Volume 28 Chapter 7 (2/2)
Yoshi+no-san nodded, holding her right hand out, palht, with her arm bent at the elbow Perhaps she'd intended it to look as though she was holding a brandy glass, but, if so, she wasn't swirling it around A fair bit of time had passed before Yuh she was holding a pipe Yoshi+no-san was apparently going for the Sherlock Holmes look
”The criminal wrote Takeshi+ma Tsutako on it so that it would be delivered to Tsutako-san, no?”
”Delivered to her?”
Again, so absurd Plus, 'criminal'?
”Right Delivered to Tsutako-san”
What Yoshi+no-san had just said was apparently a trick used in detective novels To have a letter delivered to a certain person in a few days (for exa to die soon) then you could send a letter with that person's name and address as the sender, and a non-existent address as the recipient Letters that can't be delivered are generally returned to the sender, so while it would take longer than usual it would still be delivered fairly reliably
”Isn't that against the rules?”
As soon as the question was out of Yuhtly and sighed in exasperation
”Like - I - said, it's a trick used in detective novels It's fictional Everyone knows you can't do that kind of thing in real life”
Detective novels weren't the sort of thing to read if you were going to start talking about the legality or s, it see refuted her friend, Yoshi+no-san looked pleased and triumphant
”So, then, that would make the intended recipient Takeshi+ma Tsutako”
With her name written on it, it would undoubtedly be delivered to Tsutako-san after some time had passed Made sense But still
”From who? And why?”
”Well, I don't know that”
The great detective didn't know
”You know If someone wanted to deliver this to me, wouldn't it be easier just to put it in et it?”
Tsutako-san pointed out
”That's true”
Yuht that seemed more realistic Not only would it remove the time it took for the lost property office to contact Tsutako-san, but it would also make the intention obvious
”So? What's inside?”
”Don't know”
They wouldn't be able to tell that until the film was developed Tsutako-san may be called Camera-chan, but there's no way she'd be able to tell what photos were inside just by looking at the casing
”Let me have a look at it”
Yoshi+no-san held out her hand Tsutako-san took a step backwards, protecting the film Why? Because she had no idea what Yoshi+no-san was planning to do if she got her hands on it
”Hey … !”
Yoshi+no-san desperately lunged forward but didn't corabbing on to the table with both hands to stabilize herself
”Stop it What do you think I' to - ”
Yoshi+no-san ht of so and suddenly fell silent
”This is … ”
She picked up one of the photos spread across the table and looked at it, eyes narrowed
”This is Eriko-sama”
Yoshi+no-san looked to Tsutako-san for confirmation
”You can tell, even though she's wearing street clothes?”
It wasn't a straight ”yes,” but the ansas undoubtedly in the affirmative
”Of course We're eternal rivals”
It was probably taken during the New Year's period because there were nust that crowd, Yoshi+no-san's onee-sa at the camera
”Even noe're still tightly bound through Rei-chan”
Yoshi+no-san said, her eyes quiet and serene as she looked at the photograph of her ”eternal rival”
There's a level of uncertainty introduced by using katakana rather than kanji, because multiple kanji can be represented with the sainal, Yumi provides two examples of alternate names that would be read as Takeshi+ma Tsutako: 竹島津田子 and 竹島ツタ子, as well as Tsutako's 武島蔦子