tokyo creator

Chapter 95 She's Smiling
As expected, Lingli and Arthur arrived at the scene earlier than the college staff.

Looking at the messy garden, Lingli was speechless.

After Hui Yuanchu solemnly explained why she was bullied by Lu Jian and drew a knife to help, she couldn't control herself and kicked Hui Yuanchu, and said bitterly: "Why are you still causing trouble here!"

Then she calmed down, glanced at Yukinoshita Saya, and whispered: "Forget it...this incident can be regarded as a very powerful proof: Matsumoto Setsuko will not appear because of Yukinoshita Saya." , what she cares about is Yuki Tetsuta. Aizawa has nothing to do with Yuki Tetsuta, so he did not attract Matsumoto Setsuko."

Arthur nodded.

Hui Yuan nodded calmly... He successfully misled Li Li and Arthur's thinking.

However, Hui Yuanchu actually still had a lot of doubts about what happened just now.

He quickly glanced at Yukinoshita Saya - she was still just sitting there with her head down, as usual, with no intention of communicating with anyone.

...Well, it doesn’t look like it’s easy to ask something.

Moreover, Reisato and Arthur were also present. It would not be a good idea to ask Yukinoshita Saya since it would arouse suspicion.

Huiyuan simply decided to investigate another matter first - go now.

Because the situation here may not be kept secret for long.Although he had threatened Aizawa, he had no hope of her moral integrity.As long as Rei and the others sense something is amiss, it won't be difficult to dig out the truth from Aizawa - just send out Arthur.

Until then, whatever he was going to do, he had to do it quickly.

……

An hour later, Haiyuan skipped class again and squatted in front of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters at Kasumigaseki 2-chome, Chiyoda District.

While waiting for the person he wanted to meet, Hui Yuanchu read the relevant documents on the phone again about the matter he was going to talk to the other party.

At this point, the system's hint could not be clearer - Yukinoshita Saya is the ascendant, and she is the beheaded ghost.

...But if you ask her about this kind of thing, she will definitely not say anything about it.So Hui Yuanchu decided to find out the truth by himself.

After rethinking, Hui Yuanchu actually found a suspicious entry point - several other incidents of beheading ghosts.

The files on those cases were initially handed over with the Qingshan Apartment incident.But after studying it in depth, Rei Li quickly brushed them aside.

The reason is simple - although the true identity of the murderer is unknown, Lili quickly made a judgment: he is just a human being, and he used techniques that ordinary people can do.

In other words, except for the element of "beheading", it has nothing to do with the ascendant.

But Hui Yuanchu now realized the subtlety.

If these five cases have nothing to do with the Aoyama Apartment incident, why does the system collectively refer to them as the "Decapitation Ghost Series Murder Cases"?
Every word mentioned by the system has a meaning.It should not mention irrelevant urban legends, just because there is nothing to do or the phenomenon is similar.

The only explanation is that there really is some connection between them.

So Hui Yuanchu read the file carefully again, and when he saw the surname "Nakano" written in the column of the organizer, he suddenly remembered another thing.

——The Nakano Police Department’s unusual attitude towards Yukinoshita Saya.

Last night, the Nakano Police Department privately pulled Yukinoshita Saya into the interrogation room without permission. What did they want to ask?
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Haiyuan first arrived at the Nakano Police Department who came out to buy coffee, take a walk and smoke.

With a tired look on his face, he staggered out of the door. Just as he lit a cigarette, he looked up and saw Hui Yuanchu.

Nakano was just stunned for a moment, and looked like he was going to ignore him.

But when he was about to pass by Hui Yuanchu, Hui Yuanchu whispered: "Do you want to know the truth?"

Nakano suddenly stopped.

He stood silently for a moment with his back to Hui Yuanchu. He finally turned around and asked, "What's the truth?"

"I don't know either, I'm looking for it too." Hui Yuanchu shrugged.

Seeing that the Nakano Police Department scoffed and looked like he was about to turn around and leave immediately, he added leisurely: "But my chance of finding him is definitely greater than yours."

