The chairman of the Magic Lovers Alliance is the Escape King, and he was supposed to arrange the schedule and program for this gathering. But he never showed up, and Araki couldn't contact him, so he had to choose a new decision-maker.
Arayoshi put down the unreachable phone call and thought of Tanaka Takahisuke's suggestion just now. He proposed to choose by drawing lots.
In order to increase the fun, in addition to the acting chairman, the positions to be chosen include the banquet director responsible for enlivening the atmosphere, and the punitive water boiler.
Arayoshi found the blank card that Tanaka Takahisae gave him, and wrote the names of the party participants on it. Seeing that Suzuki Sonoko looked very interested, he handed all the papers to her and asked her to blindfold her behind her back.
Draw marks.
The circled person is the acting chairman, the × person is the banquet director, and the triangle mark is responsible for boiling water.
They are all magicians, and their hands are very fast. When Tanaka Takakue handed over the pen, he gave Suzuki Sonoko a pen that could not write, and at the same time dropped the card from the package - now the card had already drawn what she wanted.
required mark.
The blindfolded Suzuki Sonoko didn't know anything about it, and happily picked up the pen to draw symbols, feeling a sense of accomplishment in controlling the fate of all people.
The results were soon announced, with Arayoshi being chosen as the acting chairman, and Tanaka Takahisa becoming the water boiler, responsible for boiling the hot water for tonight's use.
In the end, only the piece of paper with an × left was left. The person on this piece of paper should represent the banquet director and be responsible for imagining some interesting activities.
Suzuki Sonoko couldn't wait to take off the blindfold, turned over the card with the triangle on it, and saw "The Disappeared Pani" on it.
Others took a breath and asked Pani to liven up the atmosphere? Judging from his performance until now, it would have been a big help if he didn't make the atmosphere tense...
Suzuki Sonoko didn't have any objections. She covered her lips and laughed twice, then secretly rubbed Shiraishi's unscarred side closer: "If you can't think of an idea, you can ask me. I'm very good at livening up the atmosphere.
!”
"Really."
When Suzuki Sonoko secretly reached for Shiraishi's arm, a fat hand suddenly appeared and put it on Shiraishi's shoulder first.
Doi Takuki turned his head and smiled friendly towards Suzuki Sonoko. His round face suddenly became rounder: "I really want to hear your idea, why don't the three of us come together."
"..." Suzuki Sonoko's star-studded eyes suddenly turned into half-moons. The corners of her mouth twitched and she backed away calmly, "I, I have to go upstairs to see my friend's children. Let's go first!"
Like a toy car that was wound up with clockwork, she slithered away stiffly, fearing that she would be caught if she ran too slow and have to talk to the fat-headed fish prince all night long.
Everyone else also started getting down to business.
Dinner hasn't been cooked yet, so Araki and the workers he hired went to handle the ingredients, while another girl was in charge of setting the plates.
Tanaka Takakue went out to look at the firewood in the warehouse, and asked Doi Takuki to help her move the heavy firewood to the woodshed next to the kitchen.
The banquet director Shiraishi drew does not have to work. He needs to go back to the room alone to prepare props and think about appropriate multi-person magic.
Of course Shiraishi doesn't know any magic, but he can fish.
He deliberately left the door unlocked. After finding some tools, he squatted in front of the luggage bag and checked the luggage.
…
There is a wall between the firewood room and the boiler room where water is boiled.
After discovering that Doi Takeshu had moved firewood twice without even looking over, Tanaka Takahisa felt relieved. She climbed onto the eaves of the boiler room, turned over and stepped on it, then climbed into the second floor corridor through the window and went straight to
The room of "The Vanishing Pani".
Pani actually didn't close the door, and his back was facing the door.
This made Tanaka Takahisa feel a lot more relaxed. She no longer had to think about how to strike up a conversation and trick him into opening the door.
Tanaka Takahisa opened the door silently, entered the room, and then shook off the strong thin hemp rope in his hand.
She walked behind Shiraishi, quickly crossed the rope in front of his neck, then put her knees on his back, pulled the rope and leaned back, using her own weight to tighten the rope tightly.
Click——
With a strange noise, Tanaka Takaki's hand suddenly loosened. She couldn't react and fell backwards to the ground.
The rope was still tightly grasped in her hand. Tanaka Takahisa looked down in shock and found that the hemp rope had been broken. The edge of the break was smooth and it did not look like it had been torn off.
Looking up again, "Disappeared Pani" had turned around leisurely and was looking down at her condescendingly. He was holding a pair of gardening scissors stolen from somewhere in his hand, grabbing the handle of the scissors, and standing in front of Tanaka Takahisa.
It opened and closed with two clicks.
"...!" This provocative action made Tanaka Takahisa tremble with anger.
At this time, she gradually realized that no one would mess with her luggage with a pair of scissors - "Pani" might have known what she wanted to do!
But...how did he know!?
Shiraishi played with scissors twice and the door opened.
Toru Amuro walked into the house and locked the door behind his back.
At this time, even a fool knew that they were in a group. Tanaka Takahisa stood up nervously and unconsciously glanced at the window, trying to escape.
But before she could take a step, she saw Pani pull out a gun from nowhere, pointing the gun steadily at her: "Don't run, we just want to ask a few small questions."
…
Tanaka Takahisa knows nothing about the Black Widow and has only seen it from a distance once.
However, she did have some clues in her hand - when she entered the escaped king's house and wanted to leave a message on the screen, she once moved the escaped king's body slightly to expose the keyboard.
Just as she was moving the body, she felt something was wrong with the folds of the seat under the body. She reached out and touched it, and found the mobile phone that the escaped king had hidden before his death.
Tanaka Takakue recalled the scene when Black Widow left, and felt that she seemed to know the Escape King. There might be records of the two people's correspondence on her phone.
Although she and Black Widow had never met each other, Tanaka Takakue's initial favorable impression of her was simply off the charts because she was the one who killed the Escape King. She hesitated and took the Escape King's mobile phone away from the scene of the crime.
Already.
My phone has a screen lock and I cannot see the messages inside.
However, there are many hackers in the organization, so as long as you get the phone, this won't be a problem.
After getting the clues, the two stopped caring about the affairs in the villa, took the necessary luggage, and quickly left from the back mountain.
Tanaka Takahisa returned to the boiler room with lingering fear and continued to boil water.
Now she was basically sure that today's "disappeared Pani" was definitely not the troll on the forum. Her trip was in vain.
After dinner was ready, Tanaka Takaki told everyone that Red Herring and the missing Pani had something to do and had left early.
Suzuki Sonoko first breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it, and then suddenly sighed quietly.
Why pack up and leave? It would be better if the red herring goes away and Pani is left behind...
Suddenly there were two less adults in the population, and the food was much more than expected.
Just when they thought they would waste a lot of food this time, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the villa.