After the situation was resolved, the crowd of onlookers quickly dispersed. Sakuya told me the whole story with a frightened expression on his face, and Morino stood aside with his arms folded with an expressionless face. I don't think she took those boys seriously from the beginning.

"All of a sudden, they came up and said that there was some paradise in the wilderness." Sakiya said.

I looked at Morino and deliberately asked:

"What is Paradise?"

"You ask me, who do I ask? I didn't have what they wanted at all. Morino sneered, "Did you recognize the wrong person?" ”

Of course, she didn't take me for a fool, but she made up her mind to keep her mouth shut, and I couldn't pry it out.

"I know a lot about you." I said this to her.

"Really? Maybe not as much as you think. ”

"You've got Sakiya in trouble."

"On the contrary, Saya is my friend and I'm helping her. You're the one who takes advantage of her, aren't you? Morino sneered, "Sakuya told me, she lives with you now, I don't know what you said to her, but because of you, Sakuya can't get out." ”

"Sakiya is not stupid, who is right and wrong, she has her own judgment."

"Okay, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, Xiaoye, move to my house, I will definitely protect you from harm." Masasei Morino said.

Sakiya's gaze turned to the two of us, and she shook her head at Morino.

"Unless you're willing to tell me what's going on."

"Not yet, you're not ready." Morino looked at Sakiya with pleading eyes: "Trust me, Saya, please believe me." ”

Sakuya showed a struggling expression, shook her head vigorously, covering her face and not daring to look at the other party again.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry ......"

"Little Night......

"Say no more, Ono." Sakiya turned around as if she was going to cut something, and interrupted her with her back to Morino.

"I know that Ono is so lively and kind, I know that Ono has never changed, even if she makes a mistake, it is not what she wants, I have always believed that the friendship between the two will never fade, as long as you work hard, you can save something, but ......" Sakuya choked, hugged her shoulders and trembled, unable to speak: "I'm so scared, Ono, I'm really scared." ”

"You, how can you say such a thing, how can you ......" Morino trembled in disbelief.

"Let's go, Takakawa-san."

Sakiya made up her mind to run away into the distance, and I hurriedly followed.

"Aren't we friends? Aren't we best friends forever!? Morino shouted behind him, "Saya, you idiot! Takakawa, I won't let you go! You don't even know what you're doing! ”

No, of course I do.

I could hear the sound of approaching footsteps coming from somewhere dark behind me.

The city – the Great Black Market – is about to be baptized by a strong wind.

Although Sakuya told me nothing about these days and didn't say anything to Morino, I think Morino already knew that Sakuya was the demon parasite they were looking for, after all, the hat man had already attacked Sakiya twice. But as she had said, maybe she really had a way to keep Sakiya under her wing.

A node can only summon a demon, and such a rare existence is good for whoever it is parasitic on, as long as the host can join them and do things for them, those people will not necessarily harm her.

But I don't think it's wrong to bring Sakiya home. As I told Morino before, Sakiya thinks for herself and makes her own choices.

That night, Sakiya locked herself in her room and didn't even come out for dinner. I told her through the door that the rest of the meal had been wrapped and placed in the fridge, and that if she was hungry, she would be hot and continued with her work.

Although I didn't think that Morino would leak the information about Sakura's stay here to the cult organization, I decided to cheer up that night, but about the third watch, I fell asleep in a blur.

I didn't sleep deeply, but it was hard to wake up. Half-asleep, I felt someone looking at me from the window, but maybe it was an illusion, because the keen quark didn't move in the slightest. I didn't have the slightest sense of resistance, I wanted to open my eyes to see who it was, but my eyelids were as heavy as a thousand pounds.

After a moment's struggle, the man's gaze vanished. I finally fell asleep.

When I woke up the next day, I opened the window and suddenly remembered the nightmare feeling I had last night. But the crisp morning breeze slapped on my face, reminding me that I was out the window in the air dozens of meters above the ground.

Shaking my head to shake off the suspicion in my heart, I came to the door of Sakiya and asked her to get up.

I knocked on the door several times and there was no response.

I pushed the door open, and the bed that belonged to me was empty.

Sakiya's furniture and puppets are still in their original places.

But the man is no longer there.

Although worried, except for the residual sleep impression from last night, there were no valuable clues left at the scene. After coming to school, I didn't see Sakuya in the classroom either. Morino climbed on the table alone, and no one paid attention to her because of her bad temper.

Because there was no evidence, and I didn't think it was Morino who did it, and even if she did it, she would definitely deny it, so I didn't go in to testify with her.

There's no denying that deep down in my heart I have a gut feeling that Sakuya left on her own, for whatever reason.

It's her choice. I told myself.

In the classroom, she encountered Eight Scenes, and this time she was still reading occult books, but what she had grown from the last time was that she put the books in the shell of a reference book for coursework, just like we did to make it easier to read comics in class.

"You did that farce after school yesterday, right?" I said as I tucked my bag into my desk.

"You're coming too fast."

To say so is to tacitly assume that you are the head of the crime. In fact, when she decided to investigate Morino, I didn't expect her to take such a drastic approach.

"Don't do that again." Again, I admonished her.

"For what?"

"It's dangerous. She didn't take you seriously, but if it was too exciting, she didn't know what Lu Dao would do. ”

Hachikage's face still didn't waver, and she was simply pulling her face so that people wouldn't be able to guess her thoughts easily.

But this method is really effective, and the students in the class eat this set. Because she can't figure out the eight scenes, she feels that she is a person with clear rewards and punishments, so a little favor can move them. Everyone trusts her like this, and I think that's how her prestige is maintained among the whisperers.

Even so, before school that afternoon, after Hachijing answered a call on his mobile phone, the mask of uninhibited smiles immediately collapsed.

Noticing this, I couldn't help but look at her.

Hakkei put his phone back in his skirt pocket, his hands seemingly shaking slightly.

After a moment of silence, she met me with a sharp, burning gaze.

My people are dead. She said.

The Whisperers, the leader of the six boys who besieged Morino and Sakiya that day, were found dead in their beds this morning. Not only him, but also his family, parents and a sister who lived with him, all died.

All that was left in his bedroom was a mutilated body, a large amount of blood splattered on the bed, floor, and walls, and everywhere was bloody red. His family was lying in their beds, asleep, and never woke up.

This is what happened in the second half of the night. No evidence of an intruder was found in the deceased's home.

Although there have been many fatal incidents recently, this one is arguably the most brutal murder of the year.

Now, all those involved in yesterday evening's farce are in trouble.

That's what I thought at the time.