I'm a ghost story witch in Tokyo

Chapter 104. Chapter 103
The remote streets of [-]-chome in Setagaya Ward are bustling like never before.The ghost talk attack in the Family Market supermarket caused an uproar in the nearby residential area, and the peaceful backwater was messed up and disturbed.

The witches who lived nearby put on their clothes and opened the windows to look around. Some witches got up and went to the door to watch the excitement.

The strange talk made the witches a little nervous. They were stopped outside by the cordon, and several witches in police uniforms and wide-brimmed hats with police badges were on the scene to maintain order.

They are all the lowest-ranking inspector witches, and the higher-ranking witches, such as the inspector general and inspector minister, have gone into the supermarket blocked by the light green barrier to investigate.

It is not uncommon for strange stories to cause riots, and the witches were only a little worried, and did not show any particular fear.The ghost stories are handled by the "Ghost Story Prevention Headquarters" under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Witch Association. This department recruits witches with excellent abilities and experience in dealing with ghost stories and related incidents. These witches are ghost story witches.

The job of ghost witch is very special. It is more likely to encounter danger than the police, and the salary is higher than that of ordinary white-collar witches.Of course, the income of a witch working in a funeral home is still a little worse.

The income of the forensic witch is also high, but it is more difficult to recruit, and almost no witch is willing to
Compared with forensic doctors and funeral home staff, ghost witches are much more normal, and the number of witches who are willing to join the ghost prevention countermeasures headquarters is increasing every year.

Jingliu also intends to participate in the recruitment examination of the Ghost Story Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters and become a glorious ghost story witch.Members of this department are also affiliated with the Japanese police and have an independent number. As long as they pass the exam, they will become Japanese national civil servants. They will receive monthly subsidies and year-end bonuses. They will enjoy legal holidays, and the department will give out gifts during the holidays.

The most important point is that the ghost witch does not need to be on duty, she only needs to be on call, and obey orders when she needs to patrol and go out on missions, and she can freely arrange the time when there is no ghost.

Around the accident site, Rui Ji also saw dozens of witches wearing police uniforms and golden armbands on their left arms. There was a silver cherry blossom pattern on the armband. Below the pattern was a staff and a gun, forming a cross.

The witch wearing the armband is a member of the Guitan Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters. For the sake of easy memory, the folk witch simplified this long list of names into the Guitan Club, and the members became members of the Guitan Club, which sounds like a high school club.

Although Japan's witch high school also has a ghost story club established by students spontaneously, which focuses on research and confrontation of ghost stories, which is only a small joke compared to the real ghost story club.

Rui Ji immediately saw Jing Liu sitting in the temporary safety zone, holding a boxed lunch.

"How are you doing?"

She walked through the crowd, trotted to Jingliu, checked the wound repeatedly, and found that the bleeding wound on Jingliu's body had healed. After being carefully treated by the doctor and witch of the Metropolitan Police Department, she is now fine.

"I'm fine. Sister...you smell very strange."

Jingliu narrowed her small eyes, put down the half-eaten box lunch in her hand, and sniffed Ruiji's body like an animal, the breath that she exhaled made Ruiji's ears itch.

"It should be the smell of sweat. I came all the way from the house of F... the clerk, and I just played arcade games with her in the nearby game hall for a while. It may have been stained at that time."

"No. There are two kinds of smoke smell on your body. The perfume and powder smell left by more than two witches are not cheap goods sold in street stalls. Besides, you also drank beer, not local beer in Tokyo. Dinner is Italian Seafood gratin and mushroom bisque.”

"It's a pity that you don't become a police dog."

Although very speechless, Rui Ji must admit that her judgments are all correct.Smell is a subtle clue, which is easy to ignore by oneself, but often becomes the key information for others to reason.

"Senior clerk wouldn't take you to play witches in Kabukicho, tell me, where did you go to fool around?"

"If I say that the old official and my wife are both in the cannon witch, and I am the only one wandering outside alone, and I rushed to see you when I received the news from the police, would you believe it?"

"real or fake?"

Jing revealed the surprise that adolescent girls should have.

"I'm your own sister, don't you believe it? Both of them are easy to be confused by beauty, and they will 'abandon' my friend. Although a little angry, following the original desire is the characteristic of a witch, and it's nothing Very reproachable."

