Kareobana Academy Case

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## Details

### Number of Survivors

5

The **Kareobana Academy Duel Noir** (枯尾花学園) is one of the many Duel Noir cases featured during the Twelve Zodiac Duel Noir Challenge. The participants involved in it come from the Detective Library and among the regular public.

## History

Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi volunteers for the Kareobana Academy case because he has a car, and thus can travel quickly to the mountains its located in. While traveling there, he thinks about Taehime Uozumi and about solving this case in order to avenge her (though, corrects himself in that she would have wanted him to focus strictly on solving the case). Due to a landslide, he has to traverse by foot. After walking through a snowy forest he finds a worn-down, wooden school. Entering its gym he finds the body of Rei Naruko, killed by a sharpened candle in a cultish manner.

Salvador was about to leave when he runs into the Ōu Daitōitsu University Myst'ry Research Society consisting of: Gorō Anbō (Columbo), Erī Wan (Ellery), Tōru Uchida (Tōru) and Kōsuke Kanzashīchi (Kōsuke). Rei was their fifth member known as Gray. They were called by a mysterious letter that Tōru found, which was written from the Black Magic Club, a cult that holds a grudge against them since the Myst'ry Research Society got their former club room. Such a letter called them out to the school or else something horrible would happen. The club found their dead member but without a way to call and the rockslide, they were forced to stay at the school for the time being.

The society believes that the culprit has to be Saki Fushie. Saki is the leader of the Black Magic Club and has only let the women join ever since getting elected. Under her leadership, they claim that the Black Magic club casts curses on people and hold secret meetings, but are still around since no one can prove any wrongdoing. Salvador, however, dismisses the possibility and believes the culprit is just using the society's enemies as scapegoats. Thus, leading to the possibility of one of the society members being the culprit. The club members look at each other warily, but dismiss it under the basis that they all came together for the four hour trip to the academy. Gray was determined to have died about four hours before their arrival since Kōsuke and Ellery were both medical students. Thus, Salvador holds back on judgement of them.

The group heads back to the gymnasium to investigate, where an excited Columbo presents a burnt piece of string to Salvador and Tōru notices wax on the floor. Once their investigation is complete, Salvador makes to leave, but is asked to reveal what he knows about the crime, to which Salvador jokingly asks if they really want to know. Back in the classroom with the stove, they discover that their heat source has run out. The society panics, but Salvador assures them by saying his boy scout knowledge has given him the knowledge on how to light a fire and orders them to round up the rest of the candles. Due to Salvador only just now revealing such information, this annoys Kōsuke enough to grab Salvador by the jacket and knock his shades off, but backs off upon seeing Salvador's eyes and getting a strange feeling.

As they go back to the gym to round up the candles, Salvador explains the trick of the case involved using a sharpened candle that would fly over the drugged Gray until the special wick for it would burn up and plunge the candle into the body of Gray, killing her. He says that this trick was done to likely give the culprit and alibi, which causes suspicions to arise, but the society do vouch again for the integrity of each other. As the group heads back to the classroom, they hear a helicopter outside, which is piloted by Licorne.

The group accepts the ride from Licorne who flies off, but notes that everyone but Tōru would be allowed to leave. That's because Tōru is the culprit, who killed Gray because not only was she a spy working for the Black Magic Club, she also was the one who cut the brakes of his sister's car. Something that caused her to get into an accident and crash. Thus, fearing for his clubmates safety, Tōru accepted the Duel Noir. This causes the rest of the society to be frustrated with him for being tempted by strangers and not coming to them for help. Salvador admits that he did suspect Tōru since he was the one to find the note and the case hinges on the culprit controlling the time. During the helicopter ride, all four of the club members would eventually fall asleep.

During this time, Salvador would question Licorne and ask how he knew about Tōru being the culprit. To this, Licorne says to look in Tōru's pocket and get his ID. Salvador obeys and finds that Tōru's birthday is May 5th, thus making him a Taurus. It clicks to Salvador that the culprits were those whose zodiacs align with the case. Complimenting Licorne for this, Salvador then asks if the kid could take him to a certain location.

## Black Letter

Location: Kareobana Academy — 30 million yen

Weapon: Candles — 20 million yen

Trick: Locked Room — 150 million yen

Total Cost: 200 million yen

The assigned detective for this Duel Noir is Yui Samidare

## Participants

### Participants

**Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi**

**Gorō Anbō**

**Erī Wan**

**Kōsuke Kanzashīchi**

**Rei Naruko**

## Death Order

**Rei Naruko**

## Results and Aftermath

* Salvador and the surviving Myst'ry Research Society manage to escape from the academy thanks to Licorne in his helicopter.
* With the exception of the culprit, Salvador and the M.R.S leave the helicopter to try to assist Yui at the Libra Girls Academy Case.