85. Blood and tears
Soon, under Aono's deliberate guidance, the topic gradually shifted in other directions.
Most of the guests have only heard of this strange legend.
Even the feeling of being frightened just now was quickly forgotten.
After all, what doesn't happen to you is always impressive.
By 3 a.m., the guests had left one after another.
Aono sent Keiko Shiraishi into a taxi and said goodbye to Kinoshita Kiyomi.
After a night of small talk, coupled with Aono's deliberate guidance, Kinoshita Kiyomi's mood was indeed a lot more relaxed.
- The profession of the police is still very stressful, Kinoshita Kiyomi, as a police officer with a high status, is even more so, some time ago it has been like a rubber band, and recently I finally have some free time, so I want to come to Aono to relieve the pressure.
The face with hard lines is serious.
Officer Kinoshita reminded Aono as always.
"Aono-kun, the strange rumors that have been circulating in Wenjing District recently are very likely to be true, you still have to be more careful."
Kiyomi Kiyomi actually has a feeling that this kind of strange talk, a murderer, and an X-cultist...... It seems that it is easy to collide with Aono-kun?
Take the last few incidents as an example, this has been proven.
This is still in the case that Kiyomi Kiyoshita doesn't know that Aono is actually Tomie's accomplice, otherwise he would definitely be more sure of the correctness of this feeling.
Aono is the usual way to express gratitude.
After seeing Kinoshita Kiyomi's back move away, Aono rubbed his eyebrows.
A feeling of being targeted, unusually clear.
This feeling is not something he only felt when he walked out of the [Dream], but when he was entertaining customers in the store.
[Under the gaze of an indescribable being!] 】
[Start judging!] 】
[The inspiration (intelligence) attribute is high, and the judgment is successful!] 】
【Unaffected!】 】
A few lines of text flashed in front of my eyes.
This is a prompt that will only appear when the unspeakable is about to come.
The night is thick and sparsely populated.
But the lights in Kabukicho have not been extinguished and will continue to do so.
It was as if a cool breeze was blowing.
Aono knew that his supper was probably already on his way to come.
Thinking of this, he called Hitomi Amamiya in the store, explaining that he had something to leave first - as the current head of [Fantasy] and the store manager, this privilege can still be had.
Aono first used [Camouflage] to slightly reduce the damn charm value.
Otherwise, he would be like the brightest star in the night sky, staring at him wherever he went.
Although the effect of [Camouflage] is only to reduce the charm by 3 or 4 points, the people around you will still be subconsciously attracted to Aono, but it's better than nothing, right?
Along the way, I still received a lot of attention and accosting.
What is more excessive is that some female customers who have just come out of the cowherd shop have their eyes lit up when they saw Aono.
Coupled with the fact that the costume on his body originally looked like a cowherd, he almost dragged Aono to a nearby hotel to have some content that could not appear in the book.
Fortunately, Qingye Dingli would not be messed up so easily, so he naturally refused tactfully.
Later, as the hints flashed on the panel, the frequency increased.
Aono was worried that innocent passers-by would be affected, so he quickened his pace and used the skill of [Stealth] to hurriedly pass through the shadows.
Many guests glanced at the drunken and saw that beautiful face, and only thought they were dreaming - in reality, where would there be such a good-looking man?
Finally, Aono came to a remote place.
It is a neighborhood located some distance from Shinjuku Kabukicho.
Even in Shinjuku, Tokyo, not all places are like Kabukicho that never sleeps.
Aono looked around, and on the road when he came just now, he could occasionally see one or two patrol officers.
This is the embodiment of the extraordinarily strict nature of Shinjuku.
Even in the early hours of the morning, there are still police patrolling the roads, and I don't know how many times the intensity of this kind of supervision is greater than the original.
- But in this way, Tomie still can't be found, which shows Tomie's strong hiding ability.
"Anyway, where did she flee?"
"You can't be in the sewer all the time, can you?"
Aono couldn't help but think of Tomie, and by the way, he thought of her relationship with Hitomi Amamiya, and he also had a slight headache - he was really not good at solving this kind of thing!
Although there are patrols on patrol, it is inevitable that at this time, when people are most sleepy and tired during the day.
As long as Aono doesn't die like that, he won't attract their attention.
"Huh?"
The cool breeze of a summer night blows down my cheeks.
Aono frowned slightly, not because of the indescribable imminent arrival, but because ...... In the cool breeze, there was an unusual smell.
In the chaotic smell of dirt, plants, car exhaust, etc., mixed with a bit of weird blood?
Aono's sensitivity to the smell of blood is unusual, especially human blood.
It looks like a shark in the seawater, and it can be spotted from thousands of meters away.
He didn't quite understand the reason behind this.
Sometimes you can smell some strange sources of blood - nosebleeds, blood from abrasions, women in certain special periods......
But at this time, this smell is by no means such an ordinary thing.
It smelled of decomposing corpses.
Corpse?
Aono made a strange look - I just wanted to come out for a "supper", how could I encounter such a thing?
THINK OF THE TWO BUFFS YOU ARE CARRYING THAT ATTRACT ANOMALOUS EVENTS...... Well, it's not the first time anyway.
Wait, this slightly familiar smell?
Aono's heart jumped, and the disguised expression on his face gradually faded, leaving only a calm that bordered on indifference.
He followed the breath and walked forward.
The road in front of me has lost the light of the street lights.
Gradually, it fell into darkness.
Here, in a small alley between two houses.
And looking at the emerald creeper spreading on the walls, and the structure of the two houses that look a little old, you know that this place has been around for some years.
[Housing for rent, interested parties call XXXXXXXX]
At the door of the house, there is still a note like this.
I think it's been a while since no one lived there.
This kind of place is undoubtedly a good place to kill people and throw corpses.
Aono walked towards the alley step by step, and the cold of Sen Ran began to cling to his back little by little.
The stench of rotting corpses gradually covered up the blood.
Rich gathered in this small alley.
Aono, who continued to move forward, saw a corpse lying in the corner.
It's a female corpse.
In the faint light, Aono could barely see her face.
But his eyes narrowed slightly.
He took a deep breath in his chest.
Her eye sockets were hollow, as if they had been poached alive, and blood remained on her once pretty cheeks, like blood and tears flowing from her eyes.
The dead woman, named Mika Kishida.