THE NEXT DAY, CURE CAFE.

"Oh, you're here, Xicheng."

Yoshiko Okano, who was sitting in the corner seat of the CURE café, lifted her spirits.

"Hmm." Nishijo nodded and walked over to her and sat down.

"Would you like a drink? I'm in for a treat, Xicheng. ”

Ryoko Okano raised the coffee cup in her hand and asked.

"No need." Xicheng exhaled a white breath and took off his scarf.

Today's weather is very cold, and Rina Asakawa goes to school in this weather, and I don't know if my body can eat or not.

"Let's get down to business." Xicheng Shi glanced at Ryoko Okano and spoke.

He came here because Ryoko Okano called him yesterday and said that there was something he needed to help investigate.

Considering that Ryoko Okano also helped a lot in the two matters of the Eternal Festival and Rina Asakawa, Nishigi Shiki rushed here.

"That's right." Ryoko Okano turned his head sideways.

Xicheng style has always been this character, and she understands it.

So Gangno Liangzi didn't sell it, and said directly:

"The special department has received a case, but now they really can't spare their hands... That's why I'm looking for you in Xicheng. ”

"Can't spare your hands?" Nishijo Shikiki was keenly aware of something: "Are you going to do something to the Eternal Sacrifice Society?" ”

He learned a lot about the Imperial God Society through Okano Yayin, and even the Imperial God Society and the Japanese official special department couldn't pull out a move, so there must be some big move.

"That's it, so I want to ask you."

Ryoko Gangno shrugged her shoulders, and her heroic facial features looked at Xicheng style: "Xicheng, if you don't want to, it's not much of a problem, how about it?" To help or not to help? ”

"I want to know what I need help with."

Xicheng did not veto it.

After all, the other party has given them two choices, and it is a bit bad to refuse here.

Hearing Xichengshi's words, Gangno Ryoko also smiled simply, and directly took out a file bag and handed it to Xichengshi.

"Is this...?"

Xicheng opened the file bag and found that it was the information that had been organized.

"The information on this incident... I thought that you would need it in Xicheng, so I sorted it out in advance. ”

Ryoko Okano took a sip of coffee and looked at the Nishijo style with interest.

“......”

Nishijo didn't reply to Ryoko Okano, and he quickly skimmed through the information on his own.

While he was looking at the information, Ryoko Okano was not idle, and opened her mouth to explain to him:

"This incident is mainly a martyrdom case, a young man named Shibasakino and a woman named Yumi Yamaguchi both committed suicide by gas martyrdom at home."

Shibasakino and Yumi Yamaguchi died seven days after they were discovered by neighbors who smelled the stench of rotting corpses.

The two shriveled and decomposed bodies lay in the bathtub in each other's arms.

The reason for martyrdom was also surprisingly simple.

It seems that Shibasakino was diagnosed with cancer in mid-September, and he realized that his life was not long in coming, so he pulled Yumi Yamaguchi to martyr him.

The reason for martyrdom is reasonable.

"Since the case has been closed for martyrdom, there is no need for me to continue the investigation, right?"

Xicheng couldn't help but tilt his head sideways.

"You look back."

Ryoko Okano didn't refute either.

Hearing this, Xicheng's gaze continued to sweep down.

After Shibasakino and Yumi Yamaguchi committed suicide, the incident was supposed to end there.

But at this moment, Shibasakino's ex-girlfriend Sayuri Nozawa reported the crime.

Sayuri Nozawa told the police that she could hear her ex-boyfriend's cries of pain almost in her sleep.

She also absolutely didn't believe that Shibasakino, who made that cry of pain, committed suicide.

Looking at this, Xicheng couldn't help but speak:

"Do the Japanese police even care about such trivial things as nightmares?"

"No way." Ryoko Gangno also joked to herself: "Solving the troubles of citizens is what we police should do." ”

And—

"If Sayuri Nozawa is haunted by resentful spirits, maybe it's really a murder case. Shibasakino, who is already dead, may want to tell us something about this. ”

Ryoko Okano muttered to herself.

The deceased are pinning their hopes on the living.

If this were to be changed to the previous words, Xicheng must have thought it was a joke.

However, in this mysterious revival of Tokyo... Maybe it will happen.

"It's not impossible to ask me for help."

Nishijo nodded in agreement.

If there are really resentful spirits involved in this matter, then solving it will also help to improve the ability of death qi.

In addition, the spirit tools that Xicheng Shi got from the White Mist family have not been used until now, so they just used it this time.

But until then—

Nishijo-style looked at Yoshiko Okano.

"It's a matter of faces, right?"

Ryoko Okano only understood what he meant at a glance.

Yes.

As the person in charge of the Tokyo Koji Association, Nishiro Shiki and Yoshiko Okano are mixed together, which will inevitably attract the attention of those who have a heart.

"This thing is for you."

Ryoko Okano had obviously thought about it for a long time.

She picked up a tightly sealed plastic bag from the next place and handed it to Xichengshi.

"Is this...?"

Xicheng style picks up the plastic bag.

It's light to the touch, and you hardly feel any weight.

Looking through the plastic bag, you can clearly see what is wrapped inside.

That's a cheek.

Yes... It's like a human face torn from a real person's face.

The strong smell of blood seemed to be able to penetrate a plastic bag.

The empty eyelids were dark and distorted.

"It's what you think, it's human skin."

Ryoko Okano stood up, pointed outside, and motioned to go out and talk.

Nishijo didn't care, he stood up and followed Ryoko Okano, and quickly checked out the CURE café.

"It's some kind of ancient bloody ritual that has been handed down from some island."

Ryoko Gangno glanced at the human skin mask with some disgust, and said as she walked:

"Tear the skin off the face of the living living, and with the help of this torn skin, you can hide from the evil spirits that hide in the night."

She dusted off her cigarette ashes, pointed to the plastic bag in Xicheng's hand, and said:

"Simply put, it's something that changes your face."

Ryoko Okano had a slight disgust in his words, obviously not interested in such crooked things.

"Really?"

The West Castle style came with some interest.

He is different from Ryoko Okano, no matter what kind of tool it is, as long as it can help him, it is a good tool.

If it's really like what Ryoko Okano said, then it's more than just this time.

There are many places where you can use this human skin mask.

"It's easy to use, just inject dead air, and you can change the shape of the human skin mask freely."

Ryoko Okano attaches the method of use.

"Hmm." Xicheng nodded.

With this prop, there is no problem at all in investigating the martyrdom suicide case that Ryoko Okano said.