"Those two people, Kenmochi and Kumayoshi, this piece of jade was taken from them," I asked, "do you know these two?" ”

"If two people don't change their appearance...... I haven't seen it," Edogawaichi didn't give any valid advice, "I can't rule out that they are also people who are mixed with the forum, I am only familiar with the account, not the real person behind the account." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Give him a questioning look.

"It can also be said that the familiar part of the personality of a real person represented by some accounts, but no matter how confident I am, I am sure that no one can understand the whole of a person through the performance of an account," he exhaled a regular smoke ring, "Internet sociology is a complex science. ”

"Don't be embarrassed to admit that your investigative ability is limited."

"......," he rolled his eyes with a swagger of life, "really using other means than observation to investigate the people behind each forum account, do you know what that means?" ”

"Rules, rules," I felt helpless, "rules of conduct everywhere." ”

"Destroying the tacit understanding of the monster society and destroying the hard-won superficial unity, this is a very serious crime, the crime of the demon society, Miss Fran looks very young, even very naïve, but she is an understanding person."

I'm not afraid to admit my shortcomings in front of strangers, "I'm just a naïve little girl who has lived a long and short time." ”

I don't really care if strangers take it seriously.

"Back to business," I reminded him as if his eyes were lost in memory or thought, "Do you know how to use this magic weapon?" ”

"I didn't know," he said, focusing his gaze back on me, "I guess I know how Miss Fran fights with the other party," and flick off the ashes, "I...... In the past, I only knew that his family had some strange and wonderful heirlooms, and I had seen this piece of jade a few times, but his family had always only had ordinary civilians, and no one could see that the antique jade was actually a cultivator's magic weapon. ”

"You haven't borrowed it to study?"

He looked at me strangely, "Why should I use it?" ”

"Eh, this piece of jade, including two ancient books, may be an introduction to the destruction of the door, and others will not hesitate to commit serious crimes to get good things, don't you borrow it from a friend and use it? Even if you don't plan to take it by force, a magic weapon or magic weapon that has been handed down from ancient times to the present day is also very useful for youkai to learn from and enjoy. ”

"If I get this jade from a friend, maybe sooner or later I can't help but use it, maybe I will encounter a scene where I have to use it, and it will be almost inevitable that others will find out about the existence of this treasure, and then I may be caught by some people or monsters that I can't resist and ask about the origin of the magic weapon, and bring disaster to my friends," he recounted word for word, "and I don't really have to get a fighting treasure in my life, so why should I get it?" ”

"But the reality is that your friend's family was killed, and the family heirloom was also missing."

"......," Edogawa's expression stiffened, "In any case, it is not my fault that disaster has befallen for no reason. ”

"It's not your fault, and you're planning to avenge your friend?"

"There is no contradiction in it," he said, "but revenge...... It's not as simple as a sentence. ”

"You seem to know a lot, but you don't want to say it, I understand that I am still a suspicious person, since you think you should have some reservations, I will leave now, I hope there is no chance of seeing you again."

I had been distraught by his sense of decadence and vicissitudes, and decided to put aside the dispensable jade magic weapon and possible help to find another way, so that Aichi could leave Tokyo completely out of the sight of the secret organization, and I would spend some energy near Masako's house waiting for a possible attack on Kyoko.

"I don't know the two demons you met," he said, as I got up and left, "but I probably know where they came from." ”

"Do you really know?"

"I'm a private detective," he said, inhaling the rest of the cigarette butt into his lungs, poking the butt of his cigarette into the ashtray, and finally exhaling slowly, "I'm a failed detective, but at least I know what kind of dark forces are in this city." ”

"Is it an organization advocated by the chairman of the group at the top of the forum?" I asked bluntly.

"I don't know, maybe it's not ......," he said after thinking about it, "there are no people related to Kobayashi among the peripheral organizations and members I have seen. ”

Kobayashi is the forum username of the successful landlord who advocates the establishment of a monster organization.

"You know him?"

"Yes."

"Since you've met with members of the so-called Outer Organizations, are you planning to break into the inside of that monster mutual aid group?"

"At first, my purpose was to track down the whereabouts of the ancient books and jade blocks, and there were too few clues at that time, so I checked all the underground organizations in Tokyo one by one that might be related to the forces of non-ordinary people," he beamed his voice into a line and passed it into my ears, such small spells are not uncommon, and the sword wielder youth also talked to Ah Yi before, "The suspicious forces that are most likely to be interested in the family heirlooms of ordinary people are a few cult organizations that secretly preach, Only similar organizations are interested in families with a certain history and have enough sources of information, and the neighbors who have been bewitched by the cult can always gather information about who owns magical antiquities, so the first thing I suspect is that my friend's family unknowingly leaked information about their family heirlooms to their family's social connections. It wasn't until I went undercover to investigate more than 10 secret sects and groups that I discovered that many of them were connected to a more mysterious force behind the scenes, and that the rest of the cult groups were just tools used by ordinary people to collect money. ”

"There's also ...... here Cults? ”

"Tokyo, no, including Tokyo, many cities in the world, large and small, are full of similar cult groups, and this is an ironic age of lack of faith and extraordinary abundance." Edogawaichi lit another cigarette.

Perhaps the Yasaka Kazujin and the former Suwa Myojin were disheartened by such realities and abandoned the altar and the godhead? As I pondered it, I felt more and more that this factor accounted for a considerable proportion of Miss Kanako's reasons for giving up the outside world—of course, the main reason was the spiritual needs of the gods.

If you think about it, isn't faith the same thing as bad money driving out good money?

Having said that, when I was very naïve, I had seen many different kinds of religious organizations in the outside world, most of which were doing evil things in the name of God, and the most hated thing for "regular religious" organizations was that underground organizations that were legally classified as cult groups usually had a more efficient ability to amass than regular organizations—whether it was secular possessions or scarce resources similar to those run by Ryuichi and the female bosses.

Realizing that my mind was off track, I hurried back to the topic, "How to overflow?" I asked.

He gave me another strange look, "Haven't you heard of the Tokyo subway sand/forest gas incident twenty years ago?" ”

"My place is well, very closed."

"As the name suggests, the incident is a terrorist incident of a poison gas attack launched by a cult group on ordinary citizens, and it is easy to learn about it on the Internet if you have not heard of it," Edogawa flicked his cigarette butt again, "What is terrible and ironic is not the cult's attack on citizens, nor the huge number of people killed and injured...... Rather, after the attack, the membership and influence of the cult group have not shrunk because of the severe official crackdown, but have gradually expanded. ”

"......," I savored his narrative, "outsiders, well, ordinary people in the outside world are indeed terrifying. ”