In the divination hall, Kimiko Arai's room was still in chaos, and Karasuma Ying crouched next to the fallen demon statue, gently touching the iron thorns on its body with her gloved hands.

When I looked up, my gloves were covered in dust.

She's unraveled all the tricks.

It's just that there is one last point she doesn't understand, what is the motive of the murderer? What was the reason for the murderer to kill Kimiko Arai?

She has not yet found the answer to this point.

"Sister Karasuma, everyone has already brought it."

At that moment, Officer Twilight walked into the room, and behind him, Moriran and his party, as well as the soothsayers and other staff members.

Karasuma stood up at the sound of this, turned around and bowed to the crowd.

"First of all, thank you very much for being here again, everyone."

"Miss Ying, what exactly do you want us to come over?" Arai Daijiro was still a little unclear and asked suspiciously.

"Of course, it's time to start a gorgeous mystery show of high school detectives, hehehe......" Kawai said with a smile on the side.

"Y-Do you already know who the murderer is?" Mr. Yi hurriedly asked, looking nervous.

"I still think Kimiko should have committed suicide...... Ms. Edano began.

"There is no need to jump to conclusions, let's first recall the circumstances before and after the discovery of Ms. Arai's body.

First of all, Ms. Arai caused a commotion by locking herself in the room, and after Mr. Takasaka borrowed a spare key to open the door, we found Ms. Arai's body......"

"Is the door locked?" At this point, Officer Twilight asked.

"Yes, I personally confirmed this, and I was the one who opened the door afterwards, and there was a fallen knight statue behind the door, which also means that the murderer did not leave through the iron gate after the killing."

After explaining this, Karasuma continued:

"After we opened the iron door, Ms. Arai had been dead for a long time, and she had multiple injuries on her body, most notably on her thighs and abdomen.

Ms. Arai's final death was mainly caused by the wound in her abdomen, and the murder weapon was the katana that fell next to her body at that time.

By the way, the katana was stolen by the murderer from the display case in Mr. Yi's room. ”

"No, that's right! It's stolen! I do not know! Mr. Yi nodded again and again, looking excited.

"Wouldn't it be a seppuku suicide?"

Officer Twilight asked.

Judging from the blood stains around the floor, the blood that spurted from the front of the abdomen after the victim was stabbed with a katana showed no signs of being obscured at all.

However, the injuries on the victim's body also showed that she was stabbed into her body from the front by the katana, so it is reasonable to infer that the blood spurted out by the victim after the injury would be somewhat covered by the murderer in front of her...... Is it possible that the victim committed suicide? ”

"If the murderer had done it in front of Ms. Arai, it should have been, but in reality, the murderer was actually holding Ms. Arai from behind and holding her hand under the katana.

In this way, the blood spurting out of Ms. Arai's abdominal wound will also not be covered by the murderer. Karasuma answered Officer Twilight's questions.

"But, will Kimiko be so obedient and let the murderer get close to her back like this?" Daijiro Arai asked.

"Of course not, Ms. Arai's multiple injuries are proof that she also struggled violently when she was killed."

"How did the murderer get close to Kimiko? Wrong...... How the hell did the killer get into this room?

Obviously, the keys to the room were all on Kimiko at the time, and even the spare key was only later for Takasaka-kun to go to the administrator to get it......"

"The door."

Karasuma Ying pointed to the iron gate and said with great certainty: "The murderer walked in directly through this iron gate, and the murderer of Ms. Arai is actually the guest she wants to meet after the secret meeting!" ”

"What?!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and Ms. Edano looked at Arai Daijiro and hurriedly asked, "Daijiro, who is the guest that Kimiko was going to see at that time?" Don't you know? ”

"I don't know! Kimiko only said that she had a guest to meet at the time, but she didn't tell me at all! ”

Taking in everyone's reactions, Karasuma Ying turned around and looked at the demon statue that had fallen to the ground in front of her, and continued:

"After killing Ms. Arai, the killer first completely messed up the room, and then left the room in a very unbelievable way......"

"So the murderer messed up the room to cover up the way he escaped?" Officer Twilight understood what Karasuma Ying meant.

"That's right."

"It can't be a robber sneaking in or something, right?" Sonoko Suzuki asked curiously.

"None of the valuables in the room were missing, and there was no sign of the safe being tampered...... It's not so much a robber, it's an acquaintance who doesn't commit a crime for money.

In other words, Ms. Arai's murderer is actually among us. ”

"Huh?!"

"The murderer's method of leaving the room is actually hidden on this demon statue."

Karasuma reached out and wiped the thorns on the demon statue again, revealing the dust from the glove to everyone.

"After messing up the room, the murderer climbed under the skylight through the thorns on the demon statue, and finally left the room through the skylight......"

"Wait!"

When Kawai heard this, she immediately interrupted Karasuma Ying.

"There are so many thorns on this demon statue, and there will be small thorns extending out of each thorn, and the shoes will be pierced in less than two steps, it is impossible for anyone to step on it, right?"

"It's normal that this is true, so the murderer came up with a very clever solution."

Karasuma Ying said, picking up a beautiful handbag from the ground and hanging it on the thorns of the demon statue in front of everyone.

"The killer didn't just step on the demon statue and leave, but with the help of the handbags in Ms. Arai's room, he hung them on the bulge of the thorns, and then used the bags as a foothold to climb up the skylight step by step.

In the process, every time the killer took a step up, he would hook up the handbag with his foot, and then throw it to the ground indiscriminately.

Finally, when they reach the skylight, they kick down the demon statue that has been loosened by the murderer, and finally complete the layout of the room. ”

"W-That's too exaggerated...... Moriran couldn't help but say.

"As for the evidence."

Karasuma picked up a handbag from the ground again and flipped the inside of the handle rope into front of everyone.

"It's that the inside of the handle rope of these handbags has almost the same amount of dust, and some of the thorns on the demon statue's body also have some traces of dust that have been inexplicably rubbed off."

(End of chapter)