After the noisy blonde youth left, the garden returned to its former tranquility.

A man wearing a raincoat and a mask appeared ghostly in front of the tombstones of Kohei Higashino and Reiko Shirasui and slowly squatted down.

"Reiko ......"

At the same time, the diamond ring on the man's chest, as if in response to him, emitted a faint fluorescence.

"How about it, Higashino-kun, it's a subtle feeling to look at the tomb sweeping that others give you...... After all, there are really your ashes in it. ”

In the empty cemetery, a man's foreign accent of Japanese sounded, interrupting the mourning atmosphere.

The man whose whole body was tightly wrapped in a raincoat was none other than Kohei Higashino, who "came back from the dead".

"I'm sorry, Sousuke, Ryoma, Reiko and I can't go back...... You two idiots better do what you say you will and live with my share. ”

Ignoring the sudden voice, Higashino Kohei lowered his head and kissed the ring on his chest.

"Kohei...... It's okay...... As long as we're still together...... Someday, I'll see them again. ”

As if sensing his sadness, Reiko Shirasui's pure white spirit quietly poured out of the ring, gently embracing him from behind like a guardian angel.

"Higashino-kun, it's almost time to start, but it will take some time to get from here to Haneda Airport......"

In the air, there was a man's urging.

“…… After all, when the performance of the Bon festival begins, it will not be so easy to leave Japan. ”

"Got it, ...... Shado"

When Higashino Kohei heard this, a dagger appeared in his cuff and carefully pried open the top of the marble on the upper part of Reiko's tomb.

"That's it...... Next, I hope that those guys who have turned into yellow sand will not disappoint with what they left behind in the Middle East. ”

After taking out Reiko's urn, holding it in her arms in a precious place, and closing the top cover of the tomb, Kohei Higashino turned his head to look at the tombstone that belonged to "himself".

"Ben Si has forgotten it, leaving his body in vain, is it not a relic of Jun...... Kohei Higashino, already dead......"

Immediately, his figure disappeared in front of the tombstone, leaving only a deep voice still echoing in the air.

"From now on...... All that remains, Cerberus ......"

"Whoever lives to resurrect Reiko and slaughter all monsters, Cerberus."

……

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

Shibuya Police Station.

In the dark night, in the brightly lit office, Mochizuki Ayano stared at the big golden and blue eyes like an orange cat, and stayed up all night to check the case information as always.

Stretching hard, she picked up a blank piece of paper at hand.

Sketched on the paper with black and white pencils, it was a thin middle-aged man wearing a cloak and a mask.

It was a "sketch of a doubter" drawn by her unforgettable memory.

More than ten days ago at Minami Honmoku Wharf, Kohei Higashino, a cadre of the Tokyo branch of Nurakuquan, fell into an industrial grinder after killing Kazuo Amato, head of the Tokyo branch of the trio group, and being shot in the forehead in order to avenge the murder of his fiancée Reiko Shiramizu.

Siena, who escaped from the Seto Inland Sea air crash and disappeared, was found by the police inside the warehouse.

At that time, he was already dying, and the official registered grudge [Abigail's silver spoon] on his chest was shattered to the ground.

As a result, he finally broke free from the arms of the Lord, and blocked the knife again for Mochizuki Ayano at the door of the warehouse......

Under the side effects of resentment and injury, Siena's internal organs entered a period of rapid failure due to massive blood loss, and although his condition gradually stabilized after resuscitation, he is still unconscious.

The Vatican has also sent an official diplomatic letter, and a receiving mission is on its way.

Looking at the mask worn by the man on the sketch, Mochizuki Ayano fell into deep thought.

Behind a series of incidents, such as the air crash in the Seto Inland Sea and the shootout at Minami Honmoki Pier, there is no longer just a struggle between violent groups, but also a supernatural force surging behind it.

Therefore, this series of headache cases have been merged into the ninth section to be responsible.

After the investigation of the information group of Lesson 9, the entire puzzle pieces scattered in the fog were gradually pieced together.

