The next afternoon, somewhere in Taito District.

Dressed in a white coat, Hanyu pushed open the rusty black iron door and stepped into the courtyard of an old single-family house.

This is a "one-family building" structure that became popular in Japan in the 60s, and was once considered the ideal model for private housing.

The iron gate is followed by a wide courtyard, then the main entrance of the house, while on the outside is the street-facing parking garage connected to the house.

The precincts are a two-story steel and wood structure with an area of about 300 square meters, and it glows warmly in the setting sun.

Unfortunately, this well-designed house has no one to maintain it, and the overall structure has a dilapidated and decaying atmosphere.

Not only are the walls covered with moss, but the yard is also quite overgrown with weeds, and there are a considerable number of black garbage bags.

"It's a shame that no one lives in such a nice house......"

Hanyu was followed by Sousuke Araki, a "sleeper" and research assistant who was dragging two large suitcases.

At this moment, he is lamenting that when some people can't even afford to rent a house, there is such a good house vacant in the center of the city.

This inexplicably familiar villa is only a 10-minute walk from the Kuramae apartment where he lives, and if you calculate according to the normal housing prices in Tokyo, it will start at least 200 million yen.

Seeing the black garbage bags piled up outside the courtyard, a drop of cold sweat slipped from Sosuke Araki's forehead for some reason.

"The house is a good house, but unfortunately the property rights are in the bank, and now it can't even be sold at a discount......"

Hearing his words, Hanyu Mai smiled coldly.

This time, the intermediary client is a large bank.

A house like this that has become a "psychological defective item", the ultimate takeover man, will be the bank.

Because the heads of households who have passed away in another world will not continue to pay their mortgages.

"Is it ...... a fold?"

Sousuke Araki put down his suitcase and excitedly took out the house information in his hand to check it.

Snapping his fingers, if he doesn't mention it, he can't afford the down payment, and is there a bank willing to lend......

He found that he couldn't afford it for free.

For a house of this size, the annual fixed asset tax and town planning tax alone are a lot of expenses.

The Inland Revenue Department will not take into account the factors of the house when approving the cost of the house.

It is precisely for this reason that the vacancy rate of houses in Japan is close to more than 20%, and there are a large number of vacant houses in rural and remote areas that refuse to inherit and are not wanted.

"I was born empty-handed in the world......"

Just then, Sousuke Araki's phone rang.

“…… Oh, Takumi, you said that game cartridge? I'm sorry, I've had too many things happen lately, and I've just changed jobs, so I'll pay you back another day............ Going out with you at night? I'm sorry, but I'm on my first day on the job today, and it's the night shift, so I can't ask for leave. ”

Refusing some kind of "night tour PLAY" invitation from Takumi Fujiwara on the other end of the phone, and letting the other party sobble and hang up the phone, Sosuke Araki turned around, and Mai Hanyu was gone.

“…… What are you doing, it's time to start. ”

By the time he followed the sound into the door, Hanyu had already put on a mask, pushed open the door of the house in the courtyard, and entered the entrance.

The living room of the villa is very large and cleverly designed.

The living room is directly raised to the height of two floors, and there is a rather elegant escalator leading to the second floor, forming a rather wide semi-connecting space between the first and second floors.

The living room is littered with rotten furniture, broken appliances, and miscellaneous items.

Everything seems to have been sprinkled with a layer of glowing ashes by time, freezing the happy memories of the former occupants.

Putting on a mask and goggles, opening doors and windows to ventilate, Sousuke Araki began his work as a "sleeper".

Large "mentally flawed houses" like this have been in disrepair for many years, and he needs to compare them with "Be careful! The identification list and standards of the house are to check the use and condition of the structure, walls and floors, doors and windows, furniture, circuits, pipelines and even furniture of the house one by one to ensure that there is no damage caused by improper use to bury huge safety hazards for the house, and it is also for the owner to refer to the renovation costs that may be required after purchase.

"Wooden floors...... Novelty...... By this standard...... 10%？！ You're not going to get me into it somewhere......"

While Sousuke Araki was gradually examining the scene with the fool-proof checklist and standards in his hand, Mai Hanyu took out her tablet and checked her "research materials".

In 1952, the police found the bodies of the owner, Hiroshi Sunada, and an unknown woman in the house. According to the investigation, the woman was subjected to long prison sentences and assault here. The cause of death was the murder of the woman with a kitchen knife, and the woman died of massive bleeding caused by dystocia, but no traces of the fetus were found at or around the scene. ”

Reading the information on the computer, Hanyu Mai walked up to Sosuke Araki, who was looking up to check the ceiling in the living room, and took a picture with the camera hanging on his chest.

"It's really miserable...... Kindness? ”

Sousuke Araki turned around and found that the two were sticking to each other at a very close distance.

The aura of a mature woman on the other party's body continued to impact his fragile heart.

Mai Hanyu stared at him indifferently with her winkling eyes, and calmly uttered the creepy words: "The body was found where you and I are standing now......"

Then, Hanyu took out a tripod and a camera with the "Eye of Truth Prototype No. 1" installed, and placed them in a corner of the room, aiming at the "crime scene" that she had just located.

According to her bizarre hypothesis, the longer the life has been dead and the more powerful the obsession, the greater the probability that the "soul particle" will be born after death and fuse with the "holographic hidden energy field".

While Sosuke Araki was concentrating on investigating potential safety hazards and identifying the condition of the house, Mai Hanyu, who was constantly installing "True Eye Prototype No. 2, 3, 4, and 5" according to the location of the crime, began to send chills down his spine with the lines muttering in his mouth.

"In 1960, shortly after the Odajima family of three moved into the mansion, his father, Kokichi Odajima, and his sister, Kazuha Odajima, disappeared in the house, and no bodies have been found, and his younger brother Yasuo Odajima was subsequently taken away by a child welfare agency."

"In 1988, after the 'psychic' Shen Zheze visited this mansion, he died in horror at home the next day, and his entire mouth was expanded to the limit in an 'O' shape."

"In 1997, on the day the couple moved in, they claimed to have seen a female ghost with a baby in her arms. Her husband, Zhu Jiao Yong, disappeared immediately and his whereabouts are unknown and no body has been found, while his wife, Zhu Jiao Yongzi, was sent to a psychiatric hospital. ”

In 2001, the housewife Gayeqin was imprisoned and tortured in the house by her husband Tsuyoshi Saeki, and her body was placed in the attic, and her son Toshio Saeki was missing. The murderer, Tsuyoshi Saeki, died tragically for unknown reasons after killing his son, the teacher Kobayashi's family......"

Even though he is an atheist, Sousuke Araki shuddered to know that so many tragedies had happened in the house he was in for decades.

Sure enough, the most terrifying thing in the world is not a resentful spirit at all, but a human heart......