Friday, September 23rd, night. (The actual chronology of this chapter is after the end of the shuddering movement on Friday afternoon, but it was brought here for the sake of plot coherence, and there is no intersection between the two anyway.) ）

Yoshiko Kamada appears in a sake brewhouse.

"......" she looked around until her eyes were fixed on a middle-aged man sitting in the corner.

"Call me here, what's the matter? It won't be because of ...... Fujimura died, right? She walked slowly over to the man and sat down. Greg。 ”

This is the name of her affection for each other when she was in love.

"There's something about it, but it's not entirely related." Grigory, who sat across from her, didn't seem to have any particular feelings about such a title. "I just wanted to ask...... When were you developed? ”

"What do you mean?" Yoshiko Kamada's face was full of confusion.

"Organization, the one who gave you the medicine." Gregory only reminded him casually, and then, not surprisingly, he observed the surprise on Yoshiko Kamada's face. "Hmm...... I'm all too familiar with the effects of this thing, so there's no need to try to play dumb about it in front of me. ”

"You are ......" Yoshiko Kamada's expression was wonderful at this time.

"It's about the same as you." Gregory shrugged. "I'm a little curious, though, when did you join the organization?"

"Not long after, I was recently invited to join an academic salon." Yoshiko Kamada looked at Gregory, but eventually shook her head with a smile. "Seriously, I never thought you would be a companion......"

"Well, in that case, I'll take the whole case as the autopsy result of the natural death of a heart attack and push for the closure of the case." Grigory nodded, holding up the flask next to him. "Long time no see, have a drink?"

"Absolutely." With a smile on her face, Yoshiko Kamada pushed the glass in Gregory's direction, and after the other party had filled it for herself, she drank it with Gregory.

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I, Yoshiko Kamada, am a very unlucky person.

When I first entered the university, there was a terrible scandal in our archaeology department where one of our professors had falsified evidence during an archaeological activity and was discovered.

Under such circumstances, our entire archaeology department has not only become a disgrace to the school, but also a child in the Canadian archaeological community who has shouted "wolf" once and a half.

The results of our investigation are not to be dismissed as rumors, but every question that casts even the slightest doubt on our inferences is stared at and attacked by countless people.

Under such circumstances, it is very easy for many people to conduct academic research with their mentor, which is why I chose to join Mr. Henry Ito's expedition with the permission of my mentor – for no other reason, their academic research is one of the topics I have dabbled in: the Franklin Expedition.

Mr. Ito's reputation is very high and his reputation is outstanding. I thought that if I could be part of his expedition, it would definitely add to my resume.

But I never thought it would be the beginning of another nightmare.

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A snowy afternoon.

"Ahh With a scream of being beaten, Henry Ito fell to the ground. In front of him, Gregory, dressed in rough clothes, took two steps backwards before turning around and running back in the direction of the base in a panic.

Just now, he went to look for Yoshiko Kamada, only to find that Henry Ito was inside Yoshiko Kamada's tent, grabbing Yoshiko Kamada by the shoulders with both hands and pushing her against the wall of the tent.

So he lost control, called his teacher out, and punched him.

But he only saw his teacher do something to his lover, but driven by hormones, he never thought about why his teacher did this.

But Yoshiko Kamada knew, and this reason also led to her final desperate move.

Ten minutes ago.

"I knew there was a reason why Fujimura deliberately chose you out of all the candidates," Henry Ito looked at Yoshiko Kamada angrily. "I just saw that the Fujimura guy carved new notches on the bones - the same ones he showed us earlier, he carved them!"

"What?" Yoshiko Kamada lost her voice.

"Don't pretend to be garlic with me," Henry Ito said with emotion. "You were pestering me at the time, saying you wished I could write you a letter of recommendation after the event, right? If I hadn't come out to the bathroom while you were working on the outline of your recommendation letter, I wouldn't have seen him do all of this. You're in this group, aren't you? ”

"No, it's not so, sir, listen to me." Yoshiko Kamada tries to calm Henry Ito's emotions, but the other party is clearly in a state of rage.

"Don't explain it to me, I know it's all about the two of you colluding and colluding." Henry Ito's voice suddenly rose an octave, and he grabbed Yoshiko Kamada with a motion as if he was torturing a prisoner. "I remember, the archaeology department of your school was known for fakes, right? Well, now they've cultivated an even better genius. Don't quibble with me, now you only have two paths, one is to be a tainted witness, confess your own crimes, and then testify against your accomplice Shinichi Fujimura. ”

"Otherwise, as soon as I go back, I will immediately report your academic fraud to your school, do you understand what I mean?"

"Ahh

And just then, Grigory walked in. "Yoshiko, what's wrong?"

The eyes of master and apprentice are staggered at this moment.

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"Whew-whew-" Yoshiko Kamada gasped as she stood in front of the corpse in front of her.

Just now, she used the ice axe she exchanged with him from Shinichi Fujimura and inserted it into Ito's temple, killing him on the spot.

Destruction of evidence...... Destruction of evidence......

Her mind came to mind the plastic archaeological discovery storage box with wheels in Ito's room—all the evidence was there.

If Shinichi Fujimura really falsified those traces, once these evidences are brought back to civilized society and strictly examined, then everything for himself will really be ruined.

Therefore, these bones must be destroyed as well, so that they will disappear forever along with Ito's corpse.

In this case, he pushed Professor Ito's body into a nearby ice crevice along with the artifact box - Ito was wearing a very thick down jacket, so all the blood that came out of the tapping on his temples was in the clothes, leaving no traces.

And the ice axe, after being washed and avoiding the eyes of the rest of the team, was carried out by Yoshiko Kamada to leave the team, and was finally abandoned by her after repeated cleaning, completely escaping all potential interrogation possibilities.

No one can guess that she did it, unless it was someone who learned from somewhere that the ice axe that killed Mr. Ito belonged to Shinichi Fujimura, and also knew that the ice axe was lent to Yoshiko Kamada.

That's why she asked for help from the organization, and the organization's operations department poisoned Shinichi Fujimura.

I never wanted to hurt anyone, but there were always people who wanted to put all sorts of stigma on me for no reason. Well, maybe you're going to get it, but in that case, it's time for you to know how a person with such a bad reputation would act.

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This is the end of the Franklin Expedition case, and the next step is to cut back to the Trembling Movement line.