Sergeant Kenichi Nakagawa, a middle-aged man in a crisp suit and a sturdy build, was standing in the kitchen of Tokunaga's house, looking at the photo on the table.

The slightly wrinkled photo shows a man and a woman who look like a couple, and a little boy holding a cat, presumably their son.

The on-site evidence collection work of the relevant personnel of the prosecutor and police continued in the house, and the sound of various people walking and rummaging upstairs and downstairs was endless.

There was a chill everywhere in the house, especially when standing at the top of the stairs.

However, due to the large number of police officers in the house, there were people in every corridor and room checking each other, walking back and forth from time to time. So naturally, they don't think about it at this time, how scared they are, and so on.

Everyone thinks it's just a matter of the wind pouring in and blowing to the ceiling......

Although this house is really scary, the body of the couple was found yesterday, and today they are coming to look for the body of their companion again.

Kenichi Nakagawa walked out of the kitchen, he looked around and then stood in the living room, wrapped his thick arms around his chest, and tilted his head in thought, his strong muscles making the sleeves of his suit look a little tight.

He has been a criminal police officer for almost thirty years.

So far, of course, he has encountered some times when he can't solve the case, which is unavoidable...... But this is really the first time he has encountered such an incredible case.

The previous case finally made a breakthrough, but it seemed to be in a more confusing fog -

The bodies of men and women found on the ceiling of Tokunaga's house were Katsuya Tokunaga, the householder of that house, and his wife, Kazumi Tokunaga.

Kazumi Tokunaga had numerous wounds all over his body with a sharp blade, and the murder weapon was supposed to be a folding knife found at the scene. As for Tokunaga Katsu, he was killed from behind by a thick-bladed kitchen knife, and the tip of the blade that pierced deeply almost penetrated the ventral side.

In the strong rancid smell, the two men were covered in blood, and their eyes were closed like lovers, close together.

They have been dead for more than two weeks.

This is also normal, there have been so many murders in that house, basically all of them are tragic deaths, and although the Tokunaga couple were characterized as missing by them, in fact, no one felt that they were really missing.

However, the problem is that the wife should have been killed by her husband, and judging from the situation at the scene, Tokunaga Katsu also killed his wife and then carried the body to the ceiling.

His fingerprints were clearly on the murder weapon.

However, who was Tokunaga Katsuya himself killed? And who carried his body above the ceiling? This suspicion cannot be sorted out at all.

And the results of the investigation of the fingerprints on the handle of the thick-bladed kitchen knife that pierced him from the back are very incredible, and they match the fingerprints on the handle of the thick-bladed kitchen knife on the back of the man who was killed in a neighboring residential area five years ago, Takeo Saeki.

It belongs to Tsuyoshi Saeki's wife, Saeki Ka Coconut, and that woman is also supposed to have died five years ago.

This incident is so similar to what it was five years ago that unless someone deliberately did it, there is no other possibility.

And Hibiki in the distant mountains...... The woman who resigned just before Kenichi Nakagawa was transferred to the Nerima Police Station on the grounds of "personal factors" made a big statement when she was called over to ask about the reason.

The murderer who committed this series of murders is not a human being, but the woman who died five years ago, the grudge of Ga Cocon.

There is no way, the only thing that works is to withdraw from the investigation, not to enter the house again, and to seal it off completely.

Kenichi Nakagawa naturally wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense.

However, that night, his right-hand man, Daisuke Igarashi, was found on the ceiling of Tokunaga's house with Hibiko Toyama, just as the body had been found before.

Hibiko Toyama's body was tortured and tortured to the point of being covered in scars, and Daisuke Igarashi's back was pierced deep in the back with a thick-bladed kitchen knife, and the tip of the knife pierced through the abdomen.

There was also a large amount of gasoline in the house, which was sprinkled all over the first floor, and on the stairs to the second floor, there were footprints of Hibiko Toyama stained with gasoline.

Judging from the scene at the scene, it seems that they were preparing to set fire to the house, but for some reason they did not succeed and all died here.

There was no trace of a fight, and there was not even evidence of a third person present, but a well-trained young detective, a former detective, was abused and killed in this room in such an unknown way.

I searched the house and didn't find the murder weapon that killed Hibiko Toyama, but the fingerprints left on the handle of the thick-bladed kitchen knife that killed Daisuke Igarashi belonged to a woman-

It is still the same as the fingerprint of the Saeki coconut, which was killed five years ago.

I think of the confession of the social welfare volunteer who discovered the problem of Tokunaga's family before, saying that he met a little boy here, and if the identity information is correct, it is a missing child who was five or six years old five years ago and is still five or six years old......

Kenichi Nakagawa lit a cigarette in a frustrated manner.

At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket rang, he frowned, and then connected.

Soon, his brows tightened, and he subconsciously raised his chest, as if his boss was on the other side of the phone, and he was looking at himself in front of him:

“…… Be! …… Good! …… I understand! ”

After hanging up the phone, he took a deep breath, and—

"Everyone, stop!"

Nakagawa's hoarse and loud words made all the people in the room who were busy collecting evidence at the scene stop moving.

"Next, there will be a special operations team from above to come and take over this case...... No objections are allowed, the handover is ready immediately, and they will come over right away. ”

There was silence, and everyone looked at each other.

Special Operations Group? Taking over the case? What does that mean?

