Chapter 1786 1793 [You are predicting again]
At this time, Chikata Eimi, who had been standing quietly beside her, suddenly lowered her head and whispered, "Are you so diligent because you plan to apply to a national university?"
"Yeah, so you brought this group of people here and caused me a lot of trouble." Kariya Yuto glanced at her, and his tone became a little harsh for some reason, "Can you disappear? It's really annoying."
“…”
Chikada Eimi felt like an arrow hit her heart. She said nothing more, just smiled bitterly, lowered her head and walked out.
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"What do you mean by 'can you disappear'? What do you mean by 'very annoying'?!"
Suzuki Sonoko was still cursing in a low voice to her two classmates until she left the library: "He really has no conscience for saying such things to a young and lovely girl like me! - In my opinion, there is only one truth, that is, he has no conscience, so he is the murderer!"
Jiang Xia nodded in agreement: "...Yeah, that makes sense."
Next to him, unlike Suzuki Sonoko who was rarely scolded, Conan was scolded by all kinds of people: he was scolded by criminals in high school, and when he became a child, he was scolded by all kinds of bad-tempered murderers, deceased people and suspects. The scolding has trained him to have a strong heart.
Therefore, as soon as he left the library, Conan forgot about the cold reception he had just received. He suddenly remembered something and went to Eimi Chikada and said, "Eimi, have you also written a love letter to Romeo?"
Chikada Eimi was standing by the library window, looking at Kariya Yuto inside. Suddenly she heard this and was startled for a moment: "W-what?"
Jiang Xia passed by them and stopped when he heard this: "The first two girls who were attacked wrote letters to the 'Vegas Club' and expressed their feelings for that 'Romeo' in the letters. This is a common point that is hard to ignore. So we are very curious as the third victim, whether you have had the same experience."
Chikada Eimi's expression became a little ugly when he looked at her. After a few seconds, she shook her head and said, "I am the one who listens to troubles and solves problems. How can I write a letter to myself? And people like me, from the beginning..."
She didn't know what she was thinking about, her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she stopped making any sound.
Suzuki Sonoko sighed: "In this case, it seems that we can't reversely find the fourth victim from those confession letters. By the way, who is this unfortunate 'TB'? I really want to search for him on the school radio..."
Thinking of this, she suddenly had an idea and looked at Jiang Xia: "Oh right! You are a famous detective, why don't we try our luck in the broadcasting room and see if we can use your face recognition to get them to broadcast a missing person broadcast for a girl whose initials are 'TB'!"
"..." Jiang Xia didn't want to go to the radio, so she quietly dispelled her idea: "Actually, if you think about it carefully, 'TB' may not refer to the initials of a person's name. I heard from classmate Jinda that the 'Vegas Club' was originally modeled after the 'Juliet Club' in Italy. So the names in those threatening letters may also be imitating the story of Romeo and Juliet.
"For example, the 'MG' on the first letter does not refer to the name of the classmate, but also refers to Romeo's family name, Montagues, and the 'CT' on the second letter refers to Juliet's family name, Capulets.
"In the story, because the two families had been enemies for generations, Romeo and Juliet's love was strongly opposed by their respective families, and eventually both of them died. So for Romeo and Juliet, these two surnames are actually enemies.
"By analogy, the 'EC' in the third letter may not refer to Eimi Chikada, but Prince Escalus - not long after Romeo and Juliet got married in private, Juliet's cousin met Romeo and challenged him to a duel. Romeo refused the fight, but his friend thought it was embarrassing and decided to duel with the cousin on his behalf, and was eventually killed.
"Romeo was so angry that he drew his sword to avenge his friend, so he killed Juliet's cousin. After this happened, Prince Escalus decided to banish Romeo from the city."
Suzuki Sonoko listened and couldn't help but sighed: "No matter how many times I watch this love story, it always feels tortuous."
Suddenly she realized something: "Oh, the cousin who is going to duel with Romeo is called 'Tybalt', is TB referring to him?!"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Suzuki Sonoko received his affirmation, and paced excitedly, continuing to reason. Regardless of whether the result was right or not, the reasoning process was very smooth:
"So, to translate it, the meaning of the last threatening letter is that Romeo will kill 'TB' at sunset - the murderer is indeed that rude boy, and he is the only one recognized by the whole school as 'Romeo'! No matter who TB is, catching Kariya Yuto is equivalent to catching the murderer, and the murder will naturally not happen again!"
As she spoke, her blood boiled and she rolled up her sleeves and ran to the library.
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However, when he arrived at the library, the seat of "Romeo" was empty. There were only thick study materials piled on the table, and he was nowhere to be found.
Jiang Xia glanced around and asked the girls nearby.
"'Romeo'?" The girl was indeed paying attention to the school hunk and whispered to him, "He received an email and went out. When he passed by me, I accidentally saw the screen. It seemed that the teacher in charge of further education counseling wanted to see him."
Suzuki Sonoko also squeezed in between them to listen. When she heard this, her eyes suddenly brightened: "It must be the same as the note just now, to create a legitimate excuse for her to leave!"
Conan looked around and asked Jiang Xia: "Where is Chikada Eimi?"
"Yingmei is missing?!" Before Jiang Xia could answer, Suzuki Sonoko was startled.
She suddenly remembered something very scary: "I remember Eimi said that because she learned fencing, she once played Tybalt in a drama, the unlucky cousin killed by Romeo... Could she really be the 'TB' in the letter, who is about to be killed by Kariya Yuto at sunset?!"
The four people looked at each other for a moment, and then Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko rushed out of the library, praying that they could find poor Konda Eimi before the tragedy happened and prevent the murder.
Conan also rushed out quickly, but after running two steps he realized something was wrong, so he turned back and looked at Jiang Xia who seemed to be thinking: "Do you know where they are?"
Jiang Xia came back to his senses and thought: "Since we are going to kill someone at sunset...if it were me, I would definitely choose a place where I can clearly see the sunset."
"What if it's you? You wouldn't kill anyone..." Conan muttered to himself, but remembering that he would sometimes speculate on the criminal's identity and actions, he didn't think much about it and subconsciously looked up at the top of the campus.
Looking so hard, I actually found a thin figure standing on the rooftop of one of the buildings, leaning against the railing.
Conan: “?!”
...Jiang Xia really was right!
(End of this chapter)
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