Volume 3 Chapter 5 Intro (2/2)
”Well, that’s true… But… Then… What happened? You ?”
”That is what I ure it out”
”Hey! Hurry up!” A boyish voice flew from Hirata’s companions
”Wh… Wh… What a to do? I am in serious trouble”
If the stolen thing was found here, no irls would declare that Ike is the culprit
”Anye have no choice but to hide it For now”
”Hide it? Where? There is no place to hide it!”
It’s true that given our situation, we couldn’t hide it at the irls watching over this place would be suspicious of our movements andtoo much time here We may already be suspected
”No other way Put it in your pocket”
That was all the advice I could give him There was no time to hide it in my underwear or my socks and we should draw no further attention to any suspicious activity
”I… I can’t do it… I am already in a panic”
Still, I believed, noe had no choice but to hide it
”Then I’ll leave it to you, Ayanokouji”
Ike took out the curled up underwear fro and pressed it swiftly in my hands
”What…?”
”If you think that it is better to hide it, then do it, right?”
”No!”
”Hurry up!”
”I a, now”
With an ”I a to be involved further, Yamauchi, too follows suit
”Hey, hey! Are you serious…?”
I felt a little sweaty from the pressure Nonetheless, until the end, the situation will only get worse If I hid it, I’d want to make it difficult to find it, but I don’t have any spare tiI squeezed it in roup
”My bad, sorry My bag got a bit dirty, so I was cleaning it with my hands”
By
”If you want to search it, then search it Because I aht? Yamauchi?”
”Oh! Yes!”
The two of thes Hirata at first declined the offer to do the inspection, but eventually he did it I also putdown softly, and then I left the scene After finishi+ng inspecting everyone’s belongings Ike called out to shi+nohara aiting with her arms folded
”We searched everyone But we found nothing”
”Really?”
”Yup We are sure now None of the boys is the culprit”
”Wait a minute”
As shi+nohara approached us, she began looking inside the tent It looked like she was suspicious and thought we kept so ca the two tents, shi+nohara went back to the girls and whispered to them
”You know, that Hirata Maybe he hid it in his pocket or so? I a to each other in whispers”
Of course ere, after all the girls demanded to search all over the place carefully
”That’s enough!”
All the girls, including shi+nohara began attacking Ike
”Wasn’t Ike acting suspicious fro after all!”
”What!? I’! If you want to search me, then search!”
Spreading his ar like that…
”Well, let’s search Hirata, could you do it please?”
”All right However, you girlshere, then fro the boys constantly”
This was the worst outcoan a physical examination of Ike, Yamauchi and me Of course the underon’t be found on Ike and Yaainst Hirata’s careful examination and he was able to inspect every corner And finally uess it was me that put myself in this situation after all I wish I could turn back and redo things
No… Not really There was no turning back now So, I should bet on the possibility that Hirata ht overlook even by 1 I decided to stay still like a dead fish and be exa my upper body
And then, Hirata put his arm inside the back pocket where I put the underwear
——— Has he finished?
Resignation started Without a doubt, Hirata’s ar the underwear Although I wasn’t sure if that was really the underwear and not just the sensation, it was enough suspicious that a rolled-up piece of cloth was in the pocket Hirata, whose body stiffed for a led in a mothe underwear out, turned his head to the girl
”Ayanokouji doesn’t have it either”
Saying this, he started walking towards shi+nohara Ike and Yaed looks
”These guys didn't have it”
”That's strange… I thought it would be someone from those three But if Hiratkun says so…”
If Hirata who's overfloith sense of justice isn't telling a lie, shi+nohara had no choice but to believe it
”It should be fine once I tidy up the luggage We can discuss if from then on”
After all the inspection ended, I hurriedly returned inside the tent Soon after Hirata ca
”Hirata… Why didn't you tell them?” I honestly asked
”It is the underwear that you were having in your pocket, right?”
”Uh-huh”
”Karuizawa's underwear… Did you take them, Ayanokouji-kun?”
”No, that's wrong” Hoill this good young man take my short denial?
”I trust you You're not that kind of person But why having them in the pocket?”
