Chapter Eighty-Two: The Marisa Detective Corps
Marisa sits on the edge of her bed in her pajamas and a steaming cup of coffee. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"I can see it clearly, and I can't go wrong!" she stared at the steam rising from the coffee cup, her eyes dazed, "That corpse looks exactly like the ones in Gensokyo!"
She had thick dark circles under her eyes, and in this regard, Reimu and Alice were the same. Ever since Marisa bumped into the dead man, the two of them hadn't closed their eyes until dawn.
"You mean, the murderer is a vampire?" Alice had already put on the off-white coat she bought yesterday, sat on the chair by the window, and said with a blank face.
"Absolutely, absolutely!" Marisa said categorically.
Then, she raised her cup and took a long sip of black coffee.
"It's so hot!" was her first thought.
"It's so bitter!" this is the second one.
"It doesn't matter who the murderer is, after all, it's our business!" Reimu lay flat on the other bed, her eyes staring straight at the ceiling, "It's just a two-legged vampire beast, and it makes the old lady can't sleep!"
"What is it going to atone for this sin?" she said, with undisguised anger.
Plus last night, she didn't close her eyes for two whole days. Judging by Reimu's standard of "death is small, insomnia is big", the vampire who disturbed people's dreams may have been sentenced to death, shot twice, and executed immediately.
"There is not a single ghost to be seen, so what is the atonement for?" said Alice, "maybe the murderer lives in this building, who knows?"
"No, no...... No," Marisa retorted, "It doesn't make sense, and if it does, its heart is too big!"
"I'd like it to stay where it is," Reimu said, "so I don't have to go find it!"
At this moment, the door of the concealed room was pushed open, and a woman with a big fluffy tail strode in, it was none other than Sado's tanuki leader, Niyan Yuzo.
"Yo three, did you sleep well last night?" said hello with a smile, but found that all three people in the room were listless, so he asked again:
"What's wrong? Why are they all like pandas?"
She didn't wear the dirty clothes of yesterday, but changed into a brown plaid shirt, a pair of jeans underneath, and a wide-brimmed hat on her head, and the whole person looked much more foreign, in stark contrast to the three half-dead girls.
"I'll sleep, I'll sleep with your big head!" Reimu glared at Zozo fiercely and scolded.
"What's wrong, what's wrong, why is it so fierce!" The ignorant Mizo spread his hands innocently and turned his head to Marisa and Alice's side, hoping to get an answer from them.
"There's a dead man in the hotel, the same front desk you saw yesterday, with a hole in his neck, blood draining, and dead. Alice succinctly described the incident and asked:
"Do you have any clue?"
"Tut-tut......" Yizang smacked his lips and shook his head:
"The old man is still thinking, why did he pull a cordon, it turns out that this kind of thing happened......"
"I thought you'd be even more surprised. Alice looked her in the eye and said.
"Ahaha," he said with a dry smile, turning his face away from Alice's gaze, "Old Man is also an old monster, so how can he panic when he encounters such a trivial matter." β
"Really?" Alice raised an eyebrow, "and may I ask you, old monster, what do you think about this?"
"I can't talk about it or anything...... "Yuzang raised his hand and rubbed his nose, and said, "The old man really still thinks that the wound is very interesting......
"Wounds?"
"That's right, the wound, it's ...... to be able to drain the blood with just two small holes," she said, smiling at Alice, "just like the legendary vampire!"
"Really, a vampire?"
"yes, do you know the legend of vampires?"
"I want to know ...... more than that"
Alice left her seat, took a few steps forward, stood not a foot in front of her, faced each other, word by word, and said clearly:
"What are you hiding?"
"Huh?" Yuzang's eyes widened, he took a step back, and squeezed out a smile again, and said:
"I hate it, is it necessary for the old man to deceive you?"
"Oh, then I'll ask you......," Alice asked, "have you seen the corpse?"
"Of course not! The corpse must have been cleaned up early in the morning, and when the old man came, he only saw a few yellow cordons. β
"That's good," Alice nodded, and asked again, "but since you haven't seen a corpse, how do you know that he has two holes in his neck?"
"Eh, that's not your ......"
"I said?" said Alice, "I said 'a hole in the neck,' and would the average person interpret it accurately as 'two small holes in the neck.'"
"Ahh
Yuzo screamed in surprise and couldn't speak anymore. Alice continued to ask:
"Tell me, what do you know?"
