Kazuma hesitated, after all, this is a secret agency, and Hema, as a Chinese, has a negative impression of Japan's secret services.

The only positive impression came from Ghost in the Shell, but it was a sci-fi work.

In the comic version of the world view of the Ghost in the Shell, China won three wars, and also established a cemetery for the war dead in Japan.

So Kazuma doesn't hate Gongan Jiuko in the Ghost in the Shell.

But the Aramaki in front of him now, although he has the same surname as the Aramaki in the Ghost in the Shell, he doesn't actually have a good impression of him.

After all, the current Japanese secret service was originally established by the CIA to deal with left-wing people, and many of the personnel came directly from the pre-war special high-tech department, which always makes people have a bad association.

So Kazuma's solo visit to Aramaki was also very cold.

Unexpectedly, Aramaki understood Kazuma's attitude in a crooked way: "I have long heard that Kiryu-sensei likes "Singing Turbulent Youth", and it seems that this information is not wrong. Rest assured, I'm a left-wing sympathizer. I just want to take out the terrorists. ”

And the horse frowned.

I traveled to the present, because I knew that the aftermath of the student movement was still there, so I was very careful, and I didn't hum a few times to sing about turbulent youth, and the ghost knows how this spy knew.

Kazuma thought to himself that it was time to check if there were any bugs in the house.

He squeezed out a smile and said, "Aramaki ...... Uh, sir, what wind brought you here? ”

Kazuma wasn't sure what honorific title to use to call Aramaki for a while, and finally used the most decent gentleman.

Aramaki didn't care too much: "Can you let us in and talk?" Kiryu-sensei? ”

Kazuma: "Please come in." ”

Aramaki then slipped, and then stepped on the wooden floor of Kiryu's house with socks.

Kazuma led Aramaki and the long-haired man whose name he didn't know to the dojo, while Jinguji Tamamo went to the kitchen to prepare tea.

"Please." And the horse said.

Aramaki glanced at Shigeru who was sitting in the distance.

Kazuma glanced at Shigeru, and Shigeru got up and went to the courtyard, closing the door in the direction of the courtyard by the way.

And the horse looked at the Aramaki.

Aramaki opened his briefcase and placed a stack of photos in front of Kazuma.

He Ma looked at the photo and found that it was an instrument, which felt very similar to the XXX spectrum analyzer that had been popular for a while when he was a child.

"What is this?"

"This is a physiotherapy device sold by Welfare Technology, which is mainly used to treat muscle soreness, rheumatism and other symptoms. Family size. Aramaki explained unhurriedly, "Isn't there a preaching meeting for this kind of instrument in the community where your dojo is located?" ”

"No, almost all the residents around my dojo have moved away, and the so-called community exists in name only." And the horse said.

According to Shigeru, the delivery of newspapers at the Kiryu Road site in this area has been handed over to a nearby delivery point, and the original delivery point set up here has been withdrawn.

In such a community, there will be no one to sell any physiotherapy equipment.

In fact, in the past six months, the Kiryu family has not even had a few salesmen who come to the door.

Aramaki nodded, indicating that he understood the situation at Kiryu Dojo, and then he continued: "This physiotherapy device in the photo was found in the practice room of the URB band, and when we took this thing, Attorney Shibyu Tahisa arrived at the scene. ”

And the horse said "oh": "It's a coincidence." Is there anything special about this physiotherapy device? ”

"Nope." Aramaki replied very simply, "If there were, I wouldn't have come to you, and we would have gone straight to the base camp of the seller's welfare technology." ”

Hema: "You came here mysteriously to show me these few photos, and then told me that the photos are just ordinary physiotherapy instruments, and I have reason to wonder if you are full of food and support." ”

"Don't you wonder? Shibyu Tahisa, who appears in all aspects related to the god of music and the mysterious refrigerator corpse case, and the main product of his biggest customer, Welfare Technology, happened to be found in the singing room of the URB band. ”

Kazuma interrupted Aramaki and said, "You can't arrest people just by suspecting them, right?" ”

Kazuma is not in a hurry to share his latest discoveries with Aramaki, first set the other party's words, and see what the other party wants to do.

