There is not much point in staying in the lounge anymore. It is better to go and see what Kudo Shinichi did.
When Kashima Yu and Furuya Rei came to the monitoring room together, they saw Kudo Shinichi pulling Hagiwara Kenji and whispering in the corner.
In order to make it easier for him to speak, the young man with semi-long hair squatted down, lowered his eyes slightly, and listened carefully to the other person's whisper. After the other person put down the palm that was standing next to his ear, he showed a dumbfounded expression and glanced at the boy helplessly.
Then he raised his finger, tapped his forehead gently, and said in a deliberately serious tone: "Now is not the time to play detective games, and you can't just look around anymore!"
Kudo Shin suddenly raised his hands to cover the head where he had just been knocked, and raised his eyes in shock. His reaction was too genuine and it didn't look like an act at all, and he felt extremely aggrieved: You act if you don't want others to get suspicious, so why do you have to act? You want to knock on my head? Can't you find some other reason?
In fact, he just wanted to bully this brat. Kenji Hagihara took back his hand with a smile and stood up slowly. After a while, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at it, his expression changed slightly.
Hagiwara Kenji quickly calmed down his expression and looked at Watanabe Taichi: "Well, Mr. Watanabe. Could you please come out and talk with me?"
Watanabe calmed down too much, and quickly glanced at Kuwashima Masumi, who still seemed to be in a bad mental state, and then nodded: "Okay."
He followed Hagiwara Kenji out of the monitoring room and walked together to the corner at the end of the corridor. The bright light above his head shone down, making his already pale face even whiter.
The young man who had always been smiling and seemed very talkative rarely lost his smile. He straightened his face and looked very serious. When he spoke again, his brisk and gentle tone faded away: "Mr. Watanabe, I want to ask you again, you When asking Yamada Koharu about the kettle, what exactly did she answer?"
Tai Watanabe's eyelids trembled slightly, as if he realized something, and then lowered his eyes hastily and embarrassedly: "She said she wanted to increase the reality of the performance..."
Hagiwara Kenji interrupted him before he finished speaking, and even took half a step forward, creating a sense of urgency: "Does she want it, or does Miss Kuwashima want it?"
Watanabe Taichi unconsciously clutched the cloak at his side tighter, avoiding the other party's sight. A nervous reaction at this time was normal, and he still did not change his words: "Are you doubting Masumi? But it is indeed what Xiaoharu said she wanted..."
Hagiwara Kenji sighed and interrupted the other party again, with obvious helplessness and disappointment in his tone: "Mr. Watanabe, did you know? The police were actually here a long time ago, but they didn't come in immediately because they didn't want to cause you to panic. . And the person who just identified the physical evidence sent me a message saying that they detected Masumi Kuwashima’s fingerprints on the box of antidepressants.”
And added softly: "But there is no Yamada Koharu."
"..."
The words should have been light and weightless, but when they pressed on Watanabe Taichi's heart, they seemed to be of great weight, squeezing his heart, as if even the blood supply function was affected, and the oxygen could not keep up smoothly.
The guilt towards Yamada Koharu had been torturing his fragile nerves, and his mood was shaky. At this moment, when he heard Hagiwara Kenji's determined words, it was like the judge's final blow, directly breaking all his pretense.
Yes, he guessed the murderer from the very beginning, as early as the moment when Kuwashima Masumi said that the person who wanted to add water to the golden kettle was Yamada Koharu - because the answer he heard from Koharu was not that.
"Water? I added it myself. Masumi said that this was the last scene, and she wanted to act more realistically, so she asked me if I would mind adding some water to it, so that the front row would look better... I think What she said made sense, so I agreed to her.”
"I didn't mean to hide it... Xiaoharu said it was Masumi... I just didn't want to lose her after losing Xiaochun... Why did Masumi..."
The topsy-turvy words have no logic and cannot be connected into smooth sentences. In the end, Watanabe Taichi could only keep repeating: "I'm sorry, Koharu, I'm sorry..."
