After taking notes, leave the interrogation room.

On the bench outside the interrogation room, Rosetta happened to see Reiko Arakawa, who had also come to the police station at this time to take notes.

When he came out, Miss Reporter flipped through a book of selected poems by Masao Tatsukiyama, a gift from Masao Tsukiyama that Rosetta had left in the car yesterday, and recited the sentences in it softly as if with interest, not even noticing the sound of the door being pushed open.

"In the past, if I'm not mistaken."

"My life was a feast."

"There, all hearts are opened, and all the wine overflows."

"One night, I let 'Beauty' sit on my lap."

"I felt her bitterness, and I insulted her."

"I took up arms against justice, I fled."

"Oh, witch, suffering, hatred, I entrust you with my treasures!"

"I have at last disillusioned the hope of mankind in my spirit, and I leap silently above the joy like a beast of prey......"

"Hmm." She suddenly stopped chanting, and heard the sound of approaching footsteps, as if Reiko Arakawa had just realized that someone was approaching, and then as soon as she turned her head, she saw Rosetta's figure.

Miss Reporter exhaled and said, "You're finally out."

"Well, I just finished taking notes, and now it's no problem." Rosetta nodded in reply.

"They told me you were there too, so I waited here a little longer." After explaining the reason for being here, Reiko Arakawa handed back the anthology of poems in her hand and said, "By the way, this should be the book that Mr. Tsubakiyama gave you before, you forgot to take it with you when you got off the car yesterday, remember not to forget it next time." ”

"Thank you for your please."

Answering in calm words, Rosetta certainly wouldn't say that it was because of the urgency of the situation, and that he had left the book in the car to avoid losing it.

However.

As he casually took the anthology of poems, the hidden gray light under Rosetta's camouflage eyes flickered, and suddenly, the unconscious effect of his psionic energy caused him to read some scattered memories that did not belong to him but to this object.

"Mr. Tsukiyama...... Would you be interested in learning more about our prophet's prophecies of the end times......"

"This is the gospel medicine that the Holy Father ordered us to develop...... It's been tested on a lot of people......"

"To show your sincerity to Mr. Tsukiyama...... These lovely things are a gift to celebrate our cooperation and your release from prison......"

Once things exist, they leave traces in the world.

And using psionic energy, touching the anthology of poems, a few vague and mutilated dialogues rang in Rosetta's ears, which was the most recent "memory" he had read of this object.

"Why did you suddenly stop talking?"

Walking outside the police station, watching Rosetta pause, Reiko Arakawa was keenly aware of his sudden solemnity.

"Nothing." Rosetta shook her head, put the anthology of poems back up, and said with a calm expression on her face, "It's just that something suddenly came to mind." ”

"Okay." He didn't want to reveal it in front of him, so Reiko Arakawa accepted this statement by default, and then changed the topic, raised the car key in his hand, and invited casually:

"I have an elder who runs an antique shop here here in Antchuan City, and it just so happens that I don't have anything to do at work today, so I was going to visit him, Mr. Luo, haven't you always been interested in these things, do you want to take a look at them together?"

"Antiques?" Rosetta thought about it for a moment, "Then I'm really interested. ”

He didn't refuse, in addition to the fact that his daytime was already very free today, but the main reason for this decision was that he had suddenly unconsciously used psionic energy to 'read memories' from objects.

If the anthology of poems given to him by Masao Tsukiyama is not a special case.

By the same token, similar items should also be able to be triggered with psionic energy to read the memories on them.

He wondered if his psionic powers could be applied to other things as well.

- And if the object of reading memory is "antique", what kind of things can he read?

"Alright, let's go."

Reiko Arakawa raised the car keys in her hand again.

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9 to 5 halls, an antique shop located in the remote streets and alleys of the north old town of Antchuan City.

Because the long-established owner also has a penchant for collecting watches, this antique shop actually also has a restoration service for antiques and clocks.

It is said that the name "9 to 5" comes from the fact that the antique store has been operating for more than a decade, and no one can make the old owner continue to work overtime at 5 p.m.

Although the son inherited his father's business, Takeshita Lang, the eldest son of the old owner, inherited the antique shop and was responsible for the daily maintenance, but this rule has always been maintained.

On this day, the business of the 9-to-5 class was as cold as before.

Looking at a large number of clocks hanging on the wall, counting the time from five o'clock, Takeshiro was thinking about how long it would be before he could pick up his daughter from work, but the sudden sound of the door opening suddenly woke him up from his lazy state.

He didn't expect that there would be customers in the store at this time.

I didn't expect that the people who came in one after the other would be quite young men and women.

"Welcome, welcome, are the two guests here for repairs, or to see things......"