Rui Ji omitted the experience of going to Flotin, including meeting the witch Snowy Owl, getting Snowy Owl coins, and meeting Omi, a member of the "Night Color" custom shop, and only said that the two went to Shinjuku [-]-chome Kabukicho to play.

Kabukicho in Shinjuku is a legal area, while Flotin is an extrajudicial area, and the nature of the two is fundamentally different.Jingliu is worried about family matters, and also has to worry about her studies, part-time job and shrine affairs. Ruiji thinks she should retreat consciously and let her worry as much as possible.

Flotin's matter can be concealed, which is conducive to concentrating the risk on himself.

This time she lied calmly, her ears didn't turn red, and Jingliu didn't suspect that her words were adulterated.Not in doubt, but not fully convinced either.

"That means going to a nightclub together?"

"Yes... I admit that we went to a nice shop in Erchome, had a few sips of wine, enjoyed singing and dancing performances, and had a good time."

She followed her sister's words and slowly shifted the topic to another direction.

"elder sister."

"exist!"

Suddenly hearing Jingliu calling herself in a serious tone, Rui Ji was startled and straightened up, like a Showa soldier witch named by her boss.

"It's time for you to find a girlfriend."

Jingliu repeated the old saying, persuading with the tone of the elders earnestly, this kind of thing happened often in the past.Her identity is a younger sister, but she has a sense of sight of an elderly mother.

However, is it too early to persuade you to find a partner?
"I just want to make money and study now. Finding a partner will only affect my speed of drawing my staff. You also know the conditions of our family. We have no money and no rights. We can't even afford a house or a car. Now I am looking for a witch to marry First of all, I have to spend the money to buy a new sky island, which I can’t do for the time being with my financial strength.”

"That's all for the future, and it's not like asking you to marry a witch immediately."

"After you get married, you have to think about your offspring. It takes tens of millions of yen to train a witch. If you want to take the elite route, it will cost tens of millions. Thinking about it, it feels overwhelming."

In the Witch World Line, fear of marriage and childbearing is also common.Witches with poor economic conditions will delay their marriage as much as possible. After all, the youth period lasts for a hundred years. It is not uncommon for witches in their 100s to marry witches in their early twenties. They are all equally young in appearance.

The focus of attention changed from Jingliu's injury to the topic of love and marriage. The two sisters argued endlessly and were stopped by the passing inspector, Yamazaki.

"Miss, please stop for a moment. I need to ask Ms. Sakuma Shizuru about some things. I'd better talk about the family affairs after I get back, is that okay?"

Yamazaki looked tired, like a hard-working social animal who hadn't slept well for months.

In fact, the police witch is also a kind of social animal. The work intensity is amazing, and it is completely normal to be tired.

"Excuse me."

Jingliu took a few mouthfuls of the boxed lunch and found that it had become cold and hard.

"Officer Yamazaki, what do you want to ask?"

Yamazaki glanced at Rui Ji next to him, with a complicated look on his face.

"My subordinates found several corpses in the underground warehouse of the supermarket. They were all witches who had been reported missing before. They were between 18 and 20 years old. You worked in this supermarket to help eliminate ghost stories. Did you find anything unusual? "

The police officer showed them a few photos. The witches who disappeared and died were all wearing the uniforms of other schools. There was no intersection or commonality between them. If it was done by a certain witch, it might be a random murder case.

"I didn't find anything special. The foreman of the supermarket entrusted me to work on the second floor according to the boss's wishes. The underground warehouse is not a designated place, so I can't enter it at will. I have never been there."

"Is there any suspicious witch wandering around or in the supermarket?"

"Suspicious witch... I seem to have seen one. She is wearing a black hooded jacket and trousers, with a mask and glasses on her face. She wanders around every night, as if looking for a target. I haven't spoken to her , I was knocked down by her when I was carrying things by last time, and I noticed her accent, it is a very standard Tokyo accent."

"Please use [Sketch Magic] to describe her appearance, we need this clue very much, thank you."

"Ok."

Jingliu put down the box of discounted bento that tasted like chewing wax, and held the pen handed over by Chief Inspector Yamazaki.The pen is made of special magic material E43 steel and the blood of green-skinned sharks on the bottom of Bermuda. There is also a small magic circuit, which injects magic power into the pen, constructs a spell, and uses sketching magic to allow the witnesses to quickly draw according to what they see. A portrait of the suspect.

