stand-in creed

Enthusiasm is overdone.

Just like the over-the-top civil servant in "Death of a Civil Servant", the girl named Yamagishi Yukako is showing favor to Koichi Hirose, who is two heads shorter than her, with behaviors beyond the limits of what humans can bear.

It's just a pity that there was no joy on Hirose Koichi's face, only horror.

"...My mother didn't exaggerate like that."

Josuke and Okuyasu watched the scene cautiously.

What surprised them even more was later.

The female monitor of the class came into the classroom and urged Koichi Hirose to take out the trash quickly, and helped him share part of it by the way.Koichi, who was like a savior, followed the monitor and left the classroom, left Yukako Yamagishi's side, and walked towards the garbage incinerator in the corner of the campus.

It's just that after Koichi and the squad leader parted, Yamagishi Yukako suddenly appeared in front of the female squad leader, and first loudly "rebuked" the other party as a vixen and "warned" the other party to leave Koichi's side.When leaving, Yamagishi Yukako even planted a few hairs on the head of the female squad leader.

First, the fire in the incinerator ignited the squad leader's hair, and then when the female squad leader tried to ask for help, the hair elongated strangely.

Blindfolded.

Lock your tongue.

If Hongcun Yitai hadn't acted in time, there would probably be another patient in the burn department of the hospital in Duwang Town.

……

Duke Hotel.

Now that Dongfang's family moved back to Moriwang Town, Nero decided to stay in the hotel after thinking about it for a while.

At this moment, Nero is flipping through stacks of files, all of which are files of disappearances in the past 15 years.

And at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Accompanied by Dongfang Josuke and Nijimura Yiyasu, the silver-haired dwarf Hirose Koichi came to Nero.

"... Well, Mr. Zeppelin, good afternoon!"

"Hirose Yasushi, right? The brat who was shot by Nijimura Katazhao, I remember you—what's the matter?"

Nero sat there quietly, put the bookmark into the file and looked at the boy in front of him seriously, without any perfunctory.

Koichi Hirose and Nero are naturally not very familiar with each other, and even because of Josuke and Otoyasu's description of Nero, he feels a little afraid of this foreigner from Italy.

Italians who kill without batting an eyelid.

Such a description naturally made Koichi Hirose link Nero with the Mafia.

"That, that..."

Koichi Hirose swallowed his saliva, and then carefully told Nero about everything that happened between him and Yuhako Yamagishi, from Yuhako Yamagishi's sudden confession to the various overtures that made him feel suffocated.

And after Koichi, Jousuke also told what he and Otoya saw that Yamagishi Yukako almost burned the girl into the hospital.

Nero was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"In short, Hirose Koichi-kun.

"You were confessed and entangled by a woman with a "substitute", and you want to be freed from the suffocating pressure of the other party and be free? "

Yasushi Hirose nodded: "Yes, Mr. Qibelin! Even because of her, I only scored 16 in the English test this time..."

Nero has a weird expression on his face.

"Then why didn't you tell her?

"To be more euphemistic, it would be polite words such as "I don't want to fall in love now", "I'm not that good", "I have someone I like"... But judging from the descriptions of you and Josuke, this kind of Euphemisms are probably not appropriate, at times like this one needs to be tough——

"—you don't live up to my expectations for a significant other.

"—Please stop harassing me.

"--roll.

"If it was Jotaro, he would probably omit all the previous remarks and skip directly to the last one."

"...I actually thought the same way, and I had to explain it clearly with Yamagishi-san. But I have some disagreements with Jousuke-kun, so I wanted to seek your advice." Yasushi Hirose muttered softly.

Nero froze for a moment.

Immediately Nero looked at Jousuke.

"What advice did you give him?"

"Uh cough cough!" Jousuke cleared his throat.

"Nero, I have a premise for this opinion, that is, your remarks may offend Kakanishi-san and cause Koichi to be resented, and put him in a "dangerous" situation, just like the class president who was almost burned today Same.So I suggest that Koichi change his image in Yamagishi classmate's heart, become a "super bad guy" and let her down. "

Nero was a little confused: "Does it need to be so troublesome?

"Her stand-in ability is "manipulate hair", not a very strong stand-in.And you have the combat power of "three stand-in messengers". This kind of number is enough to go for a walk around the periphery of Cairo. You can't beat all three against one, right?

"If she acts recklessly, just beat her back, wouldn't it be good? If she is ruthless, she will be sent to the hospital in turn, and if she is murdered, then she will be sent to hell in turn——

"This is the rule of the stand-in messenger world that the police cannot intervene.

"Instead, what destroys my image... What if the deliberately created image spreads to other people's ears? Perhaps Koichi Hirose will lose the right to choose a spouse in Morioh Town for the rest of his life."

"Ah..." Hirose Koichi was stunned.

And Nijimura Yiyasu also whispered in Hirose Koichi's ear: "I told you not to look for Nero, right? His words will definitely solve the problem simply and directly with violence."

Nero gave Yitai a blank look.

"Violence cannot solve all problems, but it can solve many difficult problems, as if the Third World War has not started until now not because everyone is good, but because of the existence of nuclear bombs—or are you just because The other party is a beautiful girl, can't you let go?"

"Hey, hey, Nero, can you do it? That Yamagishi Yukako is super beautiful!" Nijimura Yiyasu reminded.

Nero snorted: "It's just a skin."

At this moment, Nero thought of Maraya's legs, and the beautiful figure of the female pope before she was disfigured by Abdel and her teeth were broken by Jotaro.

Immediately Nero suggested: "How about I help you with this little favor? Although I said that I want to investigate the case, I still don't have a clue for a while. Considering that the victims are mainly beautiful women, maybe I will beat up this Yukako Yamagishi." It may make me bloom any inspiration.

