On December 12, the police had withdrawn from the school, and everything in the school building had returned to normal.

The atmosphere in the staff room seemed to be peaceful, and the teachers tried their best to behave as usual, chatting, resting, and reprimanding the students. But everyone's afterglow would glance at Matsuo's original seat from time to time, and at that moment, they couldn't tell what it was like in their hearts.

Since it was the homeroom teacher who died, there was no replacement for him in a short period of time, so the school temporarily found a substitute teacher for Ikeda's class.

It was a gray-haired old man, probably a retired teacher hired from outside, and watching him ride a bicycle to school at an age and ride a bicycle to exert his residual heat, people couldn't help but feel a little sympathy.

Whether he is genuinely interested in education or forced by life, he is much better than a guy like Matsuo, and even if the students don't have much respect for him, at least they don't dislike Matsuo as they do for him.

Half a day passed quietly, and although some people talked about Matsuo, their expressions were far less enthusiastic than yesterday. Perhaps this is the saddest thing about "people". It's all too easy for people to be forgotten by our kind, because each of us only remembers ourselves.

"Miura. Ikeda walked up to Miura and shouted by his first name.

Miura's face changed immediately after hearing this, and he was surprised that Ikeda dared to take the initiative to talk to him. Because Ikeda was always bullied by Miura, there was no way to take the initiative to talk to him, and even if he was forced to say a few words, he would always use honorifics first, but today, he said the word "Miura" directly with a serious face.

"What's the matter?" Miura reacted quickly, surmising that the anomaly must have something to do with the events of the previous night.

Did he see me?

Miura's fears did not materialize, but something even more dire happened, and Ikeda's next words left Miura struck by lightning.

"September 4th. ”

With that, Ikeda calmly turned away and returned to his seat as if nothing had happened.

Miura didn't stop him, just sat in his seat in shock, his eyes lost focus.

Halfway through the first class in the afternoon, Miura suddenly complained of feeling unwell, left the classroom, and then went to the teacher's office to ask for leave and go home early.

"Kill him...... Kill him...... Bastard...... That bastard...... I must kill him......" The moment Miura walked out of the classroom, his mouth began to gnaw his teeth, and the fierce expression on his face was terrifying.

On September 4th, not many people knew the meaning of this sentence, but Ikeda was certainly not one of them, and he would go and tell Miura for only one reason, because it was a condition of the deal with Tianyi.

"You can say 'September 4th' to Miura at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and you can come to me to complete the deal when you are done. ”

Thinking back to what Tenichi said at the time, Ikeda couldn't figure it out, but it didn't matter anymore, it was just a brainless remark, and what the consequences could be.

That evening, several wild cats knocked over a garbage can while rummaging for food, and Miura's head rolled out of it.

This is how his body was found in an alley that was not on his way home, and his family later proved that he did not return after taking leave from school that day.

The police speculated that this place was not the first scene, because Miura's body had been dismembered, and the body thrown in the garbage can was split into more than a dozen pieces and stuffed into a large garbage bag.

After school, Ikeda had no idea about it, and he couldn't wait to go to Tenichi's bookstore. After pushing the door in, he stumbled to Tianyi's desk and said, "Quick! Tell me quickly! Matsuo's purpose for sneaking into the school at night! And why did Miura kill someone!"

Tianyi scratched his hair and yawned: "Miura is dead." ”

Ikeda froze in place, "What...... What the...... What do you say......"

"I don't want to say the same thing over and over again, it would make me look stupid, just like you. ”

"No way! He came to school today! I told him......

"Yes, I know, then he took a leave of absence and went home, and then he died. ”

"How could it be...... How did he die?"

"Hacked to death. Tianyi took a sip of coffee, raised his eyelids and glanced at Ikeda, "Do you want to know who did it?"

"Who is it?"

"Do you want to know? Then make an exchange, and if you are willing to exchange all the information you deserve in this deal right now, I will tell you who killed Miura. Tianyi threw out the choice again.

