The Code
"Kazuhiro was talking about where we are from. Kazuhiro and Shōta are Kanagawa Prefecture. Minami, Risa and Keisuke are Tōkyo. And I’m from Chiba. There is an outcast in this group. Does that mean Kazuhiro is saying that the culprit is one of the six of us? But…"
'"Become a demon."'
Kazuhiro's words came to mind.
"There is one person who doesn’t belong to one of us six. Simply put, I am the only one who is from Chiba, so I am not a part of the group. But when it is an outcast, I feel like it means that everyone has something in common, but one person is different from everyone else. If you want to call me an outcast, I think the other five must be unified. But the other five actually come from Kanagawa and Tōkyo, which don't match. That means there are other laws that exist for the six of us. Laws, laws, pattern. They're all the same, but one is different…come to think of it, Kazuhiro mentioned it before."
"If we had at least one more region, there is no one to be isolated."
"I wonder if that had anything to do with it. The one Hiroto was talking about is, let's see, between B and M is blue like ocean, but between A and D is red like blood. Between B and M is…C, D, E, F, G... These are all blue? In contrast, there are only B and C between A and D. These are red. Hmm… I have no idea.
Kazuhiro's seems to be able to reach the answer if I find the law in us, but I have absolutely no clue about Hiroto’s. Moreover, I don't know Hiroto at all because we’ve never spoken before in the first place."
I couldn't help but hold my head in my hands.
"But Ichirō said he was smart too, and I'm sure he left me some clues. Let's see, the words that might become a hint are A and D, B and M, blue and ocean, and blood and red. Speaking of the ocean, Kazuhiro said he wanted to go to the beach."
I recalled that moment.
'"Well, then I'll make a wish too. Let's see, I wish to be able to surf in the ocean."
"Surfing?"
"Yeah. I like surfing. But I have only swum on artificial waves. I want to go to the beach. I want to ride the pure white waves spreading across that vast, blue ocean."'
"Kazuhiro's wish did not come true after all. It was probably Kazuhiro's first and last wish."
I wiped my wet cheek.
"Keisuke was also holding his dead father's amulet very dearly at that time, praying very hard…"
I cried quietly on the spot for a little while.
"Oh…this is not time to cry. I must uncover the truth for Kazuhiro and others. So, B and M, A and D. I am sure that there must be something that only Hiroto and I have in common that others don't understand, just like the Kazuhiro's one earlier. Hiroto and me. Hiroto and me. My favorite things are games, castles, and reading books, but Hiroto, as I recall, is so good with technologies that he even hacks into his teacher's computer. But I'm not very good with computers."
For a moment I realized something and raised my voice.
"Computer…yes, that’s right. A computer!"
I hurried upstairs to the computer room and started up one of the nearby computers.
"I'm sure Hiroto has a message somewhere in his data that indicates the culprit...oh. it doesn't work."
I started up other computers in a panic, but none of them responded.
"No way, did the killer notice and make the computer unusable? Damn!"
The emptiness of that backlash eroded my heart all the more, precisely because I had expected so much.
I involuntarily slammed my fist against the keyboard where my hand had been resting.
"Ouch! I didn’t know keyboard is this hard."
Suddenly, I felt a flash of something.
In that instant, many things flashed back into my mind.
'"Oh. Finally, here there is our Madonna, Minami."
"It says human experimentation"
"Poisonous gas!"
"Apparently, it's true about the special wave mentioned earlier."
"Yes, my father taught me that the old Japanese has this "we" and "wi"."
"I would like to report on the current situation. There are 20 middle school students and 10 high school students, 6 adults left alive. That’s all."
"Hey, there is a door here."
"Singularity?"
"It should be the guy who puts the box here to be blamed, not me."
"Please stop that. Please!"
"In a crisis situation like this, people think only of themselves."
"Damn. Only Shūhei is unfair. I'll swear it too. I can't protect all the students, but I'll protect the five of you even if it costs my life."
"The violator ran out of the school gate just before the end of the experiment. His name was Gōzō Shigayama."
"Yeah. It gives rise to doubts and distrust, I guess."
"But remember this. If you lose your wish, you also lose the hope of living…"
"This has saved my life many times, so I'm sure it will protect me this time as well. As long as I don't give it away."
"The way they are killed, right?"
"Keisuke…"
"In other words, only this time the killer didn't have time to record the tape.”
"If we survive all the experiments, will you come back to take my class again?"
"I don’t know the specific number. There were three classes in the second grade, and Tsutomu, Kurumi, and I were in class 3, which had 14 students, as I recall. Only Hiroyuki was in the second class and…"
"That guard used to be cleaner than I thought."
"Become a demon, Shūhei. Leave justice here."
"We cannot turn back. Eat or be eaten. That's all."
"Yeah, we'll do everything we can to kill you."
"Minami…Ms. Misaki."
"Shūhei, be careful. They are dangerous."
"Huh, were you in the library during the first experiment?"
"Could it be that Suguru Anzai is watching us somewhere? Perhaps surveillance cameras?"
"Hiroto Momii. He's a computer genius, and just the other day he was trying to hack into the teacher's computer, and we found and stopped him."
"A checkmate."
"We are finally get freed from this hell. Thank you very much."
"We did indeed told you. Now go decide for yourself. I entrust the feelings of everyone who was at this school to you."
"If we had at least one more region, there is no one to be isolated."'
"region!"
I opened my closed eyes.
"I see…the culprit is…"
Starting from next episode, we'll finally move on to the resolution section. Did you figure out who the culprit is? Tell me in the comment please.
