I'm sorry. I AM SO SORRY. I AM SO SO SO SO SO SORRY.

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Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DETECTIVE SCHOOL Q i'm just a random fan who would like to put her fangirling to good use.

Chapter 6: Daisuke's Daring Move

Class Q sat down on the leather couches in the library. The detective frowned at them.

"I see that one of you is a violinist, but that still doesn't explain what the five of you are doing here. And why the heck are you fooling around at a crime scene?"

"We were just trying to see what we could find out before the authorities arrived," said Meg.

Kazuma raised his laptop to the officer's face. "I just thought that maybe you'd like to see this scale model of the crime scene I made using my computer. We think that the killer took advantage of the blind spot behind the door and strangled Ayame to death from behind."

The detective waved it off. "That's cute, kid, but don't forget that I'm the one doing the investigation here."

Shizuko, who was nearest, had to grab the back of Kazuma's shirt to stop him from getting at the detective. The use of the word "kid" and "cute" had seemed to make him furious for some reason.

Kinta hissed at Kazuma, "Pipe down! We're not supposed to let him know that we're from DDS!"

At that, Kazuma calmed down a bit, but he was still fuming.

Fortunately, the detective hadn't heard anything, and was reading a folder that one of the police officers had handed over to him.

"Lucky guess, kids. It turns out that you were right about your info earlier. She'd been strangled. But before that—"

"There was damage to her vocal chords keeping her from screaming?" finished Kyu.

"Well, yes. But right as you may be, this investigation is best left to professionals, and not amateurs."

The detective shut the folder. "Therefore, I suggest that you go back to your rooms and leave this case alone."

"The. NERVE." Shizuko muttered as she paced Kyu's room, where Class Q had decided to meet.

"Yeah, I know," agreed Meg.

"How dare he call us amateurs!" said Kinta, throwing his hands up in the air.

"He called me a kid," seethed Kazuma.

Ryuu and Kyu remained a little bit quiet for a while.

"What do you think, Ryuu?" asked Kyu, turning to him. "Do you think that anyone here killed her?"

"It's painfully obvious that one of the violin students is the killer. But I still don't understand how she—"

"Shizuko?" Meg's voice reached their ears.

Ryuu looked up. So did Kyu.

Meg turned to the two boys. "She was here a second ago."

Ryuu raised an eyebrow. "Where could she have gone?"

Kyu put his chin in his hand. "Maybe she went to look for something..?"

"Good idea," said Kinta. "Maybe since the library had nothing for us, maybe she went to Ayame's room."

The others looked at him weirdly. "What made you say that, Kinta?" asked Meg.

"Huh? Well-uh—" Kinta grinned. "It's intuition!"

Meg led them down one of the students' corridors. "Ayame's room was this one," she said, pointing at an open door.

Kyu peeked inside.

Shizuko was there, wearing a pair of gloves and rifling through several papers.

"What are you looking for?" asked Kazuma, stepping in.

Shizuko looked at them. "I think I just saw a connection between Ayame's and Fumika's death."
She held up a piece of paper.

"So…" Ryuu said. "There it is."

The page that Shizuko held up said… "The Nine Circles of Hell".

Kyu paced the floor at his room this time. "Meg and I DID overhear Ayame being smug about playing the piece yesterday," he said, chin in hand.

"But still. Who would kill someone over a violin piece?" said Meg, looking a bit worried.

"I'm not sure yet. But as each student dies, the chances of being the heir gets higher for each person," said Kyu.

"Do you think that's the only motive?" asked Kinta.

Minoru knocked on their door. "Excuse me."

Everyone looked up at him a little glumly.

"I have some news...I thought that you guys should be the first to know."

Class Q exchanged glances. "What's going on?" asked Kyu.

"Well, I have two things to say. First, it's about that detective. He just came around asking us for our alibis last night when Ayame was killed."

Kyu smacked his forehead. "Ah! I forgot! I should have asked Meg to come with me to watch the interrogation!"

Meg turned pink.

Kyu suddenly looked embarrassed. "Er, that is to say, uhh, her photographic memory would have been a help…"

Meg turned even pinker.

Minoru shook his head. "Anyway, if you want to know, he asked us what we'd been doing at around ten to eleven o'clock last night. So far, Yui said that she'd been asleep. Daisuke said he'd been watching TV in his room. Satoshi said that he was practicing his violin."

"That late?" asked Ryuu. "Can anyone confirm that?"

"Well, actually, I can. I heard him playing as I passed by his door. In fact, I also heard Daisuke's TV."

"What were you doing out that late?" asked Kyu curiously.

"I just went down to the kitchen for a glass of water. When I came back everything was still the same."

"What about Kazumi and Yamato?" asked Shizuko.

"They say they were sleeping too."

"Well, that's fine…so what's the other bit of news?" asked Meg.

"Well, it's just that we're having a bit of a performance this evening. All of us are going to play our violins…and several are going to have solo performances…"

"Oh, really?" asked Shizuko. "What time?"

"At six o'clock. I suggest that you all come on time or else you'll miss some really nice performances…"

"You going to play something special, Minoru?" asked Kinta.

"Actually, not that special, I'm just going to play 'Flight of the Bumblebee'…" he replied sheepishly. "But you might find this interesting..."

"What?" asked Kazuma.

"Daisuke says he's going to play the Nine Circles of Hell."

At this, Shizuko stood up from her seat. "What?"

Minoru stared at her. "Yeah, for some reason."

"Does he know that his life is at risk just by suggesting that?" said Ryu, looking up from his seat in the corner.

"I've talked to him, but I don't think I convinced him very much. He thinks that putting the piece out in public might prove the curse unreal…"

"Well, whether his intentions are good or not, don't you think its best if he sticks to a safer piece?" asked Kyu.

"He doesn't want to be convinced…you see I have a feeling that he and Fumika were closer than any of us thought. Maybe he wants to prove that she was killed, too."

"I just hope that he knows what he's doing," said Meg quietly.

Rants: okay, yes, this was pretty short. But I'll try to post up the next chapter right away while I still have time.

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