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I can’t decide!

Should I go with the donut…?

Or the shortcake…?

But there’s a mont blanc, too!

Quit being so dramatic!

You’re gonna eat all of ‘em anyways, aren’t you!?

Coming!

Oh, Bengary!

Hello.

What’s going on today?

I have something that I’d like to ask Kat about.

What’s this manuscript for?

Hold it! I can’t show this to you yet!

After all, it’s a mystery novel that has yet to be published!

A mystery novel!?

I got really into this detective novel I found in my university’s library a few days ago!

Then, I felt like I could write one myself, and…

When I actually did, I got the feeling it was an incredible masterpiece!

I put all my research aside so I could write it!

I’m thinking of bringing it to a publisher soon, but I wanted to hear your opinions.

Of course, I think it’s perfect, but I need to be absolutely sure!

Well, somebody’s awfully confident.

How fascinating!

What kind of story is it?

A certain incident happens on a space ship called the Bengarian.

So the story takes place in outer space!

And then? What else?

The space ship Bengarian is a ship that carries aliens between various planets.

It’s an outer space ferry!!

The passenger in this room is… the Sigma Beta alien?

Pardon me. I’ll be checking your ticket.

The Sigma Beta alien, who is a passenger, had been killed!

His entire body was melted into goop!

That truly is interesting!

A murder that takes place inside of a space ship…!

There are three suspects.

And the three of them all happen to be very unique…

Wait just one moment!

There we go.

So, what about the rest?

Is there more!?

“Any mystery solved,”

That is the motto of the Layton Detective Agency!

And today, yet another mysterious case has made its way here!

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Katrielle and the Murder on the Space Ship Bengarian

There are three suspects in this case.

The first is…

The Krakenic Alien

The octopus-shaped Krakenic alien!

He can spew black mucus that can melt anything!

Oho! Mucus that can melt anything!

Oops, that’s not good.

The Crabla Alien

The second is the Crabla alien!

He can cut through anything with his ultra-strong claws!

Ultra-strong claws, huh?

Bon appétit!

The Slurmp Alien

The last suspect is the Slurmp alien!

He pierces his victims with his long, pointy mouth…

…and slurps up all the moisture in their bodies!

So, who do you think the culprit is?

If you’re a detective, I believe this should be simple for you.

Somebody’s gotten cocky.

Then, please listen to my deduction!

The murderer is the Krakenic alien!

I think the victim was melted by the mucus that can melt anything!

I don’t think that’s it, Ernest.

What!? Why’s that?

If the Krakenic alien were the culprit, the large amount of mucus used to kill the Sigma Beta alien…

…would have melted through the space ship and killed everyone else!

Wow! You noticed a very good detail!

Then it’s gotta be him - the Slurmp alien!

He must’ve sucked up all of the victim’s body fluid…

…But then, he spilled it afterwards!

I see! So that goop was the remains of the Slurmp alien spilling the victim’s body fluid, which he’d sucked up!

I forgot to mention this, but the Sigma Beta alien has a deadly venom within his body,

so if anyone were to try to suck anything out of him, they’d be the one to die!

Mention that sooner!

Since that’s the case, Kat, who is the culprit?

I can’t quite make any judgements based on only these hints, but…

There’s a high probability that the Crabla alien is the culprit.

Most likely, the Crabla alien took the boiler pipe laid out in the room for hot water and cut them with his claws.

Using the super-hot liquid that came from the pipe, he melted the Sigma Beta alien.

How’s that?

Wow!

I didn’t even think of that…

I see! You’re as sharp as I remember, Kat!

But, I forgot to mention this: the space ship Bengarian instantly changes dangerous substances into safe ones.

There’s an air cleaner, the Bengamaster 2000 installed.

So, even if the Krakenic alien used his mucus, it would clean it up within seconds!

A super-hot liquid is nothing to that thing!

Mention important stuff like that earlier!

I see. If the mystery could be solved that easily, it’d be boring after all.

