Chapter 17 third quarter

Himekawa and his party returned to the waiting area again.As if he wanted to contact the police station, Kumajima clumsily pressed the button on his phone while walking outside.Everyone was silent with their own thoughts. Himekawa noticed that Katsura who was sitting next to him had been holding back his tears desperately just now.He gently stretched out his hand, wanting to touch her shoulder, but Gui quietly dodged to avoid his hand. "Let me make you another cup of coffee." Noji stood up and walked to the counter.There is a small tea room.Himekawa glanced at the clock on the wall, unexpectedly, it was only half past eight.After I walked out of the practice room at six o'clock, it felt like half a day had passed.

Himekawa recalled the conversation in the warehouse just now. Thanks to Tani, things went smoothly.However, there are still two points that make him very concerned.One is the iron rolling door.Why did Tanio ask that question at the end?There was another point—and this was a stranger, more potentially deadly one. It feels like things are going too well. If it weren't for Tanio's excellent explanation, including the process of the power outage, and the light moving the Marshall speaker in the dark, it would not have been recognized by Kumajima so quickly.Not only Guwei, but even Noji's testimony helped a lot in retrospect.

—Removing Marshall from the stage is what I asked her to do. is that true?Could it be that Noji already knew what Himekawa did, so he helped him?To be so skeptical, it is really Noji's speech that made Kumajima explain everything reasonably. The cold uneasiness fell into the bottom of my heart bit by bit.The uneasy water droplets were quietly and surely accumulating in Himekawa's heart. "Yanwei...why did you ask about the key to the rolling door?" The person who asked the question was Takeuchi.Himekawa was taken aback because he was thinking the same question in his mind.

"Ah, I just... want to think more." Gu Wei didn't look up. "Think? Think about what?" "Just think about it." "What are you thinking about?" Gu Wei frowned irritably: "Don't you think it's unnatural? The whole situation." The surrounding air suddenly froze. "—Unnatural?" Gui asked back for the first time.Her cheeks were stiff, and she stared straight at Tanibi. "Yeah, the situation in the warehouse. I still feel unnatural. There's something weird about it." "But Brother Tanio, you just—"

"Just now I wanted to try my best to explain it in my own way, but..." "But have you changed your mind?" Takeuchi asked with a wink. "No, I don't want to think wildly, so I tried to piece together what the scene might be like—that is, the inevitability of an accident. I very much hope that it was a pure accident, and that I died just because of my own carelessness." "Hope...but that's the truth, right?" "Is it true, we don't know?" "Then who will know?" "Who..." Gu Wei suddenly fell silent. "Say it!" Takeuchi urged.However, Tani just sighed lightly, changed the subject and said to Takeuchi:

"Takeuchi, why do you think I racked my brains to explain that to Officer Kumajima just now?" "It was an accident for you, wasn't it?" Hearing Takeuchi's intentional emphasis, Gu Wei shook his head and said, "I'll tell you a very simple truth. Listen carefully. What would happen if it wasn't an accident? There are no more than four causes of death: accidents, suicide, and natural death. No, that means being killed. Someone being killed means there is a murderer." "Are you talking nonsense?" "When Guang died, who was in the band practice center? Me, you, Liang, and Gui, there were only four of us. It's none of my business, so what happened next? There are three people left, and three of them are suspected. "

Tanio said this in one breath, then suddenly shut up, just staring at Takeuchi's face.He didn't continue talking, and waited for his unspoken thoughts to completely penetrate into the other person's mind before finally looking away. "I don't want to imagine that damn thing, that's why I explained it that way." Gu Wei said, "Got it?" Takeuchi didn't answer.Silence fell again.Takeuchi wanted to say something twice, but swallowed the words again. Is that so? ——Himekawa was careful not to let the people around him notice, inhaling and exhaling slowly.It turned out that it was because of such a reason that Tanio explained the ideal "accident" so impeccably in the warehouse.Now the question is solved, but the situation is developing in a bad direction.

"Honestly, what I just said to Mr. Kumajima..." Noji returned with five paper cups on the tray. "is fake." "Fake?" Gu Wei opened his mouth wide.Noji sat down very slowly while placing the tray on the table. "Didn't I tell you why Xiaoguang moved the Marshall speaker off the stage?" "Ah, is that what you told her to do beforehand? What, is that fake?" "It's not entirely false, but it can be said to be false." "Is it real or fake!?" "Half and half. I want Xiaoguang to move that super-large speaker, because there may still be customers until next week, before the store closes."

"Then you didn't tell her to move off the stage?" Noji nodded, and raised the paper cup to his lips: "Why did you say that? Why did you tell a lie—a half lie?" "My reason is the same as that of Guwei. At that time, in the orchestra practice center..." Noji took another sip of coffee, sighed and said, "Only the four of you are there." Takeuchi scratched his light brown hair and seemed confused. "Hey, why are you two thinking about going there? Didn't you just die by accident? Guwei, what did you just say? Who didn't do it, and who is left to be suspected? Brother Yeji too, please! What is there in the orchestra practice center? Who? The four of us... are you serious?"

"I'm just saying that I can think that way. Brother Yeji and I don't really think that way." Despite Tani's persuasion, he couldn't appease Takeuchi's excited mood. "You can think that way no matter what you call it! It's enough to leave the inexplicable imagination to Officer Kumajima or your father. If you don't really think so, don't say it!" "You asked me to tell you?" "I don't want to listen to that kind of talk, so does Liang, and so does Xiaogui—right, Xiaogui, you don't like it either? Do you feel uncomfortable?"

Gui raised his head, stared at the paper cup in front of him, and closed his lips tightly.Himekawa also deliberately did not speak, but slightly raised his jaw. "Anyway, I don't want to hear it... I feel very uncomfortable." When Takeuchi finally said this, everyone's eyes were scattered in an angry tranquility. In fact, Himekawa had expected to some extent that it would become like this.After all, there was no plan at all, and I just did such a thing impulsively, so I had expected that someone would talk about the unnaturalness of the scene, and suspected it was an accident.but…… There will be no problem - Himekawa said to himself.As long as there is no evidence, there will be no problems, and as long as it can be kept hidden, there is no need to worry.Yes, keep it a secret.Just do it.Just do it. There will be no problems, there will be no problems.