"Wooden Man?!"

In the cemetery, which was cordoned off by the police, the boy was observing the condition of the corpse when 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 cordon.

It's exactly Kokaramaru.

It seemed that it was time to go to school, and Karasuma, wearing a school uniform and carrying a black school bag in his hand, was standing outside the police cordon and looking at the boy suspiciously.

And next to Kokarasuma is a girl wearing the same uniform as her, the two are about the same age, and they are obviously classmates.

"Go back to class."

Just one glance at Karasuma, the boy withdrew his gaze and spoke.

Strange, where did he just think of it?

"Wait! Are you in a case again? ”

But Karasuma didn't listen to the boy and left obediently, but approached the cordon and made a move to turn in.

"Karasuma-san......" Seeing this, the classmates who were traveling with her tugged at her sleeves with some concern, as if they didn't think it was good to get involved with the police like this.

"It's okay Akina, I know ...... person"

As she said this, Karasuma really pulled up the cordon and walked in, and the classmate she called Qiuna had no choice but to walk in behind her.

Seeing this, although they wanted to come forward to stop them, they didn't make any further moves, but looked at each other and looked at the boy who was still squatting next to the corpse.

After all, for more than half a year, Kokarsuma has often acted with the boy and Keiko Hatoyama, and even the dull criminal police have learned the identity of this girl who looks like a foreigner under many understandings.

Although it is true that the trespass on the scene of the murder does not comply with the rules and regulations, they do not dare to block it forcefully without the support of the boy.

"How? Is hemp not troublesome? Do you need my help? Just for a moment of hesitation from the detectives, Karasuma had already jumped up to the boy's side and asked excitedly.

Since the incident on the set half a year ago, she seems to have suddenly opened the door to a new world, and she has begun to like the feeling of a detective solving a crime, and every time she gets a chance, she will definitely try her best to come forward.

It's just that because the boy's whereabouts are not fixed, he often can't find anyone in college when he's busy, coupled with the boy's perverted reasoning ability, even if he can occasionally encounter a case with the boy, it will eventually evolve into a situation where she has just gotten a clue and the boy has already "pushed through the customs".

I finally bumped into it once today, and Kokarasuma will never let go of this opportunity.

"Babble!!"

However, Kokarasuma who had this idea just glanced at the corpse in front of the boy, and suddenly his little face turned pale with fright, and his body trembled subconsciously, and the classmate who came in with her directly covered his eyes with his hands.

After all, the corpse at the scene, which was strange and terrifying, and the blood was sprinkled all over the ground, did have a pretty good visual impact.

Although I have followed the boy to different murder scenes several times in the past six months, it is also the first time that Kokarsuma has seen a corpse like this.

"Is she—she's dead?" The moment his brain froze, Karasuma stammered and asked questions that even felt stupid to himself.

"Well, if she doesn't have any special abilities that can save her, then I think she's dead."

After saying this, I don't know if it was a joke, the boy finally stood up and looked at the two girls beside him again.

"Okay, if you've seen enough, go back to class."

The boy's voice was still calm and cold, but there seemed to be some concern in his words.

"I, I ......"

"Mr. Shirakawa! Someone brought it! ”

At this moment, the detective who had been instructed by the boy to bring back the criminal policeman who was the first to find the body and who was also the informant.

Behind the criminal policeman, there is also an ordinary middle-aged man, the man is ordinary, the appearance is ordinary, and the figure is ordinary, belonging to the role that will be forgotten at a glance if he is thrown in the pile.

He seems to be the grave keeper of the nearby cemetery.

"You were the first to find a body?" Without looking at Karasuma and her classmates again, the boy looked at the grave keeper and asked.

"Yes, Mr. Officer."

The grave keeper glanced up at the boy and replied.

His tone was steady, his expression was also very calm, and he was not affected by the situation of the corpse next to him, I don't know if it was because he had seen it before, or because he had been dealing with the cemetery all year round and was used to being numb to these things......

"When did you find the body?" Without correcting the grave keeper's erroneous name, the boy continued.

"Almost an hour ago, when I was about to go back to bed after my last visit to the cemetery, I noticed that there was an extra 'person' here.

Because this 'person' had been kneeling here for several minutes and had not moved, I was a little worried and came over to take a look, only to find that she was dead......"

"What time do you usually visit the cemetery at night?"

"This is usually not fixed, anyway, during the time period between midnight and 6 a.m. every night, I usually make rounds once or twice."

"And what about last night?"

"Twice, first at one a.m. and five a.m., when I found the body......," the grave keeper replied.

One and five o'clock...... The time of the deceased's death was probably three or four o'clock, and the time when he visited the cemetery twice in the morning coincided with the time when the murderer committed the murder in the cemetery.

Of course, this does not mean anything, since the murderer intends to commit a crime in this place, it is natural that he will observe the night patrol habits of the grave keepers.

Although the tomb keeper says that the time of the patrol is not fixed, those who do this kind of work for a long time will generally gradually form their own habitual time, and it is impossible to really be unfixed and casual.

The murderer may have determined this and knew that the grave keeper would not appear at that point in time, so he chose to commit the murder at that time.

There is no obvious breakthrough in terms of time, so the next step is to make a breakthrough from the identity of the deceased and the scene of the murder.

Who is the deceased? Why did the killer choose to kill her here? What is the special meaning of tying the body of the deceased into this posture of "prayer"?

"Now, Akina, look at the face of this corpse......"

Just as the boy was thinking about this in his heart, Kokarasuma, who had been listening silently beside him just now, suddenly spoke.

"She's ...... It looks like an apricot-san? ”

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(End of chapter)