Chapter 173
Chapter 173
I practically lived in Lapis’s maintenance room for an entire day. This place was filled with unused monitors, terminals, and computers.
Drk, drk.
I pulled together a bunch of monitors with tangled wires onto one table. When compiling data for long periods, physical display monitors were better than holograms.
I output all the data I had gathered last night onto multiple monitors. The only thing left was to review and compare it repeatedly.
For the past few years, the murderer had consistently posted crime scene photos. I filtered out only the school schedules that matched the dates and times in the photos. Especially since vacation periods were publicly announced, I could eliminate a large number of schools where the timeline didn’t match. This kind of task could be left to the AI chip embedded in the computer.
I examined the schools I had narrowed down.
‘It must be a strict private school attended by the upper class of Border City. The posts go up as early as Sunday, at the latest by Monday or Tuesday. That means the murders happen over the weekend before being uploaded. The killer is likely a child of Bellato’s high-ranking officials or wealthy elites who live in a dormitory with curfew restrictions. Judging by the murder cycles and dates, they seem to have unleashed their repressed desires freely during vacations.’
The outline of the murderer became clearer in my mind.
They pursued their own sense of beauty and had a great deal of vanity. Even in the short sentences of their posts, their refined grammar stood out, and there were occasional uses of sophisticated vocabulary.
Assuming they followed a student’s schedule, their murder cycle was eerily regular—like having meals at fixed times. They must have their own set of rules.
Click.