Chapter 1787 1794 [Cherishing Life Wuzo]
The setting sun, close to the horizon, dyed the rooftop golden.
In the almost dazzling colors, Eimi Chikada and Yuto Kariya stood facing each other a few meters apart, their expressions more serious than the other.
The utility knife was raised in the air, the tip of the knife reflecting cold light. Just as it was about to stab the target, the next moment, the door to the rooftop was suddenly pushed open with a bang.
"Eimi!" Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko rushed in, and then looked at the scene in front of them and were stunned at the same time.
——Unlike what one might have imagined, the person holding the knife was not "Romeo", but Eimi Konda who was sitting opposite him.
The girl wrapped the blade of the knife with a handkerchief, as if she didn't want to leave fingerprints on the knife, and the tip of the knife was facing herself, as if it would stab into her neck at the next moment.
Jiang Xia walked around the two frightened female classmates and took a look at the knife in Chikada Eimi's hand. He said with rare sincerity: "Life is the most precious treasure. Never commit suicide at any time."
Suzuki Sonoko didn't come back to her senses until she heard his voice. She looked at Konda Eimi in shock, with a bewildered look on her face: "What are you doing, Eimi?"
Mao Lilan had been exposed to more cases since she was a child, and her reaction was faster than Suzuki Sonoko's. She couldn't believe it: "Ms. Eimi, are you... are you using us?"
Chikada Eimi gritted her teeth and looked at them with a complicated expression, saying nothing.
She didn't say anything, and I couldn't just stand on the rooftop waiting for her.
Jiang Xia looked at her watch and said for her, "We just arrived downstairs of your school today and 'happened' to see you being attacked in the activity room. This must have been something you planned carefully - come to think of it, inviting friends to your school but not going downstairs to pick them up, but standing in the activity room waiting for people to find them, this itself is a bit strange. This is our first time to your school, aren't you worried that the guests will get lost?
Suzuki Sonoko finally came back to her senses: "So, at that time, it was Eimi who deliberately asked someone to attack me at that time, wanting us to see it?"
Jiang Xia shook her head: "There was no 'looking for someone', it was a one-man show directed and performed by herself. From the angle we were standing at the time, we couldn't see what was going on inside the room at all. She just stood by the window and leaned back, pretending to be dragged down by someone, and then she could disappear from the window naturally. Then she hid in the house and cut her hair with the utility knife she had stolen from 'Romeo' in advance to create the illusion of being attacked.
"Since it was an 'attack', the attacker would not have left the box cutter there. So after confirming that we had entered the building, you immediately stood up and threw the box cutter into the flowerbed downstairs, making the weapon disappear from the room. Then you could retrieve it later. If you check the flowerbed below the window now, you should be able to see the marks left by the box cutter on the soil.
"Those threatening letters, the pranks on the girls who liked Romeo, and the letter asking Kariya Yuto to return the box cutter behind the gymnasium, were all written by you. You planned to blame Romeo for all these things, and you, as the fourth victim, TB, would be killed by Romeo at sunset, so that he would be charged with murder."
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko did not expect such a bold move and were stunned when they heard it.
Conan had already guessed the truth. So now, instead of reasoning, he looked up at Jiang Xia and thought: "..." Facing this girl who seemed to have gone to extremes because of the pain of unrequited love, Jiang Xia didn't speak as softly as he used to. Could it be...
Does he really dislike people who commit suicide?
Obviously he himself... But thinking about it this way, Conan felt a lot more relieved: it is said that people who commit suicide will either kill with all their might, becoming more and more courageous until they succeed, or they will realize the preciousness of life in that state of being on the verge of death and start to cherish life again.
Now it seems that Jiang Xia must be the latter. This is really a relief.
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Kariya Yuto obviously didn't expect that Konda Eimi would do such a thing. He was silent for a long time before he uttered, "You dragged me into this for no reason. Are you mentally ill?"
"Inexplicable?" Kinda Eimi smiled bitterly:
"Have you forgotten that I wrote to you a month ago and wanted to meet you. You clearly agreed, but you didn't show up at the agreed place.
"I always thought that you were interrupted by something important. But not long ago, when I passed by the classroom door, I found you and a few boys laughing at me. You even made a bet with me about whether I would go that day and how long I would stay... It was only then that I remembered that the 'Romeo' I admired, although he later began to concentrate on his studies, was just a vulgar gangster who did all kinds of evil things before."
Kariya Yuto was suddenly exposed and sneered, "I am a low-class scoundrel who does all kinds of evil things. Then what are you? Those silly girls wrote to you to confide in you because they trusted you, but you took advantage of this to select rivals from among them and play pranks on them.
"Do you really have to use them to complete your plan, or are you using them to serve your own interests and hide your dark thoughts against your love rival? - Hum, after all, what Romeo and Juliet... Immersing yourself in such an illusory drama, isn't this stupid!"
"And these two idiots." He suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, then looked at Chikada Eimi:
"Do you think it's hard to distinguish suicide from murder? Even if the murder weapon was my box cutter, the angle of the blood splatter, the location of the blood splatter, the fingerprints blurred by the handkerchief... As long as I protect the scene, the police will definitely be more willing to close the case as suicide.
"When the time comes, your two friends will start shouting around, saying that I killed you, and then there will be ironclad evidence to prove that they are making false accusations, and soon it will be known that they were actually part of your facilitation of suicide... Haha, I am indeed a bastard, but how much better can you be!"
Chikada Eimi listened in silence, her expression becoming increasingly ugly.
After hearing the last part, she suddenly clenched the knife in her hand, looked at Kariya Yuto opposite her with a gloomy face, and rushed towards him with the knife raised.
“…Wait, wait!”
The stunned Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko finally came to their senses. Mao Lilan instinctively rushed forward at a speed so fast that it was hard to see clearly. She raised her hand and blocked between Konda Eimi and "Romeo": "No matter what, you can't commit suicide. There is no need to send yourself to jail to avenge such a person!"
Suzuki Sonoko also ran over quickly. No matter what Chikada Eimi had done, it was hard for the two high school girls to ignore the fact that this living person in front of them might die soon or kill someone.
(End of this chapter)
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