Chapter 553 Unpredictable

The mood of the other men in black robes was not as complicated as Vodka's.

Although they all had complaints about Reiki Hirasaka's "prank", what Hirasaka just said did make some sense.

Moreover, now that they are here, if they don’t complete the ceremony, wouldn’t it be meaningless for them to have come all the way here?

In addition, those out-of-print autographed posters are still Hirasaka Reiki's property. He said before that they would be distributed to everyone as souvenirs after the ceremony. If he leaves now, the posters will go with him...

A group of people in black robes, with different moods, stood up from the round table one after another and left the meditation room.

Hirasaka Reiki was the last one to leave.

He closed the only electric window in the meditation room, then closed the door and fastened the sturdy padlock from the outside, locking the room securely.

…

After all the hassle, no one had dinner yet.

Thinking that they would have to get up in the early morning to continue the séance, they first went to the restaurant and heated up some instant lunch boxes.

…

Hirasaka Reiki did not gather with the guests.

He went into his study, took out a deck of tarot cards, and started to calculate.

...Although the spirit-seizing ceremony just now was fake, the fact that he is a charlatan is true.

Park Zhimu and Hexiong also followed into the study.

He asked doubtfully, "Did you really change the recording?"

Both people present knew very well that Kira did not die in a car accident a year ago.

——The real place of her death was actually this mysterious mansion.

At a small gathering that night, Hirasaka Reiki drank too much and pushed Kira, who came to persuade him, madly. Kira fell and hit her head, and died on the spot.

There were not many people attending the party at that time. Except for a woman with a low presence, who looked very timid and was easy to keep silent, the other two were Hirasaka Reiki's confidants.

The three hid Kira's body, drove her car into the lake, disguised it as an accident, and successfully escaped the law.

…

I originally thought that everything was over as the police withdrew.

However, more than a month ago, the three people who hid the bodies began to receive silent phone calls or threatening messages.

This threat lasted for more than half a month, after which the editor Zenan was assassinated by an unknown person, leaving a message written in blood at the scene of his death: "キラ".

...This made the remaining two corpse hiders, Hirasaka Reiki and Park Noki Kazuo, feel strongly threatened.

The two men were on guard for a while, and then felt that this was not a solution.

So they decided to take the initiative and use a "séance ceremony" to lure out and deal with the person who pretended to be a ghost and avenged Kira.

This is also the reason why all the fans who came here today are hardcore fans who have been screened - Hirasaka Reiki feels that if one is not a fan to a certain level, it is impossible for them to do such a thing as killing for their idol.

…

But who would have thought that the ceremony they had prepared would be tampered with by someone else.

...but it wasn't all in vain.

At least from this we can know that the murderer hiding in the dark is likely to know the truth about Kira's death at the party that day, and knows that the padlock of the meditation room is hidden in Hirasaka Reiki's study.

Both of these conditions are met...

Thinking of this, a figure slowly emerged in Hirasaka Reiki's mind.

——Izumi Maho.

She was the fifth person to attend the party that day.

An introverted female student who looks very timid and dares not say a word even when threatened.

…

After locking onto the target, Hirasaka Reiki weighed the difficulty of handling it and relaxed.

He looked at the tarot card in his hand and found that it was the upright Death. He felt that it was inaccurate and threw it away.

Then he looked up at Park Zhimu and Xiong's nervous gaze, shook his head, and answered his question: "Of course I didn't change the recording. How could I do such a stupid thing against myself."

“…Who is that?”

Park Nomu Kazuo was stunned for a while, and suddenly he thought of the same thing as Hirasaka Reiki: "It must be that woman! Apart from us, she is the only one who knows what happened at the party that day... I'll go find her and ask her clearly!"

"...Come back." Hirasaka Reiki immediately called him, "Have you forgotten that there is a detective here?"

Before, he thought he could use Jiang Xia to accurately find the "person with abnormal behavior" at the ceremony just now, so that they could deal with him later.

Unexpectedly, the content of the tape had been changed.

...And this action actually helped him narrow the scope of his search.

Anyway, for now, just pretend to have a clear conscience and complete the ceremony to fool the detective.

After that, I'll find a way to get rid of Izumi Maho...

…

It's different from the atmosphere here where we are sure of winning.

In the restaurant on the other side, the atmosphere was sad yet a little scary.

"——The anonymous post on the forum said that the last party Kira attended was held in this mansion a year ago."

The photographer, who was dressed in a trendy way, took a sip of beer and sighed, "Everyone present drank too much that day, and no one noticed that Kira was drunk when she left, which led to the tragedy... If there was someone with a good alcohol tolerance at that time, it would have been better.

"Also, Zenan seemed to have attended the party on the same day. I don't know if he was killed by Kira's ghost because he fell in love with someone else or was a fan of another idol, or because he didn't remind her not to drink and drive, and not to drive after drinking..."

Jiang Xia shook his head subconsciously. The latter one was a bit far-fetched and could hardly be the obsession of the ghosts themselves.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Toru Amuro who was sitting next to him from the corner of his eye.

Then he began to calmly select keywords from the words of photographer Mifune, leading the conversation into the realm of detective work:

"If there is really another hidden story behind this incident, then the party a year ago must be a key clue - other people who attended the party may also become the target of the murderer on the run."

Hiroshi Yagawa, who is a gossipy person, was yawning at first.

Hearing this topic suddenly, he was no longer sleepy. He approached Jiang Xia mysteriously and said in a vague voice that "although it was lowered, it was still audible to everyone":

“To be honest, there is actually another rumor in the forum.

"It is said that Kira did not die in the car accident, but died at the party. The body disappeared because the organizer of the party, Mr. Hirasaka, hid her body somewhere in this mansion."

Click, click, click…

A slight sound of porcelain colliding came from the side.

Jiang Xia turned around in confusion and saw the short-haired female student named "Izumi Maho" holding a black tea cup in one hand and a porcelain tea tray in the other. Her whole body was shaking violently like the poster stand equipped with a motor in the meditation room, and her face was as pale as if she had seen a ghost.

(End of this chapter)