"Why...... I went to the suspect's house alone......"

Katayama stood at the door of a community and looked carefully at the address and house number Furukawa had given him.

If these two are neighbors, Mashiro's home should be in it......

It's a pity that this time it's not like an abandoned building on the factory side, and Zorro can't be directly unlocked.

He knocked on both sides of the door between Mashiro and the neighbors, but no one paid attention to him at all, and neither side had any intention of opening the door.

"Young man...... The Mahaku family has moved away since the little girl committed suicide, and now no one lives there, and the family next door should be the family where the children are going to school, and the adults are working in the hardware store........."

A grocery shopping aunt said, and went upstairs by herself, not bothering Katayama anymore.

"Huh?"

Katayama immediately grasped the point...... Hardware store?

He just walked around here, and there was indeed a hardware store, in that case...... Maybe the adults in their family will know something.

………

The hardware store belongs to the more formal kind, almost the same size as the supermarket, and the owner looks like an honest person, but he doesn't know what is going on inside.

There is no shortage of people here who are honest on the outside but dirty on the inside.........

He immediately leaned in...... Ready to ask about Mashiro and his son......

…………

"Well, the note, I also received ........."

The boy looked at Furukawa's serious expression, took out a note and shook it, it was indeed the same as the note everyone else received.

"However, when I inquired in class before......"

"Everyone is afraid of this kind of thing! I don't want anyone else to know, it's just that you're suspicious of me now, and I'm ......."

What he said makes some sense, but why does it always feel a little weird......

The boy in front of him is called Ichiro Ota...... Mahaku's neighbor since he was a child.,It's also one of the people with the best relationship.,But because Mahaku's usual unsociables.,He didn't want to deal with Mahaku at school at all.,So the situation that Nomura is Mahaku's only friend.。

"So what do you think about this time?"

"Maybe, it has something to do with me...... The thing that is true of the white ......"

"What? ...... are you referring to?"

"You've seen the scars on her wrists, right? She's always wanted to kill herself......"

Ota's eyes seemed to have lost their highlights, and he said sluggishly.

"Wrist? She has a scar on her wrist? ”

"There are not only wounds, but many scars! Can you imagine her smiling slit-slits wrists in front of you? It's terrible! She's a lunatic! ”

"So you pushed her off the botanical garden? You guy! ”

Furukawa grabbed Ota's collar, this guy is really unbelievably bad.

"Don't talk nonsense! I just said that day, let her stop treating me like an emotional trash can, don't look depressed in front of me, I broke up with her! After saying that, I left, and I didn't do anything! ”

"Really?"

"Absolutely!"

Ota was short in stature, and he was grabbed by Furukawa like a little chicken, so he immediately admitted that he stretched out his palm and swore to promise.

Furukawa believed him.

"Wait, didn't Amamiya come to school today?"

It wasn't until Ota returned to his place that Furukawa noticed...... Amamiya wasn't in the classroom today, and there were still a few minutes left before class.........

"He seems to have gone to the playground......"

Ota said nothing, but immediately got up from his seat...... Over there is the experimental building! The Botanical Gardens are over there!

"You didn't say it sooner!"

Furukawa didn't care about going to class anymore and immediately ran out of the classroom, and Ota followed closely behind and hurried over.

………

"Damn, why is the door open again!"

Running to the top of the building, Furukawa looked at the open door and cursed, he hasn't been here at all in the past few days, why is the door always open!

"Forehead ......"

Ota's face changed slightly, but he still ran up......

I saw that Amamiya was dragging a girl and pulled her back, but the girl's attitude was too tough, and she ran to the edge with her head stuffy, and Amamiya couldn't hold it for a while.........

"Hurry, hurry! She wants to jump off the building! ”

Amamiya saw Ota and Furukawa and hurriedly shouted for help, and Furukawa and Ota immediately ran over and pulled the girl back......

"It's all my fault...... I killed the real white ......"

"Scared the hell out of me...... I thought there was going to be another jumping incident......"

Pulling the girl back, Ota sat back on the ground with a sigh of relief.

"Why, one and two are like this......"

Furukawa is already on the verge of collapse, and he's about to be driven crazy these days.

Amamiya was even more helpless...... He regretted it all the time throughout the year...... But what's the use of regretting?

"Did you come here to stop her?"

Ota pointed to the girl who was still chattering on the ground and said to Amamiya.

"Her name is Satomi, my girlfriend...... A year ago, she sprinkled a little sleeping pill in a glass of real white water, and it was nothing at first, but recently she started babbling........."

"I noticed her walking this way just before class, so I came over to check ......"

Amamiya explained the reason why he was here, and Furukawa and Ota nodded to show that they understood.

"Okay, everyone's here...... Just right. ”

While the people were still glad that the fall had not happened, they saw Katayama walk to the botanical garden and look at them.

"Mr. Katayama? You ......"

Furukawa stood up from the ground excitedly when he saw Katayama coming, and Katayama seemed to have known the truth of the case when he came over at this time.

"Okay, little brother Ota, admit it honestly, inducing suicide is also a crime."

"Huh?"

Ota was stunned for a moment, then looked at Katayama in horror.

"That, this gentleman, are you mistaken, it's a suicide ........."

"I'm sorry, I mean, Nomura's incident."

As soon as Katayama's words came out, Furukawa and Amamiya were stunned.

"No, that's not right, Mr. Katayama, he also received a note...... Should ......"

"Idiot! He gave you the note! ”

Katayama couldn't help but give Furukawa a mallet, did you get kicked by a donkey to ask such a stupid question.

"This, what proof do you have to prove ......?"

"Your father told me that you left the house to cut the newspaper......... And let me throw this pile of garbage ......... by the way."

Katayama pulled out a plastic bag filled with newspapers.

"If you don't admit it, we'll take it to the police station for fingerprinting......"

Because the words on the note were cut out of the newspaper, this is the best evidence that he scattered the note.

But he didn't expect this stunned man to cut the newspaper in front of his father, how much experience he had.........

He spread the note...... But why, in order to avenge Mashiro? ”

"No, he's doing it for himself...... I think it must have been a year ago, like everyone else, what did he do to Mashiro? ”

"He seems to be ......"

Furukawa began to recall, and it seemed that Ota had spoken to him before......

"She often came to me to vent and cut her wrists in front of me......... I have to stop her in fear every time, do you know how painful it is? Can you understand? ”

"So you broke up with her in order to get rid of her, right?"

Katayama probably guessed the reason, to put it bluntly, Ota should be a very important person to Mashiro, who was isolated at school, but such a person yelled at her and broke off her friendship.

"So you feel that her death is your responsibility, because you know her better, and your heart is more burdened than everyone else."

"In order to get rid of this shadow in your heart, you are going to investigate what happened that day, so you wrote a note to threaten people who have something to do with Mashiro."

"But you didn't expect that for the two girls, this kind of thing is too heavy in their hearts, and even Nomura, who has the weakest psychological endurance, actually committed suicide directly...... That's when you get scared, and you're killing someone. ”

"That's right...... I ......"

After listening to Katayama's words, Ota was about to say something, but he didn't expect Katayama to ignore him at all and continue to talk to himself.

"The reason why it can be opened after changing the lock is because you helped her with the key, right, it's too easy for a kid in the hardware store to do this......"

"And why that girl, Nomura and Amamiya can also come up, it's because you also gave them the key when they discussed tricking Tricky True White a year ago."

"So you want to alleviate your guilt through them, but you didn't expect to kill people again."

"Zhenbai's death, there is indeed no murderer, because she really committed suicide, but, in a sense, several of you are murderers."

Katayama looked at the few high school students in front of him coldly and finished word by word.........