Kana receives an invitation from a former friend of her mother. That person's name is Haruko Sayama, and he can be considered rich. The invitation to Kana is entirely out of the old friendship. Of course, Haruko didn't know about Kana's parents, but once when asked about Kana's parents, Kana temporarily lied and said that her parents were away from home and would be back for a long time.

The invitation says that the Sayama family is going to hold a banquet, more precisely, a party. Although Kana used to often attend banquets hosted by her parents, in reality, she was reluctant at all. She doesn't like places that are too noisy, too crowded, and have too much atmosphere. So, every time she comes out of that place, Kana feels dizzy and has a headache.

But after all, Aunt Haruko also invited herself, and she seemed to care about Kana, so she had no choice but to go.

The party scene was unsurprisingly noisy. Kana hadn't been to such a noisy place for a while. As soon as she entered, she felt bored and uncomfortable. But she still pretended to be relaxed and greeted others. After that, Kana sat down in a chair by the window, and opened the window to make it windy outside, which she thought would make her a little more comfortable.

On the other side of the party scene, there is a large screen. The three daughters of the Sayama family and Miss Haruko are there.

At this time, the older daughter came to this side with a cake for others. The second daughter also followed and offered to help. When passing by Kana's seat, due to the negligence of her second daughter, the cake accidentally fell off. The cream stuck to the eldest daughter, second daughter, and Kana. When the eldest daughter is complaining about the clumsiness of the second daughter and is about to go to the bathroom to wash up, the party has already begun. Instead, they had to wait until the party was over.

The two men returned to behind the screen. Kana didn't listen to the party host's nonsense on stage, she looked out the window in a daze, waiting for the party to end.

At this time, there was a sudden power outage, and the scene was chaotic. After about a minute, it was restored again, and nothing happened. Just as everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, the power went out again.

Two minutes later, the call came. The party screamed as Miss Haruko hanged herself from behind the screen.

The police arrived quickly. It was never a suicide, but a well-planned homicide. The party's electric brake was lowered in advance.

The most likely offenders were a few people on the other side of the screen. The eldest daughter is called Ami Sayama, the second daughter is called Kimi Sayama, and the youngest is called Daimi Sayama.

Police found a suspicious note in the deceased's room that read:

ima=reredrum→←

What does that mean? It's not a word, and what does that equals sign and two arrows mean?

Kana also saw the note. She walked over to the body and found the body holding a pair of scissors with blood on them, but no wounds were found on the deceased's body. One end of the hanging rope hooked the iron hook on top, and another rope remained, and the remaining rope still had traces of cake cream.

"Well, I see."

Kana called everyone together and said, "You're the murderer, Miss Ami Sayama." ”

"What are you talking about?" Ami said impatiently.

Kana began to reason about the whole case: "First of all, you did something on the electric switch. The party begins, you hang the long rope you have prepared in advance on the iron hook on it, and when the first power goes out, wrap one end around Miss Haruko's neck, tighten it and tie it in a knot. Pulling the other end of the rope, trying to suffocate Miss Haruko. Unexpectedly, Miss Haruko actually took out a pair of scissors and stabbed you, cutting a wound. At this time, there was a sudden call, probably because you missed when you were doing tricks on the electric switch. And then, it's over. You continue to pull the rope, resulting in the death of Miss Haruko. The proof is that you had cream on your body before, and you also had it on the rope, and the code on that piece of paper was understandable. The arrow at the back means to swap the letters from right to left, and after the exchange, it is: murderer=amiThe word in front of it means 'murderer', and the translation of the roman sound after the equal sign into Japanese is Ami, that is, murderer = Ami. The ironclad evidence is that since the deceased stabbed the murderer with scissors, then the murderer must have been stabbed with scissors! ”

Ami paused for a moment and said, "That's right, I killed her because, she always only focused on the other two daughters, and never cared about me." ”

Kana stared at Ami and said, "Miss Haruko once told me that she regretted neglecting you before, but she loves you. In her room, I also found a suicide note. With that, Kana took out the suicide note. It reads: Yami, mom is sorry for you, but I never gave up on you. I noticed a few weeks ago that you hated me and wanted to kill me. Yami

The words are not finished. Subsequently, the police took the tearful Ami away.

On the other side of the road, Mihiko Fujisaki stands under a street lamp. Suddenly, her phone rang. Mihiko took out her phone and connected it.

"The mission is complete, it's time for you to go back to South Korea." On the other end of the line was a woman's voice.

"Not for now." Mihiko said.

"Why?"

"I still have some things to attend to."

"It's just something that doesn't matter. Now that you're in a dangerous situation, go back to South Korea. ”

"Danger? There's someone more dangerous than me. The guy called Kana Miyazawa"

"That's very different."

"Well, I can't go back just yet. Don't contact me in the future, your identity will be revealed. Good bye. After Mihiko finished speaking, she hung up the phone.

In the dark night, a lonely figure of a girl walked away from the street lamp

Next chapter の preview: Meet Mihiko again, what should Kana do?