Ikeda said angrily, "Do you want to fool me again?"

"Ridiculous, choice in trading has always been your freedom, don't blame me for your stupidity. Tianyi sneered.

Ikeda pondered for a moment before replying, "I want the original message, not the choice!"

Tianyi still sneered: "Oh, this time it's a paranoid choice, but it's still stupid." He put his hands on his head and began to say, "First of all, the reason why Matsuo went to school is very simple, Miura asked him to go. ”

"Why?" Ikeda asked.

"I'll explain it when I'm done talking about the general situation. "Tenaichi," Miura had made up his mind to kill from the beginning, and he deliberately stayed late that day before returning home, and when the students on duty and the cleaning handyman had left, he played tricks on the sliding window on the first floor. All you need is a scotch tape, which looks like it's closed from any side, but it's still a small gap away from locking.

At ten o'clock in the evening, he contacted Matsuo by phone, and then rushed to the school with the equipment he had prepared.

Matsuo arrived shortly after, and he was not stupid, he felt that it was very strange for the other party to ask him to come to a school with no one in the middle of the night, but the number mentioned by Miura on the phone was very large, and greed made Matsuo unable to control himself.

The door to the faculty office was opened sideways, and Miura placed a wire behind the door fifteen centimeters above the ground. It is impossible to turn on the light blatantly, and in the case of bad light, after Matsuo opened the door, he could only vaguely see the cash box on the table, and this guy really lived up to his expectations, and stepped forward excitedly, and was immediately tripped over. Miura, who was hiding in the shadow in the corner behind the door, pounced, suppressed the opponent with his weight to prevent him from getting up, and then quickly pressed his knee against the back of Matsuo's neck, holding the rope in both hands, and strangled him to death.

In this way, the force of strangulation is lifted from the bottom up, and the reaction force can press the victim to the ground, even if the wrist strength is average, those who are much stronger than themselves can be strangled, and it is naturally very easy for Miura-san, who has a tiger's back, to strangle the thin Matsuo.

After Matsuo died, Miura hung him up, which was not too much effort for him, packed up the tightrope at the scene, checked and cleaned up the footprints left by stepping on the high place, and put everything that could be evidence into the empty cash box he brought, Miura completed a decent murder.

But the problem is that he closes the door and is just about to leave when he hears you going upstairs. ”

The more Ikeda listened, the more frightened he became, and a murder was told in such a casual tone by Tenichi, "Then Miura hid in the shadows to observe me?"

Tianyi: "That's right, in fact, he also had murderous intentions towards you at that time, but in the end he still didn't do it." You didn't scream in a frenzy, and you didn't do anything like leaving excrement in the hallway, you just did something to add insult to it, and Miura didn't care about it, anyway, he didn't leak. Tianyi took another sip of coffee: "Of course, I think that if he hadn't done it so meticulously before, he might have killed you without doing anything." It was precisely because of the success of Matsuo's previous move to disguise suicide that he didn't want to make a fuss. ”

Thinking of the horrific scene the night before, and now knowing that there had always been a pair of hands in the darkness that could kill him at any time, Ikeda's fear was self-evident, and a cold sweat was already behind him.

Tianyi continued: "Now let's go back to the original question, why Miura asked Matsuo to go to school.

Actually, you should be able to guess most of what I just said, what about this guy Matsuo...... It is indeed an attempt to blackmail Miura, after all, the other party is the son of the director of a big hospital, and the family is very rich.

Miura's handle fell into the hands of Matsuo, and people like Matsuo didn't dare to blackmail the other party's father directly, so he said to Miura, "It doesn't matter if you steal the family's passbook, go and beg your father, whatever." 'That's the case. This culminated in the murder. ”

Ikeda asked, "What is the handle? And how could Miura be killed? Who is going to kill him?"

Tianyi touched his chin and said in an indifferent tone: "Handle......? What is it? Maybe it happened on September 4th last year. ”