"Mi-"

Senior Leah, the moment I tried to scream, the window behind Senior Miria blew up towards the inside.

And a white blade jumped in from there pierced Senior Miriam's chest from behind!

"Become -"

While I froze and couldn't move, that blade handle (...) snapped.

"Death is..."

The white blade - holding a delicately decorated, familiar thin sword - was still a familiar figure - Mr. Ciel.

Mr. Ciel continues his words with a no-face look.

"Only death can bring her peace."

Mr. Ciel pulled the Holy Sword out of Senior Miriam's body.

Senior Miriam's body, with a hole in his chest, leaned forward and fell straight to the floor.

Twitching and blood spreads from holes cleaved with the sharp blades of the Holy Sword.

Mr. Ciel pokes the tip of the holy sword at me for trying to rush over to Senior Miriam.

Seeing Mr. Ciel's seriousness in that unmistakable move, I just had to stop moving.

Instead, scream.

"Mr. Ciel! Depending on what you mean!? I won't forgive you, even if you're a brave man!

I stare at Mr. Ciel screaming.

At the same time, we go into preparation to remove some weapons from dimensional storage.

It is the level 95 brave man in front of you. There's no way I can do that.

Mr. Ciel smiled slightly in response to my words.

Even so, it wasn't the usual tender or intended black grin, it was a grisly grin that made my spine cold.

Besides the look on my face, I'm uncomfortable with Mr. Ciel.

What the hell's the difference? I finally realize when I ask myself that. Mr. Ciel's eyes are stained with a glossy silver colour. Mr. Siel's usual eyes are blue as night.

"Ciel...... heh. What, you hadn't noticed yet? I thought it was time for the tide to come out... it seemed so early"

Mr. Ciel warped the edge of his lips and said so to mock him.

I can't hide my agitation from the usual misalignment with Mr. Siel.

"Hey, what...?

To me wandering around, Mr. Ciel laughs and tells me to bite off every word.

"- Edgar Culée." Lord Patriot. "Four men, Marquis Alfred Culée, six.

In his first six months of life, he picks up "Black Wolf's Fang" Captain Gores. Later, he infiltrated the crow's base of "Yata-glass" and incited the bees, letting himself defeat the leader Gazein Munzer in a one-horse race in the public eye.

After his father became head of the Royal Knights (Royal Guard) and moved to Monocanus, he worked on inventions such as papermaking and hard copy printing via the Culver Chamber of Commerce, while immersing himself at the forefront of the Royal Library Labyrinth.

My brother, David Zafran Curlevel, has raised two revolutionary science books in the same period: "Principles of Algebra" and "Physics - The Law of Movement". "

――!?

How could Mr. Siel even do that... It's not all a secret, but the "Black Wolf's Fang" and "Yata-glass" things are considered state secrets.

It had also become the top secret of the Chamber of Commerce that I was the one who invented the products sold via the Culver Chamber of Commerce.

Being diving into a library labyrinth with permission from the King should also be a fact I don't know other than the scribe at the scene.

And Mr. Ciel utters a decisive word.

- You're a reincarnator, aren't you?

"- Huh!"

"I can guess what the purpose is. It will mean that he was reincarnated into this world with the power of the good god Atrazenek and his mission to fight against the evil god Monugonez and his apostles.

Or - maybe chasing me (...) is your mission. "

Mr. Ciel said so, raising his jaw slightly and looking down at me.

"Oh no... you...!

There was a war all over me.

Someday.

I thought one day we were going to be together.

But I thought that was still ahead of us.

Even though there was no basis for it to be earlier.

"- If you call me Hiroshi Kizaki... you'll understand, my hometown."

"You...!

I bite my back teeth and stare at Mr. Siel in front of me - no, Hiroshi Pestle (...).

There, a [reading] from Melvi flew in.

"Edgar, it's urgent!

I can't even afford to respond to Melvi's [readings].

It seems that Melvi is in such a hurry that she continues her words without waiting for my reply.

"A message from David!" I've flipped through the books on the lower level of the library to look for them, but I don't see the word 'appendix' per se, barely describing the appendix. I asked the Royal Castle doctor and he didn't have any more knowledge than 'bugs burst'. The brave man who knows about the appendix is more likely to be a reincarnator '!

... Brother, I wanted you to say that a little sooner.

'The appendix is such a deliberate word, that Mr. Ciel also said he suspected Ed was a reincarnator! Or maybe it was bait to smell previous life's knowledge and watch the movement!

Damn...... if so, at a time when I couldn't give it back unless I'd heard of an appendix on that spot, Mr. Siel - no, did the reincarnated Passenger/Hideyoshi Kisazaki deepen his suspicions?

