Chapter 319: Joyful, No Thoughts of Shu

"Snap!"

At the sudden sound of a finger snap, Matsumoto Sachiko's eyes snapped open.

"..."

The scene before her was familiar; this was the changing room in the chapel.

The parts she couldn't recall before had also returned to her memory.

After Ichimi left the changing room, her groom was soon pushed in.

Just as she had guessed, he proceeded to poison the canister placed on the table.

The technique was almost equivalent to having no technique at all.

The speed was not fast, and it was very easy to spot.

The sight of him dropping the capsule hidden in his cuff into the canister, deliberately turning his back to perform those small movements, made it difficult for her to pretend she didn't notice.

"Sigh..."

Matsumoto Sachiko let out a sigh.

Recalling the memories she had just lost, and the words and deeds of Gao Shan Junyan she had just witnessed, left her feeling utterly exhausted.

They say that getting close requires removing the filter of childhood.

But only after removing it all did she realize that Gao Shan Junyan was actually nothing special.

Perhaps those past acts of bravery were truly just childish behavior.

At least, Matsumoto Sachiko did not believe a man who loved to play and blamed his father for his mother's car accident still possessed the mindset for acts of bravery.

Even the final scene of him crying was not a repentance for his own actions, but a complete despair upon realizing his family's conglomerate was beyond saving.

That was not the crying of repentance, but the crying of someone who knew he had lost everything.

He was not shedding tears for her lying on the ground, but crying because he knew her lying on the ground would cause him to lose everything.

The heroic boy of childhood had turned into this figure now.

Matsumoto Sachiko also felt endless emotions.

However, one thing would not change.

This farce of a wedding could stop now.

Looking down, the groom she had seen weeping bitterly before was now curled up on the floor, his eyes tightly shut in pain, his hands seemingly still clutching at something.

Unfortunately, this time the heavy filter was gone from Matsumoto Sachiko's eyes.

She had completely seen through the true nature of the man named Gao Shan Junyan.

"How was it~"

Hearing the voice, Matsumoto Sachiko instinctively turned her head.

She saw that the Ran and Sonoko she knew were sitting nearby, but they looked loose and relaxed, as if they had just woken up.

Looking over at the others, the condition of those Young Ladies was very similar.

Connecting her own state just now, the other version of herself lying in a pool of blood that she had seen, and Gao Shan Junyan constantly exposing his vicious side.

Matsumoto Sachiko's brain began to race.

What happened just now was absolutely not normal.

Gao Shan Junyan's reaction was completely his most normal reaction.

The other me lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

That was not a normal situation.

Matsumoto Sachiko's mind was clearer than at any other time.

Before, she was a bit love-struck, but that was because the filter of time was too thick.

But when thinking seriously, if one's mind didn't even have this level of speed, one couldn't be a teacher.

Thinking about this problem more rationally, one could actually hear some signs from the conversation just now.

Clearly, that boy used something, perhaps a hallucinogen, or perhaps a special kind of... power similar to a magic trick.

However, Matsumoto Sachiko felt the answer leaned more towards the latter.

Why could a hallucinogen be used on two people?

Moreover, judging by Gao Shan Junyan's condition, they should have entered the same state, even seeing, hearing, and experiencing the same things.

It was just that she was the third party, seeing and hearing more, while Gao Shan Junyan seemed to be the controlled party.

Matsumoto Sachiko looked at Ran and Sonoko again; there was only surprise on their faces, not a shred of fright.

It seemed this experience was their first time, but such events were not their first time.

This was not a sudden emergency.

Additionally, Matsumoto Sachiko noticed that the people experiencing similar situations were not just Ran and Sonoko.

The other Young Ladies from noble families also had similar symptoms.

So, besides me, everyone here is in the know?

After clarifying the situation, Matsumoto Sachiko's mood slowly relaxed.

It seemed that Ran and Sonoko investigating my affairs also appeared abnormal.

They seemed to have known from the very beginning that Gao Shan Junyan was going to make a move on me, and even knew I would choose to die.

Such advance foreknowledge seemed very abnormal.

So, in this abnormal situation, finding the most unreasonable person is the answer.

Matsumoto Sachiko immediately understood why there was a boy among the group of Young Ladies, all of whom had special backgrounds and identities.

It seemed this was the reason.

Opening her eyes and calming down, Kaguya Sigong looked calmly at the man wriggling on the ground like a maggot.

"It is very similar to what I imagined."

"He is merely a simple-minded person, wishful thinking, unwilling to accept the truth."

"Moreover, this man's desire to avenge his mother is not pure."

"If he truly had those thoughts, then he should have started harboring them when he was adopted by Gao Shan and his wife."

"Twenty years ago, Detective Matsumoto should have been just an ordinary small police officer."

"A zaibatsu wanting to target a small police officer should not be very difficult."