Pushed open the lid of the white coffin—

What catches your eye is a large patch of bright red.

Blood mingled with rose petals, enveloping the silent female corpse.

The deceased was none other than the staff member Yuki Ezaki, who had been repeatedly harassed because of his sweet voice.

A day earlier, when Shirakawa and Mie Takeshima came to confirm the process, they met with her.

This is a middle-class girl with a gentle personality and a serious and responsible work attitude.

Unexpectedly, just 24 hours had passed, and the girl had turned into a cold corpse.

Her eyes are round, her expression is desperate, she loses her former beauty, and she becomes the poor victim of the thriller.

The number 24 is written on the forehead in blood, and there are two crossed wounds on the chest, which exactly form the cross.

The nails of the ten fingers were cracked, the hands were covered in blood, and there were countless scratches on the lid of the coffin.

It seems that she did not die before entering the coffin, but struggled for a long time before she died.

Next to her head, a note lay quietly.

The note reads.

[Come to me.] ]

[Who is it?] How about a dead body as your greeting? He must be looking forward to meeting you, right? This is just the beginning, if the case is not solved within 24 hours, the next victim will appear, guess who the next victim will be? 】

The narrator verifies Shirakawa's conjecture.

The murderer came for himself.

He actually killed someone who had almost nothing to do with him.

It's not like a counterattack from the rich, but like some perverted murderer who has been watching him.

And only give yourself 24 hours to solve the case, which means that you are involved in a game of murderers.

Shirakawa identified the deceased and the note separately.

[Character: Yuki Ezaki]

[Intelligence: 6]

[Charm: 7]

[Stamina: 4]

[Details:

21 years old, a native of Yokohama, an employee of Kinoshita Cat Deceased Care Company, single, from an ordinary family, with parents alive, and a younger brother who is currently in college.

The character is cowardly and kind.,Even if you're bullied, you'll only bury it in your heart.,In order to avoid the pursuit of the idiot in his hometown.,Came to Tokyo alone to make a living.。

When I first arrived in Tokyo, I didn't have a diploma or skills, so I was forced to work as a special maid in a custom street, and later met Ryuji Sugisaki, the young owner of Kinoshita Cat Dead Care.

Touched by her sincerity and kindness, Ryuji Sugizaki hired her to become an employee of Kinoshita Cat Deceased Care Company.

The two have always had an illicit relationship, but they have never made it public.

She works very hard, and due to the recent departure of the company's front desk, she recommended herself to work part-time at the front desk, and was often harassed by phone calls because of her sweet voice.

Her colleague Katsuhisa Ishibashi always likes to take advantage of her, but she doesn't dare to tell others, which causes Katsuhisa Ishibashi to become even worse.

Half a year ago, Ariki Ezaki worked overtime until late at night, and his colleague Katsuhisa Ishibashi wanted to misbehave, but he was bumped into by his boss Ryuji Sugizaki, saved Yuki Ezaki, drove away Katsuhisa Ishibashi, and asked for a relationship.

Because Ryuji Sugizaki always takes special care of her, she is jealous of her colleague Yukihan Hirata.

After 5 months of secret dating, Ryuji Sugizaki told Yuki Ezaki that he already had a fiancée, hoping that the other party would forget what happened before.

Yuki Ezaki was very sad and could only find someone to talk to on the Internet.

Two months ago, Ichiro Sekiguchi, an idiot who likes Yuki Ezaki, also came to Tokyo, and in order to get close to her, he also applied to become an employee of the care company.

But Ezaki Yuki has no love for Ichiro Sekiguchi, who grew up together, and rejects him again.

A month ago, through a dating app called "Xinnian", she found a friend who shares her interests, and this friend is gentle and handsome, and occasionally volunteers, and likes to help stray cats and dogs.

Yuki Ezaki fell in love. 】

[Evaluation: There are always some girls who have their own attributes to attract scumbags.] 】

[Item: Slip of paper]

[Identification result: A note written by Yuki Ezaki under duress.] 】

[Comment: This is just the beginning.] 】

Shirakawa frowned slightly, and at the same time supported Mie Takeshima, who was about to faint, took out the pills that were ready at any time from his pocket, and gave her two pills to stabilize her state.

The staff of Kinoshita Cat Dead Care Company were attracted by the screams and saw a horrific scene.

One by one, they looked frightened and let out loud and low cries of different frequencies.

Bai Chuan chose to call the police as soon as possible.

This time, it's an old acquaintance, a Maori police officer.

Mori Shu glanced at Shirakawa with a complicated look.

Shirakawa decoded from his micro-expression, how is it your subtext again.

The two exchanged a brief greeting, and the Maori police officer began to inspect the scene with the face that everyone owed him eight million.

Eventually, his eyes rested on the girl who had died tragically in the coffin.

He put on gloves, gently took out the note with words written on it from the coffin, put it in a plastic bag, and handed it to his subordinates.

"Go back and do a handwriting comparison."

"Yes, Senpai."

"The handwriting is by Yuki Ezaki."

In order to reduce the useless work of the police, Shirakawa reminded.

Shuichi Mori looked at Shirakawa suspiciously, and Shirakawa walked to the front desk, picked up a customer registration form, and handed it to Shuichi Mori.

Mori Shuichi looked at the same handwriting and was slightly stunned.

"Could it be that she wrote it to someone?"

Shirakawa shook his head, "Maybe the murderer coerced her to write it." ”

"Dare to openly provoke the Metropolitan Police Department, this scumbag must be caught!"

