Flashback to the incident a few days ago at the house that Ken and Makoto are about to investigate:
In a two-story house in a modern minimalist style, it appears that this house has a garage and a fence that is not too high, which has double gates that open for pedestrians and a sliding gate that leads to the garage for a car. Inside the house, is a modern minimalist style with a shiny brown wooden patterned floor. A 16-year-old girl with long straight black hair is wearing her school uniform, a pleated skirt, and a white shirt with a tie layered with a waistcoat, she was also wearing an apron. Yukari is cooking breakfast in a kitchen that has a dining table and kitchen breakfast bar which is connected to the family room.
The family room here appears quite spacious, with a high ceiling that joins the 2 levels of the house, and a chandelier on the ceiling. In this room, there is a long armchair and several single armchairs arranged in L, with a standing lamp nearby, and a flat-screen television in the corner of the room. This family room appears to have a row of sliding glass doors with curtains, which lead to the backyard of the house. In this family room, there is also a second-floor open hallway and a staircase that is tight on one side of the wall of this family room, leading to the 2nd-floor open hallway. It appears that under the stairs is designed to have a cupboard for storing things.
The girl who has been cooking all this time is called Yukari Kanagawa, who is familiarly called Yukari. After cooking, Yukari prepared to serve it on the dining table. Not long after, a middle-aged man appeared to have just stepped down the stairs in a bit of a hurry. This man is Fujiyama Kanagawa, 43 years old, Yukari’s father. Fujiyama then immediately sat down at the dining table
"Sorry dad woke up late Yukari, so I couldn't make breakfast"
While still cooking, Yukari replied
“Must be because Dad came home late again last night?”
Fujiyama smiled
"Yes, yesterday there was urgent work that dad needed to finish"
Fujiyama said while looking at the dishes on the dining table, Yukari appeared to understand hearing this. Fujiyama said
"What's the surprise today?"
Yukari who was still making the last dish then replied
“As usual, but I improvised a bit”
Yukari said then turned away from the electric stove and poured this dish onto her plate and her father's plate. Yukari then took off her apron, and sat down at the dining table, in front of her father. They then have breakfast together, eating using chopsticks. Before long, Yukari appears to remember something
"Oh right, there are club activities today, so maybe I'll be home a bit late if only dad comes home first"
Fujiyama gave a nod
“Yeah, I might as well come home late tonight”
Yukari gave a nod, and they then continued their breakfast.
The time is now 7:45 am. Yukari now appears to be also wearing her black school blazer which has her school's emblem on the left chest while carrying her black attache case school bag in her right hand, black socks, and black loafers. She walks along the main road to her school, along with several other students, from the same school. Until finally, a girl walked quickly and followed Yukari from behind. When she was next to Yukari, this girl then said
"Good morning Yukari"
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Said Yukari’s female friend in an excited tone. Yukari smiled
“Good morning Midori”
Midori gave a smile, but it didn't take long for her smile to fade, because she remembered something important
"I overslept last night after working on club stuff until late, and haven't done my homework yet"
Midori clapped both her palms in front of her face pleadingly toward Yukari
"Please lend me your homework, Yukari"
Yukari's expression appears cold
"You can't, you've been like this several times, you have to be able to manage time and be responsible"
Hearing this, Midori looked lethargic as if the enthusiasm she had shown just now disappeared in an instant
“Well… I'm done for today”
Seeing her friend's expression, Yukari then smiling
"I'm just kidding, you can borrow it anyway"
Midori looked slightly surprised
"Is that true? Thank you, my savior gods!”
She said earnestly, her expression immediately returning to cheerful. The two of them then walked into a private high school with a 3-story building in a classic modern minimalist style, with the walls of the building lined with grayish brown and rough walls. The way to this school building is up the stairs uphill, with many shady trees around the schoolyard, making it look beautiful.
The time is now 8:30 pm, and the sky appears already dark. Yukari is walking on the side of the road to her house while carrying her black attache case school bag in her left hand. Yukari appears to come home late because of overtime club activities today. While walking, Yukari said to herself
“Is dad home yet?”
Yukari's expression turned curious. After some time of walking, Yukari arrived in front of her house and found that her house was pitch black because the lights weren't on. Seeing this, Yukari looked a little surprised, because she remembered well if she left the house with the headlights set to turn on automatically when it was dark because there was a possibility that she and her father didn't come home until nightfall. Yukari looked around, and only her house was pitch black, indicating that there was no power outage
“Is the automatic device broken? Seriously…"
Yukari walked into the front yard of her house, from the double gate for a pedestrian entrance, it appeared that this door was not locked. Behind the pedestrian gate was a rough pedestrian walkway that cuts through the front yard of the house, leading to the front entrance of the house which had brown double doors with a frosted glass frame on one of them. Yukari immediately went to her house's electricity meter, and it turned out that there was no power down. Yukari then walked back to the front door of her house.
Yukari arrived at the front door of her house. Not long after, it started to rain quite heavily. Yukari then turned on the flashlight on her smartphone and used it to light up the darkness in front of her. Yukari then took out her house key from her bag, then unlocked the door, while being lit up by the light of her smartphone. But before long, Yukari found that the front door of her house was unlocked, and she could just open it. Seeing this, Yukari's expression turned astonished
"Hmm? Why isn't the door locked?"
Yukari recalled this morning, and she was sure she had locked her house's front door because she had locked it herself. At this point, Yukari began to feel that something was wrong. Yukari walked into her house, and everything appeared pitch black. Yukari then called out to her father in a raised voice
"Dad? Is Dad home yet?”
But no answer. Yukari thought to herself
"What was I thinking... if dad already comes home, there's no way the house is this dark"
With the help of the flashlight from her smartphone, Yukari took the flashlight that was on top of the shoe rack next to her, near the inner entrance of the house. Yukari then put her smartphone back into her school blazer pocket. Using a new flashlight, Yukari walked to the nearest light switch, in the hallway near the front door. However, the light still does not turn on.
Yukari decided to head to the family room. Yukari opened the door from the wall that separated the entrance, laundry room, and living room connected by a corridor, leading to the living room. Arriving at the living room, which has an open hallway and stairs leading to the open hallway on the 2nd floor, as well as a kitchen that has a kitchen bar table, dining room, and sliding glass door that leads to the back garden. Yukari pointed her flashlight around here, and before long, Yukari looked surprised.
Yukari found that the state of the house was very messy, much of the furniture was destroyed, even to the point that the row of the glass sliding door leading to the back garden was shattered, making the sound of rain outside clearly audible. Yukari was getting nervous, she then thought to herself
“What's going on here?"
Yukari looked around carefully, and her facial expression was now mixed with astonishment. Yukari thought to herself
"Why is it so messy, where is dad?"
Yukari slowly leaned her attache case school bag onto the wall by the door she just passed. Yukari opened her bag, took out a Tanto dagger from inside her bag, and pulled it from the sheath of this dagger. Yukari then stood in a wary manner.