Chapter 18: Kneel
Turo slowly looked at Yurika from across the gym and moved his mouth into a smile like he thought he had already won.
"How did he find my necklace...?!" Yurika said in her head, unable to understand how Principal Turo had outwitted her.
"I definitely put my necklace in my bag that day..." she thought, trembling not from fear, but from the sting of defeat.
And then it hit her.
"My bag...?" She stopped looking at Principal Turo and quickly searched through her bag, her hands shaking as she rummaged.
"Where the hell is it...?" she whispered.
Then she froze.
The necklace Turo was holding... it was hers.
Whispers spread across the gym like wildfire:
"Why is that necklace bloody?"
"Who does that necklace belong to?"
"Maybe it's something worse than we can imagine..."
Principal Turo remained confident, standing tall on stage as he addressed the crowd.
"If nobody's going to claim it, I will hand it over to the police and have them determine who this necklace belongs to. It might be linked to Sumire's murder."
Yurika's eyes widened. Her body wouldn't move frozen in place, her heart pounding at the sound of his words.
Her lips slowly straightened into a thin line. Then, suddenly, she stood.
This time, Yurika wasn't hiding her guilt anymore.
"If that necklace you found might be linked to Sumire's death, and it's bloody, why didn't you hand it over to the police right away?" Yurika asked, her voice echoing throughout the gym.
The students around her gasped, whispering furiously to one another.
Principal Turo smiled faintly. "Hmm. I was simply trying to identify who it belonged to, so I could have a proper conversation with them. Do you have a problem with that, Ms. Saisho?"
Yurika's fist clenched tightly as she glared at him with full determination.
"If you truly cared for your students, then why are you using this gym like a courtroom pressuring someone to confess in front of everyone?"
Her words echoed again, louder this time, twice through the tense silence.
More gasps erupted from the crowd.
Principal Turo's eyes widened. He gasped, barely audible.
"I... I—"
Before he could finish his sentence, Yurika cut him off.
"So what, Sir Turo? Don't you feel ashamed? You're making a public spectacle just to embarrass the owner of that necklace. You don't even know if it has any real connection to Sumire's death. And anyway, Sumire's case was ruled as a suicide. It's closed."
Her voice was firm, unwavering.
The gym buzzed with rising whispers and stares. Principal Taro remained on stage, but his hands began to tremble. His face was unreadable frozen between fury and humiliation.
After a long pause, he finally spoke again.
"I'm sorry for the inconvenience, everyone. I apologize for making a big scene about a necklace."
He turned away, sweating. But as he faced the curtains behind the stage, his expression twisted into something darker—anger and disgust.
"Yurika... You..." he muttered under his breath.
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