novelraw Chapter 5 Unparalleled Murder Magic
Chapter 5 Unparalleled Murder Magic
Upon hearing Uyama Hideomi's words, Maishiro Kyosuke understood the deputy editor's concerns.
After all, the mystery surrounding astrological murder magic is indeed shockingly powerful, so such concerns are understandable.
"Mr. Yushan, please don't worry about the answer. I have great confidence in my book."
"There will absolutely not be the kind of 'a riddle in the sky, solved in the gutter' you're talking about!"
Upon hearing Maishiro Kyosuke's words, Uyama Hideomi nodded in satisfaction, wiped his hands clean with a damp cloth again, picked up the manuscript once more, and immersed himself in the story once more...
Astrologer Kiyoshi Mitarai and his friend Kazuki Ishioka learn the details of a murder case from forty years ago.
Instead of finding a way to solve the case, they made it even more perplexing!
All six girls died from arsenic poisoning, and metals related to constellations were found on their dismembered bodies.
Therefore, it is only natural that the murderer who would use this method to kill could be the painter Heikichi Umezawa, who wrote the "Crazy Diary".
But the painter had died in the secret room more than a month ago.
So? Who exactly is using the diary to commit murder?
Who murdered the painter? And who murdered the painter's eldest daughter, Yizhi?
Could the deaths of the painter and his eldest daughter, Ichie, be related to the six girls who died tragically in the astrology murder case?
If the real killer is someone else, why would the killer follow the painter's notes to commit murder?
Since the notes are part of the evidence in a crime, why would a murderer leave notes after committing a murder so that they could be discovered by the police?
What clues are there about the depth at which the six bodies were buried and the location where they were buried?
Six bodies were dumped in six different mines across Japan, the furthest distance being 900 kilometers. (Photo)
In 1936, when automobiles were not common, how did the murderer manage to dump six bodies into six mines?
The issue of the case has been brought to the forefront once again.
Just as Kiyoshi Mitarai and Kazumi Ishioka were puzzled.
A woman named Misako Iida found Kiyoshi Mitarai with a letter from her father.
And it was this suicide note that became the key to unlocking the mystery of the astrological murder mystery!
This unlocked the most crucial link in the entire case!
The suicide note brought by Misako Iida was actually a letter of repentance.
The letter of repentance mainly tells the story of Misako Iida's father, Bunjiro Takegoshi, who became a squad leader in the police force in 1936.
On my way home from get off work, I happened to see a woman squatting on the ground with abdominal pain at the bus stop.
Out of kindness, Takekoshi Bunjiro helped the woman home, but unexpectedly, the woman begged Takekoshi Bunjiro to stay with her in the room.
Takekoshi Bunjiro may have been mentally disturbed by a demon at the time.
After learning that the other party was a married widow, he inexplicably had a relationship with the woman.
Afterwards, the woman told him not to worry about the aftermath, only that she was just lonely for a while, and asked Takekoshi Bunjiro to forget about her from then on, promising never to mention the matter to anyone else.
Having done something wrong, Takekoshi Bunjiro fled back home in a sorry state, only to find the next day that the woman he had been intimate with the day before had been found dead in her house.
The deceased was Ichie, the eldest daughter of the painter Umezawa Heikichi!
As Takekoshi Bunjiro thought about it, he became increasingly panicked. In order to clear himself of suspicion of murder, he used his power to interfere with the investigation, ultimately turning Ichie's death into an unsolved case.
Just after Takekoshi Bunjiro narrowly escaped suspicion, an anonymous letter suddenly appeared in his home.
The letter was to be opened by Takekoshi Bunjiro personally, and to be burned immediately after reading.
The main content is that a special organization called "Pheasant Agency" has evidence that Takekoshi Bunjiro murdered Ichie.
This was used to blackmail Takegoshi Bunjiro into secretly disposing of the bodies of six women.
Because it was a secret mission, Takekoshi Bunjiro was not allowed to use police cars and had to bring his own vehicle.
The letter contained very detailed information, specifying the clothing and surgical sites on each corpse, clearly defining the disposal location and order of each corpse, the burial depth, and the time limit.
If you make one mistake, you have to make up for it with another.
Although Takekoshi Bunjiro did not kill Ichie, he was worried that he would be implicated in Ichie's death.
They had no choice but to borrow a car, take a long leave of absence, and follow the instructions in the letter to bury the six bodies in six different mines.
It took more than ten days for Takekoshi Bunjiro to bury all the bodies according to the instructions in the letter.
As the bodies he had buried were discovered by the police one after another.
The astrology-related murder case, along with the notes of the painter Umezawa Heikichi, has also been exposed!
Upon reading Umezawa Heikichi's crazy diary, Takekoshi Bunjiro gradually realized that there was no such thing as a "pheasant mechanism"!
All of this was nothing more than a horrific and brutal murder!
Unwittingly, I became part of the astrological murder case, an accomplice in transporting the body!
He was in great pain because of this, but he could say nothing, because he had no way of explaining the real reason for Yizhi's death!
Kiyoshi Mitarai and his friend Kazuki Ishioka deciphered Takekoshi Bunjiro's suicide note, thus uncovering the killer's method of burying the body in six mines.
But other problems continued to trouble Ishioka and Kazuki.
Just as Ishioka and Kazuki were completely baffled by the case.
Kiyoshi Mitarai claims to have seen through the truth of the case and even boasts that he can solve the truth of the astrology murder case, which has been sealed for more than 40 years, within a week!
Over the next week, Ishioka and his accomplices worked tirelessly to investigate leads, interviewing everyone involved in the case.
Kiyoshi Mitarai is like an "armchair detective" who stays at home and only goes out occasionally.
Just when Ishioka and Kazuki felt that the truth of the case was getting further and further away from them.
Kiyoshi Mitarai summoned everyone involved in the case and immediately began the deduction!
The first thing to answer is the mystery of the death of the painter Heikichi Umezawa!
The painter died in his locked studio because the murderer used a thin thread to pull the latch, locking the studio from the outside and turning it into a sealed room.
As for why no traces of the killer were found on the snow?
This is because the murderer first tiptoed into the secret room, then wore the painter's shoes, used the snow to fill in the traces of his tiptoeing, and then used the painter's shoes to cover the footprints, thus achieving the effect of having no traces of the murderer!
Walking on tiptoe and leaving small footprints, with just a little thought, one can guess that the murderer is likely a woman!
Next is the second case, the mystery of the death of the painter's eldest daughter, Ichie.
This case is not difficult to solve.
Everything can even be explained in just a few simple sentences.
Since Yizhi would put on makeup in front of the murderer at the dressing table without any precautions, there is only one possibility!
The murderer is someone Ichizaki knows! And they have a very close relationship!
Combining Takegoshi Bunjiro's suicide note with the possibility that the painter's killer was a woman, then there is only one truth!
The person who had a relationship with Takekoshi Bunjiro back then was not the real Ichie, but the murderer!
The murderer disguised himself as Ichie and lured Takegoshi Bunjiro into having a relationship with him, then framed Takegoshi Bunjiro for Ichie's death.
Then he used this to blackmail Takekoshi Bunjiro into helping him transport the body to six mines in the island nation!
The real Ichigo was actually killed by the murderer long ago and was hidden in the room next to where Takekoshi Bunjiro had his relationship with the murderer!
By combining the two cases, it is not difficult to deduce the characteristics of the murderer.
The murderer is a woman, young (who can impersonate Ichizaki), and has a close relationship with Ichizaki and the painter (she can freely enter and leave their rooms).
Looking at all the people involved in the case, only six girls who had already been dismembered fit this description!