Besides - when I saw Mr. Ciel working on the "surgery," I only thought then. "It's a skilled gesture no better than a doctor in his previous life," he said.

What's "no better than winning"? I'm angry at my dumbness additions and subtractions. Beck's appendix in front of me - an appendicitis resection - was undoubtedly a "previous life doctor".

"David has contacted Mr. Alfred and Julia and is calling for an emergency call. Before he moves, let's hold him down with our maximum power... '

- Melvi, I'm sorry, but I can't do that anymore.

'What...? Oh no...!

"Yeah, I'm in front of you right now......"

'... Huh! I'll be right there!

In that case, you should buy yourself some time.

It is unknown which is stronger between me and this guy, who is also a reincarnator.

Father Alfred, Mother Julia, Brother Chester, Jeremiah, Stef and Melvi. I just wanted to wait for the Ments around here to rush me.

"- Were you the Ripper?

I've heard things that I think are stupid.

Although some mysteries remain, it is almost certain that Senior Miriam is a Ripper (Ripper) - at least the first three (...) Ripper (Ripper).

But Mr. Siel - No, Hisashi Pestle replied:

"The answer is yes and no."

Pestle's answer was unexpected.

I wasn't involved in this - I just thought I'd answer that.

"... what do you mean?

"I've just been chasing my escaped failures,"

"Failure...?

"The daughter you are protecting - I call her 'Ashra'."

"Then Asura is still..."

"Yes. It's my experiment. As a matter of fact, her abilities are a product of coincidence. And then I'm just struggling without being able to reproduce it. Well, now that I've come up with something more interesting than that (...), it's up to you."

"What is she?

"You already know that, don't you? She's a 'chimera'. A mythical monster, or Frankenstein, created by connecting multiple creatures."

"Chimera... oh my god... Weren't you a doctor?

"All doctors are paying tribute to the mystery of life and trying to save many patients by themselves - even? Terrible. I, for example, would be the better person to stand out and have just saved a number of lives as a genius surgeon. There are as many doctors and so on who only see people's lives and health as a tool for business. Simply give him the proper medical name and prescribe the right medication and he will get paid for his practice. It would be perfect if we had a proper test at the end."

I think that's why doctors require ethics, but it would be useless to preach that to this guy. Because he's a killer who used his position as a doctor in his previous life to sacrifice more than a hundred people to the devil.

"You said it was Jesus about the Ripper case. What's this all about?

"I confess that I have no choice but to hide it now, but two of the cases (...) that are thought to be the Ripper (Ripper) case were made by me. To be exact, the demon I'm keeping had it happen."

"The devil?

Speaking of which, Mr. Ciel was fighting the devil and repelling.

But I don't know why you would do that if Mr. Siel = Hiroshi Pestle.

"Yes. It's that demon you saw, too. I ordered Ciel to fight properly and let him escape."

"You're saying it was crazy."

"I wanted to explore your powers. Though the richness ended in failure because of the fact that Ciel moved faster than I thought."

Pestle shrugged his shoulder deliberately when he said so.

"The devil is involved in two cases of mutilator (ripper)... yes, the sixth and eighth cases where the damage to the body was strange"

The sixth case was that of a half-elf male adventurer who was sacrificed, and the eighth case was that of an incident in the alley behind the Royal Theatre. Both bodies were torn apart and each area was extensively scattered.

"I don't know how many cases, but it's about the killing of an elf male adventurer and the killing of an actress's egg behind the Royal Theatre. They were devoured by the devil in the Devil's Prison."

"What tore the body apart...?

"That's called the detachment of things, isn't it? By the way, I'm the one who left letters like 'X' on the scene. Me - No, 'Ciel' is the primary discoverer of the Ripper (Ripper) case at the warehouse in New Town. I knew what was going on at the scene."

The letters "X" left on the scene are considered confidential to the investigation.

Ms. Ciel was indeed in a position to know it as the first discoverer of the fifth case. That's why Mr. Ciel was able to do disguised work leaving an "X" at the scene.

"... why did you do that?

"Well, there's no deep reason. I simply couldn't help but bite because there seemed to be an interesting incident in this king's capital. Didn't that make the investigation less and more confusing?

"... just a delightful offender"

When I told him to throw it away, Pestle shrugged his shoulder.

"Most of all, it was just a coincidence that the seventh case and timing of what you said wore. I lured the actress to that place thinking it would be interesting if there was a cleaver (ripper) incident by the theater performing" Beatrice, "but the real cleaver (ripper) also seemed obsessed with" Beatrice ". As a result, the seventh and eighth cases were to occur at the same time. Now they suspect that there will be multiple Rippers sooner or later, and Ciel will be one of their leading suspects."

Is that why Pestle revealed himself at this time?

