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Chapter 343 The Witch's Ability

Soon, the police arrived.

There were two men and one woman in total, one of them was older and the other two were young.

These three people should be the only policemen in the town. It seems that they take the case very seriously, as they looked serious when they came.

Come to think of it, in this rural area, a murder case is a huge event, and they can't help but be nervous.

After arriving at the scene to inquire about the situation, the police were surprised to find that this incident was actually related to the disappearance of the witch more than 30 years ago.

Although they all thought that it was inappropriate for Kagura Hikaru to call the police based on "guessing" alone, they couldn't help but feel suspicious when they saw the suspect's fierce appearance. Driven by suspicion, they took advantage of the situation and the indignant villagers around them and took the suspect to his home.

In fact, doing so is a bit against the rules. After all, there is a lack of evidence and no search warrant. You can't just go to someone else's house and mess around. If the body is not found, the suspect can sue the police in court.

But on the other hand, as long as the body is found and the suspect is proven to be the murderer, minor violations can be ignored.

Everyone knows that criminals have fewer human rights than others, so the judge will certainly not make things too difficult for the police.

What's more, Koichiro Tanaka is not a professional serial killer. His psychological quality is not very good. When the police questioned him, he broke out in cold sweat and became very panicked. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was something wrong with him.

What else is there to say?

Before arriving at Tanaka Koichiro's house, the group gradually grew larger. Most of the people were just curious, but there were also some villagers who were still brooding over the tragedy of the past.

For example, a middle-aged policeman with a cold expression let two young men escort the suspect while he walked behind alone.

Kagura Hikaru could vaguely feel that person's view of Tanaka Koichiro, or to be more precise, of Mizuno Yuna, was different from that of others.

".Hey, Miko, is that someone you know?"

While no one was paying attention, Kagura Hikaru chatted quietly with the shrine maiden next to her.

Mizuno Yuna seemed surprised: "Hey, how did you know that? Did you use that strange superpower of yours?"

“Just a hunch.”

"Intuition, hmm." The witch tapped her chin with her finger. "After all, thirty years have passed. I can't help but recognize some of them. But that old policeman, I think Shimizu-kun, is still as pretentious as before."

"You really know each other."

"Yeah, he's also from this village. I remember he confessed to me before, hehe."

The witch laughed triumphantly and touched her nose like a fox that had stolen fried tofu.

Kagura Hikaru ignored him and looked at the old policeman's back thoughtfully.

If that's the case, he probably has some ideas.

Soon, everyone arrived at the door of Hiroichiro Tanaka's house. Under the villagers' impolite orders, Hiroichiro Tanaka reluctantly took out the key to open the door. A group of people filed in and soon found the well in the yard.

The well mouth was not big, and as Kagura Mitsuru said, it was sealed with cement, and looked abandoned, with some half-dead weeds growing around it.

The villagers volunteered, each family collected tools for digging wells, and began to dig wells enthusiastically.

This process seems to be very long. After all, no one has experience. It may also be that Koichiro Tanaka was too strict at the time, so progress was slow.

About an hour and a half later, Kagura Mitsuru's family came back from the crematorium. They seemed to have learned about the situation from others and came here to find Kagura Mitsuru.

Faced with their inquiries, Kagura Hikaru could only answer them with some specious reasoning.

He had told the police these excuses before. After all, it was impossible for them not to ask anything in this hour and a half, so Kagura Hikaru just made up some plots that would appear in a detective novel.

Like accidentally discovering traces while visiting a shrine, which reminded me of a missing case many years ago, and then finding the truth by piecing together various clues.

The reasoning he said was half true and half false, and it was fine to fool people for a while.

"It's opened! It's opened!"

Suddenly, there was a cheer from the other side. The villagers finally dug a crack in the well. After working for so long, they finally saw the light of day. Everyone's expression became more energetic, except for Tanaka Koichiro, who was sitting on the ground.

The truth that has been buried for thirty years is about to come to light, and the last bit of hope is gone.

But there was a young and strong male policeman guarding him, so he had no chance of escape and could only look dejected.

The well sealed with cement was smashed into a hole the size of a face. The old policeman that the witch knew took out a flashlight and shone it inside. He seemed to have seen something, and his face turned like a demon for a moment. He suddenly looked at Tanaka Koichiro who was sitting on the ground, and waved to the villagers around him with red eyes: "Smash the well mouth open."

Looking at his expression, the villagers around him seemed to understand something. Their faces changed and their eyes shot towards Tanaka Koichiro like arrows, and they started talking about it.

Soon, the cement at the mouth of the well was carefully moved away - the villagers tried their best not to let any cement blocks fall into the well.

When there is enough space at the mouth of the well for one person to enter, a villager pulls the rope down to the bottom of the well, comes up when he is ready, and pulls the rope up with another villager.

Kagura Hikaru stared at the wellhead calmly.

A bone-white skull first came into view, followed by the entire head.

Everyone instantly fell silent and stared in horror.

As they pulled carefully, the corpse of a woman was dragged up.

What puzzled Kagura Mitsuru was that the corpse was actually intact.

Human bones do not connect after death. That is due to the tendons and muscles. A corpse without flesh and blood is just a piece of loose sand, a pile of bones. Normally, it cannot stand up.

However, the body of Mizuno Yuna in front of him, still wearing a worn and faded shrine maiden's costume, was not like that. She was completely connected together to form a 'normal' female corpse, just like a prop bought online, but the real color and texture of the bones made him believe it.

wrong!

Kagura Hikaru was suddenly startled.

If you think about it carefully, there are many abnormalities. Not to mention the state of the bones, the three policemen actually let the villagers destroy the scene? Normally, shouldn't they leave the bones at the bottom of the well to facilitate evidence collection?

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Kagura looked around carefully, but no one showed any abnormal expression, as if everything was normal.

But is it really so?

The first suspect was Komori Ai, who possessed hypnotic abilities. Kagura Hikaru turned her gaze to her, only to see that she was also shaking her head at him, looking bewildered.

If it's not her, then there's only
Kagura Hikaru watched the villagers gently place the corpse on the ground, then turned her gaze to the shrine maiden next to her.

Her eyes seemed to sigh, as if relaxed, with a relieved smile on her face.

The originally black pupils faintly appeared with golden spots, emitting a faint glow that was still clearly visible even in the sunlight.

When looking at her, Kagura Hikaru felt inexplicably relaxed, as if he wanted to leave everything to nature, but all of this was soon dispelled by his vigilance.

What is that, is it also a superpower? Are the people around her and her corpse all influenced by her?

According to the island nation's legend, as long as the wishes of the earthbound spirit during its lifetime are fulfilled, the earthbound spirit will disappear and become a Buddha, and will no longer stay in the human world.

Then, was it the wish of the shrine maiden Mizuno Yuna to find her own intact body and arrest the murderer, which indirectly led to such a result?

If that's the case, it does explain it, but it still feels weird.

Never mind, it looks harmless enough, so let's just leave it that way.

As he encountered more and more incredible things, Kagura Hikaru gradually learned to give up thinking.

He was not a supernatural scholar, nor did he intend to study it. Trying to get to the bottom of such things would probably not lead to any good results.

A body matching the characteristics of Mizuno Yuna was found in the well, and Tanaka Koichiro was confirmed as a suspect. The old policeman called "Shimizu-kun" by the shrine maiden handcuffed him personally.

At the moment when the handcuffs were put on, Kagura Hikaru saw that he briefly looked like he was about to cry, but he quickly recovered.

(End of this chapter)