Hinata Hajime had picked up Nakayama Riku's cell phone before, and saw the image of the black and white bear and the voice of "a body was found" on the phone.

In order to determine whether there was anything wrong with the video, Hinata Hajime did not hand over the phone to the police, and Edogawa Conan did not notice this.

Maybe this is a good decision.

Hinata Hajime turned on his phone and began to look for possible marks inside, while Nanami was also screening.

However, Nanami Chiaki can only use programming methods. She will search in all the data, while Hinata Sou's method is analysis. She will analyze Nakayama Riku thoroughly and determine where he will put the secret.

After sliding his phone around for a while, Hinata Hajime went straight into the file management center. After browsing through several folders, he saw a file called 'Caution'.

"Wow! Hinata-kun, you found it!" Nanami Chiaki gave up searching for the file and looked over at it. "Amazing."

"Nakayama Riku is a painter, and a careful and serious painter, so he was the first one to discover the problem and would choose to seek cooperation with others. So, according to this behavior pattern, we can find this folder." Hinata Hajime looked at the file that was even set to another format, "This is it."

Chiaki Nanami helped Hajime Hinata quickly convert the document into a readable format.

After opening the file, Hinata Hajime saw the message left by Nakayama Riku.

"I don't know who opened this document, and of course I hope no one opens it, because that would mean that I might have...

I am still very afraid of death. I am really afraid of death. I haven’t lived enough. I still have so many things to do.

But if I do die, then I want the people who see this to be the police.

My name is Nakayama Riku. I’m a painter and I’m currently teaching an art class. I do this because I love children and also to earn some money to support my family. Everything was great until I participated in that competition with my friend.

My friend suffers from depression, and it was painting that helped him get out of it. He was really looking forward to this competition, and he loves painting much more than I do. I was influenced by him to participate, but rather than his simple love, I participated more for the sake of accompanying him.

But he suddenly committed suicide.

I don't believe it at all. He was so excited that he was discussing with me how to create his own painting an hour before his death. There is no way he would commit suicide!

So I started to investigate the cause of his death, and no matter how I investigated, it turned out that he committed suicide, and there could not be a murderer. However, I unexpectedly discovered that he was not the only participant in the event who committed suicide, but there were two other participants who had already died.

This is a murder, please believe me, Mr. Policeman!

The two people who died first and my friend were the most likely to become the champions of this competition. They were extremely talented and all they needed was fame through this competition.

Moreover, after knowing this, I suddenly remembered a person. At the competition site, when we got the competition topic, everyone looked at the trophy with determination to win it. That is a normal expression, but only he looked at the trophy and then looked at us.

His eyes were filled with hatred, it was very scary.

This was definitely not suicide, but a selfish murder for victory.

Please make sure to catch him.

His name is: Akagi Eito. 」

"Akagi Eito, he is also a participant in this competition." Nanami Chiaki quickly found the information of this person, "He is a poor orphan who grew up in the slums. He has a talent for painting since he was a child. He was scouted by the school as a special student and was exempted from tuition to study in the school. The price was that he had to stay in the school as a teacher for ten years after becoming famous."

Hinata Hajime recalled the information he had seen before and added, "However, recently Akagi Eito has fallen into a bottleneck period. He cannot draw satisfactory paintings and is even regressing."

"The school warned Akagi Eito that if he didn't make any progress, he would be expelled."

"Yes." Nanami Chiaki nodded, "This competition is almost his only chance. If he doesn't get a good ranking, his situation will become extremely difficult."

"Is it him?" Nanami Chiaki murmured softly.

"It's possible." Hinata Hajime frowned slightly. "He has the experience of being a desperate host and he also has the reason to win. He does look like a desperate host, but we still have to go and see for ourselves. Everyone's despair is different. Maybe this despair is the driving force for him to move forward."

Nanami Chiaki nodded seriously, "Hinata-kun, be careful."

"I will."

After finding Akagi Eito's information, Hinata Hajime left quickly. He had given this information to Inspector Megure before. Inspector Megure was probably sending people to protect these people, and maybe he would take them all to the police station for strict supervision.

