Chapter 12 The Prelude to the Beginning(1/2)
"Then... I wish you good luck." Monokuma said these words, then threw the death file of Monokuma on the ground... and left.
Lin Xiao picked up the file and said, "Let's start the investigation." He said calmly.
"Ah?" Asahina covered her mouth and said, "What is the investigation for? It's about to start again."
Naegi said sadly: "Yes..."
"It is no longer like this to investigate the body of my companion...and then suspect my companion...it is really unbearable," Asahina said.
Ye Yin shouted: "I don't want it either! I quit, I want to run away!"
"Where are you planning to escape to? There is no place to escape here," Okami Sakura said.
Togami said coldly: "It's time to get used to it, right? After all, blood is just liquid, and corpses are just objects."
Ceres said: "You seem to be very motivated."
Togami said: "Don't you have the energy? If you can't find the real criminal, will I die with you?"
Asahina said: "Although this is the case...but..."
Ten Gods said: "If you want to die, just die by yourself."
Owada said: "You said the corpse is just an object? That guy... Chihiro is not an object. If you ignore her existence, I will never forgive you!"
"Don't have unnecessary quarrels...and not everything Togami-kun said is wrong," Kirigiri said.
Lin Xiao said: "We must solve the mystery. If we don't find the culprit... it won't work."
"If the murderer is really the genocide Sho, if he is allowed to go unpunished, it may lead to more victims." Kirigiri said.
Yamada said in shock: "No. Not only will there be more victims, maybe all of us will be killed..."
At this time, the voice of Monokuma sounded on the radio, and it said: "Don't worry, in this school life of killing each other, the same bad guy can only kill one person at most... This is the rule I just added...
Because if one person kills too many people, wouldn’t the happy school life end soon?”
Ceres said: "You can only kill one person...that is to say, there is still a chance that the victim will appear again!"
"That's really a big event. We need to find the prisoner quickly before that happens!" Togami said.
Owada said: "Shut up!"
"Anyway, Ishimaru and I are sending Touko back to her room now," Asahina said.
Lin Xiao said: "Then start... the search now."
First investigate this room... Chihiro's body is no longer alive...
Togami said: "I feel more and more strange, this corpse... Is this the murderous style of Xiang, the genocide?"
"I don't know the details... After all, the crime scene of Genocide Xiang is just an internet rumor... No one knows what the truth is." Lin Xiao said.
There is a seal on the wall, a poster of a beautiful woman in a swimsuit, also stained with blood....
There are also bright red blood stains on the carpet under Qianxun's body, which must have been stained when the murder occurred...
There is a dumbbell on the floor, and there is blood on one end of the dumbbell....
Lin Xiao remembered that the death file said that Qianxun died after being hit on the head with a blunt instrument, so the dumbbell on the ground was the murder weapon...
Okami Sakura said: "I didn't expect that I would be killed in the women's locker room where I often come..."
"But... why was he killed in the locker room... No, the possibility of being killed and transported here is not completely impossible." Naegi said.
The great god said: "Indeed, her weight is relatively light. It is not impossible to transport her after being killed, but I think she came to this place by herself..."
Lin Xiao said: "Why do you think so?"
"Just recently, she often talks about exercising..." Okami Sakura said.
That's right, Lin Xiao also heard her say several times... that she was attacked by prisoners while exercising?
But only women can enter the women's locker room...
Naegi said: "Chihiro went to the women's locker room to prepare for training... But it's strange. The death file said that Chihiro died around 1:00 in the morning."
"...That's right, it's impossible to exercise at this time..." Lin Xiao said.
Okami Sakura said: "During the day, Asahina and I spend more time here, probably because we are avoiding us on purpose."
"Avoid it, why avoid it?" Lin Xiao said.
"Hmm... I don't know about this. Asahina and I have invited her several times, but she has never exercised with us once... Maybe it's just to avoid us as much as possible."
Okami Sakura said.
"That's why you secretly exercise alone late at night?" Okami Sakura said.
