Reincarnation Monarch

Episode 202: Tobacco

"This is the scene of the murder..."

Gaius said, staring carefully at the scary amount of blood creeping up on the floor.

"Oh, this is a hard place to see people, and if you close that heavy entrance door, it won't leak a sound first. Probably right here."

Shester determined in a harsh tone that this place was the true killing site of the no neck incident.

But when Gaius stared at him well here, he realized there was one.

"... not the floor?... Is this Matt?

"Yes, this is the guy who lays it on the floor and uses it when he's in gymnastics class or something"

"I see you let this mat suck the blood that kills and bleeds on this. Because on the floor it would have flowed quite extensively. Plus, there's a mat on every step of the way. This makes it easier when you carry the body on your back.... but you still smell pretty strong blood, don't you?

"Oh right. Well, that's all the bleeding. It would naturally smell like pretty tight blood. The smell of other equipment is pretty good, so you probably won't notice it wandering around near the entrance."

"Sure. Maybe you won't notice when you get here...... don't smell anything nasty, maybe you don't care that much in position. If you hadn't known beforehand that there were blood marks on that, you wouldn't even notice that the color of the mat was darkening in this darkness. Mr. Shester, do you realise this is a murder scene?

"Nah, even if you carry a corpse without a neck on your back (soy sauce), it would weigh a lot if you were to carry one person. I was just putting on a hit that it wouldn't be too far. Then there was a suspicious building. I went inside and checked it out... so..."

"I see... So have you discovered anything else?

Shester nodded lightly at Gaius's query, basically sticking his right hand in his jacket pocket and removing the handkerchief from inside.

As Gaius stared and tried to look closely, Chester slowly and carefully opened the beautifully folded handkerchief.

"... this is... a cigarette butt, isn't it?

"Oh, that's what I dumped right next to Matt"

"Is this what the killer threw away?

"Come on. You don't know that at the moment. Maybe someone was hiding here and smoking. As I said earlier, this is a very hard place to see and not to leak sound. It's a great place to hide and smoke."

"... but I'm the finest student at this school, but I'm only twelve, right? I don't think it's the first time a kid my age or even younger than me is smoking..."

"Right. I may have a desire to be, but I still don't think you have smokers in your students. At the moment, the suspect is off the hook. Except for those who are not students."

"Those who are not students?... are you teachers?

"Oh yeah. of the school's faculty and clerks… that is, adults."