After all, losing freedom is a small matter, losing life is a big matter.

Hinata Hajime wants to find Akagi Eito and confirm the situation before the police take him away.

Hinata Hajime arrived at Akagi Eito's house as quickly as possible and rang the doorbell. He took a deep breath and prepared himself to see a corpse.

Fortunately, there was movement inside soon. After a while, there was a click and the person inside opened the door, but only opened it a crack. The young man with dark circles under his eyes looked at Hinata Hajime and said with a little timidity in his voice, "Hello, I don't buy newspapers."

"well?"

"Really, I can't buy any more. I've already subscribed to five newspapers." The person inside stuttered a little, "So, so, please leave!"

"I'm not here to get you to order a newspaper."

"Then I won't buy insurance either." The other party looked scared. "I also bought three insurance policies."

Hinata Hajime: ...

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his police ID. "Hello, I'm a police officer. Please open the door. I have something to ask you."

Akagi Eito took a deep breath and pushed the door open hastily. "Sorry, I'm sorry! Hello, police officer. I have never broken the law. Please don't arrest me and put me in jail!"

"I don't want to put you in jail." Hinata Hajime looked at him, "I've said it before, I just want to find out the situation from you, please don't be afraid."

"Okay, okay." Akagi Eito took a deep breath, but Hinata Hajime could see that his hands were still shaking.

He is a very cowardly person, easily frightened, not used to being around people, likes dark spaces, and is like a weak herbivore.

It's not a performance, nor is there any pretense.

Hinata Hajime doesn't think that he can't even tell whether a person has acting skills or not.

Therefore, Akagi Eito is indeed a person with this kind of personality.

This is completely different from what was reported by Nakayama Riku.

"It's like this. Other police officers will come to protect you soon. I just came to make sure you're safe. Don't worry." Hinata Hajime gave a soothing smile. "Can you tell me when you last went out?"

"The last time I went out..." Akagi Eito thought for a moment, "Well, it seemed like I went to participate in a competition and get questions."

"I'm sorry, I didn't really want to go, but the principal strongly asked me to, so I went anyway. I'm afraid of people, and I was late. Everyone was looking at me, and I was so scared, so I kept my head down the whole time. I forgot what happened, and I never left the house again."

Hinata Hajime guessed what he meant, and then he said, "So, the participants in this competition may be in danger of their lives?"

"What?!" Akagi Eito was shocked. "Why can painting kill people?"

"Sir, don't be nervous."

"But, that's a dead person!" Akagi Eito looked at Hinata Hajime in horror, "Mr. Policeman, are you telling the truth? Is my life really in danger? I'm just drawing. No, otherwise... I won't draw anymore."

"Huh?" Hinata Hajime was stunned for a moment.

Akagi Eito shook his head vigorously, "Yes, no more painting, no more painting."

"But, sir, aren't you a student with a specialty in painting?"

"But I don't like painting." Akagi Eito said as a matter of course: "I don't like painting at all. Suddenly someone found me and said that I could eat by painting in school. Of course I came. Painting is just a way to make a living, but I can't die for painting."

"Why don't I drop out of school?" Akagi Eito murmured, "The convenience store I saw last time seems to be hiring, I can apply for the job."

"But how do I tell the principal? He won't be happy... It's so difficult."

Hinata Hajime calmly looked at Akagi Eito who kept talking to himself. He was muttering, constantly saying a sentence and then responding or refuting it with another sentence.

This is a very cowardly young man who lacks the ability to communicate with others. He does not like painting and comes here just to survive.

Therefore, he is not a desperate host.

Dropping out of school meant nothing to him, it was just a change of life. He had no interest in painting, and perhaps the only attraction of the competition was the prize money. With this mentality, his decline was natural, because he was full and didn't want to work hard for it anymore.

The cell phone rang, Hinata Hajime glanced at it and then he smiled.

"Don't worry, just wait here for a moment. My colleague will be here soon. I'm going to take a call."

"Okay, okay!" Akagi Eito said quickly, "I will stay here and wait carefully."

