[Net King + Patterns] Ugly Fish

To maim a person without anyone noticing... For a well-behaved and well-behaved citizen like me, it is simply an impossible task.

Until I can't clean myself out, I personally decide to stay put--okay, okay~ I admit that I don't care too much.

After all...it's none of your business, is it?

Part of the reason why he was willing to get entangled with Takaichi Matsuyama was that he provoked me first.

I was curious about Yoshino Sayoko's past, so I tracked down the store called "Old Times". If I hadn't met Matsuyama Kiichi, I must have lost my interest at this time, so I say...the arrangement in the dark is really interesting.

After the conflict that night, there was no news of Kiichi Matsuyama. I don’t know if he was aware of it and avoided it or what. Not to mention any entanglements with those people in the tennis club.

After "The Mystery of the Dead's Remnants", my attention has been attracted by the "strange coincidence caused by intense emotions". I want to find out whether it is as I guessed. Triggering conditions.

For example——the violent fluctuation of emotions reached a certain value, which in turn caused the nearby me to be covered by frequency.

I've tried many things: brazenly hanging out with rambunctious girls at school, when they're cheering around the tennis club...going to urban entertainment venues at night, especially when it comes to seeing bad guys flirt with each other.

It's a pity... the effect was not good, I didn't have any other reactions, except that my heart beat faster—but I think it was probably caused by the atmosphere at that time, and it had nothing to do with the repetition rate or anything.

After going back and forth, I stopped.

I wondered, maybe it was Ryo Mingo that night because he saw his enemy, eh—excessive adrenaline secretion?Well~ Since the probability of that kind of situation happening is not high, there is nothing to worry about, the worst thing is to pay attention to yourself.

A few days passed by in a dull and unremarkable manner, the magnificence in the fantasy did not appear, and my fragile little heart was preserved because the two great gods in the class turned a blind eye.

……

In my mind, Friday is the 'darkness before dawn'. I am full of anticipation for the weekend, and the pain and happiness mixed with the difficult and difficult teaching courses are really incomparably subtle.

After the lunch break the weather started to turn bad.

The sunny sky is covered with thick clouds unknowingly; the refracted sky light is leaden gray, and occasionally there is a frenzied wind that rolls floating objects and passes over the treetops, and the howling wind is faintly mixed with a few disturbing breaths.

The rainy weather is naturally not suitable for outdoor activities. The outdoor course arrangement of the second physical education class in the afternoon was temporarily changed to an indoor venue.

After the sports committee relayed the teacher's decision, everyone's reactions were ordinary, neither fierce opposition nor overly enthusiastic response.

Everyone in the classroom was noisy, and after a few minutes, some people got up one after another.

I sat in my seat and packed up the scattered textbooks and stationery. While I was busy, I took the time to look up at the front desk that had reached the door with an apologetic expression.

"You go first, I haven't finished it yet." I raised my voice to the slightly impatient front desk.

————The girls in the class have their own small groups. The front desk and I and the other two girls are one of them. They are the contacts left by the original owner...

Although Miss Santiao is beautiful, there are one or two people who talk to her on weekdays. When I think of myself, I don't want to be condescending, right?So I tried my best to maintain it, but the friendship is still vague.

The other party nodded indifferently, and then left together with others. In an instant, several figures disappeared by the door, and the classroom became deserted after a while.

I smiled and looked away, kept tidying up my hands, and picked out the textbooks for the next class by the way.

As the melodious class bell rang, the noise outside the corridor quickly faded away; I stuffed my schoolbag into the drawer, looked up and looked around, only to find that the classroom was empty, and the back of the last classmate who left flashed past the classroom door.

So he got up in a hurry and ran towards the door in a hurry.

……

Just as my fingertips touched the open door frame of the classroom, there were hurried footsteps approaching, and as soon as I raised my eyes, I had a face-to-face meeting with the visitor.

"Santiao, I found you."

"what?"

I was confused and looked at the four or five people who blocked the door of the classroom: the leader was the head teacher, his face was relieved, his breathing was more disordered than usual, and he seemed to have rushed over.

Standing behind the head teacher were two other teachers in charge of grade affairs, both of them were frowning and their faces were sinking like water, and their expressions were not very good-looking; finally, there were two people, Ryo Mingo and Yushi Ninashi.

———Such a weird match... The corners of my eyes twitched, and I suddenly had a bad feeling.

"What...how?" I stuttered, and my eyes unconsciously slipped to Mingdo Ryo and Ninaku Yuji.

"I have something to ask Santiao." The head teacher gave an ambiguous explanation, and turned around to lead the way while talking, "There are also Mingto and Ninzu, there are people waiting in the office."

To

What's the matter? Hey!I twisted my hair, puzzled but couldn't ask questions, so I had to keep up with the teachers.

