The emergence of the videotape solved the case of Matsuo's death. The next question before Chasen was the death of Miura Kazuya.
The body was discovered on the evening of the 12th, but the remains that were cut into several pieces in the garbage bag posed a series of problems. First of all, the first scene of the murder was definitely not there, and this has been confirmed by the police. Not far from Ikeda's house, the police found the murder weapon Ikeda had discarded. It was an ordinary kitchen knife with Miura's blood and Ikeda's fingerprints on it. Judging from the traces nearby, the two men were there. A scuffle broke out, and Miura fell to the ground after being stabbed. Ikeda dropped the murder weapon in panic and fled the scene.
So, who was torn apart? Tianyi was highly suspicious, but Tea Fairy ruled out this possibility after careful consideration. According to the experience summarized in previous investigations, Tianyi rarely left the bookstore. When he came out, at least a few people with abilities would die.
For things like disposing of corpses, it's hard to imagine that Tianyi would go there personally, so someone else would do the dismemberment.
The possibility of Takeda Ikeda returning to the scene to remove the body is basically zero. If he had the courage to come back and dispose of the body, there would be no reason to leave the murder weapon, let alone commit suicide a few hours later out of fear of guilt.
Then, there should be another person involved in this case. He arrived quickly after Ikeda killed someone and escaped, removed the body, briefly cleaned the scene, then cut it into several pieces in a secret place, and finally dumped it several kilometers away. somewhere outside.
After doing a series of things, this person still left the murder weapon near the scene. There is only one explanation for this unusual behavior.
He can accurately know the time and place of a murder, rush to the scene as quickly as possible, and do something that goes against common sense... That person must have been ordered by Tianyi.
But who is this dismemberer...
The three dead people with reverse crosses taken over by the Hokkaido Third Precinct were the female college student Manami Sato who cut her wrists at the cross of the church, the corporate employee Kosuke Kindaichi who was initially determined to have accidentally fallen from the building, and the freelancer Nishizono who committed suicide by taking poison. Teraichiro. The only clue related to the case is Saionji Ichiro. His younger brother is in the same grade as Miura Kazuya and is a member of the school's light music club. This is the only remaining connection.
However, all three of them died before December 10th. Regardless of the fact that one of them was a woman, the other two did not have a driver's license or a car, so they were not equipped to move and dispose of the bodies in a short period of time.
As for the remaining players, only the insane Ikeda Mozuki is the most likely to deal with the consequences for his father, but he stayed at school that afternoon, which is a very reliable alibi.
Could it be that... there are still undiscovered players
This is different from Tianyi's past cases. There were almost no survivors in his game. Or maybe the undiscovered player also died, but his death was disguised as a natural death. The inverted cross on his face Haven't been discovered yet
Tea Fairy's investigation reached a deadlock, and he began to check every recent case in the police station files, trying to find some strange dead people, such as those who were burned, disfigured, or whose bodies could not be found. If that person is still alive, the problem will be more complicated...
Ten months have passed and the case has finally reached the closing stage. The players have all committed crimes more or less, but these six people are dead, either killing each other or committing suicide. The Tea Fairy has sorted out the matter. He knows the cause of everyone's death and their relationship with each other. The connection, but so what, just like the cases Tianyi had done in the past, after seeing the whole story clearly, it was found that no one could be arrested and no one needed to be punished, because their crimes had been punished.
Nozomi Ikeda, the only survivor, has gone crazy, and he has not committed any crime.
In the end, there was only one question left unsolved: the person who had never surfaced, the person who was ordered by Tianyi to dismember the body.
Tea Fairy gradually began to doubt whether this person was a player... If he was not a player, but Tianyi's assistant, then many situations would be explained. Since he is not driven by "sin", this person must still be alive in this world. As long as he is found, Tianyi may be found.
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After coming in a big circle, we still have to get back to where we started. Tea Fairy returned to the mental hospital again, wanting to see if Nozomi Ikeda, who was like a zombie a month ago, could speak.
The nurse who led the way opened the door to the ward for him. After entering the room, Cha Xian motioned for him to wait outside and closed the door.
Inside the house, Ikeda was still sitting on the bed with dull eyes. Compared with the last time the tea fairy came, he didn't see any improvement.
The tea fairy sighed. He felt that this trip might be in vain again, but he still tried to call the other party's name: "Ikeda-kun."
Unexpectedly, when these three words were spoken, the other party actually moved. He raised his head and looked at the tea fairy's face: "Unfortunately, the test failed."
The temperature around him seemed to drop to freezing point in an instant. Tea Fairy's surprise was completely written on his face. At this moment, he could hardly believe what he saw and heard: "What did you say..."
"It's been a month, and this has exceeded the deadline expected by the 'telegrapher'. There is no need for me to stay here any longer." Every word he said made the Tea Fairy realize that everything he had known before was completely gone. Under Tianyi's control.