Mori Shu suddenly realized that he and the Metropolitan Police Department had been provoked, and he didn't feel that the words [come to me] were said to Shirakawa.

The police found Ryuji Sugisaki, the owner of Kinoshita Cat Deceased Care Company, a 32-year-old adult man who looked suave and temperamental.

He presented the general information of the deceased employee to the Maori police officer,

"Miss Ariki Ezaki, is a girl who works very hard, she has been working in the company for 3 years, because she is very cute, she is often harassed, and I once asked her to call the police, but she refused every time, not wanting to make a big deal. Everyone left last night, but she insisted on staying and working overtime to check the things needed for the funeral because the client was going to have a funeral the next day. ”

"So only Miss Yuki Ezaki was alone in the company last night?"

"Well, after 8 o'clock, we all left the company."

"Does the company have surveillance?"

"There's only one at the front desk."

"Do you know who is harassing her?"

Shuichi Mori asked.

"Although I don't know each other, I think I can find out through the landline at the front desk of the company, and every day they call to harass Miss Yuki Ezaki."

Sukisaki Ryuji, the suave boss, said.

"In addition to these harassing phone calls, has Miss Ezaki Yuki offended anyone else?"

Shuichi Mori continued to ask.

After chatting for about fifteen minutes, through the description of the owner and clerk of the care company, I got an overall portrait of Miss Ezaki Yuki.

Ezaki Yuki is a young man who went to Tokyo to work, usually has a docile personality, treats people politely, and the people around her like her very much, but the disadvantage is that she is too weak, even if she is bullied, she will not choose to call the police, and she is often molested and harassed.

This is very similar to the results identified.

Accompanied by a 50-year-old forensic doctor, Mr. Ryosuke Nozawa, after a simple autopsy, he found that the time of death was 2-3 o'clock in the morning today, the cause of death was hypoxic asphyxiation, there was a bruise on the brain, and he should have been knocked unconscious in front of his body, and then he was scratched on the chest by a sharp object, leaving two shocking cross wounds.

According to the preliminary judgment, the deceased was knocked unconscious, scratched, and then locked in a coffin, and after waking up, he continued to struggle, calling for help to no avail, and finally died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen.

More detailed information will need to be obtained after the body is brought back for autopsy.

"Kuraki-kun, your friend doesn't seem to be in a good state, do you want to go back first?"

Shuichi Mori looked at Mie Takeshima, whose face was pale.

Mie Takeshima leaned into Shirakawa's arms and shook her head.

Shirakawa patted her on the shoulder, "Don't be too forced. ”

"I... I wonder what kind of person was so cruel that he killed Miss Araki. ”

Mie Takeshima was very touched by the fact that she was suffering from a terminal illness, and when she saw the gentle and cheerful Miss Aruki, she once thought that it would be nice if she also had a long life, and that she could have her own career like Miss Aruki who worked hard.

But today, she suddenly saw Miss Aruki lying in a coffin, losing all her life.

She suddenly understood that the length of life is not necessarily related to terminal illness.

Any accident can take the fragile life of a human being.

Miss Araki's experience made her deeply sympathetic.

Shirakawa bowed slightly, returning his mind to the case itself, observing the clues around him that might have been missed.

24 hours is not a lot of time.

Katsuhisa Ishibashi, a decadent and unkempt old employee, who is usually in charge of carrying coffins and incinerators, has a lot of dust on his body, looks like he is thirty or forty years old, with the smell of alcohol on his body, obviously he has just drunk, and a pair of small eyes look left and right, and he doesn't look serious.

Wearing an OL suit, black stockings, and a tall professional chemical engineer, Hirata Xuehan, had no expression on her face, but her eyes were full of indifference, she took out a cigarette from her small bag, lit one, and smoked it slowly.

Ichiro Sekiguchi, who looks ordinary, wears an employee uniform, his eyes are bloodshot, his expression is dark, as if he has been drained of his spirit, thick dark circles, as if he hasn't slept for a few days, and the fingers of his left hand have been trembling, which is a sign of extreme nervousness.

There were three other employees, two men and one woman, all with frightened expressions, and the older aunt, who was hiding her face and weeping, as if it was the first time she had encountered such a thing.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity."

Katsuhisa Ishibashi sighed.

"Hmph."

Hirata snorted coldly and continued to smoke.

"Why is this happening? Why is this happening? There is no ki-chan, there is ki-chan. ”

Ichiro Sekiguchi whispered a broken thought, and his spirit seemed to be very tired.

"What a good girl, just dead."

The old aunt cried.

"Yes, Miss Ariki told me yesterday that she was going to adopt a stray cat, and she died today."

An employee shook his head and sighed.

Shuichi Mori had his subordinate police officers record their confessions.

When Mori Xiuyi wanted to call up the front desk monitoring screen, he had a headache to find that the front desk monitoring had not been opened, which was equivalent to just an ornament.

Through the front desk telephone, the police technicians found several sets of numbers, often calling from 9 to 10 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. every day.

These numbers are supposed to be the numbers that often harass the deceased.

Shuichi Mori asked the team members to arrest people according to their numbers and conduct an investigation.

According to the descriptions of the people around her, the deceased Miss Ezaki Yuki was kind to people, gentle and kind, and even a little cowardly, so there must not be many enemies, and these people who harassed her were seriously suspected.

Shirakawa, on the other hand, identified Ryuji Sugisaki, Ichiro Sekiguchi, Yukihan Hirata, and Katsuhisa Ishibashi, respectively, and obtained surprising clues.

This chapter is a plus, and there is another chapter at 12 noon!

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