"You two just meant..."
"Could this also be related to the case?"
After leaving the music hall, Akitani Reiko asked the two of them with a puzzled expression, though she had her own suspicions.
Fujino thought Akitani Reiko was quite clever. She had figured it out without any prompting, so he simply answered honestly. "Yeah, you guessed right. It is related."
"The organ's off-key note was caused by a bomb trigger being installed. As soon as that key was pressed, it would trigger the bombs. First the pillars outside, then the inside of the music hall."
"Those bombs had enough yield to blow up this entire music hall. The bastard who planted them planned to blow everyone straight to heaven to meet Jehovah, and have all their relatives attend the funeral feast while he was at it."
Akitani Reiko: "???!!!"
I just casually asked a question. How did I uncover some earth-shattering conspiracy?
Everyone's relatives attending the funeral feast?
Was this really that intense?
Sato Miwako, meanwhile, shot him a sidelong glance, puzzled by how well Fujino knew the bomb locations.
Clearly, this kid had only just learned there were bombs here. How did he know so much?
But on second thought, she did not dwell on it.
Yeah, he must have gotten ideas after seeing the card and sneaked off to scavenge some bombs.
The fact that he had not come back carrying a dismantled bomb and asking for praise meant he had removed them pretty cleanly.
Akitani Reiko's head was full of questions. She swallowed and could not help asking, "Then... have those bombs been dismantled?"
"They have."
Fujino explained, "I found a bat card inside the music hall. The card mentioned the bombs, so I went to check. They had indeed been removed."
Sato Miwako could not