"Karasuma Kazukichi..."
As soon as he opened the file, Sakaki Makoto saw an extremely suspicious name. If this Karasuma Kazuyoshi was a member of the Karasuma family, then why did he choose the location for the Gunma Elementary School Teacher Training Course?
Miss Miyano, Kid, and Akai Mary each took a file and investigated it with a serious look on their faces. Sakaki Makoto did not choose to disturb them, but continued to read on.
Apart from the name of the person in charge that appears at the very beginning of the document, there is nothing suspicious about this site selection report. The person in charge, Kazuyoshi Karasuma, is indeed very attentive and thoughtful. He took the soil quality, geographical location, and transportation conditions around the school into consideration and finally selected the Aramaki campus.
The next few documents were all about trivial matters at the beginning of the school construction, such as building materials, draft drawings, etc., which were not of much use.
The only thing worth mentioning is the teaching building. According to the architectural model planned on the blueprint, there is only one lonely teaching building where the teacher training center is built. It is five stories high and has fifteen classrooms on each floor. Theoretically, it can accommodate 2,000 students, but the actual situation is shocking...
On May 15, 1873, the Gunma Elementary School Teacher Training Institute was officially completed. It was a wooden structure and began to recruit students....
17 persons.
There are principals and 6 teachers.
There were only 17 students in the first batch of students attending Gunma University, all of whom were children of aristocrats. Makoto Sakaki also found a black-and-white photo in the archives.
At that time, cameras were still big boxes. Film and flash bulbs did not appear until decades later. The principle of shooting was to record the image permanently on glass and metal plates, which was called solar etching. Later, the technology gradually matured, and by around 1873, it was possible to take relatively clear photos.
In that era, Japan had just begun its reform and cameras were rare. Only aristocratic families could afford to take photos. This was also the basis for Sakaki Makoto to infer that the first batch of students attending Gunma University were children of aristocrats.
You can only vaguely make out the human figure in the photo, and the exposure is a bit high. Due to the photography technology at the time, it was already very difficult to tell that the other person was a human being. How could you dare to ask for anything more?
The point is not the photo, but the line of small words recorded at the bottom of the photo.
[Founding members of the Gunma Elementary School Teacher Training Institute (from left to right): Ogawa Kusaki, Miyasaka Koichi, Tamaki Takashi, Suenaga Mikisa, Aida Akihisa, Kudo Kengo, Karasuma Renya, Tsuchihashi Tomofumi.....]
The people in the photo were standing in two rows, front and back. Sakaki Makoto was looking at the student statistics. When he read out the name of Karasuma Renya, he couldn't help but hold his breath and stopped his finger in front of a portrait in the order of the names.
With a short haircut, drooping eyes, high cheekbones, and a hooked nose, the 16-year-old Karasuma Renya wore wooden clogs, a striped kimono, and a completely mismatched black top hat on his head. He put his arm on the shoulder of his companion next to him, his face full of smiles, and looked extremely happy.
Not only him, but everyone in the photo smiled, as if they were honored to be a founding member of the Gunma Elementary School Teachers' Training Institute.
At the age of 16, Karasuma Renya has already become a student of the training institute?
Sakaki Makoto was a little surprised, but when he thought about the fact that the education system at that time was not so perfect, his doubts were dispelled a little.
The ages of the other students in the photo seem to be different. There is also a middle-aged man among them. It is so awkward to have these people taking classes in the same classroom.
The Gunma Elementary School Teachers' Training School was established to train excellent teachers. In other words, the 17 students, including Karasuma Renya, will become teachers in the future and continue to train more students, similar to the current normal schools.
It seems that the direction I was looking in was correct. There were indeed clues left by Karasuma Renya when he was young in Gunma University. Even if it was Karasuma Renya himself, after decades or hundreds of years, he probably wouldn't remember that he had such an experience. Even if he remembered, he wouldn't care. Who hasn't clicked on it?
However, this information can only allow Makoto Sakaki to understand Karasuma Renya's past, but cannot help him find Karasuma Renya's hiding place.
As time goes by, who would have thought that the young boy would now become a cruel and ruthless demon?
Still no information about crows.
"Come and see!"
Kidd suddenly shouted:
"I've discovered something!"
Hearing his call, the three of them immediately put down the documents in their hands and walked over:
"What did you find?"
"In 1879, Karasuma Renya became a teacher at the training school!"
Kidd handed a list of teachers to Sakaki Makoto and said solemnly:
"He was almost 22 years old at the time, and he had already become a teacher at the training school. At that time, the training school had been established for 6 years, and the number of students enrolled was increasing. So in the next few years, Karasuma Renya must have taught many students!"
“You are right…”
Akai Mary glanced at the list and said:
"MI6 conducted a detailed investigation on Karasuma Renye and found that he sailed across the ocean to study at Oxford University in London for three years around 1888. Less than half a year after he arrived in London, the crime rate in London increased by 1%, and many cruel murderers appeared, including Jack the Ripper!"
"Wait, do you suspect that the rise in crime in London is related to Karasuma Renya?"
Miss Miyano couldn't help but interrupt:
"How is that possible? He is just an international student, weak and powerless. He has no ability to plan multiple major crimes! Besides, London was in chaos at the time. We can't simply say that it was Karasuma Renya's fault!"
"No, I'm not saying that Karasuma Renya planned multiple crimes in London. What I'm saying is that Karasuma Renya came into contact with certain people during his three years of studying abroad, which caused his personality to change drastically, and he gradually turned from a teacher into the emperor of the underworld!"
Akai Mary said word by word:
"This is the conclusion drawn by MI6's psychologist after profiling Karasuma Ren'ya. Unfortunately, there was too little information left at the time, so we couldn't track Karasuma Ren'ya further. Otherwise, I would have found him long ago!"
Makoto Sakaki, Miss Miyano, and Kid looked at each other and expressed reservations about what Akai Mary said.
It is too arbitrary to draw a conclusion about the reason why Karasuma Renya became a demon based solely on the so-called profiling. The most important thing in psychological profiling is to have enough information so that you can restore the other person's psychological portrait to the greatest extent. A profiling without information is incomplete and full of loopholes.
"Why, you don't believe it?"
Seeing the strange expressions of the three people, Akai Mary raised her eyebrows and sneered:
"Then let me tell you one more thing. In Mayan mythology, there is a legend about crows..."
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