Shiraishi walked along the path for a while, and saw a person walking in the direction of the villa from a distance.

On the way, the man changed direction and went the other way.

Shiraishi watched for a moment, then quickly followed.

He goes out in the form of a cat. The footprints of the masquerade are too obvious, and now the snow around the villa is not too thick, and the form of a cat can run away, but it is a little cool.

When I ran closer, my feet were almost numb, but fortunately it was pinched by the system, so I don't have to worry about damage.

Hearing the man's voice, Shiraishi recognized it as Akiko Yonehara, who had returned from the ski resort ahead of time.

Akiko Yonehara's destination is a garage.

Judging by the content of her call, it seems that she has come to pick up a person named Sugiyama.

Probably because the system staff didn't bother the dead little girl too much, the details of the mission that Shiraishi received this time were explained from the perspective of the would-be murderer.

- Akiko Yonehara is the head teacher of the dead little girl, and she is also the person to whom the little girl confides in back then. It's a pity that before she could act, the child was already dead. The case eventually ended in suicide.

The more Yonehara Koko thinks about it, the more she feels sorry for Minako and is determined to avenge her.

But because Minako only told her Sugiyama's name at that time and didn't say the other, Yonehara Akiko couldn't find a suitable opportunity to attack - if she only killed one, it would be unfair, and it would be easy to startle the snake if she killed one first.

Recently, she finally thought of a solution that she felt was very reliable - as long as she made reasonable use of Sugiyama's death to scare another murderer out, the problem of not finding anyone might be solved.

A few minutes after arriving at the parking lot, a car was parked on the side of the road.

When Shiraishi heard Yonehara Akiko call that person "Sugiyama", he immediately ran under the car near the driver's seat.

When Sugiyama opens the door and gets out of the car, Shiraishi takes apart the revenge license that can be split into two pieces, and one of them sticks to Sugiyama's ankle. Although it was through clothes and boots, the license penetration was quite strong, and it quickly dissipated and took effect.

Sugiyama wasn't slapped by the cat, it was cold here, and the boots he wore were thick.

He quickly walked towards Akiko Yonehara.

Sugiyama and Yonehara are both teachers at Teidan Elementary School. Yonehara is serious when he teaches classes, but he is usually very gentle and good-looking, and although Sugiyama thinks she is old, he occasionally looks at her and looks at her.

Yonehara knew that he had never been here, and he came to show him the way, which made Sugiyama a little moved.

The only regret is that the weather is too cold, the other party is wearing too thick, not to mention the figure, even the hair and face are tightly wrapped, and you can't see anything. And she somehow got a dusty coat, which was completely different from her usual foreign dress.

Yonehara waved at him.

In order to protect against snow and rain, the parking lot is located relatively high.

Sugiyama had just driven up the ramp, and then down the stairs.

As soon as he took a step, his feet suddenly slipped, and the whole person spun ninety degrees and fell, the back of his head slammed into a sharp stone, and then along the stairs, rolling all the way to the feet of Yonehara Koko, and never got up again.

“？” Shiraishi's head is full of question marks. It's too simple and crude, so it's better to have a heart attack......

Yonehara Akiko was also stunned.

Originally, because there was surveillance in the parking lot, she wanted to ask people away first, and then find a chance to kill them, hide under her bed, and find a chance to use them.

Who knew that Sugiyama not only fell to his death, but also slipped out of the monitoring range.

Yonehara stood there for a while, looked down, and found that there was a piece of blood in the back of the person's head, and there was no breath left.

She simply wrapped the wound to prevent bleeding all the way, and then put a rope on the corpse, which was put on her shoulder, and dragged it all the way.

……

Shiraishi doesn't remember the name of the other conspirator anymore, only the face of a passerby.

Now except for Yonehara Koko, there are only one man and one woman in the participants, but in Shiraishi's impression, in the original world line, there are actually other suspects in this case, and there are more than two.

In case for some unknown reason, the murderer three years ago will actually come later, then it will be a waste to directly paste the license on Shimoda Kohei.

- If the person is not the murderer, the license will also be consumed, the difference is only that if he does very few bad things, he will only catch a cold, or fall and be done. Of course, it wasn't the kind of "wrestling" that Mr. Sugiyama did just now.

Anyway, the license doesn't have an expiration date, so just use it before the mission deadline, so Shiraishi decides to keep it for now and see how it goes.

The Vengeance License can be stowed into the System Backpack.

Shiraishi put away the remaining half, then lifted the mask and returned to the main body.

……

In the evening, the wind and snow became heavier, and several people came back one after another.

It was still nearly an hour before the meal, and Minori Nakamura took a turn and found that the fireplace in the villa worked, and immediately lit a fire happily.

But just lighting the fireplace, still lacks a bit of atmosphere.

Minori Nakamura's eyes rolled, and when she had an idea, she called the other three over and brought snacks by the way: "Let's tell ghost stories!" ”

"Huh? All right. "Yonehara Koko wasn't in the mood, but she couldn't show it.