"Who are you?" Tea Fairy became alert. He knew that the person in front of him was definitely not the ordinary high school student Nozomi Ikeda.
The person sitting in the hospital gradually changed. Under his hospital clothes, his whole body became pitch black. It didn't look like human skin at all. The texture was more like a black space suit. He was black and had no hair. The head, the concave and convex distinctive facial features, the eyes sunken in the eye sockets reveal a cyan light.
An Shui's tone was cold and without any emotion: "According to the instruction of the 'telegrapher', I need to tell you two pieces of information. The first is what happened on December 12th.
That morning, Nozomi Ikeda said the words "September 4th" to Miura, which made him murderous. At the same time, Whalebird went to visit Takeda Ikeda to learn about the case; in the afternoon, Takeda Ikeda was afraid that the police would pursue Nozomi Ikeda. , so he went to the 'narrator' and learned that Miura wanted to murder his son at a certain place, so he went to stop it, but Miura was killed.
Next, I arrived at the scene, tore the body apart and moved it, briefly removing the blood and leaving behind the murder weapon. Later, Nozomi Ikeda went to find the "Telegrapher" after school, and after receiving the information that Miura was killed by his father, he returned home and found that Takeda Ikeda had "committed suicide" out of fear of the crime and was mentally disturbed. "
Tea Fairy seemed far less interested in this case than Anshui. He interrupted: "Are you Tianyi's assistant... When did you start working for him? Why are there no traces of you in those past cases?" Narrated What do you mean?" He thought he had seen tenth of the matter clearly, but now he found that there were still too many questions to ask.
In fact, these suspicions of the Tea Fairy were all wrong. In November, Anshui was still competing with the gunsmith in a battle of wits and courage in the South American rainforest. Before that, when Tianyi was making trouble outside, Anshui was still in the underground ruins. Sleeping inside.
At noon on the 12th, the gunsmith came to the bookstore to seek shelter from Tianyi, and then entered the subspace of the bookstore. From then on until a few hours before Ikeda came to the bookstore, there was another uninvited guest, and that was Dark Water.
Darkwater could sense the location of the Eternal Core no matter where in the world he was, so he tracked the gunsmith all the way from South America. The master who swallowed four HL in the jungle is at the bottom. The amount of memory and knowledge is basically enough. There is no big problem in integrating Dark Water into civilized society. While in Hokkaido, he was finally close to catching up with the gunsmith, but the gunsmith hid in Tianyi's bookstore.
After Anshui arrived, he unexpectedly met Tianyi, who was the "Telegrapher" in his mouth. For his family, the "Telegrapher" was a great existence second only to the gods. He paid respects to him respectfully. Tianyi Yiyi just "greeted" with a strange expression: "Your tribe is not extinct yet..."
Tianyi asked Anshui some questions and learned about the gunsmith's experience in South America. He told Anshui not to rush to find that idiot. Anyway, even if you kill him, the eternal core cannot be repaired. It is better to let him slowly toss in the subspace. Therefore, Tianyi accepted Anshui as his younger brother with a clear conscience. A few hours later, when Ikeda committed murder and escaped, Tianyi learned about the situation through the Book of Heart and sent Anshui to dispose of the body.
On the 13th, Tianyi learned of HL's intervention. He changed his strategy and designed a new trap. Before killing Kuwabara and leaving Hokkaido, he gave Anshui a task, which was to devour Nozomi Ikeda before the Tea Fairy arrived and turn into him. If the Tea Fairy still hadn't found out the case after a month, he would definitely I would go see him again, then I would give up my pretense and relay the two pieces of information to him.
Tea Fairy thought he knew Tianyi very well, but in fact Tianyi knew him very well. He clearly knew Tea Fairy's method of investigating cases, his way of thinking, his ability to control clues and his ability to make chain deductions, etc... There was no way out until the end. The Tea Fairy would never go into a mental hospital for a second time to ask for a confession from a mental patient. The one-month "giving up time" is Tianyi's evaluation of Tea Fairy based on past experience. "Smart people" will not dwell on an unsolvable matter forever.
At this moment, Anshui seemed not to have heard Tea Fairy's question and just continued: "The second message, the original words of the 'narrator' were...
I thought you were the fourth smartest person on the planet, but recently I discovered a very interesting guy who may be even better than you. A new test is already being prepared.
It's time for you to be eliminated after all, Tea Fairy. After all, it's been several years, and you haven't even shown the slightest sign of catching me. Humans do have their limits, and your bad taste also makes me very angry. Disgusted, all in all, this is your last chance.
In the "chaotic" world, strife will arise. It seems that you are not suitable to stand under the banner of the reverse cross. You will never stand in front of me as a law enforcer. When you meet me as you wish, you face The one who is right will not be a wanted criminal at Danger Level 6, but the founder of a new world. "