Chapter 171



Chapter 171

Day 2 of the recording schedule for "Apron boy&Spoon Girl" and "5 Centimeters Away from You".

Seven o'clock in the morning.

"I'm going out."

Members from both villas left the group villa at the same time. Among them, the member of "Apron boy & Spoon Girl" who left the villa was Shirou Emiya. He had to complete a mission today to get extra food supplies for his companions. In addition, three members of "5 Centimeters to Heart" were going to work at the same place and were driving a van to move the venue together.

However, in addition to these three people, there is also a Fujimaru Ritsuka in the van - they are going to the studio of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" to shoot a new episode of the show.

In the previous few seasons, the scripts of Moriarty and Watson were too difficult, resulting in a large number of guests voting incorrectly and entering a filming cool-down period, leaving the program team with no one available, so that the current candidate range of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" has expanded to idols who have nothing to do with reasoning programs.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the training camp members who were temporarily unemployed got up and began morning exercises; Shirou Emiya had already used the spirit particle transfer to run to the special point to collect food; the four people in the van also arrived on time outside the photo studio of "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" and began to line up and wait for the costume designer and makeup artist to come and style them.

"Are all the detectives this time recruited from outside?" The two Sherlock Holmes who stayed from the previous episode turned to Watson who was sitting in the writing team and asked him the moment they saw the four people's appearance. "We only know that since there is no one else available to shoot, the current guests are recommended by other guests...but I didn't expect you to let the first-timer be the detective."

"You have to have faith in Li Xiang." William, who had just been followed by the director to review his clues, walked out of the venue with a smile and spoke with Watson, "After all, she is a student taught by Holmes himself. To put it in an exaggerated way, even if the detective has no brains, he can pass as long as he follows her, right?"

"Wait wait wait Mr. William!" Ritsuka Fujimaru, who came over in the uniform of a detective assistant, screamed in panic and began to clarify to this issue's detective, "You are exaggerating so much that I feel you are trying to flatter me!! My ability is definitely not as exaggerated as Mr. Holmes!!! Today's detective is still responsible for solving the case, right?!!"

"Nice to meet you. I'm Tsukioka Tsumugi, the leader of the Winter Team of the Mankai Theater Company, and also the detective for this episode." Walking beside Fujimaru Ritsuka, Tsukioka smiled and simply greeted the three people who voted correctly last episode and stayed, then took Fujimaru Ritsuka to find the directors to go through the opening scene, "Director, I'm here——"

"Oh, you're here too." Otomiya Hiiragi, who was standing with Tachibana Yukio, heard Tsukioka Tsukioka's voice greeting Tachibana Izumi, and turned to raise an eyebrow at him, "The scriptwriter has given this episode's detective to you - try to get the correct vote and stay. If you only get eliminated in one round, Reihito and I will feel embarrassed."

"It's more embarrassing for you to call me 'Reijin'." Kamisaka Reni showed a look of disdain towards Otomiya Hiiragi, but when Tsukioka Tsumugi and Fujimaru Ritsuka arrived in front of them, he still took a serious attitude towards the two of them, "Have you read the character settings and background settings? If you are familiar with them, go to Ritsuka's daughter and pick an appearance method to try it out."

The background setting of this case is close to the fictional background of Western fantasy, but compared with orthodox Western fantasy, it is closer to the world of magicians familiar to Fujimaru Ritsuka - however, due to the need for case reasoning, in this world, or in other words, the method of creating the case, the means that directly led to the death of the deceased are not magic in the cognition of ordinary people, that is, "magic" and "magic", the two forces that cause miracles.

The characters of Tsukioka Tsurugi and Fujimaru Ritsuka are an alchemist and an alchemy apprentice - they are not the kind of alchemists that Fujimaru Ritsuka knows, but the kind of alchemists that ordinary people know, who perform the Midas Touch and try to copy the Sage's Stone of Paracelsus.

The case took place in the auditorium of a magic school. During the opening ceremony, the principal died suddenly and his body fell to pieces on the stage of the auditorium. After investigation, the suspects were narrowed down to four teachers and a student. Ritsuka Fujimaru and Tsukioka Tsumabuchi, who had just arrived at the school and had perfect alibis, became detectives in this case to investigate the case.

"...Is this case really that simple?" Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the screenwriters gathered on the other side with suspicion, and then looked at the actors who had confirmed their clues and came to the opening position to wait for the filming to begin. "I remember that the second case written by William really made Holmes a suspect, right? You shouldn't adjust the difficulty because the voting error rate is too high, right?"

"...Don't be prejudiced." Tachibana Izumi patted Fujimaru Ritsuka's shoulder, his expression as if he was about to say something, "Ignore the interference of outside information and observe this case as the 'alchemy apprentice' Ritsuka. Get ready, we are about to start - three, two, one."

