Chapter 163

All in all, because of the requirement that all Chaldea members must gather enough idol elements for the decoration work within the time limit, they still worked very hard to digest the strange jobs that Fujimaru Ritsuka took over from other offices - for example, there was Da Vinci taking the magicians out to build a giant castle, and here there was a group of Moriarty who were writing mystery scripts.

——Yes, although Fujimaru Ritsuka only recommended this job to William, Moriarty still persuaded Molly* to join him in the process.

The innocent and foolish college student can never beat his old self - Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the Moriarty area that was temporarily separated from Holmes for the sake of the program effect of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"", and instantly began to miss the days when Watson was the boss of Holmes and Moriarty.

Besides, in addition to these behind-the-scenes work, Fujimaru Ritsuka actually has a certain number of on-camera performance opportunities in his hands - but the selection is more demanding.

"...Hmm...the list of servants who will be active in this anomaly for a long time should be excluded." Fujimaru Ritsuka flipped through the Heroic Spirit data in his hand, worriedly, while sending Shakespeare and Andersen, who were a little idle, to the opening scene of "The show must go on", "Considering the office——"

"It's time to connect with the two parties who were not connected in the previous work - no one wants to come up with new dramas or new songs, otherwise they wouldn't spontaneously establish a licensing agreement limited to members of various agencies within Special Point to cover each other's songs."

For this purpose, Fujimaru Ritsuka selected two groups of members who currently had no other performances except their debut performance to go out for work - one group was to rehearse with the campus idols so that they could perform at their concerts; the other group was to go to Amemura to look around them and help her confirm if there were any members who could participate in the project that had just been approved by the producers' meeting.

Of course, Fujimaru Ritsuka also paid a little more attention to the only person she knew, Amura Ransu - the team she arranged to visit Amura Ransu was the Argo Club where Asclepius was.

After sending these two groups out of Chaldea and bidding farewell to Mashu, who was also a member of the "Garden of Fairy" team, Fujimaru Ritsuka temporarily stopped his work and went to watch the three Moriartis' efforts in the library, which had temporarily become Moriarti's exclusive area.

—Or perhaps, strictly speaking, two…one Moriarty’s creation.

At that time, the three directors on the set all said that Minamiki Tsurumi had too much work on hand and was no longer busy with this matter. Minamiki Tsurumi, who was originally on standby at the set ready to start writing the script anytime and anywhere, canceled his work plan on "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" - but he immediately returned to Mankai Theater to perform "Young Alice in Wonderland". Not only did he not rest, he also started polishing the opening script of "The show must go on" according to his originally busy schedule.

Minamiki Tsunayoshi had already written the opening script, but the actors in charge of the opening performance were all first-generation actors - so every time these seniors had some new ideas that fit the character's personality, he had to stay up late to revise the script, ensuring that the script content was updated and improved in real time so as not to delay their rehearsal progress.

Then, the script work for the first season of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" naturally fell to William, who was recommended by Fujimaru Ritsuka. As a guest of the first season, Kiriya Aoi avoided suspicion and did not participate in the early preparations; but the three directors obviously understood the importance of a good beginning.

So, after receiving the identities written down by the guests participating in the first season of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"", Fujimaru Ritsuka entrusted the work to William with strange requests from the directors as the client - although it was not an outrageous request like the colorful black and colorful white that has become a cliché, it was indeed very strange.

When Fujimaru Ritsuka walked into the library and found that William had not started writing yet - as a member of the eliminated group who could not participate in the filming of the first season, she instantly became curious about the case of the first season.

After all, if William could write a script that met the director's requirements, the first episode of the show would definitely be quite exciting - because the directors' requirements for the first episode are that it should be a big case. The detective who solves the case does not need to have the performance of Sherlock Holmes, but the murderer's crime process must at least be at the level of any one of the Moriarty criminal group to be qualified.

After all, Moriarty was able to successfully motivate Molly to make trouble for the real culprit story line of the case - after all, they are all "Moriarty", the Napoleon of the criminal world... The result is naturally that everyone's ideas are good, but unfortunately no one will choose ideas other than their own.

"Ritsuka, can you tell us a little bit about the director's idea?" William, who saw Fujimaru Ritsuka walk into the library, ignored Moriarty and Molly who were arguing in front of him, and asked her with a smile, "I have two script plans now. One is to shoot only one episode and then end, and the other is a version that can continue to use the background and directly start the second case."

