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"Let me tell you the story of my friend, who was taken away by 'TAKAHASHI' twelve years ago on Mount Ice Wall..."

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"Hello, this is Saeki..." A man's voice, identifying himself as Saeki, came through the radio.

"Oh! That's great, Saeki, you're safe and sound! Do you know where you are now?" said the young Hiramekuro happily.

"No... I don't know. If the route is correct, I should be almost at Snowfield Manor by now..."

"I'm sorry... I think I can't go on anymore, I really want to sleep..."

"Idiot, don't fall asleep! If you fall asleep, it'll be all over!" Hiragi shouted fiercely into the microphone.

During this time, Saeki told us a story over the radio.

In this story, a mountaineer named Takahashi and his friend Yamada challenge the most difficult section of Icewall Mountain: the North Face!

However, the two had a quarrel along the way, which forced them to separate. Afterwards, in order to find her missing friend, 'TAKAHASHI' shouldered the heavy equipment for both of them and embarked on a journey.

However, he unknowingly lost his way and eventually became an evil spirit of the snow mountain!

Finally, Hiragi's friend lost contact with him amidst a scream.

"And when we found him, Saeki's body was already frozen stiff... That's the origin of the Snow Spirit Legend." After saying this, a hint of reminiscence flashed in Hiraki's eyes...

"Mr. Asakawa, although you have deduced that this is a locked-room murder case, there is one thing that I find very suspicious." Hiraki suddenly changed the subject, bringing the topic back to the case.

"You mean to say that the corpse's stiffness is not quite right, right?" Asakawa Yu picked up the conversation smoothly.

“That’s right. According to your reasoning, Ms. Setura was murdered within that hour, but the body would have to be left outside overnight to achieve that level of stiffness.”

"I don't have any ideas about this right now, but I'm certain that this is definitely not the work of that Xue Lingdong."

Asakawa Yu's eyes shone with intense confidence. There were no ghosts in this world; it was just someone playing tricks.

Even though a murder had occurred, and even though the blizzard prevented the police from arriving in time to provide assistance, no one else showed any intention of leaving.

"Human greed... For a little money, they're actually willing to stay here with the corpse until the morning after tomorrow," Asakawa Yu remarked.

"Why are you so concerned about this, boss? Given your personality, you shouldn't have bothered with it and should have just waited for the police to handle it."

Seeing what Asakawa Yu had just done, Miyano Akemi felt a little incredulous. Although they might not be that familiar with each other, Miyano Akemi was confident that she knew her boss quite well. He wouldn't have stood up for himself unless there was a special reason.

"...It's nothing, I just feel a bit uncomfortable being here with corpses..." Seeing her boss still being stubborn, Miyano Akemi felt somewhat helpless.

“Of course, isn’t that right? Didn’t Mr. Kuronuma say that if we don’t stay here until the morning after tomorrow, we will lose our right to inherit the estate?” Dozaki Tsuyoshi slowly walked downstairs.

Indeed, for ordinary people, 100 million yuan is a huge sum of money, not to mention the extremely simple condition that they can get it just by staying here until the morning after tomorrow.

"Isn't this exactly what happened? You could say that this villa gathering was a trap. Everyone knew there was danger, but they just wouldn't leave, and in the end, they were all harvested by the murderer."

"And I have a feeling that the next case is coming soon..."

Dozaki Tsuyoshi, who overheard Asakawa Yu's words, narrowed his eyes slightly, as if someone had hit the nail on the head, but quickly regained his composure.

After Dozaki Tsuyoshi left, Asakawa Yu watched his departing figure, lost in thought...

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The next morning, something strange happened again.

The body that should have been in Ms. Setura's room has mysteriously disappeared!

But it's absolutely impossible that someone came in and secretly took it away, because Asakawa Yu stayed in the living room almost all night to keep watch. Even if someone did come in, it would be impossible to do so without making a sound.

So everyone hurried to the living room to gather, but before everyone had arrived, strange things began to happen!

Clap!

An axe was thrown in through the window! The window shattered completely, and the loud noise brought the already frightened atmosphere to a fever pitch!

"Thrown in from outside? Wait, there's something on the axe, it's... blood! Could it be..." To verify his guess, Asakawa Yu looked out the window, and immediately, a chilling scene came into view: lying on the ground was none other than Mr. Masui Wataru, who had already been killed!

"Ah!!! I can't take it anymore, I don't want the money, I'm going down the mountain right now!" The two consecutive murders made college student Mao Tsukie feel unbearable, and she said that she didn't want the money anymore, and ran towards the entrance.

The crowd hurriedly gave chase, but upon reaching the entrance, the scene that followed left them feeling utterly helpless.

It turned out that everyone's shoes had been stolen, and without hiking boots, they had no way of getting out of the snow-covered mountain.

The radio is also down now; clearly, this place has been completely turned into a snow-covered mountain lodge.

Just as everyone was becoming increasingly anxious, Shiki Dozaki suddenly rushed out and told everyone that his younger brother had left a letter and then ran away alone. In the letter, he said that he would leave 100 million yen to his older brother.

“I was in the living room all night, and no one left from here. However, the shoes were left in the entryway by the front door. So, how did your brother leave the villa without getting the shoes?” Asakawa Yu asked, puzzled.

"Actually... it's because my younger brother hates getting his shoes wet, so whenever we go hiking and stay in a cabin, he always brings his shoes into the room..." Dozaki Shiki hurriedly explained.

“I see. That makes perfect sense, Mr. Shisei…” Asakawa Yu’s lips curled up slightly, his tone slightly sarcastic.

"Everyone's shoes have been taken away, which means no one can leave here. I think this must be a terrifying warning from 'Snow Spirit'!"

Hirame Rokuro continued to spread the legend of Yuki-ryu's killings, firmly believing that Yuki-ryu would kill them all!

Asakawa Yu didn't pay much attention; he just felt that something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Meanwhile, Akemi Miyano, who was sitting in the corner listening silently to their conversation, kept staring at Yu Asakawa, lost in thought...