Chapter XVI. Carved reminiscences

It's like the terrible life force of being a corpse dog is quickly drained from the hole that has been cut out of the chest.

didn't even have a chance to say his last words, and in the blink of an eye, Toru Watanabe's completely powerless body fell to the ground, gradually fading all kinds of bestial features.

But......

The price of raising the cohomology rate to too high is.

Even after the battle, Rosetta still couldn't quell the urge to kill.

Even if the fragments of memory that can be read by psionic energy are not in themselves fully intelligent and intelligent, the use of psionic energy such as 'memory attunement' is itself based on confusing the cognition of the 'self' and temporarily changing the mode of thinking.

Once the cohomology rate is increased too high, it is equivalent to dripping a drop of ink into a basin of transparent water, even if compared to the complete and huge memory of more than 20 years, the proportion of these memory fragments that do not belong to oneself is not even 0.01 percent, but the diluted ink is still ink, after all, it is a heterogeneous thing that has been mixed in.

'Whew, Whew, Whew......'

It was hard to make a gasping sound.

It wasn't until a long time had passed that Rosetta finally withdrew from the state of 'memory harmony', and the first thing he did after coming to his senses was to immediately take off the rosary on his wrist and put it aside, so as to prevent the psionic energy from passively reading any memories from it and worsening his current mental condition.

It was only at this moment that the intense exhaustion that had been forcibly suppressed by the will surged up from all over the mind and body at the moment of disarming the tone.

Even if his own will is already tough enough to carry the state of 'memory harmony', but after the battle, his physical strength is almost exhausted, but he is no longer allowed to continue to hold on.

Rosetta leaned against the wall, barely settling on her feet.

The psionic energy he possesses does not belong to the type that greatly enhances the body's ability to recover.

In other words, he was in a state of inability to resist for a short time.

You must know that even if you kill the 'head dog' of Toru Watanabe, there are still three or four corpse dogs in this area that have not been solved, if they find it at this time......

Rosetta frowned, realizing that perhaps this was a crisis that was more likely to kill him than a fight with Toru Watanabe.

- In this case, where will the key to his breakthrough be?

He raised his head and glanced at the phone booth not far from the ruins of the alley, but after thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and thought to himself: "No, it's not a good idea to call the police, even if you don't talk about the efficiency of their actions, just looking at the situation of these corpse dogs in the old city killing people wantonly and no one cares, someone with a little brain can deduce that there must be a high-level ghost on the police side." ’

At least in my capacity, most police officers can't be trusted. ’

In this very big matter, Rosetta didn't dare to take any chances, not only did he dare not trust the police, but even Reiko Arakawa, who was also involved in this incident and was most likely to become his helper after saying it, he didn't dare to trust it.

Judging by the information available so far.

The monster 'Corpse Dog' is a by-product of the experiments conducted in the old town by using the local pharmaceutical company of Tsushima Pharmaceutical, a local pharmaceutical company in Antgawa City, to conduct human experiments on a drug called the Gospel Medicine.

The reason why they were able to carry out these experiments here is because some high-level police officers are in cahoots with them as a protective umbrella, and if you think about it further, it is very likely that the police are covering up for them behind the prison escape.

At least from Rosetta's point of view, there does not seem to be a third party other than 'black' and 'gray'.

"So...... Is the only thing I can believe in is myself? ”

There was a sharp pain all over his body, and Rosetta, who had barely recovered a little strength through rest, stood up and looked at Toru Watanabe's corpse on the ground, but the iron-gray dimming light in his eyes that belonged to spiritual energy suddenly burst into flames.

It is different from the 'ability' of 'avoiding death' that Toru Watanabe, who is a 'resurrected person' and returns from the Yellow Springs Country.

Rosetta's 'psionic energy' is more like because he was born a 'dead and alive', and the ability to be attached to the soul can be activated even if his physical strength is completely exhausted and his body is seriously injured.

Although so far, his psionic powers have not been named, and their effectiveness can only affect him and the dead creatures that cannot be resisted.

But after the end of the 'memory synchronicity', it seems that this act of manipulating memories has caused the psionic energy to grow, and Rosetta vaguely feels that through the psionic energy, he seems to be able to do something completely new.

It was under the darkening sky.