Times have changed, the era of psychological portraits has passed, and the combination of magic and technology can solve crimes more efficiently.

The silver pen quickly depicted a well-proportioned witch between 15-20 years old and 165-168 in height on the drawing board.She hid her face under a hood and a mask, her eyes were a beautiful golden color, and her hair was gray and white.

The pictures drawn by the sketch magic are very intuitive, and the effect is close to that of the photos, which saves a lot of trouble from the police and witches.In the past, this magic had not been invented, and there were no surveillance cameras. The police could only rely on the police to visit and investigate one by one in the vicinity. The efficiency was very low, and the case could easily become an unsolved case.

The witch on the drawing paper was immediately listed as a suspect in the witch's death case, and Jingliu was asked about some details of the exorcism work, and the inspector Yamazaki was willing to let her go.

"Leave me a contact number first. When I find the suspect, I will ask you to come to the police station for identification. Do you want me to drive you back? It's late at night, and it may not be safe outside. Ms. Jingliu, I have no magic power." It has not recovered yet, so it is not suitable to overdraw the magic power."

Jingliu, who never likes to bother others, accepted the police's proposal this time. First, she wrote her contact information on a post-it note, and then got in the inspector's car.

It is a combination car that can fly by sea, land and air. It is a high-end product. You don’t have to worry about traffic jams on land. It only takes about 10 minutes to fly from Setagaya to Shinjuku, which is fast and stable.

Jingliu leaned on Ruiji's shoulder, closed her eyes, and fell asleep accidentally on the way.The car door opened, Rui Ji picked them up, and thanked the inspection minister who sent them home.

"Miss Police Officer, you have worked hard."

"It's okay. Last time Miss Shizuru went to the family in Okubocho to exorcise evil spirits. Ms. Yamazaki is my sister. I didn't go home because of work, and I met Miss Shizuru for the first time. My sister is an ordinary person who doesn't know magic. , My magical power is also very average, and I have to find professional people to deal with these things. Ms. Jingliu is very capable at work, and I admire her very much."

Then, Yamazaki inspector looked down at his watch and found that it was almost 11 o'clock.

"I still have some work to do at the crime scene. Excuse me. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Rui Ji closed the gate of the shrine with magic, and carried Jingliu back to her room.

The classic princess hug was originally a move that tested the strength of the arm. The muscle density and strength of the witch are not the same as the body of the previous life. A witch with a magic power of 1000 can carry a car with her bare hands.

The girl's body is light and soft, like a thin feather that will fly away when the wind blows.

The door key was in Jingliu's backpack, so Rui Ji had no choice but to use [Find Object Magic] to let the backpack open automatically, lock the item [key], and write the words representing it into the spell.

Generally, when hands are empty, Rui Ji will use this magic to find what he wants in a pile of things.This also avoids scrambling to find an item in the clutter and getting caught in a whirlpool of distraction.

Finally, use the movement magic to insert the key into the lock to open the door.

The convenience of magic is obvious, and Rui Ji enjoys this feeling very much.

"finally reached."

Leaving the floating city full of luxury and luxury, and returning to the ancient shrine, Rui Ji was once again surrounded by a sense of security.A black cat came out of the corner and rubbed against her feet.

"Welcome back……"

Sanriyue's expression was very lazy, because she didn't have enough magic power to maintain her human form, and turned into that decadent cat again.

"Your sister's chores are done. So, when is dinner?"

After eating the meal made by Jingliu in the morning, Sanriyue couldn't forget it.

"Jingliu is injured, and I'm very tired now, how about some instant noodles if you want to eat? I still have some in my room, you can pick whatever you want. But - you can only eat two cups."

Rui Ji put her sleeping sister on the bed, took off her shoes, socks and robe, and hung the witch hat on the coat rack.The quilt is folded into cubes and placed next to the couch, and it can be used as long as it is shaken out.

"Just kidding. I just want magic power now, when will you make it up for me?"

Sanriyue licked her paw.

"Immediately, wait for me to arrange Jingliu."

The last step is to cover the quilt, and a small accident happened in the process.In his sleep, Jingliu suddenly hugged Rui Ji tightly beside him, like a mighty Amazon anaconda, getting tighter and tighter.

"do not leave Me……"

　A big reader in Japan suggested that the total cost of the "Guidan Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters" be changed. I heard that this is more interesting.But it seems that the title cannot be changed, which is a bit subtle.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)