Kamen Rider: Prince of Shadow

The corpses were hanging on the branches like this, with their limbs hanging down like the aerial roots of a banyan tree.

Such a cruel scene, combined with the silence of the forest, makes people shudder.

However, when Kaoru Ichijo saw this scene, unbearable anger arose spontaneously. Seeing the behavior of his compatriots' bodies hanging on the tree like trophies made even him, who had fought against Grunge many times, I almost couldn't bear it anymore.

"27 people."

Godai stood there and told the number of dead present with an expressionless face.

However, Kaoru Ichijo felt keenly that Godai's heart was rolling like the sea.

"They were all strangled to death. This should be the rule of killing methods. There are no signs of fighting around. They were all killed with one blow."

Nobuhiko inspected the scene and said to Kaoru Ichijo and Godai.

Hearing this, Kaoru Ichijo nodded, then looked at the place where the body was dumped in front of him, forced himself to calm down and said:

"In other words, their rule is to bring humans here to kill them? This place has any special meaning...Wait!"

Ichijo Kaoru seemed to have thought of something, and quickly found a map of Nagano Prefecture from the car. Seeing his actions, Nobuhiko and Godai quickly came forward to watch.

Ichijo Kaoru took out a pencil and marked the locations where the unconfirmed life forms appeared one by one.

"Aoki Village, Namada Town, Mochizuki Town, Minami Minawa Village and Fujimi Town... it is indeed like this."

When all the locations were marked, Kaoru Ichijo showed an expression that was indeed the case - the five locations on the map could just form a circle.

"Is this their killing rule? Do it in five places at the same time?"

"It's very possible, but I always feel that this figure is not just a circle..."

Nobuhiko looked at the map and muttered to himself.

The five points on the map are too evenly distributed and will always remind people of other graphics.

At this moment, Godai said to Nobuhiko:

"Mr. Qiuyue, please go and take a look elsewhere. I plan to wait here and see if I can find any trace of it."

Obviously, Godai planned to wait and see. After hearing this, Kaoru Ichijo also handed his pistol to Godai and warned:

"Be careful."

However, after hearing this, Nobuhiko suddenly said:

"Wait, Godai, how long have you been here?"

"Huh? About half an hour."

"I'm afraid that guy won't come."

"this·····"

Hearing this, Kaoru Ichijo and Godai looked at each other.

Nobuhiko continued to explain:

"The killing time of those guys is usually limited to a few or even dozens of hours. It has been nearly two hours since we discovered their traces. Half an hour is very precious to them, but, It didn’t show up again within half an hour of your arrival, which means—”

"Is the game finished, or has the location been changed?"

Kaoru Ichijo instantly understood Nobuhiko's meaning. The fifth generation's own senses have been greatly strengthened. Even if he does not transform, it is difficult for unconfirmed life forms to hide from him. In this case, there is only one explanation - the unknown. It was confirmed that the life form had not come near this place at all in the past half hour.

Thinking of this, Kaoru Ichijo immediately took action. He called his teammates, reported the situation on the scene to others, and said emphatically:

"Please count the number of corpses at the dump site to see if there are more than 27."

Not long after, messages came from everywhere.

"This is Sakurai, a dumping ground found 2 kilometers northwest of the junction of Fujimi Town and Yamanashi Prefecture. There are 27 corpses."

"I am Sugita. The place where corpses were dumped in Minamiwa Village was found. There were also 27 bodies..."

Bad news came one after another.

All seemed to confirm Nobuhiko’s conjecture.

At this moment, Sasayama’s voice sounded:

"Notifying all police officers, No. 49 was photographed at the junction of Muzu Village and Songchuan Village, continuing to fly southwest..."

"Muzu Village?"

Upon hearing this, Kaoru Ichijo immediately stood up and marked the location of Muzu Village on it - Muzu Village was also on this circle, and it was just opposite Mochizuki Town.

"Do these locations have any meaning? Or are they trying to connect the circle?"

Nobuhiko looked at the dots on the map and suddenly had an idea. He asked Kaoru Ichijo for a pencil and a ruler. The first five dots were connected to form a five-pointed star. Then he connected the dots of Mochizuki Town and Kizu Village, which just completed the five-pointed star. The star split into two.

"This is·······"

"If I guess correctly, these five Gurungi are responsible for two locations respectively, and if the remaining five locations are also connected..."

With that said, Nobuhiko marked the corresponding places of the remaining four locations.

Minamiwa Village faces Nagato Town.

Namada Town versus Chino City.

Aoki Village versus Takamori Town.

Fujimi Town versus Sango Village.

Then starting from Muzu Village, they were connected one after another, and then connected into an inverted five-pointed star. The two five-pointed stars were suddenly superimposed on each other.

"This is······"

"The Pentagram Array, I've heard of it before. It's an ancient array for summoning demons. I don't know if it's correct."

Nobuhiko explained.

He is relatively familiar with Ao, and he memorized this five-pointed star circle when he first watched the episode of Dyna.

But in the end, it was just his own guess, and Gurongi and magic arrays don't seem to be related.

But Kaoru Ichijo seemed to have noticed something:

"Array... maybe it's true, and, whether it's a pentagram or not, here - the center of the circle is here."

As he said that, Kaoru Ichijo pointed to the center on the map - Lake Suwa.

That's the largest lake in Nagano Prefecture.

"Leave it to me, Godai, you and Mr. Ichijo go and deal with the other Gurongi first. No matter what this array is going to do, we must not let them succeed!"

"I know."

Immediately, the three of them acted separately, and Kaoru Ichijo also informed everyone of his inference and asked people to properly collect the bodies in the body dumping site.

After confirming that the first five body dumping sites were abandoned, all armed police officers immediately went to the corresponding locations.

But what they didn't know was that there was a figure watching all this.

The black-clothed teenager looked at the lake, but the whole picture of Nagano Prefecture appeared in his eyes. The five corpse dumping sites were spewing black air that was invisible to ordinary people, turning into chains intertwined together.

"The polluted child can only be abandoned."

The black-clothed teenager murmured.

Behind him, several figures seemed to have received orders and immediately took action. After a few flashes, they disappeared behind the black-clothed teenager.

ps: I drew this magic circle by looking for a map of Nagano Prefecture. The inspiration, as mentioned in this chapter, came from the episode of Dyna. Speaking of which, I remember watching a ten-pointed star magic circle when I was a child, but I checked it again and found that it was a pentagram. I don’t know what happened.

Finally, the killing method is really troublesome... By the way, the subscription has suddenly dropped a lot recently. Is it too boring?

In addition, the second chapter will be later