"Akina?"
Waves of suppressed moans came from beside him. Xiao Karasuma came back to his senses and turned around to look, only to find that his good friend Qiuna was lying on the desk at the moment, raising her hands to cover her chest with a very painful expression. The moans heard came from Akina-san's mouth.
"Akiuna?! What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?" Kokarasuma quickly stretched out his hand to help Akina-san and asked loudly.
"Akuna-san, Karasuma-san, what happened?"
The movement between the two finally attracted the attention of the head teacher on the podium. She stood up and asked with concern.
At this time, Qiuna's face was pale, and there were dense beads of sweat on her forehead. Her hands were tightly clutching her chest, and her expression was extremely painful.
"Teacher! Akina seems to be feeling very uncomfortable!" Karasuma shouted back anxiously.
【what happened? Why did Qiuna suddenly...]
"Is it food poisoning... Hurry! Go and help! Send Qiuna-san to the school infirmary first!" The head teacher also realized that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered to the students who were still stunned next to him.
"Yes Yes!"
With the help of another classmate, Kokarasuma finally helped Akina, who was looking extremely painful, and was about to leave the classroom.
"Well!"
But at this moment, Qiuna's condition began to deteriorate further. She seemed to be suffering from great pain, and her delicate facial features became ferocious and distorted. Her eyes widened, and saliva flowed out of the corners of her mouth uncontrollably. As he shed his tears, he kept uttering some unrelated little words.
"No... right... really... right..."
Her body collapsed to the ground, twitching all over, like a pile of mud and she couldn't even stand up. This time, not even Karasuma and the other female classmate combined their efforts to pull her up.
"Qiuna, Qiuna..."
Akina-san's extremely frightening reaction completely panicked Karasuma, who was encountering such a scene for the first time. She froze in place, helpless, and stared blankly at Akina-san who was twitching on the ground.
But soon she reacted again, squatted down and held Qiuna's hand, trying to pull her up again.
"Don't be afraid, it's me. Get up quickly and I'll take you to the infirmary right away..."
It seemed that her words had some effect. Akuna, who was twitching on the ground, turned her head slightly to look at her. Her hand held by Karasuma suddenly gained a little more strength.
She squeezed Xiao Karasuma's hand tightly, and the sharp nails hurt the palm of Xiao Karasuma's hand, but she didn't care about it at all at the moment, she just used force to pull her good friend up from the ground.
"Hello? Yes, this is...yes, please come here as soon as possible..." Behind the podium, the head teacher had realized the seriousness of the situation and quickly dialed the ambulance number.
However, the next second would prove that her move was completely unnecessary.
After a brief and extremely painful struggle, Akina's hand gradually loosened from Karasumaru's tight grip.
"sorry……"
She used her last strength to say this, and Akina-san's upper body, which had just been pulled up from the ground by Kokarasuma, completely lost all strength. She forced a wry smile towards the sluggish Kokarasuma, and then stopped. Trembling, he no longer twitched, but fell limply to the ground again, slowly closing his eyes.
"...Akiuna?"
Karasuma was stunned again. She lowered her head and looked at her best friend's motionless body in disbelief. She raised her hand tremblingly and touched her shoulder lightly.
"Hello, Akina?"
However, no matter how hard she tried to call, there was no response from her good friend.
"ah--"
It was only at this moment that screams finally sounded in the classroom.
"..."
"The deceased's name is Kanda Akina. Her father is the president of a company in the city, and her mother is a full-time housewife. She is the eldest daughter in the family, and she has two younger brothers.
In addition, the deceased participated in the drama club at school and held the positions of vice president and accountant of the club. Not only did he have excellent academic performance, but his ability in drama performances was also very outstanding. He had won the best in drama performances jointly held by many schools many times. The award is highly regarded by both teachers and students.
At the same time, according to our inquiry just now, although the deceased had many admirers in school, he himself did not seem to have had any love experience, nor had there been any related scandals.
In the eyes of the deceased's parents, he did not make any obvious abnormal behavior. "
In the on-campus infirmary, the police arrived at the scene before the ambulance arrived. In order to reduce the impact of the incident as much as possible, the body of the deceased Akina Kanda had been temporarily transferred to the on-campus infirmary by the school.
The boy stood at the head of the bed, quietly listening to the detective's report behind him. At the same time, he looked down at the lifeless Akina classmate lying on the bed, his eyes lowered.
Kanda Akina, she is Karasuma's rare best friend in school. The two often go to and from school together. Because of Karasuma, the boy has met her several times before. Not to mention how familiar they are with each other. , but at least it’s a relationship where we can chat a few words in person.
Now seeing the person he knew turned into a corpse, this undoubtedly carved another mark in the boy's heart, and the memory of that winter four years ago resurfaced in his mind again.
"Has the cause of death been investigated clearly?" The boy asked, suppressing the distracting thoughts in his heart.
At the same time, he also glanced at the figure sitting beside the bed.
Karasuma was already sitting here before the boy and the police arrived.
She just stared blankly at the lifeless Akina-san lying on the bed, not even noticing that the boy and the police had walked in.
For a boy who had had a similar experience, he understood very well how Karasuma was feeling at this moment, so he did not deliberately do anything to her, but quietly launched an investigation.
Since a case has occurred, it is necessary to investigate, solve the case, and then catch the murderer. No matter who the deceased is, this is the boy's responsibility.
"It's been confirmed, it's Aconitum," the detective replied.
Aconitum is one of the three most famous poisonous plants in Japan. It is a weed that can grow naturally in the wild and is famous for its severe toxicity.
"What the deceased ate was not the leaves of Aconitum. According to our inspection of the ingredients in the deceased's lunch box, the murderer probably dried the lateral roots of Aconitum and then ground them into powder and mixed them into the sauce in the deceased's lunch box. in order to achieve the purpose of poisoning.”
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