Bengary, in any murder, a motive has to be present.

Why did the Sigma Beta alien have to be killed?

I see… Well, I suppose I’ll tell it to you!

A hint regarding the motive, that is!

This guy’s just been getting more and more condescending…

I forgot to mention this, but the Sigma Beta alien is a merchant who travels all over space to do trade.

And what he deals in is a mineral said to be mined on planet Avocadro in the outer reaches of space - Avocadron!

It’s a raw material needed to make an unbreakable disk-shaped memory device - the Hyper Record!

A disk-shaped memory device…

The Sigma Beta alien made a lot of money in his business, so he was killed out of envy for his wealth, then!

Close, but no cigar!

I forgot to mention this, but…

The Sigma Beta alien did earn a lot of money for trading this raw mineral…

But he took on an enormous debt in order to mine for it, you know!

This is why you need to mention things earlier!

I see…

He ran away without paying off his debt…

That’s why he was attacked.

Yes, yes! You’re on the right track, but you’re not quite there yet, Kat!

I forgot to mention this, but the Sigma Beta alien has a Bengaradar that can detect enemies a light year away and within 60 degrees of him.

If he turns it in all directions, he can cover literally anywhere.

So, he’ll never get caught by his enemies!

Mention convenient things like that earlier!

A radar that reveals everything within 60 degrees of the user…

I see, so that’s how it is!

You’re just going to accept that!?

What motives could the suspects have then, Bengary?

I see how it is…

I guess I could finally give you a decisive hint.

I forgot to mention this, but the three suspects and the victim actually all knew each other.

Mention that - I’m getting tired of saying this…

The three suspects and the victim were in the same year at the prestigious Renbly In-Space University,

and they all belonged to the mountain climbing club!

They climbed up mountains and were friends who worked hard together.

Does that mean they climbed the mountains of planet Avocadro together in the outer reaches of space?

I knew you’d understand!

That day, they were climbing Mount Avocadro in search of the mineral Avocadron!

But it’s at this time that a tragedy occurs…

A tragedy?

Yes… It was on a day one year before the incident on the space ship Bengarian.

The victim, the Sigma Beta alien and the suspects - the Krakenic, Crabla, and Slurmp aliens…

And the fifth member!

The Daisilian Alien

The galaxy’s unmatched beauty, the Daisilian alien!

When the five of them were climbing mount Avocadro…

We’ve got a new character again…

Among the group of men, there was one woman unmatched in her beauty…

Does this mean that…

That’s right! All of them loved the Daisilian alien!

In short, they were all rivals in love!

Sounds like some sticky human relationships! No, alien relationships!

However! While they were climbing, the Daisilian alien’s foot slipped…!

The Sigma Beta alien immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed her…

But he couldn’t hold her weight!

He couldn’t save her!

This is your fault!

Bring her back!

Attacked by his friends, the Sigma Beta alien descended the mountain by himself.

Then, he found a valuable metallic mineral, and decided to keep all that wealth for himself.

Just when the person he loved died!

What a horrible man!

You do know this is all made up, right?

So in short, all of the suspects had a motive.

Er, where’s the restroom?

Oh, the toilet is through that door and down to the left.

Thank you!

This case is a lot more complicated than I thought it’d be, Miss Layton.

It’s not fair how he keeps giving us new information so suddenly.

But I will solve any case no matter how difficult it may be!

That’s what a great detective does!

But when he only gives us little hints, how are we supposed to…

Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention this, but…

He’s back at it again!

On the floor at the crime scene, there was an omega mark drawn on the floor,

thought to be something he drew on the verge of death.

That would be a dying message, then…

What does that mean, Miss Layton?

That was most likely the culprit’s blood type.

Unlike us humans, aliens have a blood type called type omega.

The omega mark symbolizing blood type is… correct.

That’s decisive evidence against the culprit, then!

That means this case is closed!

But I forgot to mention this, too!

The suspects - the Krakenic, Crabla, and Slump aliens - are all type omega!

What?