"You are not the kind of people who care about the truth."

Hui Yuanchu thought to himself that Nakano could really see through the nature of the group at a glance.

but……

"But I'm not us. If it were us, I wouldn't care about the truth, and I wouldn't give you a chance to know the truth." Hui Yuanchu said calmly, "So, I am the one who is looking for the truth, and I promise to use the final truth in the future to It’s me who’s dealing with you now.”

Nakano looked up and down at Haiyuan with complicated eyes: "What does transaction mean?"

"Tell me what you know first, that's all."

Nakano stood there and thought for a short time, then walked to the vending machine nearby: "What do you want to drink? Uncle, please treat me."

Hui Yuanchu followed up and without ceremony pressed the button for the drink he wanted directly on the screen.

"Children these days really don't know what politeness is..." Nakano muttered and bought himself coffee.

Then the two of them each carried a can of drinks and walked to the deserted passage on the side of the building in tacit agreement.

Entering the depths of the passage, Nakano glanced at the entrances on both sides to confirm that no one was approaching, then turned to Hui Yuanchu and said, "What do you want to know from me?"

Hui Yuanchu was not polite: "About the other five beheading ghost incidents...all the things that were not written in the file."

"Are you sure the truth we just told...is the same thing?" Nakano narrowed his eyes.

"——These five cases are related to Yukinoshita Saya, and the truth behind them is the same." Haiyuan looked into his eyes and said, "Don't test me anymore, uncle."

"Okay, I underestimated you. I thought you were just here to talk." Nakano said.

Then he started taking a sip of coffee and a cigarette.

Hui Yuanchu waited patiently.

After half a cigarette, Nakano spoke: "The Beheading Ghost series of murders is not an unsolved case. The five cases were all committed by the same person, and I have already caught him."

Hui Yuanchu was shocked: "That file——"

"Boy, aren't you here to ask about things that are not written in the file?" Nakano snorted, "Be patient and listen to me continue."

"I caught the guy. "But in the end, I just left the interrogation room for a little while, and the guy just disappeared.All the physical evidence and identification reports I had collected before were gone.

"Even if I asked the management officer or section chief, they would just avoid my gaze and tell me that it was my dream. I have never captured anyone, and the appraisal department has never received any relevant appraisal requirements. .”

Nakano paused for a moment and glanced at Hui Yuanchu: "...Before, I always thought that it was you who did the good deeds."

"No." Hui Yuanchu quickly replied while digesting the news.

Even Ling Li didn't know that the dossier she carefully analyzed had been tampered with, so there was a high probability that this incident was not done by the group.

"I believe you." Nakano nodded and silently took another puff of cigarette. "Otherwise, what's the point of me telling you this here? Are you going to discuss who the mastermind is with the mastermind behind it?"

Hui Yuanchu murmured to himself: "...just like Yukinoshita's string string was taken away."

This method of using power to suppress the whole incident made Hui Yuanchu unconsciously think of similar experiences.

"I thought so too, they did it."

Hui Yuan was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized something, and blurted out: "That murderer is related to the Yukinoshita family?"

Hui Yuan made this association in the first place, and he only knew it twice.But why did Nakano say that?Does he have a better reason?

"Oh... I haven't said the suspect's name yet." Nakano took another puff of his cigarette slowly and drank two sips of coffee, "His name is Maki Shimokawa."

Hui Yuan was stunned for a moment, feeling a strange sense of coincidence: "...is it him? The wanted disciple who is suspected of killing Yukinoshita Katsumi."

Nakano nodded, and then said: "The wanted order has been cancelled, after the other person disappeared from my interrogation room."

"Wait a minute, Shimokawa is really a decapitation murderer who killed five people in a row? Then Yukinoshita Katsumi..." Hui Yuanchu couldn't help but think about it.

But Nakano immediately and categorically denied it: "He didn't kill him."

"--ah?"

"Because it was Shimokawa Maiki who called the police. He heard the screams from the house, but could not open the locked door. When the police arrived, he entered together. Later, the investigation of him also confirmed He had absolutely no time to commit the crime... Even according to my detective's intuition, Shimokawa at that time was not the perverted murderer he would become later."

