"Ah, it turned out that I encountered a case......"

At noon that day, Kokarsuma came to the boy's and Hatoyama Keiko's university as usual.

However, unlike before, only Keiko Hatoyama is here today, and the boy seems to have been investigating since he received the case in the morning, and he did not return to school at noon.

"Well, it was the students in our class who were killed......"

Sitting on the familiar bench, Karasuma nodded.

Across from her, Keiko Hatoyama had set up her easel, her brush sliding quickly across the paper.

"Is it a corpse that is fiddled into a prayer position......

The case that the boy encountered in the cemetery this morning, she had just heard Karasuma briefly describe it.

The corpse was tied to the cemetery in a prayer posture and killed, which felt like a perverted murderer.

"Did you ask for any information at school?"

Kokarsuma was extremely eager to assist in this investigation, and the boy probably thought that this case was too close to Kokarasuma, and even if he refused, he was afraid that it would not be useful, so he simply agreed to her, so that it might be easier to control and not let her do anything risky.

"No~"

Speaking of this, Kokarsuma sighed helplessly.

"The murdered Kyoko-san, who is usually very popular at school, doesn't have any good friends, and can't ask for any information related to the investigation......"

She was very frustrated by this, and she had sworn to the boy that she could help, but she turned back to nothing.

She could already imagine how she was being laughed at by the boy's expressionless face next......

[Wouldn't it?] No way? Wouldn't anyone really have no information at all? Huh~Good food~】

Damn it! It's so angry!

"Is it nothing?" Looking up at the little Karasuma whose facial features were wrinkled subconsciously, Keiko Hatoyama smiled and drew her expression with a smile.

"It's not completely unmeaningful!"

was said so directly by Keiko Hatoyama, Kokarsuma was very embarrassed, and hurriedly defended himself:

"I heard it from Kyoko-san's tablemate, saying that she has always been absent-minded these days.

I didn't always sleep like I used to do in class, but I was in a daze all the time, like I had lost my soul......"

"Did this table mate of Kyoko-san tell you the reason for this?" Keiko Hatoyama asked.

[Restless for a few days in a row? 】

"How is that possible! This tablemate used to be bullied by Kyoko-san in school, and she usually didn't even dare to talk to Kyoko-sang, so how could she ask about these things......

If it weren't for the fact that they were at the same table, she probably wouldn't have noticed these abnormalities of Kyoko-san. ”

Speaking of this, Korasuma sighed again.

This is her only gain, it can be said to be a gain, and in her opinion, this harvest is simply dispensable......

If you don't know the reason, even if it is clear that the deceased has been mentally abnormal recently, it will not help......

"Kokarasuma, I heard you say before that the murdered Kyoko-san seems to be in contact with some classmates from other schools?"

Suddenly, Keiko Hatoyama's voice brought back some of Karasuma's distant thoughts.

"Huh? Well! Yes, there have always been such rumors in schools. ”

Hearing this, Kokarasuma nodded and replied, "But I also deliberately asked the classmates who usually say these rumors this morning, but none of them seem to have seen the scene of Kyoko-san's interaction with students from other schools.

Even those students who swore that this kind of thing must exist, couldn't tell the specific school uniforms and appearance of those students from other schools.

So I think that the so-called dealings with students from other schools are probably a misunderstanding of Apricot classmates after spreading falsehoods, right? ”

For Korasuma, who grew up in the United States, she really knows this kind of thing too well.

At the beginning, it should have been a certain student or students who had been bullied by Apricot classmates and began to say:

"Wow, Apricot-san's so fierce, she doesn't have any friends at school, it can't be that she knows students from other schools, right?"

As the number of people who have been bullied by Apricot gradually increases, this doubt gradually becomes:

"Everyone be careful, she must have someone who knows the school, if we dare to fight back, she will definitely call those people to retaliate against us when school is over......"

In the end, it became:

"Apricot doesn't even participate in a club.,Leaving school so early every day.,I must have met a lot of people from other schools.,Speaking of which,I also saw a girl wearing our school uniform before.,Walking with several boys from other schools.,I only dared to look at it from a distance.,I feel like the girl's back and Apricot classmates seem to be oh......"

That's probably the kind of evolutionary process that is.

In the "word of mouth" of everyone, what was originally just a suspicion gradually became an ironclad fact that everyone believed.

Hawkers,Of course,There are also a lot of apricot classmates who have a bad style themselves.,That's why I love to bully other classmates at school......

"Is that so......"

After listening to Kokarasuma's explanation, the brush in Keiko Hatoyama's hand did not pause, she frowned and pondered for a while, and then spoke:

"Little Karasuma, when you see Xiaoqing again later, you will tell him that it may be fruitful to investigate in the direction of the deceased Kyoko-san's family."

"Huh? Why? ”

"Because the deceased was a bad student who took pleasure in bullying others, most of these children were people who didn't care about others, and at the same time, it was difficult for them to be influenced by external factors.

But Kokarasuma, you also said just now that Kyoko-san's spirit was very abnormal in the past few days before she was killed, right?

This can only show that Kyoko-chan should have encountered some major changes in her life recently, and this kind of change has even had a great impact on her spirit.

I thought that maybe there was some irreconcilable conflict between these bad boys.

But since the fact that Kyoko-san has dealings with students from other schools is likely to be a rumor, it is ruled out that she doesn't have any friends at school......

What caused Kyoko-san's abnormality is likely to happen in her own family, and if you investigate in this direction, you may be able to find some clues to the murder of Kyoko-san......"

"What kind of wide ......?"

After listening to Keiko Hatoyama's analysis, Kokarsuma raised his hand and touched his chin, and nodded thoughtfully.

Is it advisable for Sister Keiko to prioritize the investigation from the simple interpersonal relationships of the deceased......

"Of course, don't you tell Xiaoqing that I told you these things?"

At this time, Keiko Hatoyama said with a smile again.

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(End of chapter)