Now there’s no point in investigating!

This certainly is troubling…

Well, it looks like you all couldn’t solve my greatest mystery!

But, please wait to see the ending until this novel gets published.

You’re not going to tell us who did it!?

Can you really not figure it out, Miss Layton?

Please wait.

So that’s how it was…

I’ve figured it all out!

What!?

No, there’s no way!

If I had to make a comparison, this is like the dessert in the Milky Way full course that you can only eat in an intergalactic train’s cafeteria car.

It was like fromage - pure white and expanding endlessly, just like outer space.

That’s way too large of a gap in scale!

Everyone, Miss Layton has solved the mystery of the novel that Bengary wrote!

Did you all get it, too?

I honestly have no idea what’s going on.

Now, the solution is coming up after this!

Well then, let me hear what your solution, Kat!

Before I do that, could it be that there was a space detective who happened to be riding the space ship?

I see…

I forgot to mention this, but there was one!

Space Detective Sweetshat

The space detective Sweetshat!

She’s a detective who wears a hat, but the body beneath it is just something for her to ride on.

The talking hat, which is the main body, has solved many mysteries!

Is this where the incident happened!?

Does that space detective happen to have two assistants?

Yeah, she does!

The tin robot Good4Nothing!

I’m actually very skilled!

And the space dog, Barksalot!

The two of them are stupid assistants, and the detective always has to take care of them.

“Stupid”…

So, who was the culprit that the detective was lead to…?

Methinks that the culprit of the case is…

A clump of air! The Clump O’Air alien!

His appearance is just the same as air – he’s invisible!

That’s why, without being found out by anyone, he was able to easily take the strong poison he hid…

…and pour it on the Sigma Beta alien, melting him into goop and killing him!

I see, I see…

Actually, what the heck was that supposed to be!?

The “Clump O’Air” alien? “Easily”…?

Kat, please don’t think up convenient solutions like that!

I see…

But those convenient solutions you’ve been giving to us…

Did you really think those up before you came here?

What I mean to say is that mystery novel manuscript you claim to have written…

The whole mystery-solving part is pure white blank paper, isn’t it!?

Huh!?

Starting to write it was easy enough, but you got stuck,

so you came to me to get hints about how to end the book.

The facts you continued to dish out were all things that you came up with on the spot,

after you looked around at the things in this room.

Are you serious!?

The unbreakable disk came from the donut,

the 60 degree radar came from looking at the shortcake’s shape,

and the mountain that the victim and suspects climbed came from looking at the mont blanc.

I see!

And finally, the omega mark you pinned onto the crime scene at the last second…

That idea came from you looking at the shape of the toilet’s lid when you left to use the restroom!

So, in short, what I mean to say is…

Your trademark catchphrase, “I forgot to mention this,” actually meant…

“I thought of this just now”!

Does that mean the reason this scamp tried to hurry home just now was so that he could write everything down before he forgot!?

So you wanted to borrow Miss Layton’s intelligence to complete your own story!

Yeah, that’s right.

I was sure that if I asked Kat, she could come up with something that I’d never be able to imagine.

But… I don’t think it’s possible anymore.

I’m going to give up on writing this mystery novel.

Bengary, there’s no need for you to give up!

Huh?

Miss Layton, do you mean…?

The mystery of the melty murder of the Sigma Beta alien on the space ship Bengarian…

I, Katrielle Layton, have figured it all out!

Really!?

Detective Sweetshat, who just so happened to be a passenger on the space ship Bengarian, interrogated each of the suspects.

So you, you, and you all had motives.

That is correct, yes?

Yeah. We did:

But we didn’t do it!

Mr. Slurmp alien!

You know something, don’t you!?

You’ve got a sweet hint on this case’s solution!

She actually isn’t dead… Daisilian…

What!?

That’s right. The Daisilian alien, who was thought to have fallen to her death, lost her memories and was no longer herself.

The Slurmp alien, who was the only one aware of that fact, wanted to keep the Daisilian alien completely to himself.

