Vol 3 Chapter 3 (2/2)
”Who do you think you're talking to,Yukariki Ichihime's departure I know, I know”
”That is good”
I felt like a man who had performed his duty, and stretched my back a bit to stand a little taller, then turned to Hime-chan, who had been silent for a bit, and said, ”Then”
”What are going to do when you get out?”
” Good question,” His”
Her words sounded like they ca fun
”I want to live a fun life, where every day is a Monday”
”That is the worst”
I responsibly pointed out, but my soul felt as if it had wandered elsewhere I felt like I had been prodded Deep down inside , was being prodded with relentless care Truly similar, that was not all it was Hiht This was a chance for atonement and punish soh I did not knohat it h--
”Don't be dumb, user of nonsense”
Aikawa-san snapped at me
”Alright, we're here, top floor--”
Aikawa-san effortlessly opened the eency door The all-rounder contractor Aikawa Jun, who displayed top-class proficiency at every skill Even if you were to ask her to read minds, imitate voices, and pick locks, she would be second to none
After a short walk down the hallway, a door that felt like it would be incredibly thick awaited us It was not the type you would expect to see equipped in a school Bulletproof? It was a steel door that almost seemed like it would be nuke-proof, such was its insulation
Aikawa-san care-freely knocked (I wondered if Aikawa-san was having a ”knocking is trendy” moment), but there was no answer Of course Then, and she went to place a hand on the door knoc, but then she realized there was no door knob Or rather, like the back door, there was not even a key hole Instead, there was a fingerprint-check panel
”dah that”
”Really?”
”Even I can't just change erprint Hime How are these?”
”All the doors in the faculty ward are like this,” Hined so that only the teacher themselves can open the lock They put a palm to the checker, then press, to lock And then you place your palain to unlock”
”Ahh So there's no chance of a spare key we shoulda brought Kunagisa-chan”
Indeed, had Kunagisa been here, she would have messed directly with the circuits and then unlocked the door really easily
Speaking of which, did Kunagisa know about the secret of this school? When she toldof the sort However she also disliked talking to s, so it was probable that she knew and just did not tell me In any case, if the school was like this, then obviously you would have trouble getting a uniforetting her hands on a uniform
Het a uniform (or rather, two of them)?
Hand-made?
”Can you lock it normally from inside?”
”I don't reh”
”I see Then, she one asshole”
And then I finally realized that there was a security caht behind us I quickly told Aikawa-san, but she see, ”I already cut those lines” I looked more carefully and realized that the security ca
”I already did all those little things before I went to save you two I shut off the security alerts, too Don't worry about silly things Ahh, shi+t How're we supposed to get in?”
”But if there was no response fro, then maybe the dean isn't inside?”
”Nah, Noa's likeherself in a castle? Or maybe she just feels invincible either way, she's obviouslyfun of us”
Alright, now I'rumbled Aikawa-san, and then she took out what seemed like a black clump froh to fit in one hand - un The brusque appearance caused primal fear in those that saw it
” How rare for Jun-san to be armed”
”Yup This was a special case I needed to drag someone out unharmed well, whatever Anyways, let's”
Aikawa-san pressed the tip of the stun gun to the print checker, then flipped the switch Sparks flew anddifficult, and a moment later I heard a dull bddt bddt bddt sound By the tiain, the checker had been crushed to bits An uncomfortable smoke rose from the rubble
”That, has a lot of power”
”Yeah It's a special hand-made item I still haven't even removed the lih to make them lose two, three days worth of memories”
Aikawa-san said, but that eration No person would lose memories over that
And Aikawa-san peered into the circuits at the back of the checker with an apathetic look
”Hmm, the circuits fried pretty nicely All that's left is simple a Maizin-type[5] circuit Predictably ordinary and standard Well, hang on a second”
And then Aikawa-san stuck her hand into the back of the checker, and then mashed stuff around with her bare hands It looked like she was blatantly running the risk of being electrocuted, buton her skin? After a bit, she said, ”Alright Unlock complete,” and then pulled the door open That abnormal thickness implied that it was normally automated, but because the circuits had been fried, that functionality no longer remained
”Hm It's pretty heavy”
Aikawa-san used both arms to pull the door to the side Dsss, dssss, a terrible sound that you would never ih the hall, as the door slowly opened
””
But , that was soth She did not display the behavior of a person as about to begin conversing She was clearly wanting a fight with the erent, bloodthirsty person, so I felt tense, figuring that sort of situation would be inevitable Jeez, for once I wish she would learn frouy
”Jeez Jun-san you're always like, headlong-”
Even Hime-chan, who adored Aikawa-san, had an exasperated look on her face Although, that exasperation also seeood, it's the Jun-san of old
The door opened about halfway, and after Aikawa-san, Hime-chan entered the dean's room,
And, found the twelve pieces of Origami Noa's dismembered corpse
”” ”” ””
Upper torso, abdohs, and both feet -- having been ripped apart, the pieces that used to coruesome, in too atrocious a ere scattered about the room The smell of blood, the s and furniture that looked expensive were drenched entirely in blood It was actually surprising the smell did not seep outside
As for Origa Her long, black hair was tied to the fluorescent light on the ceiling
It was like a scene out of a nasty snuff movie Her face, stitched onto the head, looked e of thirty-nine, but that did not matter
A head hanging fro What other than fear and shock could you feel?
