The Grey Wolf seems to be much more active recently.
Y-Yes. I take full responsibility for that, Father.
However, I wished to protect the reputation of the house of Marquis de Blois...
This house is the salt of the earth.
Huh?
If the salinity is lost, what could restore it again?
Do not slacken your surveillance of your sister.
Other than that, I expect nothing else from you.
In the end, am I just an empty threat?
Jacqueline...
Delicious!
Isn't it?
By the way Mister, have you seen a carriage nearby?
Hey! Two passengers!
Wait...
Madame!
I'm so sorry!
Episode 11
The Drill Eloquently Tells a Love Story
There's a guest in the library?
Exactly.
It looks like it was a book donation,
but the donor wanted to see the interior no matter what.
Sorry for making you wait, Madame Signore.
He will be showing you around.
Jacqueline!
Ah, you are...
That's right. You're a student here.
Merci beaucoup!
Thanks a lot!
Kujou, do you know each other?
Yeah, sort of...
Jacqueline.
I see. You met her in Saubreme...
What's her relationship with Inspector de Blois?
She's a friend that Glaviel has had a crush on since he was young.
C-Crush?
Of course, the target seems to have no idea.
By the way, she's the reason behind Glaviel's hair.
I did hear the Inspector became like that after he begged you to solve a case.
Jacqueline was also involved in that case.
That person is Inspector Blois'....
Hey, that looks like a snake! How interesting!
How interesting!
W-What a singular person...
Hey, do you know how Glaviel has been?
After this, I was planning to give him a surprise visit.
Ah, really?
I actually dislike that person quite a lot.
I get the feeling he's arrogant and rude.
Oh? He wasn't like that in the past.
Why did he keep that hairdo, anyway?
He won't tell me no matter how much I ask him.
But now, Glaviel has become a famous inspector.
I'm really proud.
So... she really has no idea of the truth.
What a nice garden.
Maybe I should grow some of those flowers at home, too.
I also can't tell her
that there's a true detective living in there.
What? Kujou?
Seriously, that man only comes to disrupt my stable life.
Ah, amazing!
Excuse me, Madame.
If we don't hurry, there won't be enough time to visit the police station later.
How troublesome.
But, to finally visit this normally closed landmark...
You mean this library?
Yes, that's right .
It is said that at the beginning of the 17th century,
the king built this academy
in order to meet his lover in secret, or so the legend goes...
At the garden on the top level!
Ah! I really can't take it any longer!
I'll be right back!
M-Madame!
Oh no! The top level...!
What's with that woman as noisy as an ostrich...
These stairs are like a maze!
How interesting!
M-Madame!
Wait for me!
Hey! Wait for me!
That's right!
That's...
Madame, please wait!
Don't! Stop!
Kujou!
There's a golden monster at the top!
Monster?
Yes!
If it sees you, it'll swallow you like a macaroni.
That idiot Kujou, how rude.
Let's go back down, please!
Interesting? Then I'll scare you just like you want!
It's a monster! A monster!
Wait!
It... It's not scary at all.
Stupid Kujou is here too.
It must be the place, right?
The monster is...
Ah, a life sized bisque doll!
What a cute doll!
How amazing. It's like it's really alive.
It's warm?
Exactly.
Although it is regrettable, I am indeed alive.
Ouch.
I'm sorry.
Might you be a student of this academy?
Would you like a strawberry lollipop, mademoiselle?
Of course.
I am Jacqueline de Signore.
You are...?
Then you are...
Do you know me?
Ah, this girl is actually de Blo—
Anyway, why did you all run here?
Oh, that was because
we wanted to donate these books.
Well, um...
There are no books inside.
Cosmetic water, skin cream?
Where did it—?!
They must have been switched.
If I don't find it, I'll be in big trouble!
Excuse me.
What is it?
He wanted us to find a bag that holds his business goods.
It seems that he bumped into a maid somewhere in the plaza,
and then grabbed the wrong luggage.
That crest is...
Yeah, Jacqueline did go to your place.
That's weird. She hasn't looked for you yet?
W-Why?
She went to donate some books to the St. Marguerite Academy Library.
It seems she found them in the attic while preparing for the vacation.
What is going on...?
Sorry, Madame.
It's all right. Don't worry about it.
In any case, this ceiling is so beautiful!
Victorica, are you mad?
Not really.
Q...
That's the name of a chipmunk I owned a long time ago.
There was a mark on its back that looked like the letter "Q".
For some reason, when I saw you I thought of it again.
What an unintelligent and unrelated naming.
How rude.
Hey you, that story was...
That was a few years ago.
Around the time when my husband and I first spoke about marriage,
Q died of illness.
Then I became the suspect of a murder case.
This was...
Um, may I ask who the victim was?
Yes. It was Q's main veterinarian.
He was impaled through the chest and died in his own home.
The doctor left the letter "Q" at the crime scene with his last remaining strength.
That was his dying message.
That "Q" referred to...?
Right, the dead Q.
Not only that...
During the funeral, strange letters appeared on the arm of the doctor's wife, Paola.
Everyone said it was a message from the dead doctor.
In a mirror the message read:
"Jacqueline killed me."
That's true. Mirrored letters have been used in curse rituals since ancient times.
They can't be blamed for believing it was a message from the dead.
You know so much, mademoiselle.
Of course.
That is what my Fountain of Wisdom has told me.
I have no doubt.
This was the incident when Inspector de Blois needed help.
Glaviel.
