Chapter Twenty-Seven: Clouds
Standing at the stern of the communication ship, Takumi kept waving to the shore, until Meisha and the others turned into black spots in their eyes, Takumi slowly turned around and walked towards the cabin, feeling a little melancholy for a while.
The appearance of Meisha and the others waving goodbye made Tuohai have mixed feelings in his heart, but he just thought of his pursuit, even if he was reluctant, he had to continue to move forward.
Ignoring the crowd on the deck that was still interacting with each other, Takumi went straight to looking for his room.
According to the news he asked before, it took less than half a day to reach the place he went from Sunshine Town, and Takumi, who had nothing to do, decided to take a break.
"There are three Daoist Halls near Sunshine Town, the Red Lotus Island Pavilion on Red Lotus Island, the Light Red Daoist Pavilion in Light Red City, and the Red Cloud Daoist Pavilion in Red Cloud City where I am going to."
"As the only insect gym in Guandu, this is really a good starting point for me who has six tails."
"As for the powerful Red Lotus Gym and the Light Red Gym built in the deep mountains, let's wait until later......
Casually looking for his room, Takumi was still thinking about the plan he had made a few days ago, but the disadvantage of not being distracted was that his vigilance against the movements around him was reduced.
"Ouch!"
Ignoring the woman who fell to the ground, Takumi's first reaction after colliding with someone is to check the items on his body.
"Well, the Poké Ball and the purse are there, and there are no strange things stuck to the inside of the clothes, so it means that this collision was just an accident......"
At this time, Takumi had time to look at the woman who fell to the ground.
A crimson tunic dress wrapped around the delicate figure, a piece of fair skin was exposed down the collarbone, the red lips looked particularly hot, and the delicate face was full of shame and anger at this time.
In general, she seems to be a noble lady with a very temperament, but Takumi's eyes swept over her hands, neck, and ears, but he didn't see any jewels.
After looking, Takumi was about to bypass the woman sitting on the ground, but the woman grabbed his trouser leg.
"You knocked me down, why do you still look like nothing happened?"
"Well, I'm sorry, did it hurt anything? Do you want me to help you up? Do I need to go to the ship's doctor? ”
With an expressionless face and no emotional fluctuations in his words, Takumi suddenly grinned, causing a chill down the spine of the woman who fell to the ground.
"Or do you want me to throw your body into the ocean?"
The calm and hairy tone made the woman subconsciously let go of the hand that was pulling Takumi's trouser legs, hurriedly got up from the ground, and ran into the distance, looking back from time to time, for fear of being caught up by Takumi.
Twisting his neck, Takumi found that the room in front of him was where his room was, blinked his eyes twice, and said to himself.
"It's a good feeling to be a bad guy!"
Walking into the room, Takumi unloaded the space backpack on his body, gently placed it beside the bed, took out a map of the nearby area from the backpack, and once again determined the choice of route after he went ashore.
On the other side, the woman who had just collided with Takumi also found her room, thinking back to what Takumi had just said without emotion, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
"It's really unlucky, you can meet perverts on a boat......"
Knock knock!
"Huh? Why is there a knock on the door as soon as it closes, who are the people on this ship......
Complaining, the woman sitting on the bed got up angrily and opened the door with a 'creak'.
……
Two hours later, Takumi rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed full of energy, the fatigue of getting up early before dawn to prepare for the departure had been swept away.
Taking out the two Poké Balls that are fastened around his waist and letting Rokuo and Little Rada step on the bed together, Takumi takes out the prepared Pokémon food from his backpack and begins to feed Rokuo and Little Lada.
"Yo ......"
"Little Lada!"
Takumi is very glad that his current two Pokémon are not big stomachs, and the six tails are thinner and need a little spicy food.
And Little Lada is simply an omnivorous animal, not a picky eater at all, but since Takumi has taken him in as a Pokémon, then this little Lada's food must be more comfortable than its kind in the wild.
The food that Takumi prepared for Little Rada was basically lean meat, mixed with some necessary fruits, and it can be seen from the bright hair of Little Lada that it developed quite well.
"It's just that these two guys haven't even experienced a real battle after all, and they always feel a little bottomless in their hearts......"
Looking at the two Pokémon on the bed who were exchanging food with each other, Takumi was a little worried in his heart.
"After going ashore, I need to prepare some wound medicine, and before I arrive at the Red Cloud Gym, I hope to meet suitable wild Pokémon for the two of them to practice."
