The first 150 lines.
Come on up here, Lu.
You'll get cold if you stay in the water like that.
My legs don't get cold.
You know that.
I'm not just talking about your body.
Saku!
Wh-What's going on?
Good day, Sakuya.
E-Everyone! Listen to me!
Dimitry's been... Dimitry's been...
killed by the siren!
We have just ten hours.
I went looking for Dimitry because he wasn't in his room.
I found that door open.
Mistress!
Mistress.
Ursuna-san, take Lu to her room and stay there with her.
You, too, Yuriu-chan.
Leave it to me, Master!
This way, Mistress.
Let's hurry, shall we?
Time is a finite resource.
Who's this?
Um, a wealthy lady who washed up on the island
after her ship was caught in a storm. Or so I'm told.
That's a load of bull.
This will be fun.
I have a ship just offshore and I sent it an order.
"Fire a tomahawk missile at this island at 6 AM tomorrow."
You have ten hours until your time's up.
I probably shouldn't tell the rest about the tomahawk just yet.
The Serial Killings on Gallery Island Part 1
Dimitry's room is on the third floor.
But there's no elevator in the west wing.
The key for this wing. And this is...
Dimitry's scarf.
Katya-sama, where's Dimitry's body?
I haven't seen it. It wasn't here when I got here.
But you can tell from the blood, right?
He was attacked and dragged out the window.
The window?
Sakuya-sama.
"Siren."
"A message from the victim?"
This doesn't actually mean a mythical creature came out of the sea, right?
This might've been put here by the criminal to mislead us.
If not...
it means Dimitry was attacked by someone he strongly believed to be a siren.
But is that even plausible?
I don't see any kind of weapon, either.
Oh, about that.
A vase or something was sitting there before.
Yes. It would have made a useful blunt object to hit him with.
It's probably at the bottom of the sea by now.
"I'll go take a look."
Wait up, Boss!
The last time Dimitry was seen, he was trying to leave the mansion, right?
Yes. After you all returned from outside,
everyone but Dimitry gathered in Lucciola-sama's room.
Everyone has an alibi since we came back inside.
So it must have happened while we were running around outside.
Who was still in the mansion at the time?
Lu was. Plus, Ivan Zavattini, and Dimitry's mother, Katya-san.
We were outside for ten minutes at most.
Yes. And the killer would've had to get to the third floor on the west wing,
kill Dimitry, hide the body, and go back down the stairs to the east wing.
All without knowing when we'd be back.
So it's practically impossible, huh?
Why'd Dimitry come to the west wing on his own, anyway?
You wouldn't come here without a reason.
And it has to be one that'd make you want to come alone.
He was looking for something, maybe?
Ah, I see. Yes, it's a possibility.
Katya-san's distress doesn't appear to be an act.
For now, the most suspicious among us is Ivan-san.
No.
Gonna ask the wallflower to dance?
Char, did you actually land on the island earlier than we think?
Are you suggesting I've been sneaking around the island, murdering people?
Without anyone seeing me?
I'm just floating the possibility.
Well, it's not possible.
And I've got no motive.
And you wouldn't commit a crime without a motive, would you?
Even though you're one of the Seven Old Men?
Hey! Where the hell do you get off, suspecting the mistress like that?
I'll swap the left and right halves of your brain,
so you'll have a real hard time playing the piano.
Sakuya-sama does not play the piano.
Oh, my. Is this a little cutie I see?
That's awesome.
Curse you!
Stop, Altra.
If you start committing murders without motives or tricks, it'll ruin everything.
I'll do that thing for you later, okay?
What? Really? Yay!
N-No fair!
Mistress, um, I'd also like that.
Carmina! Jeez! Both of you, just shut up!
"Sheesh. Did this place turn into a coliseum while I was gone?"
The boss says he's come up with a trick that may explain how the body disappeared.
"In all the rooms, the beds have dust-covered sheets on them."
"Except for the one in this room."
Someone pulled off the sheets and used them for something?
"That 'someone' was our killer."
"And as for what was done with the sheets,
they were used to get rid of Dimitry's body."
Ta-da!
"As you can see, this gale is strong enough to carry a corpse out to the water
if the sheets are used as a parachute."
"You could get rid of the body without the need for magic or miracles."
That was mean, Boss!
If the demonstration was that dangerous, you should've told me first!
Katya-sama, where is Ivan now?
In his room.
I don't want to be wandering around in here right now myself.
I mean, there's a serial killer on the island, right?
No. As for Herbie-san's killer...
The killer was an orca?!
You'd be a goner if you fell from here.
Sakuya-sama.
Everyone's heading back to their rooms.
D-Don't scare me like that, Lilithea.
So that door led to the roof?
There's a rooftop garden on the east wing, huh?
Those flowers...
There's nothing planted on this side, it seems.
You're right.
Maybe nobody takes care of it?
No, it looks like someone's been working the soil.
Delicious.
We didn't get dinner, after all.
"Get something in your stomach."
"Panicking won't stop the clock."
You're right.
Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!
A murder case at a mansion in a storm?
It's like I'm watching a game of riddles from the best seat in the house.
Hey, come to the bathroom with me.
You're, like, totally defenseless when you're in the bathroom. It's scary.
Are you a little girl? Go by yourself.
Ursuna-san, how's Lu?
She's asleep in her room.
I see.
Oh, right. I just saw some flowerbeds on the roof.
Oh, you discovered those?
That purple flower is called Apollonia.
It's a special flower bred by Eliseo-sama.
But you don't plant it on the west wing's roof?
Right. I'm embarrassed to say it,
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