However, it follows that the "girl in the" was still not real when Senior Miriam testified that she had escaped.

"You testified back then that no one had come out of the back alley."

"Of course it's a lie, but it wouldn't even be a complete lie. From the back alley, no one came out except me (...)"

"Was it a coincidence that the seventh and eighth cases took place in a row"

"Even though it is a coincidence, it is obvious that the cleaver (ripper) was doing the killing in a way that mimicked Princess Beatrice's end, so it can be said that it was a coincidence that happened as soon as it happened.

But when you showed up from the alley you just came out of after the killing, you crushed your liver. "

"You said you were eating on the terrace of the street shop, right?

"That's true. I was waiting with a coward wondering when the body would be discovered. But your signs were about to come out of the back alley, so I couldn't decide to look around anymore."

It's been a long time since I started talking.

It's time for everyone to come......

As such, it is also important to draw information from the pestle here.

What awaits after this is the killing of each other by the reborns who have exhausted their dying power. There is no guarantee that Pestle will be able to hear his mouth when the settlement arrives.

"Where's the evidence that the other Ripper cases weren't your fault?

"Come on. That's called demon proof. I didn't do anything I didn't do.

That's all I can say, though. I have no more reason to lie now. How many people do you think I've killed so far? I'm not even guilty of the Ripper case. "

Regrettably, there was a certain persuasion in this statement.

"In the first place, I don't have a hobby for destroying corpses.

You suffer from understanding what's funny about cutting a corpse with no reaction.

Then it would be the same as dismantling an animal.

I am originally a surgeon. If the only purpose was to cut off the human body, I was on time enough for work. "

Yes. The Ripper kills and then dismantles the body. I'm not going to kill you alive. I guess it's true that it's out of this guy's taste.

A cleaver (ripper) and a devil worshipper by the way - two that seem very similar at first glance, but I think there is something essentially different there.

The cleaver (Ripper) is being driven by his own impulses and pushed towards ruin, whereas Hiroshi Pestle always hides behind his position to commit a complete crime.

The only thing in the Ripper is the hunting impulse directed at women. But Hiroshi Pestle is equipped with not only the impulse to go for murder, but also the evil reason to control it as much as possible.

Says Pestle laughing like a mockery.

"Yes, let me tell you the key to uncovering the truth about this case.

Why didn't the Ripper (Ripper) have to (...) tear the body apart (...)?

And why did you have to challenge the impossible crime of killing people in both old and new towns the same night?

In short, why was it a cleaver (ripper) case, not a normal murder? So that's it.

If this problem cannot be solved, we cannot say that the truth has been reached in the true sense "

"Ma, wait! Pestle, what do you know!?"

"No, you don't know anything, do you? It's just that I used my own head to organize the information.

If you understand, it's easy, isn't it, Mr. Watson?

Pestle - looks like Mr. Ciel - laughs at you.

"Is it really not you!?"

"This time, I didn't kill anyone else to feed Noir and Blanche. It's like an error where the number of murders I've committed has now increased by one or two, but you can't stop blaming me for such an ugly incident."

Pestle (Ciel.) said so with a brilliant frown and disgust.

"Ugly case......?

"Oh no, the righteous side doesn't seem to have the qualities of a famous detective, unfortunately. If you're the other guy, I'm going to be easier too...... cum"

"... bastard!

Still - not yet.

I can't afford to fly [readings] to Melvi before this guy. I can do enough to answer what I've been calling from the other side, but I really get a gap in exploring Melvi's position here and sending [the conversation].

Hideyoshi Pestle speaks with plenty of room.

"This is for sale by an acquaintance psychiatrist, right?

The motive of a killer for the purpose of carcass destruction is on the extension line of curse worship (fetish).

Murderers, he said, as a pre-murder stage, can be obsessed with women's underwear and extend to theft.

Murderers make women the object of their sexuality, yet they have a clear fear and aversion to women themselves. It distorts your libido because of it and gives you an unusual interest in whether it's women's underwear or socks.

When it's expensive, it means you're interested in women's excrement, or you're only getting excited about women's corpses.

Sexual distortions around here are assuming various causes, such as genetic predisposition and the domestic environment, but of course we can't be sure experimentally, so we'll have to say the truth is in the box.

Oh, of course, most of the serial killers in this hand are men. I can't help it because I'm not always sexist and almost everything is statistically male.

Anyway, I'm afraid of living women, but if you're a dead woman, so you're not afraid. They say that's the psychology underlying pleasure killers who do corpse damage.

It's a psychology that I don't really understand. "

That's what Pestle shrugs his shoulder.

Hiroshi Pestle in his previous life was a bearer of good looks to say he was a cool handsome as far as the wide show the goddess showed me.