"If you're sorry, just treat me to a simple meal as hard work expenses. After all, students should not have much pocket money."

"No, no, no, no! We can do it ourselves!"

Koichi Hirose waved his hands in fright.

Who is this?

detective?

Is this what detectives do?

This is clearly the Italian Mafia!

Chapter 35

In the end, Koichi Hirose still didn't dare to let Nero get involved in this matter.

From Koichi Hirose's point of view, although a substitute appeared, it was a small problem among "students" after all, and it seemed that the problem would deteriorate if the Italian Mafia was involved.Nero didn't care, just lowered his head and continued to read the file he got from Dongfang Ryohei.

Nero has no intention of getting involved with Yukako Yamagishi.

With Higashika Josuke and Nijimura Otoyasu, even if Hirose Koichi doesn't have any experience in stand-in combat, if this can turn over, it can only be said that Josuke and Otoyasu didn't take their friends' affairs to heart, and Hirose Koichi intertwined friends.

For now, let's focus on these unsolved cases.

In addition to the unsolved disappearance case, Dongfang Liangping also handed over to Nero the file of another vicious case that was "officially filed" more than ten years ago but could not be closed.

"Showa 58...August 1983, 8.

"Four members of the Sugimoto family at Kododai 3-12, Moriomachi were murdered. Grandfather Sugimoto Kame, 66 years old - how to translate this? Sugimoto turtle? So, why do the Japanese have such names that only write katakana but no Chinese characters Ah! Isn't this as weird as writing a name in pinyin? Forget it and forget it.

"Father Takashi Sugimoto was 45 years old, mother Kazuko Sugimoto was 39 years old, and daughter Suzumi Sugimoto was 16 years old.

"Besides, the domestic dog Janorut also died of throat slit.

"The only survivor was Kishibe Rohan, a four-year-old boy.

"On the night of the incident, Kishibe Rohan's parents had to go out anyway because of an urgent matter, so they entrusted the boy to the neighbor Sugimoto's family. When the police found him, the boy was terrified, and he just repeated this sentence——

"—Suzumi-san told me to escape through the window."

Kishibe Rohan?

The name Nero is a little bit impressive.

After a moment of contemplation, Nero suddenly realized.Kishibe Rohan was the name of the author of the manga "Red Black Boy" that Mata Toshikazu saw that day when he was beating him.

"Although there is a possibility of the same name, it is necessary to investigate.

"I just don't know if the Kishibe family is still in Morioh Town. Under normal circumstances, if something like this happens, they will probably move away? But even if they move away, this Kishibe Rohan is not an unknown person who is obscured by everyone. Since it is a best-selling manga artist, you can also meet it by contacting the manga company through the channel of the SPW Foundation..."

While thinking this way, Nero carefully organized the files on the table, copied the address of Sugimoto's house in his notebook, and left the hotel.

……

The substitute messenger and the substitute messenger will attract each other.

Activity platform [-]-chome.

About 1 minute walk from the 330-chome bus station, there is a mansion with an area of ​​more than [-] square meters.The mansion has two floors and an attic, with seven bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen, and only one person lives in such a mansion——

Manga artist, Kishibe Rohan.

And such a young but successful cartoonist in his 20s, who was about to go to a nearby supermarket to replenish some beverage stocks at this moment, left his mansion and walked onto the streets of the activity platform.At this moment, a foreigner who stood in front of the "street map" and observed carefully came into view.

He is 1.9 meters five and has strong muscles.

The golden hair is as bright as the sun.

The beige coat was draped over her body like a cloak, and the two cuffs fluttered in the wind, but the whole dress seemed to be glued to her shoulders strangely, letting the wind blow but not moving.

This is a man with a story.Kishibe Rohan made such a judgment.

Without the slightest hesitation, he gave up the plan to replenish the beverage inventory, and instead walked straight to the foreigner who found his way in front of the map.

"Sir, it looks like you need help?"

Kishibe Rohan thinks that his English is pretty good. Although there is a slight problem with his accent, it does not prevent him from communicating with foreigners.

However, the next moment, Nero spoke in fluent Japanese: "Thank you for your kindness, but I have found my way."

After speaking, Nero pointed to the map next to him.

This is the second-chome of Kododai, not far from the third-chome of the destination, and it can be reached in a few minutes.

"Why don't you let me lead the way? Although theoretically there is no wrong way to go with a map, it's another matter to walk in practice—by the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Kishibe Rohan, and I'm a manga Home……"

"Are you Kishibe Rohan?"

"Ok?"

Kishibe Rohan froze for a moment.

Immediately, Kishibe Rohan looked at Nero's eyes and said with some uncertainty: "Sir, are you... looking for me?"

Could it be my fan?

Could it be that my address has been exposed again?

However, the next moment, Kishibe Rohan only listened to the foreigner in front of him introduce himself.

"Mr. Kishibe, my name is Nero Zeppelin, and I am a detective."

"detective?!"

This is a career that sounds like a lot of stories!

Kishibe Rohan instantly became excited.

Since taking an arrow out of nowhere a few months ago, he has had the uncanny ability to turn other people into a book and read their past.And right now, although I don't know what this detective wants to do with him, but——

——Your story belongs to me, Kishibe Rohan.

Nero always felt that the expression of the cartoonist in front of him was a bit subtle, but considering that cartoonists, like novelists, have brain circuits that are very different from ordinary people, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and simply kept a small eye on it. .

Nero said solemnly: "The incident I am investigating may be related to a homicide in August [-]. According to the information, you were the only survivor at that time. If possible, can I talk to you?"

"...August [-]?"

Kishibe Rohan froze for a moment, but didn't react for a while.

Nero added: "It's about the Sugimoto family."