Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Black Challenge 3

It took me a while to comprehend what was happening in front of my eyes: the man lying on the ground was the swallowtail? In my perception, Yanwei is a dead man who has been dismembered, but from the outside, no matter how you look at it, the man in front of you is the real Yanwei. "What exactly is going on?" "As you can see, my lord sister, this person is the real murderer." Wuqie said still holding the lighter. The man lying on the ground held a small knife in his right hand.However, it may not be easy for him to wield this knife as a murder weapon, because he has no feet.

"When did you find out?" The man raised his head and asked Wuqie. "You mean prosthetics?" Wuqie asked him back, tilting his head. "I noticed it when you got off the station wagon at first. It took me a while to connect that to the incident, though." "So it's...a prosthetic limb?" I timidly asked the man on the ground. The man nodded.In retrospect, Swallowtail did drag his feet when he walked, and I thought it was due to some previous injury. "The dismantled prosthesis is hidden in the astronomical telescope in the room over there. Although I really hope that you can help me get it...but it seems unlikely." The man smiled wryly.

"Excuse me... who are you?" "Asakura Tadashi, an unfortunate loser." Unfamiliar name, but the appearance seems to be Shiita swallow tail.Even though he wasn't wearing sunglasses, there was no doubt that it was the same face. "Excuse me... Mr. Asakura, did you kill those three people?" "That's right. It's just... I failed completely." A relieved smile appeared on Asakura's face.Maybe people will show that expression when they give up everything. "The ins and outs of the incident are the same as her reasoning. I sent the power of attorney to the five detectives in the name of Oe Yuen. The power of attorney is used to lure you out. At the same time, it is also to confuse the public and cover up the letter of challenge. By the way, the real Yanwei Shiita is included among these five people. However, according to the entrustment letter Yanwei received, the assembly time is earlier than other people’s.”

"You first called Mr. Swallowtail out to kill him, and then dismembered the body, right?" I asked. "That's right. I hid Dovetail's body in the astronomical telescope and this chair. Hey, although it may be discovered at any time, I was also very careful not to expose the body as much as possible. For example, when investigating the room with Inuzuka, I tried not to let him touch the astronomical telescope. It is because I am among you as a dovetail that I can prevent you from discovering the corpse to a certain extent. I think this is a good trick." In fact, none of us were aware that there was a dead body in the building besides the five of us.

"Sigh... the new life and 120 million have become a dream." Asakura looked up to the sky and sighed—what was he talking about. "I didn't expect that I would lose to a novice detective who was still a middle school student. I thought I had chosen a useless detective to play the role of the murderer...it turned out that this person exposed the truth." Kyoko Kirikiri—she really exposed everything. "When on earth did you find out that there was a murderer hiding in this chair you were sitting in?" I asked her. "It was one of the backup options from the beginning."

"At first?" It was Asakura's turn to be surprised this time. "I didn't move at all, and I tried not to let you know I was breathing." "Well, there is no flaw in this point. I really don't feel it at all. It's just logically that the possibility of the murderer hiding in this chair is very high." "Where did you get this logic, I didn't find it at all..." "Take sister Jie's handcuffs as an example." "Handcuffs." "Why did the murderer specially handcuff this kind of handcuffs that can be easily opened to Mrs. Jie's wrist, and why did he put the key in my hand?"

"Of course it's to make me doubt you?" "Of course there is this reason, but there is another important reason, which is to let me be handcuffed to this chair. Since Mrs. Jie Jie believes that I am the murderer, then you will first think that in order to ensure your own safety, Tie me up, right? How are you going to use the handcuffs at this time? I was handcuffed to the bed earlier, and this hint makes you think of something to attach the handcuffs to. There are round tables and chairs around here. Even if the handcuffs are handcuffed to the legs of the round table, as long as the round table is lifted up, the handcuffs can be removed. In this case, only the chairs are left.”

"That's it...by letting you sit on the chair, I can exclude this place from my consciousness, and I won't think that this will be the murderer's hiding place—" "That's what happened." "If you thought of it in the first place, why didn't you tell me sooner!" "As I said just now, this was only one of the alternate options at the beginning. That's why I asked Mrs. Jie to rule out other possibilities one by one." "So that's how it is... But if we had investigated the chair from the beginning, wouldn't the matter have been closed long ago?"

"In this case, the outcome could be very bad." Kirikiri glanced at Asakura with cold eyes.Once again, I noticed the knife in Asakura's hand, and I couldn't help but turn pale. Maybe——Asakura kept pressing the knife against Kirikiri's back, without her noticing of course.He is ready, if the situation is not good for him, he will stab the knife—— However, Wuqie noticed it.No, in her words, it should be "thought of logically", maybe it can also be said to be "hearing the footsteps of death". In the end, she sat on a chair and poured the wine on herself. Could it be that she couldn't move because she was held up by the knife.Or is this to show her determination?Probably both.

