Even though he didn't know the inside story, Karasuma felt the tense atmosphere in the ward just now.
The man in suit guarding the door and not allowing anyone to enter, and the contentious atmosphere between Hatoyama Keiko and Karasuma Renya in the ward, all told her about the existing relationship between the Karasuma family and the Hatoyama family today. There is some kind of contradictory relationship.
This made Karasuma very uncomfortable.
Because she is Karasuma Renya's daughter, and she also sincerely regards Hatoyama Keiko and the boy as her good friends. It is this special stance that makes her feel suffocated by being caught between the two.
She was afraid that Renye Karasuma would blame her for being close to Keiko Hatoyama, and she was also worried that Keiko Hatoyama would deliberately alienate her because she was from the Karasuma family.
However, nothing she feared happened.
When Karasuma Renye left, he didn't even look at her, nor did he ask her to leave with him. This reaction made little Karasuma feel lucky.
And when she looked back, she didn't see any intention of alienating her from Keiko Hatoyama's eyes.
Sister Keiko was still looking at her with that gentle look in her eyes as before.
"Xiao Karasuma, you bought these apples, right? Come and sit down. After Xiao Qing finishes peeling them, I'll give you the remaining half."
Hatoyama Keiko didn't mention the previous incident of Karasuma Renya at all, but revealed it with just one word.
This once again made Karasuma greatly relieved.
"No, no, it was bought by the wooden man. I just helped him hold it..."
"What are you talking about? Xiaoqing has never had this kind of experience in all these years. How could he think of buying something for me..."
Keiko Hatoyama unceremoniously exposed her little lie.
"Also, the clothes he is wearing today must have been changed by you, right?"
"Well, as expected, I still can't hide it... No! You're obviously a stupid person and your performance is so bad! That's why it's so easy for Sister Keiko to see through!"
"Well, sorry, it's my fault."
Keiko Hatoyama understands human nature well, especially the people around her. She seems to be born with a special ability that can easily see into other people's hearts.
It is this special gift that allows her to handle interpersonal relationships with anyone around her almost perfectly.
Both the boy and Karasuma are involved. She has an incomparable understanding of their natures. It seems that as soon as she opens her mouth, she can take the initiative between the three of them and become the backbone of the two.
But what little Karasuma didn't expect at this time was that among the people who were seen through by Hatoyama Keiko, not only she and the boy, but also her father, Karasuma Renya, the head of the Karasuma family.
Sharon recalled from the perspective of hindsight that in the ward thirty-six years ago, the three people in the ward may have had their own thoughts.
She was restless because of the confrontation between her blood relatives and her best friend, but this emotion was easily resolved by Hatoyama Keiko in a few words.
Shirakawa Kiyoshi was peeling apples in silence. Although he occasionally responded to the other two, his thoughts drifted away because of Hatoyama Keiko's last warning to Karasuma Renya.
Although he didn't know much about the relationship between the Hatoyama family and the Karasuma family at that time, as well as Karasuma Renya's plan, he was still keen to detect anomalies from Hatoyama Keiko's words.
But in the end he asked nothing, and Keiko Hatoyama said nothing.
This is a manifestation of Hatoyama Keiko's thorough understanding of Shirakawa Kiyo.
She knows her position in Bai Heqing's heart better than anyone else. She understands that no matter how many doubts the boy has in his heart, as long as she doesn't take the initiative to speak, the boy will definitely not take the initiative to ask.
From this point of view, the boy's statement that "he is actually the one being attacked" in their relationship may not be a problem. After all, he is the dominant one among the two of them. The one with the most power is Hatoyama Keiko.
And Keiko Hatoyama took advantage of this... After thinking about it for a long time, Sharon still felt that the word "use" might be more appropriate to describe it.
That's right, take advantage.
Not only Shirakawa Qing, but also Sharon herself.
Hatoyama Keiko used the two of them to set up a very simple and straightforward fatal move for Karasuma Renye, but she herself believed that it would definitely be effective.
With a few words and a little lie that no one could notice, she completely decided their future.
This arrangement spanned decades after her death. Although many things happened during this period, it may have become invalid for a time.
But in the end, Hatoyama Keiko succeeded.
The method she left behind successfully sent that man with endless desires to hell in the last step of his success thirty years after her death.
Sharon once recalled, when did Keiko Hatoyama make this decision?
After thinking about it, she thought that maybe it was in this ward thirty-six years ago that Keiko Hatoyama first had this idea in her mind.
But what really made her make this determination was a year later.
"..."
At that time, it had been more than a year since Karasuma returned to Japan. From a first-year high school female student, she had successfully become a second-year high school female student in the fall semester. (Japanese high school has three semesters, and the autumn semester is usually from September to December.)
The murder of my classmate Kyoko a year ago has completely passed, and the cult group that dominated everything behind the scenes was also eliminated by the police one by one in the six months after the incident, and was basically wiped out.
At the same time, since Karasuma Renye’s meeting with Hatoyama Keiko in the ward a year ago, he has never visited the Hatoyama family again.
Normally, even Karasuma himself would rarely see Karasuma Renye. He didn't know what he was busy with. Shenlong was always absent from home.
Of course, this has no impact on Karasuma's own peaceful and happy life.
Going to school as usual every day, and then going to play with Sister Keiko, and occasionally investigating various cases with the boy, enjoying the thrill of becoming a detective, is the happiest life for Karasuma.
"So, it's really an exaggeration that the murderer would use the monkeys raised by the deceased to forge an alibi..."
Today was still a normal day. After the fourth period of class in the morning, Karasuma and his deskmate and good friend Akina immediately started chatting in their seats.
It has become something of a habit for Karasuma to confide his experience of going out to investigate cases with boys like this to his good friend Akina-san.
"I-can you still do this..." Akuna-san nodded while listening.
It is worth mentioning that although the classroom was noisy at the moment, no one got up and left their seats. They just sat in their seats and talked. The girls seemed to be waiting for something.
Not long after, a kind middle-aged woman walked in.
"Classmates, it's lunch time."
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(End of chapter)
