Even if he didn't know the inside story, Karasuma felt the tension in the ward just now.

The man in the suit who guards the door and does not allow anyone to enter, and the competitive atmosphere between Keiko Hatoyama and Karasuma Renya in the hospital room, all tell her that there is a certain contradictory relationship between the Karasuma family and the Hatoyama family today.

This makes Karasuma very uncomfortable.

Because she is the daughter of Karasuma Renya, and at the same time, she truly regards Keiko Hatoyama and the boy as her best friends, and it is this special position that gives her a sense of suffocation between the two.

She was afraid that Karasuma Renya would reproach her for being close to Keiko Hatoyama, and that Keiko Hatoyama would deliberately distance herself from her because she was a member of the Karasuma family.

However, nothing she feared happened.

When Karasuma Renya left, he didn't even look at her, nor did he ask her to leave with him, but this reaction made Karasuma's heart a little happy.

And when she looked back, she didn't see any intention in Keiko Hatoyama's eyes to alienate her.

Sister Keiko looked at her with that kind of gentle look as always.

"Karasuma-chan, you bought all these apples, right? Come and sit down, and when Xiaoqing is ready, the remaining half will be given to you. ”

Keiko Hatoyama didn't mention the previous Karasuma Renya at all, but revealed it with a light sentence.

This once again made Karasuma breathe a sigh of relief.

"No, no, he bought it from the wooden man, I just helped him hold it......"

"What are you talking about, Xiaoqing has never opened this kind of trick for so many years, how could he think of buying me something......"

Keiko Hatoyama unceremoniously debunks her little lie.

"Also, he must have changed his clothes for him today, right?"

"Well, I really can't hide it...... Wrong! It's obviously a wooden man, and your usual performance is too poor! That's why it's so easy to be seen through by Sister Keiko! ”

"Well, sorry, it's my fault."

Keiko Hatoyama is well versed in human nature, especially to the people around her, and she seems to have been born with a special ability to easily see through the hearts of others.

It's this special talent that allows her to handle relationships with anyone around her almost perfectly.

Whether it's a boy or a little Karasuma is among them, she knows the nature of the two very well, and it seems that as long as she opens her mouth, she can grasp the initiative between the three of them and become the backbone of the two.

It's just that what Kokarsuma didn't expect at this time was that among the people who were seen through by Keiko Hatoyama, it was not only her and the boy, but also her father, the head of the Karasuma family, Karasuma Renya.

Sharon thinks back to the fact that in that ward thirty-six years ago, all three people in the room may have had their own thoughts.

She was restless because of the confrontation between her blood relatives and her best friend, but this emotion was simply resolved by Keiko Hatoyama in just a few words.

Shirakawa Kiyoshi was silently peeling apples, and although he occasionally answered the other two for a few words, his thoughts drifted away because of Keiko Hatoyama's last warning to Karasuma Renya.

At that time, although he didn't know much about the relationship between the Hatoyama family and the Karasuma family, as well as Karasuma Renya's plan, he was keen, but he still noticed the abnormality from Hatoyama Keiko's words.

But he didn't ask anything in the end, and Keiko Hatoyama didn't say anything.

This is a reflection of Keiko Hatoyama's thorough understanding of Shirakawa Kiyoshi.

She knew better than anyone her position in Bai Heqing's heart, and she understood that no matter how many doubts the boy had in his heart, as long as she didn't take the initiative to say, the boy would definitely not take the initiative to ask.

From this point of view, the boy's statement that "he is actually the one who is being attacked" in the relationship between the two of them may really be fine, after all, among the two of them, it is always Keiko Hatoyama who is in charge.

And Keiko Hatoyama also took advantage of this...... Sharon thought about it for a long time, but still felt that it might be more appropriate to use the word "utilization" to describe it.

That's right, exploit.

Not only Bai Heqing, but also Sharon herself.

Keiko Hatoyama took advantage of the two of them and set up a very simple and straightforward lethal move for Karasuma Renya, but she herself thought it would be effective.

With just a few words that no one could detect, and that little lie, she completely decided their future.

This arrangement spanned decades after her death, during which much happened that it might have become ineffective.

But in the end, Keiko Hatoyama succeeded.

The means she left behind succeeded in sending the man with infinite desires to hell on his last steps towards success thirty years after her death.

At one point, Sharon wondered when Keiko Hatoyama made this decision.

After thinking about it, she thought that maybe it was in this ward thirty-six years ago that Keiko Hatoyama first had this idea in her heart.

And what really made her make up her mind was a year later.

“……”

At that time, it had been more than a year since Kokarsuma returned to Japan, and she had gone from a female student in the first year of high school to a female student in the fall semester of her second year of high school. (In Japan, there are three semesters of high school, and the autumn semester is generally from September to December.) ）

The murder of Kyoko, a classmate in the same class a year ago, has completely passed, and the cult group that dominated everything behind the scenes has also been uprooted by the police one by one in the past six months, and the strongholds have been basically cleaned up.

At the same time, since the meeting with Keiko Hatoyama in the hospital room a year ago, he has not visited the Hatoyama family.

Normally, even Karasuma himself is difficult to see Karasuma Renya, he doesn't know what he's busy with, Shenlong can't see the head but the tail, and he is always not at home on weekdays.

Of course, this has no effect on Karasuma's own peaceful and happy life.

Going to school normally every day, and then going to play with Keiko's sister, and occasionally going to investigate various cases with the boy, and enjoying the thrill of being a detective, is the happiest life for Kokarasuma.

"So, it's really exaggerated that the murderer would think of using the monkeys raised by the deceased to forge an alibi......"

Today was still a normal day, and after the fourth class in the morning, Karasuma and his tablemate and good friend Akina-san immediately chatted in their seats.

Confiding in his good friend Akina-san about his experience of going out with the boy to investigate the case like this has become a habit of Kokarasuma.

"Hara, can you still do this......" Akina-san nodded as she listened.

It is worth mentioning that although the classroom is noisy at the moment, no one gets up and leaves their seats, but they are just sitting in their seats and talking, and the girls seem to be waiting for something.

After a while, a kind middle-aged woman walked in.

"Students, it's time for lunch."

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(End of chapter)