After the two Pokémon finished eating, Takumi touched his stomach and chuckled.
"Since you two little ones are full, then I also have to satisfy my five internal organs temple, and being able to eat hot food is naturally better than nibbling on dry food in your backpack on the first day of departure......
After cleaning up the food scraps spilled by Six Tails and Little Rada when they were eating, Takumi took back the two Pokémon, put on the space backpack given by Misa, and walked slowly all the way to the deck.
Just a little look, Takumi's eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle.
This communication ship runs a short-distance route, although there will be some people who like to come to the deck to see the sea view and blow the sea breeze, but in the eyes of Tuohai at this time, there are too many people on the deck at this time, right?!
Takumi probably visually measured the number of people on the deck, and couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart.
"I'm afraid the whole ship has come out!"
Finding the place where the crowd was most dense, Takumi thought about it and walked over there.
If things are abnormal, there must be demons, and if he doesn't figure out what happened, even if he returns to the room now, he will inevitably have uneasiness in his heart.
Approaching the crowd all the way, Takumi had a slight idea of what was happening from the conversations of the people around him.
"Why is there a murder on the ship?"
"Is the murderer still on the boat, and is he still ready to attack others?"
A middle-aged female passenger was complaining to the waiters on the ship, and the young man who was stopped by him had to apologize and comfort him.
A few steps further, another deep male voice came into my ears.
"It is said that it was because the woman had a grudge against someone else, and someone hired a killer to kill her, otherwise why didn't anyone around her room hear the shouting, but waited until someone passed by to find the body lying in the doorway......"
"Yes, yes, I just went to see the corpse, and it seemed to kill me with a blow to the throat, and this woman is too, and she brought such a dangerous person to the ship."
Ignoring the two men's weak emotional catharsis, Takumi just silently chewed on the two key words 'woman' and 'one-hit killing'.
The communication ship was not too big, and Takumi soon came to the gathering place of the crowd, protecting his backpack with one hand, and gently pushing through the crowd with the other to squeeze in.
A stretcher was laid flat on the deck, covered with white sheets, revealing only the head of the corpse, and its pale face was full of horror.
Several staff members in blue uniforms surrounded the stretcher were checking with the surrounding crowd whether they knew the deceased, and the answer was no.
Seeing Takumi squeeze into the crowd, a staff member with a beard glanced at the baby ball on Takumi's waist, his pupils shrank slightly, and then he asked as if he had no energy.
"Little brother, do you recognize this woman?"
Sweeping his gaze to the corpse's face, Takumi's pupils subconsciously shrank, blinked, and replied briefly.
"I don't know."
Nodding as a matter of course, the bearded man stopped paying attention to Takumi, walked over to the other staff members, and discussed something in a low voice.
At this time, Takumi looked at the corpse on the ground again, this corpse was the bewitching lady who collided with him just two hours ago, but her appearance at this time made no normal man feel desire.
On the first day of the Pokémon Trainer's training journey, he encountered this kind of thing, which made Takumi sigh at the back of luck and nervous again.
On the communication ship that seems safe to him, there will be death that comes suddenly, and it will befall the person with whom he has a relationship, then......
Will there come a time when danger suddenly comes to him and he doesn't react yet?
"A lesson from the past, a teacher from the back. However, if such a dangerous person is waiting on the ship, if you don't find him, your heart will always be not so secure......"
Silently making a decision in his heart, Takumi focused all his energy on his nose, and the transformed [Katy Dog's Nose - Phase 1] tried his best to distinguish the smell in the air.
The smell of perfume on the dead woman's body, due to a close contact, and the short time in the past, Takumi still has some memories of its smell.
"Tell the intensity of the smell of perfume and blood on everyone's body, as long as the murderer is not among these staff members who have been in contact with the corpse for half a day, it is still very easy to distinguish......"
Just standing in place and closing his eyes, and twitching his nose slightly, Takumi opened his eyes with a strange expression, and with a sense of smell that exceeded 160 times that of ordinary humans, Takumi set his eyes on a man with a short stature and an extremely ordinary face directly opposite him.
As if sensing someone's gaze, the short man quickly raised his head and met Takumi's smiling gaze.
Opening and closing his lips slightly, the pupils of the short man, who were less than ten meters away from Takumi, shrank suddenly, because if the movement of Takumi's lips made a sound, it would be ......
"The murderer is you!"