And in her eyes, the ghost story telling activity is very good - it arouses the fear of other people first, and then when she sees Minako-related prompts, that person is more likely to show flaws.

Akiko Yonehara pinched her chin and recalled a story she had heard:

The sculptor was working overtime, and suddenly the phone screen lit up.

Message from an unknown number: You have lost something in your house.

The sculptor rushed home. When she was about to get home, she was startled when she saw a police car nearby.

However, the police car did not stop in front of her house and left quickly.

It seems that nothing is going on at home.

Back home, the sculptor carefully inspected the shelves, safes, wardrobes, drawers...... Even the refrigerator was opened and nothing was missing.

It must have been a prank call, she thought. So I was ready to take a bath and go to bed. happy

When I was rinsing my hair with my eyes closed, a voice in my ear said eerily, "You lost the spare key to your house." ”

……

"Wow——!!!" Minori Nakamura exclaimed.

I don't know if she really thinks it's scary, or if it's just to cater to the atmosphere, but she looks scared anyway and moves closer to Shiraishi.

"You're too timid." Shimoda Kohei laughed, "Who's next?" ”

"You come, you come." Minori Nakamura picked up another bag of potato chips.

Shimoda Kohei thought for a moment:

One person was very unlucky and broke the glasses he had just bought.

While thinking about where to buy it tomorrow, he walked into the bedroom in the dark, found the bed and lay down, hugged the quilt that had just been dried yesterday, and took a relaxed breath.

The smell on the quilt was pleasant to him and the room was clean.

The only bad thing is the art painting on the wall.

It depicts a cold man holding a book in his hand, sticking to the picture, and his eyes are looking in the direction of the bed.

…… I'm too tired today, let's go change the painting tomorrow, the man yawned and quickly fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, he was woken up by a text message.

The screen light illuminated the room, and the man saw the opposite wall, and his scalp tingled.

There are no paintings on the wall, only a window. The window was open with a slit.

Behind him, there was a sudden sound of unfamiliar breathing.

……

"Ah——!!h

Minori Nakamura continued to cheer.

Next to her, Shiraishi silently picked up a piece of potato chips, clicked and gnawed it, always feeling that there was something wrong with this story.

The next one doesn't need to be told by Shiraishi - as soon as Kohei Shimoda opened his mouth just now, the ghost story has already been determined to be clockwise, and the next one will be Minori Nakamura.

Minori Nakamura racked his brains for a while, and finally figured it out:

The photographer wanted to surprise his friends.

He selected the best photos from some unique angles and made an album.

The main character in the photograph is sometimes a friend, sometimes a friend's work.

My friend is a sculptor, young and beautiful, and her friends are all lovely girls.

It's just that the sculptor has a bad temper, and friendship always lasts short.

But she cherishes her friends very much, and even if they are separated, they will make statues of friends to commemorate them.

The photographer arranged the photos in order according to the time in the lower right corner to complete the album.

He happily looked through it and noticed that there were some duplicate faces inside.

The sculpture that appears in the second photo is carved in the image of a girl in the first photo, which is vivid.

The sculpture that appears in the third photograph is carved in the likeness of a girl in the second photo.

A friend is really a good girl who cherishes friendship.

The photographer closes the album and brings a gift for a friend's birthday, ready to surprise him.

……

"Ah!!h It's still Minori Nakamura.

is also happy to participate in her own ghost story.

Then the three of them looked at Shiraishi and looked forward to it: "It's your turn, your major is criminal psychology, and there should be a lot of stories." ”

"Hmm......" Shiraishi looked at the wind and snow outside the window, and felt that this place should be more appropriate:

"Did you know that when more than three people gather in a villa in the suburbs, they have a chance to hear the knock of death......

"—tuk tuk."

"Yikes!!" Minori Nakamura's screaming cooperation.

Actually, this story is not too scary, and it seems to be an adaptation of the old-fashioned Snow Maiden story.

But people even got the sound effects out, and they didn't cooperate, so it didn't feel good.

But immediately after, Minori Nakamura saw Koko Yonehara stand up.

"What's wrong?" Minori Nakamura wondered.

"There's a knock on the door." Yonehara Akiko was also puzzled, "You didn't hear?" ”

"Ah...... Isn't that Shiraishi knocking on the floor? Minori Nakamura was sitting right on the side of Shiraishi and could only see one of his hands.

Shimoda Kohei, who was opposite Shiraishi, saw it more clearly: "His two hands didn't move, we are exactly four people today, maybe, it is really a ghost story that attracts death, hahaha." ”

That being said, none of the three took the ghost story too seriously.

Kohei Shimoda and Minori Nakamura felt that Sugiyama had arrived—he had something to do today, and he said he would be late.

However, when they opened the door, it was not Sugiyama who they thought they were, but two girls who looked like high school students and an elementary school student with glasses.

The primary school student raised his face and asked politely and obediently: "We suddenly encountered a snowstorm on the way, and we didn't have time to get to the villa, can we come here to borrow it for one night." ”