Chapter 25 Section 9

After cleaning Naoki's room, it was almost twelve o'clock.After eating at Nishina's house and taking a bath, Takuya was still tired when he returned to his own home. It was really hard to serve the wayward and arrogant young lady. Takuya took out the key, inserted it into the keyhole and turned it, so far it was a subconscious action.But while pulling the doorknob, he remembered that he was in danger now.He opened the door a little and tried to smell it, but there was no gas.He stretched out his arm to turn on the light switch. At first glance, no one was in the house, so he entered the house with confidence.Close the door and lock it, and don't forget to zip the door chain, then take out an umbrella and take off your shoes with your right hand.The windows were locked, and he checked the next room, bathroom, toilet, and closet one by one.After making sure that no one was hiding in the house, he put the umbrella back in place.

He checks the mailbox, there is no mail today.Then check the refrigerator, the cans and vacuum bags are fine.If there were to be poison, it would be Rumarin and the unsealed carton of milk.Takuya thought to himself, it would be safer to throw away all such things.Anyway, in this mood, I wouldn't want to eat that kind of thing. He made sure there was no sign of anyone entering the house, so he sat down on the dining table chair, loosened his tie, and took off his socks. It's nerve-wracking, he took a deep breath, if he had to live this kind of worry every day, he couldn't bear it at all.

He thought to himself: In short, we have to clean them up one by one.There is only this way of survival left.In this case, the word survival is not simply a metaphor. Yasuko had to be dealt with first—Takuya stood up and picked up the pen on the table, that horrible gift that produced hydrogen cyanide gas.You can't directly use this as a murder weapon. If Yasuko is the criminal who killed Hashimoto, this trick is of course ineffective. Even if she is not, she should know that Hashimoto was killed by this murder weapon.However, the potassium cyanate filled in it cannot be discarded casually.Having Yasuko take this kills her, making it look like she died by suicide.Because of the use of Baitong's poison, the police probably judged that the criminal who killed Hashimoto committed suicide.

The question is how to get her to take it.It would be fine to mix it with juice and let her drink it when the two of them were alone, but there was no chance of that.The point is, if Yasuko is the culprit in this series of murders, maybe she also wants to kill Takuya. We must think about the method of not appearing in front of Yasuko and letting her take the poison. Takuya put the pen back in place, took out the wine glass and Chivas Regal Scotch whiskey from the cabinet, then poured the amber liquid into the wine glass to a height of three centimeters, and sat on the edge of the bed holding the wine glass.After he took a sip, he realized that he had done a very careless thing. The bottle of Chivas has been opened, and it may be poisoned, or the poison can be applied to the inside of the wine glass in advance.

Takuya held the wine glass and held this position for about a minute to check whether the pain would hit his upper body, but there was no other change except for sweating under his armpits.After he breathed a sigh of relief, he drank again. This thing is weird.Takuya, who wanted to kill someone, is now being targeted.He thought to himself: In this way, this murder case has been like this from the beginning.Naoki who wanted to kill Yasuko was killed instead. But then again, what is the guy's plan? Takuya remembered the book on card tricks he found in Naoki's room.In fact, one thing had been running through his mind ever since he discovered those magic books.

When I heard the playing cards, I remembered what happened when Naoki mentioned the plan to kill Yasuko to Takuya and the others.The murder plan is divided into three roles: A, B, and C.It is A's job to actually do the killing.No one should want to play this role.So everyone decides with playing cards. After shuffling the cards several times, each draws a card, and then the person with the highest number chooses the desired role. Thinking of this, Takuya had the first question in his heart.Why does Naoki want to use playing cards to decide the role?At that time, Takuya felt that he was putting on an act, but in fact, was there a special reason?In other words, the reason why Naoki, who is good at poker magic, can use this skill.

But if this is the case, Naoki should design not to let himself be responsible for A's work.But in reality it is not.Takuya and Hashimoto drew the king and 4 respectively, picking B and C jobs.In other words, the person who has to be responsible for the work of A is Naoki who has drawn 2.There is only one possible reason, that is, Naoki planned to play the role of A by himself from the very beginning.To achieve this goal, lots are drawn with playing cards. A is the character who directly kills Yasuko. Why does he want to play this role?Does he want to kill Yasuko with his own hands?No, it should be impossible, Takuya immediately denied it.Naoki Nishina is not that kind of man.Besides, if he wished to do so, he could just say so.Even without poker magic, everyone would be happy to give him the role of murder.

"What is he going to do?" Takuya murmured. Regarding the killing of Yasuko, Nishina Naoki must have something to hide from Takuya and the others, so he was killed. Hashimoto was probably killed for this reason, and now even Takuya's life is nailed.