"Hey!" Yuzang sighed and shook his head, "You little girls are really clever, and you just put the old decay in it!"
She walked slowly to the chair where Alice was sitting, bent down and sat down, slowed down for a while, and did not answer Alice's question directly, but asked in reverse:
"When did you start to suspect old decay?"
"From the moment you enter the house. Alice replied, "People who really don't understand, and people who know how to pretend they don't understand, have different demeanors and movements, I can see it." β
"Sharp!" he gave a thumbs up, "It's come to this, and there's no need to hide it anymore." To tell you the truth, this is not the first time that this murder you have seen has happened. β
"You mean, something like this has happened before!" Marisa interjected.
"Not before, just recently. With the addition of last night's incident, there have been a total of five murders in this small town in one month, and the modus operandi is the same......"
"Two small holes were made in the neck, all the blood was drawn, the deceased looked peaceful, there was no sign of resistance, and the murderer only committed the crime at night. Alice said, "Am I right?"
"Bingo!" said Yuzo, clapping his hands, "Exactly!
"That's a long story......
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!" Reimu bounced up from the bed, walked down to the ground in three or two steps, grabbed her collar, and said viciously:
"In other words, you, knowing that there are serial killers in the town, deliberately brought us here?
The words she said, one sentence sounded the previous one, and the momentum was so strong that it seemed like she wanted to eat people. When she saw this posture, she secretly said in her heart that it was not goodβthis was to sprinkle bed gas on her.
"Calm down, Reimu!" Seeing this, Alice hurriedly went up and pulled Reimu away, and said, "Think about it carefully, a monster who took the three of us all the way to her hometown and served us with delicious food and drink, how could she not have any selfishness at all!"
"Thank you...... What a ghost!" Yuzo was just about to relax, and suddenly felt that Alice's words didn't seem quite right, "Are you talking for the old man or are you fanning the flames? If you continue like this, the old man will turn into a pigeon and run away!"
"Shut up!" Alice snorted, and said to Reimu:
"Listen, this guy wants to trick us 'professionals' into coming here to solve the vampire incident from the beginning, that's why he will treat us with delicious food and drink! I can't even see how stupid you are!"
"Shenma, you say, and this?" reimu roared.
"Hehe, I don't actually see it......" Marisa scratched the back of her head and stuck out her tongue, "I'm sorry......"
"You two!" Alice rolled her eyes, and said to Yuzang again:
"Say, when things come to this, what do you want to do!"
"Well...... this" Yuzang pondered for a moment, and then said:
"I'm sorry to deceive you, but ...... Lao Yu still has to ask very brazenly, are you willing to help Lao Yu......? For the sake of the old man inviting you to dinner?"
This time, her eyes were very earnest, and she could see that she was sincere.
"If we refuse, do you have a solution to this?" asked Alice out of caution.
"To be honest, no. Yuzang shook his head, "It's because there's no way to go out to move the rescuers." Originally, I wanted to go to Nagano and invite a powerful priest to come over, but I didn't expect the priest to meet you instead. β
"In that case, you just ask us if we'd like to help in the first place, why are you going around in such a big circle?" Marisa said bluntly.
"Then, the old man is now asking directly, what is Your Excellency's answer?"
Yuzo looks at Marisa expectantly, like a child looking forward to a Christmas present.
"Originally, I didn't agree, because you lied to us. Marisa said, stealing a glance at the lost expression on her face, and then said with a grin:
"However, since I have eaten your stuff, it is not good not to show it. So, this case, my Detective Marisa took it!"
"Really...... Thank you so much!" he lowered his head and hid the tears in his eyes.
"You guy...... Alice shook her head with a smile and asked Reimu again:
"Reimu, what do you think?"
"That vampire is dead. Reimu said lightly, "It has nothing to do with this tanuki, it's a personal grudge." Even if she doesn't come to me, I'm going to find that guy and kill him! But you, what are you going to do, Alice?"
"What else can I do? You two are so eager to try, should I leave you two and run away on my own?" Alice smiled.
"Okay, then I, Detective Sherlock Marisa, hereby announce," Marisa exclaimed, stepping on the coffee table, "and forming a Marisa detective team with her assistant Borriwason and friend Alice Poirot, and vowing to bring the murderer to justice!"
"Wait a minute, Marisa, who's your assistant?"
"Haha, don't worry about that kind of detail! Marisa Detective Group, attack!Ah, I'll change my clothes first......"