.On December 12, the police had withdrawn from the school and everything in the teaching building had returned to normal. What will never change is people’s hearts.
The atmosphere in the staff room seemed peaceful, and the teachers tried their best to behave as usual, chatting, taking breaks, and scolding students. But from the corner of their eyes, everyone would glance at Matsuo's original seat from time to time. At that moment, they couldn't tell what they were feeling.
Because the class teacher died and a replacement could not be found within a short period of time, the school temporarily found a substitute teacher for Ikeda's class.
He was an old man with gray hair, probably a retired teacher hired from outside. Seeing him riding a bicycle to school despite the cold wind despite his age, one couldn't help but feel a little sympathy.
Regardless of whether he is really interested in education or is forced by life, after all, he is much better than a guy like Matsuo. Even if the students can't talk about respect for him, at least they don't hate him as much as they do Matsuo.
Half a day passed quietly. Although some people had talked about Matsuo, their expressions were far less enthusiastic than yesterday. Perhaps this is the saddest thing about "people". People are too easy to be forgotten by the same kind of people, because each of us only remembers ourselves.
"Miura." Ikeda walked up to Miura and called him by his name.
Miura's expression changed immediately after hearing this. Ikeda dared to take the initiative to talk to him, which surprised him. Because Ikeda is always bullied by Miura, there is no chance of him taking the initiative to talk to him. Even if he is forced to speak a few words, he will definitely address him with honorifics first. But today, he directly said "Miura" with a serious look on his face. Character.
"What's the matter?" Miura responded quickly. He speculated that this abnormal phenomenon must be related to what happened the night before.
Could it be that he saw me
Miura's worries did not come true, but a more terrifying situation happened. Ikeda's next words made Miura feel like he was struck by lightning.
"September 4th."
After Ikeda said this, he calmly turned around and left, returning to his seat as if nothing had happened.
Miura did not call him, but just sat in shock, his eyes losing focus.
Halfway through the first class in the afternoon, Miura suddenly felt unwell and left the classroom. Then he went to the teacher's office to ask for leave and went home early.
"Kill him... kill him... bastard... that bastard... must kill him..." From the moment Miura walked out of the classroom, he began to gnash his teeth, and the ferocious look on his face made people "hairy" Creepy.
On September 4th, not many people knew the meaning of this sentence, but Ikeda was definitely not one of them. He would go and tell Miura for only one reason, because that was the condition of the deal with Tianyi.
"Just say 'September 4th' to Miura at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon. After doing this, you can come to me to complete the transaction." "
Recalling Tianyi's words at that time, Ikeda couldn't understand it, but it didn't matter anymore. It was just a word that made no sense, so what consequences could it have.
That evening, several wild cats knocked over a trash can while rummaging for food, and Miura's head rolled out of it.
This is how his body was found in an alley, which was not on his way home, and his family later testified that he did not go back after taking leave from school that day.
The police speculated that this place was not the first scene because Miura had been dismembered. The body thrown in the trash can was chopped into more than ten pieces and was stuffed in a large garbage bag.
After school, Ikeda had no idea about this. He couldn't wait to come to Tianyi's bookstore. After pushing the door open and entering, he stumbled to Tianyi's desk and said, "Quick! Tell me! Matsuo's purpose of sneaking into the school at night! And why Miura wants to kill people!"
Tianyi scratched his hair and yawned: "Miura is dead."
Ikeda froze in place, "What... what... what did you say..."
"I don't want to say the same thing twice because I'll look stupid, just like you."
"Impossible! He clearly came to school today! I even told him..."
"Yes, I know. Later he took leave and went home, and then he died."
"How could...how could he die?"
"He was hacked to death." Tianyi took a sip of coffee, raised his eyelids and glanced at Ikeda: "Do you want to know who did it?"
"who is it?"
"Want to know? Then let's make an exchange. If you are willing to exchange all the information you deserve in this transaction, I will tell you who killed Miura." Tianyi offered another choice.
