Kudo Shinichi, who was thinking about the suicide case four years ago, suddenly felt a pair of eyes falling on him, but when he looked up, he couldn't catch it.
Is it an illusion?
Fujiwara Yuu quickly concealed his insight and looked at Suzuki Sonoko without any expression and introduced himself in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough for the young detective and his childhood sweetheart who were walking towards them to hear.
Sosuke Takashi.
Kudo Shinichi had naturally heard this name. He looked up at the purple-haired young man for a few seconds and asked:
"Sonoko, could this be an actor filming a movie?"
The other person had outstanding looks and was older than him. In his opinion, only actors would dye their hair this color. It was obvious that he was not the teacher in charge of the Kansai School next door.
"I'm not an actor. I'm just traveling here with a friend, so I won't bother you..."
Fujiwara Yu had no intention of staying here. He was about to say goodbye when he heard a shrill scream from the side. He frowned and swallowed the interrupted words, looking indifferently at Minowa Shohei who was surrounded by female fans.
"So handsome! As expected, Minowa-san looks his best when he's skiing!
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"I'm so envious of Minowa-san's future girlfriend. She'll definitely faint with happiness if she gets to teach her skiing!"
"Mr. Minowa, could you take a picture with us? We're fans who came all the way from Yamanashi Prefecture, and we're so excited to finally meet you. I wonder if you can fulfill our little wish!"
However, Minowa Shohei seemed to have not heard this request. He walked into the middle of the fans and took up his large ski bag that was lying in the snow with his left hand. After hearing the cries of "encore" from all around, he raised his right index finger and waved it left and right, saying with a smile:
"No, no, we'll just skate this once today. Please watch the movie the rest of the time!"
Fujiwara Yu revealed a subtle expression after noticing a small detail. He always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't remember what the strange thing was for a while.
Standing in front of his fans, Oyama Morizo glanced at Minowa Shohei in surprise. He lowered his head to check the time on his watch before saying:
"It's almost four o'clock. We need to hurry up and shoot the ski slope scenes. Minowa, you can't agree to any more fan requests. If you do, you'll delay today's filming."
"Got it. Then I'll go take the cable car first. It will be dark after five o'clock."
"Okay, then you can leave as soon as possible."
Fujiwara Yuu narrowed his eyes upon hearing this. He felt something was amiss. If he wanted to solve the mystery, he had no choice but to follow the filming crew. He looked at Suzuki Sonoko and the others beside him, waved goodbye, and said:
"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Have a good time."
"Takashi-san, take care."
Kudo Shinichi glanced at the direction where Takashi Sosuke left, then turned to look at Suzuki Sonoko and asked:
"Sonoko, who is he? It seems this isn't the first time you've met him."
Suzuki Sonoko had no choice but to tell Kudo Shinichi about her first meeting with Sosuke Takagi, and she successfully received a helpless half-moon look from Kudo Shinichi, but she was still a little secretly happy in her heart. The reason for her happiness was that his reasoning was correct, and he was indeed the man Sonoko met when she approached him.
After skiing with Shinichi for several hours on the ski slopes, Ran Mouri was already feeling a little tired. She had planned to go to the public lounge to rest, and then go to the nearby specialty shop to buy gifts for her father and mother. However, before she could suggest it, she found Shinichi walking alone towards the cable car.
"Shinichi! Where are you going?" Mouri Ran spoke quickly. She had a bad feeling that Shinichi might still be interested in the suicide case four years ago.
It turned out that her intuition was correct, and Kudo Shinichi said without turning back:
"Of course I'm going to search for evidence. I'm determined to solve the case from four years ago. There must be something wrong with the cable car that I haven't discovered. Xiaolan, if you're tired, go and rest with Sonoko."
Mao Lilan wanted to rest, but she was worried about Shinichi running around alone. Helplessly, she sighed, clasped her hands together, looked at Sonoko with a smirk on her face, and said:
"Sonoko, I'd better go to the specialty store with you later. Sorry."
"It's okay, it's okay. Go ahead. I'm a little hungry, so I'm going to the restaurant to buy some snacks!"
Suzuki Sonoko's gossipy expression is obvious, but unfortunately a certain girl who has not yet come to her senses does not know the meaning of her best friend's smile. If she could come to her senses earlier, the detective would not be the only one who blushes and feels embarrassed every time she is joked about.
Fujiwara Yuu, who had left earlier, chose not to take the cable car. Instead, he returned to the common room, picked up his skis, and skied along the cable car route, hoping to find any clues he might have missed in the case. However, he hadn't been skiing for long when he noticed two familiar figures, one green and one orange, riding the cable car.
Sitting aboard the cable car, Hattori Heiji was still cursing and complaining that something was wrong, completely oblivious to the frightened expression on Toyama Kazuha's face. After all, Kazuha was still in junior high school, and this was her first time riding a cable car with few safety measures, so it was understandable that she would be afraid.
"Hattori, why did you bring Toyama to take the cable car? Don't you know that her foot is injured?" Fujiwara Yu raised his voice and said dissatisfiedly.
Hattori Heiji looked down and saw Sosuke Takashi skiing below him, and quickly explained with a bitter face:
"Brother Yingsi, don't blame me for this. It was this girl He Ye who insisted on pestering me, and I let her go back to the hotel!"
Fujiwara Yuu couldn't help but roll his eyes behind his goggles. He'd always considered himself a bit of a straight-laced guy, but compared to Hattori Heiji, he was actually a bit better. He sighed and decided to take Kazuha back on the return cable car after reaching the destination. But before he could say anything, a familiar voice echoed through the sky.
Bang!
Is this—gunshot?
After realizing that something was wrong, Fujiwara Yu quickly speeded up his skiing and rushed forward. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If he hadn't gone to get his ski equipment and directly took the cable car to follow the filming crew, perhaps such a bad thing wouldn't have happened.
With a gloomy face, he continued to speed up, braving the blizzard to reach the place where he would get off the bus. He saw the detective who had arrived before him with a serious expression and asked Oyama Morizo who had just gotten off the bus:
"Do you know what happened?"
"It's you. I didn't know because I just came down too." Oyama Morizo recognized the young man in the dark blue ski suit as the junior high school student in the cafeteria who was very interested in the suicide case of Mizukami Jiro. He answered aloud.
Fujiwara Yu, who arrived at the same time, quickly removed his snowboard bindings, stood up, and noticed that the faces of the two people in front of him were getting increasingly ugly. He turned around and looked in the direction they were looking, and saw the cable car slowly moving forward against the blizzard.
The passenger on the cable car leaned back in his seat with his head tilted, a large amount of bright red liquid flowing from his right temple, announcing that his life had been lost in this snowstorm.
The exact same scene from four years ago was reproduced.
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