Looking at the corpse of Reya Hanabuchi, Mito Moon felt a strange feeling, the person who was confessing to himself yesterday has become a corpse today.
For Reya Hanabuchi, this should be the biggest accident in life.
"Now that you have seen the corpse, don't you have the slightest remorse in your heart? We don't have more than just a little bit of evidence. Officer Twilight shook off his coat, he had already decided that Mito was the murderer.
Officer Twilight's words brought Mitotsuki's thoughts back to reality: "Officer Twilight, as a police professional, you should never be guilty, I don't know who you got the wrong inference from, but I'm innocent. ”
"Quibble, and how did you know my last name, Twilight?"
Of course, it's because I've watched "Detective Conan" and I'm very impressed with Officer Twilight.
Mito Moon said expressionlessly, "I heard other policemen talk about it on the road, and I wrote it down by the way." ”
"Since Officer Twilight suspects me of being the murderer, what is the interlocking evidence you are talking about?"
Officer Twilight is determined to show his professionalism as a Metropolitan Police Department, and he can't count on the detective every time: "Okay, then I'll tell you what happened at the scene." ”
"First of all, the deceased sent you a text message before his death, inviting you to come here, right, and in the reading room, someone can prove that you read in the reading room, and Reya Hanabuchi also entered the reading room and made eye contact with you."
In the crowd of onlookers on the side of the corpse, yesterday's classmate A nodded in a panic, and was involved in a murder case, which was too terrifying for ordinary people.
"I was reading in the reading room yesterday, and I was sitting next to Mitotsuki, and while I was reading, I saw Reiya Hanabuchi also enter the reading room, and she kept looking at Mito from time to time, and I also talked to Mito for a while, reminding him that Reya Hanabuchi was looking at him." Student A tried to remember what happened yesterday afternoon, "But I read the book for a while and then left, so I didn't pay attention to the two of them anymore......
Mito Yue nodded and admitted Classmate A's statement: "Yes, I admit it, I did see Hanabuchi Reya in the reading room yesterday. ”
"So, Mito-san, do you have any witnesses who can prove that you stayed in your seat the whole time and didn't come into contact with Reya Hanabuchi at the back of the reading room?" Officer Twilight put it another way.
Mito Yue looked coldly at Officer Twilight's reasoning, and said honestly: "It shouldn't be, the place I'm sitting in is the corner of the reading room, even at the front desk, you can't see me, no one can prove that I've been sitting in my seat and haven't moved." ”
It was still the late 90s, and surveillance cameras had not yet been installed in the reading room of Didan High School.
"That means that if I make the reasoning that during the five or six hours you are reading, you will go back to your seat and continue reading while the others are not paying attention, because you have plenty of time."
"Whatever you want, although this is far-fetched...... Mito Moon shrugged his shoulders absently, "but if you think about it that way, there is no problem with the inference." ”
Mito Yue glanced at the corpse of Reya Hanabuchi, and then at the people who were glaring at him: "But the question is, do I have a motive to kill?" It was Reya Hanabuchi who confessed to me failed, not me who failed to confess to Reya Hanabuchi, even if it was a love killing, there was no such love killing, but the emotional aspect was the only contact between me and Reya Hanabuchi. I can't think of why I killed someone, and all you point out now is just suspicions, not a complete chain of reasoning. ”
"No, you have." Officer Twilight's eyes were deep, and he looked like a Metropolitan Police Department police department, "Mihoko Shimomura-san, please tell us why." ”
Mihoko Shimomura, who had been squatting beside Reya Hanabuchi, stood up, her eyes were red, and she clenched her upper and lower teeth as if she was going to bite Mito to death.
Mito remembered that it should have been Mihoko Shimomura who ran to her place and scolded herself yesterday.
"Because Reya Hanabuchi has Mito's death hole on his hands, in order to save himself, Mito killed Reya Hanabuchi painfully!"
Dead hole?!
Hearing this word, which has always only appeared on TV, everyone around me became excited.
They sensed that things were getting more and more interesting!