"What do you mean?"

Nakano lit up another cigarette: "I have seen some perverted murderers who were originally normal people...but one day, suddenly because of a certain thing, it was like turning on a switch and they became abnormal. "

"Shimokawa Masaki, that's the type. Before he entered the scene, he was still a good person."

"Afterwards, during the escape process, he began to be unable to resist killing people."

Haiyuan chewed this piece of information for a while, then suddenly frowned and looked at Nakano: "The fact that Yukinoshita Katsumi was killed no longer exists, and all the files have disappeared. How did you know these details? clearly?"

Nakano's expression became strange: "Of course it's because... when that case still existed, I was the investigator, and I was the first criminal policeman to enter the scene."

This... is such an unexpected surprise.Hui Yuanchu's heart was beating loudly, and unexpected expectations arose.

They had noticed Yukinoshita Katsumi's death early on, but they were unable to trace it further because of the disappearance of the file.

When he first came to Nakano, he really didn't expect that he would ask about this matter out of the blue... Wait, was it really out of the blue?
of course not.After all, Shimokawa Maki became a beheading ghost because he saw that scene.

Hui Yuanchu took a deep breath and asked carefully: "What is the scene like?"

Nakano did not sell out.

He began to describe the situation at the scene calmly and accurately, just like a criminal policeman writing a file.

"There were only two people at the scene - Yukinoshita Katsumi, and his daughter Yukinoshita Saya."

"Katsumi Yukinoshita sat slumped in front of the scabbard enshrined at the end of the room, holding a forging hammer in his hand, without his head... It was not that the head was severed, but the head could not be found anywhere in the room... "He took a puff of cigarette.

"Similarly, there is no blood in the room. It is as clean as if the head was cut off somewhere else, washed and changed before being sent here to pose like this.

"Ah, no, there's only one place where there's blood. That's on the forging hammer in his hand. There's blood and stuck fur.

"And half a room away in front of this man, sitting on his knees is Yukinoshita Saya.

"She looked a little embarrassed. Blood was flowing from her head, almost covering half of her face. It seemed that the blood on the hammer in Katsumi's hand belonged to her.

"However, Yukinoshita Saya didn't have any weapons in her hands... she was just making a vague gesture with her bare hands."

"—Iai."

Looking at Zhong Ye's posture, Hui Yuanchu felt a chill running down his back for a moment.

He couldn't help but think of Setsuko Matsumoto, her Iai posture in front of the Motosukikai Building, and the subsequent blow that almost consumed his soul.

"I don't know how long she had been in that posture, but in short... when we rushed in, she was just sitting there in that posture, at least five meters away from her father, motionless."

Nakano suddenly stopped, a little distracted.

When the smoke almost burned his hands, he said: "But, she is smiling."

Before Haiyuan could react, Nakano had already fled, and spoke quickly without even stopping: "That's what I saw. The next day, Yukinoshita Saya was released, and what happened to Shimokawa Masaki?" An arrest warrant was issued, all detectives with knowledge of the case were removed from the case, and a hush order was issued.”

"One month later, Shimokawa Masaki, who was responsible for the serial beheading of ghosts, was thrown back into my hands."

"That's all I know."

Nakano threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, and finally said.

Hui Yuanchu thought quickly.

The five beheading ghost murders are just an introduction. The real core is the death of Yukinoshita Katsumi.

Shimokawa Maheru is just a copycat... but because of this, he is one of the proofs that Katsumi's case existed.

...So even if the beheading ghost murder case becomes an urban legend and an unsolved case, Shimokawa Masaki must disappear.

"Urban legends and unsolved cases are better than the truth. Is that what you mean?" Haiyuan sighed, and finally promised Nakano, "When I fully understand it, I will tell you what happened to Yukinoshita Saya of."

Nakano didn't make any comment on Hui Yuanchu's words. He just nodded to him as a signal and simply left the passage first.

(End of this chapter)