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This was the only feeling that Xiao Wuwan had.
Recently, Keiko Hatoyama has been absent from university from time to time. Of course, considering her identity, this is not a serious matter.
I heard that due to health reasons, she seems to no longer be able to maintain perfect attendance in college like before.
Of course, the doctor said that this seems to be just a temporary condition, and it will get better naturally after this stage...
Kokarasuma hoped so.
"Hey...it hurts!"
Just as he stretched out his hand to take the small piece of orange handed to him by Hatoyama Keiko, Xiao Wuhuan's open palm suddenly shrank and he said subconsciously.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Keiko Hatoyama asked, and the boy next to her also looked up.
"It's the place where Akina scratched me yesterday..."
Looking down at his painful palms, Xiao Wuwan looked gloomy.
Yesterday at noon, when Akina-san was finally dying of the poison, due to the severe pain, her nails scratched the palm of Kokarasuma's hand, leaving several scratches.
Just now, she didn't pay attention when she opened her palms, and that's why she pulled these small wounds that hadn't healed completely yet.
"Didn't you bandage it?"
"It's okay. They're not deep anyway. They will heal on their own in a few days..."
Kokarasuma said this and stretched out his open palm towards Hatoyama Keiko.
"Your friend has several wounds...eh?"
Keiko Hatoyama took a look and suddenly seemed to notice something. She stopped talking, frowned, tilted her head, and looked carefully from several angles at the twisted and crisscrossed wounds on Xiao Wuhuan's hands.
"Sister Keiko, what's wrong?" Seeing that she cared so much, Xiao Wuhuan continued to raise his hand and asked in confusion.
"No, I just suddenly felt that the scratches on your palms, Karasuma-chan, were twisted together. If you look closely, they seem to resemble some kind of pattern...like stars?"
Hatoyama Keiko's words made the boy who had originally looked away suddenly turn his head back.
"Eh? Stars?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wuwan withdrew his hand and took a closer look, then his pupils suddenly shrank.
[Wow~ Akina, what is that notebook for? It's so thick, and there are little stars and little animals on it. Did you draw all those yourself?]
[Yes, I drew this myself. It’s from my diary…]
[Eh——it’s a diary? I thought it was a collection of love letters from male classmates in our school that you collected~]
[Ka-Karasuma-san?! I-I wouldn't do that!]
[I know, I know~ Don't be shy, Akina, you're blushing... But since it's a diary, can you let me take a look? I also want to know more about your past~]
[No! You can’t show your diary to others! ]
[No! Show me! ]
[It’s really not possible! ]
[Be obedient! Come to me now! ]
[Wait, Karasuma-san, you can’t snatch it…]
Chapter 655 Taboo Relationship Between Teacher and Student
"Thank you, thank you very much for your assistance."
The next morning, the boy and Kokarasuma, along with two detectives, came to Kanda Akina's house.
With the help of the Kanda couple, they found the thick diary with various stars and Q-version animals on the cover that Kanda Akina had placed on the desk in the bedroom.
Ever since yesterday evening, when Kokarasuma noticed the clue left on Akina's hand before her death at the unintentional reminder of Hatoyama Keiko, they went to the Metropolitan Police Department immediately this morning and searched through some of Kanda Akina's personal belongings used at school, which were temporarily kept at the Metropolitan Police Department as possible evidence by the police.
However, they did not find the diary of Kanda Akina in Kokarasuma's memory, so they came to the Kanda family again.
"Officer, can Akina's diary really help you catch her murderer?"
At the door of the Kanda family's house, Mrs. Kanda handed the diary to the boy and looked up at him with a haggard expression.
Unable to bear the heavy blow of her daughter's death, Mrs. Kanda, who was less than 40 years old, seemed to have suddenly aged dozens of years in the past two days. Her face looked extremely haggard and old.
"Don't worry, Aunt Kanda, we will definitely catch the murderer."
Seeing this originally gentle and kind beautiful woman become like this, Xiao Wuhuan's heart ached again.
"It is the duty of the police to catch every guilty criminal. Mrs. Kanda, please wait a little longer."
The boy had a professional smile on his face, nodded slightly to Mrs. Kanda, then turned and left.
Back in the police car, the boy quickly opened the thick diary in his hand. Although it seemed a bit abnormal to read a girl's diary like this, the situation was special now and the boy would not dwell on it.
Since Akina-san left this clue at the last moment, this means that this diary must contain information that Akina-san wants to convey to Kokarasuma.
To be honest, the boy was a little surprised when he realized this.
Because this means that Akina seemed to have predicted her own murder in advance?
No, this possibility should be small.
