Chapter 12: Doubts

"If youkai are the ones in both videos, then why can't the youkai in the first video be recorded by the camera, but the youkai in the second video can?"

Ayako Todai's voice echoed in this conference room, and a few bigwigs glanced at the female police department curiously.

said that she was asked to put forward her own opinions, but she didn't expect that a small police department would dare to take the lead in asking this group of bigwigs who started to watch.

This female police department is not small!

"Squeak!"

With the sound of chairs dragging around, a man sitting in the front row stood up.

His expression is calm, his eyes are deep, his hair is well-groomed medium and short, his lips and chin are very clean, there is no stubble, and he looks like an extremely self-disciplined man.

As he stood up, Ayako Todai felt as if a mountain had suddenly risen up, giving an indescribable sense of oppression.

"Hello, Todai Police Department, welcome to the Special Countermeasures Division, I'm Yuto Takaoka, the former head of the Search Division 1 and now the head of the Special Countermeasures Division, and I think it's more appropriate for me to answer the question you want to ask."

"Huh? Ahh Hello, Gao Gang is right! I'm also honored to be able to enter the Special Countermeasures Section, so please take care of me! ”

Todai Ayako hurriedly stood up and bowed to Takaoka Yuto, and even said something a little trembling.

Takaoka Yuto naturally knew her, this is the head of the search section, a well-known big man in the Metropolitan Police Department.

In addition to the head of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Department, who is a police inspector, there are only four police officers.

They are: Counselor, Chief of the Criminal General Affairs Division, Chief of the First Investigation Division, and Chief of the Second Investigation Division.

Among them, the search lesson is specifically responsible for vicious criminal cases such as homicide, robbery, and forced female involvement, and its status is naturally not ordinary, as can be seen from one point-

Only police officers in the Search Section were able to wear a gold-framed red round badge with the words "S1S mpd" in gold on the collar of a suit.

This is a standard badge that belongs only to the Metropolitan Police Department, and in the Metropolitan Police Department, it belongs exclusively to the search class, in other words, it is the only honor in all of Japan.

Naturally, it will not be a simple role to be able to take on the position of the head of the first section of the search section.

Yuto Takaoka is a top student at the University of Tokyo, and after graduating, he took the national civil service examination and entered the Metropolitan Police Department as a special examination team, and it didn't take long for him to apply for a transfer to the search section.

This is a front-line criminal police department, and it often has to fight to the death of vicious criminals, and the mortality rate is quite high, but the speed of promotion is naturally not ordinary.

Takaoka Yuto has cracked many major cases in the first search lesson, and he is also invincible in the head-to-head confrontation with the bandits, which can indeed be called a wise and brave man, and these also laid the foundation for his rapid promotion.

It is quite an exaggeration to say that he is under the age of 30 to serve as the head of the search section, but not many people in Japan, a country where the phenomenon of ranking is extremely serious, question him.

This can only show one point, he is a real strong man, and the Japanese have an indescribable admiration and tolerance for authority and strong people or geniuses -

Is this statement looking down on everyone's IQ? Who would believe such a thing? Ah, you're an authority? That's fine, I must have made a mistake.

How can you kill someone? Do you know that it's wrong to kill someone? Ah, what? It was 100 of them who besieged you and were killed by you? That's okay, the strong deserve respect, and those people die when they die.

You broke everyone's conventional rules, how can this be? Do you know how much of a problem this can cause to everyone? Ah, what? Are you a genius? That's fine, it's only natural for geniuses to do this.

And Takaoka Yuto is a 'strong man'.

Under his leadership, the search lesson becomes a vicious hound, chasing his prey in the steel forest of Tokyo.

And this strong man has always been the idol and target of Ayako Todai, and now she is going to serve under the idol?

Ayako Todai's heart was beating a little fast, not because she was nervous, but because she was afraid-

Doesn't the transfer of the high-level police officer mean that the situation faced by this newly established special countermeasures section will be very dangerous?

Although after watching the two videos just now, I know that this department is very dangerous.

Although her kendo results are very good.

But she's really not a martial artist!

She just wants to be a clerk!

Ayako Todai wanted to cry without tears, and bowed 75 degrees to Takaoka Yuto and said, "Please forgive me for my rash questioning, but I think that if you want to make constructive suggestions, you must have a certain degree of understanding." ”

Takaoka nodded approvingly: "You're right, my subordinates need pragmatic talents like you." ”

"I can give you a brief explanation of the question you just asked.

This question is also the first thing that most of us wonder after watching these two videos, and it has also been discussed and analyzed within the special class, but there is no more unified view so far, after all, the information we know is still too scarce, and the deference from the existing information can only be called inference, and any bit of newly discovered information may overturn it.

There's about 'Snow Maiden' and 'Kappa', and by the way, this is our code name for two incidents, the code names named after imaginary criminals, 'Snow Maiden' and 'Kappa'.

Most of the opinions suggest that this may be due to the difference in their form of existence, i.e., that 'Snow Maiden' is a conceptual youkai whose existence can only be observed with the naked eye, and that 'kappa' is a materialized youkai, which is also supported by the power it manifests.

There is also the idea of why the yokai must be similar to the description in the book, and that it is not the work of the yokai, but with the appearance of the kappa image and its high resemblance to the legend, the number of people who support this kind of speech has decreased.

The second point of view is that the 'Snow Maiden' is not really a 'Snow Maiden', but a different kind of youkai that has similar abilities to the Snow Maiden.

There are also those who believe that there are individual differences within the race, and that this Snow Girl has abilities that other Snow Girls do not have.

We had a lot of discussions, but in the end we put this issue on hold because of the lack of information and the emergence of more and more important issues. ”

In fact, he still thinks this question is quite interesting, but there are more problems that need to be solved urgently, such as how to kill youkai, capture youkai, why youkai appear, and what youkai can bring to Japan, which are what the high-level officials are more concerned about.

Takaoka paused and ended his speech: "So do you have any questions?" ”

Todai Ayako nodded, hesitated for a moment, and asked:

"Now that the existence of the youkai has been confirmed, what about the gods on the other hand? Didn't the special class contact the shrines and temples? ”

As the daughter of the shrine family, when the monster appears, her most curious thing is naturally the god.

What if the gods existed?