Kurosawa Kazuma and Inozuka Taro were utterly dumbfounded. "..." What did this have to do with them? They hadn't even entered this theater since arriving on the Island. What did the aging of the lamp's rope have to do with the innocent island caretakers?!
Suzuki Sonoko remembered that this was her family's island and felt a little guilty.
Just then, Jiang Xia seemed to notice something.
He walked over, picked up the thick lamp rope through a handkerchief, and examined it closely. "There's a cut here. This lamp didn't fall because of poor quality—someone deliberately severed it."
"So this wasn't an accident. It was a premeditated murder."
The students froze, all of them breaking out in goosebumps as greater panic appeared on their faces. Maybe some people weren't afraid of ghosts, but everyone feared a murderer lurking nearby.
"But..." Mouri Ran rubbed the goosebumps on her arm and said weakly, "But aside from the victim, everyone was in the dining room just now."
That was true.
The situation immediately became even stranger. No one had had time to commit the crime. Could it really have been a ghost that cut the lamp rope?
Amid the chaos, Kurosawa Kazuma and Inozuka Taro exchanged a furtive glance. They both felt that they knew the answer. "..." No, this definitely wasn't the work of ghosts.
First, ghosts didn't exist.
Second, only they knew that there was another person hiding on the island—only that person had enough time to commit the crime... What the hell was that bastard George doing?! Wouldn't it have been better to stay obediently hidden in his room? Why did he have to bring them all this trouble?!
Thinking of that man who had always pretended to be so obedient, only to secretly cause such a huge mess behind their