innocence method

"Hey, little brother. I've endured it for a long, long, long, long time—I'm going to explode if I endure it any longer." Hearing the monkey's exaggerated words, Qi Qing couldn't help leaning back against the back of the chair nervously. .

"—Tell me, why on earth did Jelly cover up the dog?"

what.Seven breathed a sigh of relief.He was just about to answer.

"—Let me answer this question." The wolf standing aside said.

"Although I guessed it too. However, the kid didn't want to protect the 'dog'. He did it to protect——you."

"Right, Seven?"

For a moment the monkey stared at Qi.If Seven hadn't known that Jelly was a boy, he would have thought it was jealousy.

"Is that obvious?" he asked next.

"Hmph." The wolf sneered. "Then why should jelly protect him?" the monkey chased after him.This time, the wolf shrugged.

"Then it's up to the brat to say—and the cause of death for the jelly and the cow."

"Yesterday morning, it was true that a person followed another person into the yard, and the cow was indeed killed by jelly."

"Isn't that the same reasoning as the wolf before?"

"—However, it is not the jelly that the ox follows, but the cow that is followed by the jelly. The order of being stabbed is not the jelly first, the cow second."

"...You! Isn't it almost like—"

It's not just like that.Qi worriedly looked at his monkey with his eyes wide open as if he had swallowed some explosive substance.

"Jelly came into the snow to kill cows."

That day, Jelly followed the cow into the snow in order to prevent the cow from doing something. No, it is more likely that - Jelly lured the cow here in some way - because she needs the important thing of snow. props.

"Ahaha, where do you think you can escape to?"

"Hey...no way...hey...what do you mean..."

"'What do you mean'?" The girl slightly raised her elbow, and planted a soft kiss on the knife in her hand like the snow falling around her. "It means—please go to death!"

"Wait a minute," the wolf, who was different from the monkey, interrupted Qi with a calm tone, "Jelly was stabbed to death from behind. According to your logic, the only one who can kill jelly is... "

"No, it wasn't the bird that killed Jelly." Although he answered the wolf's question, Seven couldn't help but glance towards the monkey—"Jelly committed suicide."

……

After 5 minutes, the teenager still failed to regain his composure.The hard shell that had just camouflaged the wound seemed to be open again. Even though the wolf held down his shoulders in time, the chair under the boy still made a rattling sound.

"Definitely explain it to me—you hear me!"

"If you don't understand something, or make a mistake——I will definitely kill you!"

——Under the pressure of both arms of the wolf, the boy yelled.

That guy finally stopped moving... This kind of thing is considered cheap for him to die like this. The girl flicked her wrist to lightly shake off the blood drops on the blade.

After taking the cold medicine with hypnotic effect that had been prepared long ago, the girl took out a carefully selected table knife that was just right in terms of length and hardness.

The girl sneezed as she firmly fixed the knife point upwards on the ground.Hold your head up, the snow is getting bigger and bigger.The lights of the gym in the distance are still on, soft and warm, although all you can see here is a streak of orange leaking from the crack in the door—I really want to be in that warm light.The girl sighed.The white breath immediately overflowed, like a butterfly unwilling to land on her shoulders, following the trail of the white and silent descent in the surrounding area, it rose gently into the air.

Sleepiness strikes in due course.The girl couldn't feel any chill anymore - she didn't forget to take off the pale cream princess dress she liked very much, and the girl lay down quietly, lying on the tip of the knife that had been buried in the snow.

The snow in the surroundings swirled around her like confetti on a stage.As if she were the princess in the center of the world.

The lights of the gymnasium in the distance are reflected in her eyes - this is the sleeping place chosen by the princess.

Good night……

Now, even if you are not very smart, you finally understand who I am.Big brother.

"Are you saying that Jelly fixes the knife on the ground and then lays on it to create the illusion of murder? This view is even more strange. When I found him, that device didn't exist. Could it be that you want to say that the device is The snow itself—I can only say that I am sorry, you are wrong: the hardness of the snow is absolutely impossible to fix the knife and other people's bodies and not fall down." Having experienced the previous two cases, this time the wolf Much more cautious in rebuttals.

"This question is very simple. Wolf, did you ever have a snowball fight when you were a child?"

"..."

"During the snowball fights when I was a child, just roll the snowball in the water and it will become a super powerful secret weapon - a dozen green balls."

"I think jelly does the same thing, roll a snowball in water and it turns into a half-frozen ice cube - stick a knife in it and let it dry in the cold air, and the knife freezes very quickly. "——With the thinness of the table knife, the pressure should be so strong that it can easily penetrate the body of the jelly—"And after that, the 'device' of the fixed knife will also melt away as you said, leaving no trace Traces.” — After all, the device is made of jelly.

"Hmm..." The wolf narrowed his eyes slightly. "Even so, it still doesn't make sense." He suppressed his disapproval: "According to what you said, the jelly died at least half an hour after the cow. But the bodies of those two people were found at the bottom of the snow at the same depth. Ah, you won't—tsk." The wolf closed his eyes suddenly, Qi almost thought he bit off his tongue with this "tsk".

"Just for this? That kid is too scary."

Yes, just to allow himself to slowly sink into the bottom layer of the cow-like snow, Jelly took hypnotizing drugs, took off his clothes, and made a solid and stable, but also time-delayed suicide device.As he lay down on the snow bed, falling into a sleep from which he would never wake up, his body temperature slowly melted the snow beneath him.Even when the snow melted enough to sink into the body, the boy continued to sleep and his body continued to sink until the blood flowed from that body completely.

An hour or two later, the boy died.The snow continued to fall, covering him.The perfect death time proof is done without leaving a trace.

After hearing Shichi's words, the wolf looked at the ground.Qi also seemed to be at a loss for words, looking at the sky.As the day shifted, the halo of the sun in the room in the morning had completely disappeared like the closing of a stage.

Even so, when another voice sounded in the room, Qi didn't look back from the mid-space where the halo had been left.

"Jelly..."

"Jelly, don't you worry that the snow will stop? If the snow stops after you die and you can't bury it, all of them, even the clothes--wouldn't it be in vain?"

"Why use such a tortuous way of swallowing cold medicine—spleen hemorrhage dies slowly, wouldn't it be okay to just jump on the knife?" The boy's tone, which did not meet Qi's eyes, was so cold and cruel.

"That...monkey, you're right. I think Jelly should have been worried too."

But what follows is my personal guesswork.

"Probably because—that's an inelegant way of dying, isn't it?"

"In this world, for Jelly, there is probably something more intolerable than making mistakes. That is to die without grace or beauty."

……

"……you."

——Some small voice sounded together with the voice, Qi was dragged out of his contemplation in an instant.

Unable to hide the surprise in his heart, he turned his head.

The shoulders that were raised slightly when sniffing snot were stained with dirty finger marks—no matter how you look at it, you are an ordinary, 15-year-old boy.Tears rolled down from the monkey's eyes that were flushed from holding back for a long time.

"Did you... know Jelly beforehand?"

There is no way to answer dishonestly.

Seven searched for the answer in his mind.

"—I don't know." He looked into the other person's eyes seriously.

"Then why does Jelly do such a thing?"

"Why do you have to pretend to be someone else's hand even when you die?"

The question was suspended in the air, and it took a long time for a person to answer without emotion:

"Isn't that obvious?"

"To keep us from reasoning correctly, and—wolf turns to seven,"—to keep the fellow from reasoning correctly. "

"That child," he said slowly, looking into Qi's eyes, and spit out the next words word by word:

"Not only is he helping the dog cover up the murder - but he even helped him solve the case. He is doing anything he wants to do for Qi."