Chapter 140: Lantern King

Nishito Kushihara bought the latest issue of "Spring and Autumn Awards" and couldn't help frowning as he browsed through the catalog.

The price of a magazine is more than 300 yen, but there are not many articles that are really worth reading, and I always feel like a loss.

There are about eight to ten articles serialized in each issue, but there are only two or three works that are really interesting. That is, he spent three hundred dollars, but only bought something that was less than a hundred dollars.

In order not to make up for his losses, he will carefully read every article in the magazine, even if he is not interested, he will read every word. I paid for it, why don't I look at it.

It's like buying an unpalatable meal at a restaurant, gritting your teeth and eating it all.

After returning home, Nishikito Kushihara opened the table of contents and found the article "Samurai Atomic Heart" first, and carefully read it from beginning to end.

While reading it, make a detailed record on the paper, the possible conditions for each person in the book, the timeline, and the possible motivation for doing it.

Then find clues between the lines of the author's words, deduce the identity of the murderer, and the method of doing it.

This Samurai Atomic Heart is the latest work by this year's Ranbu Award author, and it has been serialized in Chapter 8. This is a relatively original work, without the bells and whistles of other genres.

Benge's works have become popular again in the market, because there seems to have been a recent trend of "returning to the roots", and many of the works that had been pushed into old styles have been selling well recently.

And this "Samurai Atomic Heart" is a work that just won the Ranbu award not long ago, and the standard is quite high in terms of trick design and plot.

Nishito Kushihara is a faithful lover of ontological reasoning, and his greatest pleasure in reading reasoning works is to deduce the murderer and the modus operandi before the author gives the final answer.

Reasoning was born in this way at the beginning of the book. As the author writes, he leaves clues and hints for the reader to reason. At the beginning, the ontological reasoning was not a one-sided storytelling by the author, but more like a game with the reader.

This is also the most primitive charm of reasoning, and it is also what attracts Nishikito Kushihara the most, and he enjoys the moment when he solves the puzzle before the author publishes the answer.

After reading this issue of "Samurai Atomic Heart", nearly two-thirds of the clues about the trickery in this book have been collected, and the corners of Nishikito Suprehara looked at the relationships and clues of the characters recorded on the paper, and the corners of his mouth turned slightly.

Sure enough, it was exactly the same as I thought, the murderer was a daimyo, and the method of doing eucalyptus was ......

Nishito Kugahara happily turned the ballpoint pen with his fingers, then turned on the computer and entered the reasoning forum.

His forum ID is "Lantern-kun", which means the one who illuminates the fog, and he used to announce some mystery puzzles that are still in the process of being serialized in advance to show off his reasoning ability.

Of course, before revealing the mystery, he will write a "spoiler warning" so as not to spoil other people's reading experience.

And because he can guess the truth in advance almost every time, many people in the reasoning forum also remember his name.

Nishikito Kushihara compiled his own deduced "Samurai's Atomic Heart" into an article and published it on the forum, which sparked a discussion after a while.

"I see, is the murderer a daimyo?"

"Actually, it's not too unexpected, I suspected it was him from the beginning, but I don't have the reasoning skills of Lantern Lord, and I can't deduce his motive for killing."

"Lantern-kun is really smart, he should be a top student, right?"

Nishito Kushihara nodded with satisfaction in front of the computer screen, not only as a top student, but also as a top student at Okei University.

"I hope the Lantern Lord can solve the mystery of Asold's dismemberment as soon as possible."

"Are you talking about "Genius Detective Mitarai"?"

"Yes, the new issue has come out, I've read it, but I still don't have a clue about the eucalyptus from forty years ago."

Seeing this, Nishito Kushihara picked up the magazine at hand and flipped to page 42 by searching the catalog

"Genius Detective Mishu - Astrology Killing Magic" suddenly came into view.

Nishikito Kugahara scratched his face and looked at it. He is a loyal reader of Benge and loves puzzle games, so he is not very fond of either declension or social.

Although the author's previous book "White Night Walking" caused a sensation, he felt very ordinary.

As for the "Furuhata Renzaburo" that is now being broadcast by Fukuyamatai, because the murderer and the method of doing eucalyptus were announced at the beginning, the process of solving the mystery was lost, so he didn't like it very much.

As for this "Genius Detective Mitarai", as far as his personal feelings are concerned, well...... So-so.

The eucalyptus in the first article "Bandage Monster Villa", although the horror atmosphere is well shaped, but the trick itself is not amazing, although it is indeed a bit scary to hide a human head in the stomach, but this technique is not interesting enough.

Nishikito has always wanted to come across a mystery story that is interesting enough to amaze him, but there are very few such works.

However, the new chapter of this "Astrology Killing Magic" is a bit interesting, and Nishikito Sakuhara has written down a lot of clues, but he has not yet solved the "mystery of Asood" in this one.

Who killed that painter?

What is the truth about Assood?

He still hasn't figured it out.

But I have to say that this eucalyptus is quite attractive, forty years ago, many of the parties have passed away, and can only be detected through some letters left behind, notes and memories of the families of the parties.

But declension, that's it, the beginning is amazing, so that the reader has a creepy feeling, and after the final mystery is revealed, the reader often hangs a big question mark in his heart: is this?

Nishito Suzuhara seriously suspects that this "Genius Detective Mitarai" is also like this, and the eucalyptus is written in a foggy manner at the beginning, but when the truth is revealed, it will make readers feel "nothing more than that".

However, so far, Nishikito Suzuhara really can't solve the "mystery of Asod" in the book, and he even turned over the previous issues of "Astrology Killing Magic" and re-read it, but still has no clear clue.

He threw the magazine on the table in a bit of a frustration, and muttered to himself: If you can't explain this eucalyptus reasonably at the end, I will send the mouse to the publishing house every day!

……

Nanako Tokada gently closed the magazine, her mind full of the mystery of Assod mentioned in "Genius Detective Mitarai".

It seems that it is really not easy to solve the mystery of forty years ago. , Mitarai fell into confusion; In addition, they, the readers, are also puzzled.

Nanako Toshida couldn't think of an answer, but she didn't think about going to the forum to find an answer, and if she just blindly pursued the answer, she would lose the fun of reading.

After watching "Genius Detective Mitarai", Nanako Toshida went to see something else, and at this time, she noticed that there was a color page sandwiched in it, and the color page was painted with delicate illustrations, and the content of the illustrations was a variety of detective images, all of which were detective characters in the manga.

On the coloring page is a line of large characters as its big headline: "Who is Japan's No. 1 Detective?" ]: Please write what you think is the best detective in the reader feedback form, and we will count the number of times the name appears and make a list.

Nanako Tokada suddenly remembered that when I was watching TV yesterday, after the episode of Renzaburo Furuhata was broadcast, this special event was also mentioned on TV.

At that time, Renzaburo Furuhata, played by Matsumoto Konoemon, was still asking the audience to vote for him on the screen......

Nanako Tokada flashed countless detective images in her mind.

Since reasoning entered the country, many excellent mystery writers have been born, and naturally countless "famous detectives" have also been born.

Some of these detectives are characters from the manga, but more of them are characters, such as the famous Daigoro Edogawa, who was a well-known detective at the beginning, originally born in the series, and later remade into many movies and TV series

Many people have a place in their childhood.

However, after some thought, Nanako Toshida still wrote the name "Mitarai" on the feedback form.

No way, although she also thinks that Edogawa Daigoro may be more classic, but who made Mitarai the work of Sensei Sima Keita......