My Tokyo Love Game Has Big Problems

Chapter 166 Reasoning Duel on the Chessboard

"There's no need to brag. Let's just talk about the results."

If Ling Shijie came to find him just after getting such a little bit of information, he wouldn't be so confident.

Seeing that Yu Chengguang didn't give him a chance to show off, Ling Shijie curled his lips, but then he started laughing again.

"I didn't find out the specific identity of the man who showed up with this jade, and I don't have the energy to look for the traces he left behind."

"But, do you think the identity of the other person beside that person at that time was?"

Ling Shijie showed a malicious smile.

"Um"

Tamaki Guang said after pondering for a moment.

"It should be someone from the Imadegawa family, right?"

"Hoho, I didn't expect you to actually guess it. That's right."

Ling Shijie shook his head proudly.

"But you don't have to hide her, that person is none other than your prospective mother-in-law, the head of the Imadegawa family."

"Isn't he just a vampire? How about hiding it like this?"

Tamaki Hikaru frowned slightly. Does this guy know so many things?

"Hehe, so if this jade is really left by your ancestors, it is probably inseparable from the Imadegawa family."

"So if you want to know more, you will definitely have to deal with your prospective mother-in-law. I don't dare to do this."

It's okay to investigate ordinary people, but going to the vampire's lair is still too risky for Ling Shijie.

"Have I investigated enough things now? If I go on, I won't be able to do anything."

The problem went round and round, and finally it was returned to Imadegawa Himetsuki's mother.

Although Tamaki Hikaru had already used the family genealogy obtained from Kita Chichi to deal with it.

However, the system did not show that this choice was completed. It seems that the premise is that Tamaki Hikaru must know his true life experience.

Are all the choices you can make false before you get the truth?

Tamaki Guang pinched his eyebrows in confusion.

Although it doesn't matter if you leave it alone, it is naturally best to investigate clearly.

Now the question circles back to Imadegawa Himeye. Does she really not remember, or does she simply not want to speak?

But the problem now is not this, because more important things have already happened in front of us.

As if he had given Tamaki Hikaru a complete answer, Ling Shijie moved his eyes away from him and placed them on Aitaniti.

And Aitaniti was also looking at her, and their eyes collided.

Then it seemed that they had reached some kind of tacit understanding, and they all shared a knowing smile.

"Finally I meet you, the prisoner who used the false name of witch."

Ling Shijie was the first to speak, with a childish body but a bright face and bright eyes.

"It's too unreasonable, witch hunter, you won't even say the witch's name?"

Aitaniti's expression was indifferent, but she was just a shadow under the light, gradually becoming active.

"Witch hunter? Not a detective?"

Tamaki Hikaru's heart tightened, but when he thought that Aitaniti knew better, she should have been prepared, so he relaxed again.

"It's just different names brought by different people from different perspectives. Tamaki-kun, you don't need to pay special attention to it."

Aitaniti explained with a smile, and Ling Shijie echoed.

"People who are falsifying like them would call it that, but at the end of the day, I'm just a detective."

Ling Shijie, who originally thought it was simple and easy to understand, was now covered with a veil of mystery just like Aitaniti.

The detective is a witch hunter? What do these two professions have in common?

"Tamagi-kun, what do you think the witch is most afraid of?"

Aitaniti suddenly asked, but before Tamakiguang could answer, Ling Shijie spoke first.

"They are afraid of the truth, afraid that their false witch disguise will be torn apart by a detective like me, exposing their true self under the disguise."

"Once this witch's disguise is torn apart, the witch will naturally no longer exist."

Ling Shijie was a little eager to give it a try and seemed like he couldn't wait any longer.

Tamaki Hikaru generally understood what the two meant, but there were still many things that puzzled him.

But the two of them had no time to continue answering his doubts, so they just looked at each other.

"Let's get started. Since you dare to come to me, it means you have fully studied my witch legend, right?"

Aitaniti raised her hand, and the shadow spread from her body, covering the entire room.

Then, in the shadows, filled with wind and snow, the castle appeared quietly.

"Is this an illusion?"

Tamaki Hikaru stretched out his hand, but the snowflakes passed through his hand, and there was no feeling of cold at all.