"Let me ask Mr. Yukio."

Ritsuka Fujimaru took out a special-point-produced cell phone from her pocket and called Yukio Tachibana, who was sitting at the opening theater of "The show must go on" as the first-generation supervisor of the Mankai Theater Company and watching the opening play. It was not that she wanted to disturb the atmosphere of the theater, but she had been exposed to them for a long time and had completely figured out the character of these drama idiots from the Mankai Theater Company.

——If I send a message directly, I'm afraid Tachibana Yukio won't see the message until the next time he meets her. It would be better to call him and tell him.

Fortunately, in the opening performance of "The show must go on", the only member of the first generation Mankai, Yukio Tachibana, was sitting in the audience - otherwise, when his cell phone rang, the ridicule of Reni Kamisaka would have reached his ears faster than the voice on the other end of the phone.

After discussing with Tachibana Yukio over the phone, Fujimaru Ritsuka took out a thick hardcover book and slapped it on the backs of Molly and Moriarty, forcibly interrupting their quarrel. Then he turned his gaze to William and got straight to the point to inform him of the director's choice -

"Your name has been moved to the waiting list for case number three."

"That means we should write about two cases." William got the answer from Fujimaru Ritsuka's words and smiled as he turned the pen in his hand. "Then we can write some very interesting arrangements - for example, the detective is also a suspect."

——Ah, indeed, compared to the other two Moriartys, William is better at trapping Holmes. When the case of "A Study in Scarlet" in their world happened, the name written by the deceased was even Sherlock... Yes, this case was a trap set by William for Sherlock from the beginning.

"So what kind of story are you going to write?" After there might not be any candidate list for assistant detective in the second season due to the program requirements, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was also excluded from the participating members, looked at William with interest, "The participating guests are replaced by the voting results of each season. That is to say, if someone voted wrong in the first season, they will not be the original members in the second season--"

"There's no rush for the second season. After all, the easiest way to exit is to make the person who voted incorrectly the dead." William smiled gently at Fujimaru Ritsuka, while simultaneously starting to outline the script. "Since the number of characters is limited, and the plot needs to be exciting and the relationships between the characters are complex, then the most suitable crime scene is the blizzard manor mode."

"As for the relationships between the characters... I think you should have some ideas?"

"Considering the effect of the program, I think it's better if everyone's identity is not related to each other on the surface." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the identities chosen by the six participants and decisively chose to abandon his brain. "But as we search layer by layer, we can find that everyone has a grudge against the deceased - and the suspects may know each other, or they may not know each other, but cooperate to complete the whole case."

"Indeed, it's like Irene saying to Sherlock, 'Good evening, Mr. Holmes.' Who wouldn't like to see such a reversal?" William nodded in agreement and circled the self-selected identity belonging to Holmes. "Since this is the first case, the detective's reputation must be greater. Besides, only 'Sherlock Holmes' can solve the mystery of 'Moriarty'."

"Beekeeper... Mr. Watson must be the local guide he hired to help him lead the bee colonies to chase flowers and collect nectar."

The detective was a blank character with no background in the first case, and everyone was very confident that Holmes could rely on his accuracy to stay in the case - so much so that when William started writing the character, he began to lay the groundwork for the detective to be used as a suspect in the second case.

"For the suspect, let's use the way the deceased died to determine the specific character - then we need to determine the location first." William looked through the characters chosen by other participants and successfully got the corresponding inspiration from them. "Since it is a classic blizzard manor, we can just have a group of strangers gather in an abandoned mansion in the blizzard..."

For William, conspiracy, a non-public crime, is not something he does often, but it is also a type of consulting commission he often takes on - after all, helping powerless civilians to retaliate against lawless nobles is not something that is suitable to be shown to the world.

The Moriarty Plan was to conduct public opinion trials and murders of the nobles through a large number of performance crimes in order to guide the normal nobles and civilians to transfer their fear and vigilance to the behind-the-scenes manipulator they pushed to the front - the Lord of Crime "James Moriarty", so that the British society at that time could achieve cross-class cooperation...

In short, William is very good at arranging the identities and backgrounds of some dead people whose deaths are not worth regretting - in a sense, it perfectly meets the script requirement that everyone wants to kill the dead, which is really commendable.