The tour bus was driving smoothly on the road. Fujiwara Yu, who had fallen asleep wearing an eye mask, woke up only after being pushed by Miyano Akemi. He reached out and took off the eye mask that blocked his vision, and asked sleepily:
"Are we here yet? It feels like I've been asleep for a long time."
"The destination is quite far from the city, and it's a bit of a mountain road. It takes about an hour's drive." Miyano Akemi took off her blindfold to look at the buildings outside the window. After roughly determining the route, she closed her eyes and rested.
The driver in charge looked at the people in front of him with a smile and said:
"Participants, please pick up your luggage one after another and head to the hotel in front of you. The manager who presides over the live-action scripted killing is in the hotel. I will come here to pick you up the day after tomorrow."
"Wow, are you running into the mountains? Could this shabby hotel be the so-called real scene?" Keiryo Maekawa frowned and looked at the ordinary mountain hotel in front of him. The building with only two floors was nothing special.
It's like a luxurious venue, and you can't even see the school mentioned on the invitation.
The girl with heavy makeup who looked like a little girl flipped her long hair and began to complain to her fiancé, saying that she was used to staying in hotels and that she would have to find the best room later, otherwise she would not be able to sleep.
After some self-introductions from the participants, Fujiwara Yuya learned that the long curly-haired girl who had been applying makeup in the car to the farm was called Nakayama Maiko. She was already engaged to Sugino Takashi, who was handsome and didn't talk much.
Keiryo Maekawa, who has dyed yellow hair, and Jun Yamaguchi, who looks a little anxious, are employees of the same company. Their colleagues are short-haired girl Uchida Ami.
In the end, the thin man who had always been silent was named Takenaka Yuuto. After he said his name, he stood alone two meters away. He looked like he couldn't fit in with the group. Such a person would come to participate in a live-action script.
Killing is indeed an incredible thing.
After briefly understanding the relationship between them, Fujiwara Yu took the lead in dragging his heavy suitcase and walked towards the hotel. Before he could open the door, the door was opened inward. Standing inside the door was a man with a height of one meter.
A man in his mid-70s with medium-long hair, he was still wearing a butler's uniform, which didn't match this Japanese-style hotel at all.
The man narrowed his fox eyes and looked at the tall man in front of him. He bowed respectfully and introduced himself:
"Hello, I am Kensaku Asano, the manager of this hotel. I will be responsible for your food and accommodation in the next two days. Please give me your advice."
"Hello, my name is Sosuke Takaji, and this is my girlfriend Asami Miyasaka. We are here to participate in the live-action shooting on behalf of Shinichi Kudo. Mr. Asano, please give me your advice." Yu Fujiwara simply introduced himself.
, did not directly reveal his identity as a police officer, and the other party's expression should indicate that no one would betray him.
Takenaka Yuuto, who had been standing silently behind everyone, actually had some reaction after hearing the name Asano Kensaku. He took out the invitation letter from his pocket and asked aloud:
"Kensaku Asano? Are you Mr. Asano who sent me the invitation?"
"Yes, I screened the participants on Twitter. Are you Mr. Saegusa? Your job happens to be a school teacher, so I want you to play the role of the teacher in the script. The sense of substitution should be
Very strong.”
"Then why did you invite us here for free?" Sugino Takashi, who was holding his arm with his fiancée, asked puzzledly. You know that all the expenses for the whole journey are reimbursed, why would this person do this?
do not know.
After Kensaku Asano noticed everyone's suspicious looks, he quickly waved his hand and explained:
"No, don't misunderstand me. I just want to invite a group of players to experience the script I wrote. I also hope that you can give me a five-star review after the game is over. This will also attract some people to come here to play."
"Ha! I understand, no one wants to run into the mountains, right?" Maekawa Keiryo put his hands in his trouser pockets and said nonchalantly.
Kensaku Asano reluctantly nodded and admitted, with a bitter smile on his face:
"I didn't expect that I wouldn't be able to form a single game in half a month of operation, so I thought about inviting a group of players to experience scripted killing. I even specially invited the famous high school detective Kudo Shinichi to come over, but I really didn't expect him.
He didn’t come, hey, what a miscalculation!”
After seeing Kensaku Asano's depressed look, the kind-hearted Uchida Ami pointed at Takaji Sosuke with a smile:
"Mr. Asano, you don't have to feel bad at all. Mr. Takashi, who is here in place of Mr. Kudo, is a very famous detective from the Metropolitan Police Department. If he thinks script killing is interesting, I think many people will come here."
"Interpol?" Asano Kensaku had a surprised expression on his face after hearing that Sosuke Takaji was actually a police officer.
"What's wrong? Can't the police play?" Fujiwara Yu raised his eyebrows and asked.
Asano Kensaku waved his hands with a smile and said awkwardly:
"I didn't expect Mr. Takaji that you were actually a policeman, but I was a little worried that the script I designed would make you lose your gaming experience. After all, you have solved many cases, right?"
"The software and the game are still different, so don't worry...even if I quickly find out who the real murderer in the script is, I won't say it directly. I will ensure everyone's gaming experience."
Keiryo Maekawa smiled and walked to Takaji Sosuke's side, sticking his head out and saying:
"Officer Eagle Division, if you know who the murderer is, please tell me secretly~ Let me feel good too, okay?"
"Yes, but only if your character card is not the murderer."
"Hahahaha, if I am the murderer, please show mercy and give me some face!"
Maybe it’s because they are similar in age, and because Keiryo Maekawa is a person who is very good at adjusting the atmosphere, he directly suggested using the rock-paper-scissors method to decide the room selection.
After hearing this method of using luck to determine the outcome, Fujiwara Yu, who had originally given up, looked at his fist with an expression of disbelief... It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the punch, but that besides himself,
Everything else produced by others is cloth.
Won? He actually won the guessing game?
Yamaguchi Chun, who was still confident in guessing, widened his eyes and said with some annoyance:
"Wow, isn't it? Officer Eagle, you are so lucky. If you had known, I would have punched you too!"
Hearing this, Fujiwara Yu shrugged his shoulders. He directly picked up the door key at the end of the corridor on the second floor and said:
"I chose this room. It's nice to have an independent bathroom."
When Nakayama Maiko saw that the room she wanted most was chosen, she couldn't help but cast her eyes on her fiancé. Sensing the sight, Sugino Takashi could only smile. After all, he was not completely sure about the rock-paper-scissors game of postgraduate entrance examination luck.
The second winner was Takenaka Yuuto. He did not choose a double room that was more luxurious than a single room, but chose a single room on the first floor. He entered the room directly after getting the door key.
Uchida Ami was relieved after seeing Takenaka Yuuto's choice, otherwise she would have been able to share a room with a boy.
After everyone selected their rooms, Fujiwara Yu memorized everyone's room. Then he carried his luggage and headed towards the second floor. When he opened the door and saw the only double bed in the room, he fell into silence.