"Ji Xiang ......"

The entire parking lot was silent, and only the man could be heard lying on the ground sobbing quietly.

Time, as if standing still in this moment.

On the steps, Sousuke Araki, who didn't say a word from beginning to end, still froze in place with his hand touching his head, watching everything that happened in front of him.

On his face, black runes like tadpoles kept surging.

In the depths of the pupils, there seemed to be an incandescent flame burning, angrily shattering the rune into a dark red spark, but it was never able to break through the shackles of the endless black runes.

It was only after a while that Uncle Humpty Dumpty stopped sobbing and struggled to get up from the ground.

"It doesn't matter who you are...... Thank you, I'm finally able to give an explanation to Uchiko......"

He bowed deeply to Sosuke Araki, who was sitting on the steps, and raised his face with a happy smile of relief.

Immediately, he turned and walked out of the parking lot gate.

After a long time, the white flame in Sosuke Araki's eyes was extinguished again.

The black runes also slowly faded like a tide.

"Ahh!!h Am I sitting here asleep? ”

He touched his nose and looked at the empty parking lot as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"When is this...... Exactly, what happened? ”

Walking forward slowly, he looked down at the white pocket in the center of the parking lot and the sacrificial items scattered all over the place, and a complicated expression appeared on his face.

This long-lost sense of asymmetry of "forgetting important things" has not appeared for a long time since he was "cured of his second illness".

……

43 hours before the appearance of the "Gates of Hell".

"Ahhhh......h

In the office of the ninth lesson, Mochizuki Ayano was grabbing her hair and looking distressedly at an investigation report handed over by Takeshi Iwata.

Because of the influx of various cases, she was overly busy, and she didn't even have time to take care of the originally supple Jin Yuanmao.

"So, Natsume Kikuto, the license plate regisser that Tamiya-kun secretly investigated before, only admitted to the crime of 'illegally modifying a motor vehicle', and denied all the other charges, right......?"

"Yes, the target is just a bad high school student, and his psychological defense is quite weak, and he will confess all the illegal behaviors on weekdays one by one. However, in order to confirm the authenticity of the information, we still followed the process to repeat the interrogation methods such as 'phone book hammer', 'electric shock stick foot soaking', and 'suffocation mask'......"

Takeshi Iwata looked at the interrogation record in his hand and reported it expressionlessly.

"Moreover, according to the alibi of the traffic monitoring forensics, it is basically confirmed that his locomotive was faked......

“…… I see, that's the end of this investigation. It's been a hard time, Iwata Takekun, you guys should get off work today. ”

As she spoke, Mochizuki Ayano took out a laptop from under her desk and opened it.

"Okay, section chief, you haven't been home for a while, so please pay attention to rest."

Iwata Takeshi bowed slightly, and when he exited the office, Mochizuki Ayano's voice sounded in his ears again: "By the way, this matter involves the privacy and reputation of Tamiya-kun, please keep it secret." ”

After Iwata nodded and gently led the door away, Mochizuki Ayano stuffed the investigation report into the shredder, then held her chin and looked at the contents of her laptop, lost in thought.

Inside that computer was the private investigation data left by the deceased information group agent Seihiro Tamiya.

Tian Gongjun's private investigation involved some website intrusions and abuse of the authority of Lesson 9, which is strictly speaking a violation.

Out of respect for the sacrificial agent, Mochizuki Ayano never reported it, but only asked Takeshi Iwata to secretly verify it.

According to her combing, Tian Gongjun, as an agent of the ninth class, naturally knew the existence of the "spirit".

So it should also be quite distressing about how to deal with the deceased second son "Ryogo" who hovered beside the eldest son.

Since the time of farming, there has been a saying in Japanese folklore that children who die before their parents will be trapped on the banks of the Santu River with no liberation because they do not have time to accumulate enough "merit" and at the same time bear the "unfilial piety" crime that makes their parents sad and sad.

Legend has it that the passing Jizo Bodhisattva, taking pity on these children, hid them in their cuffs and took them to the other side of the Santu River, so that they could become Buddhas and re-enter samsara.

Therefore, parents would carve rudimentary stone statues of Jizo for their children who had died young, and then tie their clothes as cloaks and hoods to the stone statues, hoping that Jizo Bodhisattva would bless their deceased children and extradite them to Buddhahood.

As a result, rows of cute "Kojizo" statues with round heads and round heads and red hoods can be seen everywhere in Japan, and they have even become a unique folk landscape.

As everyone knows, behind every Jizo statue is a child who died young.

Based on the principle of "obsession makes the spirit" stay in the world, as well as the summary of years of practical experience in soul removal, the Soul Destroyer Association truly binds these naïve, ignorant and obsessive children's spirits in the world and cannot be freed......

I'm afraid it's an obsession formed by the "grief" of my parents.

And when Tamiya-kun encountered such a situation and didn't know what to do, the spirit of the second son "Ryogo" was "removed" by a passing knight.

Naturally, this made it impossible for him not to care and not to investigate.

As the picture in the computer switched, it flipped to a screenshot of the dash cam.

On the screenshot, it is the back of a black heavy locomotive that is driving away.

Hanging on the back of the car is a license plate belonging to high school student Natsume Kikuto.

Looking at the exaggerated appearance of the locomotive, it is the same as a certain locomotive that Mochizuki Ayano remembers, in front of the Yoyogi apartment that day.

Ghostface Rider.

This should be the picture captured by Mrs. Tamiya's dashcam on the day "Ryogo" was "removed".

"That's ...... so"

At this point, the cause and effect of the whole thing are the same as what Mochizuki Ayano had guessed before.

In order to disguise himself as a Ghost Face Rider to remove the spirit, Takumi Fujiwara put on the license plate of a high school student named Natsume Kikuto.

And his secret act of removing spirits attracted the investigation of the unwitting Tian Gongjun.

This is also the reason why she has been secretive about this investigation, and only verifies basic information in order to maintain the secrets of Takumi Fujiwara and Tamiya-kun.

However, in the last folder, a bunch of messy information that Tamiya-kun hadn't had time to sort out before his death made Mochizuki Ayano's face change slightly and look at it with concentration......

It seems that Tamiya-kun invaded the backend of the front hall delivery website and obtained some of the information.

The date of creation of the folder is the day before the start of Operation Sako's Capture.

The first file in the folder is a poster with Ghost Face Rider on it.

"Ghost Face Rider x Dezenkan ~ Righteous Messenger Escort Home".

"So...... Takumi Fujiwara's clothes and locomotives were brought from the Dezenkan? ”

The second document is a screenshot of the staff information in the background of the delivery station of the Deqian Hall.

"Dezenkan Ikebukuro distribution station...... Delivery employee number 9527...... Name......"

"Araki, Sousuke?!"

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