"It's a chessboard, one of the chessboards I left behind."

Aitaneeti changed into a complicated Western-style dress, embroidered with golden rose patterns, and her blond hair, as bright as gold, was tied up.

One hand held a small fan, and the other hand held an elegant flintlock gun, which looked more like a handicraft.

Ling Shijie's detective costume has not changed, but he also has the same flintlock gun, which looks like he is in a duel.

The table between the three of them also turned into a more elegant nanmu tea table, with a strange chessboard on it.

"About the chess game deduction of the tragedy of the Saurensburg blizzard, Tamaki-kun, I would like you to do a little notarization."

Ling Shijie did not object to Aitaniti's proposal. It was like some kind of duel ceremony, which filled Tamaki Hikari with doubts.

What does the witch, the witch hunter, and this strange chessboard mean?

He knew that the Saurensburg massacre was a murder that Ling Shijie had mentioned and was suspected to have been committed by Aitaniti.

But reopening chessboard games? Do you want her to change her mind by reviewing the crime scene?

Tamaki Hikaru was a little puzzled, but he could only continue reading.

"Then the first puzzle is that although Saurensburg is located in the cold zone of the north, it was summer at the time. How to explain the sudden snowstorm?"

Aitaniti looked at the howling wind and snow around her, slowly loaded the flintlock gun in her hand, and then pointed it at Ling Shijie.

"Everything is the magic of the witch, changing the celestial phenomena and preparing for the next thing. This is the reality of the witch."

"boom!"

Aitaniti pulled the trigger, and the whizzing projectiles turned into sharp ice blades in the air and shot toward Ling Shijie.

The flintlock gun in Ling Shijie's hand was also fired, and the projectiles shattered the ice blade in the air.

"It's just a matter of confusing some people who don't believe in science. As long as you pay attention to the weather forecast for those days, you will be reminded that the weather is abnormal and there is a risk of snowfall." Ling Shijie calmly stated his conclusion.

"The road closure due to the snowstorm is just a coincidence. It can also be regarded as a God-given opportunity for you."

Aitaniti was not surprised when the first shot failed, and calmly began to prepare the next round of ammunition.

"Then the second puzzle is that I personally appeared in the garden and demonstrated magic to the witnesses at the time, and they also recognized the reality of magic."

"No need to waste time on this. It's just disguised and then used magic tricks to deceive people."

Tamaki Hikaru watched from the side and gradually figured out a few tricks.

Aitaniti wanted to protect her truth as a witch, and claimed that everything in this massacre was caused by the witch's magic.

Ling Shijie, on the other hand, argued that there was no such thing as a witch, but that the real murderer was pretending to be a witch and killing people in the name of a witch.

The two of them continued to argue with each other around the chessboard, using words as an offensive.

The flintlocks were loaded not with gunpowder but with the truth of what each side said.

Just like the so-called ghost story, once the cocoon is stripped away and the truth is revealed, it will lose its mysterious power.

But there are still many strange things in it. For example, if you want to prove the power of the witch, isn't this supernatural scene in front of you enough?

For another example, how did Ling Shijie investigate so clearly, just relying on the legend of the witch spread by Aitaniti herself?

While Tamaki Hikaru was thinking, the picture on the chessboard had changed several times.

Secret room killings that are beyond human capabilities, witches and familiars coming together, and endless magical powers

But even so, Ling Shijie could always give seemingly reasonable explanations and see through the tricks in Aitaniti's words.

The so-called seamless secret room can be easily cracked as long as there is an inside signal or a secret door.

The witch's familiars and magic are just illusions decorated by the witch when she tells the story.

Adhering to the bottom line that crimes must be committed by humans, the two people's realities turned into murder weapons in various cases, constantly colliding in the air.

As the two collided, the process of this mysterious case in the castle gradually emerged in front of Tamaki Hikari.

Over the course of three days, the witch's murder notice followed the order of the victims who died mysteriously, and old events gradually came to light.

What then emerged was the filth and filthiness of such a family. Surrounding the family's legacy, everyone had a motive for committing a crime.

And the shadow of the real murderer is still hidden among these people.