The man's attitude explained everything quite clearly. Hagiwara Kenji looked at the man crying in front of him. The tears that burst out of his eyes left ugly and funny marks on his face covered with foundation, but who Do you know how many of these tears are shed for Yamada Koharu, and how many are for your own selfishness?
Finally, Hagiwara Kenji said: "If you really feel sorry, just tell her exactly what she said."
Watanabe Taichi bent down in pain, and finally replied in a muffled voice: "It's Masumi."
"Koharu said it was Masumi who wanted to add water to the kettle."
*
Hagiwara Kenji and Watanabe Taichi came back, one looked heavy and the other lost his mind.
Masumi Kuwashima, who was sitting in a chair and was depressed, raised his eyes and looked at them, and suddenly he slightly curved his lips and smiled.
There was no sound, but Kashima Yu immediately noticed something strange about her. Although she essentially just doesn't like seeing girls sad in front of her, so she can't help but pay attention to her all the time.
As if aware of Kashima Yu's gaze, Kuwashima Masumi looked back at her without hesitation. Then he slowly straightened up, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, slowly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and wiped off the makeup from his face.
His whole temperament also changed, from grief-stricken to calm and indifferent.
Now, everyone noticed her unusual behavior.
Kuwashima Masumi put down his handkerchief, looked around, and laughed inexplicably: "How about future police officers, my acting skills are also very good, right? No worse than Koharu, right?"
Ichinomiya Xingwei narrowed his eyes: "It seems that someone wants to admit his crime?"
"There's nothing we can do if we don't admit it."
Kuwashima Masumi frowned in distress, then relaxed his eyebrows and shrugged, casting a disgusted look at Watanabe Taichi: "Some people can't even lie well, and if these students casually test them, they'll fall for them all." Alright?"
"So what did he tell you? Did I go to the surveillance room, or was poison found in my bag, or was my fingerprint detected on the pill box?"
Watanabe Taichi seemed to realize something and took a half step back in disbelief: "What do you mean..."
"It means that I left no evidence. No poison, no fingerprints, except that I didn't expect you to ask Xiaochun about the kettle and get the answer from her. I originally thought you could hide it... never mind."
Having said this, Masumi Kuwashima couldn't help but tut: "It's because you can't even do this well that I reject your pursuit. Your love is nothing to me - Watanabe Taichi, What else can you do?"
As she spoke, she glanced at Kashima Yu, and the cold expression on her face softened slightly: "I might as well like this guy if I like you. At least he has a very good-looking face."
Before Kashima Yu could react when he was abruptly called out, his sight was blocked by Ichinomiya Anzu. The eldest lady stared at Kuwashima Masumi very vigilantly, and firmly protected Kashima like a messenger protecting the grass.
Kashima Yu: "Huh? Xiaoxing..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Ichinomiya An's serious words: "Don't talk to strange women, Kashima-kun."
The trip to Deer Island was a bit helpless.
She took two steps forward and walked around to Ichinomiya Xing, then raised her hand to rub the top of the girl's silky hair, then lowered her head slightly, and brought her perfect face up close to hers, deliberately lowering her head. He spoke in her ear with a gentle and low voice: "Don't worry too much about me, eh?"
The girl who had always been very cold and arrogant blinked at her, her cheeks flushed silently, she nodded obediently like a little girl, and followed Kashima Yuu obediently.
Hagiwara Kenji was amazed.
Masumi Kuwashima couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
After comforting the angry Ichinomiya Anzu, Kashima Yu looked at her and asked a question that she cared about very much: "Why on earth did you kill Yamada Koharu?"
Aren't they friends who have known each other for many years? How could it have come to this point?
Kuwashima Masumi seemed to think how ridiculous this question was, and laughed unceremoniously.
"Why?"
She raised her fingers to comb the broken hair on the side of her face behind her ears, and then said calmly: "Of course it's because of jealousy."
Then one word after another, it was squeezed out of the mouth as if the teeth were broken: "Why, what, what, yes, she——"
"Obviously, I have better conditions in all aspects. I am prettier than her, my family is richer than hers, and my acting skills are not worse than hers. It was obviously the drama department that I joined first, and I was the ace. Later, in the theater troupe Too."