I get it! So, after recovering all her memories,

Daisilian resented the Sigma Beta alien for letting her nearly die,

so she got the Slurmp alien to help her kill him.

Yeah! This is an interesting turn of events!

No, the circumstances weren’t that simple!

What!?

Miss Detective.

I’ll tell you everything.

Daisilian…

I came here not to kill him, but to save him!

However, I didn’t make it in time…

And, I…

Could this have happened because of the pathogen said to exist somewhere in space…

The Black Hole virus!?

It originated on Semilgomgen, and once it attacks, there’s no way of being saved!

Because of this virus, many planets are said to have been destroyed!

It’s a very bitter situation…

So a virus with a one hundred percent mortality rate actually existed…

Methinks it all went like this…

After recovering her memories, Miss Daisilian she realized Mr. Sigma Beta had come in contact with a murderous virus.

She knew so because she’d come in contact with it herself on that mountain!

Oh my God!!

The Black Hole virus stays hidden for one year.

During that time, she hid herself and dedicated herself to working on a wondrous antidote for him.

And she finally completed it.

But just before she could administer it…

He’d been attacked by the disease and melted into goop!

I’m sure she was prepared to take responsibility and die with him if she didn’t make it in time.

That’s why she didn’t drink the antidote, either.

The one Miss Daisilian loved was Mr. Sigma Beta.

But that virus…

Does that mean all of us have come in contact with it, too…?

I don’t want to die!

Good4Nothing!

Yes, ma’am.

Administer this to everyone!

Right away.

Another case, sweet-sweet-sweetly closed!

You’re amazing!]

That’s right! This case has no culprit!

It’s a tragedy of galactic scale, caused by a murderous space virus!

Whoa!

That’s our Miss Layton!

If I put this all in the book, I might be able to make a really unique masterpiece that no one has seen before!

Right!?

Mystery novels should be able to betray readers’ expectations at least this much!

Then I’ll go and write the rest down before I forget it!

Thank you so much!

I thought you’d be here!

Miss Daisy!?

Do you know this girl, Ernest?

Just like Bengary, she skipped grades into university at eleven years old.

She’s a scientist with a bright future ahead of her.

Bengary! We promised to use the minimax theory and update the AI today!

What are you thinking, leaving me - your cute girlfriend - all by myself!?

“Girlfriend”!?

Wait, that means…! Hey, now!

We’re going back right now!

But I, er…

I was just attempting to solve the mystery in the novel Bengary wrote.

Idiot! You were skipping out on research to write something like that!?

S-sorry!

She’s not showing any mercy, huh?

Give me that!

Hey! He didn’t even let us read that!

Huh?

You haven’t written anything except for a few pages at the beginning!

Bengary came here to brainstorm on how to fix that.

I see.

I’ll solve this case’s mystery.

Oh, there’s no need. Miss Layton has already…

P-please, let me hear your solution!

What!?

The moment the Sigma Beta alien becomes an adult, he melts!

He’s the type of alien with that body type!

After that point, the Sigma Beta alien remains in a liquid state!

That day, just happened to be the Sigma Beta alien’s birthday where he became an adult!

All right, that’s it!

What?

That’s it, right? I’m sure it is.

I’m right, aren’t I?

Yes, that’s absolutely correct.

What!?

Let’s go back and continue our research already!

Okay…

Miss Layton, is this ending really all right?

I forgot to mention this, but fiction is strange, too!

Talk about a forced ending.

Kat’s Mini Corner

This is a charm called a “pink stella jewel”!

The word “stella” means “star,” and it’s a motif that that gives confidence and hope!

For necklaces and brooches, I recommend wearing them near your heart!

The third part of the Relics arc, featuring my father: Professor Layton!

The mystery of the relics will finally be solved!

Professor Layton and the Hidden Relics Episode 3

Next time on Layton Mystery Detective Agency:

Professor Layton and the Hidden Relics Episode 3!

Puzzles are puzzles because they can be solved!