"What on earth do you want to say?!"
Faced with Tang Ze's indifferent attitude and confident attitude, Shimabukuro Kimie felt anxious and even frightened.
This change in mood was reflected in the other party's increasingly unfriendly tone and irritable attitude.
Tang Ze looked at Shimabukuro Kimie, whose brows were becoming increasingly irritable, and stated his reasoning with an expressionless face: "When I was investigating on the island, in addition to the missing Monkyo Saori, I also came into contact with your other two childhood friends.
Well, one of them was the one we met at the shrine."
The purpose of saying this is to increase the credibility of the words, so that Tang Ze's words will have more weight and avoid the other party from deceiving her by saying that she is just talking nonsense.
In other words, it was to break her escapist mentality and prevent her from resisting out of a glimmer of hope.
"Then I will continue my analysis."
After a pause, Tang Ze gave the other party the impression that he had conducted a thorough investigation, and then continued speaking regardless of whether the other party was willing or not:
"Let's talk about Monkyou Saori first. She was afraid of the mermaid's curse, so she asked the detective for help. This is enough to show how much she believes in the legend of mermaids.
Your other two childhood sweethearts, when talking about your great-grandmother's fate, both had unusually fanatical beliefs. Even you, the only relative, were not fanatical at all, but rather very rational.
I really don't understand this.
However, after visiting the island, I discovered that only your three friends had such fanatical beliefs. Although the elderly on the island also had some, they were only casual believers, far from such fanatical beliefs. At this time, I suddenly had a bold idea."
Tang Ze paused, staring at Shimabukuro Junhui with sharp eyes. After she became a little uncomfortable, Tang Ze slowly spoke:
"As this terrifying thought continued to resurface in my mind, the clues in my mind grew larger and larger, like threading a needle, forming a terrifying fact!"
Tang Ze stepped forward, looked at Shimabukuro Kimie and said in a deep voice: "Miss Shimabukuro, you want to kill these three people to avenge your mother!"
This sentence was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the last tsunami that broke the dam. Shimabukuro Kimie's psychological defenses were completely shattered by Tang Ze's words!
She seemed to have no bones, her body went limp and she sat down on the ground.
She could never imagine that the man in front of her, whom she had just met today, could see through her thoughts as if he had the ability to read her mind.
The man in front of him seemed to have such ability. Like a surgeon, he could precisely and sharply cut open all his thoughts and ideas, taking in everything inside without leaving any privacy.
Tang Ze's reasoning continued, "To be honest, this phenomenon is a bit unbelievable. In a relatively closed place like Meiguo Island, if there are fanatical believers, they should be elderly people.
After all, with the development of science and technology, the more young people see, the less they will believe in these myths. Their reaction to a long life should be the same as yours, thinking that it is just ordinary longevity and that this is normal.
But no, your three childhood sweethearts all expressed their unwavering faith in fate.
But this isn't something difficult to understand. After all, your previous fate was pretended by your mother, and your current fate is pretended by you."
Tang Ze sighed and looked at Shimabukuro Kimie. "Now you understand, don't you? Your three childhood friends' unwavering faith in Fate is precisely because you continued to pretend to be Fate after your mother's death. And now I have a question in mind."
"What's the problem..." Shimabukuro Kimie asked in a hoarse voice.
"So, is this crazy belief really just due to your longevity? Or is it related to your mother's death?"
Without waiting for Shimabukuro Kimie to answer, Tang Ze said, "In this situation, I conducted a reverse deduction.
Considering your mother was burned to death in the warehouse, and what Sumi Ebihara said about the mermaid corpse found three years ago, I knew it.
Your mother was burned to death by your three childhood sweethearts, right?
"Shut up! Stop talking!"
Shimabukuro Kimie yelled angrily, but Karasawa ignored her and continued, "Because I need to pretend to be short, I tied my legs with ropes to shorten my height.
That's why your mother's remains were so strange that people even mistook them for the corpse of a mermaid.
All of the speculations I've made above are based on the assumption that your three childhood friends are the real culprits of the arson!"
Tang Ze looked at Shimabukuro Kimie and said solemnly, "It was because they set the fire themselves that they believed it so firmly when they saw the bodies of people who should have been burned to death in the warehouse appear before their eyes again.
Even the remains of your mother's body in the warehouse were believed to be that of a mermaid."
Yes, the death of his mother, and the fact that he inherited his mother's dying wish and continued to pretend to be the life figure for the sake of the village were the causes.
It was precisely this cause that led to the three people's unshakable belief in the power of destiny.
Shimabukuro Kimie understood what Tang Ze said, and also realized that this man relied on fragmentary clues and logic, and on the "result", to finally deduce the cause of the incident.
To be honest, if you kill someone with your own hands, you will turn around and find that person appear in front of you the next day as if nothing happened.
Moreover, the person who was trapped in the burning warehouse was an old man who had difficulty walking and had no chance of escaping.
The only special thing is that this old man has the identity of a life figure.
What would you think in this situation?
Especially in this era when technology is not yet developed, superstition still has some soil. In addition, they are on the small island of Mikoto Island, where the culture of religious worship is strong. Menxie Saori and the other two have been influenced by it since childhood, and are more likely to believe these things than ordinary people.
Under these conditions, when they saw a "God on Earth" who was revered as the God of Life on the island walking out of the warehouse that he had set on fire and locked with his own hands as if nothing had happened.
Do you think you would believe that it was a manifestation of the gods?
I'm afraid that when the fate played by Shimabukuro Kimie appears in front of the three of them, the impact on them will be no less than a reshaping of their worldview.
They began to believe that the other party had really eaten mermaid flesh and possessed the power of immortality.
So faced with the desire for immortality, the three of them fell into an even more fanatical pursuit, which is undoubtedly a tragedy.
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