That night, at 21:17
Hayashi Yoshiki went to the practice field for his daily training as agreed. As soon as he approached, a black car parked outside the building flashed its high beams at him.
Walking over, he saw Gin's cold face through the lowered window of the passenger seat, and his dark green eyes glanced over at me.
"Get in the car."
Hayashi Yoshiki opened the back seat door and sat in.
Gin's favorite car, the Porsche 356 A, is a two-seater car, but the one these two people drove today was a four-seater.
"Have you changed your car recently, Gin?"
"...Big Bro's car went for maintenance today."
Vodka, who was sitting in the driver's seat, glanced at Hayashi Yoshiki and answered surprisingly honestly.
Gin was smoking silently in the front row.
"What's the matter with calling me here?"
"Are you planning to be a detective?" Gin's eyes met Hayashi Yoshiki in the rearview mirror.
"Yes, there is such a plan."
"Oh..."
Gin seemed to be satisfied with Hayashi Yoshiki's answer and grinned jokingly. However, he did not continue to talk about this topic for the time being, but just told Vodka to set off.
The latter started the car and drove forward without saying a word.
The black car drove smoothly on the city road.
The lights and shadows of the street lamps along the way kept moving backwards. This was the first time Hayashi Yoshiki rode in a car driven by Vodka, and he found that his driving skills were surprisingly steady.
But there was one thing that Hayashi Yoshiki was very concerned about——
Vodka, who was concentrating on driving, occasionally looked up at the rearview mirror. When he suddenly found that Hayashi Yoshiki was staring at him, his hands holding the steering wheel couldn't help but tighten.
"Why are you looking at me all the time?"
Vodka couldn't help but ask, feeling a little panicked.
Even Gin couldn't see through Hayashi Yoshiki's method of using accidents to kill people, but Vodka had heard Gin's analysis and knew that Hayashi Yoshiki's observation ability was definitely very strong.
Otherwise he wouldn't have been able to calculate everything to that degree of accuracy.
But what is he trying to do by observing his driving habits now!?
Gin also raised his eyes.
"Mr. Vodka's sunglasses are completely opaque, right? I'm a little worried that you might get hit while driving."
"…I can see the road clearly and will definitely not crash into anything."
"That's good."
After realizing that Hayashi Yoshiki was no longer looking at him, Vodka secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Gin did not take the initiative to tell him the purpose of looking for him, and Hayashi Yoshiki did not ask again. While paying attention to the surrounding environment, he took out a notebook and pen from his arms.
"What are you doing?"
"Writing my novel, do you want to see it?"
"Boring."
Gin showed absolutely no interest.
He has always sneered at so-called mystery novels and detective mystery shows, and he is even more contemptuous of the methods of murder in the story plots - isn't killing someone as easy as shooting them, then leaving the body behind and walking away?
Is there something cooler than that?
Hayashi Yoshiki observed the scenery around him.
"This direction, isn't it going to the aquarium we visited last time?"
"Yes." Vodka responded politely.
So Hayashi Yoshiki narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled gently: "So we are going to deal with rats again?"
"Your mind works pretty quick." Gin said without comment.
"After all, that place is relatively remote, and there aren't many people there at night." Hayashi Yoshiki still smiled, "There aren't many places in Beika that are suitable for being used as execution grounds."
Perhaps because the name "execution ground" was quite to Gin's liking, Hayashi Yoshiki saw Gin revealing a sinister smile.
OK.
It should be the destination that has been found.
Hayashi Yoshiki knew that with Gin's personality, he would probably not bother to lie about such things.
Well, counting from the current time, it would take about half an hour to get to the aquarium, which means that they tricked the organization's mice onto the street probably around 22:00.
Hayashi Yoshiki recalled the criminals active in the surrounding area that he had seen on the organization's website.
He quickly locked onto his target, turned his notebook to the side containing the pages of the Death Note, and began to write on it - with Gin here, he had something he really wanted to test.
"Chikuta Taku"
"Starting at 21:46 on the evening of April 13, he drove a motorcycle around the Beika City Aquarium and started a robbery."
"In the first two operations, he successfully robbed 23,601 yen in cash."
"After forcing the new target vehicle to stop at 22:09, he approached to threaten and extort money, but was shot in the forehead by the man sitting in the passenger seat with a pistol. The next second, he was stabbed in the neck and died."
After writing, Hayashi Yoshiki gave it a rough check.
The Death Note can be used as a "script" to some extent.
What Hayashi Yoshiki wanted to test was, first of all, that "Chikuta Taku successfully robbed 23,601 yen in the first two operations." If the amount of money robbed was really this much, then the Death Note could be used as a causal tool to some extent.
The second is the "target vehicle" and the "man sitting in the passenger seat with a pistol" that caused his death.
Hayashi Yoshiki had done an experiment before. He wrote down the cause of death of a criminal as being killed by an RPG, or rocket-propelled grenade, on the street, but the test failed at that time and the criminal died directly from a heart attack.
Although this is something that can be done in physics, obviously no pedestrian on that street would go out with an RPG. And even if there is a 10 million percent chance that someone from the military or the Black Organization passed by with an RPG, it would be too abstract and against common sense to rashly attack such a criminal.
In the current test, although Hayashi Yoshiki did not specifically mention that Chikuta Taku would target this car, the only car nearby that could allow him to meet the condition of "being shot through the forehead with a pistol by the man in the passenger seat" should be the one driven by Vodka.
Finally, the third point is that Gin always kills people with a single shot and will not stab them again. Hayashi Yoshiki wants to see whether he will behave in a way that is inconsistent with his character under the control of the script.
With Vodka driving smoothly, the vehicle arrived at the vicinity of the Beika Aquarium at around 10 p.m., just as Hayashi Yoshiki expected.
It is still at the entrance of the second alley next to the aquarium.
The closer he got, the more careful Vodka became. His eyes from behind his sunglasses kept glancing at the neon signs on the buildings next to him, and then at the newly repaired street lights. He always felt that this road was horribly dark.
"Hurry up."
Gin urged.
Vodka had no choice but to step on the accelerator slightly and brake in front of the man standing under the street light at the alley entrance.
Gin lowered the car window, and when the man approached and was about to say hello, he had already put the pistol in front of him and pulled the trigger.
Phiu!
The bullet pierced the man's head, splashing a pool of blood.
Then, there was the sound of a body falling to the ground.