"Action!"

On April 9, U319, during the opening ceremony of SDA "Shining Dream Academy" and the opening ceremony of the centenary celebration, the principal, Olf, died unexpectedly in public. Alchemist Izumi and his apprentice Ritsuka, who were invited by the principal to teach, were late because of an accident on the school bus, and they didn't know what happened in the school for the time being.

"Fortunately, the train only had a minor problem, otherwise we would have missed the SDA's centennial celebration." Ritsuka followed behind Izumi with a suitcase in hand, her steps brisk as a girl. "By the way, didn't Principal Wolf say he would come out to pick you up, Master?"

"The school celebration has already begun. As the principal, Olf cannot stay outside. Let's go in by ourselves." Izumi took the suitcase from Ritsuka's hand and answered her question with a smile, "Give me the suitcase, Ritsuka. You are such a thoughtful and good kid."

Izumi led Ritsuka into the school gate, but what greeted them inside the campus was a deathly silence.

“The auditorium is this way, right… wooooa ...

The moment Ritsuka pushed open the door of the auditorium for Izumi, she saw a strange scene - in the empty auditorium, there were only scattered blocks on the stage that could not be identified, and five people with their mouths gagged and tied in the middle of the first row of seats; other than that, the huge auditorium was empty.

"Is this... Principal Olf!?" Izumi, who followed Ritsuka into the auditorium, trotted to the stage after noticing that Ritsuka's attention was focused on the five people in the first row. He instructed Ritsuka to inquire about the situation, "Ritsuka, tear off the muting stickers for them first and ask them what happened here. Don't let them go yet. Since they are tied up here, they must have some problems."

"What happened here? How did the principal die here?" Ritsuka obediently tore off the five people's silence stickers, and just stood in front of them and started asking questions, "Why are you tied up here? Where are the students and teachers? Oh, by the way, you should introduce yourself before asking questions..."

Ritsuka shyly turned his head away, shook his hair and introduced himself to the five people with a smile: "I am Ritsuka, an alchemy apprentice. I am the disciple of alchemist Izumi who was invited by Principal Olf to come to SDA to teach alchemy. My master and I were late because the school bus had an accident on the road."

"We were tied up by teachers and students who witnessed the death of the principal at the school celebration because we didn't have proof of presence at the school celebration." The scholar with dark blue hair that was almost black looked calm even when he was tied to a chair. "So unfortunately, I'm afraid we can't answer your other questions."

"If we can't find out, we can just search directly." Tsukioka Tsumugi stepped out of Izumi's character, smiled and waved the small black writing board in her hand to the people below the stage, cleared her throat and began to read the case report with great momentum, "It is now April 9th ​​of U319, and a murder occurred during the opening ceremony of SDA's 'Shining Dream Academy' and the opening ceremony of its centennial anniversary celebration."

"The deceased Olf died on the stage in front of everyone, his limbs and body scattered everywhere like a ball-jointed puppet being violently disassembled." This was said by the alchemist Quan. Quan pointed at the five people in the first row of seats with the pen that came with the writing board, "Please pay attention! There is no blood on the stage, not even a drop."

"It is not possible to make a preliminary determination on the cause of death."

"As for the suspect..."

"Since there are only these five people here, let's just treat them as suspects." Fujimaru Ritsuka leaned against the edge of the stage and laughed wildly at the five people sitting in the first row of seats. "Anyway, it's impossible to find anyone else to testify."

"When did our show become so casual!?" Sherlock yelled.

"Let's talk about something serious." Tsukioka Tsumugi on the stage also broke down at this moment, and asked the five people who were tied up while laughing, "The one about not having 'proof of presence' is very interesting. Can you tell me more about it? By the way, you don't have 'proof of presence', so do you have any alibis?"

"Oh my god, you guys have never won the Mankai Manzai Contest!?"

"He won. The champion of the second Mankai Manzai Contest is 'Cotton Tsumugi'." Fujimaru Ritsuka, who got to know a lot of inside information about the Mankai troupe after getting acquainted with Tachibana Izumi at the producer's meeting, broke the news loudly on the spot, "Who would believe that a person who went to the judges' seat in the first contest because he said he didn't understand comedy could win the championship in the second contest!"

"Stop talking, stop talking." Tsukioka Tsumugi looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka standing under the stage with a smile and patted the writing board, "Ritsuka, please help them untie them - let's go to the school gate and listen to your statements of your alibi and your 'presence', as well as your timeline."

"This is the first time that 'on-site proof' is required."

"Did your hand get rubbed?"

"It's okay. The staff tied it up pretty loosely."

“I feel like this episode is going to be fun.”

"The screenwriter made a big mistake."

"I knew they were just going to get more excited the more they wrote."


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