She was waging an ideological struggle where I couldn't see it.Unknowingly, I have been doing very cruel things to Wuqie. "Well...how should I put it...I'm really sorry, sister Wukiri." "Let's talk about this kind of thing later, my lord, can you help me open the handcuffs first." "Ah, that's right." I quickly used the key to unlock the handcuffs that connected Wuqie's left hand to the easy chair.Kiriri moved away from the easy chair while moving his loosened wrist. "Why on earth did you do such a thing?" I asked Asakura in a trembling voice. "Did you really do such a thing to play a reasoning game with me..."

"No." Asakura interrupted me. "The game itself is not what I expected." After finishing speaking in one breath, Asakura suddenly fell silent, this kind of silence, as if he swallowed back what he was going to say. "Sure enough." Wuchee seemed to have discovered something, she said in a low voice, and brushed the hair on her cheek. "What? What's going on?" "Mr. Asakura is not the administrator of the game, but just a player...that's how it is." "Huh? Someone else arranged the game? Who is that? The real murderer of the real murderers? Among the dead?" Is it another identity replacement? Asakura shook his head slowly, and then said: "I don't know who is organizing this game. I just accepted their arrangement to participate in the game. What they arranged is exactly what I would give up my life. I have to get it, that's all..." "You are obliged to explain clearly to us." Kirigori decisively approached Asakura. "Prior to this, this kind of game must have been secretly played in many places, and it will continue in the future. We need your cooperation, and this is also to prevent victims like you from appearing in the future." victim?cooperate?I'm completely lost. "In the challenge letter that Mrs. Jie received, isn't there a different number for each item?" Wuche turned to me and explained. "That's certainly what it says on the face of it, representing the price." "price?" "To put it bluntly—it is the price of the method. Mr. Asakura purchased the location, murder weapon and crime method needed for this incident from the game master at those prices." "What, what, what's going on?" "For me who had nothing, this is similar to a weapon used to fight detectives." Asakura said. "In order to defeat the devil in the role-playing game, don't the brave ones buy weapons and armors in the weapon shop to make themselves stronger? I just used real money to buy impossible crimes from them, and used them to talk to the detectives. fighting." Was the mutilation and murder that took place at this Sirius Observatory someone's thing for sale?This kind of thing can happen-- After all, what was the reason for Asakura to participate in this game?Could it be that as long as he can defeat the detective, he can get some bounty. "Hmph..." Asakura stared at the floor, chuckled slightly through his nose, and then raised his head. "Anyway, I'm done with it. Well, I'll tell you everything. It's not bad for the faces of those who watch this scene for fun. To play with my life... shake! You scum!" Asakura held up his middle finger with the hand holding the knife, and spoke cruelly to the empty sky.I looked along his line of sight, and there was no one in the direction of his line of sight. "At the beginning... well, let's start with how my legs turned out like this. There's no time, so I'll cut the long story short, and you listen to me, I'm going to make you a threat to them. No—should It's the hope of a victim like me..." Asakura began to tell about the serial arson cases he had encountered in the past.He was the victim of the incident and both legs had to be amputated due to burns. The incident ended with the suspect committing suicide.However, one day, a mysterious old man appeared in front of him.The old man promised to tell him who the real culprit was. "That guy took away my family and made me into such a miserable state, but I was not questioned and lived leisurely. How could I accept this reality? It is impossible to accept it, no one would Accepted." The old man promised to tell him who the real culprit was, and made Asakura one condition.That's the murder. "I think they will instigate us to kill people after they find someone like me who is brewing the fire of revenge. Then they will use the process as an entertainment performance for those rich people to watch." "Does such a thing... really exist?" "What you have experienced from yesterday to today is the most credible fact." "Who do you mean by 'they'?" Wuche asked. "The old man called himself the 'Crime Victims Relief Committee.' He chanted the slogan, Relief and Relief many times, which sounded good, but it turned out to be just for the entertainment of those disgusting fellows. Of course... I participated in the game knowing this. I remember they called this game 'Black Challenge', and they seemed to have held the same game many times before." "Since you know so much... why do you still want to commit crimes? There should be other ways..." When I said this, my heart was greatly shaken. "Don't say such pretty words. To me at the time, what they said really sounded like a relief. Relief that could bring life back..." Asakura told us the general situation of "Black Challenge" without reservation. He said that if no one pointed out that he was the murderer after 168 hours after the challenge was unsealed, he would be able to get the full amount of the purchase fee indicated on the items such as criminal methods and the like, and he could also get the following The right to start a whole new life as another person. It was pitiful that his efforts had failed...but he was a murderer now.In the end, he still ended up with the same fate as the person he hated. This ending is just too empty. "It's over!" Asakura suddenly shouted into the air.Who is he talking to? "The game is over. Call the police! You should have seen it?" "Excuse me, who are you talking to?" "Those who are looking at us." "Look at