Fujiwara Yu guessed that Sugino Takashi would stand up, and he carefully set up such a stage, simply hoping that when he took revenge on those two people, Satsuki's brother Takenaka Yuto would know.

Sugino Takashi knew very well that the crime he committed was punishable by either life imprisonment or death, so he made plans for the worst before taking action. Therefore, he would never let Takenaka Yuto take the blame for him.

He stretched out his hands, but Sosuke Takagi still had the handcuffs on his hands. Anyway, he had already taken revenge, so the rest of the outcome didn't matter to him.

After all, after Saegusa Saegusa passed away, Sugino Takashi felt that he was just an empty shell.

Uchida Ami looked at Sugino Takashi with a complex expression. As a good friend of Saegusa Saegusa, she had never noticed Sugino's love for Saegusa. Thinking of the deceased Nakayama Maiko, she couldn't help but ask:

"Sugino, so you approached Maiko just for...Satsuki?"

"What else?" Sugino Takashi looked coldly at the room where Nakayama Maiko's body lay, his face filled with anger as he asked, "Do you think I would fall for a casual woman like Nakayama?"

Uchida Ami pursed her lips and did not answer. She really didn't know what role Maiko played in the case. She even felt a chill down her spine.

The three of them used to be best friends, but now...it seems not to be the case.

Yuto Takenaka clenched his fists tightly. He has been living in the shadow of losing his sister for many years. On the anniversary of his sister's death, he would write letters asking the police to reinvestigate his sister's unsolved case. He dreamed of knowing who killed his sister and who destroyed their happy family.

He raised his eyes to look at Sugino Takashi and asked:

"So these two are the ones who killed my sister?"

Sugino Takashi's eyes dimmed at this moment. He lowered his head and shook it, responding softly:

"……no."

"If they are not the murderer, why did you kill them?" Takenaka Yuto frowned in confusion and asked.

"Because these two bastards were already boyfriend and girlfriend back then, and Sazuki was completely kept in the dark by them, and she was foolishly secretly in love with that bastard Maekawa!" Sugino Takashi couldn't help but grit his teeth. Every time he thought of Sazuki's shy look as she prepared a birthday present for Maekawa, the anger in his heart would be ignited.

Takenaka Yuto was stunned. There was no need to do such a thing. He stepped forward and grabbed Sugino Takashi's collar. He didn't understand why the other party was so impulsive as to kill someone.

"Sugino, are you crazy? You killed them just for this?!"

"I went crazy the moment Satsuki left!" Sugino Takashi thought of the moment he learned the truth and roared, "Brother Youren, you have no idea what the two of them did. Haven't you ever thought about why Satsuki went to that place back then?"

"……Why?"

Not only Yuto Takenaka wanted to know, but Ami Uchida also wanted to know. They didn't understand why Saegusa Saegusa ran to the bridge alone ten years ago. There was clearly nothing there, and it was raining that day.

"Because that bastard Nakayama instigated Maekawa to send a love letter to Sazuki, making Sazuki wait by the bridge, making Sazuki full of anticipation for Maekawa's confession, making Sazuki stand there foolishly waiting even in the rain and not seeing him!" Sugino Takashi's emotions made the veins in his neck bulge. He shouted, "If it weren't for those two bastards, Sazuki would never have run into the murderer and would never have died!!!"

Ten years ago, Maiko Nakayama was not as pretty as Satsuki Saegusa. She took advantage of her good figure to hook up with Keiichi Maekawa, and the two started an underground relationship without telling anyone else.

Maiko Nakayama has always been jealous of Saegusa Saegusa, who is loved by both students and teachers. During an accidental conversation, she realized that the person she envied actually had a crush on her boyfriend.

This gave her self-esteem a great sense of satisfaction, and she even felt that she was qualified to step on Sayue.

So she instigated her boyfriend Keiichiro Maekawa to stuff a letter with ambiguous words in it into Sazuki's desk, in order to make Sazuki believe that Maekawa would confess after school.

The two of them were still standing far away where they could see the bridge, snuggling together and laughing.

But they never imagined that what they thought was an ordinary prank would lead to such a big mistake.

After learning that Saegusa had been murdered, the two worried that the police would come to their house and think that they were the murderers of Saegusa. Fortunately, the police did not find them, and the ambiguous letter was not found on the body.

After that, Saegusa Saegusa's death became a secret in their hearts, but they didn't know that before going to the date, Saegusa Saegusa had told Sugino Takashi everything. The ambiguous letter that was not found on the body was because Saegusa gave it to Sugino before the date, wanting him to take it home for safekeeping.

Sugino Takashi lowered his head and recounted how he approached Nakayama Maiko step by step, and how much time he spent creating the stage for the real-life script-killing.

He actually thought about stopping his revenge, but when he thought about the fact that the police had not reopened the investigation into the case and the murderer of Sayue was still at large, he had nowhere to vent the anger in his heart.

Since the police couldn't find the murderer, he had to execute the "accomplice" who was hiding.

"Sugino, are you still going to lie at this point?"

Sugino Takashi slowly raised his head when he heard Takashi Sosuke's question. He frowned and said in a bad tone:

"What? What did I lie about?"

"You actually hope that others will discover your revenge plan, right? Otherwise, why would you send an invitation to Kudo Shinichi? Aren't you worried that the detective will find out and stop it in advance?"

"Hehe, Officer Takashi, did you stop it?" Sugino Takashi curled his lips and sneered.

Fujiwara Yuu guessed that Sugino Takashi would mock him, but he couldn't stop him, and there was nothing to argue about:

"I regret that I couldn't stop it, but I will promise you to reopen the investigation until the murderer is found."

"...What's a verbal promise? You policemen love to say such nice words." Sugino Takashi has been waiting for the police to reopen the investigation, but his expectations have been worn away during this long period of time. He no longer has any trust in the police.

Fujiwara Yuu didn't expect Sugino Takashi to trust him, but he always took responsibility for what he said. He reached out and patted his shoulder, smiling and said:

"I will prove my promise with my actions, but before that, please hand over the phone you hid."

“…I’m buried in a potted plant.”

"You're quite good at hiding."

Sugino Takashi looked at Sosuke Takashi as he dug out his phone, and thinking about what he had said, it would be a lie to say he wasn't expecting anything. He had sent that invitation to Kudo Shinichi because he hoped the detective would be able to deduce that he was the murderer, and thus become interested in reopening the investigation into the case from ten years ago.

He turned his head to look out the window at the heavy rain that was gradually stopping. The weather was like this that day.