Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 53 - The Other Side of How to View Literature

No one knows how to handle a corpse. Of all of us, no one has such a background either in the real world or the background of the characters we play. So, all it does is need to clean, cover it with a cloth, and then buried potluck.

But, it turns out it's still not easy.

Verdian's body was already separated from his head, making it difficult for me to carry and move it. Judging from anywhere, the inn had no coffins of corpses. At the same time, we had trouble carrying it, the severed head became an obstacle again.

I don't know how human feelings are. But, just as it felt, when the heads were separated and taken away, sympathy arose for the veneration of the corpse again. We wanted to take him as much as possible, but the wounds scattered in many places made him bleed and mucus everywhere. This makes it difficult for us to be free from the blood.

On the way, I complained pretty good. In fact, until it occurred to think of giving up and let this corpse be buried immediately.

I asked why not just call the hospital or the police. Then, quickly the answer was obtained, which was because the inn in the middle of the forest was far from reach.

When hearing that, it was normal for people to ask back.

Then, why would anyone want to stay here, until made a place and assigned staff take care of it. Is not the nature of business is to find a profitable place both in terms of customers and accommodation. Remote places are really bad for rallying things like this.

Then, I also got the answer from Pero as the owner of the inn.

It turned out, all of that was because the owner of this inn was a private person. The two main men from the main caretaker and chef, Pero and Hanz, both turned out to be acting as insider staff. This entire inn belonged to one of the ruling student families. You could say, he is the princess, the only child of a super-rich family who wants silly things like total silence in the forest.

Then, the person who played it turned out to be Imarine.

From the memories given to me, there is no information as to why this inn could exist. It seems, indeed this event was created unilaterally for the cooperation of the influential teachers and families of Imarine alone. We as ordinary students only know the end result.

This stay event actually aims as a study tour of study groups. If asked what study group, it turns out that we are here as members of the stone researcher.

I don't understand why there's such a group. But I'm sure those memories aren't wrong. People gathered, even representing the teacher turned out only to research the rocks formed here as a later research report.

Yes ... Since there was a major incident, I guess the task could be ignored now. The important thing now is to survive and find out who the perpetrators of this murder are. Since there is a punishment where no one should come out of our own, that means the food supply will also not be filled for the next few days.

Food is in stock in the kitchen, gas is available in tube form and will not run out in the next few weeks, while the water source can be taken from the old seesaw pump that turns out to still function well, there is one in the back garden and another in the bathroom.

With such limited tools, I now need to spend time and effort to take care of the corpse. Maybe this was my decision from the beginning, so I continued to work on it despite troublesome thinking.

The sun had risen, the funerary activities ended until we returned to the inn to eat food. The dining room there has been cleaned. If seen at a glance, we would not know there were blood spots before. Without neglecting my supervision duties to Hanz, food was made and finally everyone could fill his stamina now.

Some people were still suspicious of Hanz, it seemed like the conclusion that he was suspected of spreading to all people. But there I became a mediator. Without objection and suspicion, I dare to be a food taster. After all, it was from the beginning that I myself who watched Hanz cook the food. If they don't trust the food, it means they don't trust my supervision either.

If the police were to secure this place, they might choose to let the dining-room killer's place be investigated, photographed, and investigated even longer. But anyway, we really need the dining room.

However, we are there not to ignore these factors, photos and other evidence there is a camera phone owned by Imarine represent even though the quality is not so good. It seems that the background time here is still not advanced the development of the gadget. Imarine, who is said to play the role of a conglomerate child, only has an old mobile phone.

The meal was over, but we the students and sister Dina as the main customer still sat down not lifting the buttocks from the seat at the main table. Previously, we had agreed to cancel the stone research project so the initial intention of the story in this inn was started. Instead, this afternoon will be a special meeting to determine who is the mastermind of the murder.

