Fairy Tail: I Am the God

They've met their match – the detective's nemesis!

“Actually, we can reason from a different angle,” Diana asked Lucy. “Lucy, when was the last time you went to the rooftop?”

“Last night, before I launched my attack on Zhao Yi, I checked on the zombies. Then I went back to my room, and about half an hour later I completed the spell in my room,” Lucy replied.

"This means that from the moment Lucy last left the roof last night until we came to the roof together earlier, the real killer went to the roof to set up the strings."

After the explosion, almost all of us, except for you, Zhao Yi, were attacked by zombies.

The others simply opened the door and rushed to the kitchen; in that time, there was no time to go up to the roof to set up evidence.

Diana analyzed the situation calmly.

“During the day, we went out to investigate in shifts. Chen Ming and I can testify to each other that there was no possibility of us leaving to set up evidence. Shinichi Kudo, you and Montari went to the peach grove outside the house.”

"In other words, the only people who would have had time to gather evidence are Xu Gang and Lucy."

“But since Lucy was the creator of the zombies, she has already been cleared of suspicion, which means… you, Xu Gang…”

“No.” Montari spoke up before Xu Gang could defend himself: “There is another person who has the time and opportunity to do this.”

That's the first one to go up the stairs to the roof, and the last one to arrive in the living room because of the zombie attack!

Everyone turned their attention back to Shinichi Kudo.

Shinichi Kudo frowned inwardly. Montari was really using himself as the murderer to collect evidence and deduce logical conclusions.

Moreover, the key is that he is indeed the murderer. If he considers himself the real culprit and works backward from the known conditions, he can get some smooth results.

"Then please tell me why I need to place that string."

"I asked Shinichi Kudo."

"Given the excellent evidence that I have been attacked, I am the least suspicious. Why would I go to the trouble of framing Zhao Rui's suicide and then deliberately alter the evidence?"

“Montari, you previously said that Lucy couldn’t be the murderer, and therefore used those three difficult things as your reason.”

"Then I hope you can explain why I am the murderer?"

"If I were the real culprit, why would I have set up that string? Wouldn't that have been a clear indication to the person who created the zombie and attacked me that Zhao Rui didn't commit suicide?"

"What benefit would I get from doing this?"

Montari hesitated for a moment, seemingly deep in thought, but he quickly spoke up: "No, there's a benefit to it. You're deliberately muddying the waters, deliberately setting things up..."

Shinichi Kudo gestured for Montari to pause speaking, then began to speak himself:

"Pique's (Kidd's) example is right here. I'm not stupid enough to do something superfluous that will bury me."

"First of all, I am not the murderer. Secondly, if we follow Diana's theory, then Xu Gang is the most likely murderer."

Xu Gang, who was standing to the side, made as if to speak again, but Shinichi Kudo didn't give him a chance:

"I don't believe Xu Gang would be so stupid as to deliberately lead Zhao Rui toward suicide. If he were the real culprit, there would be no benefit in doing so at that time, because if he did nothing, everyone would still think that Zhao Rui committed suicide, and he would naturally be safe. There would be no need to do anything unnecessary!"

Secondly, I am the same.

First, I will not fabricate that false evidence.

Secondly, it was during breakfast that I first began to suspect whether Zhao Rui had really committed suicide.

Third, can you imagine me first setting up fake evidence that Lucy would definitely expose, and then sitting at the dinner table to overturn the reasoning that favors me as the real culprit?

Shinichi Kudo's three points left Montari speechless.

"Furthermore, there's one more thing you seem to have forgotten: Lucy was controlling the zombies to kill me from inside the room. This means that during the time Lucy came down from the roof to prepare to send out the zombies to kill me and during the time the explosion started, someone could have used that gap to go to the roof and plant this evidence..."

"What's the motive?" Montari suddenly demanded. "What was the killer's motive for doing this? You just analyzed it yourself, and neither you nor Xu Gang had that motive..."

What if it were Zhao Rui?

Kudo Shinichi said.

For a time,

The whole house

You could hear a pin drop...

"You've never suspected... that Zhao Rui went to the kitchen late at night to make a midnight snack?"

While everyone was engaged in lively discussion in the restaurant, the old butler sat alone on the sofa in the living room, a pot of tea in front of him, pouring himself a drink.

He is a neutral party.

He was also the first bystander.

As Montari spoke, the old butler smiled, the scene flashing through his mind:

…………

"Old butler, has anyone died?"

Shinichi Kudo, whose body was covered in bite and claw marks from zombies, seemed oblivious to his injuries. He was only concerned with whether the explosion meant someone had died.

P.S.: This little interlude is almost over. I won't be writing this kind of plot again. I admit it's a bit padded.

Chapter 865 A Crime Scene Without Evidence

"died."

The old butler pointed to the bedroom door behind Shinichi Kudo.

Furthermore, given that one person had already died, the old butler could not allow any more accidents to occur in the house, at least not on this particular day.

"You should have been notified."

The Supreme God will notify who killed whom.

"I'm just confirming."

After saying that, Shinichi Kudo did not take the antidote bottle from the old butler. Instead, he walked in the opposite direction to the deepest part of the second floor and went up the stairs to the roof.

.........

"Did he lift a stone only to drop it on his own foot?" the old butler wondered to himself. He actually had another role: to step outside the audience's perspective and observe the game from the viewpoint of someone in the know.

Just like many large-scale online live streaming platforms today, viewers can choose to switch between different camera angles.

Montari?

Well hidden!

The old butler seemed to think highly of the young man named Montari, and he had the right to express his joy, anger, and appreciation.

However, there was one thing the old butler couldn't quite understand throughout the process, because in his view, some of Shinichi Kudo's arrangements were a bit superfluous.

It's a similar feeling to Pique, who was smashed into the wall by himself in the previous round.

Now, a "sensible" person gets up and taps you on the shoulder. How should you respond?

refute?

still...

Slowly, when Shinichi Kudo finally asked, "Is Zhao Rui going to find some late-night snacks?"

The old butler's face showed a look of surprise.

This conclusion was reached through a roundabout process, but it is precisely because this roundabout process was completed that it becomes more credible...

The old butler pondered, unconsciously examining the tea in his hand. He felt that Shinichi Kudo must have other tricks up his sleeve.

If Zhao Yi intended from the beginning to push Zhao Rui, whom he had killed, toward suicide, then besides purely logical reasons, there must have been a very clear backup plan.

For example, evidence.

That... aspect!

This evidence should be carefully examined; it cannot be as simple as that string on the piano, but rather something that is plausible even if left unattended, and even if Zhao Rui had truly committed suicide, it would be difficult to erase.

next moment.

The old butler sat on the sofa drinking tea, but his figure appeared in every room on the second floor, his eyes searching each room.

There was nothing unusual in the room.

Silently, the old butler stood up. He now considered himself another player, which was in fact the reason why the false god created him and placed him here.

All the other old butlers in the house disappeared, and the figure of the old butler in the living room slowly faded and became blurred.

At last.

The old butler appeared in the kitchen.

Meanwhile, the people in the restaurant, who were still very close to the kitchen, were completely unaware of what was happening.

The kitchen is still a mess because of the gas cylinder explosion, but fortunately there is still food and another set of kitchen utensils in the storage room.

Of course, if it didn't exist originally, it would still exist. We can't expect the reincarnators participating in this game to be here plotting murders and searching for killers while also going hungry.

The old butler's eyes searched through the messy kitchen, but he still couldn't find what he was looking for.

evidence...

No evidence!