Looking at Tsuru Watanabe, who had completely lost his luster but was still scarlet, an indescribable hunger from 'psionics' came out of Rosetta's heart, just like in the period before he awakened psionic powers, and every cell in his body wanted him to feast on it.

He couldn't help but bend down and touch the eyes with his fingers.

And at that moment, a mutation suddenly emerged from his body.

In the form of rapidly spreading vein-like lines, his psionic energy broke through the confines of the body and extended to Toru Watanabe's corpse, covering his entire skull in a dense grid around the initial center of the eyeball.

The mind is the storage center of human memory.

Even monsters like corpse dogs continue this structure.

And at the moment when the vascular network representing spiritual energy covered Watanabe's head, suddenly, endless visions also came to his face.

But that feeling is different from when it's 'in tune with memory'.

If the former is like a first-person perspective and belongs to 'Rosetta''s own story), then the countless fragments of broken memories transmitted through the psionic link at this moment are like a story written from a third-person perspective.

Although Rosetta can still feel some of the emotions resonating from it, he is not mixed with 'heterogeneous things' because of this.

Click.

When I suddenly came back to my senses from the illusion of memory.

An imperceptible sound of shattering sounded quietly.

Looking down at Toru Watanabe's head, Rosetta found that it was now covered with dense cracks, like a fragile item.

With a thought in his heart, he withdrew from the tips of his fingers the vein-like lines that had been extended by the spiritual energy.

The next moment, just a breeze blew, and Toru Watanabe's entire head turned into ashes and shattered into gray-white powder.

Until finally, only a sharp canine tooth with an iron cold light remained, which fell to the ground with a clatter, and was picked up by Rosetta with his hand.

There is information about 'it'.

The moment it touched it, the psionic energy had already sent it to Rosetta's brain.

In a form that no one else could see, lines of description slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

[Name: Entanglement Fang]

[Psychic carved and extracted from the corpse]

[Through grinding, piercing, transplanting, wearing, and other different ways, you can obtain different powers in remembrance]

[Directly as food, ground into powder and mixed with water and consumed, you can obtain half of the original owner's physical fitness during his lifetime, as well as inherit part of the ability 'entanglement']

[After using it to pierce the human body, there is a certain possibility that the subject will die and resurrect it as a 'corpse dog', with a very low probability of making it a 'new human' ('resurrected one')]

[If it is transplanted as a denture, after long-term contact, there is a high probability that it will be perfectly transformed into a 'corpse dog' and inherit its ability to develop 'relatives'.] 】

[When worn as an ornament, the aura emitted by the host will naturally be regarded as the breath of the 'head dog', which has a strong oppressive force on all corpse dogs that are not 'head dogs', and can give simple orders to them.] 】

[(Note: According to the progress of grinding and ingestion, the effect of the other three abilities will be affected by the integrity of the Entanglement Fang, and once the loss degree exceeds 75%, the other effective effects will be completely lost)]

When she saw the last effect of the 'Entanglement Fang', Rosetta's heart was finally able to settle down, and she could also understand that 'Extracting and Reminiscing Manifests' seemed to be a new effect developed after her spiritual energy had grown.

"It's just...... Does it have to be a powerful target that you kill with your own hands? ”

In the dark, he also vaguely felt the limitation of spiritual energy, if it was an ordinary person who had not experienced the tempering of death, the quality of their soul was far from enough to support his spiritual energy to complete the extraction of memories.

Under the increasingly gloomy sky, Rosetta clenched the sharp fangs in his palm, his eyes were lowered, but a strong murderous impulse emerged in his heart, and he couldn't help but think: "I just don't know what the memory embodiment extracted from the brain of Ishiizaki is like?" ”

He forcibly stopped thinking about it.

He knew that with his current physical condition, his actions were extremely reluctant, and if he didn't leave, even with the shock of the tangled fangs, there would still be an accident.

Even the remaining dead dogs in the area are still a problem.

But when it comes to this, he can only hope that another plan originally prepared before can solve this problem.

-

"Ding-dong".

At this moment, at the scene of the death of a corpse dog, the screen of a mobile phone where the deceased had fallen to the ground suddenly lit up, showing that the set scheduled email had been sent.

At the same time, in the police station, Akira Fukuyama and several colleagues opened their mobile phones one after another, they opened the email that I don't know who sent it, and then, with their pupils shrinking, they saw the photos of those 'corpse dogs' taken by Rosetta himself.