"Ahh It's so slow! ”

In the lounge, after a long wait, Sonoko Suzuki lay on the couch and shouted impatiently.

On the sofa on the other side, Ayako Suzuki, who was sleeping on Shimizu Jing's shoulder, was also woken up by her voice, rubbing her eyes and looking around suspiciously.

"Indeed, it's been two hours, and the divination hall is about to close."

Karasuma glanced at the time on her phone, her brows furrowed slightly.

"Dark Witch, she must have forgotten about us, right?" Sonoko Suzuki questioned dissatisfied.

"I want to ...... Probably not, right? Maoliran replied uncertainly.

"Don't wait! Xiao Lan A-Ying! Walk! Let's go to her room and find her! ”

Jumping up from the sofa, Sonoko Suzuki pulled Karasuma Ying and the two and left the lounge angrily.

"Jingjun, let's go together, shall we?" Behind the three of them, Ayako Suzuki also stood up and asked.

After all, Arai Kimiko talked to Xiaoying about the matter entrusted by the detective, this kind of thing with financial interests, she is not very comfortable letting the three children go alone.

There always needs to be an adult present.

"Okay."

Shimizu put away her phone, got up and held hands with Ayako Suzuki, and left behind the three of them.

On the screen of his phone, there was a text message that had been sent not long ago.

[Mission completed, objective processed]

“……”

"Wow, there's no one in the hall?"

"It's almost closing time......

Pulling Karasuma Ying and the two out of the lounge, looking at the empty hall in front of her, Suzuki Sonoko sighed deeply.

"We really forgot about her...... Walk! Go to her room! ”

He dragged the two of them up to the second floor, and in front of Kimiko Arai's room, the three of them saw the crowd gathered here.

Daijiro Arai, Takako Kawai, Ms. Edano, Mr. Yi...... The people we had just met were all here now.

"Did something happen?" With a hint of bad premonition in her heart, Karasuma Ying hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Oh, those little girls from before?"

Kawai turned her head to look at the three of them and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" Is it closing time? ”

"I'm sorry, but we're here to meet Ms. Arai...... What's wrong? Why are you all here? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that the black witch locked herself inside." Kawai explained.

Mr. Yi on the side was also very worried and said, "Wasn't she unwell before?" Could it be that a person fainted in the room? ”

"Didn't you hear a knock on the door and didn't respond?"

Karasuma Ying said, and personally stepped forward and knocked on the iron door.

At this time, Shizu Shimizu and Ayako Suzuki also came here.

"I tried, but there was no response, but it is also possible that I didn't hear it, after all, all the soothsayers' rooms in the museum are soundproofed."

"Especially in Kimiko's room, she also put iron plates around the walls, and the sound insulation effect is better than other rooms." Daijiro Arai added.

Lady Edano looked at him and urged, "Daijiro, aren't you her assistant?" I remember you have the key to the room, right? Hurry up and get the key out and open the door. ”

"I, my key was just taken away by her." Arai Daijiro said with a sad face: "Even after the previous secret meeting, I don't know what she was thinking......"

"Don't have any other keys?" Karasuma Ying asked.

"No, the administrator of the divination hall should have a spare, I just asked Takasaka-kun to borrow ......"

Tomohiko Takasaka is the host of the previous secret meeting.

"Understood."

Nodding, Karasuma Ying stepped forward and tried to twist the doorknob.

Motionless.

The door must have been locked from the inside.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, she noticed something strange oozing from the tiny gap between the iron door and the floor.

"Garden, give me tissues."

"Oh, good."

Taking the tissue from Sonoko Suzuki's hand, Karasuma wiped the tissue hard against the crack in the door.

Suddenly, the tip of the paper towel was dyed a small shade of red.

"Ah Ying, what is this?"

"It's blood."

Karasuma stood up, her face solemn.

The instincts she developed when she came to Japan told her that something might be wrong in this room......

"Blood?!"

When the people next to him heard this, they immediately panicked.

"Why is there blood here?"

"It's difficult, is it really ...... Guimiko?"

"No, it won't......"

"Isn't there any other way to open this door?"

"How long will it take for him, Takasaka-kun?"

"Do you want to, why don't we call the police first?"

"Everyone!"

At this moment, Tomohiko Takasaka, who went to borrow the key, finally came.

"Give it to me!"

Taking the key directly from him, Karasuma quickly inserted it into the door lock.

"Click."

With a crisp sound, the door lock was opened, and Karasuma Ying tried hard to push the door open.

"Zila!"

There was a screeching sound behind the door, and the iron door was only slightly pushed open and then stopped.

"What's wrong?" Daijiro Arai, who was beside her, hurriedly asked.

"Strange, there seems to be something behind the door...... Stand back. ”

Beckoning everyone to step back, Karasuma Ying took a deep breath and turned around and kicked hard against the iron door with a roundabout kick.

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang, and most of the iron door was kicked open by her.

And everyone also saw the situation in the room at this time.

The room was in shambles, tables, chairs and benches were all knocked to the ground, and the ground was a mess, and the statue of the Thorn Demon that had been standing in the innermost part of the room was also knocked to the ground.

On the floor in the middle of the room, an old woman in a pink suit with brown hair lay all around her with dark red blood.

She is none other than Takamiko Arai.

"Kimiko?! I—I'm going to call the police! ”

"W-How is this possible?"

"Is she dead?"

"Quick, go and see how she's doing!"

"Stand at the door, don't come in."

Stopping everyone at the door, Karasuma Dei skillfully took out her white gloves from her fanny pack and put them on, and walked into the room alone.

"Now it's time to protect the site as much as possible."

Since coming to Japan, she has developed a "good habit" of carrying white gloves with her.

"Ming, understood!"

Several soothsayers hurriedly stopped, and one of them, Ms. Edano, couldn't help but ask, "But is it okay to go in?" ”

"It's okay!" Suzuki Yuanzi on the side said loudly: "Ah Ying, she has long been used to this kind of thing!" She knows what to do! ”

"Xi, used to it?" Mr. Yi looked at her incredulously.

"That's right! Ah Ying, she's a Maori detective's assistant! I often help the police solve crimes! It's absolutely no problem to leave this kind of thing to her! ”

In the room, Karasuma Ying sighed helplessly when she heard Suzuki Sonoko's words.

Actually, she doesn't want to be so skilled......

Without saying anything, she carefully avoided the blood on the floor, walked over to Kimiko Arai's body in the middle of the room, and pressed the side of her neck.

It's all cold, absolutely hopeless.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Arai...... has already been killed. ”

(End of chapter)