Chapter 86: Unlock the Truth
Sure enough, the information was almost the same as what could be found on the Internet. The victims were indeed Shino Yamamoto, Nonaka Wakana, and others… But there was some information that was not publicly shown.
Shido wondered how Sengoku Kurumi found such valuable information, but considering Kurumi had been fighting against DEM for so long, she must have a good understanding of this kind of thing!
"Y?"
Kurumi frowned.
"What do you mean 'why'?"
Shido asked curiously.
"It's not 'why,' but the letter Y. Here, around all the victims, there are strange bloodstains. These bloodstains can be roughly seen as an English letter, Y!"
Kurumi said in a deep voice.
"Y...what do you mean?"
Shido was puzzled, but there should be some hints, like 11037.
("11037" was written in blood behind the body of the victim to tell the students who the killer was. The reason that it says 11037 instead of "LEON" is that it was written upside down. The victim was in a position in which the writing was upside down, but they still wrote the name out of their blood.)
"Well, it's impossible for messages like this to be so synchronized!" Kurumi nodded and analyzed. "So it should be an important message related to the murderer!"
"Maybe it's the beginning letter of the prisoner's name, like..."
Yukino guessed.
"Yukino Yukinoshita?"
Shido said jokingly.
"It's Yusuke Yamamoto!"
Kurumi said in a deep voice.
"Yes, if that's the case, he should be the murderer…"
Yukino whispered her thoughts.
"A person that all the girls know, and the names just match...?"
Shido nodded thoughtfully. This could not be a coincidence, but it did not necessarily mean that this guy was the murderer. It could only be said that this matter must have something to do with him!
Vaguely, Shido always felt that something was wrong, such as... these girls were too synchronized! They all wrote the same message before they died, and there was only one letter Y.
After the murderer committed the crime, he cleaned off the other clues, but left such an obvious letter Y alone.
There must be something hidden in this!
"Don't think about it too much, just find Yamamoto and ask, okay?"
Kurumi interrupted Shido's contemplation.
"Yes."
Shido nodded affirmatively. As long as he used Miku's ability, he would be able to make Yamamoto obediently tell him everything.
"Then where is Yamamoto?"
Kurumi flipped through the information three times, but still couldn't find the person's address.
"Of course it's at the police station. With such an obvious clue, the police will definitely question him!"
Yukino said calmly.
"Also...but if he's at the police station, there's no way to ask him."
Shido frowned. After all, the police station was heavily guarded. Sengoku Kurumi was able to enter because she was very skilled in ninja abilities, and she could disappear immediately even if she was found, but he couldn't.
"Well..."
Kurumi clenched her fists irritably.
"My Lord!"
Sengoku Kurumi suddenly jumped out again.
"What is it?"
Kurumi asked impatiently.
And Yukino, who was seriously looking at Sengoku Kurumi at this time, realized that she looked exactly the same as Kurumi. Could it be that they were twin sisters, the same as the Yamais?
"There was an oral confession, sorry that I forgot..."
Sengoku Kurumi took out a scroll from her arms, but did not give it to Kurumi immediately.
"Give it to me! How could you forget something like this? Are you stu...!"
Kurumi wanted to curse, but she realized that cursing her was the same as cursing herself, so she had to hold back.
"This file has been encrypted, and a special key is needed to unlock the content!"
Sengoku Kurumi said with certainty.
"How to unlock it?"
Kurumi asked while biting her lip.
"A kiss from Shido-sama!"
Sengoku Kurumi said solemnly.
"You…"
Kurumi wanted to curse again, but she had to hold back, no matter how tempting it was to do so.
Sengoku Kuurmi didn't care about the main body, but looked at Shido expectantly. She leaned forward and closed her eyes, like she was asking for a kiss.
"Easy peasy!"
Shido didn't have any psychological burden. After all, Sengoku Kurumi was also Kurumi's clone and one of his girlfriends. Behaviors like kissing couldn't be easier.
So, he didn't think too much, and kissed her lips gently...
"Thanks for the treat!"
Sengoku Kurumi thanked him solemnly, and then put the scroll on the table. Although it was only a light kiss, it already made her very satisfied. It was more than she could ask for as a mere clone.
However, with this kiss, she was already the happiest one among the clones. After all, she was able to kiss Shido, something that not every clone could do.
"Whoosh~", Sengoku Kurumi disappeared again, leaving the main body looking at the scroll on the table with an irritated expression. How dare those clones try to take advantage of Shido!?
And Yukino, who was next to him, was completely dumbfounded. There was no way to understand what the situation was. A girl that looked like Kurumi appeared again, handing out important information and asking Shido to kiss her as a reward?
Moreover, how did she even get her hands on such an important scroll? Could it be that she used her superpower or something? If someone found out that they had been stealing documents, it must be a very serious crime, which was also...very exciting!
"This is an oral confession from Yamamoto himself!"
Shido said in surprise. He didn't expect Sengoku Kurumi to get this thing, and with this, they were one step closer to the truth.
"What's written on it?"
Kurumi let go of the Sengoku Kurumi affairs and sat beside Shido.
Yukino was also very concerned, so she sat on the other side of Shido. Being accompanied by two stunning beauties on the left and the right, it made other male guests jealous of him. Fortunately, they sat at a relatively hidden table, and there were not many people in the restaurant, so nobody bothered them.
"Yamamoto insisted that he did not kill anyone. Although he is the private tutor of these girls and his name has the English letter Y, these are completely coincidences and have nothing to do with him..."
Shido said the contents of the report softly.
"How pathetic can his confession be!"
Kurumi sneered. In her mind, this matter had everything to do with Yamamoto, so she didn't believe anything he said, let alone such an ambiguous confession.
"But he seems to have an alibi...!"
Shido frowned.
"What?"
Yukino asked surprisingly. Because she was very concerned about the case, she sat closer to Shido, but neither of them noticed it. However, Kurumi did, but she didn't say anything, simply kept it in mind and moved on.
"Last Friday, when Nonaka Wakana was murdered, Yamamoto happened to be participating in the TV's intellectual variety show. As a contestant, because it was at the same time, we can be sure that Yamamoto couldn't kill Nonaka Wakana!"
Shido explained.
"Could it be a recording? Or he killed her after he finished participating?"
Kurumi asked with a frown.
"No, this was a live broadcast, and it took two hours to participate, plus the TV station was far away from the crime scene. It seems that there is no possibility of killing people after the competition!"
Shido shook his head and said.
"For real?"
Kurumi asked in disbelief.
"Actually, I have also watched this show." Shido analyzed. "Since the police have all accepted such an alibi, it should be true."
"Maybe this girl was not killed by Yamamoto, but there is no way to prove that the others were not! After all, no one can be sure that there was only one murderer..."
Yukino spoke her thoughts lightly.
"Indeed, his alibi can't work for other cases!"
Kurumi said with a smile.
"It's true...but I haven't found any clues that Yamamoto went to the vicinity of the crime scene at that time, so the possibility of him being the murderer is still relatively low!"
Shido continued. These were the contents of the report, and he just read them according to them.
"Could he have an accomplice?"
Yukino guessed. This was also a common routine for murders: Several people pretended to be one murderer, and then act separately, leaving evidence that it seemed to be the work of only one person, and then everyone had an alibi in some of these cases, so that no one would be charged!
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