Chapter 414

"Okita Souji F: I feel like we have been discovered by the Kyoto police."

"Okita-souji N: Maybe it's just a hunch... but I think that officer not only paid attention to the suspect, but also paid some attention to us."

"Fujimaru Ritsuka: ...I understand. From now on, everyone is prohibited from using Chaldea communicators unless necessary, and should use ordinary mobile phones instead. BB will take over everyone's equipment. But everyone please continue to maintain your daily status, especially the three of you in Kyoto. Although my intuition tells me that the problem that this police officer noticed is probably not the problem you think it is. "

"Ah, you three are here too." Olgamari opened the door and motioned the three people outside to enter the room. "Ritsuka has asked BB to take over all the communication equipment - we are now listening to the on-site interrogation situation broadcast by BB. What reason did you use to let Mr. Date stay in the room to think about this case alone?"

"We three are experts in our fields, so we can't just fool around with homicide investigations." Hagiwara Kenji leaned against the closed door and smiled proudly at Olgamari. "How is it? What is the specific situation at the scene over there? We came here to bring breakfast for you magicians who are upside down day and night."

"Thank you - although we are magicians of the astronomical department 'Animusphia', we do not need to observe the movement of stars at night like those astronomers." Kirshtalia projected a tray and motioned them to put the breakfast they brought on it, "not to mention that Chaldea is an observatory that observes the earth from the void."

"That's really a nostalgic statement." Morobushi Kagemitsu smiled and put his breakfast on the tray in Kirshtalia's hand. "We listened to the inquiry broadcast on BB on the way here."

"You're here just in time." Lansemello sat at the table and tilted his head to look at the three people. "The inquiry in Kyoto has just come to an end. While they are on their way, let's sort out the current situation."

"The deceased, Yui Ren, 26 years old, was a member of the 'Okita Souji Club' like the suspects." Matsuda Jinpei, who had a short stint in the Investigation Division, took on the responsibility of sorting out the intelligence in the background of the magicians eating breakfast. "When the three Sabers found his body, he was wearing a Cosplay costume. There was a knife wound in his chest, abdomen and neck. The initial diagnosis was that the cause of death was excessive blood loss."

"The deceased is the organizer of this club - this can be confirmed through the confessions of the suspects and the application materials found by the Kyoto Prefectural Police." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at the magicians who finished their sandwiches and started drinking coffee, and continued, "According to the suspect, this club was established to promote the various charms of Okita Souji portrayed in different works, so every time they go out to shoot, everyone plays the role of Okita Souji."

"It's like a big gathering of Okita Soji from different worlds." Fujimaru Ritsuka, who put down his coffee first, concluded, "Although this scene really happened here - then, we should be able to know which work the deceased played Okita Soji in, right?"

"Ah, according to the information provided by the suspects, the deceased seemed to have dressed up as Okita Souji from a Shinsengumi radio drama recently because someone he knew was listening to that radio drama." Matsuda Jinpei looked at the laptop on the table. BB, who was hiding in the corner, dragged out a picture and put it in the middle of the screen. "It's the character in this picture."

"If it's this face..." Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked in surprise, "It's someone we know!"

“This makes it even more obvious that this world is a higher-dimensional world than any other world we’ve been to before.” Olgamari sighed, and explained to the three people who had not been able to collect any information about the world since they could not act as normal Heroic Spirits, “They are idols that appeared in a certain special point we’ve been to - but they didn’t seem to have any official Shinsengumi activity plans at that time…”

"But they did mention an event related to the Shinsengumi," Fujimaru Ritsuka added, "although it was a one-day event planned for April Fools' Day."

"What is the positioning of that world? It's what you said about the low-dimensional world being expressed in the high-dimensional world in the form of different works..." Morobushi Kagemitsu asked the magicians.

"It should be considered an otome love game." Fujimaru Ritsuka touched his chin and gave the answer with a smile, "Because their focus should be on the composer lady - although she can be dragged into acting out love scenes with other people."

"So, what's the name of the person who plays Okita Souji?" asked Kenji Hagiwara.

"BB, can you help me put up the pictures of other people playing Okita Souji?" Fujimaru Ritsuka asked BB first, and then after BB showed all the pictures, he introduced the three novice Mimic Servants, "Then I will talk about them in the order they introduce themselves."

"The deceased is Yu Jinglian - Feng Yinger."

"Suspect No. 1, Endo Hajime - also a character from an otome romance game, but this game is set against the backdrop of the Shinsengumi, so it's still Okita Souji. By the way, this game is a masterpiece released in 2008, so I played it before entering Chaldea."

