Kirigiri Novel Book 2

Chapter 5- Part 2 Detective Sonata

"Speaking of..." I remembered something. "When you entered your room at 10 o'clock, Chage-san stopped me and told me some strange things. At the time I thought he was talking nonsense again, but now that I think about it, he might've wanted to send me some kind of message..."

"What did he say?"

I told Kirigiri exactly what Chage told me. "Shinsen-san is the Shinigami?"

"I think he was most likely talking nonsense."

"But that doesn't contradict what Shinsen-san said when he introduced himself." Kirigiri said, staring at the floor intently. "He's always unconsciously drawn to death related places, whether it comes from his own will or not, maybe that's the case. It's a feeling I can understand."

"I don't understand it at all." I shook my head feebly. "But the fact that he was the only one who didn't receive an invitation to the 'Black Challenge' is concerning. I wonder if he is just an uninvited visitor, or if he's..."

The criminal?

If this is the case, it would be too simple. According to common sense, the most suspicious person isn't always the criminal, but...

"He may be an important person who will sway our fate in the future."

"I rarely hear you say abstract words like 'fate'."

"Is that so. Yui-onēsama, you probably can't imagine it, but I actually like this kind of words."

"Ehhh— I expected you would disdainfully say that words like fate and hope are 'illogical'."

"I'm just interested in things that can't be explained by logic alone."

Kirigiri said without emotion, turning her face to the side. I checked the time and it was almost midnight.

The people sitting on the sofas naturally all looked nervous, with their heads hanging down and without saying a word. Among them, only Nanamura who owns the 'Detective Rights' was still the same as usual, with his legs crossed. He has already suffered a defeat at the hands of the criminal, and I don't know how he can be so calm after that.

In any case, We can only wait till morning like this.

I wanted to chat with Kirigiri, but when I looked back, I found her resting her chin on her lap, breathing steadily in her sleep.

She must be very tired.

I looked at the side of her sleeping face. I noticed her eyelashes are long, no matter how I look at her, she has the sleeping face of a 13 year old girl. Her pale cheeks look soft, and her slightly

parted lips add a striking red compared to her pale skin, which looks to have no temperature.

When she takes off her guard, her expression becomes so innocent and lovely... The mature expression she usually shows must be filled with her steel determination to bravely face bloody detevtive events and cases. The thought that she has been bound by a predestined fate makes my heart ache. Before that, she inadvertently revealed her confusion about her detective identity, which I think is understandable.

Will she continue to live as a detective in the future? Or, will she give up on it one day.

Either way... I hope she can at least keep her cute sleeping face.

While paying attention not to wake her up, I took out the Bunko book from my backpack and started reading.

It's necessary to monitor whether anyone enters or exits the lobby. I'm very good at staying up late. When I was in middle school, I wrote poems until morning several times. Of course, I burnt my poetry copybook later.