Chapter 45 fourth quarter

I was surprised when Ayaka brought up the Shimada incident. After all, the whole class and I were busy coping with the sudden changes in power relations and Yamamoto-san's cannibalism, so we completely forgot about it. "Are you still thinking about this?" So I asked her. After school, Ayaka, Chizuru, and I walked together in the rainy city of Sapporo. Although I didn't want to go out on rainy days, I just wanted to stay at home quietly, but I couldn't go against Ayaka's proposal. The umbrella cloth stretched above the head was knocked irregularly by the raindrops. The sky, the street, and the pedestrians were all gray. The road was soaked and it felt very uncomfortable. There will be countless water marks on it, and the rain in front of me makes me have such an association.

"You said that, Shimada is very pitiful." Under the red umbrella, a beautiful smiling face looked at me: "Don't tell me, Katori-san, have you already treated Shimada as a person from the past?" To answer honestly, "Yeah, that's right" might come across as a heartless person, so I vaguely don't mean that. In the past... It has been a week since the incident happened, but the murderer who killed Shimada is still not known.In fact, I have already begun to forget, but what is Qianzuru, who walked silently behind me, thinking? "Did you think of anything after that?" Ayaka asked me, she probably meant the idea of ​​solving the mystery of the secret room.

"No, not at all." I answered truthfully. "I have thought about many kinds, but none of them are valid." This is a lie. I thought, since I am not a detective, it is impossible for me to have a way to solve the mystery.In a classroom that cannot be accessed without a key card, the key card is placed on the body of the murdered deceased, and the electric door is locked, so how on earth did the prisoner escape from the closed classroom?It is impossible for me to know this kind of question. "It's embarrassing to say, but I'm also the same myself." Ayaka's voice came to my ears with the sound of rain: "I don't even have any inspiration."

"Qianhe——" I slowed down and walked to the side of Qianhe who was lagging behind. Qianhe's hand holding the umbrella shook. I couldn't see her expression hiding under the umbrella, but it was easy to imagine. "Do you know why Ayaka wants to pursue Shimada's affairs so closely?" I whispered, "Since the day it happened, she has been so enthusiastic." "I don't know..." A faint voice came from under the umbrella: "Maybe I'm curious about a certain part..." The end of the sentence was drowned out by the sound of rain.I felt as if I was looking at my former self, and I started to feel irritable. Why did Ayaka give this kind of person a special status?Obviously just me is enough.

"The curious part?" The damp wind ruffled my long hair. "Qianhe, do you have any idea?" "Ah, no, no." "If that's the case, what exactly does she want to know?" "Huh?" I noticed that Ayaka was gone. I looked around in a panic, and finally saw her figure a few meters away. It seemed that we didn't notice that she stopped and walked for a short distance on my own.Ayaka turned around and turned in the opposite direction, was she looking at something?From this angle, you can only see a bunch of shops and buildings, a very ordinary world.

Ayaka's red umbrella fell to the ground, and the warm wind blew the fallen umbrella away, spinning like a malfunctioning gear.The rain hit her, but she didn't care at all, her eyes were all focused on a certain focal point, like a doll in a window that didn't move.The sailor suit was soaked by the rain and stuck to her skin, and her hair was also dripping wet, but Ayaka still didn't move, and she seemed to be in a trance. What exactly are you looking at?I walked over quickly. "Uh, Ayaka—" Ignoring my calls, she suddenly started running, stepping over the puddles of water on the ground.

"How about a colleague?" Qianhe's small voice came from behind. "Catch up." I suggested that there was no other choice.