kozvme | Event Story – House of Mystery: They Know All! ch.17

Master: Hmph, they're all useless fools, every last one of them.

Akira: The guy's gone.

Ren: It's master. Make sure to do it right.

Akira: Man, shut up...

Gray: H- Hey, come on you two, let's clean up... or we'll get scolded again...

Akira: I know.
By the way, where did Nico disappear to?

Ren: Where did he go? He was just here a moment ago...

Akira: Don't tell me he's slacking off?

Gray: ......

Master's voice: Gwaaaah!!

Akira: Oi, that voice...

Gray: It's the master's voice...!? Let's hurry to the study!

Gray: ...!

Ren: The master was stabbed...

Akira: How's the pulse?

Ren: It's no use, it's too late now.

Nico: What's going on?

Akira: N- Nico!? Where the heck did you go at a time like this!?

Nico: Where? I was in our room, just munching on some grapes because I was hungry.

Akira: There's no way you got hungry right after saying that!

Gray: ......

Akira: Damn it, even after talking to the butler and the others, I still can't figure out the culprit...

Ren: I still don't get the mystery of the locked room...

Nico: *Munch, munch*... We're not here to play housekeeper or detective, so it's impossible for us...

Ren: You're eating muscat grapes again?

Nico: I'm starving... moving around is tiring...

Gray: It's quite a distance from here to the study, isn't it...

Akira: It's right at the end of the mansion.

Nico: Yeah.

Gray: U- UM...!

Ren: What happened? Why are you shouting all of a sudden?

Gray: Could you gather the butler and the rest one more time for me...? This time in the entrance...

Nico: Have you figured who the culprit is?

Gray: Yes, probably...

The master's son: Why did you all call us?

Secretary: Have you found out who the culprit is?

Butler: But really, who could it be? There isn't a single suspicious person here.

Man with a creepy mask: ......

Gray: T- The reason I asked you to come together is quite simple...

I've discovered the locked room's trick and the person who stabbed the master...

The perpetrator is here with us...

Everyone: !?

Gray: I'm talking aboutー

Jet: You, Nico!

Nico: ......

Akira: H- Hang on!? What do you mean it's Nico!?

Ren: Exactly, why Nico? He was with us, wasn't he?

Jet: I'm about to lay it out for ya, so perk up those ears and listen close.

Gray: Nico-san mentioned he headed to the waiting room when the master was stabbed, is that right?

Ren: Yeah, he did say that.

Gray: But that's impossible... Even if the people in the waiting room heard the scream and rushed over... they wouldn't arrive in time.

Akira: Oh, for sure, even if they ran as fast as they could, they wouldn't get there in time...

Nico: ... I got it wrong, I actually heard the scream in the hallway... not in the waiting room.

Gray: No I'm sure you were in the waiting room.

Nico: How can you tell…?

Gray: The fruits... There were a lot more when we left compared to when we got back...

Nico-san, you ate them, right...?

Nico: ......

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