I stare at the ceiling blankly, perhaps waiting for Koizumi to finally come? The room was silent other than the pitter patter of the bathroom shower. Such an eerie silence, befitting of this situation. I wanted to think, but I couldn’t find a reason or a way to clear my mind. This had came to fast, but now I was better, it was not because it didn’t bother as me as much, in reality I’m still bothered about it. But I think I’ve accepted it, though I’m sure and I hope my skepticism is still alive and proves true. But really what are the chances of that? I can believe all I want about Haruhi but I can’t be that sure can I? I sighed, I didn’t turn my face to see whether or not Nagato-san had turned to observe me, most likely he didn’t.
It would be five minutes until Haruki had gone out of the shower, I would occasionally close my eyes seeing if I would fall asleep from this exhaustion and open my eyes when I realize I couldn’t. How long have I’ve done this before? Lying down, watching the ceiling idly, as if nothing was wrong, or if everything was wrong. Really I’m thinking too much about this, why I’m thinking about things which aren’t related to this at all? Haruki had changed inside of the bathroom, perhaps to show some shame for once. He made his way to the bed where Asahina-san and Nagato-san were on, drooping his head he had almost seemed to have fallen asleep. This silence again huh? This fragile serenity only interrupted routinely by our soft breathing. This could not last forever.
I heard a knock from the door.
"It's me."
I began to walk up, but Haruki had gone up before me.
“Don’t bother, I’ll get it.”
I watched him move slowly to the door. He opened it slowly and I could see the side of Koizumi’s face. He let her in and Koizumi promptly placed herself beside me.
"I heard from Mori-san that the boat's missing."
We both looked at her.
Haruki returned back to his seat, for one reason or another he didn’t question it. Normally brash, wouldn’t he be the fist if not only one to be glad about this? No, somehow, he isn’t.
"It's gone, right, Kyon?"
"Yeah." I said.
Koizumi said,
"Someone must have driven it off. No, it's already meaningless to say 'someone.' There's no doubt the one who ran way is Yutaka-san."
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Because there's no one else."
Koizumi’s voice dropped in volume as she finished this. Maybe sad that your distant relative is the first one you’d suspect? I guess this isn’t something you’ll call as a question of faith but rather than if you’re that stubborn to deny the most obvious thing?
"Besides us, there was no one else who was invited to this island. The only invited guest that has disappeared from the mansion is Yutaka-san. Really, there’s no other alternative, she would be the one who stole the boat."
Koizumi continued her speech, somehow not being faltered as a whole.
“So it is obvious that the killer would be her, after all everyone is still here.”
This explanation matched with Yutaka-san's unslept bed sheets, and Mori-san's testimony. Yes, really no matter how you put it Yutaka-san would be the definite killer.
Haruki told our conversation with Mori-san.
"As expected from Suzumiya-san, so you've heard about it."
Koizumi still had the nerve of kissing ass even in the most inappropriate times, or was it her merely trying to lift up Haruki’s mood?
"I asked Arakawa-san and Yutaka-san seemed to have left in a hurry as if he was afraid of something, this matches with the testimony by the last witness to have seen her."
But isn't it suicide to drive a speedboat at night into the middle of a storm?
"Then it must be very bad for her not to leave the island, like trying to leave the scene of crime."
"Can Yutaka-san drive the speedboat?"
"We don’t know but we can deduce that she probably can, after all she left with the boat."
"Wait!"
Haruhi raised her hand and won her right to speak.
"What about Keiichi-san's door? Who locked it? Did Yutaka-san do that as well?
"Doesn't seem like it."
Koizumi gently made a denial gesture.
"According to Arakawa-san, both the master key and the backup key for that room are kept by Keiichi-san. After some searching, we found both keys inside the room."
"Maybe someone made another duplicate key."
I said aloud, Koizumi smiled but shook her head to my displeasure.
"This is the first time Yutaka-san has come to this mansion, she didn’t have enough time to prepare a duplicate."
Koizumi feel silent, perhaps waiting for own answers.
This room, holding our SOS-Dan then became silent except when it would end ceremoniously with Haruki’s outrage, usually; but not this time. I could hear the uneven movement of the sea, as the wind swayed and tapped on the windows. So quiet so peaceful. And as if to return life to this dying room, Koizumi spoke out.
"But it would be strange if Yutaka-san were to have committed this crime last night!"
“What are you saying?” Haruki asked.
"When I touched Keiichi-san, he was still warm, as if he was still alive recently."
Koizumi gave a smile, then turned and faced the silent fairy sitting patiently like a maid by Asahina-san's side.
"Nagato-san, what was Keiichi-san's body temperature when we found him lying on the ground?"
"36.3 degrees Celsius."
I didn’t voice my doubts at this statement, Nagato-san didn’t touch Keiichi-san’s body right? How could he know at all? Of course this is me forgetting that he was an alien.