It was just during the class time that the corridor was a little deserted, and other classrooms made a slight noise through the walls. I don’t know if it was an illusion, which made our group’s heavy and hurried steps even more.

As I was walking, I quietly raised my head and glanced at Mingto Ryo and Ninzu Yushi beside me——from their clothes, it seemed that they were also intercepted halfway, so... what could happen?Involving me, Mingo Ryo, and Ninata Yuji?

Maybe my gaze is too intense?The two people, who had nothing to do with themselves, stared at me at the same time, and then saw the same doubts in each other's eyes.

Meito Liangliang pursed the corners of his mouth, shook his head silently to express that he didn't know; Ninzu Yushi's eyes flickered, and suddenly he hurried forward to the class teacher's side.

"Teacher, can you tell me who wants to see us?"

Yushi Ninozu's inquiry was like ripples on the surface of a calm lake when a stone was thrown into it. The three teachers present slowly had a strange atmosphere, but they remained silent.

After a while, before turning the corner of the corridor and going down the stairs, the head teacher looked back at me and Ryo Mingo, who were slightly behind, and said with a hesitant expression, "The visiting police officers... have some information to check."

———This is really... an unexpected situation!I took a slight breath, and my heart skipped a beat.

……Dividing line……

The police officers who needed to verify the situation with our three students were arranged in the office of another teaching building, and there would not be too many people present for the next conversation. According to the class teacher, it was meant to maintain the privacy of the parties involved.

On the way there, the work guide kept explaining in a low voice, and also revealed that the school had started to confirm the situation with the police, and what he said was nothing more than to appease the emotions of the three of us.

My mind is a little tangled, so to speak?I have made up countless versions in my brain, and the worst plan is that Ryo Mingo can't restrain his hatred and do something irreversible...

It's just that when I glanced sideways at the other two beside me, I had to admit that I might be thinking too much.

Although Yushi Ninzuzu and Ryo Mingo had different expressions, they both acted extremely calm... Especially Ryo Mingo, the tight brows did not seem to be guilty of doing something wrong, but more like bewildered.

———So, the more I think about it, the more confused I am~ It involves me, Mingo Ryo, and Ninata Yushi... What can happen?Not to mention that we rarely communicate in school, right?

……

My curiosity reached its peak when the class leader entered the meeting room to see the faces inside.

The interior is arranged in a casual style, with a group of round sofas placed in the center, and there are many people sitting in it, and the number of them can reach double digits.

Hearing the movement, everyone turned their heads and turned their eyes to the door, and then someone got up and walked towards him, "Come on, go in and sit—" The other person looked vaguely familiar, and he might be one of the Bingdi teachers.

Immediately afterwards, the two men who stood up were dressed in the same clothes as ordinary office workers, but there was a different kind of solemnity as they walked; the two walked to the door as if they were having a handover ceremony, "It's just a routine inquiry."

Among them, the older man lowered his head and smiled at me, "Sanjo Sakurako, Mingo Ryo, and Ninata Yushi?"

"Yes." I lowered my head and answered at the same time as the other two.

"Come in—" Two plainclothes?The agent stepped aside and motioned for us to enter the room; the head teacher gently pushed my back from behind, "It's okay." There was a bit of comfort in his lowered voice.

I turned around and smiled back to the head teacher, and then followed Ryo Mingto and the others and walked towards the sofa. The next second, there was a soft sound of the door closing behind my ears, and the sound of footsteps came back from the door.

……

On the sofa, someone had already given up their seats to Mingo Ryo and Ninaku Yushi, and I sat down at the far corner, taking advantage of this moment of confusion to look at everyone present one by one. After seeing clearly, I became even more confused.

Atobe Keigo, Ninazu Yushi, Muka Hidake, Akutagawa Jiro... the tennis club is choosing all of them to be present, even including second-year Hiyoshi Waka, Kawaji Takahiro, Hocho Taro, and Taki Oginosuke.

I looked around them, and finally my eyes stopped on the corner of the sofa. The man in a suit and leather shoes looked...very...uh~ on a serious man--about 40 years old by visual inspection, the corners of his mouth were tight, and there was a stack of document?

Xu Shi noticed my gaze, and Keigo Atobe, who was diagonally opposite, said coldly, "Sakaguchi is the lawyer of the Atobe Group. To make sure, all questions will be answered through his judgment."

While speaking, his gray-purple phoenix eyes moved slightly to the two police officers who were sitting at a distance from everyone, and his deep magnetic voice sounded spotless, "Cooperating with police inquiries is a citizen's duty, but it is a right for a lawyer to be present." .”

"You two should have no objection to this, right?"

The two detectives looked at each other and nodded. The older one coughed lightly, and first set his eyes on the man who claimed to be a lawyer, "It's like this. Although today's trip is hasty, it has been approved by the school."

