Chapter 56: I Was Investigated

**I Was Investigated** is the fifty-sixth Chapter of *Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu*.

## Summary

Yamada is washing the dishes in the kitchen of Ichikawa's House, commenting on how good the Ozouni was. He considers how it's just the two of them alone, and grabs the graduation album to take it back to his room. He mumbles about his sister going into his room as he goes up the stairs, unaware that Yamada is following him.

Once they're inside his room, he goes to put away the graduation book, and she comments on how she's nice and cute, while he asks internally why she came along. She takes the album from him, and sits on his bed, causing him to panic, as she hunts for a certain picture. She comments how he and Chi went to the same Elementary School, and she had her show him pictures of him earlier, but he's only concerned about the smell of his bed. She says she wasn't just looking for him, though, while he looks into his caution-tape trash can for napkins, thanking God that it is empty. He calms down enough to sit on the bed with her while she asks if he was close to two boys he is shown hanging out with in his album. He clarifies that they went to the same cram school and hung out a lot, but that they went to private school and he was left behind. Feeling that he is uncomfortable, she changes topics and asks about the small trophy display at the other end of his room. He says that they're for essay contests, an art project, and an independent research project, and a Ministry of Education and Science Award. Her attention switches to the Bizarre Incidents File book in a pile on his desk, and he is immediately filled with dread at the prospect of her connecting him with murder and true crime, thinking their relationship is over. As he sputters out an explanation about murderers and their mentalities, she says how awesome that is, and compares it to psychology. He questions if it is, and she lays down, asking him to tell her what is in her heart. He claims not to know, because she's not a murderer, and she jokes around, saying that he doesn't know that, and she may have a hidden evil. As she raises her hands above her head, she comes in contact with the CiEL magazine that he's kept since Chapter 5, and turns her head quizzically, asking what she has bumped into. He jumps forward, not wanting to be found out, and pins the magazine under his good hand, positioning himself on top of her, and the two stare each other down in silence for a few tense moments. She gently pushes him off of her, wary of his still-broken arm, as he turns from her and apologizes. She says that she's seen a lot of things today, and quickly snaps some pictures with her phone from his album, and then runs out the door, clutching her phone to her chest as he follows her out. She promises that next time she'll show him her album, and she finally departs. He considers what she means by "next time," and realizes she must mean at her house.

That evening, Kana is going over the events of the day with their parents during supper. She says that although Yamada looks that way, she is definitely a middle-schooler, and that she kept her cool the entire time she was over. Kyoutarou snidely comments that she was freaking out the entire time, and their parents are listening intently.

* A bonus page is in collaboration with cosplayer Iori Moe, and a page where Yamada finds the magazine where she is the one being cosplayed. He declares that the person on the cover can't possibly be her, because certain parts are off. She asks which ones, and he begins to say that the genuine thing is more beautiful, but stops himself while she asks for clarification. He decides to buy the entire stack of magazines to prevent Yamada from seeing them, claiming to do so to prevent her from encountering any perversion.

## Trivia

* Among the other books on Ichikawa's shelf are *Re:Zero, Starting Life In Another World, The Science of Vices (悪癖の科学)*, and *Word Whirlpool* *(文字渦)* by Enjo Toh.