There was no way I couldn’t answer that after he told he believedin Ike's bag Hirata showed his brooding gesture for a moment
”Is that so? Then it wasn't you for sure But I don't think Ike-kun and Yamauchi-kun did either If it's a culprit in the first place I wonder if they couldn't put it in their own bag I have a theory they hid it in another place”
Without telling some difficult explanation, Hirata saved me with his usual quick-wittedness
”I can take care of the underwear, if you'd like”
”Sounds good… But is it okay?”
Having this is si that is hard to process
“Even if I turn out to be the worst culprit, it will have e on me They'll think I'm pretty much her boyfriend”
With saying this, Hirata put the underwear inside the plastic bag used for the toilet I wonder if Karuizaould be happy knowing he touched her underith bare hands
”However… With this we've found out one bad news Knowing the underas in Ike-kun's bag, high chances are there's a culprit in the class”
”I see…” Noaround then someone must have seen them for sure
After leaving the tent, I looked around the surroundings Our bags rapped in plastic one by one and put casually in front of the tent A few meters away there was a tent where Karuizawa and the others were sleeping Until the incident happened, the girls' bags were piled up unprotectedly as well You could easily steal soh Ibuki's bag on the first day
The question is - when it was stolen It wasn't for sure until we had a shower, so crime was conducted between yesterday around 8 PM until earlyaround 7 AM If that's the case, anyone in the class could have done it However, I didn't think the criht Soht in the pitch-black surroundings and would have been caught by its light if they had snooped around the bags If so, the sunrise around 5 o’clock in the early hly possible to be the time
Well, even if we narrowed down the time of crime, it would be hard to narron the culprit from there
What if… We change the perspective a little bit? The reason why Karuizaould be the one stealing her underwear is to hide the But what did she want to achieve with that?
”I believe you're not a culprit That's why I saved you”
”O-oh Thank you”
“But that’s not all… I want you to find the culprit” Hirata requsted earnestly while taking my hand
”Me, to find?”
”It will be uneasy if the culprit isn't found, boy or girl regardless Truth to be told, it would be the best if I find theether…”
Well, there are behavior restriction tagged along to the class' center person such as Hirata
”Person involved in the crime is certainly worried about the culprit I don't think a person ould do things like hiding the underwear in Ike's bag can be easily found”
Were we fully aware of that thing? Even Hirata was supposed to know that finding the culprit is hard
”… Well, I'll do asDon't have excessive expectations”
”Thank you! Thank you, Ayanokouji-kun!” While saying thanks with e spirit, Hirata deeply and thankfully lowered his head It's not that I didn't understand Hirata's grateful feelings, but his response seemed a little over-excessive The theft of this underas probably an extremely troublesome case to Hirata It would be an evidence of hi seriously a crisis that had come to the class in order
”And then, if you find the culprit… At that time I want you to tell me first Certainly don't tell it to anyone else”
His ability to convey strong ely assertive It was eerie that they looked too dignified
”If it becoe I want to avoid this That's why I want to think of awith the culprit And if they reflect, we could be done with this story because of me”
”In other words, you'll hide the truth?”
”Hide, huh… It's a bad wording, but even if it's taken that way it cannot be helped Even if souys is the culprit, I think the truth should be hidden”
He fixed his pupils onto protect the perpetrator
”I understand So I'll report to you first Is that alright?”
”Thank you …So, I'll go back to work”
Co outside the tent, Hirata soon called out other students as if starting so Multiple silhouettes I'd seen fro distant
”Yousuke Hirata Are you D class' hero?”
I felt one contradiction in Hirata's story He said the truth should be hidden even if the perpetrator is a boy right after he said he saved me because he trusted me In other words, even if soirls Hirata didn't have full trust in hly supposed there was a chance that I was the perpetrator That's a natural thing, of course Fro that Ike is the culprit That's why Hirata by giving ht be the culprit, the role of the detective spilt the thread of salvation and gave a warning not to cause second offence at the sarasp the story The only thing certain is to forget the incident
I also had thoughts of Hirata being the culprit, but… Well, it would soon coht
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