The core suspects in this series of incidents, in addition to the deceased Kohei Higashino and the unconscious Siena, are only the first police officer of the first department of sexual crime investigation who acted without authorization, and the former Ryoma and the "official informant" registered under his name, Sosuke Araki.

In order to "make meritorious contributions," these two people knew everything during their detention.

According to the testimony, after hearing the gunshots, the two men wore stockings and rushed into the warehouse like bank robbers, and Ryoma took the unconscious Kohei Higashino back to the car.

Sousuke Araki, who was in charge of the "cushion", in the dark warehouse, first violently beat Kazuo Amato, the head of the Tokyo branch of the trio group, then kicked the black-robed man unconscious, and finally held the green dragon knife and fought fiercely with Kazuo Amato's bodyguard, smashing the sword in the opponent's hand......

After the interrogation video replay, polygraph, criminal behavior pattern and micro-expression analysis, the testimony of Ryoma and Araki Sosuke before the second was correct, detailed and credible, and even the receipt for buying stockings at the convenience store was still kept.

But this series of cases itself is still full of suspicions.

The cause of the air crash in the Seto Inland Sea may not be clearly answered until the person concerned, Siena, wakes up.

In the warehouse of Minami Honmaki Wharf, more than 100 men who originally gathered in it seemed to have evaporated from the world, and no one died or died.

All these mysteries seem to have gathered around the mysterious man who rushed out of the warehouse in the form of a breeze and took the lives of two agents in an instant.

In Tokyo, there are unknown supernatural forces that are quietly carrying out criminal activities.

This information alone is enough to make Lesson 9 feel like a great enemy.

According to Sosuke Araki, when he stepped onto the second floor of the warehouse, Siena appeared to be fighting the black-robed man.

After the other party noticed his appearance, he directly stepped forward and gave him a "weak" whip leg, and then was kicked and stunned by his "legitimate defense".

In the past few days, Lesson 9 even conducted a comprehensive physical examination and physical data test for Sosuke Araki.

The results showed that although this guy had no supernatural energy such as spiritual power and resentment at all......

However, his physical fitness is too strong, and all his stats are close to the level of the top athletes.

In the tests of kendo and hand-to-hand combat, several elite agents of the Self-Defense Forces, who have retired, are also no match for him.

It can be said that if this idiot continues to develop in the kendo world, he will probably become a household name.

In any case, Sousuke Araki proved with his strength that he was capable of defeating those "Extreme Elements" in the warehouse.

The premise is that the black-robed man in it is not an invisible half-demon who can turn into the wind and take people's lives.

"Sousuke Araki was able to defeat that man, could it be because Uncle Siena fought with the other party at that time?"

It is different from the regular soul slayer who is not much different from ordinary people in other aspects except for having spiritual power.

Siena, the "Holy Light Arsenal" armed with guns, can be described as a pure killing machine, with the strength of a one-man army.

A resentment that could force him to be seriously injured, and even use the "Prevent Death" effect, it was naturally impossible for the black-robed man to be unscathed, and it was even very likely that he was already in the midst of some kind of resentment.

This is the only reasonable explanation in Mochizuki Ayano's opinion.

There were too many unconfirmed details and doubts to make her feel like she was fiddling with an unfinishable twenty-four Rubik's Cube, and she had managed to piece one side together, and the other sides were then scattered.

"None of that is the point...... The focus is on ......"

Looking at the white mask on the man's face depicted in the sketch, Mochizuki Ayano couldn't help frowning and muttering to herself.

"Section Chief, the resentment application process you asked us to keep an eye on was returned by the research institute......"

At the same time, an agent knocked lightly on the door and stepped forward to report.

"Did you go back...... Why? ”

"The reason is that the resentment object is too dangerous and has been placed in permanent containment and cannot be borrowed."

After preliminary identification by the research institute, resentful objects with huge side effects or too dangerous will be sent to a top-secret location controlled by the royal family and the Yinyangliao for "permanent containment".

"Okay, I got it."

Hearing this result, Mochizuki Ayano nodded naturally.

But the fingers that unconsciously tapped quickly on the table betrayed her restless mood.

“…… You have to be careful, the people around you. ”

That rainy night, Siena's words before she fainted echoed in her ears.