us...?" "As I said just now, 'Black Challenge' is a broadcast program. Although I don't know if it's a video or real-time, someone is watching us through the monitor anyway." "Could it be that... there is a surveillance camera somewhere?" I looked around in amazement, but found nothing resembling a surveillance camera. "There must be a lot of very small cameras somewhere. I've searched hard, but I can't find any." At this moment, someone is watching us... I couldn't help feeling a chill, and embraced my body. "Speaking of which..." Wuqie continued with the same cold expression on his face. "Who are you going to take revenge on?" "Inuzuka." "Mr. Inu, Inuzuka?" I asked back. "That guy...that bastard is the real culprit of the serial arson." "But... Isn't Mr. Inuzuka a detective?" And he's a detective who has reached level "3".Since he has reached such a level, he is no ordinary person.Doesn't this just prove that he has always solved the incident with a positive attitude and has been fighting criminals. How could such a detective commit a crime... "You think detectives can't commit crimes? All detectives are heroes and saints? Well, I advise you to drop that from today. That guy is a hopeless scum, and he—has been making things up for himself, Then solve it by himself, that's how he earned his reputation as a detective. To put it simply, he is a detective who directs and acts on his own." "Impossible..." I felt like what I had always believed in had collapsed. Isn't the detective the one who helps the weak?My sense of self was shaken.Detectives... aren't heroes? "Since the establishment of the Detective Library, he seems to have done a lot of ridiculous things in order to increase his level. He is so unscrupulous, and the result is only a level '3' at most, which is useless. The whole world should applaud me, and I applaud This world wiped out a scourge. Inuzuka... shouldn't live in this world." "But...but..." I couldn't go on. "Why did you kill Mr. Amino and Mr. Swallowtail?" Kirikiri asked. "Just as you reasoned, because Yanwei looks very similar to me, so I chose him as my substitute. As for Akino... Anyway, if we want to kill people by dismembering them, one more corpse would be better. It was chosen randomly. By the way, little girl, I chose you because you are the least qualified. I thought that a newcomer who was completely confused about his direction could obediently follow my plan and become a poor girl. murderer role." "Well, I understand." Wuqie said, then crossed his arms, turned his back to us, and walked near the wall. "In the end...although I lost, my revenge succeeded. In this sense, I am very grateful to that committee. At least in the past few days, I have been redeemed, because I have the meaning of existence , that is revenge. This ending is very happy, but—it is over." Just then, sirens sounded from outside.This is the signal to announce the end of the event. "Did the person behind the screen call the police?" I turned my head to look for the direction of the voice. "It's finally the end." Asakura threw away the knife in his hand. "It's just that when I was almost ignited, I really panicked. I kept holding a knife in the chair to prevent her from talking nonsense. If the matter is revealed, I will die with her. If the game is over, I plan to The one who killed her, I didn't expect that she would use that method to force me out of the safe area. I thought she didn't know that I had a fear of fire... What a mess." Asakura smiled wryly, and glanced at Kirikiri's back.Was it her determination that made Asakura lose his fighting spirit? According to Asakura's plan, this incident should end with me identifying Kirikiri as the murderer.In fact, I have always been suspicious of her.One could be messed up, maybe I've even done it to her.In this case, I failed to identify the real murderer Dovetail—that is, Asakura, and after 168 hours, he was victorious.It's also possible - in the worst case, Wuqie and I kill each other, and in the end it really becomes "no one survives". Thinking about it this way—Kyoko Wukiri saved my life. The little detective solved the incident.Her talent is beyond doubt.She has the ability to fight crime.She is just the detective who can be a hero. In my heart, my curiosity about Kyoko Kirikiri swelled. The sirens stopped near the building, and the police poured into the hall.They seemed to understand the situation fairly well, and quickly arrested Asakura and took him away. Wukiri and I stood at the entrance of Building B and watched them leave. Before Asakura left, he whispered to us: "The two of you may end their game. If you are willing to avenge me, I will give you a hint." "hint?" "As for the detectives involved in the incident, they use the level of the detective library as a reference." "Don't talk too much, get in the car." Asakura was pushed by the police, got into a black car, and went down the mountain along the snow-covered road.The snow had almost stopped, and the eastern sky was bright. Wuqie and I looked at each other, but we didn't say what we thought, and we went back to Building A together. We witnessed an unusual scene there. None of the policemen who had been there just now were gone. "... I was fooled." Wuqie said unwillingly. "F, what happened?" "The police just now... must be members of the committee." "how is this possible!" An hour later, the real police arrived at the Sirius Observatory.Although I'm rather skeptical about their identities, they do seem to be real.Wuqie and I got into their police car and went down the mountain, leaving the stage of the incident. In addition, a black car turned over from the mountain road and was discovered by a citizen who happened to pass by that day.A man with prosthetic legs in the car died from a strong impact on his whole body.The police characterized the incident as an accident and declared through the media that they would not conduct further investigations into it.According to the report, the name of the deceased was Asakura Tadashi.