Karasuma's answer was messy.

She first talked about the boy's indifference to people, and talked about his shortcomings, and then went back to Keiko Hatoyama, saying that the boy was very good to Keiko Hatoyama, and finally expressed her gratitude to the boy for saving her just now, and in turn, the boy was actually a very good person......

What stands out is an inconsistency, but Kokarsuma himself is unaware of it.

And this kind of contradiction, which I can't even notice, often arises from my lack of understanding of some of my hidden emotions.

Keiko Hatoyama listened quietly, just smiled and raised her hand to touch her head, and finally said nothing.

“……”

When the boy returned from taking notes, the incident was officially over.

Just as the boy reasoned, Mr. Popura, the murderer who had always loved the deceased, went to the deceased's room last night to confess to the deceased again, and then was once again sternly rejected by the deceased.

That night, Mr. Popura, who had already been rejected by the deceased several times, lost his mind in anger and hit the deceased on the head with an ashtray in the room.

After the deceased slowly fell to the ground, Mr. Popura, who finally calmed down, fled back to his house in a panic without even dealing with the scene in extreme fear.

The next day, with the arrival of the police and the boy's reasoning at the speed of light, Mr. Popura, who knew that he couldn't hide it and felt more and more fear, finally lost his mind again after being exposed by Ko Karasuma, and tried to hijack Kokarasuma with a dagger that had been hidden in his pocket, in a vain attempt to confront the police and flee the scene.

Of course, it was easy to be put down by the boy in the end......

For the boy and Keiko Hatoyama, this is just a small episode in life, and the two have seen too many similar cases in the past few years, and they are not even enough to make any waves in their lives.

After the case, everyone's lives returned to their former normal, and the boy still maintained his two-point life between the scene of the crime and the university, and Kokarsuma would often come to the university to look for the two of them.

The peaceful life slowly accumulated, and finally half a year later, the event that triggered the qualitative change was ushered in.

“……”

"When did you die?"

It was early one morning, half a year after the incident on the set, in a cemetery where several police cars were parked outside and pulling a cordon that was forbidden to approach, the boy half-crouched next to a strangely shaped corpse and asked the criminal police officer next to him.

Half a year has passed, and Tokyo has once again entered the freezing cold, and the boy is wearing a black trench coat and thick gloves on his hands.

"The preliminary speculation is that it was around two or three o'clock in the morning last night, and because of the temperature, the specific time of death may be biased." The criminal policeman on the side replied.

The boy did not respond, his eyes still carefully observing the strange corpse in front of him.

The reason why it is strange is that when the body was found, it was not like the state of lying on its stomach or lying down as people generally remember.

It is kneeling.

Kneeling like the Virgin Mary praying to God.

The corpse's legs were brought together, and the knees and legs were tightly wrapped with black strings, which were fixed into a kneeling position.

The arms are also tightly clasped together from elbows to wrists, and the hands are clasped together, also wrapped in black strings, in a Christian prayer posture, tightly tied to the chest.

The only difference from the posture of "prayer" is that the head of the corpse is not lowered, but is still raised high under the pull of the black string, which is very weird.

The murderer made full use of the tombstones around him, using these tombstones as fulcrums, and repeatedly tied and pulled the body of the deceased from all angles with black strings, and finally formed this strange posture of "holding his head high and kneeling down to pray".

I have to say, it's very technical.

The deceased was a woman, probably in her teens judging by her face and physical development alone, and she was supposed to be a high school girl.

The reason why "physical development" is added is because the deceased was covered in red fruits, and it was unobstructed.

There was only one apparent fatal wound on the corpse, and it was the long wound on the deceased's neck.

According to the existing clues, it is speculated that the deceased should have been brought here by the murderer at about two or three o'clock in the morning last night, first tied up into this appearance, and then his throat was cut with a sharp weapon, and he died of excessive blood loss.

The reason why it is certain that the blood was tied up first and then killed was that where the blood of the deceased flowed down, there were also traces of blood coagulation on those black strings, so it was confirmed.

At the same time, the deceased should not have had any struggles throughout the entire process of death.

The reason is simple, because the deceased is covered in red fruits, and if he has had any struggling reactions before his death, it will directly react to the skin of the deceased.

However, the fact is that in all the places where the black strings were bound, there was only a deep, fine strangulation mark on the skin of the deceased, and nothing else.

This shows that the deceased is very likely to have been unconsciously completed by the murderer and finally killed.

"Who was the first to find the body?"

Having a general understanding of the situation, the boy asked.

At the same time, he shifted his angle slightly, glancing at the name on the tombstone facing the deceased's body.

Due to the decrease in temperature, coupled with the fact that he was covered in red fruits and was outside, the temperature of the corpse dropped extremely quickly, and in just three or four hours, the temperature of the corpse was already close to the surrounding temperature, and it was extremely cold to the touch.

The blood that flowed from the wound in the throat of the deceased's corpse had already spread to the ground around it, and coagulated into a large "carpet" that was almost black.

Fortunately, it's winter, so the smell of blood isn't too obvious.

"It was the grave keeper of this cemetery, he was the first to find the body, and it was also the case that he reported to the Metropolitan Police Department." An interpol replied.

"Bring him to me, I have some questions for him." Half-crouched behind the corpse and looking closely, the boy spoke.

"Yes." An interpol turned away.

The boy seemed to feel something, and looked upwards with the corpse's head raised forward.

Behind this cemetery, in the direction of the corpse's face, is a mountain with dense woods.

"Wooden Man?!"

Just as the boy wanted to think further about whether there was any connection between this, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him.

The boy looked back and saw two young girls in school uniforms, one of whom he happened to know, just outside the police cordon.

It's exactly Kokaramaru.

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(End of chapter)