The twists and turns of the reasoning made Tamaki Hikaru feel a little dizzy.

If it were him, he would probably directly admit that this is what the witch did.

The chessboard was reopened several times, and each time, different versions of the witch legend were used as the chessboard, and the story was reinterpreted with different plots.

The order and method of death are also constantly changing, and each time seems to be a completely different story.

The only thing that is the same is that at the end of the story, the witch will appear and bring the final death to the remaining people in this castle.

The sealed mystery case in the castle has become a closed cat box, and the only interpreter seems to be the witch herself who committed the case.

Except for the final annihilation of all seventeen people, all other contents are free to be interpreted and edited by the witch.

But if that's the case, why not just use the most indefensible way to make Ling Shijie unable to refute?

It's like the person who asked the question always left out categories that can be solved, rather than directly coming up with an unsolvable problem like Goldbach's conjecture.

Tamaki Hikari continued to watch the dangerous and unique battle between the two with doubts.

The reality of the witch turned into seven wedges, nailing Ling Shijie's wrists, knees, eyes and heart.

The truth presented by Aitaniti just now overturned most of her previous reasoning, turned into an irresistible wedge of truth, and sentenced her to death.

The extremely miserable scene did not make Tamaki Hikaru feel sympathy or action, because this was not the first time.

Ling Shijie, who still retained her tongue, revised her reasoning in time and continued to maintain her "human murderer theory" in other ways.

The witch's wedge of truth disappeared, and the shocking wounds quickly dissipated.

At the end of the chess game, everything that happened is not real. Only the moment the cat box is opened, the cat's life or death will be confirmed.

"Ha, even so, you still haven't been able to overturn my reasoning. How many more puzzles can you solve to maintain your defense?"

Although it was not real, the pain was real to Ling Shijie.

The remaining pain made her whole body tremble, but she still raised the flintlock gun in her hand.

The balance began to tip unknowingly, and the combination of puzzles that Aitaniti came up with was indeed a ferocious offensive.

But as each mystery is solved, the lines of defense she can maintain become less and less.

"Are you okay? What will happen if you lose on this chessboard?"

Tamaki Hikaru glanced at Aitaniti. He still didn't know the meaning of his notarization.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen."

There was still a bit of pain on Aitaniti's face. She had been penetrated by Ling Shijie's wedge of truth several times just now.

Although she said this, Tamaki Hikaru still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put it into words.

"Now that you have solved all the riddles of the crime, I am only left with the last and most critical riddle."

Aitaniti raised the gun again, her eyes still full of confidence.

"That is, who am I?"

Ling Shijie fell silent briefly, who is Aitaniti?

Naturally, the real murderer cannot be the witch named Aitaniti, but someone who pretends to be a witch, but which person is which?

All seventeen people in the castle appeared in front of her at this moment, looking at her.

Men, women, old people, children, teenagers, girls.

Which one is the one disguised as a witch?

Ling Shijie raised his gun and swept it back and forth.

"No, none of them. You are not among these people."

"Haha, there are only seventeen people in this castle. This is an iron fact. If I am not among the seventeen people, could it be that you have given up?"

Aitaniti raised the corners of her mouth slightly, but Ling Shijie lowered his eyes, flicked his wrist, and shot the projectile towards a charred corpse in the corner.

Aitaniti's smile stopped suddenly, and blood bloomed on her chest.

"Although there are only seventeen people, one of the people on the table is dead. The person who is dead in the background is actually alive."

Ling Shijie blew the sparks from the gun and showed a winner's smile.

"You like to play this kind of word game too much. You always like to use plausible and true lies to make people take the bait."

"But, I said, I have seen through you, the false witch, no, I should say you are the real murderer, the real heir to the Solons family."

　Because it’s too troublesome and I don’t know how to write, I won’t write these contents in detail and just use the Haicat framework.

　　The background of the witch will be explained in detail in the next chapter.

　　By the way, just to clarify, what made you think you had an appendix in the last chapter?

　　There are obviously a lot of things that haven't been explained clearly yet, so how could the appendix just happen?

　　Do you think I am collecting people one by one, so I want an appendix?

　　There is no need to worry so much.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)