Aramaki looked at Kazuma and said bluntly, "We want you to conduct an invasion search of Welfare Technology. ”

"I refuse." And horses are also very crisp.

Although Kazuma himself has the intention of breaking into welfare technology when necessary, his main goal now is to find Shun Nishida.

Aramaki continued, "Don't worry, I don't really want you to invade the regional branch or even the headquarters of Welfare Technology, I want you to make such a gesture. ”

And Ma understood: "Do you hope that I will be like the day I went to the URB band's practice room, and come to startle the snake?" No, it should be called luring the snake out of the hole? ”

"It's a great help that you understand so quickly." Aramaki smiled, "As soon as they stop you, we'll rush in immediately." ”

Kazuma: "Is the search warrant ready?" ”

"We're not police, we really want to search, we don't need a warrant. Of course, what we find can't go to a normal court, but that's okay. ”

He Ma was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly asked, "The Americans gave instructions?" ”

"The C.I.A. thought it was a little strange." Aramaki directly admitted, "The operation of the spy agency and the judicial organ is completely different, and the spy agency has always followed the principle of presumption of guilt to judge things. ”

"I think you're guilty, so I can search you and arrest you, which is worthy of the CIA." He Ma said, maintaining the image of a pro-leftist youth.

"Anyway, I have to ask you this time. Personally, I think that your last action has interrupted the pace of the other party, and they must have transferred some key items from the practice room, this item should be small and can be easily transferred.

"But the enemy may have been careless after the last successful transfer and felt that there must be a way to get things away again, so we raided them this time."

He Ma took over the conversation: "And then in order to ensure that the raid is not empty, let me lead the snake out of the hole first?" What if the other party also counts this? Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you to raid in and still find nothing? ”

"Then we can raid a few more Wellbeing Tech facilities, and we'll be able to do that if they're holding you back."

Kazuma thought about it and felt that Aramaki seemed to be a way to do this.

If you don't already have an idea, maybe you will join the gang.

But now, Kazuma has a new idea, so he raised his index finger and shook it at Aramai: "Aramaiaki-kun, this is not how the case is solved. ”

Kazuma stood up and shouted in the direction of the hallway: "Whiteboard out of the window!" ”

Then Kazuma heard the sound of Shigeru running, and after a while, the corridor was opened by Tamamo, who was kneeling outside the door, and Amao came in alone with a whiteboard, and Jinguji Tamamo followed with tea.

Shigeru set up the whiteboard, handed the marker to Kazuma, and Tamamo served tea, and the two stepped back the same way, and Tamamo finally went out of the sliding door, kneeling at the door, and then closing the sliding door - this is the most formal etiquette.

Aramaki and the long-haired gongan didn't care about these in the slightest, as if apprentices and women should be like this.

Maybe this is Japan.

Kazuma didn't bother to say anything to the two of them, he took a marker pen and wrote on the whiteboard: "The real breakthrough point is here." ”

He wrote down the name of Shun Nishida, and then wrote the name of Shibyu Tahisa next to it.

"Shun Nishida, the first suspect caught in the serial murder case," Kazuma paused, glanced at Aramaki, and added, "I caught it." ”

Aramaki didn't say anything, and waited earnestly for Kazuma to continue, just like a student sitting in the hall listening to the lecture.

Later, because a new deceased was found, Shun Nishida's suspicion was ruled out, and then he was taken out of the police station by Shiba Ikutahisa. However, Shun Nishida really ...... Isn't it a murderer? ”

After asking questions about Kazuma, he looked at the two of them, as if waiting for them to figure out the truth for themselves.

But Aramaki and the long-haired man looked at each other, and then asked, "He's not a murderer?" Why? ”

"Let's look at the other victims. Victim No. 2, who had a score at the scene, was obviously composing music, and Victim No. 3, who also had a score at the scene, and there were various indications that she was composing ......"