Takeshiro got up in a hurry, and quickly pushed his glasses up, trying to keep this rare business, but Reiko Arakawa said "Uncle Takeshita" but he hesitated, and couldn't help but rub his eyes to confirm, and then he was surprised: "Reiko, when did you arrive in Antgawa City, and you won't call your uncle when you arrive?" ”

"I just arrived a few days ago, or because of work, you see that I just have time, why don't I come to visit Uncle Takeshita." Reiko Arakawa smiled and didn't say anything about being asked by the police to make a record, perhaps because she was afraid that the elder would worry.

Unlike some people with complicated minds, Takeshiro accepted this statement very easily, with a sincere smile on his face, and said proudly: "I just said that I didn't hurt you in vain before, my little niece has grown up, and I know that I came to see my uncle as soon as possible!" ”

Seeing that this elder in his family seemed to be about to start showing off if no one else was around, Reiko Arakawa coughed: "Uncle Takeshita, don't be like this, there are other people here." ”

"Someone else? Where else are there? ”

Takeshiro was puzzled, and after finishing speaking, he noticed that behind Reiko Arakawa, there was a tall and thin young man who looked quite upright, that is, his temperament was too cold.

"Who is this......?" He asked.

"This is Rosetta, Mr. Luo, my junior at work, majoring in history and folklore, because he is interested in all kinds of things related to legends, so this time I will take him over to visit Uncle Takeshita's collection."

Reiko Arakawa gave an introduction, and Rosetta followed behind and nodded: "Hello, Mr. Takeshita, we meet for the first time." ”

"I see, I didn't expect that there would be young people who are interested in these old things these days, I thought you would prefer those trendy electronic products."

The look on Takeshita's face looked quite surprised, after all, as an antique store owner, he was also a collector himself, and he was of course surprised to see such a young fan.

Maybe it's because Reiko Arakawa is next to her.,Maybe it's because it's rare to have like-minded people come over.。

After asking them if they wanted to pour tea, and after learning that they didn't, when he took the two of them to introduce them to the collection in his store, Takeshiro was particularly motivated, and with a kind of self-smug and boastful meaning that made people laugh dumbly:

"These antiques and clocks are precious treasures collected by my old man for two generations, and it will take me more than half a day to maintain and preserve them on weekdays, except for a few friends who also love the same, I don't even dare to invite the clerks, for fear that they will break things with a lot of money, and they must do it themselves to rest assured."

"This is the period when the black ship sailed, and it is said that it is a photocopy of the first edition of Mr. Liu Jingting's "Storytelling under the Willows" brought by a certain Dashun officer who likes to listen to storytelling."

"This is a certain 'Makoto' team flag of the samurai organization 'Shinsengumi' that was close to the former Tokugawa shogunate during the modern shogunate movement, but unfortunately it is difficult to determine which team it is."

"This is the 1980 TV version of Bandai, and it can be said that it was the first plastic assembled gunpla...... Oh no, this isn't my private collection, it's my ...... Yes, it's a birthday present for my daughter! ”

Speaking of this collection, Takeshiro was busy closing his voice, as if he was afraid of his mature adult persona, overturning in front of his niece, giving people a joke.

Although she could see through her uncle's lies at a glance, Reiko Arakawa didn't expose it, but pretended not to care about it at all, looked at the glass cabinet next to it, which was more like a pile of miscellaneous items, and asked curiously, "What about this pile of things, why are they all put together directly?" ”

"Those things......"

The niece gave a step down, and Takeshiro breathed a sigh of relief and hesitated, "These are all 'cursed items' that the old man didn't know where to collect when he was young, and it is said that because their former owners were all dead people, they were contaminated with an unclean atmosphere. ”

"Mr. Takeshita, can I pick up these things and take a closer look?"

At this time, Rosetta suddenly interjected, because as he approached these 'cursed things', his psionic energy sent him an inexplicable 'feeling', which caused many malicious noises to sound in his head inexplicably.

Although Takeshita had barely said a word when he had shown them around the antiques, he was able to determine through his psychic reactions when he approached them, and the more things seemed to hold the owner's mind, the easier it would be for him to read them.

For example, when he got the GUNPLA when he got close to Takeshita, he felt the most intensely, and without even touching it, several hallucinatory images flashed in front of him.

However, the piles of "cursed things" in his glass cabinet at this moment are different.

Perhaps because of the strong emotions of malice and resentment, which were more enduring and stronger than mere kindness and affection, the memories that remained on these 'cursed items' seemed to him to be far more complete and clear than those normal antiques.

"If you just pick it up and look at it, it's nothing."

Regarding the request of this young man who came with Reiko Arakawa, Takeshiro hesitated for a moment, but still reminded: "Although I myself don't believe in these Shinto things like the old man, it is indeed better to believe some things than to believe them. ”