AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 389 - 178: The Murderer’s Book of Absolution (Extra 1200 words!)_2

Chapter 389: Chapter 178: The Murderer’s Book of Absolution (Extra 1200 words!)_2

Kuai Hongji weighed the clothes rack in his hand and then set it aside as if finding this object was nothing more than an unremarkable triviality.

"So, this also answers another question... why did Song Rentou kill his roommate? Please note, when I say this, I’m not asking whether Song Rentou did in fact kill his roommate, but rather, that his decision to kill his roommate was the result of a subjective will."

"Think about it, why would a dormitory, where dirty laundry goes directly into the washing machine for disposal, need a clothes rod? And how did a clothes rod end up there?"

"The only explanation is that someone bought a clothes rod from the convenience store with the purpose of doing something ’appropriate’ at the ’right’ moment, and that thing... was to use non-human classmates to off his roommate."

"What do you think?"

After hearing this, Lin Yi felt a chill run down his spine, leaving him feeling ice-cold all over.

On the other hand, Tian Bufan’s expression did not change much, as if such a deduction was still within his expectations.

But Lin Yi found it somewhat horrifying.

Was this a premeditated murder by Song Rentou using someone else’s hand?!

"But I still don’t understand his motive! It doesn’t make sense, did he have a mental breakdown that disturbed his senses, causing him to doubt the reality of his roommate, and decide to do this?"

Kuai Hongji shook his head slightly, picked up a piece of paper, glanced at it and said, "That’s why I said our initial thoughts were similar, but, I believe, this incident took place over two days... On the first day, everything was relatively normal, there were such sounds outside the door, but no one opened the door, at least... Song Rentou did not open the door."

"But Song Rentou began to suspect his roommates and decided to get rid of them. For this purpose, he planned the incident and even went to the convenience store to buy a clothes rod... A clothes rod, after all, is a daily necessity, one of the items that can be bought at the convenience store by swiping a student ID card."

"It could’ve been the next night, or perhaps the third day... Because such incidents surely didn’t happen just once or twice in this campus area, after all, since we enrolled, we’ve been chased by human sculptures and non-human classmates almost every day, haven’t we?"

Lin Yi’s face paled somewhat, but he also looked at Kuai Hongji with a racing heart and pondered, "All this... you deduced from the start? You were so certain even before finding the clothes rod?"

"The clothes rod is just corroborative evidence, finding it just means my speculation is one step closer to the truth, and it doesn’t matter if we didn’t find it." Kuai Hongji said, "Because the most interesting part of the entire paper is actually the part about the bathroom, and this part is the strongest evidence that he killed his roommates."

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

Song Rentou opened the bathroom door and let the non-human classmates kill his last roommate. This was written by himself, it counts as a confession, and is an indisputable fact, hence both he and Tian Bufan did not focus on this point in their discussion.

But Kuai Hongji’s focus was right here.

"Just saying this, you might not be able to grasp the scene I’ve deduced."

"Let me tell you the truth I’ve pieced together..." Kuai Hongji picked up the paper, a cold smile playing on the corner of his mouth, "Watch closely..."

"First, the backdrop is a dense fog lasting several nights. On the day before the incident, the mentally unstable Song Rentou was tossing and turning in bed, listening intently to the movements of non-human classmates outside, staying awake all night, while devising the plan to buy a clothes rod and kill his roommates... We’ve already talked about this, no need to discuss it further, let’s get to the main point."

"On the night of the incident, the dense fog enveloped the area, much like today’s conditions. Song Rentou and his roommates returned to their dorm room one by one, and each began to shower..."

"We don’t have to worry about the time."

"Listening to the calling sounds outside the door, when he heard them start to accurately call out his roommates’ identity information, Song Rentou who was already hiding in bed, pushed the doorknob with the clothes rod to open the dorm door, and then hid in bed pretending to sleep..."

["My roommates attracted them..."]

["They are right at the door... repeating my roommates’ names and student numbers..."]

"He was trying to state the facts."

["I don’t know why they could open the door at this time..."]

"But here he lied, the door was opened by him. But he could also pretend to be completely ignorant of this, standing from the perspective of a victim, no one would question a mentally unstable survivor."

"And the next sentence..."

["’I saw them looking for my roommates...’] and [’My roommates were showering...’]"

"The biggest problem and misleading aspect of these two sentences is that they lead people to connect them together."

"In fact, these are two separate events... After he opened the door, hiding in bed, he peered through the gaps in the blanket to observe these non-human classmates ’looking for his roommates,’ here the ’roommates’ refers to all roommates except the one in the shower."

"After they killed those roommates, they didn’t leave, perhaps hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, they were reluctant to go."

"The anxious Song Rentou hiding in bed... meanwhile, the non-human classmates also noticed Song Rentou on the bed, but they didn’t lay a hand on him, here I believe it was the dormitory’s ’safe state’ that still protected the mentally deranged Song Rentou—of course, this point is debatable, let’s continue."

"Song Rentou should have been safe, but he was in extreme mental peril, fearing attack from the non-human classmates... because there’s this line in the special version of the dormitory rules—"