"Just now, when I reached out to grab this class register, that malevolent spirit suddenly emerged from beneath the podium... Judging by his appearance... it must have been Ookubo Hayato, Ruyue Nao's boyfriend."

It appeared that Ookubo Hayato must have been pulled into the spiritual realm, hiding under the podium before being discovered, tortured to death with a hammer and chisel, and then cast out of the spiritual realm.

This also explained why Ookubo Hayato was pulled into the spiritual realm at eight o'clock at night, and why the time of death of the body was around midnight.

He managed to hold on for four hours in the spiritual realm, which was quite commendable.

After saying this, Beichuan Si opened the class register.

The register neatly listed all the names of the students in Class 2A, recording their attendance and absences.

In the corner of this register, one could clearly see Ruyue Nao's name.

From the beginning to the end of the term, Ruyue Nao had not missed a single day nor left early once.

This discovery made Beichuan Si frown slightly.

However, he did not speak; instead, his hands kept moving as he continued flipping to the back.

On the last few pages of the register, it was clear that Ruyue Nao's name had been struck out with a black ink pen.

But if one looked closely, they could also see that three other girls' names had been struck out.

It seemed they had likely suffered bullying, leading to problems with their physical or mental health, thus being unable to attend school.

"Just looking at the records won't reveal anything."

Shenzhu Shihui, who had been silent up until then, suggested, "Since there are so many desks here, we might find some clues if we search a little, right?"

She was right.

Beichuan Si looked up at the daunting cluster of desks.

These desks were neatly arranged as if people had been in class here today.

Beichuan Si stuffed the register into his backpack, and then called on Shenzhu Shihui and Magong Yongshi to help.

The desks were all typical classroom desks.

None of them were particularly dilapidated.

But—

Beichuan Si lifted his flashlight.

Under the vertical beam of the flashlight, Beichuan Si easily spotted the white flowers laid on top of a desk.

The somewhat withered flowers were inserted into a white vase at a sorrowful angle.

"That is..." Magong Tong opened her mouth.

As a high school student with common sense, she naturally understood what it meant for white flowers to be placed on a desk.

"A remembrance for those who have passed away."

Beichuan Si said as he walked over.

He also felt somewhat relieved.

Fortunately, when he had made a hole in the wall earlier, he had chosen to do so a bit behind the front door, so he hadn't damaged these desks at the back.

There were a total of three desks that held mourning vases.

Beichuan Si walked over and pulled out the textbooks from these three desks, quickly glancing at the surnames on them.

"Hayakawa, Yamauchi, Fujiwara..."

These familiar names made Magong Tong and the others behind him slightly startle.

Weren't these the very names they'd discovered in the register?

They had all been crossed out at the end.

Did that mean it wasn't a symbol of taking a leave of absence, but rather that they had already died?

"Has the bullying become this severe?" Shenzhu Shihui rubbed her chin.

Born in Shenzhu Village and personally looked after by the Shenzhu Family Head, she lacked a realistic sense of "school bullying."

She had thought it was just a conflict between students that could easily be resolved with a good talk.

But now it seemed...

"This has already led to a death... no wonder Ruyue Nao's personality is so twisted... Having already witnessed classmates dying beside her, it's natural for her to become so cold and unapproachable..."

Shenzhu Shihui shook her head.

At that moment, Beichuan Si's voice rose. "On the contrary, I feel the opposite."

He flipped through the attendance records and glanced again at the flower vase in front of him for mourning. "I've been pondering a question before—regarding whether Ruyue Nao is the bully."

The teacher's assistant's notes, Ruyue Nao's student evaluations, all of these were taken out by Beichuan Si.

He opened the assistant's notes, the attendance records, and flipped through the student evaluation forms, speaking word for word, "Shenzhu, come and take a look."

"Come and take a look... at what?" Shenzhu Shihui drifted over subconsciously.

Beichuan Si didn't waste words; instead, he simply extended his finger toward the writings above. "These records have virtually no information on the bully. Some merely contain speculations like 'Ruyue Nao might have been bullied.'"

"...Isn't that enough already?"

Shenzhu Shihui was increasingly unable to understand what Beichuan Si was trying to convey.

Sensing the puzzlement from Shenzhu Shihui and Magong Tong, and even Nishijou Kurenai who had quietly perked up her ears and risen...

Beichuan Si's mouth moved, about to answer their confusion.

"Mr. Temple means, if these records are all based on one-sided speculation... right?"

Magong Yongshi's large black eyes sparkled with intelligence.

This left Magong Tong and Shenzhu Shihui stunned.

If the information they had investigated was, in fact, incorrect...?

Neither of them had considered this possibility.

Seeing Magong Yongshi had understood his point, Beichuan Si nodded, "Just as Yongshi said, if these pieces of information are actually mere one-sided speculations... what would the truth be like?"

As he finished speaking, Magong Tong also gestured slightly with her hand to ask, "Beichuan, how can you be so certain all this information is incorrect?"

Confronted with such a question from Magong Tong, Beichuan Si simply waved his hand. "I never said 'this information is incorrect.' I only said their content is very one-sided speculation, just as I mentioned earlier, these records all lack information on the bully.

"This also means that the teachers who left these pieces of information were merely speculating. They presumed there was a bully tormenting girls like Ruyue Nao... but is that really the case?"

Beichuan Si turned his head to look at the commemorative flower vase on the desk beside him.

The wilted white flowers symbolized the passing of young life.

Looking at these flowers, Beichuan Si laid out his analytically derived conclusion word by word, "What if, from the start, the bully was Ruyue Nao? And these three girls had been her victims all along."

"This... as you said Beichuan, speculation cannot be used as evidence... so what is your basis, then?"

Shenzhu Shihui extended her hand, asking like a primary school student.

"Let's first take a look at this Ruyue Nao student evaluation form."

Beichuan Si reached out, pointing to a line of text on the evaluation form.

There, written on the clean sheet of paper, was the following line.

'There seems to be a rumor in the class that she is being bullied. I have called her to the office several times to inquire about the specifics, but she remained silent without answering.'

"In reality, incidents of student bullying occur in every school, it's merely a matter of being 'severe' or 'not severe.'" Beichuan Si said calmly, "If the bullying was too extreme, it's only natural for Ruyue Nao to be afraid to tell the truth to the teacher."

This seemed to make sense on the surface.

But—

"If the bully was Ruyue Nao, then this note would also make sense, not wanting to let the teacher find out about her bullying others, therefore she kept silent..."

But after all, this was speculation.

Beichuan Si then took out the attendance records.

"On this record, there's not a single late arrival or early departure for Ruyue Nao, not even a single tardiness... Would a victim of severe bullying like school or class so much that she's never even been late?"

Next, he lifted his hand, pointing to Hayakawa, Fujiwara, Yamauchi, these three girls.

Following their names was a string of... records of lateness and leaving early.

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