"César!" As I left the classroom, I saw that César was waiting for me not far away.
"Do you have any more classes coming up?" He smiled and gave me a hug.
"No, and you?" I patted him on the back and pulled away from his arms.
"Neither do I. Great. Let's go home. I'll make you a nice meal." He took my hand, and we left the university.
We both knew it wasn't a good place to talk, and naturally, we were good actors.
"Nice to meet you, my partner. I'll start with what's known on my side and what I've deduced so far, and then you can add anything?" Finding the familiar environment inside, I took the initiative to speak.
"Nice to meet you, go ahead." He smiled and gestured for us to sit on the couch to talk.
He stayed silent for a moment after I finished speaking and then spoke up. "The original César secretly tracked and investigated the men that Vivienne was seeing. He found out that Julienne had been seeing Pierre, Théo, and Sophie multiple times, and all four of them were bed partners."
"All four together?" I was a bit surprised; after all, Julienne had always been a more conservative figure in Vivienne's memory.
"It's ironic, the four of them met several times and stayed at hotels afterwards... with drugs..." He paused. "Gerald and Julienne were also very close. He's not as serious as he seems."
"So that means Julienne seems to keep Vivienne's secret, while in reality, Julienne is traveling between Vivienne's lovers." I muttered, "So Aristide and you have nothing to do with her?"
"Aristide is a poor man who seems to only care about philosophy and the original Vivienne. He ignores Julienne's subtle advances... As for the character I'm playing, he loves Vivienne so much that there's no room for Julienne to get her hands on him." He shrugged.
"Poor?" I was a bit confused.
"Pierre and Gerald both like to date different women and aren't a threat to the original César. But Aristide has no weaknesses to exploit right now." He said.
"So, according to the character, have you hurt or will you hurt Aristide?" I added.
"The original plan was to find an opportunity to trap him into a one-night stand with Julienne. The original César wants to make it clear to the original Vivienne that he's the only one truly faithful to her... But... Things are getting out of control... All five of them had sex because of drugs... Pierre, Théo, Julienne, Aristide, and Sophie..." He looked at me seriously.
I was shocked. If I hadn't found a partner, I wouldn't have had such easy access to this information.
"Aristide doesn't know it was you who did this, so will he suspect Julienne?" I was almost certain that, after all, César was a stranger to him, but Julienne, as Vivienne's friend, had harassed him multiple times.
"But that's not enough for him to kill Julienne." I rubbed my chin and thought. Based on this information, if Julienne really hated Vivienne that much, why hadn't she simply revealed that Vivienne was seeing other men?
"They must have met again after that incident. As you deduced earlier, these people certainly have something to do with Sophie's death, and Julienne's death could have been motivated by personal revenge or retaliation for Sophie's death. As you said. According to your character, you can meet them individually. I'll observe you from the shadows according to my character." He tapped me on the shoulder and looked at me.
"Alright, I'll text Pierre tomorrow. Going to the pub with friends and running into cute guys is a reasonable thing, right?" I winked at César.
"Indeed, it fits the personality, and you can bring one or two of your closest ones to reasonably meet your flirt. Don't forget to ask them to keep your secret. I'll pretend I don't know." He spread his hands.
"Bravo!" I slapped his hand with mine.
It feels so close to the truth.