In fact, simply seeing a person fall to the ground, Qiao Qiao would not immediately judge that the other party was dead.

After all, it's possible that you're just passing out, or you're just taking a nap.

However, in the state of the corpse in front of her, even the kindergarten children could know that she was dead the first time they saw it.

After all, there should be no human in this world who can survive with his head cut off from his neck.

At this moment, in front of the three of them, lying on the snowy grass was a headless corpse.

No, that's not just headless.

The limbs of the corpse were removed like dolls, standing upright in the four corners.

The body is in the middle.

And the head, on top of the body.

Die with a grievance or everlasting regret.

Judging by the clothes, it seems to be a schoolgirl.

She was wearing the uniform of a public high school in Ise, with short hair and blood melting in the snow.

On the ground, with her body as the center, a circle was drawn with blood.

On each node, there are the remains of the girl.

It's like some kind of sacrificial ritual to summon demons.

"Weird, no, it's more like something that believers of the Old Gods would do......"

Qiao Qiao subconsciously began to think.

And aside.

Kuroda Makoto looked at this cruel scene, her stomach turned upside down, and a feeling of nausea welled up in her throat, and finally she couldn't help it, she held on to the tree next to her, vomited wildly, and vomited all the breakfast and lunch she ate today.

As for Koji Tanizaki......

"Ayako?"

His eyes widened, and with an expression of disbelief on his face, he knelt down.

"Do you know anyone?"

Qiao Qiao felt that the problem was tricky.

"No way, Ayako should still be in school......"

Koji Tanizaki subconsciously wanted to rush over, but was quickly stopped by Qiao Qiao.

"You can't destroy the scene, let's call the police first."

He took out his phone.

"Ayako, Ayako, Ayako......"

Koji Tanizaki's eyes were blank, as if it was not the girl who died, but himself.

"Obviously said that we would ...... together"

He looked at the corpse, his whole body depleted.

Qiao Qiao didn't have time to comfort Tanizaki Koji, his eyes swept the scene, and he was able to catch the strong yin qi spreading on the magic circle, but he didn't find the girl's spirit.

Neither evil spirits nor evil spirits do not exist.

Ten minutes later, the police rode a small motorcycle to Huwei Mountain.

There is no way to get there by car on the road here, so it is a bit slow.

During this period, Qiao Qiao checked the situation here a little.

The police immediately cordoned off the scene.

By the way, there are also people from Ise Jingu.

It's Jun Kuroda.

"Makoto!"

When she saw her sister, she walked over quickly and gently hugged Kuroda's trembling shoulders.

"Kuroda shrine maiden, what kind of ritual does this feel..."

On the side, a policeman named Narita covered his nose with a handkerchief and said.

"The deceased is Ayako Kashiwagi, eighteen years old, a junior at Uji Yamada High School in Mie Prefecture, and her parents have been notified, but do you really want them to see what the scene looks like?"

"We'll find out in the end."

Kuroda Jun said lightly, and glanced at Koji Tanizaki, who was slumped to the side.

"Tanizaki, do you know her?"

"We're dating ......"

Koji Tanizaki's voice was powerless.

It turns out that she is Koji Tanizaki's girlfriend?

Qiao Qiao frowned slightly.

"The presumed time of death is probably between one and three hours, or even less, after all, the body is still warm in this cold weather, and the prisoner may have committed the crime within this hour."

Hearing Officer Narita's words, Koji Tanizaki raised his head again.

"Within an hour?"

His eyes were red, and his nails were already embedded in the flesh on his clenched fists, oozing blood.

Qiao Qiao could understand his thoughts.

Because Huwei Mountain is the area they patrol, if the three of them choose to patrol here from the beginning, they may be able to meet the prisoners who are preparing to commit crimes, and even save Kashiwagi Ayako.

And it was Koji Tanizaki who proposed to come here last.

In a sense, Koji Tanizaki's own choices led to his failure to save his girlfriend.

This is Koji Tanizaki's idea.

"Don't blame yourself, Tanizaki-san."

Qiao Qiao patted him on the shoulder.

"No, it's me, it's all my fault...... If I had brought them here first......"

Tanizaki Koji said hoarsely.

"No, it has nothing to do with this."

Qiao Qiao said.

"Whether we come here first or later, Ayako Kashiwagi will die."

"Say what?"

Tanizaki Koji looked at Qiao Qiao's eyes and became a little angry, and he grabbed Qiao Qiao's collar.

What is this guy talking about, is he talking about cool things?

Obviously, if it had been earlier, Ayako would not have died......

"I mean, I just took the liberty of channeling."

Qiao Qiao said.

"Psychic?"

Hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Jun Kuroda, who was investigating the scene, turned his head to look over.

Because she also tried psychic just now, but there is no residual spirit on this corpse at all, and the situation is very strange.

"Well, around one o'clock in noon today, a man in a black cloak and a Noh mask carried a black travel bag up the hill with the body of Ayako Kashiwagi, and it took him ten minutes to set it up and then left here."

"And when we left from Ise Jingu and headed here, it was already past two o'clock, in other words, before our patrol began, Ayako Kashiwagi was already dead, no, or earlier."

"Tanizaki-san, when was the last time you contacted Ayako Kashiwagi?"

“？”

Kuroda Jun heard Qiao Qiao's words, and his expression froze a little.

Is this really psychic and not captured by some surveillance camera?

She even looked up her surroundings for the camera.

The channeling in Kuroda's cognition is the process of communicating with the spirits of the deceased and obtaining answers through inquiry.

But Qiao Qiao's is too detailed, right?

Wait, what kind of spirit is he?

Obviously, the spirits of the dead don't exist anymore.

"Qiao San, how did you get psychic?"

Jun Kuroda asked with a slight suspicion.

"I channeled this monument, and its range just covered the crime scene, what, what's the problem?"

Qiao Qiao replied.

“？？？”

Kuroda innocently didn't understand.

Although all things have animism, in theory psychic can communicate all things.

But that's just theoretical, in Kuroda Jun's cognition, most of the soul killers can only channel the dead, a small number can channel the living without interfering with their cognition, and there are also soul removers who can communicate with animals.

As for the psychic guys about what monuments, bread, weeds everywhere and even telephone poles, probably only those days could have done it.

Ise Jingu has withered in recent years, and except for Sayaka Kita-Shirakawa, the others are of an ordinary level, which is not comparable to the three houses in Tokyo.

With that in mind, Kuroda swept over the monument and tried to channel.

Smack-

It's like the TV is suddenly turned off, and the psychic picture is interrupted.

There's no way to be psychic!

Jun Kuroda looked at Qiao Qiao again, his brows furrowed.

On the other side, hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Koji Tanizaki let go of his hand holding Qiao Qiao's collar and took two steps back.

"No, but I...... But when I was leaving the shrine, I also received a Line from Ayako, saying that she wanted me to pick her up at the school after the patrol was over, and we chatted a few words. ”

Koji Tanizaki took out his mobile phone and showed Qiao Qiao a somewhat sweet chat history between the two.

"I'm sorry."

Qiao Qiao looked away from his phone.

"At that time, the person who replied to the message was probably the prisoner."