When Karasuma saw the boy again, it was at one o'clock that afternoon.
The boy sat in a police car, accompanied by several criminal police officers, and arrived at the high school where Karasuma was studying.
Of course, in order not to cause too much commotion, the boy did not drive the police car directly to the school gate. Instead, he parked on the roadside not far away and entered the school on foot with several criminal police officers.
This is also the first time for a boy to come to the high school where Karasuma is studying.
Although the two have known each other for half a year, the boy, who "will never do it unless necessary", has no concept of "visiting friends" in his mind. Therefore, unless a murder occurs like this time, he will It won't come over.
When the boy saw Karasuma on the bench in the aisle beside the school playground, she had just finished lunch and was sitting there with her good friend Akina, waiting for the boy.
By the way, the boy also came here just after lunch. When he first heard the news, Karasuma was shocked.
What? !
Do you, a ruthless reasoning machine, take time to eat while working on a case? ! I always thought you were the kind of super madman who would never rest until the case was solved!
Then the boy looked at her like she was an idiot.
Don't be fooled by the TV. If you don't eat seriously to replenish your strength, how can you solve the case well? Only a fool would do something like this.
"Well, the information you collected is that the deceased continued to be mentally disturbed in the past few days before he was killed, right?"
Sitting together on a bench by the flower bed, the boy spoke after listening to Karasuma's story.
"There is also a rumor that Kyoko-san has contacts with students from other schools. We carefully asked the person who originally spread these rumors and found that this rumor also seems to be false..."
The speaker was Akina, who was sitting next to Karasuma. She seemed to be a good friend that Karasuma had met in this high school, and the two had a close relationship.
"Is there more?" The boy nodded slightly and asked again.
He had already made up his mind that after questioning Wai Xiaowu and Karasuma, he would go to the school leaders and ask again.
It's not that he just doesn't trust these two people. After all, these two female high school students have no corresponding experience in criminal investigation. They may inadvertently ignore a lot of hidden information. This is normal.
The boy had a hunch that this case might not be an ordinary murder case. In order to prevent the most likely situation from deteriorating, he must solve the case as soon as possible.
For this reason, he could not miss any possible clues.
The boy does not have the ability to predict things. This is just an intuition he has developed passively after being exposed to these cases for many years.
"Still, there's more!"
Xiao Karasuma immediately spoke loudly. For some reason, the expression on her face suddenly became a little nervous at this moment.
The boy didn't reply, just looked at her quietly.
"Yes, it's some of my reasoning..."
Seeing the boy looking at him like this, Karasuma suddenly felt guilty, and the courage he had brought by shouting suddenly dissipated at this moment.
But at this moment, Sister Keiko's previous instructions to her suddenly rang in Xiao Karasuma's mind.
【No, that’s right! I have to take good care of this wooden man for Sister Keiko! How could you just back down like that? ! 】
With this thought in his mind, an inexplicable courage burned in Karasumaru's chest again.
So, she looked directly into the boy's eyes and explained the reasoning that Hatoyama Keiko had told her before, almost word for word, with complete logic.
This is actually a very simple reasoning. After ruling out the bad and withdrawn interpersonal relationships of the deceased Kyoko's classmate and the rumors of having contact with students from other schools, we locked her mental abnormality in the period before her murder. in a family environment.
At the same time, the real truth about Kyoko’s murder is probably hidden in this, which is a priority investigation direction.
Basically, the boy quickly reasoned to the same conclusion after listening to the information gathered by Karasuma.
But what surprised the boy was that Karasuma could also come to such a conclusion.
This is really surprising. Shouldn’t we applaud now to express encouragement?
"Um."
The boy who was thinking this way didn't show any obvious expression. He just nodded slightly to express his approval.
"Guo, is that really the case?" Although it was just a nod, it also made the nervous Karasuma feel excited.
"I think so too." The boy nodded again, this time giving a clear response.
"Okay, so awesome! Karasuma-san!" My good friend Akina-san immediately praised excitedly.
"No, this, this is actually not my fault alone... By the way!"
Quickly pulling himself down from the cloud, which was already drifting a little, Karasuma looked at the boy again and asked quickly:
"Muren, didn't you also meet Xingzi's parents this morning? Did they say anything?"
Perhaps because he felt that he was getting involved with the reasoning just now, Xiao Karasuma actually started to take the initiative to ask about the investigation progress of the case.
She was referring to the fact that before driving her away this morning, the boy notified Kyoko's parents to rush to the cemetery for an autopsy.
The boy glanced at her, was silent for a moment, and then said:
"I just briefly asked about the situation of the deceased this morning, and their answers were roughly the same as the information you collected in the school.
The deceased's classmate Kyoko was usually withdrawn and had no close friends. However, after returning home from school yesterday, the deceased told her parents that she would spend the night with a friend from another school that night, and then left home. Never came back. "
This is also the reason why Kyoko’s parents did not report the incident even though she had been dead all night.
"Then have they said who this 'friend from another school' that Kyoko mentioned is?" Karasuma asked quickly.
There is a conflict between the intelligence from both sides.
What Kokarasuma discovered during her investigation was that the rumor that "Kyoko-san knew someone from another school" was a pure rumor, spread unintentionally by her classmates who had bullied her before.
What the boy learned from the parents of Kyoko’s classmate was that Kyoko’s classmate left home last night under the pretext of “going to stay at a friend’s house from another school” and was eventually killed.
"No, they don't know." The boy replied: "Because the deceased had a withdrawn personality during his lifetime, after hearing that the deceased had friends who could stay overnight, the parents did not ask or hinder them, and allowed the deceased to stay that night. Went to her friend’s house.”
"Really irresponsible parents..."
After complaining in a low voice, Karasuma asked tentatively: "Then, should we ask Kyoko-san's parents again?"
Her tone was a little eager.
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(End of chapter)
