Chapter 16 The Only Solution
The more I think about it, the more I can't come to a conclusion.
Yukisai Yagi is in a very chaotic mood right now. Tension and tangle mix to form a heaviness that is hard to let go.
Worry about when the next victim will appear.
Worried about what the next victim will be Fujimaru Ritsuka's turn.
Moreover, no matter how hard you try to think about it, you will never be able to find clues and find the real murderer like a detective in the animation.
Yukisai Yagi is not good at this kind of thing.
He's good at conspiracy.
Explained by the case, he is a good murderer, not a detective.
(The only way I can think of it...... It's to kill all the occupants of this apartment. Since the murderer is in our group, as long as everyone except me and Rika is excluded, it's fine. )
He couldn't help but think so in his heart.
However, considering Ritsuka's mood, she would definitely not allow herself to do so. Then, you have to devise a whole bunch of weird assassination plans that don't make people notice the problem.
This one...... It can only be regarded as a last resort.
Yagi still can't understand what the other party's killing methods are.
Why, on the contrary, neither Mordred nor Joan of Arc will die for no reason?
Incomprehensible......
The real solutions to be made now should be......
Yukisai Yagi struggled to suppress his disgust, thinking:
Since every time you do something, you will advance the time, and according to your previous and two ceremonies, it will only advance for a morning, the first step is to expand the number of [detectives].
When the time comes, multiple investigators will investigate together.
But...... Who can I ask for?
In fact, he didn't even know how many inhabitants there were.
Reliable people may not help themselves.
Like that glittering golden Gilgamesh.
If you ask him, with the power of his omniscient and all-powerful star, I am afraid that it will not be able to crack the mechanism in a second. The problem is that he will neither help himself, nor will he certainly use his precious abilities for such a thing.
Those who will help may not be reliable.
For example, Iskander. Just please, he'll probably help in the end, but this big guy doesn't look like he's very good at assassination. Military strategy aside, this kind of killing and reasoning is obviously not something he is good at.
Moreover, it is also necessary to consider here that these people are all in one mind, are they really wholeheartedly, for example, verbally agreed, but then ran away, who is it?
The quintessential example is Astolford. Although the reason Astolfo did not do it was because reason evaporated and forgot, not really did not want to do it.
Yagi Yukisai himself felt that he was really not suitable to be a detective.
If only that Sherlock Holmes could be more serious and work harder.
Yukisaixing Yagi was looking forward to it in his heart. However, that chubby guy just looked silly, which made Yagi feel difficult to let go.
(Either way, there's no way to find the most suitable solution...... If you don't know the inhabitants here, you can't deduce. This time system is really the biggest obstacle...... It's the same even to explore before the two ceremonies...... Even asking a resident is counted as an action. That would be enough to kill several people just by finding out how many people live in this ten-story apartment...... )
Wait a minute?
Yagi suddenly thought......
If we say, the survey will be carried out on a household-by-household basis...... So...... Just find someone who knows exactly what the structure of the apartment building is.
"Lady Tamamo, is there a roster of residents here?"
Yagi leaned over to the lost Tamamo, a woman with fox features, who was now drooping her ears and tail with a lost look. Hearing Yagi's words, she shook her head: "The specific operation is done by James, I only know the general situation." ”
"James......"
Speaking of which, Tamamo has also mentioned before that the old housekeeper James is the master here. James was here when he came.
This person...... It's suspicious, too.
Just because you knew him before doesn't rule out suspicion.
Yagi originally wanted to ask him about the situation, only to find out that he was not in the underground hot spring area.
After asking Tamamo about his location, Yagi rushed to the staff lounge.
Sure enough, through the keyhole, he determined that James was sitting inside, not knowing what he was doing.
"Mr. James? Are you there? ”
"Oh, oh, yes. Wait a minute, wait a minute...... Wow?! ”
The old housekeeper suddenly made a stunned sound, Yagi was stunned, his heart was not good, and he raised his foot and kicked open the door of the staff lounge......
I saw the old butler sitting on the floor, holding a gray remote control in his hand, controlling the characters in the TV screen to fight. The huge monster was sweeping its tail and knocking the villain in the picture directly away, just to see that the green blood groove in the upper left corner suddenly turned red and empty......
Then the screen slows down, the color fades, and it's obviously game over.
"Ahhh......hhh The old man's two and a half hours of hard work......"
The old man bowed his head deeply, and his whole person seemed to turn gray.
"That...... Are you playing a game? ”
"Hmmm......"
James has not yet come out of the shadow of failure, and the whole person looks very lost.
In this way, Yagi can understand why he asked himself to wait a little before, because in the middle of the boss battle, the sound of wow was only because he didn't correctly predict the enemy's battle, and he was frightened by the boss's actions.
In an instant, the tension disappeared.
"That...... I, I'm trying to get you a copy of all the tenants here. ”
"Well, under normal circumstances, hotels are not allowed to leak customer information at will."
James shook his head, stroked his beard with one hand, and refused his request. He grabbed two cans of carbonated drinks from the refrigerator in the corner and handed one to him.
"But there's a killing here."
"It has nothing to do with that. Since we are the ones who rent out the apartment, we can't leak customer information at will. If you want information, you must go through the public security and law enforcement organs to show us the proper procedures to access the information. ”
James saw that he didn't take the drink, so he opened a can and drank it first.
"What modern law do you follow us discussing?"
"Haha, that's right. However, we are not bound by the law, and I must provide you with information, these two things are not connected, are they? ”
James didn't fall into Yagi's logic trap at all. One step jumped out.
“…… Can't you make an exception? ”
Yukisai Yagi continued to plead.
In his old style, he would definitely choose to use threats here to get the other party to speak.
But for some reason, he felt that only this time it wouldn't work. This James, who is obviously a hob meat, will not pay attention to this method at all.
"It's not impossible to make exceptions. But why? What is the need? ”
James pushed his glasses and smiled a little unpleasantly.