Part 65: Super High-school Level Update #58

Everything in front of me was dyed in red...
And in the center of that red...

Y...Yamada-kun......?





EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!



I...It seems... the terrible thing I was afraid of... came to be...



I... couldn't have foreseen it...
That Yamada-kun...
Would be killed...!



K...killed!?
It's just a joke, right!? There's no way someone... was killed again...!

* Ding-dong-ding-dong *







A body has been discovered!
Following a brief period of investigation, we will commence our school trial!



J...just now...!



That was the body discovery announcement.



The body discovery announcement...
When someone among us is killed, that announcement is made after three or more people find the body...

So if that announcement was just made......



That means, Yamada-kun was really...
He was really killed by one of us...
By... one of us...?
Furthermore, take a look at this...

The object Celes-san pointed to was...
That thing, lying on the floor.

It just lay there, just like in the previous two attacks...



Let's take a closer look.



Once again... a wooden hammer...



Justice Hammer #3...
And it's even larger than the previous two...!



It's just as we thought... Anyone hit with that thing doesn't stand a chance...
So the culprit must be...



There is no question. It's that suspicious person...
If we go by what Yamada-kun called him...
It was "Justice Robo".
Whoever it is hiding inside that costume killed Yamada-kun!



...Wait a second.
Didn't you just see him on the third floor? He was running away from the staircase...
How did he get to the infirmary? Did he teleport here or something?



We can think about that later. Right now, we must inform the others.
Y...you're right...



Well then, let's go.



...............



...Asahina-san, calm down.



......Eh...?
Asahina-san... are you alright...?



I...I'm sorry... It's just... I don't think I can move right now...
I...I think I'm going to throw up......



...That is a problem. We can't just leave her here.
In that case, I'll go tell everyone alone!
You can stay here with Asahina-san, Celes-san!



............
Very well. Please, hurry...
...Leave it to me.

I said that in my best authoritative voice...

...Even though I couldn't stop shaking myself.



Everyone is supposed to be on the third floor. I should hurry!



They were all chasing that suspicious person when I last saw them...
I think the direction they went was...



Celes-chan, what happened!?



That was sure an unexpectedly loud yell, coming from you...



I found him... That cosplaying suspicious person...
He ran away when he heard me yell.
The stairs were behind me, so he ran the other way, and turned at the end of the corridor to the left.



She said he ran away... down this corridor...
Does that mean he went all the way in...?

The third floor is basically one long twisting corridor, and when we go all the way to the end, we reach...



The door to the physics lab.



..............

As far as I can tell, there's no one here, but...

But... I feel a presence.
There are definitely people here.

I think it comes from...
That inner room...?





I ran towards the door.

And then, right there before my eyes...

...Was another nightmare.

The second nightmare in a single day was waiting for me there......



Kiyotaka Ishimaru (Youtube via Polsy)

Inside, in a pool of his own blood...

Ishimaru-kun lay dead.



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