Chapter Sixty-Eight: Before the Puppet Master
Seeing the three staff members go away, Yagi Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
The monsters of Inooka Ushida looked at the 'Saruto' beside him with a strange expression, a colleague who should have died on the side of the road a long time ago.
But now the dead man who had been with him day and night stood aside as usual, at least in terms of appearance and the flesh he felt, there was really no difference.
But Ushida and the others knew that this was definitely not Saruto, but a substitute that Yagi Rin didn't know where to find it, no emotion, no words, and they recognized it as a fake at a glance.
It's just enough to fool the staff of the shrine main hall who are not very familiar with Saruto, and in the eyes of ordinary people, this is the living Saruto.
"You guys wait in the store first, I'll go out for a while." After throwing down these words, Yagi Rin rummaged through the house for a while, took his things, and walked outside.
Inooka shrugged his shoulders, and Ushida and Inumaru obediently returned to the room.
Onmyoji has a strong control over Shikigami, and although it is not absolute, it is also a constraint, and there is no need to rebel against Yagi Lin in small matters.
"Inoka, what should I do with this Saruto, he sits there and makes me feel hairy." The timid Ushida didn't dare to look at Saruto, who was sitting on the edge of the bed.
The false Saruto looked at the room from time to time, his eyes were full of wisdom, and the more this happened, the more it would cause people to have an uncanny valley effect.
The most bizarre thing is that you can also have a simple conversation with Saruto, which is smarter than the AI software in your phone.
"Leave it alone, just be a realistic inflatable doll."
"It's true." Inumaru didn't play with her phone anymore at this time, she lifted Saruto's skirt and put it down.
The three youkai here are still studying the fake Saruto that Yagi got from, and Yagi Lin on the other side is already sitting in the café on the corner.
In front of him was a steaming cup of coffee, and across from him sat a woman.
Young, indifferent, and beautiful, the corners of her mouth and her tall and pretty nose reveal that she is a beauty with a kaolin pattern.
She still wore a thick white scarf around her neck, and she didn't take it off even when she got to the warm store, and her eyes seemed to be looking at Yagi Lin and something else.
"It's really a powerful puppet, and it can be completely fake." Yagi Lin sipped hot coffee in small sips, and his appearance and posture were very noble, but unfortunately his appearance was still too hard.
The strong contrast made the customers in the store pay attention frequently, and Yagi Lin didn't care much about these boring eyes.
"Hmm."
"I'm here to honor the previous deal, and the previous lady's asking price...... Tsk, it's not cheap. ”
"Hmm."
"Miss Dao is really indifferent."
"Hmm."
Dao just nodded simply, and didn't say much.
"The staff of the shrine hall didn't see anything strange, in terms of puppet skills, you have reached the pinnacle level before Dao, Miss."
"Hmm." Dao was not surprised that he had concealed the shrine main hall before, "You, what are you going to do next." ”
"Find a chance to destroy this puppet." Yagi Lin briefly said his plan, "Pretend to be a fierce ape, resist my control, attack ordinary people, and then be captured by me, and destroy him before he can harm humans, I will record this process with simple monitoring and the like." ”
Saruto is dead, this is a fact that cannot be changed, and Yagi Lin simply calculates it.
It is much easier to explain the death of his own Saruto than the death of Saruto who harmed humans at the hands of the divine in an unknown place, which is equivalent to faking a murderer who killed a hundred people into only ten people, although they can't escape one death, but they can be reduced from ten shots to one shot.
"Well, you take care of your own proportions." Dao looked at the coffee on the table before and didn't take a sip from beginning to end, "What I want." ”
"......" Yagi Lin found that the words he had cultivated in the market were useless before facing the Dao, and this indifferent puppeteer was like a puppet made by himself, "Well, this is what you want, the essence of turning into a human monster." ”
As he spoke, Yagi Lin picked up a cylinder covered in red cloth from under the table.
He slowly pulled up a portion of the red cloth, revealing one side of it to the road.
"Gollum."
Beneath the red cloth was a column of transparent glass filled with formalin, which gurgled from time to time, but what was even more unsettling was what formalin was soaking.
Human skin.
The formalin was soaked in large pieces of human skin, rough skin, with a ghostly tattoo on it.
The face is hideous, the head is born with two horns, and the corners of the mouth are biting large chunks of flames, and the whole tattoo is full of resentment and blood.
It is conceivable that such a delicate tattoo must have cost a lot of time and money to make, and the original owner must have been very happy to show his tattoo to show his fierceness and status in the group.
Indeed, as the tattoo maker thought, the skin was soaked in formalin even after death.
"This is when I first set foot in the rivers and lakes more than twenty years ago, when I joined the Gokudo organization in Nagoya as a special recruit, and made a name for myself in the underground world with the powerful techniques of my family, and this monster tattoo is my trophy." Yagi Lin pulled the corners of his mouth with emotion, his current appearance with heavy makeup and glamorous makeup didn't look like he could be bloody in the underground world.
"A high-level cadre of the Extreme Dao Organization, through his connections, has met many transcendents, and after trapping a Prajna that is about to enter the high ranks, refining it, and then sealing it on his back in the form of a tattoo."
"Tsk, as an ordinary person, he has mastered extraordinary power, and he can survive such a strong rejection reaction, should it be said that his vitality is strong, or the extraordinary people who presided over this series of forbidden techniques at the beginning are skilled."
"But it's useless, and in the end, I'm not going to be slashed by Yagi." Yagi Lin looked at the ceiling of the café and sighed about the glory of his young past, "But he is really a great strong guy, even after death, the back is so elastic, huh...... Miss before the road? ”
Dao didn't know when he picked up the things on the table and walked towards the door: "Complete your arrangement as soon as possible, if it is not because of the puppet, don't look for me." ”
With that, he pushed open the door and walked out.
"What an indifferent fellow." Yagi Lin grumbled softly, and then he looked deeply at the distant figure in front of Dao.
Naturally, he has no interest in women, but he is a little embarrassed and terrifying, since when did such a talented character appear in the dark world of Tokyo?
"Oh, it's snowing."
Outside the window, snow is falling in the world, and I don't know when the temperature in Tokyo will heat up.