The Fatal Poison of Friendship for the Lonely

Friendship—The Fatal Poison of the Lonely

"A detective?"

Tendo Haruka froze at that, then suddenly seemed to remember something.

A look of surprise gradually appeared on her face. "Don't tell me you're that high school Great Detective who's always on the news?!"

"That's right."

Fujino nodded quietly. "I don't know about always being on the news, but I am indeed the only high school Great Detective named Fujino."

After a pause, he looked at Tendo Haruka again. "But now that you know I'm a detective, can you tell me why you wanted to kill Miss Shirafuji?"

"I..."

Tendo Haruka hesitated, refusing to speak for a long while.

"You've already been caught, so what are you embarrassed about?"

Fujino sighed as he sized up the stammering Tendo Haruka and deduced, "Since you don't want to answer, I'll say it for you. You were a fake heiress. You used that fake identity to win them over, paid to take them to Hawaii and other places, and then they discovered you were only pretending to be rich. But they still wanted to keep exploiting you, so you began to entertain thoughts of murder..."

At that, Fujino stared directly into Tendo Haruka's eyes. "My deduction is correct, isn't it?"

Faced with those pitch-black eyes staring straight at her, Tendo Haruka froze.

Her motive had been completely laid bare by him...

Tendo Haruka had come from the countryside. Her father had died in an accident long ago, leaving only her mother to raise her.

It was a small place without a school. The only way to continue her education had been to attend school in a nearby city.

But her life away from home had not gone smoothly. As a child from the countryside, there were many things she did not understand, and her family