Okami Sakura said: "But it's hard to imagine her doing this kind of thing alone. Although Chihiro has always wanted to exercise, she once said that she couldn't do it alone... I hope someone can help!"
"In other words, Chihiro came to the locker room to exercise secretly late at night... Because of her personality, it is very likely that she did not act alone, but came with someone... and ended up being killed by that person.
People attacked...that led to the current situation." Lin Xiao said.
Okami Sakura said: "This possibility...can't be said to be completely impossible!"
"...That guy seems to feel very inferior to his own weakness... You have heard it, right? That guy said that he must become stronger... As a result..." Owada
explain.
"...So we must find the murderer." Lin Xiao took a deep breath and said.
"But it's strange why Chihiro keeps saying that he wants to become stronger. For girls, it's normal to be weaker..." Naegi said.
"Who knows... about that level of things... only she knows about it," Owada said.
After carefully searching the entire crime scene, no other clues were found...
Lin Xiao said: "We went to other places to search, but we can't find any new clues even if we stay here... We need to investigate from other angles."
"But where should we go?" Naegi said.
Ten Gods said: "Follow me..."
Then he took Miaomu and Lin Xiao out of the locker room and came to the swimming room hall. The hall was filled with equipment and was very quiet.
"Is this also related to the case?" Naegi asked.
"Please use your own brain to think about where you want to investigate and other issues...don't ask me to tell you everything." Togami said.
"Let's take a look at this card reader." Lin Xiao said.
Naegi walked over and said, "Well, this card reader should correspond to the electronic student handbook, right?"
Togami said: "Is there anything you care about? If you have any questions, you can ask Monokuma." As he said this, he clapped his hands several times under the monitor, and Monokuma immediately appeared.
"Call me again?" Monokuma said.
Togami said: "Naegi, he seems to have a question to ask you..."
"Okay, what's the problem?" Monokuma said.
"Well... I want to ask about the card reader here..." Naegi said.
"Oh, that corresponds to the student handbook... You can only enter the locker room that matches the gender in the electronic student handbook, so be careful..."
Monokuma said.
"Is it feasible to enter the individual at the same time when the lock is lifted?" Lin Xiao said.
"What if it's a woman and a man?" Togami said.
Monokuma said: "Of course the school will sanction such impure things, and the Gatling on the ceiling will mercilessly blast him into a hornet's nest..."
Lin Xiao said: “Isn’t it illegal to lend the student handbook to others?”
"Of course!" Monokuma said.
In this case, there is a problem... girls can only enter the women's locker room, and boys can only enter the men's locker room... Is this the case?
In other words, Chihiro's body was found in the women's locker room...then the gender of the murderer can only be female.
Naegi said: "Is the gender of the murderer also female... Chihiro's body was found in the women's locker room, so the murderer can also enter the women's locker room..."
"Is that so? Is it that simple? Just because of this, I think the murderer is one of the girls... But to see the phenomenon, you have to see through the essence..." Togami said.
"You really can't think of it this way... maybe the prisoner used some special method," Lin Xiao said.
Shishen smiled and said: "Lin Xiao, you are really smart..." He continued: "Although the school rules say that you cannot lend to others, there is no rule that you cannot borrow from others..."
Monokuma said: "Oh, this has been discovered... As expected of the noble son of a super high school, he noticed this loophole in the school rules."
"Monokuma... It seems you did this. You deliberately prepared such a loophole to make the puzzle more interesting." Lin Xiao said.
"Wait, in this case, since it was borrowed from someone else, that means someone lent it out, in that case..." Naegi said.
Monokuma said: "Okay, let's search hard. I wish you good luck."
Togami said: "Okay, let's go to the entrance hall first, where I will explain my views to you."
A group of three people came to the entrance hall.
"Is there anything here? Togami-kun." Naegi said.
"Come here, I found something here." Lin Xiao came to a mailbox and took out some electronic student handbooks.
Naegi said: "Why are there three chapters of the electronic student handbook here... Why do they appear in a place like this?"
Togami said: "I discovered this by accident... The student handbook of ideas of dead people will be returned to this mailbox."
To be continued...