What's wrong? You're spacing out over there.
Look at me. Smile!
Look, look, look, look...
Jacqueline, you're depressed, aren't you?
When you feel depressed, you always act silly.
Your hair is disheveled from lack of sleep and distracted wanderings,
and still you act with high spirits.
Even now, look.
This impulsive spending...
This is... that's...
I heard about the case.
That's hard to forgive.
Irresponsible gossip spreading across the world...
It can't be helped.
It's true that those cursed words appeared.
I plan to reject the marriage with Signore-san.
He's certainly an easy-going and friendly person.
He has a bit of a fish face, but it's quite cute if you look closer.
But he's still a policeman, so I can't give him any trouble.
Jacqueline...
Grey Wolf, if you dare tell her something excessive,
then no matter how much Father will blame me,
I will not forgive you!
After the incident at the graveyard,
I was treated as a criminal.
They said I assassinated a doctor as revenge for a pet.
But incredibly, right after that...
The real murderer appeared for some reason,
and successfully cleared Madame's charges.
Then she married the Maitre, and became Madame Signore.
Now that I think about it,
Glaviel's hairstyle coincidentally changed then as well.
C-Coincidentally...
So, Jacqueline. In the end, who was the real murderer?
Ah...? About that...
Madame, we don't have the time.
Sorry, we have to go see Glaviel now.
We'll talk about it next time.
It was fun, you two!
Madame, wait!
T-That person felt like a hurricane.
So, Victorica.
The real murderer?
That sort of thing can't even be called Shards of Chaos.
It can only fool little kids.
Let me explain it to you.
The person who killed the veterinarian was...
...none other than his wife.
Hey, what's over there?
Madame, not again...
Let me verbalize it.
The incident with the cursed letters appearing at the graveyard.
It was actually the vet's wife Paula who wrote those letters.
She was left handed.
Some among the left handed can write mirrored letters quite easily.
That woman used this special skill,
and wrote the cursed letters.
The goal was to place the blame on Jacqueline,
and Paula found the opportunity to execute her plan,
in the dying message left at the crime scene.
The police took this letter to be the same one as... Q.
Don't look so irritated about this.
I think the name is pretty cute actually.
Shut up.
Anyway, the idiot police guessed that the letter Q represented the first letter of the pet's name.
Um... Victorica?
The stabbed vet probably laid down in this pose on the ground.
If he wanted to write in this position,
the left and the right would be reversed.
That meant the vet wrote the first letter of his wife's name, Paula.
Also, the other set of mirrored letters,
the truth that I had reassembled,
was told to Paula through Glaviel anonymously.
He said that he would reveal her to the police if she didn't turn herself in.
Finally, she went to the police...
and confessed to the police, right?
And Glaviel forbade her to speak about him
so as to prevent this entire incident from becoming too sensational.
Is that so? The Inspector helped without taking credit,
all for Jacqueline's happiness!
I'm the one who reassembled it.
Don't look like a girl drowned in fantasy.
But, wasn't it a little much to make him have that hairstyle in return?
It was fair.
J-Jacqueline?
Looks like she's already gone.
Here you are, Chief.
The meeting will begin soon.
That's the case the Madame was involved in before she married.
I thought of it suddenly and wanted to see it.
There are some places I am concerned about.
She admitted her crime,
and personally felt guilty.
But...
There was definitely someone who helped in secret to solve this case.
That's what I suddenly thought.
Please help me!
It's too much of a loss if I can't find it!
My bag is...
Now, please wait calmly.
The Inspector seems to have a lead.
Um, excuse me?
Ah, yes!
Is there an Inspector named de Blois here?
From back then...!
You are...!
Lady Signore's donation to the collection.
You, bring them to the librarian, please.
Yes.
But, why are you here, Inspector?
What a naive woman.
Benevolence and stubbornness together appear similar to vice.
But that is Jacqueline's quality.
Inspector, um...
Boy, leave for a moment.
You're given special permission to use that for today.
Yes.
The brain of the Grey Wolf is truly extraordinary and unique.
It is much different from mine.
However, my sister, you do not have a heart.
Do you remember
what you said to me that night?
I understand the situation.
But why did you ask me to solve this case?
Because I want to save Jacqueline!
Because I love her!
Love? That is...
I have never heard that word since I was born.
Then, this was the price you asked for.
But this hairstyle is nothing.
"Please stop loving Jacqueline."
That was what you should have asked for if you really wanted to hurt me.
But you, Grey Wolf—
Shut up.
That's something any human would have thought of first, yet...
Shut up!
You're wrong.
I've changed...
from how I was before.
Will those two be okay?
Inspector!
Go back in.
The Grey Wolf is waiting for you.
What a shame, Madame.
You weren't able to meet that pointy inspector in the end.
Hey, Marion.
That guy was really a lovely person!
The me in the past,
was pitch black, tall and thin, not a beautiful girl at all.
The few words Glaviel and I exchanged in our occasional meetings, I held dearly. It was the best I could do.
But that person was always really gentle.
I finally understand that at this age.
If I think about it like that, then it's not such a bad thing to become an adult with the passage of time.
Although, at that time, I wanted to stay a child forever.
Will I be able to see that person again?
My books seem to have been delivered the school.
Thank you.
What I should have kept was my childhood friend.
The summer holidays are almost here!
The dazzlingly beautiful summer sun...
and the lovely tone scattered by sprays of water...
Are all very far away from me.
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Listening to the Voice of the Cicadas on a Summer Afternoon