Miss Gudazi, who almost became a walker, is saving humanity

"...Actually, similar things happened in the Clock Tower in the past. It is clear that the Holy Grail War even led to the ancestor El-Melloi... Mr. Kenneth died in it. However, the detailed information of the Holy Grail War is still almost unknown in the Clock Tower. A state that no one knows about."

Saying so, Nishi lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

"However, that person concealed the information of the Holy Grail War for his own purpose, and there is indeed a need for it. The [Vampire Hunter] rumor... If it is a rumor that the people of the church actively spread to appease the people, then What is the need to stop it? After all, who is silently stopping the spread of [rumors]?"

Just when everyone started to think [why] at the same time, the doorbell of the office suddenly rang.

□Detective Agency・Reception Room

It was two men who rang the doorbell.

He was wearing a coat and a round neck hat, and there were quite a few policemen behind him.

It seems that they are the so-called [police detectives].

"I never thought I'd turn to other detectives one day."

One of them, a tall man with flaxen hair, said so as soon as he entered the door.

"I heard that you are the detective who solves the most rumor-related cases, and people from other detective firms have recommended you to us."

These two men are here to entrust.

Although it seems strange to entrust a detective as a police detective, since Xingyue is a real Sherlock Holmes world, it is not unusual for such a thing to happen in a world where private consultant detectives exist.

The tall man's name was Tobias Grayson, and the shorter but thinner man's name was G. Lestrade—although Tachika didn't know which word that G was an acronym for.

As soon as Matthew heard the self-introduction of the two, she went to ask for their autographs. After Lixiang asked, she found out that the two of them turned out to be detectives who often appeared in Sherlock Holmes.

To be honest, Lixiang only knows Holmes and Watson well.She had no idea that Matthew was actually one of the so-called hardcore fans.

The two police detectives were surprisingly happy with the autograph, and Matthew got the autograph smoothly.

Just like they said when they entered the door, they came to this office because El-Melloi II is the most famous detective in [rumor cases]——El-Melloi is in this city as a [detective] It's surprisingly famous.

And those who found them here specifically, entrusted the Second Emperor with a case related to [rumors].

It was a serial murder case.

"This is really weird, El Mello."

"If you can, Mr. Grayson, please add [Second] after my name."

"What kind of tradition is this in your family? Well, El Mello II."

At this time, Lixiang helped to make tea, and Gray brought the tea over.Grayson took a sip from the teacup, and continued to talk about the case after sighing about the deliciousness of the tea.

At the beginning, the police station received security guards, and someone said that [Spring Heeled Jack] was going to kill himself.

"Spring Heeled Jack is a rumor that has become famous recently-you should be clear about it. Although there have been many rumors recently, most of the reports received by Scotland Yard are disappearances. I heard that several rumors are really dead. People, but this is the first time we have received such a case of [rumor murder]. Although the rumor should be regarded as a prank, we still led the team, and brought a few people who claimed to be able to use all kinds of weird unique skills 【expert】."

Those experts, II later speculated that they might be some freelance magicians or magicians who came out to pick up private jobs.They set up enchantments on the person who reported the crime and around the home-this is what the second world speculated based on Grayson's description.The police officers also surrounded the house with three floors and three floors, and the two police detectives stayed beside the informant as personal bodyguards.

"In the middle of the night I felt a little wet on my head, and I thought it was my sweat. You know, people tend to sweat when they are nervous. But guess what? The man's head split before we knew it Home, I have that man's blood on my body!"

Magic and physics, secular and mysterious dual protection.Spring Heeled Jack easily broke through the double protection and killed the informant without anyone noticing.

— more than once.

The same type of cases happened many times afterwards, and it was because of many times that these two detectives came to the detectives for help.

Then, the next words of the detectives completely change the nature of the case.

"Especially yesterday, that person was robbed of his head in broad daylight! There are all people around, but no one saw it!"

All the cases so far have happened in the shadows of the night, but this time the case happened in the daytime when there are people everywhere.

14. Beyond the puzzle

■On the streets of London

After that, II obtained the information of all the victims so far from the police detectives, and everyone temporarily put down other cases in their hands and concentrated on investigating this case.

Then, just a few days passed.