He Ma wrote down the names of the victims other than Hechuan Xingzi one by one, and whether there was music score at the scene.

"And the last victim so far, Takeshi Okada, died in prison without musical scores, but the prison guards heard him shouting, 'Obviously I have crossed the narrow gate.'" And there is a testimony from prison guards that Takeshi Okada had been making music before his death. ”

Kazuma wrote the word "narrow gate" under the name of the penultimate victim, Naoki Saotani: "Naoki Saotani also shouted something similar before he died, mentioning the narrow gate. ”

At this time, the long-haired young man brought by Aramaki made a voice of sudden realization: "I understand, all the victims except Hechuan Xingzi may not be able to write a song and commit suicide in frustration, but Hechuan Xingzi is not!" ”

"That's right! Looking at the autopsy report of Hoshiko Hechuan from this perspective, there are some places that are very strange, first of all, there are traces of binding on the hands......" Kazuma quickly wrote down the details in his memory next to Hoshiko's name.

Then He Ma continued: "Assuming that Hechuan Xingzi was killed by someone, this murderer obviously knew that there would be a series of murders in the refrigerator later, and then looking at the presumed death time of each victim, when Hechuan Xingzi died, the second victim was still alive, and even went to the bar to sing a wave." ”

Kazuma said and put an asterisk on Nishida Shun's name: "This guy, knowing what will happen later, and then using this knowledge to disguise the person he killed as part of a serial murder case to exonerate himself." ”

The long-haired young man said, "And he was caught on purpose!" Just to make an alibi? There's nothing quite like 'staying in the police interrogation room', right? ”

No, he's not that smart, he got caught by accident.

He Ma thought so in his heart, but said, "Yes, that's it!" He deliberately dangled outside, hoping to be caught by the police 'by accident'. After all, you can't do it too deliberately, it will make the police suspicious, and then you will run into me! ”

The long-haired young man exclaimed: "What a brilliant idea of a crime! And the audacity to execute! ”

Aramaki also chimed in: "It's indeed an old and cunning guy, we ignored him before, thinking that he was just a little white face who was idle and had nothing to hunt for." ”

Kazuma also agreed: "I was almost deceived by him!" ”

"But you still caught his fox tail!" The long-haired young man looked at Kazuma with admiration, "I still have a lot to learn from you." ”

"No, no, no, you're so much older than me......" said Kazuma hurriedly.

"No, age doesn't determine who is the division commander." Aramaki said, "If I didn't come to visit you, I'm afraid I'm going to end up on the road of forcible reconnaissance." Now it's easy, we just need to catch Nishida Shun and torture him to find out why he knew that there would be a series of murders in the refrigerator......"

He Ma looked at the spy who naturally said the word "torture", and thought to himself that this desolate scroll was not the other desolate scroll, and he couldn't treat others as the head of the ninth section in the Ghost in the Shell Attack Team just because he had the same surname.

But then again, this Aramaki combs the hair of a very ordinary office worker, and the hairstyle is not as strong as in "Ghost in the Shell".

Kazuma: "I originally wanted to go and knock on this Nishida Shun myself, but now it seems that I will leave it to you." ”

Aramaki said, "No, if this Nishida Shun is really an agent of the KGB, then he should have undergone anti-torture training. If you can get out of the horse and knock on the side first, that's the best. ”

Kazuma: "This ...... I'm just a freshman and a college student. ”

"I've always advocated eclectic talent." Aramaki said, "So you must take this mission!" ”

After saying that, he bowed respectfully to Wazuma—this is the kind of sitting bow, which is second only to the Tsuchishita seat in Japanese etiquette.

And horse: "This ......"

Actually, Kazuma wanted to say, "Is it any good for me to take this mission?", but I don't know if it was the Heraeus entry that stopped him, or if he now has a hero's heart.

Anyway, he finally said: "In order to avenge the wrongs, in order not to let justice be dusted, this ......"

Suddenly, outside the dojo, there was a rapid phone ringing in the direction of the entrance.

