an hour ago.

Sunday, April 4, 1999, 17:01 (JST)

The satellite city of Too Town, a quiet town with a population of less than 60,000, on the outskirts of S City, ushered in a quiet, peaceful and uneventful evening.

The sun was sliding to the west, the clouds were drifting in the sky as always, and the citizens were as busy as ever, and I don't know how many times the same scene had played out in this town.

And Kira Yoshikage has never been tired of seeing such a view.

He was born and raised in Duwang Town since he was a child, and what he loves most is the ordinary and boring, calm and maddening daily life of Du Wangcho.

Because he was born unwilling to attract attention, he never took a similar score when he was in school, and after graduation, he only worked in a small local company like the Turtle Friends Department Store, and after work, he neither sought promotion nor fished and paddled after work, but only spent ten years in front of his company with a low sense of existence.

From this point of view, Kira Yoshikage is really an ordinary ordinary citizen-

If he hadn't seen his hands erect.

Yes, in addition to being an ordinary office worker, Kira Yoshikage is also a serial murderer who has been committing crimes in the Toomachi area for 15 consecutive years and has committed a total of 46 crimes (so far).

He singled out young women with beautiful hands, and his methods of crime were cruel, very hidden, and good at destroying corpses, leaving no clues and evidence, so that the police in Duwang Town still did not know that such a sensational serial murder incident existed in the jurisdiction.

An ordinary citizen who strives to be ordinary, and a murderer who commits crimes continuously, these two extremely contradictory identities appear in Kira Yoshikage alone.

And all this because of his perverted fascination with women's beautiful hands.

Ordinary hand control likes hands that grow on living people, but Kira Yoshikage is like a strange eater who is only obsessed with pickled pepper phoenix feet but hates eating chicken, he doesn't like women with slender jade hands at all, but only likes women's slender jade hands.

So, just like Prince Yan Dan, who entertained Jing Ke two thousand years ago, Kira Yoshikage would dispose of all the "excess" of that poor woman, leaving only the hand he wanted.

Just like today.

Today is the turn of Kira Yoshikage to take a holiday and rest, so he doesn't have to go to work at Kameyu Department Store.

And the previous "45th girlfriend" was already a little stinky, so he took advantage of this leisurely holiday to decisively break up with his "ex-girlfriend", and looked for the 46th target in Duwang Town.

With almost no obstacles and a little bit of a ride, Kira Yoshikage gets his "46th girlfriend" from an unlucky out-of-town female tourist.

"Don't rush... Don't rush..."

"Take a good rest in my pocket, and when I buy daily necessities, I will immediately save time to accompany you."

This brutal murder happened not so long ago, and the bloody hand was still hot.

But Kira Yoshikage was able to put the severed hand in his wide suit pocket without changing his face, and then wander around the convenience store like a real normal person without any mood swings.

While casually shopping for goods between the shelves of the convenience store, he also spoke to his "girlfriend" in his pocket in a calm and gentle tone without all passers-by noticing:

"Wait, it'll be right away."

"Let me get another carton of milk, and I'll have everything I need to buy."

Kira Yoshikage really thought of himself as an ordinary man shopping with his girlfriend, so he chatted with himself emotionally.

Then, he took a carton of milk from the shelf and walked to the cash register with his already full basket.

Until now, no one in the convenience store had discovered what the hell was in the pocket of the handsome blonde man next to him.

Everything is the same as the previous 45 times.

It's the perfect crime.

Kira Yoshikage will continue to live a peaceful life as before, with his 46th "girlfriend".

In this way, with such an indifferent mentality, Kira Yoshikage hid his hand in his arms and came to the cashier without changing his face.

In front of him was a middle-aged man with pink hair, tall and straight, with a well-shaped suit and a pair of sunglasses covering most of his face, but judging by his over-fair rough skin and the obvious high bridge of his nose, it was clear that he was a foreign friend of European descent.

It's no surprise that the town is often visited by foreign tourists.

However, what makes Kira Yoshikage a little concerned is...

When he walked to the cashier counter in an ordinary manner, the foreign friend in front of him turned his head to look at him with some concern.

......................................................

"The smell of blood?"