In the past few days, everyone first went to investigate the homes of all the victims.As far as the theory of results is concerned... nothing was investigated.

Whether relying on Chaldea's technology or II's simple but practical investigation technology and Zhuge Kongming's thought magic, no trace of magic can be found.Neither Lixiang's experience as a former burial agency nor Kai's experience as a knight could find any clues that actually existed.

It can be said to be at a loss.

Although ignorance can be regarded as a kind of intelligence to a certain extent, but after all, there are no serious detectives in this detective agency, and it is too difficult to talk about the difficulty of finding a way to use this kind of intelligence. A little higher.

The turning point of the matter happened when the next case happened.

Another victim reported that Spring Heeled Jack was coming to kill him, and Scotland Yard police officers deployed more troops than last time to protect this reporter.Everyone took this opportunity to sneak into the guard team, in order to protect the victim at close range and ask the victim some information.

The victim was a woman.

I don't know what Kai did, but he quickly established a relationship with the lady.To put it bluntly, their relationship even got so good in a short period of time that the lady would confide in Kay.

Sir Kay seems to have a legend of being good at eloquence, and it seems that the legend is true, this eloquence is so good that Lixiang even wants to learn it.

According to the information Kay heard, all the people who will be killed by Spring Heeled Jack will get the warning letter before then. [I'm coming to kill you], in short, this kind of notice letter is so simple that it can even be said to be plain.

Anyone would understand that the letter was from Spring Heel Jack, because the letter would appear to the victim out of nowhere.

However, the victim also didn't understand why he was being targeted.

She is not a person with a wide circle of relationships.

This lady is not a rich person, it is better to say that she used to be quite poor.Working four jobs a day, falling asleep every day when I get home, and no opportunities to expand my relationships.

Until a month ago, her life turned around.

Her job at night is as a bartender—a more modern bar that doesn't involve the fancy deals.

While there doesn't seem to be such a thing in 1888, it seems to be one of the advances created by the City Development Committee.

Let's talk about the turnaround of the victim lady.

A few heavyweight guests suddenly came to that small bar, they were the four members of the Urban Development Committee.No one knows why they went to that bar, maybe it was just a whim.

But, they are big shots through and through.In the case that the whole of London is more or less influenced by that committee, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the actual rulers of London.And the bar staff had no choice but to accompany these big shots.

As a matter of course, no one wants it.

After all, if there is nothing wrong with this situation...it is undoubtedly something that will make people feel scared just by imagining it.

So the bar staff started playing football, and the lady who had no chance to expand her interpersonal relationship because she was too busy every day became the best candidate to take over.

However, this lady, who has accumulated considerable work experience through high-intensity work, has completed this work perfectly with what can only be said to be a [sad] experience.

As soon as the owner of the bar was happy, the lady got a promotion, salary increase and bonus.Standards of living look like they are about to improve rapidly, and they recently even quit three other jobs.

Then, not long ago, I received a notice letter from Spring Heeled Jack.

"Other than that, there is no other information."

After Kai finished the information he obtained from the lady, he ended with this sentence.

Hearing his report, Lixiang was a little dumbfounded for a while.

"...Isn't that pretty much all that can be said? The lady. I'm a little curious about what you said to her, Sir Kay."

"Fufuwu (after all, Kai is the only one with a sharp mouth)~"

Fufu, who was lying on Lixiang's shoulder, said so, but Lixiang heard that Fufu's "words" revealed something completely opposite to what she said about Merlin—that is, something like respect.

Now that everyone from the detective agency has mixed in, they naturally set up a barrier in their own way—that's what they said, but in fact it was just Tachika who inserted a circle of black keys around and placed a sanctuary.

After all, this is the most suitable measure if the opponent is a Dead Apostle.

It was still daytime, and it didn't look like a time when vampires would haunt it.But after all, there has already been a crime committed in a time period other than movie time, and no one would think that nothing will happen during the day.

"but why?"

While thinking, Nishi muttered to himself.

[Why], this is indeed an important question.

Why do past cases only happen in movie time?Why did this incident happen during the daytime?

If there is no need to hide in the film time, it is a problem that there have been no cases that occurred during the day since the past.

If there is such a necessity, then why can Spring Heeled Jack appear in the daytime?