But at least, she should not have been too surprised about her murder. When the poison took effect, she might have guessed why she was poisoned, and even guessed that the person who poisoned her was in the same class as her and was at the scene at the time.
To the extent that, Akina didn't dare to directly tell her guess to Karasuma who was beside her at the time.
Not to mention the nerve disorder caused by the aconite toxin, Akina was already unable to speak normally at that time.
Even if it was possible, the murderer's "accomplice" was also at the scene at the time, and Akina was afraid that doing so would further stimulate the murderer and bring unnecessary danger to Kokarasuma.
Therefore, she chose to use her last bit of strength to secretly leave such a clue in Xiao Wuhuan's palm.
Her diary should contain information that can help the police find the murderer.
The boy did not start browsing from the front, but read from the beginning, starting from the newest part and working his way forward. Xiao Wuhuan also skillfully moved his head closer.
The sound of turning pages was heard from time to time, and soon, the two found the clue they were looking for, a clue that surprised both of them, but was in line with the current investigation situation.
In Akina's diary, it was written in great detail and clarity that she had developed feelings for her drama club's advisor, Mr. Ryuhei Aizawa, which is something a student should not have.
The specific cause seems to have happened two months ago.
After discussing a drama script with Mr. Ryuhei Aizawa and rehearsing privately with each playing the male and female protagonists, Akina suddenly found that she seemed to have a good impression of this handsome young teacher with a gloomy temperament like a literary youth.
However, one of them is a teacher and the other is a student. More importantly, Ryuhei Aizawa is married and has children.
This is an absolute forbidden love.
But emotions are often beyond the control of human rationality, especially for a high school girl who has never had similar experiences.
The more Akina-san suppresses herself, the heavier her feelings for Ryuhei Aizawa become.
Since more than two months ago, the relationship between Akina and Ryuhei Aizawa has become increasingly close, and it seems that they are showing signs of going beyond a normal teacher-student relationship.
In Akina's diary, it was even written that she and Ryuhei Aizawa had met alone outside of school twice.
Although the diary stated that the two people met in public places such as cafes or barbecue restaurants and did not take any further action, this was actually...unethical behavior.
At the end of her diary, Akina did not specify how she was going to deal with this forbidden relationship. It seemed that she had not made up her mind until the very end.
"Is that so..."
After sorting out all the information in the diary, Xiao Wuhuan was a little dazed. She stared blankly ahead, and after a long time, she sighed deeply.
"No wonder Akina was so embarrassed on the day she was murdered. No matter how I asked her, she refused to tell me. So this is why..."
Xiao Wuhuan suddenly felt a little sad, sad about himself.
Because in the past two months, she didn't notice any changes in her good friend at all. I'm afraid it's not just her. Even Akina's parents didn't notice the changes in their daughter.
It was not until the last day that Kougamaru finally noticed something unusual.
If she had noticed it earlier, if she had been a little tougher that day, then would she...
"There's no use regretting."
As if he had sensed her inner emotions, the boy closed the diary, handed it to the two detectives in the front row, and spoke.
"Being influenced by this emotion will only make us more anxious and worried when we face similar situations in the future.
Now that things have happened, all we can do is learn lessons, gain experience, and move on.”
"I know……"
After being lectured like this, although she knew that the boy was using his unique method to enlighten her, Xiao Wuwan still felt sad.
"You dead wood..."
The boy didn't pay any attention to her little complaint. After he finished speaking, he instructed the two detectives:
"Change of plan. Let's go to two places before we go back."
Akina is a very meticulous person. In her diary, she not only wrote that she and Ryuhei Aizawa had met privately twice outside of school.
She even wrote down the names of the cafe and barbecue restaurant where they met twice.
This made it easier for the boy to investigate, as he needed to go over and confirm the situation.
Chapter 6 I am very serious now (stern face)
The police car stopped in the distance, and the boy and Kokarasuma walked into a roadside coffee shop, but of course they were not going on a date.
This coffee shop is the one Akina wrote in her diary where she and Ryuhei Aizawa met privately.
There weren't many customers in the store at that moment, so after the two came in, they walked straight towards the proprietress at the counter.
"Excuse me, are you the owner? We have something to ask you."
The boy went straight to the point and handed an investigation order to the proprietress.
Since he has not officially joined the police force yet, the boy does not have a police officer ID yet. This is why the boy is always accompanied by two criminal police officers during investigations.
However, this time, in order to avoid bringing unnecessary negative impact to the store's business, the boy did not let the two detectives follow in.
"Ah...ok."
The proprietress, who was in her forties, looked at the investigation warrant, then looked at the police car parked across the street outside the store. She immediately understood what he meant and nodded.