"It wasn't until the appearance of "Oasis" that everything changed. "Oasis" completely made her famous, and her boyfriend, the writer who wrote "Oasis", was brought to the troupe by me."
"Obviously I was the first to know Takuya, and I was also the first to pursue him - why did Takuya choose her in the end? And gave her "Oasis"?"
Obviously before "Oasis", she was the only heroine in the troupe. But Takuya named her by name and said that this script could only allow Koharu to play the heroine, and by chance, the drama became popular again, bringing Yamada Koharu to a place where she could only look up when she looked up.
But without her, Koharu and Takuya would never have known each other. This is exactly what she is most unwilling to do.
Recently, she finally managed to convince Watanabe Taichi to let Yamada Koharu leave the troupe on the grounds that "Koharu cannot be hurt by the scene." And out of a compensatory mentality, he turned around and found a better theater troupe for her - how could she endure Yamada Koharu getting a better development, and endure such a person who became successful entirely because of her, even if she didn't get it? resources to a broader world?
Kuwashima Masumi sneered as he analyzed his motive for killing, showing no sign of repentance in his words.
After listening, the blue-eyed little detective suddenly spoke, and said bluntly in a childish voice: "But in fact, the protagonist of "Oasis" is based on Yamada sister, right? Brother Takuya likes Yamada sister, that is, he likes her. That kind of strong, optimistic, and always determined character, right?”
Therefore, all the qualities of the protagonist of "Oasis", those perseverance, those kindness and beauty, those things that shine on the stage - can be found in Yamada Koharu.
"I saw a copy of the "Oasis" novel in sister Yamada's bag before. It must have been given to her by brother Takuya, right? There is his signature and words written by him on the first page——"
""You are an oasis in the desert, and your existence itself is enough to make people yearn for it."
Kudo Shinichi looked straight at Kuwashima Masumi, his blue eyes like the sky clearing after the rain, clean and clear after being washed with water. So open and bright, not stained by the haze.
"I think if it weren't for Sister Yamada, I'm afraid there would be no script for "Oasis", right?"
Kuwashima Masumi was stunned. She actually understands this, she just doesn't want to do it. And she should have been able to vent her selfishness and prejudice unscrupulously, and she believed that this was a matter of course from the bottom of her heart, but when she met the child's clean eyes, she fell silent for some reason.
Finally, she lowered her eyes a little hastily, avoided the other party's sight, and stopped talking.
Police personnel quickly arrived at the scene. Due to the murderer's proactive confession, subsequent incidents were handled smoothly. It was enough to have the squad leader there to negotiate.
Kashima Yu first sent the little detective to his mother, who enthusiastically exchanged mobile phone numbers with her and said that he would treat her to dinner when he had time to thank her for taking care of her son. Then she went to say goodbye to Ichinomiya Xing. The eldest lady reluctantly held her hand and touched her face, nagging her to remember to take care of her face and not get tanned.
He also attacked Jiang Guling, who happened to be passing by, and said worriedly: "Isn't the training in the police academy very hard? Look at how tanned people are!"
Jiang Guling: "?" My skin color is natural!
Finally, when the long day finally ended and he was lying on the bed in the police academy dormitory and reminiscing, Kashima Yu still felt a little lost because of the tragedy of Yamada Koharu.
Takuya and Koharu, a couple who should have been happy and happy, were killed by an accident and a murder one after another.
The system sensed her depression and wanted to divert her attention: "It's been so long since the comics should have been updated. Do you want to take a look?" 』
The system was kind, and Kashima Yu really couldn't sleep now, so he simply got up from the bed and sat at the desk, opening the pure white comic.
The comic has indeed been updated, with new content and a new style of painting. Before officially reading, Kashima Yu was still thinking that she had just witnessed a tragedy today, and hoped to see some sweet pure love in the manga soon.
Twenty minutes later.
Kashima Yu's hands holding the pages of the book trembled slightly.
Although it is indeed 1V1, although there is no complicated emotional relationship, although it is sweet from beginning to end——
But this is not pure love at all! This is a crime! !
Matsuda Jinpei, how dare you! She is still underage! !
