The next day.
My school had been closed today because of Haruto's death.
I am now going to attend his funeral.
Everyone from school has shown up to Haruko's funeral.
Many of my classmates are also going to say their last goodbye to Haruto.
As soon as I arrived. I saw,
His mother is crying.
It's not unusual for her to cry. Her son just died. But I don't know anything about his father.
And then I saw.
Ryuchi standing in the crowd. But I don't know why he was standing out to me.
Then..
I went close to Ryuchi.
"Ryuchi, I know you are the one who killed Haruto."
I asked a straight question.
You didn't have any business with him.
Why did you kill him?"
"Itsuki.. You still don't know what is the truth.
You want me to answer that easily?
You sometimes need to be harsh. I am amazed how much you progressed so far. But remember, you have only 4 days and if you want to save Shuko, you will need to kill me."
Ryuchi walked away with a small smile.
{Ryuchi is a son of a famous psychologist Hiruzen Kamizawa}
Rumors say he can calculate every move. If I want to defeat him I need to do something that he couldn't even predict. But in my opinion I don't have any plans for now.
"Itsuki, how is your day going?"
Takumi said with a smirk.
I just said, "Fine."
And he left.
Really strange if you ask me.
Wait — is Ryuchi removing his obstacles to become something?
He wants to kill Shuko. She is clearly more popular than him.
Even Haruto. He isn't that popular; maybe he knew something about Ryuchi.
That he wanted to hide.
Surprisingly, the police had stopped the case of Haruko already. Usually a case like that doesn't get dismissed in a few weeks. But why was this case closed so early? Is Ryuchi involved?
"Itsuki..."
Someone put hands on my shoulder.
Ohh, it's Kaito.
"Hello, Kaito. I didn't see you anywhere after the hospital."
"I got a little busy."
"Oh I see.
Itsuki, don't you think this can't be suicide?
Why would Haruto even suicide?
He is really chill."
"I was thinking the same as you. Do you want to figure this out with me?"
"Yeah I am in it."
"Then let's share contacts info."
"Yeah sure.
Done."
After the funeral, Kaito and I went to Haruko's suicidal place.
"Itsuki, there isn't anything to find out who killed Haruto."
"Wait, Kaito, there is a CCTV camera.
I think we should check it."
"You are correct, Itsuki."
We went to the camera room and asked them.
"Excuse me, can we check the footage of 15th September?"
"Umm, we don't consent to any outsider seeing our footage."
"How about we give you 5000 yen?"
"Yeah. Sure."
Look — Kaito, money can do anything.
Indeed.
We checked the footage at the time when Haruko died.
"Look, Itsuki — he is eating a banana." But suddenly the camera got white.
"Kaito, this footage has been removed."
Then when the footage finally came, both Kaito and I were shocked.
Takumi was walking by Ryuchi's dead body.
"Itsuki, it's Takumi. Why did Takumi leave after seeing Haruto dead?
Is Takumi the real culprit?"
"I am thinking the same.
But the culprit shouldn't be this fool.
I think this murder was planned way before that."
Phone rings.
It's an unknown number.
I picked up.
"Senpai.
You shouldn't be this desperate to find Haruto's murderer. It will bring you more trouble. It's better not to interfere with us. Even if you find the real murderer, police won't believe you. You should stay out of this matter or you would lose another friend."
Phone cuts.
It's indeed Yagami.
But I never gave Yagami my contact info. How does he know that?
"Kaito, I think that's it for today. See you tomorrow."
"Ok."
I left.