**

Twenty minutes ago.

Shimado Mana has been in a good mood lately.

She kept telling herself that this was not right, because Toide-kun was still enduring great pain, and she should not be happy.

But every morning, when she walked on the road to the east with her schoolbag, her pace was always uncontrollably excited.

This is obviously not right, but the thought that as long as Toide-kun continues to be haunted by that nightmare, he can continue to be a pillar of Toide-kun as a matter of course, Shimato Mana's mood will improve.

This is clearly not true.

Despite this, Shimado Marina walked towards Toide-kun's house with a cheerful pace as usual this morning.

As long as you change to your usual steady pace before entering Toide-kun's sight.

Shimato Mana thought so.

Toide-kun's house gets closer and closer, and then she begins to hear the sound of fierce quarrels.

"No music! How else am I going to survive in this world? "This voice is from Toide-kun's father, Toide's uncle.

Shimato Mana is a little afraid of Uncle Toide, especially lately, this fear has risen to the level of fear.

Even now, just hearing Uncle Toide's voice from a distance, she retreated in her heart and wanted to turn around and run.

But no, Higashiide-kun is still there, still waiting for the heroine Shimato Rina to save her.

Shimato Marina plucked up her courage and continued to move forward, and in her eyes, the Ichito of the East monk was like a demon cave that exuded an evil aura.

The roar of the "Demon King" continued to emanate from the house: "You don't understand anything! Music, music is the only antidote! Music is the gospel of the god of music, the ...... that leads the lost lambs"

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of a heavy object hitting and the sound of someone falling.

Shimato Mana knew that Toide-kun would not beat his father, so it could only be Toide-kun who was violent.

The girl gritted her teeth, ran, and rushed to the door of Higashi's house in a few seconds, she wanted to ring the doorbell properly, but there was a very loud sound in the house.

It sounds like the violence is getting worse.

The girl opened the courtyard door and rushed to the front of the house, then felt for the doorknob.

The door opened suddenly, and the next moment Shimado Mana saw Shun Higashiide lying on the ground covered in blood.

"Toide-kun!" She screamed and rushed in to stand in front of Toide's classmates.

Toide's father held a baseball bat in his hand and glared at Shimato Mana: "Little girl, do you know? My name is Higashide-kun, too! ”

Higashiide's father said as he approached Shimado Marina, the hideous expression on his face gradually distorted.

"Come, call me, call me in your sweet voice!"

Shimato Mana was so frightened that she couldn't speak, and it took all her courage to make sure that she didn't fall to the ground with her feet weak.

Toide's father had already slammed himself in front of Shimato Marina, his hideous lips about to touch her face.

"Call me! Call me like you just did! He roared.

Shimato Mana shrunk her shoulders and stammered, "East, East...... Uncle! ”

Toide's father turned around and let out a roar, then slammed the tape recorder on the table with a baseball bat: "Toide-kun! It's Jun! Toide-kun! Why are they like this! Why is the world so ungentle to me? Why take even the only salvation, even the URB from me! ”

Shimato Mana was so scared that she peed out.

She couldn't care about making a fool of herself in front of her beloved Toide-kun anymore, and the cells in her body were screaming, telling her to get out of here quickly.

At this time, Toide-kun, who had just fainted, finally woke up, and he said in a weak voice, "Run, Shinna!" This man has gone crazy......"

Maybe when he heard the word "crazy", Toide's father, who was smashing kitchen furniture everywhere with a metal bat, turned his head sharply and glared at Shimato Marina.

"That's right! It's your fault! "It's your women's fault!" he suddenly shouted. Why won't you be gentle with me? ”

He threw down his bat and tried to pull the kitchen knife from the knife holder, but he couldn't do it because the knife holder had just been twisted by him with his bat.

At the same time that Toide's father was angry and fighting with the knife stand, Toide jumped up from the ground and pushed Shimado Marina out the door: "Let's go! ”

Shimato Mana stumbled outside the door and found herself completely unable to stand up.