The staff themselves were done, they ate at a different table located in the corner of the room. Not because of intimidation, just as respect and courtesy of their own vows. After all, the staff here are only two people plus one Ann the little boy. Then, this was also a form of Hanz's supervision so that he would not separate and not eat in a different room.

"Okay, now we'll just start. I don't want to make the opening official, so start random like this."

I started the conversation and the meeting myself. Talk in a loud tone and become the center of attention in the middle of the table.

"Before, has anyone here ever read or heard a story like this murder mystery? Fiction, history, or other literature whose background is similar now?" keep asking everyone there.

One person I looked at. Right in front of me was Imarine, he did not reply and tried to turn his eyes the other way. The second person I looked at, following the escape of the direction of the head of Imarine, beside him was Azarin. The person also did not know, he shook his head and tried to plead not to be questioned further.

It felt a little awkward when asking and no one answered. Several times I went around looking and still no one seemed to be answering.

"Farrell?"

Until I finally dropped the question on the person I thought was easiest to point at.

"Why me? You think I'm a guy who likes to read books?" timpal Farrel with his defense that reduced his own worth.

Yes, it is true, Farrel is the active type on the outside. He was quite uncomfortable if he had to sit and read books all day. Of course he wouldn't understand if I were discussing something like literature.

"If that's the other one?" I said once again calling people in all directions.

"..."

Then, again, people fell silent. Among them, many lowered their heads or even simply turned their eyes in the other direction. There I was upset, but at the same time I couldn't blame.

"Kaivan, what does your question mean? What does literature have to do with this? Or, why are you trying to find a match?"

The voice came from Pero, he who was at a different table but still in front of me asked back to fill the void. Maybe it's true, of them still don't understand what I'm thinking right now.

"I'm just trying to find it because maybe it could be a shortcut" I replied with a heavy pressing tone. "In the previous challenge, the setting was taken from the famous story of the god who replaced the head with the head of an elephant. So, maybe we can point out the culprit directly from the same story if we know the reference."

Saying and explaining it made me realize that what I said was difficult. The legend of the god is quite commonly known by people who did learn it. I didn't learn it, just knew the basics because my acquaintances knew it.

But, this time I asked about a smaller and random fiction story again. It will be hard for anyone to know.

"Wait, how do you know that the first challenge was taken from a famous story?" ask Pero who is still in the corner.

"Simple, the puzzle says we have to change the guard's head. The animals that were there were elephants. Other clues are also more supportive to his story. But, hmn ... You ask gini means do not know?"

"Not at all."

"Hoo .. I think everyone here already knows."

"I'm the same Amalia didn't follow that story, which you said you should replace the head of the guard with the head of an elephant. Previously we both just killed the monster by decapitating it."

"Ah, hmn .. actually I'm the same Farrel also not to make the monster take the elephant's head. Just that, I almost died and the edges were sent to the beginning."

I used to make my own theory. The initial challenge where there was a gorilla monster was a task that ordered me to herd the gorilla to meet the elephant and be able to take his head later.

"Right, we're done and brought home before you prove your theory" Farrel said on one side of the table.

"Hmn .. about that I also started to wonder. Different as you guys, I'm the same Arin even nothing, but know-how it was taken home when I woke up," said Imarine in front of me following the topic.

"Hmn ...," I hummed while holding my chin trying to think.

The situation there made my opinion even weaker. So far, there has not been a team including myself that has successfully demonstrated it.

"I was brought home before the mosnter nyerang, Amalia lost her monster, Ima even did not meet at all. Everything even so has no solution from my conclusion," I continued muttering even though standing in the middle of being the center of attention.

"No, Kaivan. You're not wrong."

"Hn?"

From another angle, I heard the delicate voice of a man. He is Hanz, from a table that was rented for him and Ann the little boy ate, Hanz tries to get into the conversation and straighten out the confusion.

"Your conclusion is correct. It's just that you're still mistaken about how to prove the truth. Your answer is correct, but you still don't see one other side of your answer. The first challenge was indeed the result of imitating a reference to a god who replaced his head with an elephant's head."