After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back

At 8 a.m., the body send-off ceremony began on time.

In the Kagura home, Kagura Hikaru knelt on the tatami beside his grandmother, father, and stepmother, watching a Buddhist monk chant sutras before the portrait and coffin.

The coffin was surrounded by fresh flowers, which filled the room with a light floral scent, softening the decayed odor of old age.

Perhaps it was the scent of the corpse, he didn't know.

The chanting was surprisingly long; they knelt for at least half an hour.

After it ended, with the help of the funeral company staff, Kagura Hikaru and his family watched as the coffin was placed onto the hearse, ready to be taken to the crematorium for cremation.

When the coffin was loaded onto the hearse, quite a few villagers who had come to say their goodbyes were outside, some of who he had seen yesterday, as well as many new faces. As he looked more closely, he realized there were even more people than yesterday.

This made Kagura Hikaru recognize that his grandfather might have been unexpectedly well-regarded in this village, and not just a result of the neighbors' impromptu sentiments on the day of the funeral.

With this in mind, he scanned the crowd casually.

Suddenly, Kagura Hikaru's gaze fixed, staring straight at a plain-looking middle-aged man in the crowd with a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Then, he sharply turned his head to look at the unknown ghost of a shrine maiden beside him, noticing she was also looking in that direction, her expression complex.

"Is it him?" Kagura Hikaru asked in a low voice.

The shrine maiden hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded vigorously, "It should be; I have never forgotten his face all these years."

In fact, even if the shrine maiden wasn't sure, Kagura Hikaru wouldn't mistake him.

Because that man was the middle-aged suspect he had seen in the prophetic visions!

At first, when he heard that the man had moved away, he thought it would take a lot of effort to find him. But, ha, what a fate.

The funeral car began to move; Kagura's father approached him and said, "We're going to follow the car to the crematorium. Are you coming?"

"I'll wait for you guys at home," Kagura Hikaru said, looking in another direction.

"Okay, if we don't make it back in time for lunch, you'll have to eat alone."

"I know," Kagura Hikaru replied.

Kagura's father, stepmother, and grandmother got into the vehicle and followed the hearse, while the surrounding villagers began to leave one after another, including that middle-aged man.

But Kagura Hikaru had already locked onto him; almost as soon as the man turned around, he moved through the crowd and grabbed the man's arm.

"Hmm?" The man turned, looking at Kagura Hikaru with annoyance, his tone quite impatient, "What is it?"

"Hiroichiro Tanaka, 32 years ago, at night, at the Mountain Shrine, you tried to steal the money from the offertory box. After being discovered, you hit the shrine maiden Mizuno Yuna on the head with a wine bottle and left her in a well, didn't you?"

Kagura Hikaru's voice was not loud, just at a normal speaking volume, but the words that came out were like a massive bomb going off in the man's heart.

His facial expression drastically changed, his face and ears visibly reddening, a clear indication of extreme anxiety as he instinctively struggled to free himself from Kagura Hikaru's grip.

[This kid, how does he know!?]

[Damn it, should I kill him to silence him? But there are so many people around... no good, they heard, I'll be suspected!]

[You have gained 'Watch Repair +2' by reading his mind.]

[Watch Repair Level 4 (11/100)]

Along with the mind-reading came the memory of the man dragging a girl in shrine maiden attire through the darkness.

A cold light flashed in Kagura Hikaru's eyes.

This was enough to prove the man's guilt; indeed, he was the one who killed Mizuno Yuna years ago.

Hiroichiro Tanaka pressed down his voice forcefully, hissing, "Kid, I advise you not to talk nonsense. Falsely accusing someone of being a murderer without evidence is—"

"The evidence is in the well at your house, after you threw Mizuno Yuna into the well, you sealed it with concrete."

Compared to the agitated murderer, Kagura Hikaru remained calm at this moment, stating the facts that made the man tremble as if he were a robot, "In fact, you didn't kill her on the spot that day; she starved to death trapped inside the well."

"You....."

Hiroichiro Tanaka's face changed again instantly, turning from pale to ashen.

"What's going on, what is the Kagura family's child talking about?"

"Mizuno Yuna, are you talking about the one from the Mizuno family who disappeared thirty years ago..."

"Hey, Tanaka! Is what he's saying true?!"

"No wonder no one could find the body back then, if it was hidden after being murdered...!"

There were quite a few villagers attending the farewell party, and Kagura Hikaru didn't keep his voice down, so those around heard everything loud and clear and quickly started discussing it.

Apart from Kagura Hikaru (and Komori Ai), there were hardly any young people present, and everyone remembered clearly the big incident that happened thirty years ago.

Instantly, the way many people looked at Hiroichiro Tanaka changed.

"Haha, hahaha," Hiroichiro Tanaka laughed nervously with cold sweat pouring down his back as he yelled, "Surely you don't really believe these are anything but the wild words of a kid! How could a teenager uncover the truth of a murder committed thirty years ago? Even a famous detective couldn't do it without any clues!"

This sounded like a logically clear defense, but to someone intent like Kagura Hikaru, it sounded almost like a challenge.

Yes, thirty years had passed, and even if there were clues, they would have been buried by time by now, and finding the truth would not be easy—but it would be different with an "external program" in play.

"I've told you, the evidence is in the well at your house." Kagura Hikaru was unmoved, took out his phone, and dialed the police, "Hello, is this the police? I've found a body, please come immediately..."

"Hey! Don't mess around, this is harassment, you have no evidence at all!!"

The man panicked the moment he heard Kagura Hikaru calling the police.

Despite what he said, he knew very well that the truth was just as this high school student had stated.

In the well of his family home, there lay a murder that had taken place thirty years ago.

No matter whether Mizuno Yuna had died at the shrine or in the well, the outcome was the same, he had killed someone!

This was a secret the man had planned to take to his grave, to the point of hastily fleeing the town under the pretext of marriage.

Who would have thought that just a routine visit to the countryside and attendance at a funeral would lead to his deepest secret being brutally exposed by an inexplicable high school student.

What in the world is this!!

Perplexed, astonished, irate, terrified... a series of negative emotions surged forth in a flash.

In a very short span of time, Hiroichiro Tanaka had already imagined himself being thrown into prison, his family torn asunder, and he nearly lost his reason, swinging a punch at Kagura Hikaru without a second thought.

"Shut your mouth!"

However, Kagura Hikaru had anticipated the counterattack and stepped back to dodge the punch with prescient timing, his expression cold, still holding the phone and speaking with the police on the other end: "Yes, that's right... it's right here, please hurry over... Okay, I'll wait right here."

By now, the surrounding villagers had reacted, and a few men rushed forward to hold down Hiroichiro Tanaka, twisting his arms behind his back and pinning him to the ground, immobilized.

The guy was overreacting and even attempted to attack a child, raising further suspicion about him.

The villagers here mostly knew Mizuno Yuna, who had disappeared mysteriously. Nobody had thought she had been murdered by a fellow villager, and now their gazes upon Hiroichiro Tanaka were filled with anger.

"Hey! What are you doing?! Let go of me! I'm not the murderer, this brat is talking nonsense! Hey!"

After ending the call, Kagura Hikaru exchanged a relieved glance with the smiling Shrine Maiden beside him.

The murderer, successfully apprehended.