Hinata Hajime turned and left, then he answered the phone. On the phone, Nanami Chiaki's voice seemed a little helpless.

"That person... he shouldn't be the Despair Host, right?"

"There is no despair, no reason to despair, and no temptation to get the prize. It does not seem like a despairing host. It is possible that Nakayama Riku is mistaken. After all, misunderstandings often exist." Hinata Hajime's voice was calm, "But, I feel something is wrong."

Nanami Chiaki blinked, "What's wrong?"

"Nanami, don't you think he was too clear?" Hinata Hajime frowned slightly. "From the most suspicious to the least suspicious, it's a complete 180-degree turn."

"so?"

"Nanami, I want to trouble you for something." Hinata Hajime said, "Help me monitor him."

Nanami Chiaki nodded seriously, "I understand. I will keep an eye on him."

Watching Nanami Chiaki's figure disappear from the phone, Hinata Hajime heard the sound of sirens coming from the distance. He stood by and watched several policemen get off the police car. The policemen communicated with Akagi Eito for a few seconds, and then they immediately got in the police car and left.

Hinata Hajime looked around and after making sure that there was no one around, he pushed open the door of Akagi Ei's room.

He had discovered before that Akagi Eito was too timid. He was so scared that he followed the police and left without even locking the door.

Akagi Eito's house was a mess, really a mess, with messy brushes and drawing papers everywhere, and half-finished products thrown on the ground at random, some even had a few footprints on them, which seemed to be consistent with what he said about not liking painting. Hinata Hajime reached out and picked up a painting on the ground and looked at the paint on it.

It was a rich red and green color, with no signature, and the footprints were right in the middle of the painting, making it look dirty.

"Do you like painting?" Hinata Hajime murmured.

The paintings with footprints were thrown on the ground casually without any signatures on them. Although the paintings with signatures were placed randomly, they had indeed not been stepped on. Hinata Hajime put the two paintings together for comparison, and after a moment he frowned slightly.

Although the painting techniques and even the style are the same, there are subtle differences.

After putting the painting back where it was, Hinata Hajime walked out of the house, even locking the door.

[There must be a medium in this incident, but the things that those people used to commit suicide might be ordinary things that we didn't notice.] Hinata Hajime murmured, [Izuku, you told me to exclude the black and white bear image and deal with the whole incident, but now I feel that this black and white bear image cannot be excluded.]

Kamiya Izuru looked at him, "I just asked you to eliminate its influence, not to exclude it from the whole incident."

[Yes, we should just eliminate the influence and not let it lead us by the nose, but we can't just pretend it doesn't exist.] Hinata Hajime leaned against the wall, with one hand in his pocket, [I suddenly remembered something. At that time, we had just woken up from the New World Program, and the Future Agency was experiencing an unprecedented internal struggle.]

【And during that internal fight, there was a video of a black and white bear that caused the participants to commit suicide. 】

Kamizuru closed his eyes and continued.

[There is no other way.] Hinata Hajime murmured, [A medium to make those people commit suicide in a short period of time.]

[That is: the curtain. ]

Whether it is a mobile phone screen or a computer screen, in today's digital world, no one can completely escape from the screen. As long as a despair video is sent to a person's mobile phone, the moment the person sees it, he will be affected by the despair video and commit suicide.

Because it is so common, no one would notice it even if all the dead had screens around them. After all, it is such a normal thing.

Only Hinata Hajime, who had just emerged from the fratricide on Japawk Island, would notice the image of the black and white bear extending to the screen.

[It is unforgivable.] Hinata Hajime murmured, [It is too much to extend the despair in that world to other innocent worlds and cause the deaths of so many people.]

Kamiya Izuru sighed softly, "If you care about this, you might as well pay attention to the police station."

[If the Desperate Host is among these contestants, then someone will definitely die when the contestants gather together.]

[If you don't have the courage to test this person with your own life, then hurry up and save him.]

Hinata Hajime rushed out quickly. He knew what Kamijou Izuru was saying and what he meant. Yes, Hinata Hajime did not have the courage.

He would never test this despair by taking the life of another.