"Suspect No. 2, Ayaka Aiba - I think this picture should be self-explanatory. You can tell at a glance that this is our Okita, right?"

"Suspect No. 3, Miyanohara Yuto - he's also a familiar face from that anomaly. But that world isn't a romance game, and this character is from the same generation as the protagonist's father. It's a stage play produced by the Satsuma Mankai Theater Company based on the history of the Shinsengumi, and the actor who plays Okita Souji is Kamisaka Reni."

"Suspect number four, Daisuke Momose - this Okita... looks a lot like An Ning?"

"Ah, you just didn't see this at the time. It was Okita Souji who appeared in a propaganda video of the Government of Time that I would watch when I had night talks with the Watcher." Lansermello added to the introduction of Fujimaru Ritsuka, "It was Okita Souji from a parallel world where Sword Man exists. It's not so much that he looks like Yasuda, but rather that Yasuda looks like him."

"The murder weapon was the victim's own knife. The estimated time of death is between 4 and 6 in the morning..." Morobushi Kagemitsu widened his eyes in surprise and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Well, Ms. Okita and her friends almost ran into the crime scene." Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded to Morobushi Kagemitsu and continued with the information he had already received. "And according to the suspect, the deceased was the first person to leave the filming location yesterday. The four of them returned to the hotel together - these five people and Ms. Okita and her friends were staying in the same hotel."

"And from the time the deceased left until they were called by the police today - they all insisted that they had never seen the deceased again." Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei gathered together and began to brainstorm, "No wonder that Officer Ayanokouji went to search their filming location. Since the others were not wearing makeup, it can be confirmed that their filming today has not started yet."

"So the victim must have been taken away by the murderer after the filming was finished yesterday." Kirshtalia glanced at Lansemero, who was holding a cup with a smile on his face, and decided not to seek help from outsiders to reason. "And they didn't give a detailed account of the filming process. I guess Officer Ayanokouji was going to confirm the situation and the confession at the filming location they visited yesterday."

"Come to think of it, that person must have known the whole story, right?" Watson stood beside Holmes in the detective office in Beika Town, watching the members of the entire office trying to deduce the case. "Aren't you going to ask?"

"Ah, if it's that teacher, she must have seen the answer." William closed his eyes and looked back at Watson, "But this time she can't tell you - after all, there are so many guys who don't belong to this world appearing in this world. If she tells you the answer and uses the magic eye to determine how the murderer committed the crime..."

"We will be excluded by the world's automatic protection mechanism and lose the valuable experience of how to operate the world and reintegrate into normal society."

"So even if more people die later, the two people who can see the past will just keep silent." Holmes looked down at the tip of his shoes and explained to Watson, "According to the laws of this world, at least one more person will die in this fraternity - among the four suspects, there must be another person who is destined to die."

"This is where they shot yesterday." Fumimaro Ayanokouji led a group of people to stop in front of a large red torii gate, and looked back at the suspects who were sandwiched between the students. "The Senbon Torii Gate of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine - please tell me what you did here yesterday. If you can remember the specific time, it is best to tell what time you did it."

"Senbon Torii..." Ms. Okita put her hands in the pockets of her blue down jacket, and her eyes passed over Okita-kun in a light pink down jacket and fell on the suspects. "Speaking of which, when you were planning the filming schedule, what were the reasons for choosing the filming location?"

"It was Momose's idea to shoot at Senbon Torii." The slender man wearing thin-framed glasses explained to Ms. Okita, "The background story of the character he plays, Okita Souji, is that in the future of 2205, in order to protect history, a figure called the Judge led the swordsmen back to the past to fight against the army of historical revisionists, and met Okita Souji at Ikedaya."

"Miyahara is right." Daisuke Momose opened his phone and found a group photo of the five people taken yesterday under the Vermillion Torii and showed it to everyone. "In the setting of that game, the player will play the role of a judge, so when we agreed to shoot in Kyoto this time, I mentioned to everyone that we wanted to shoot at the Senbon Torii."

"Why?" Hattori Heiji frowned in confusion.

"The total length of the Thousand Torii Gates is several kilometers." Okita-kun stared at the endless layers of Torii Gates in front of him and explained, "The Torii Gates symbolize the entrance to the divine realm. If you are shooting a video work, you can also use it to express the plot of passing through the Torii Gates and arriving at another world."

"After all, according to the setting of that game, the Judge and the Sword Man don't live in the real world, right?"