"Ah! So slow!"
In the lounge, after a long wait, Suzuki Sonoko lay on the sofa and shouted impatiently.
On the sofa on the other side, Suzuki Ayako, who was sleeping on Qing Shuijing's shoulder, was also awakened by her voice, rubbing her eyes and looking around in confusion.
"Indeed, it has been two hours, and the divination hall will be closed soon."
Karasumaying glanced at the time on her phone and frowned slightly.
"Dark Miko, has she forgotten us?" Suzuki Sonoko asked dissatisfiedly.
"I think... it shouldn't happen, right?" Mao Lilan replied uncertainly.
"No wait! Xiaolan Aying! Let's go! Let's go to her room to find her together!"
Jumping up from the sofa, Suzuki Sonoko pulled Karasuma Ying and the two of them and left the lounge angrily.
"Jingjun, shall we go together?" Behind the three of them, Suzuki Ayako also stood up and asked.
After all, Arai Kimiko was talking to Xiaoying about a detective commission. She was not sure about letting the three children go alone in such a matter involving financial interests.
There must always be an adult present.
"good."
Qing Shuijing put away her phone, stood up, held hands with Suzuki Ayako, and left behind the three of them.
On the screen of his mobile phone was a text message that had been sent not long ago.
[Task completed, target has been processed]
"..."
"Um, there's no one in the hall?"
"Because it's almost closing time..."
After pulling Karasuma Ying and the two out of the lounge, Suzuki Sonoko sighed deeply as she looked at the empty hall in front of her.
"She has indeed forgotten us... Let's go! Go to her room!"
Then they pulled the two of them and ran up to the second floor. In front of Kimiko Arai's room, the three of them saw the crowd gathered here.
Daijiro Arai, Shoko Kawai, Ms. Edano, Mr. Yi...these people I just met are all here now.
"What happened?" With a bad feeling in her heart, Karasumaying quickly stepped forward and asked.
"Oh, are they those little girls from before?"
Kawai Souko turned to look at the three of them and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? It's already closing time now?"
"Sorry, we are here to see Ms. Arai... What's wrong? Why are everyone here?"
"It's nothing, it's just that the black miko locked herself inside." Kawai Suiko explained.
Mr. Yi on the side also said very worriedly: "Wasn't she feeling unwell before? Could it be that she fainted alone in the room?"
"No answer when you knock on the door?"
As Karasuma Ying said, she even stepped forward and knocked on the iron door herself.
At this time, Qing Shuijing and Suzuki Ayako also came here.
"I tried it, but there was no response, but it's possible that I didn't hear it. After all, all fortune tellers' rooms in the museum are soundproofed."
"Especially Kimiko's room, she also put iron plates around the walls, and the sound insulation effect is better than other rooms." Daijiro Arai added.
Ms. Edano looked at him and urged: "Dajiro, aren't you her assistant? I remember you have the key to the room, right? Hurry up and get the key and open the door."
"I, she just took my keys away." Daijiro Arai said with a look of embarrassment: "Even after the previous secret meeting, I don't know what she was thinking..."
"Are there no other keys?" Karasuma Ying asked after hearing this.
"No, the administrator of the divination hall should have a spare one. I just asked Mr. Kosaka to borrow it..."
Tomohiko Kosaka is the host of the previous secret meeting.
"Understood."
Nodding, Karasuma Ying stepped forward and tried to twist the door handle.
Not moving at all.
This door must have been locked from the inside.
"Um?"
Suddenly, she noticed that something strange seemed to be seeping out of the extremely small gap between the iron door and the floor.
"Sonoko, give me a tissue."
"okay."
Taking the paper towel from Suzuki Sonoko, Karasuma Ying wiped the paper towel hard on the crack of the door.
Suddenly, the front end of the tissue was stained with a small hint of red.
"Aying, what is this?"
"is blood."
Karasuma Ying stood up with a solemn expression.
The intuition she developed after coming to Japan told her that something might have happened in this room...
"Blood?!"
When the people around him heard this, they suddenly became panicked.
"Why is there blood here?"
"Could it be that Kimiko really..."
"No, no way..."
"Is there no other way to open this door?"
"How long will it take, Kousaka-kun?"
"S-How about we call the police first?"
"Everyone!"
At this moment, Tomohiko Kosaka, who went to borrow the key, finally arrived.
"Give me!"
Taking the key directly from his hand, Karasumaying quickly inserted it into the door lock.
"Click."
With a crisp sound, the door lock was unlocked, and Karasuma Ying tried hard to push the door open.
"Zi la!"
There was a harsh friction sound from behind the door, and the iron door was only slightly pushed open and then stopped moving.
"What's wrong?" Daijiro Arai beside her asked quickly.
"It's strange, there seems to be something blocking the door...you guys stand back."
Instructing everyone to retreat, Karasumaying took a deep breath, turned around and kicked the iron door hard with a roundhouse kick.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise, and she kicked half of the iron door open.
And everyone also saw the situation in the room at this time.
The room was in a mess. All the tables, chairs and benches were knocked to the ground. The ground was a mess. The thorn devil statue that was originally standing at the far end of the room was also knocked to the ground.
On the floor in the center of the room, an old woman wearing a pink suit and reddish brown hair lay, surrounded by dark red blood.
She is Kimiko Arai.
"Kimiko?! I-I'm going to call the police!"
"How is this possible?"
"Is she dead?"
"Hurry, go check on her!"
"Stand at the door, don't come in."
After blocking everyone from the door, Karasumaying skillfully took out the white gloves from her pocket and put them on, then walked into the room alone.
"Now it's about protecting the scene as much as possible."
Since coming to Japan, she has developed the "good habit" of carrying white gloves with her.
"Ming, I understand!"
Several diviners quickly stopped, and Ms. Edano couldn't help but ask: "But will it be okay if you go in?"
"It's okay!" Suzuki Sonoko said loudly: "Aying has long been used to this kind of thing! She knows what to do!"
"Have you gotten used to it?" Mr. Yi looked at her in disbelief.
"That's right! Aying is Detective Maori's assistant! She often helps the police solve cases! It's absolutely no problem to leave this kind of thing to her!"
In the room, Karasuma Ying sighed helplessly when she heard what Suzuki Sonoko said.
In fact, she doesn't want to be so skilled...
Without saying anything, she carefully avoided the blood on the floor, walked to Kimiko Arai's body in the center of the room, and pressed the side of her neck hard.
It's all cold, absolutely hopeless.
"Unfortunately, Ms. Arai...has been killed."
(End of chapter)
