Bonus 1 Part6 (1/2)
8:10 AM
Hayabusa's Notes:
Enbi and I investigate the underground passageway
She hasn't said anything about it, but Enbi is staying by my side like it's normal
She's even surreptitiously grabbing my sleeve
Hayabusa: ”That just makes me worried about you…”
Enbi: ”That's only because it's a bulleted list! It only looks so sudden because you can only see the final result! There's infinite space between the lines!!”
8:15 - 8:45 AM
Enbi's Memos:
The basement is made from bare concrete and metal bars, so its closed-off structure is the exact opposite of theThe passagealls are covered with bookshelves and storage space There's all sorts of personal infors
Hayabusa: ”Now, then This reveals the secret behind the Hoshi+”
Enbi: ”They gained the trust of clients, got sos, and cobbled those together to look informed about the orld and people's narrow hearts You can never trust so is 'just between you and me'”
Hayabusa: ”This storage would be what the corporation group wanted to find The secret behind the mountain road collapse and mannequin may have been there too”
8:45 - 9:00 AM
Hayabusa's Notes:
There's a japanese-style cell in the back of the basement It contains Osakabe-hime, a Youkai of prophecy and divine power
According to Osakabe-hime, she can take walks outside with Shuuren's permission But to make sure she doesn't escape, a traveler's God is placed in the tunnel while she's out
Enbi: ”He had so fa they should all share in the same crime”
Hayabusa: ”This ht be sudden, but as you can tell from the fact that Youkai tend not to like me, Youkai do exist in this world There's no point in doubting it By the way, here's some data on Osakabe-hime
”Modern Youkai Encyclopedia (Paid App Ver) - 'O' Entries”
Osakabe-hime
Ultra rare
A woman in a twelve-layered kimono said to secretly live in Himeji Castle's tower Famous for her prophecies and divine power Said to actually be a fox Youkai, but this may or may not be true
Hasa sword to Miya some Youkai
The ht to meet Osakabe-hime once a year and receive a special piece of advice
Enbi: ”There's a ton to that one, isn't there?”
Hayabusa: ”In fact, is she even a Youkai? Aren't they just forcing that as an explanation for some unidentified divine power?”
Enbi: ”But she didn't seem to have much to do with Shuuren's h the metal bars or curse him remotely”
Hayabusa: ”Really, she didn't seee, she just had to wait two hundred years and that nouveau riche family would be destroyed by inheritance taxes and whatnot”
Enbi: ”The real des aren't in a rush”
Hayabusa: ”The other point was the mention of the tunnel”
Enbi: ”A traveler's God is a God that resides inside a stone vessel They're set up at places like the borders of a village to keep disaster and disease fro in”
Hayabusa: ”Osakabe-hime claimed the Hoshi+mi family had placed one in the tunnel”
Enbi: ”But they hadn't The narrow tunnel of their private road had been built so a shutter of rock could be lowered It had looked like the tunnel had collapsed before the storm, but was that because someone had used a secret key?”
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Hayabusa's Notes:
Enbi and I finished investigating the basement and returned to the first floor
The others were gathered in the second story hallway
Enbi's Memos:
When we checked, it turned out Ren, the maid, had been attacked while in the shower (4th time) She had apparently been shot from behind by a crossbow and hit in the shoulder
Once again, no one saw the murderer
Enbi: ”The detective made a basic mistake here He should have focused on the maid rather than the vanished murderer If no one saw the moment of the crime, then she too had to have 'vanished'”
Hayabusa: ”I was a little busy trying to stop the bleeding and get her conscious again And to be honest, I wanted a target for lasstwo people just isn't normal”
Enbi: ”But that assumption was about to fall apart”
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Hayabusa's Notes:
I let Ren, the maid, rest in a second story bedroom
Akua, the wife, took a shower
Yatsui Toshi+ and Toyokawa Ryuu are getting belligerent They had wanted to ask Shuuren so to do with it They wanted to knohy she had to be attacked
Enbi's Memos:
There doesn't seem to be a connection between Shuuren and Ren This hired maid was isolated Was this a planned crime? Or had it been spontaneous?