Toide was about to reach out to pull her when he heard the sound of a kitchen knife coming out of its sheath in the kitchen.

It seems that his father has finally conquered the knife holder.

Toide Shun turned his head and saw the thing that used to be his father, brandishing a kitchen knife and rushing over.

At that speed, it is obvious that the current Shimato Mana will definitely not be able to run.

Higashi Shun took one last look at his faithful follower.

He laughed suddenly, blood from the wound on his head running down the contours of his cheeks and into his dimples.

"I like you," he said, "and then, farewell." ”

Toideshun closed the door heavily, then pulled out an umbrella from the umbrella stand next to the door, inserted it into the doorknob like a latch, and then bent the umbrella with a single force, so that the door was completely stuck.

He pulled out another umbrella and turned his head to look at the massive figure rushing towards him.

Originally, he was going to fight with his father for a long time, but at this moment, he realized that he could not defeat this monster alone.

As long as he guards the door, it is his victory.

So Todeshun leaned back against the door, ready to use his life to lock the ordinary wooden door.

He heard the girl knocking desperately at the door, so he shouted, "Go! Go find ......."

With a pop, the knife plunged into Tohide's body.

The boy's strength to speak was suddenly reduced by half, but he was still stubbornly against the door.

"Let's go......," the boy repeated mechanically with his weaker and weaker strength, "Go call Kiryu-senpai." ”

"Let's go......"

Suddenly, he had an idea.

"Kiryu-senpai can save me." He said.

Finally, the boy heard the girl's footsteps stumbling away.

The boy smiled, looked at his father, who was still going crazy, and declared his insignificant victory with a smile.

**

By the time Kiryu and Ma arrived at the scene, it was already late.

A cordon was drawn at the scene, and it seems that the police arrived much earlier than Wama this time.

The uniformed policeman raised his hand to stop Kiryu and Ma, but Aramaki immediately pulled out his ID.

The policeman's expression immediately changed wonderfully.

After all, no one expected Gongan to suddenly appear.

Aramaki led Kazuma and his party across the cordon, and Kazuma saw Shimato Mana sitting on a stretcher provided by the police.

Kazuma saw at a glance that there was a bad entry on the top of her head.

despair

It's really succinct.

But the entry also has a caption: the whole world has been darkened.

And the horse is getting more and more confused about his own plug-in.

Could it be that this is a hint?

Aramaki: "I'll ask about the situation, you can go talk to the little girl." Or you can let the girls go. ”

Kazuma glanced at Jinguji Temple, the only one who came with him.

Chiyoko also wanted to come, but was stopped by Kazuma.

Kazuma: "I'll go." After all, people came directly to me for help. ”

"Hmm." Aramaki nodded, and walked towards the police officer in charge of the scene with the long-haired young man, Kosa Tasaburo.

Kazuma came to Shimato Marina and was about to speak, when the girl spoke first: "He said that Kiryu-senpai will definitely be able to save him." I believed it, so I left him behind. ”

Shimato Mana raised her head and looked at Kazuma: "I know it's not the senior's fault, but ...... What exactly is URB? This band, why did you ruin my life...... Isn't the lead singer of URB dead? Why is my life ruined? ”

While Kazuma was thinking about how to answer, Aramaki came back - the long-haired young man didn't come along, probably to participate in the on-site investigation.

"The scene seems to be very clear, the boy stopped his crazy father, blocked the door, so he was stabbed to death by his father, and then the father killed himself."

Aramaki introduced the situation in the briefest of words, and deliberately kept his voice down.

The girl heard it anyway.

"Yes, Toide-san, protected me. I killed him, and if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't stand up with my weak feet, the two of us could have run together. The girl cried, "I was so useless that I killed him......"

Kazuma saw the word "death" appear on the girl's head, and there was a countdown.

I guess the girl wants to commit suicide.

Kazuma reached out and pressed her shoulder: "Marina, think about it, the expression of Toide-kun at the end." ”

In fact, Kazuma didn't recruit at this time, so he messed around.

