Kirigiri Novel Book 2

Chapter 6- Part 3 An Offering to the Detective

Someone inside the wall...

This reminded me of the previous murders that happened here before, but after calculating the thickness of the walls, it just seemed whimsical.

Kirigiri is eliminating all possibilities one by one.

What remains in the end in this way must be the truth.

We inspected Toyano'oh's luggage. There was only a change of clothes and a set of travel supplies in the large leather bag. There was nothing special, it was surprisingly ordinary.

I thought that since Toyano'oh claimed to be a magician, his bag would be full of magic props, but we didn't find anything like that.

"Was this man really a magician..."

"In the end he didn't show us a single magic trick." Kirigiri said, shaking her head slowly. "If what Uozumi-san said is true, then his magician identity is probably a complete lie."

"The magician persona was just his apparent identity. This man was actually a con man who resells forgeries."

If Uozumi hadn't told me this, then I might've still thought that Toyano'oh was really a magician.

After that, Kirigiri took the measuring tape and began to measure the length of various parts of the room. She didn't even write down the measurements on paper. I wonder if she memorized all of them. I myself can't do that for sure. In the end, she even measured the height of the body.

"The height is about 175 cm... The weight is about less than 60 kg, and the physique is almost the same as Chage-san. It's about 2 meters from the floor to the bottom of the window... can't reach it even when tiptoeing... my fingertips can probably barely reach if my arms are raised. Ah, can't reach..."

Kirigiri muttered to himself, and then as if she had figured it out, she put the ruler into her uniform pocket.

"Yui-onēsama, I still want to do one final test, can you help me?" "What kind of test do you want to do?"

"Onēsama, please give me the most useless thing in your backpack."

"You're starting to sound crazy again, you know that." I opened my backpack to check the contents. "The empty bottles used yesterday are useless."

"That'll do."

Kirigiri took a bottle and went to the window. She silently looked up at the barred window, then seemed to have changed her mind and looked back at me.

"Yui-onēsama, Can I ask for another help?" "What?"

"Piggyback."

"...Do you want to look out the window?" Kirigiri nodded.

I squatted down next to Kirigiri. Kirigiri lifted her skirt and sat on my shoulders. Her body is so light that it feels like a soft stuffed animal. Her cool thighs touched my face. I stood up close to the wall, Kirigiri's line of sight was almost exactly the same height as the window.

"I can see clearly."

"Are you satisfied, young lady?"

"Stay like this, and get a little closer." Kirigiri stretched out her arm toward the window. "Listen carefully, onēsama."

Kirigiri's hand holding the bottle passed through the gap in the iron bars.

"I'm going to let go of the bottle." Kirigiri announced.

After a few seconds, the bottle that fell on the ground far below bounced with a loud sound.

"Thank you, you can put me down now." I put her down as she said.