I guess I've never had trouble with a woman because she said she had good family skills, she could study, she could play sports, and she was a genius handler as a surgeon.

I wish I were dead.

Oh, are you dead already?

I mean, I still don't know, but I killed him.

"So you think the Ripper is an abnormal lust in that hand?

"Well, what do you think?

This is just my idea, but I don't feel that kind of sexual smell in this amputee (ripper).

I don't think it's the inner urge that's pushing the Ripper. "

"Then what is it?

"You're doing something you don't want inside, so it must be the obsessive-compulsive notions planted by others there.

That's what I'm doing because I strongly believe I have to.

The Ripper has an obsessive-compulsive notion of having to mutilate a woman, of being broken, of being wrong, but of being reasonable and truthful. "

"... I'm not sure"

"Heh heh... maybe it's something people like you don't understand.

But I can say I'm a professional on that path "

What Pestle says could be some kind of trap, or a lie.

But it doesn't have to be now to judge that.

You can talk to Brother David later and that will do.

Of course, if we could get through this situation alive...

Pestle glanced at Senior Miriam, who remained lying on the floor and said.

"But there's already a piece about you. Whatever she was thinking, the truth is already in the dark."

Senior Miriam no longer moves tingly. The amount of bleeding would also be well above lethal. Most importantly, the heart is pounded with a holy sword from the back. We cannot hope to resuscitate it.

I said as I chewed my back teeth hard.

"Really, Senior Miriam was a cleaver (ripper)?

"Yep. It was precisely one of the cleavers (rippers) (...)"

I climbed out and listened back to what Pestle said.

"One? Are there more than one Ripper?

"Of course, right? You can't have a case in both cities at the same time. A person cannot exist in two places. Well, except for me..."

This means that even with the exception of Senior Miriam and Hiroshi Pestle, there will be more than one (...) Ripper (Ripper).

The mutilator (ripper) case, which Senior Miriam believed to have been the culprit, totals four cases, from the first to the third, in which a senior acquaintance/friend is being killed, and the seventh in the theater, in which the senior himself was (pretended to be) the first discoverer.

Of the remaining fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth, Pestle confession found that the culprit in the sixth and eighth case was Pestle.

Then only the perpetrators of the "double homicide" that occurred across both old and new towns in the fourth and fifth - overnight - will not yet be known.

Of course, we cannot abandon the possibility that this is Pestle Bluff and that the killer of double murder is also Pestle.

But as Pestle himself said, I see no reason for Pestle to try to hide one or two more kills now.

Besides, Mr. Ciel had an alibi that day. He was exchanging information late at night with an acquainted bard. We have ascertained that Melvi is not lying about this, and we have also obtained testimony from the bard and several others through an investigation by the Sergeant Knights.

"You've already talked about the key to uncovering another amputee (ripper)? It's an ugly case. But the killer's head is pretty good. If you'd peeled off another skin, you'd have invited me to join the evil gods."

"You already know who he is..."

"Yeah, I know, right? Instead, don't you (...) know yet, Royal Detective's assistant?"

Kuru, and Pestle laughs.

What do you mean... the pestle that's supposed to have only fragmentary information about the case has already reached the truth of the case?

"hehe...... you are really stupid"

"... what?"

"Why do you think I'm telling such a long story? The spirit of service? Terrible. I'm sure it was fun talking to my hometown... but of course this is a trap.

- Noir, Blanche!

Along with Pestle's voice, two cats emerged from the shadow of Pestle.

A familiar cat.

White and black cats that Mr. Ciel was feeding loose cheeks.

After all, you mean that feeding was a disguise, too?

But I find it just impossible that Kashiwasaki, a man, was playing that unfortunate brave man.

While I was thinking, the white cat and the black cat inflated the volume as they raised all their hair.

This is...

"... the devil!

The two were transformed into demons that Mr. Siel had tried to repel during this time.

"Why, no rescue comes. You would have thought so, wouldn't you?

Says Pestle.

"That's because this realm has already been swallowed up by Noir and Blanche's unfolded Prison. No matter what happens here, we don't know from the outside world."

Speaking of which... neither the sixth nor the eighth case had Brother Berhardt's [case detection] reacted.

Was that because the crime was committed in prison?

And apparently, the battle between Mr. Ciel and the devil in the meantime was a yarase to try to gain my strength while raising suspicions about Mr. Ciel.

Indeed - I was feeling it then. He said it was a (...) battle as if it were a (...) kill squad.

Speaking of which - the knights of the gatekeepers, who have broken through on their own, have not rushed for long either.

You should have noticed something strange at that point, but suddenly Pestle had appeared and it was flying out of your consciousness.

- Anyway, in this space created by the devil, I fell into the feather of facing another reincarnator, Hiroshi Shigezaki, alone.