Seven years ago, timeline.
Fujiwara Yu was diligently searching for the Child of Destiny named "Edogawa Conan," believing that only by finding him could he gain permanent residency in...
There is a large log dining table in the center of the west side of the Sad Love Lake campsite. Kujo Shotaro, who got up before eight in the morning to prepare breakfast for everyone, packed all the meals he had prepared into picnic baskets. He carried two heavy picnic baskets to the dining table, began to spread the pale yellow picnic cloth, and then arranged the tableware neatly.
He was not in a hurry to take out the food and put it on the plates. Instead, he waited here for the tourists who came to enjoy breakfast as planned. He also had a clipboard in his hand and drew a circle behind the name of anyone who came.
Tourists with a strong sense of time came to the large wooden dining table one after another. Fujiwara Yu came here first after waking up Hattori Heiji and others, because he wanted to confirm whether there was any missing person. According to his reasoning, the murderer should have already taken action.
"Hmm? Where did Mr. Kurata go? Has anyone of you seen him?" asked Kujo Shotaro.
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"Still sleeping? If my wife hadn't woken me up, I could have slept until noon." Xiangshan Saburo smiled and touched Xiangshan Shengzi's thigh, saying slyly, "After all, I worked really hard last night, right?"
"Yes, my husband is very capable." Xiangshan Shengzi responded with a smile.
Fujiwara Yuu's mind flashed to the somewhat vulgar-looking male college student. He exchanged glances with Hattori Heiji beside him and told him everything that happened last night without reservation:
"Actually, last night..."
Before he could finish his words, an unidentified object suddenly fell from the sky and landed precisely on the delicious-looking French toast in the middle. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was feces mixed with purple fruit juice.
“Wooooow!
It's bird droppings, so disgusting!
Sayuri Hexi, who had a small appetite, covered her mouth with her hands, looking as if she was about to vomit. She looked up at the tree behind her and exclaimed, "Oh my god, why are there so many crows in that tree?!"
Tono Eiji, who wanted to eat the French toast, stood up angrily and kicked the tree several times, but his strength was obviously not enough. The crows on the tree were not disturbed, and even the leaves did not fall down.
With a cigarette in his mouth, Itsuki Yosuke pushed away Tono Eiji, who tried to kick him again, and chuckled:
"Hey, hey, hey, it's useless for you to do this. You need to put in all your strength, young man!"
crow?
When Fujiwara Yu heard this, he couldn't help but look up at the treetop. After noticing something that looked like cloth, his face suddenly changed. He stood up and tried to stop Goki Yosuke from kicking the tree, but he was still a step too late.
Dong—whoosh—bang!
There was the sound of kicking the tree trunk with all her might, the sound of something falling from the treetop, the loud bang of a heavy object falling on the dining table, and finally the sound of the dinner plate being broken, the sound of Sayuri Kawanishi retching as she could no longer bear it, and the scream of Sayuri Kakizaki after witnessing everything.
“Ugh… Ugh!
”
“Aaaaaah!
!”
What fell from the treetop onto the dining table was not an ordinary object, but a body that had already shown signs of rigor mortis and was accompanied by a faint stench of corpse.
Although his entire face was chopped beyond recognition by a sharp weapon and his appearance could not be identified at all, the clothes on his body were exactly the same as when they met yesterday. It can be confirmed that he is Soichi Kurata who did not come to the meeting and his whereabouts are unknown.
Hattori Heiji immediately reached out to cover Toyama Kazuha's eyes, and his hands that were covering his eyes began to tremble uncontrollably. He was only fourteen years old and had not yet had his birthday. How could he have witnessed such a bloody and violent scene?
It's natural to be afraid, and it's already very good that I didn't vomit.
Although Akemi Miyano, who was in the organization, had witnessed traitors being executed, this was the first time she had seen such a bloody scene of such a terrible nature. She mustered up the courage to protect Sayuri Kakizaki, who was sobbing with fear, behind her, and closed her eyes, unwilling to look at the body again.
"It was... Jason who killed him!"
Jason?
Fujiwara Yuu frowned and looked at Itsuki Yosuke, who blurted out a foreign-sounding name, and hurriedly asked:
"Why would you say something like that after seeing a body? Who is Jason?"
"You probably remember that news report on the radio last night, right?" Itsuki Yosuke unbuttoned the top button of his black shirt, lit the cigarette in his mouth, and said slowly, "The death row inmate who escaped was Jason, the murderer who horrified the world ten years ago. I used to be a reporter for a weekly photography magazine and covered the indiscriminate killings in Saitama Prefecture."
Yosuke Goki began to tell stories about the murderer Jason, but Fujiwara Yu did not take it to heart. He did not think that the murderer killed indiscriminately, and he did not even think that a death row prisoner who had just escaped from prison would happen to meet them and carry out the killing without thinking too much.
You have to know that Soichi Kurata's body was placed on a camphor tree next to the large log dining table. Since he was an indiscriminate killer and wanted to dispose of the body without being discovered, he could have thrown it into the lake or buried it in the forest.
The murderer did this to let everyone present find Soichi Kurata's body, because he knew that everyone would have breakfast here early the next morning, so this method was the most appropriate.
"Humph, when I went to interview, I saw a corpse whose face was chopped to pieces by Jason with an axe. It was exactly the same as Kurata's corpse today, so I'm sure it was Jason who did it!" Itsuki Yosuke put his hands on his waist, unwilling to keep his eyes on the corpse. Although he had a sharp tongue and was a bit of a playboy, he would not feel comfortable seeing a corpse.
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