Ikeda said angrily: "Are you trying to trick me again?"
"Liar? That's ridiculous. You have always been free to choose in transactions. Don't attribute your stupidity to me." Tianyi sneered.
Ikeda thought about it again and again before replying: "I want the original information and will not change my choice!"
Tianyi still sneered: "Oh, this time it was a paranoid choice, but it is still stupid." He put his head in his hands and began to say: "First of all, the reason why Matsuo went to school is very simple. Miura asked him to go .”
"Why?" Ikeda asked.
"We'll explain it after we finish telling the general situation." Tian Yiyi said, "Miura was determined to kill people and silence him from the beginning. He deliberately stayed late that day to go home, waiting for the students who were on duty and the handyman who was cleaning the house. After they all left, he tampered with the sliding window on the first floor. All he needed was a piece of transparent tape. It looked like it was closed from any side, but in fact there was still a small gap before it was locked.
At ten o'clock in the evening, he contacted Matsuo by phone, and then rushed to the school with the prepared murder instruments.
Matsuo arrived shortly afterwards, and he was not stupid. He felt that it was very strange for the other party to invite him to an empty school in the middle of the night, but the number Miura mentioned on the phone was huge, and Matsuo could not control himself due to greed.
The door of the teacher's office opened sideways, and Miura placed a wire behind the door at a height of fifteen centimeters from the ground. It was impossible to turn on the light blatantly. In the poor light situation, after Matsuo opened the door, he could only vaguely see the cash box on the table. This guy lived up to his expectations and stepped forward excitedly. Stumbled. Miura, who was hiding in the shadow of the corner behind the door, pounced on him, suppressing him with his weight and preventing him from getting up. Then he quickly put his knee on the back of Matsuo's neck and strangled him to death with a rope in both hands.
In this way, the force of strangulation is lifted from the bottom up, and the reaction force can press the victim to the ground. Even people with average wrist strength can strangle those who are much stronger than themselves to death. It was naturally very easy for Miura-san to strangle the thin Matsuo.
After Matsuo died, Miura hung him up, which was not too strenuous for him. He packed up the wires at the scene, checked and cleaned the footprints left by stepping on high places, and collected everything that could become evidence. Putting it into the empty money box he brought, Miura completed a pretty good murder.
But the problem is, he closed the door and was about to leave when he heard your voice coming upstairs. "
The more Ikeda listened, the more frightened he became. A murder was actually mentioned by Tianyi in such a casual tone, "Then Miura hid in the dark and observed me?"
Tian Daodao: "Yes, in fact, he also had murderous intentions towards you at that time, but he didn't do it in the end. You were so proud that you didn't scream out, and you didn't do anything like leaving excrement in the corridor. He just did some superfluous things, and Miura didn't care anymore. Anyway, he made it watertight." Tianyi took another sip of coffee: "Of course, I think if what he did before was not so precise, it might be wrong. He kept doing nothing and killed you. Precisely because Matsuo's previous move of disguising Matsuo as a 'suicide' was so successful, he didn't want to cause trouble."
Thinking of the horrific scenes the night before yesterday, and now knowing that there was always a pair of hands in the darkness that could kill him at any time, the fear in Ikeda's heart was self-evident, and a cold sweat broke out behind his back.
Tianyi continued: "Now let's go back to the original question, why did Miura ask Matsuo to school.
In fact, you can probably guess from what I just said, that this guy Matsuo... is indeed trying to blackmail Miura. After all, the other party is the son of the director of a big hospital, and his family is very rich.
Miura's handle fell into Matsuo's hands, and people like Matsuo didn't dare to blackmail the other party's father directly, so he told Miura, "It doesn't matter whether you steal the family's bankbook or beg your father. It doesn't matter." 'In this case. So there was this murder. "
Ikeda asked again: "What's the handle? And how could Miura be killed? Who wants to kill him?"
Tianyi touched his chin and said in an indifferent tone: "What's the handle? Well... what is it? Maybe it's something that happened on September 4th last year."