Three days ago!
After Director Tanaka's audition ended, Yamano Aimi came to the park and sat on the lawn where Asahina Nana once sat.
In fact, Amy has always known that she is a bad girl in the eyes of others. Ever since her father had an affair and abandoned the family, her and her mother's home has been destroyed.
Poor families even have school uniforms that are donated to them by their neighbors. While her classmates are all wearing bright and decent clothes, she can only wear loose, worn-out clothes that look slovenly because they don't fit, and she looks at them with envy. other people.
When did it become bad?
Was it that afternoon when I went home crying with my school uniform in hand and told my mother that it didn’t fit, but was severely scolded? When she was young, Amy had not felt her father's love for a long time, but at that time she felt as if she was about to lose even her mother's love.
That’s when it was! If her parents don't love her, who does she deserve to be loved by?
So she became a gangster with nothing to do, the kind of bad student and bad girl who would wander the streets late at night, smoke, fight, and bully her classmates; she became uncaring about other people's feelings when she spoke, although she still felt it in her heart. Guilty, but it seems that she can't come back from hurting others.
Until I met the girl named Asahina Nana...
When I said those words to the girl in the afternoon, she also felt regretful afterwards. These words were undoubtedly like saying: Didn't your teacher die some time ago? Then you are so lucky. You can easily pass the audition for this kind of subject. Got it!
If you say something like this, you deserve to be beaten, right? !
When Nana came to her for the second time, Amy was already prepared to be punched. What would happen if she was beaten? She took it as an apology.
But……
"...I have something to say to you."
She saw the girl in front of her put down her fists and held back her anger and resentment to say such words. What she saw in front of her was a kind heart!
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I'm really sorry..." So she apologized sincerely.
I thought I had used coldness and violence to harden my heart, but it was easily melted.
Yamano Aimi carefully arranged her clothes, and like a good student, she took out a sapphire ring from her pocket. Although it was very beautiful, it was just a toy made of plastic.
She got it in a summer camp a long time ago, and she still treasures it to this day.
"Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. Give this to her and we can make up..."
She wanted to go home, so she returned to the poor little house at sunset and opened the thin wooden door.
However, that day, she saw the most horrifying sight in her life - when the door opened, she saw an identical Aimei!
It's like another gentle version of myself, cooking dinner with my mother, getting along warmly.
But Amy herself only felt great anger and fear, "Who are you! Don't touch my mother!"
She saw the gentle 'Aimei' saying something in her mother's ear. Gradually, even her mother changed her appearance and looked at her with extremely strange eyes.
Then her mother threw away the freshly prepared dishes in her hands, spilling the food on the tatami, and then walked towards her holding a blunt instrument.
Aimi couldn't say a word or move. It's the guy with the same face as him who is causing trouble! The woman holding a blunt weapon walked forward step by step.
There were crystal tears in Amy's eyes.
"Mother!……"
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Bunkyo Ward, 10:37 am.
Audition location for director Tanaka Ryujiro's work.
Based on the information provided by Kaoru Ichijo, Higashino Ryusuke and Godai rushed here almost non-stop, which is where Nana was interviewed a few days ago.
Kaoru Ichijo came out of the crew building to greet them, holding a notebook recording the case in his hand.
"How is the situation?" Without any extra greetings, Higashino Ryusuke asked straight to the point.
Immediately, a brief introduction to the case began: "...Since three days ago, the headquarters has received incidents of suspected wasp commotion causing death, starting from Kyoto, Saitama, and Jiangshi around Tokyo. Of the victims, nine people would die every day before, but today eight people have died, and after investigation, all of them are people who work on the Tanaka crew or have participated in interviews for new plays."
Godai and Higashino had already moved closer to the notebook and saw that the characteristics of the deceased were recorded on it: [The wounds of the deceased were all on the right forearm, and some animal tissue components were attached near the wounds. ]
"Mr. Ichijo, wasps don't leave their tail stings, do they? What is this animal tissue?" Godai asked. As an adventurer, he knew a little about the wasps he might encounter during wild adventures.
"Yesterday, the relevant substances were sent to Mrs. Enokida for investigation, and the result was that the closest ingredient to that kind of thing should be the stinging cells of jellyfish." Kaoru Ichijo answered.
"Jellyfish... sure enough!" Ryusuke Higashino was now completely sure, "This time it's the Gurungi who revived from the coffin of darkness, the jellyfish Zeragu! And the one I mentioned before is named Rin Kabe." 'The girl, it's possible that the real one has been killed, and the one now is just a person disguised as Gulungi!"
"Is she the real murderer?" Ichijo's brows knit together tightly, "But what is her pattern of committing crimes? There are nine people every time..."
Higashino Ryusuke also pondered this question. He seemed to have mentioned in his memory that jellyfish kill according to the order of traffic lights. If the victim's name, nickname or nickname contains red, green and yellow, he will become a jellyfish. The goal.
"Can you try starting with color?" Ryusuke Higashino suggested.
"Color...!" Kaoru Ichijo suddenly woke up and quickly pulled out the recorded list of victims. He looked at the names over and over again, his eyes gradually brightening, "Miyazaki, Aoyama, Kimura, Kitahara..."
Even Godai gradually figured it out: "Comparing the sounds and colors in the names, do you add black and white to the colors of the rainbow? There are exactly nine people!"
Ryusuke was startled. Although the colors were still the same, Wazhong's modus operandi was different. There were more colors. It seemed that because he wanted to participate in the Kikilu game of Kurōgakugun Gurungi, the modus operandi changed?
"Wait a minute!" He remembered Kaoru Ichijo's previous statement that only eight people had been found dead today. "That guy is still one short of the number of people he killed today!"
"I've compared the list of today's dead. Just by color, the only missing color is cyan. Who could it be?"
"Ryūsuke-san, the girl Nana is talking about is called Yamano Aimi, Yamano...but the pronunciation of Yamano is yamano, and it has nothing to do with the color blue..."
"No," Kaoru Ichijo suddenly shook his head and said, "The other pronunciation of Yamano is さんやsanya, which is very similar to the English word cyan."
The answer was ready to come out, and the contents of Higashino Ryusuke's combination came to mind almost instantly.
"Next is Yamano Aimi's mother!"
[Explanation of the jellyfish killing rules: For example, the Japanese word yellow (KI I RO), and Kimura (KI MU RA) includes the pronunciation (KI). 】