At the same time, the most important [why] to El-Melloi II—that is, [why did you do this].

Whyduint, that is, motivation.For criminals who can form supernatural abilities, only this thing can be used as a clue to solve the case.

Spring Heeled Jack keeps sending out warning letters, and uses supernatural abilities to carry out weird serial killings——why does this [rumor] do this?

"Fu!!"

Fufu suddenly yelled, and Lixiang and Kai acted before Fufu yelled.

Li Xiang did not take out the black key, but took out the silver tooth.A sword also appeared beside Kai. He pulled out the sword to increase his physical strength with magic power, and directly broke into the bedroom where the lady was by relying on his supernormal function as a servant.

—that was already there.

What is certain is that the thing is not human.

The jet-black body is like entangled cloth, the huge claws are completely prepared for killing, and the ferocious head is like a mutated jack-o-lantern.

Just like that, it appeared directly above the victim lady, and stretched out its poisonous hands to her.

The Second King also reacted at this time, snapping his fingers three times quickly.I don't know what kind of magic he used by relying on the prime minister's spirit base. Kai, who had already broken into the bedroom, instantly turned into a strange thing like "Knight Exuding Golden Flame", which looks very safe.

Lixiang raised the gun to aim, and then pulled the trigger.

The light-speed strike of the A+ anti-human Noble Phantasm hits at a speed that neither humans nor servants can react to, piercing the monster's body in an instant.The divine power spread rapidly, and it didn't take a second to completely purify this monster.

But, before that, the monster ripped its own head off.

Before being completely cleansed, the monster threw its head at the victim lady.Kai, who became the Golden Knight, immediately swung his sword with exquisite swordsmanship, but the body that immediately regenerated from the pumpkin head blocked Kai's sword.The pumpkin head that was thrown at the victim bit the victim's head.

Everyone was angry at this moment, and Kai and Lixiang were the angriest ones.After all, they took actions to protect the victim, but they could only watch the victim be killed in front of their own face.

Lixiang immediately threw several black keys, and rushed over with the black keys popped out of both hands.And Kai, who was already close, immediately swung his sword and slashed at the monster that killed humans in front of everyone.Although Matthew and Gray were shocked by the sudden death of the person they were talking to before, they immediately cheered up and took out their weapons.

"Guha...so hahahaha...goohahahahahaha..."

Facing this situation, the hideous pumpkin head laughed.

That's mocking.

In the ear-piercing ridicule, everyone's attacks were in vain.

Because, the monster disappears the moment the victim dies.All that remained was a headless corpse and the monster's laughing sound.

□London Cafe

"hateful."

Recalling everything that happened at the crime scene before, Li Xiang couldn't help but say this.

After the victim died, everyone left the place, leaving only a few police officers to seal off the scene.

Although the first confrontation with the monster failed, the police officers praised him as "worthy of being an expert".

The traces of the battle in the bedroom were too obvious, and the detectives all noticed that everyone had already fought the monster.They are very satisfied with the result this time, because in the past cases they had no chance to fight at all.

However, this does not mean that everyone who watched the victim die in front of him can be satisfied.

Instead of accepting the compliment and the bonus that came with it, they left after praying for the dead victim and gathering some intelligence.

The laughing sound left by the monster at the end made them extremely unhappy.

"However, now is not the time to be angry."

The second generation calmed down first, it seems that he has gone through a lot of storms.And Lixiang and Kai also calmed down and nodded at about the same time. It can only be said that they are both experts.

"As a result, how did that monster pass through the barrier?"

A defensive sanctuary was erected around the victim's bedroom.

Judging from the effectiveness of the holy nail's purification, that monster is obviously also a monster that will be dispelled by the holy power.So, how did the monster bypass the sanctuary and enter the bedroom?

"That... space ability or something?"

"Although the possibility of non-human beings having space abilities cannot be denied, even space jumping is impossible."

The Second King drank the lipstick tea and said,

"The master's enchantment is quite skillfully laid out, and the space enclosed by the sanctuary is essentially a small-scale different world. Since it is a monster that will be purified by the power of God, it is impossible to obtain it from the high-dimensional space or The Sea of ​​Imaginary Numbers enters the sanctuary."