Kenichi Nakagawa had no intention of explaining, although he knew a little bit of the inside story, but he couldn't accept this kind of thing, he just felt too crazy.

"The case of mask cannibalism in the next area, old friends seem to have said that it was taken over by someone else, and now it seems that it is this special operations group......

He muttered to himself and took another deep puff of his cigarette - really, what's wrong with this world?

Looking back at the picture on the table in the kitchen behind him, the middle-aged sheriff slowly showed a mocking smile, even though he knew he was smiling stiffly.

"I don't believe in you frivolous things, dead people are dead people......"

Ga coconut's resentment? It's a joke!

In this case, there must be some crazy person behind the scenes, and he prefers to believe that Saeki Ga Coconut has a twin sister who has the same fingerprints as Ga Coconut.

I won't believe those gods and monsters, that's a neurosis!

The officers left the scene quickly and silently, and one by one walked past Kenichi Nakagawa, who was standing in the living room, and walked out of the room.

By the time the middle-aged sheriff finished smoking his cigarette in silence, he was the only one left in the room, and he looked around, then turned to go out.

But at this very moment-

"Bang!"

It was as if something heavy had fallen from the ceiling of a room on the second floor and slammed into the floor, making a distinct, dull sound.

"Huh?"

Nakagawa's footsteps stopped, and he silently raised his head to look at the ceiling above, his expression becoming serious.

He had a good memory, and because he was the last to leave, he clearly remembered that his subordinates should have walked out in front of him, and now they were waiting outside on the residential street.

Who else remained in this room at this time but himself?

"Who else upstairs?!"

He asked in a deep voice, but of course he did not answer.

Nakagawa frowned, then turned and walked in the direction of the staircase, and then just as he raised his leg to step onto the first step, his movements stiffened, because suddenly a strong sense of uneasiness hit him.

The middle-aged sheriff felt his feet begin to tremble slightly, perhaps a beastly instinct that humans have been associated with danger since ancient times.

As if going upstairs at this time, it was like seeing a shark's fins poking out of the sea and going into the sea, and he suddenly felt that there was extreme terror upstairs at this moment.

Ordinary people may turn around and run away, but Nakagawa gritted his teeth and forcibly dispelled this "illusion", and even he faintly gave birth to a wave of anger in his heart.

This is definitely someone pretending to be a ghost, like the corpse before it can't be found, and you have to go into the closet and uncover the ceiling above to be able to discover the dark space above where the corpse is hidden.

Maybe there are other undiscovered mechanisms in this room?

At this time, there was movement from upstairs again, and it was a strange sound of something heavy dragging a plastic bag on the floor.

Here it comes!

Nakagawa's heart trembled, and he immediately listened attentively, and no longer continued to step forward, but his palm had already grasped the grip of the police pistol on his waist.

He didn't have time to think about anything else at this time, and the thought of calling out to his companions outside just in case didn't arise, and he didn't notice the abnormality himself, but was fully focused on the sound of "that thing".

Listen as it dragged the floor of the hallway upstairs to the staircase directly above him.

- Preparing to come down from the upper floor.

It's a really hard sound, and it's easy to think of some creature with wet skin, like a large sansho fish, or an incredibly large slug, coming down the stairs.

Nakagawa's head went blank at this moment, and his throat felt thirsty, but there was a strong urge to urinate in his lower body.

He intellectually refused to believe in the absurdity, but his body's instinct for self-defense trembled more and more.

"That thing" is coming down, run, run!

Kacha, Kacha...... It was like the sound of dragging a plastic bag down from upstairs, slowly approaching, getting louder and louder, separated only by a layer of wooden handrails from him.

Nakagawa stared at it, staring at the right-angled turn in the middle of the stairs, and then ...... Then an incredible object came downstairs and he really saw it.

From the shadowy corner of the staircase, "that thing" appeared.

It was a big, red "slug", but the "slug" had a woman's head attached to it, a long hair stained with blood, and the woman's head, attached to it.

The blood-stained head was underneath, the body wrapped in a translucent plastic bag, the slimy and slippery blood reflected the light, the forehead was split horizontally with a large gap, the bloodshot eyes were wide open, the long black hair was wrapped around the neck and body, the lips were swollen, and the jaw was dripping with blood.

"That thing"...... Went downstairs like a worm.

It lay on the floor, its head raised like a snake, and its face was resentful and angry.

- Die!

It wasn't that he heard the voice, but that he felt the will from "that thing", and at this moment, Nakagawa clearly understood his fate.

Ten minutes later.

When the task force arrived at the scene, the first thing they encountered was not the handover between the Nerima Police Station and them, but the latest news:

Sergeant Nakagawa did not leave the house in the end, and when someone went back to check a few minutes later, they found him dead in the corridor under the stairs, no wounds could be found on his body, his expression was distorted and hideous, and the cause of death was preliminarily judged to be sudden heart palsy.

Similar to the Japanese side, some other countries that are aware of the Yamatai incident have also taken domestic action and measures.

However, at present, only the Japanese side seems to have clearly captured the proof of the existence of another paranormal phenomenon...... Oh, and the Chinese side, which has seized the clues of some of the legendary "Strangers" and is pursuing them.

The former has been confirmed, but it is very dangerous.

The latter has only caught the clue so far, but the value seems to be far higher.