Diablo's muscles tensed as if they were instinctive.

But after turning his head and glancing vigilantly at the handsome blonde man in a suit behind him, he was able to restrain the almost vigorous murderous intent in time.

Because although the blonde man in the suit behind him had a faint smell of blood, he did not show the slightest hostility.

His temperament is too ordinary, the kind of ordinary that you can't find at all when you throw it in the pile.

Looking at the basket carried by the blonde man, it was full of milk, drinking water, plastic wrap, toilet paper and other daily necessities, and it looked like an ordinary person going out to buy goods.

"Is it a delusion?"

"Indeed, if he himself is slightly injured, it is normal for him to smell blood."

"Forget it... Whether it's a delusion or not, as long as you don't get me in trouble, it's none of my business. ”

Diablo retracted his gaze decisively.

And the blonde man behind him also staggered his gaze from him very calmly.

Diablo was a man who was accustomed to keeping a low profile, even more so after becoming a "lost dog".

His main task now is to hide his whereabouts as much as possible to ensure that he is not discovered, and strive to find the whereabouts of the arrow before Li Qing and the others can react, and to study a way to use the arrow to strengthen his stand-in ability.

Let's be honest... This plan is actually very unreliable, and even a bit wishful thinking.

Other questions aside, the most important thing is...

Diablo didn't know where to find the arrows.

He only knows that "a mysterious person with an arrow is in Duwang Town", and as for where to find this mysterious person after arriving in Duwang Town... He didn't have a clue at all.

In fact, Diablo has been in Duwang Town for half a week.

Until now, he had no clue about finding arrows.

But that doesn't mean Diablo hasn't done anything these days-

He has been hanging out in the town of Duo these days.

Yes, wandering around like a headless fly.

But Diablo is not a headless fly, he actually does it for a reason:

Stand-in emissaries will attract each other, this is a theorem that all old stand-in emissaries vaguely know.

So, as long as Diablo had been wandering around Duwangcho, sooner or later he would meet a local stand-in messenger on the street because of the wonderful fate that existed between stand-in messengers.

Because most people's stand-in abilities are inspired by arrows, there are very few people who are born with awakened stand-ins.

Therefore, he could most likely use this stand-in messenger as a breakthrough to try to collect clues about the mysterious arrow wielder.

This plan, although highly uncertain, was the only option available to Diablo.

"Damn... If only my men were still around. ”

Diablo couldn't help but feel nostalgic for the good old days when he was in charge of the Passion Order, when he had absolute intelligence capabilities.

It's a pity that the past has become the past after all, and now he is just a simple commander of the light pole.

Although snakes have snake paths, rats and rats, Diablo, who has been in the underground world all year round, is also familiar with the operation of the global "dark web", and it is not that he cannot contact the local underworld forces in Japan.

As long as the money is enough, he will not be able to find someone to help.

But this is the other side of the world after all, and Diablo is a powerless outsider here, and he doesn't dare to entrust such an important matter to a group of earth snakes who don't know anything about it.

"I can only continue to bang my head like this..."

"Let's hope we can find that so-called 'breakthrough' before those bastards react."

Diablo thought to himself with a slight helplessness.

He has been soaking in the calm and peace of Duwang Town for the past few days, which is enough to drown people.

If this day continues to live so calmly and quietly, he will be turned into a retired old man who comes to the beach for a vacation.

But no matter how you think about it, Diablo's life in Duwang Town seems so uneventful.

He still hasn't met a stand-in messenger who is supposed to be "attracted to each other", just like an ordinary person buying things at a convenience store and queuing at the cash register.

Everything was so boring and suffocatingly calm.

"Sir, it's time for you to pay the bill."

The cashier spoke ordinary words to Diablo in an ordinary tone.

"Swipe your card."

Diablo honestly handed over the card to pay the bill like an ordinary person.

If there are no more accidents, today will pass like this again.

That breakthrough seems to be far away.

However, just as Diablo was boredly waiting for the checkout, and the blonde man behind him was waiting for him to check out...

The cashier, however, looked up at Diablo with a slight change in his face and said:

"Sir, you don't seem to have any money in your card."