"Our routine inquiry is to verify some situations..." After a pause, he turned his head to look at Keigo Atobe, "Does any of you know Ximen Zongjiro, who is studying in Yingde?"

I froze for a moment, then turned my eyes to Atobe Keigo, but saw him glance at the lawyer, and then frowned again, "Ah, I'm not very familiar with him, his friend Daomingji used to learn Western swords with me at the same time. "

The two detectives seemed very satisfied with Keigo Atobe's answer. One of them lowered his head and quickly recorded it in the notebook in his hand, while the other continued to say, "On the evening of X-month X, Ximen Zongjiro saw ice in the XX Commercial Street block. The members of the Imperial Tennis Club, that is, everyone present, including Sakurako Sanjo."

As soon as this remark came out, the eyes of everyone in the tennis club tightened obviously. Yushi Ninzu quickly glanced at me, his lips moved slightly as if he was about to speak, but he turned his eyes away and said nothing.

"Yes." Atobe Keigo replied in a deep voice, "My members and I were indeed there that night, but I didn't see Ximen Sojiro or his friends."

"Perhaps the scene was too chaotic." The younger of the two detectives suddenly said, with a strange look of sarcasm on his face, "It is said that you were besieging a strange boy at the time."

……

"Bastard! Who are you talking about beating?!" Xiang Hiyake was the first to jump up, his cheeks were flushed, his crystal blue eyes were wide open, his body was tense, and his expression was extremely angry.

The scene froze for a moment, Yushi Shinobu who was sitting next to him looked cold, raised his hand and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Mr. Police, the so-called 'supposedly' is very irresponsible words, Mr. Sakaguchi..."

The eyes hidden under the lens turned to the other side, the corner of the mouth curled up into a smile, but the words confided were sharp, "For such unknown speculation..."

"The client has the right to terminate the inquiry, and even lodge a protest." Lawyer Sakaguchi sat upright and replied in a very affirmative tone.

"Sorry, my subordinate used the wrong words." The older detective stood up and acted as a peacemaker. "I'm really sorry that the situation at that time has nothing to do with today's inquiry!"

While talking, he bent down slightly, with a gesture of sincere apology—in this way, others seemed to have nothing to say, Keigo Atobe raised his chin slightly, and lawyer Sakaguchi put away the stack of documents that had been pressed hands on his hands, leaning against the sofa again.

The older detective stared sideways at his colleague with a slightly condemning expression, then he turned his gaze back, "Then, the situation that night is in line with what Ximen Zong Erlang said."

After getting everyone's affirmative glances, the other party took out a thin document from the briefcase on the side and pushed it in front of the lawyer, and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, please sign here."

Lawyer Sakaguchi took the document and read it carefully from beginning to end before handing it over, "No problem, it's circumstantial evidence and has nothing to do with everyone present."

———— Such a conclusion... I squinted my eyes, and looked at the two agents without any trace: This conclusion shows that their trip today is for Ximen Zong Erlang?We need circumstantial evidence from the Bingdi people, so it means that they have caused a lot of trouble, right?

……

After everyone in the tennis club signed their names on the testimony, the two thin sheets of paper were finally handed over to me, and I read the three lines of paper to make sure that the content would not endanger me. I used a carbon pen to Write Sanjo Sakurako's name in the bottom corner.

After the documents were withdrawn, the two detectives got up and left immediately. Lawyer Sakaguchi followed closely in their footsteps, talking in a low voice as they walked.

The closed door opened and closed again, the lawyer disappeared together with the police, and only the tennis club and me were left in the room.

No one opened their mouths to speak, I was so nervous by their suppressed look of luck, my body kept shrinking to reduce the sense of existence; after a long time, Rijiruo got up and walked to the corner, holding a black phone in his hand, low as if Tell me something, then stand there and wait.

After a long time, the boy with the dark golden mushroom head returned to his companion, facing the projected attention, he raised the phone in his hand, "I found it."

"Ximen Zong Erlang was involved in a disappearance case. Someone saw him arguing with the missing girl that night."

"The missing girl is his ex-girlfriend. The police detected a large amount of blood that had been cleaned in the girl's rented house, so they came to investigate Ximen Zong Erlang's alibi."

The corner of my eye twitched——by the way...such a scary thing...where did you find it? !Are you a spy? !

The complaints in his heart were like tides, one wave after another, and he continued to speak before recovering from the amazing information network of the dark golden mushroom head.

"By the way—that girl's name is Shirakawa Natsuko."

"The place of work is 'Old Time', Akutagawa-senpai is obsessed with the tiramisu there." Rijiruo raised the corners of his mouth, his dark golden pupils flickering.

What the hell!Brother Riji, you are so bearish!I opened my mouth wide, and my eyes suddenly turned upside down.