Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 18 Silent Killing

After asking, Fushimi Shika stood up and said goodbye.

Yuan Yuzi didn't understand what was going on, so she followed him and continued to ask questions.

The latter went downstairs without saying a word, and just as he stepped over the steps of the first floor entrance, he suddenly retracted his steps.

"Ah, it's raining." said Gen Yuzi.

A gray dot appeared on the white floor tiles, followed by the second, the third... The raindrops connected into lines, weaving into a thick water curtain.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, which were very low.

Fushimi Ka looked up and felt that he could touch the clouds from the rooftop.

"What should we do next?" Yuan Yuzi urged.

She had no clue how to investigate the case, and her reasoning ability was useless. She could only follow Fushimi Shika and keep asking why like a fool...

Although she felt very unwilling, as long as the murderer could be brought to justice, this little grievance would not matter to her!
"No big deal." said Fushimi Shika.

"Ah? Are we just going to do nothing and watch her get away with it?"

"Yes," Fushimi Shika turned around and asked, "She has been at large for sixteen years, so what's the difference between these few days?"

"What do you mean? Will there be new evidence in a few days?" Yuan Yuzi was confused.

"Wait until the rain stops."

Fushimi Shika finally figured out the hit-and-run incident sixteen years ago, Ishizuka Kazuo's revenge plan, Nagano Kawai's reasoning game... everything was strung together in his mind.

Beneath the truth is a carefully crafted lie.

No matter how Yuan Yuzi asked or begged, he still refused to reveal a word, leaving Yuan Yuzi depressed.

In the afternoon, there is a regular firearms operation class and two theoretical and practical classes, and school ends at 5:30.

Gen Yuzi was not going to give up. She kept pestering Fushimi Shika, who was so annoyed that he could not bear it anymore and could not help but scold him:

"Instead of asking me for the answer, why don't you use your brain to think about it yourself? Don't you claim to be a genius in reasoning? Why can't you even understand such a simple puzzle?"

Yuan Yuzi was stunned and felt a deep sense of frustration in her heart.

Recalling Kawai's words of comfort to her in the cafeteria, Gen Tamako felt particularly ironic for a moment.

Kawai believed in her so much, but she couldn't understand the clues Kawai left behind...

Gen Tamako stood in the corridor, lowered her head, and let Fushimi Kaka walk away.

The rain was still falling. Lightning flashed through the dark clouds outside the window. The sky and earth turned black and white for a moment, lengthening the shadows of the two people. Four or five seconds later, the lightning illuminated the corridor again, leaving only Yuan Yuzi's shadow shaking.

She wiped away her tears, looked determined, turned around and walked back to the classroom.

Even without Fushimi Shika, even if she fights alone, she can still find clues and make the criminals receive the punishment they deserve!
The classroom was empty, as the students were all rushing to the cafeteria for dinner. Yuan Yuzi walked up to the podium alone and spread out the page of her diary.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and cleared her mind of all distracting thoughts.

This time, she took an absolutely objective perspective and deduced this old case from the beginning - it only took a moment for her to open her eyes again.

As Fushimi Shika said, it's just a "simple puzzle."

It is impossible for Chizuru Sakurai to have a diary from sixteen years ago, and it is even more impossible for her to record her crime in the diary. Who would write the truth in a diary? How could it be the truth in a diary? From the beginning, stealing the diary was doomed to be a futile effort.

So, who was misleading her by claiming that there was a criminal record in the diary?

First, Fushimi Shika. He may have encouraged Sakurai Chizuru to do this in order to get some dirty information about her private life, so he can be ruled out as a suspect for now.

Second, Kazuo Ishizuka.

Stealing the diary was part of his revenge plan, but why did he determine that Chizuru Sakurai's diary "recorded many shameful things that could not be seen in public"?
Besides, there were only two transcribers in the police academy. Wasn't his act of copying the diary and posting it on the bulletin board tantamount to walking into a trap?
Continuing to deduced further, when Fushimi Shika asked questions, Ishizuka Kazuo was very cooperative and answered whatever was asked - this made Gen Tamako think of Shiraishi Hidenori.

No matter what Fushimi Shika asked, he would only answer "yes".

——What if Ishizuka Kazuo is lying?
——What if his daughter didn’t die in a car accident?

"When one clue can directly point to another clue, there is a 90% chance that it is a forgery. The connection between the two clues is an extremely rare coincidence that only appears in detective novels."

Fushimi Shika's words echoed in her ears.

The anonymous letter points to the red ink, the red ink points to Ishizuka Kazuo, Ishizuka Kazuo reveals the murder case and points to the diary, and the whole process is closely linked - Kawai's shadow can be seen in every link.

It was Kawai who told her that the squad leader was secretly helping Instructor Sakurai investigate the messenger;
It was Kawai who pried open the door, allowing them to find the anonymous letter hidden in the office;
It was Kawai who found out that only one person in the Academic Affairs Office used the same red ink;
All the clues were connected so smoothly, as if it was a drama with a pre-written script.

……

"Instructor Sakurai was hired as an instructor five years ago, and Ishizuka Kazuo has been working at the police academy for eight years. They have been living in peace for so many years. Why did Ishizuka Kazuo suddenly want to take revenge on her recently?"

Fushimi Shika's words rang in her ears again.

This time, she had an answer.

——Because the avenger is not Ishizuka Kazuo, but Nagano Kawai.

She enrolled in early April and met Instructor Sakurai, which led to the anonymous letter incident.

It was not without reason that Nagano Kawai tore off this page of the diary. July 13th to 16th was the Obon Festival, and the diary started on July 12th, the day her brother died in a car accident.

——July 12th is the anniversary of her brother’s death.

There is indeed no clue to the crime in this page of the diary; but this page is the crime notice of Nagano Kawai.

She has been silently hinting at Yuan Yuzi.

The hit-and-run murder case did exist, but the victim was not Ishizuka Kazuo's daughter, and this case was not an old case from sixteen years ago.

"Be prepared, I will make you pay the price."

Just as Nagano Kawai said in the letter, she wanted to take revenge on Chizuru Sakurai.

……

The above ideas are not reasoning at all. They are the thoughts of Yuan Yuzi imitating Fushimi Kakashi. Based on the principle of "no one can be trusted", she guessed step by step and finally came up with the "conspiracy theory".

Yes, there is no evidence to support this result.

But Yuan Yuzi's intuition told her that this was the final answer.

Although there were still many doubts she hadn't figured out, such as why Ishizuka Kazuo helped Kawai lie, and why Nagano Kawai kept providing her with clues - however, at this moment, she could no longer care about so many things.

"I hope I'm wrong..."

With red eyes, Gen Yuzi ran downstairs and rushed into the cafeteria in the heavy rain. Under everyone's surprised gaze, she found the squad leader and asked anxiously where Instructor Sakurai was.

"Ah, the instructor seems to be busy."

The class monitor scratched his head and whispered in her ear, "She is giving special guidance to Fushimi-san."

(End of this chapter)