Blood-Stained Thread

One morning, as Kazuya Kujo attends to an errand requested by Saint Marguerite Academy Cafeteria's main cook, he witnesses a crime unfold: a man riding a motorcycle crashing into the roadside wall, with its head slowly parting from its body. Because of this incident, Kazuya is suspected as the one responsible for the crime. However, after discovering a girl located at the top of the tall library of Saint Marguerite Academy, facts about the incident are unraveled.

Background

Kazuya witnesses a man and its head parting ways.

Kazuya is asked by her dormitory matron, to purchase some ingredients for the day's preparations. She admits to have forgotten some key ingredients for breakfast due to being invited in a dance party, so in fear of being fired for negligence, she pleads to Kazuya. He reluctantly follows, and he finds himself on the road leading to the market.

On his way, he stops on an intersection, where a man riding a motorcycle emerges from elsewhere. As the man rides into the intersection, however, he finds out that the man does not stop to turn on any direction; he instead speeds on, crashing to the stone wall on the side of the road. Kazuya then gasps in shock as the man thrown airborne by the high-speed crash loses its head - literally - before landing on the plains on the other side.

Kazuya faints to the gruesome sight of a decapitated man, and he wakes up in the school's infirmary, where her teacher Cecile Lafitte is frantic about Kazuya's imminent fate. At first, Kazuya is puzzled as to what happened, but Inspector Grevil de Blois clears things, including the fact that he is charged with murdering a government official.

Fortunately, Cecile gives an excuse for Kazuya to evade arrest: visiting one of his classmates, who usually stays inside the library of the school. With a final warning from Grevil, he leaves.

Profiles

Persons Involved

• Kazuya Kujo - a student from Saint Marguerite Academy, also known as "The Dark Reaper" because of his dark hair and his arrival at spring. He is accused of murder, though Victorica later cleared his name.
• Unnamed Government Official - the victim of the case. Very little information is provided about him, and his involvement in the case is no longer clarified.

Progress

Curiosity brings Kazuya to the top of the library, where he discovers a doll-like girl smoking a pipe while immersed in reading. He finds out that it is Victorica, the girl whom he is supposed to meet to give worksheets. Victorica initially gives no interest to Kazuya, but after Kazuya confesses his involvement in a murder case, she agrees to help.

After sorting out his witness account, Victorica concludes that the "inspector with a weird hairstyle" might be right in his statement. She also tells Kazuya that he is a hopeless romantic, as the boy also includes having daydreams about a blond-haired girl (his ideal girl) as he heads to the market.