Volume 28 Chapter 19 (1/2)
”This is yours, Shouko-chan”
Tsutako-san said
”Yes”
Shouko-chan nodded
”Ehhhh - !?”
The massive shock rolled over the declaration of, ”I'm sorry!” the earthquake
But the response of, ”Yes,” to the statement, ”This is yours, Shouko-chan,” was frankly
”How long have you known?”
Yoshi+no-san snapped at Tsutako-san The great detective was clearly not aame
”I had a hunch fairly early on Then when I ran into her on the way back froht be hers She looked like she was agonizing over so was up, but I wasn't sure what”
”But your hunch came even earlier than that?”
Excluding the part when Tsutako-san went to the gymnasium, Yumi had been with her prettyshe wanted to hear For reference
”Earlier, you asked about how Katsura-san kneas in the Rose Mansion, then we had a discussion about it, yeah? Since it looked like someone told her I was here”
”Ahh, I remember that”
”And the ical explanation was that Shouko-chan told her when they met in the clubhouse”
”But then we ruled that out because Shouko-chan hadn't been told about it”
”That's right”
Tsutako-san snapped her fingers
”Shouko-chan knew, even though she hadn't been told So ould lead to that outcome?”
”She has ESP?”
Yumi's lame response was met with a derisive, ”That's not it,” from Yoshi+no-san and it was left to shi+mako-san to provide an answer
”I suppose Shouko-chaninto the Rose Mansion, that is”
”Correct … right?”
Tsutako-san looked to Shouko-chan for confirmation
”Yes”
But even then, so what?
”It may have just been a coincidence that she saw it, but itoutside our second-year pine group classroom And ould Shouko-chan be in a place like that?”
”Why indeed?”
The question being posed hy did Shouko-chan wait outside their classroom, not approach Tsutako-san in the hallway, and then surreptitiously follow them to the Rose Mansion Yumi had no idea whatsoever
”My current hypothesis is that she wasn't soto make sure that no-one else approached me”
Shouko-chan was listening to Tsutako-san's explanation along with everyone else
”But, for what possible reason?”
Mami-san asked