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"But unfortunately, this is a lie."

Shiiya's voice sounded in the closed bookstore.

It is still faint, but with a sharpness that pierces the veil.

Mio Ito stared at him without any shock on his face, and tilted his head slightly.

However, in her heart, like a drizzle of rain, messy thoughts reverberated.

...he really does.

... He really, saw through the deepest part of his heart, what he didn't want to say.

...It was only the second meeting, but this young man seemed to become the person who knew him best in the world.

...Even, he knows himself better than his father.

When it should be a time of panic, he is like a lost person who has been given a blow in front of the Buddha.

However, unbelievably, I felt a little peace of mind.

Mio Ito couldn't help but smiled.

"……Why do you say that?"

She asked softly, with subtle expectations in her tone.

As if looking forward to Xigu's answer, it will really reach the deepest corner of my heart.

Xi Gu didn't explain directly, he pondered and said calmly:

"Humans are creatures who are accustomed to lying... Whether it is to others or to themselves, they are used to covering up with lies. However, no matter what kind of lie, there must be loopholes-even if it is not a loophole in the words, it is also a lie. Will show up in the signs of a liar.

"...Lies will be reflected in changes in blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin resistance, as well as in brain electrical activity and hormone secretion. As long as you can observe from a very subtle point, you can see the truth behind the lie.

"So... Excuse me, Miss Mio, when you told me just now, when you talked about being bullied and cruelly abused on campus, why did the hormones and bioelectricity in your body show emotions that were not panic... but instead A touch of joy?"

Changes in bioelectricity and secretion of hormones?

Mio Ito's eyes widened a little, showing obvious mood swings for the first time.

Can anyone really observe such a subtle place?

However, such questions only hovered in my mind for some reason. For some reason, in the strangely dark atmosphere of this tightly locked bookstore, Mio Ito had a feeling that anything that happened here would not appear abrupt. Feel.

Seeing that Mio Ito didn't answer his question, Shitani's voice sounded again.

"...First, let's start with the beginning of Ms. Mio's story—just now you said that when you were in elementary school, a classmate brutally killed the rabbit raised by the class. But in the end, it was your father Hiroshi Ito After a thorough investigation and clarification, the real murderer was finally found.

"Then, I want to ask——Actually... who really killed that rabbit?"

Shitani stared at Mio Ito with clear eyes.

There is neither good nor evil in his eyes, his eyes are like frozen stars, looking down on everything in front of him with an equal attitude.

In a trance, Mio Ito felt that behind this man was a big tree that reached into the clouds. The roots of the big tree went deep into the ground, and the crown of the tree stood side by side with the sun and the moon. Rules, listening to their secrets, or confessions, with eternal indifference.

...that is...a greatness beyond all.

Mio Ito suddenly understood what kind of existence Shigu was.

Her gaze became dazed, and within the narrow room of the bookstore, suddenly there was a sense of emptiness as wide as space.

So, in that sense of emptiness, Mio Ito gently spoke the truth:

"...that murderer is myself."

"So, did you transfer the identity of this 'murderer' to another classmate?"

"That's right."

"who's that person?"

"She is... Miya Mineyama."

...

Mizuhara Manami was still lying on the cold concrete floor.

With the passage of time, the pain on her body has basically subsided, but Mizuhara Manami did not notice the changes in her body. Her heart was immersed in the story told by Miya Miya in a malicious tone. Got goosebumps one by one.

"... At that time, I was still in the second grade, and I was in the same class as Mio Ito in elementary school. However, the identities between the two of us were very different in the class-it was completely different from me now. At that time, I She is the most beautiful girl in the class and the center of the group. Although she is usually so proud that her eyes are high above her head, she will blush when the plasticine is handed over by a boy. Hehe...

"...However, Ito Mio is different. She is just a marginal person in the class, neither bullied nor popular. She spends her whole day in the last seat of the classroom reading her own book. So, it happened at that time "The Rabbit Death Incident". Originally, the whole class agreed that it was her, but fortunately she had a stupid police father who stood up and made a generous statement, but no one believed that she was the real murderer.