”-- Anyone,” Aikawa said in a quiet voice sans emotions ”Did anyone see someone leave this room?”
I stayed silent as I shook my head Hime-chan did the same None of us looked at each other Our eyes were pinned to the dismembered corpse in front of us, as if they were truly pinned to them with nails
”--- hah They h”
Aikawa-san said with a veno around the room Her shoes were dirtied by blood and meat, but she did not seem to care at all Under the table, or perhaps inside the sofa she investigated every place that a person could possibly hide
Next, she walked past me, toward the door I could not help but lean over her shoulder to take a look She was checking the lock system Aikawa-san had destroyed the outer section, so the inner section was relatively undaed
”H to do”
Aikawa-san ruesoirl, Hime-chan That was, however, too azed upon the head dangling fro, were terribly cold
”Ahh ah” Hime-chan let out
As if had she continued she would have said ”huh, so I guess she died,” it was that sort of i only the significance of the happening, or perhaps as if she had just been told that it had already been extinguished, that sort of reaction
” it has begun after all”
”Hime-chan”
”No worries, Master,” Hime-chan smiled as she turned to me A smile with a tad bit of darkness mixed into it ”I may be a failure, but I'h to shock me”
” I see That is good”
Not good Not good at all But I could not step in Could not step in I could not take the step in -- to Hiht noas all I needed to ask, and everything would be clarified, but I could not do that
To interact with sos unfiltered by falsification or nonsense means to wound each other I did not want to hurt Hi into her circumstances -- and most of all I did not want to be hurt
Anymore In this situation
Boom, came a sound from behind
It was the sound of Aikawa-san closing the door
”Well this kinda sucks -- right?”
”Ah, yes” I answered Aikawa-san That was , killed That takes away the point of having risked danger to get here”
”Not that Who cares about that That just means we have to take a different route There're infinite routes for getting what you need Jeez -- I figured soot to this room too easily So that's how it is Thatfrom somewhere, doesn't it”
” What do you mean?”
”Ii-tan The probleht now -- is that this is a closed-room murder”
”-- Hahh?”
I made an odd noise
Because, of course? Well, yes, the door is controlled by the palm print, and then after you force open the door, you find a dis head -- yes The door is not an autolock, so it is a closed-room murder, that label is perfectly acceptable But, who cares about that? The dean, Origah this, or rather even figuring out who the enemy is becomes the problem--
”Is this really the ti whether it is a closed-room murder or not? Are you confused because an acquaintance was killed? Get a grip This is not like you, Aikawa-san--”
”Don't call me by lared atprejudiced when I say closed-ro0 at the behind it For exa) case in April What was the point of the closed-room murder then? That was just a closed-rooht? In this case I' for the reason Using the impossible to pull yourself off the list of suspects is one option, but no matter what you do, the nonexistence of proof cannot be turned into a nonexistent evidence That sort of tomfoolery, there's no point to it If you concoct a plan, you die by the plan -- that's all there is to it”
Well, that is true, I think However
”But in this case we've got a big ht, hey How did we get into this room?”
”Well, Jun-san broke down the door--”
”Yeah An obvious action of a trespasser the actions of a suspicious trespasser trying to escape from the school And then what's left in this rooets to be the suspect?”
” Ah”
So that is what thewas
In other words, the person behind this situation -- succeeded in fra a closed-room murder situation Ahh, indeed, in this situation, who but us could anyone suspect?
”Jun-san, this”
”We've been had, in other words”
However Aikawa-san see to praise the scheh”
No wait This, e more than, as Aikawa-san said, no, ency had finally caught up ai-chan, but noere being framed for murder of the dean--
Aikawa-san sighed, ”oh jeez,” and began gathering the dis every which way
” Pretty rough cut Blade or uess Yeah If you think about the pain of dis a human, that would be best”
”The clu around pretty wildly, so it see and hack and slashed aith a chainsaw, I think?”
The two conversed in a lighthearted tone about this -- but is that not cruel? A chain With that, a human body
”Can that fluorescent light actually hold a person's weight?”
”If you distribute the weight evenly maybe, I think”
” gosh, what a pain, Noa”
Aikawa-san spoke not to ling in the air Of course, the head did not respond, but Aikawa-san continued, unperturbed Depending on the angle from which you looked at her -- she may have even looked saddened, despite her smile
”You were so close to reaching your ideal but these things just don't go as planned But that's why it's fun, even though you wouldn't get what Ito you, but whatever I'll forgive you for everything now”
And the Aikawa-san crouched down one, then juled the hair wrapped around the fluorescent light Thud, the head rolled on the ground, and Aikawa-san quickly scooped that up and placed it with the rest of the meat pieces
”H pieces areAnyways”
Aikawa-san -- Aikawa Jun, beyond anything I had ever seen before, had a smile that was more sinister, more malicious, more horrible than any other
”This is getting fun”
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