The Forest of Trees at Mount Fuji is a legendary suicide hotspot.
People who are contemplating suicide go in, and if they change their minds halfway through, it is very difficult for them to come out alive.
Not to mention being drugged and thrown into the depths of the forest.
Logically speaking, Kiryu Eiji, who was treated this way, should definitely be dead.
But if he dies, what will be before us?
Or, if he survives and returns two years later to find the person who murdered him, what will he do?
...I can't think about it, the more I think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.
The three people, who already had something to hide, were so weak in the knees that they could not stand.
With a thud, the three Guigu disciples were the first to kneel down.
"Please...Mori, please spare me..."
"I didn't want to hurt you, it was those two who were the ones who..."
"You're talking nonsense!" Emon Izumi cried out in terror. "You were the one who said it first: if we can't persuade him, we might as well kill him and that would be the end of it!"
"You've been coveting Ling Yuna for a long time! You wish all the men around her would die!"
"And the same goes for cities!"
Chenglong immediately shoved her hard.
"And what about you? You worked so hard to curry favor with Ling Yuna to get a supporting role, but she eloped with someone. Nobody will help you out."
"You old, ugly, and jealous woman!"
"..."
Some people believe that allies who commit crimes together are the most unbreakable, but in reality, they just haven't faced a life-or-death test.
They each hold the other's most fatal weakness, and at the slightest sign of trouble, they will inevitably fight to the death.
"Kiwaki Ruiji" watched this scene coldly, his eyes filled with a deathly stillness.
“Speak it out!” His voice was deep and authoritative, like that ugly and terrifying phantom.
"Tell me why you wanted to kill me!"
"Confess your crimes in front of everyone!"
Emon Izumi burst into tears, her whole body trembling, sobbing uncontrollably.
"I...we...we're going to turn ourselves in...please, Wusheng...we're going right now...to turn ourselves in..."
"Say it now!"
The Phantom's command caused the three of them to collapse to the ground, kneeling and not daring to raise their heads.
"It's...it's us...we..."
"We started the fire at the Karuizawa training camp dormitory!"
As if trying to gain the "Phantom's" leniency, San Guigu shouted out.
The members of the theater troupe, who had been listening anxiously nearby, suddenly burst into a horrified scream.
“We…we didn’t mean it!” Emon Izumi cried as she continued, “We were rejected at the selection meeting, and we were very disappointed…”
"We just lit a small firework..."
Chenglong raised his head, then lowered it again under the "Phantom's" gaze.
"Yes, yes, we didn't mean it... We thought no one was in the dorm..."
Hu Yueling suddenly stood up, walked towards them, and looked down at them.
Her beautiful eyes blazed with fury.
"How could you not know!"
“San Guigu, you came to see me that day, saying you were very sad because you didn’t get selected, and you wanted to ask me to go for a walk with you, but I politely declined, didn’t I?”
"And Cheng, Bing Sen made an appointment with you, but you said you had something to do and had to wait, so he left first."
"I can call Bingsen right now and have him testify!"
"None of you—Ice Forest, Mr. Mist—don't you know there are people in the dormitory, and how many!"
"But after you set the fire, you only cared about saving your own lives and didn't even call for help!"
"If Mr. Wusheng hadn't rushed back into the fire, I would have already..."
She couldn't continue, covered her face with her hands, and sobbed softly.
"Mr. Wusheng... Mr. Wusheng..."
Although he kept calling out those words, he didn't even glance at "Kiyuu Ruiji" next to him.
Chenglong seemed to sense something, and his knees twitched.
Suddenly, the figure before them, like a phantom, let out a roar!
"Ahhh, don't kill me!..." Emon Izumi screamed hysterically, clutching her head with both hands, "I'll turn myself in... I'll turn myself in to the police..."
"Don't kill me!..."
San Guigu and Cheng were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
“Insignificant, vile…” “Phantom” cursed, word by word, “filthy, ugly…”
"That's disgusting!"
He suddenly raised his hand and forcefully ripped off his hat, mask, and the trench coat that covered his entire body.
Those were originally essential pieces of equipment for Kiryuu Eiji after his disfigurement.
However, when the disguise fell away, the person who appeared before everyone was not the young man who had suffered an injustice and was even secretly murdered.
Instead, it's a face that observant people often see in newspapers, but rarely encounter in person.
Fortunately, they had only seen this face a few days ago.
That's Lan Zexi, the eldest daughter of the Lan Ze Group.
She had come with the detective Yoruichi Toyama, which is why she was recognized.
Was she... the one who was impersonating Kiryu Eiji just now?
How could she act so convincingly that even people who have met Kiryu Eiji in person have no doubt about it?
Moreover, how did she know that the Three Ghost Valleys had set fire to the place and plotted to kill Wusheng?
In the silence, the door to the dressing room was pushed open.
Yoruichi Toyama and Akemi walked in slowly.
Upon seeing them... or rather, upon seeing Lan Zexi, some people had already vaguely guessed it.
The detectives must have come to a conclusion.
They knew that Kiryuu Eiji had been framed, which is why they used this method to appear before those three people and seek justice for Kiryuu.
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