[●[Game Over]●]
A moment later, looking at the murderer whose face had nearly been pulled out of shape, Gin vaguely understood something:
This was probably some kind of anti-cheat measure Anonymous had put in place to prevent them from using physical means to strike directly at the answer in an overly simple way.
"..." Tch. What a crafty bunch of opponents.
But they already had the man in custody. Gin soon snorted coldly, giving up on the pointless attempts and waiting to clear the dungeon at Tachibana Goryu's villa. Once they got out, he would find a way to deal with these people...
"The floppy disk containing the manuscript is in the study where Tachibana Goryu died."
Once they arrived, Jiang Xia glanced at the villa's floor plan and headed straight for the study. "The key to the code Tachibana Goryu left behind wasn't actually the content of the coded phrase, but the names of the messengers—Omura's 'ō,' Tokito's 'to,' Katsura's 'kei,' and Nonaka's 'naka.' Put together, they make ōtokei no naka—'inside the grandfather clock.'"
There was indeed a huge grandfather clock in the study.
Gin walked over, opened the glass door on the front of the clock, lowered his head to inspect it for a moment, and soon pulled a floppy disk from a gap inside.
He stared at it and sneered. "For this..." He had spent several days running back and forth through this virtual space.
Jiang Xia paused, then continued, "Tachibana Goryu previously said that in the original manuscript of his Documentary Novel, he exposed the crimes of one of the guests. And now it seems that guest was the real culprit behind this string of Murder Cases.
"That person wanted both to obtain the manuscript and destroy the evidence, while continuing to live