At this time, you can only trust your own entries.

"Why should I think about such a painful thing?" The girl cried and asked, "I ......"

"Because you have to remember! This is important! This is related to ......" and Ma originally wanted to say that it was related to whether you would die or not, but temporarily changed his words, "This is related to whether Toide-san's eyes can be blinded!" In retrospect! Truth Nai! Toide-san, what kind of expression did you have in the end? ”

Marina was silent and cried even harder.

Aramaki couldn't see it, and was about to stop Kazuma, but was stopped by Jinguji Tamamo.

Jinguji Tamamo said to Aramaki with a mouth shape, "Leave it to him." ”

Kazuma looked at Marina intently, and his hand strengthened the force on Marina's shoulder.

Finally, Marina replied in a low voice, "Toide-san, I'm smiling at the end...... Why, why is he laughing? It's to trick me into reassuring ......"

"No, men aren't that careful. He laughs because he finally has the opportunity to be handsome in front of the girl he loves. He Ma said categorically, "After breaking off for the beloved woman, it is a man's romance." The stronger the enemy, the happier we are. ”

"I don't know what it means at all!" Truth Nai shouted hysterically, "Throwing others down is irresponsible, right?" Please spend the rest of your life with me! ”

Although the girl's hysterical shouting attracted the attention of the surrounding police and onlookers, Kazuma could clearly see that the countdown to death on the girl's head had disappeared.

The despair entry is still there, but at least she won't die.

Won't die anytime soon.

Kazuma: "Men and women have different opinions on many issues, so remember his last face." When you are confused, remember his face! ”

Speaking of this, He Ma suddenly stole a sentence from NetEase Cloud:

"Remember, you die twice in your life. Once when he was physically dead, and second when he was forgotten. ”

As these words came out, Kazuma found that the despair entry had become shallower, and there was a countdown.

After about 1,600 days, the girl will come out of despair and embrace her life again.

Sure enough, just by pale words, can you only go so far?

And Ma is more or less frustrated.

Apparently he was the owner of the Daystar entry - he turned his head to see Jinguji smiling at him.

Tamamo said, "I'll leave it to herself." ”

Kazuma frowned, wanting to ask himself if he had made Marina's life star bright again, but Aramaki couldn't ask if he was there.

So he could only nod.

Aramaki stepped forward at this time and said, "From the police officer in charge of this case, I heard a piece of information, it seems that there is a lot of trouble among the fans of the URB band today. But none of this exaggeration. ”

Kazuma thought to himself that it was probably because the newspaper published the news that Takeshi Okada, the lead singer of the band URB, had died in the prison prison.

When Elvis Presley and John Lennon died, it seemed that something similar was happening.

Kazuma looked back at Marina, who began to cry again, and then said to Aramaki, "I took your commission." ”

"There won't be any official documents, and if you die, there won't be medals or rewards, but even then you're going to take them?" Aramaki changed the attitude he had just begged for Kazuma to accept and said.

It was as if he had decided that he would now take on this task with the Jockey Club at all costs.

He guessed right.

Kazuma recited the verse in English: "How honorable it is to die to protect the pure maiden who is about to light the sacred fire." ”

Aramaki then recited: "Mr. Archon, please order the bridge to be demolished, and we will resist the 1,000 enemy troops on the bridge deck with the strength of three people." ”

Kazuma looked at Aramaki, and at this moment he suddenly didn't care about the identity and occupation of this spy.

He suddenly understood that this man, like himself, was doing all this with the purest purpose.

Aramaki stretched out his hand to Kazuma.

Kazuma took a deep breath and shook the outstretched hand: "Cooperation is established." ”

"Because you can't ignore Tokyo's tomorrow?" Aramaki asked rhetorically.

"Yes." And the horse nodded.

The sun before noon, setting around the two, was bright and scorching.

Kazuma didn't notice that Shimato Mana stopped crying and looked at his back with a slightly hopeful expression on her face.

Sometimes, it's not just words that are powerful.