The setting sun, close to the horizon, dyes the roof of the building golden.
In the almost bright colors, Eimi Konda and Yuuto Kariya stood facing each other a few meters apart, each with a more serious expression.
The utility knife was raised in the air, the tip of the knife reflecting the cold light. Just when it was about to stab the target, the next moment, the rooftop door was suddenly pushed open with a bang.
"Yongmei!" Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko rushed in, then looked at the scene in front of them, and were stunned at the same time.
——Contrary to imagination, the one holding the sword is not "Romeo", but Eimi Konda opposite him.
The girl wrapped the blade of the knife with a handkerchief, as if she didn't want to leave fingerprints on the knife. The tip of the knife was pointed toward herself, as if it would stab her neck in the next moment.
Jiang Xia walked around the two frightened female classmates and walked forward. He glanced at the knife in Eimi Konda's hand and said with rare sincerity: "Life is the most precious treasure. Do not commit suicide at any time."
Suzuki Sonoko didn't come back to her senses until she heard his voice. She looked at Koda Eimi in shock, with a confused look on her face: "What are you doing, Eimi?"
Mao Lilan had been exposed to more cases than her since she was a child, and her reaction was faster than that of Suzuki Sonoko. She couldn't believe it: "Miss Yongmei, you...are you taking advantage of us?"
Konda Eimi gritted her teeth and looked at them with complicated expressions, saying nothing.
If she doesn't speak, I can't keep standing on the rooftop waiting for her.
Jiang Xia looked at her watch and said for her: "We just arrived downstairs at your school today and happened to bump into you being attacked in the activity room. This should have been carefully planned by you - speaking of which
, inviting friends to your school but not going downstairs to pick them up, instead standing in the activity room waiting for someone to come to you, is a bit strange in itself. It is our first time to come to your school, aren't you worried that the guests will get lost?
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Suzuki Sonoko finally came to her senses: "So at that time, Yongmei deliberately found someone to attack her at that time, hoping to be seen by us?"
Jiang Xia shook her head: "There is no 'looking for someone', but a one-man show directed and performed by myself. From the angle we were standing at, we couldn't see the situation indoors at all. As long as she stood by the window and leaned back,
Pretending to be dragged down, he could disappear from the window and then hide in the house, cutting his hair with the utility knife stolen from 'Romeo' in advance, creating the illusion of being attacked.
"Since we were 'attacked,' the attacker would not have left the utility knife where he was. So after confirming that we ran into the building, you immediately stood up, threw the utility knife into the flower garden downstairs, and let the murder weapon escape from the room.
It disappears inside, and then waits for an opportunity to recover it - if you go to the flower bed under the window now and check, you should be able to see the marks left by the utility knife on the soil.
"Those threatening letters, the pranks on girls who like 'Romeo', including the letter asking Kariya Yuuto to return the utility knife behind the gym, are all written by you. You plan to blame all this series of things on 'Romeo', and yourself
As the fourth targeted victim, 'TB', died of 'Romeo''s assassination at sunset, making the other party bear the crime of murder."
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko did not expect such a bold operation, and were stunned when they heard it.
Conan had already guessed the truth. So now, instead of reasoning, he raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xia, thoughtfully: "..." Faced with this kind of girl who seems to have gone to extremes because of the pain of unrequited love, Jiang Xia didn't.
With his soft tone before, could it be...
Does he dislike people who commit suicide?
Obviously he himself... But thinking about it this way, Conan felt a lot more relieved: I heard that people who commit suicide must either go on killing in one go and kill more and more bravely until they succeed, or they will realize the meaning of life in that state of being on the verge of death.
Precious, cherish life again.
Now it seems that Jiang Xia must be the latter. This is really a relief.
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Yuuto Kariya obviously didn't expect Eimi Konda to do such a thing. He was silent for a long time before holding back a sentence: "You got me involved inexplicably. There must be something wrong with your brain."
"Inexplicable?" Eimi Konda smiled bitterly:
"Have you forgotten, I wrote to you a month ago and wanted to ask you to meet. You obviously agreed, but you didn't show up at the agreed place at all.
"I always thought that you were interrupted by something important. Unexpectedly, not long ago, I passed by the classroom door and found that you and a few boys were laughing at me, and you even made a bet on whether I would succeed that day.
Go, how long will you stay... It was only then that I remembered that the 'Romeo' I admired, although he later began to study hard, he was just a vulgar little gangster who did all kinds of evil. "
Kariya Yuto was suddenly exposed and sneered: "I am a vulgar gangster who does all kinds of evil, so what are you? Those silly girls wrote to you because they trusted you, but you took advantage of this to choose from among them
Love rivals play pranks on them.
"Do you really have no choice but to use them to complete your plan, or are you doing it for personal gain, trying to hide your dark thoughts about your love rival? - Huh, after all, Romeo and Juliet... Isn't it true that you are immersed in this kind of illusory drama?
Isn’t that stupid?”
"And these two idiots." He suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, and then looked at Koda Eimi:
"Do you think it's difficult to distinguish suicide from murder? Even if the murder weapon is my utility knife, the angle of the blood splatter, the location of the blood splatter, the fingerprints blurred by the handkerchief... As long as I protect the scene, the police will definitely be more willing to use it.
Suicide case closed.
"When the time comes, your two friends will start shouting everywhere, saying that I killed you, and then they will be proved by ironclad evidence that they are falsely accusing them, and they will soon learn that they are actually a part of helping you commit suicide... Ha, I
You are indeed a bastard, but how can you be any better!"
Koda Eimi listened in silence, her face getting uglier and uglier.
When she heard the last word, she suddenly clenched the knife in her hand, looked at Yugito Kariya opposite with a gloomy look, and suddenly raised her knife and rushed towards him.
"……wait wait wait!"
The stunned Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko finally came to their senses. Mao Lilan instinctively rushed forward. At a speed that was so fast that it was difficult to see, she raised her hand and stopped between Konda Eimi and "Romeo": "Anyway,
You cannot seek death, and there is no need to send yourself to prison just to take revenge on such a person!"
Suzuki Sonoko also ran closer. No matter what Eimi Konda had done, it was difficult for the two female high school students to ignore the thought that the living person in front of them might die soon or kill someone.