Holmes of Kyoto: Volume 10 by Mai Mochizuki

Author:Mai Mochizuki [Mochizuki, Mai]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

9

The 7 Stars was still moving at a steady speed. Everyone in the lounge was chatting and drinking wine or champagne. The passengers around us seemed to be enjoying themselves very much. It was only our table that seemed to be in a different world, as if we were cut off from our surroundings.

A new bottle of wine was brought to our table. It was a red wine from a winery in Kyushu. The glasses gave off a mellow aroma. While everyone else had wine, I was drinking a rich grape juice from the same place. Since it was in a wine glass, it didn’t look any different from the wine.

“All right, let’s have a toast to reset the mood,” said Shiro, cheerfully picking up his glass. The rest of us did the same, Holmes with a cold expression, Yilin with a smile, and me so nervous that I could tell I looked tense.

We raised our glasses but didn’t clink them together. Shiro was the only one who said “cheers.” Yoneyama’s two paintings had been put back into the Boston bag.

“So, what was the mysterious incident that happened at your university?” Holmes asked, clasping his hands together in front of his chin.

Yilin took a sip of her wine and sighed. “I’m studying medicine at a state university in San Diego. So this happened in America.”

She uncrossed and recrossed her legs as she spoke. It was a seductive movement that would have left most men ogling her, but Holmes was completely unfazed. He simply waited for her to continue.

“There was an abandoned house on the edge of town. No one went near it because it was creepy, but one day, the bodies of four students from my university were found there. They had needle marks on them, so at first, it seemed like the result of young people getting too deep into drugs. But that wasn’t the case. Someone else had drugged them. They were very diligent students.” She lowered her eyes, seeming depressed. It made me wonder if the deceased students had been people she knew. “The strange thing is that all four were lying in separate rooms, and each room had a day of the week written in chalk on the wall.”

“Day of the week?”

“Yes, they were Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But the students had been killed on a Saturday, and what’s more, the handwriting belonged to the students themselves.”

“Hmm. Who was the first person to discover the bodies?”

“A group consisting of two young couples who snuck into the house in the middle of the night to do something naughty.”

“So the four who died were students at the same university. Were they in the same department too?”

“No. The Tuesday room was Sean, a biology student; the Wednesday room was Natalie, an oceanography student; the Thursday room was John, an engineering student; and the Friday room was Mark, an economics student. They were all in different departments.”

“But they did interact with each other. Were they in the same club?”

“How did you know?” Yilin asked, curious.

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