"...At first everyone thought that the matter was over. But one day, when I came to the school, I found that the things on my desk seemed to have been moved. At that time, I thought it was just an illusion.

"But just a few days later, the policeman suddenly said that he had caught the murderer. He dug out the bloody scissors hidden in the soil according to the shoe prints leading to the mountain behind the school, that was the 'murder weapon', and, Judging by the shoe prints and the dirt marks on the soles in the shoe cabinet, that pair of shoes belonged to me.

"...I believe that this matter is not the idiot policeman who wanted to frame me. Because he came to me after he found out that I was a 'murderer'. I preach, I don't want the identity of the real murderer to be announced.

"...However, my character does not allow myself to be humiliated like this, so I made a big fuss and disclosed the whole thing, but I didn't gain the trust of my classmates and teachers, and with the endorsement of the police, I let everyone Everyone thinks that I am the real murderer. I want to frame Ito Mio, who is the most marginalized in the class. The police have always been extremely tolerant, but the more tolerant I am, the more suspicion I receive. In a few days, my status fell from the sky to the ground, as if I had sunk into the abyss, and everywhere I went, there were only white eyes and slander, because everyone said so, even I felt like I had become a 'sinner'. It wasn't until the end that my father also deliberately transferred work because of my affairs, and took me to another city to transfer to another city. Only then did the turmoil gradually subside.

"...but how could I forget that pain?

"In the following time, while I was confused that I was a 'sinner', I was unwilling to live with the unwillingness that I had done nothing. Gradually, these two emotions were intertwined, and I could no longer bear the routine. My school life—became a well-known delinquent. Fortunately, my father’s career skyrocketed and he became an entrepreneur. It kept me from becoming one of those lowest-level sissies.”

Fengshan Meiya's voice was bleak and cold.

"Growing up all those years, I kept collecting things about Mio Ito - her indiscriminate idiot policeman father died; her mom had a weird religion, and she herself was bullied all the time...lol , It’s true that evil comes with evil. Her unfortunate life is the source of my happiness, and even gradually healed the wounds in my heart, so that I can look down on her from a high place.” When I graduated from junior high school, I no longer waited, passed At the request of my father, I transferred to Jingtai Gakuen, which is the high school where Ito Mio attended. I wanted to experience the pleasure of this kind of status crushing up close. It is because of her... that I am what I am today. . But even this way is much better than her. "

Manami Mizuhara listened all the way, listening to these unbelievable things.

She wanted to refute, but felt that her throat was weak, perhaps because she had already faintly believed in her heart that everything this bad girl said was true.

... She had no reason to lie, nor an incentive to lie to herself.

But……

Even so, Mana Mizuhara searched hard and finally found some loopholes in what Miya Mineyama said:

"...Even so...you were framed in elementary school...it doesn't mean Mio-senpai did it..."

"……hehe."

Fengshan Meiya sneered.

"...Do you think I won't have doubts about this matter? In fact, on the eve of my transfer, I once found Mio Ito and asked her the truth of the matter."

"Senior Mio, she..."

"—she admitted that she did all of this."

"..."

Mizuhara Mana listened feebly, as if she was listening to some strange tale from beyond the sky.

No……

Can't just give up like this...

I still have to trust Mio-senpai...

"But... Even so... After you came to Jingtai Academy, why did you still bully senior sister to such an extent? Didn't you say that you just want to 'experience the pleasure of being crushed by status'?"

Facing Manami Mizuhara's questioning, Miya Mineyama was silent for a while.

After a while, her voice sounded again.

But with a strong resentment and resentment.

"Of course, I returned to Jingtai Academy just to watch Ito Mio being tortured and bullied at close range - in fact, I just wanted to bully her a little in the first few days when I came back, such as pouring a bucket of cold water Drenching her head, or punching her in the stomach.

"But pretty soon, I stopped playing around like this.

"Because, I found out that the birthmark girl... that guy, she never really felt pain. For any physical torture and trauma, she has always enjoyed it!"