[Net King + Patterns] Ugly Fish

The situation changed so fast that Keigo Atobe was stunned and forgot to react for a moment. Before he was caught, Akiko Takahashi and Sakurako Sanjo who wanted to commit murder on the spot did something respectively. They were so quiet that they almost A sneer suddenly sounded in the frozen room.

Low, with a hint of irony.

A few waves of air flowing past the ear, and the fingertips touching the eyebrows suddenly pulled away. Keigo Atobe tried his best to open his eyes wide. The dynamic vision he was proud of only had time to capture a few afterimages. After getting used to it, he realized that in an instant, the stalemate changed again.

Takahashi Akiko's figure swayed away like water waves, and disappeared into the air in a few breaths, while Sanjo Yingko, who had lost her target, quickly rushed to his side, her breath fluctuating.

In the end, it was the figure that appeared in the middle of the empty room, Sanjo Yingko's knife was held at the fingertips of that person.

"For a man, as for what?" The man straightened up slowly, his posture relaxed, his eyes swept over everyone present, and his expression was half a smile—it was Sakurai Cherry who was with Xiang Hiyake.

"What do you think?" Santiao Yingzi replied indifferently, with unfinished killing intent in her slightly narrowed eyes.

But at this moment, the air in the corner of the room by the door rippled, and Takahashi Akiko's figure gradually appeared, little by little, as if appearing from nothingness. She smiled sweetly, "Introduce again, Takahashi Akiko, a professional witch."

ha? !Atobe Keigo was stunned before he could be shocked, and silently looked at Akiko Takahashi with a serious face, the corners of his lips twitched slightly, "Witch"?What is that?It sounds very cheating, but the person who said it is still serious.

After complaining, Keigo Atobe suddenly became terrified. He, he, he, just now, it seems that he has witnessed a real change from gold to a living person. Hey!

The tip of his eyebrows twitched violently, and Keigo Atobe decided to wait and see what happened without knowing how to describe it. After all, compared to him who wanted blood all over his face, the remaining two girls at the scene behaved very plainly.

The scene was silent for a few seconds, Cherry Sakurai laughed suddenly, and with a twist of her wrist, the murder weapon she held on her fingertips suddenly disappeared, and then she raised her chin slightly, "Cherry Sakurai, professional thief." pride.

囧——— Keigo Atobe has black lines all over his head. It is really hard to agree with such two uncommon professions. After a long time, his eyes shifted to look at the three Sakurako next to him. For some reason, he suddenly didn’t want to Keep listening.

Obviously, today is not Keigo Atobe's lucky day, because he felt that the breathing of the three Sakurako around him stagnated for a moment, and the killing intent that was released was gathered up in an instant.

"Sanjo Sakurako." She introduced herself in a tone that sounded normal to Keigo Atobe, and then her expression became a little embarrassed?He said, "Professional~ Probably an ordinary student?"

After finishing speaking, Sanjo Sakura was silent for a few seconds, then nodded resolutely, "It's an ordinary student!" Her attitude was utterly brutal.

Keigo Atobe let out a long breath, and silently nodded his approval against the clear eyes of the other two girls.

Although Sanjo Sakurako's answer is a bit inaccurate, but at least most of it is true, compared to witches and gods and the like...

……

After interrupting the crooked building several times, the atmosphere unknowingly became peaceful.

A few minutes later, the three girls who were still fighting against each other just now, who had almost had a bloodshed incident, sat down around the desk with smiles and began to talk in an intimate manner.

Atobe Keigo then secretly relaxed, turned his head, and turned his attention to the source character who caused this scene in the first place.

The line of sight circled around, dropped slightly, and stopped.

The person in charge of the project here, Ichimura—— curled up on the ground, looking unconscious.

"Ah~ it's okay, he'll be fine after he sleeps and wakes up." Xu Shi noticed his rather ugly face, Takahashi Akiko took the time to say from the heated conversation, "It's urgent~ and it's good for him to relax Good." He said carelessly and waved his hand, very irresponsible.

Atobe Keigo silently withdrew his condemning gaze, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and decided that as a normal person, he should not be serious with a guy with treacherous abilities.

Seeing the smile on Sakurako Sanjo's face becoming more and more real, Keigo Atobe pursed his lips, swallowing his impetuous intention to interrupt such a harmonious atmosphere of the scene, and picked up the document package that Ichimura handed to him from his side with his hand , took out the file and slowly started to look it up.

All the materials related to the project, all the reports during the incident, the progress of the police investigation, as well as relevant clues and inferences, etc., are all included; Keigo Atobe explained what he wanted to see before he decided to come here, all of which are included.

After flipping through it roughly, Atobe Keigo raised his eyebrows, and in his heart, he rated Shimura lying nearby at the moment a little higher. To be able to do this in a hurry, this person really has something extraordinary.

First, pick out a few urgent documents that need to be checked in detail, and then raise your hand to knock on the case table. When the three people in the lively conversation are quiet and turn their gazes over, Keigo Atobe stared blankly at him. Sanjo Sakurako glanced at her, and then stared at the other two with very sincere eyes.

Silence, silence, silence.

"Hehe~ You can do whatever you want, we won't bother you anymore."

"What a stingy man."

After 2 minutes, Xu Shi finally realized how firm his determination to drive people out was, each left a sentence, and at the same time glanced at the three sakura who were not moving at all, and the three who made this place a little more noisy than the vegetable market. Two of the fellows, who are very time-conscious, leave together.

When the backs of the two men disappeared on the other side of the door, Santiao Yingzi exhaled, and fell down on the desk as if she had finished a difficult battle.

……

"Huh?" Atobe Keigo quietly looked at the wrinkled Sanjo Sakurako, then shifted his gaze to the document in his hand again, and asked nonchalantly, "Tired?"

His question did not wait for an answer, and Sanjo Sakura was silent for a long time. After reading the documents in Atobe Keigo's hands for a long time, when she noticed that she was unusually quiet, Sanjo Sakura slapped the documents in his hand, "I think Go shopping."

"Where are you going?" Keigo Atobe threw the documents aside, picked up another copy, and asked without raising his head.

"I don't know~ There must be something interesting here, otherwise how could they appear." As she spoke, Sanjo Sakura's tone became more excited, "You keep watching, and I'll talk about it when I come back." Standing up, he rolled out the door like a gust of wind.

Keigo Atobe lowered the document in his hand, followed Sanjo Sakurako with his eyes until she disappeared completely, and then scanned the room where nothing happened, his gray-purple phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.

There will be no interruptions for the rest of the time.

It wasn't until Keigo Atobe understood all the situation and spent some time sorting out the clues that the comatose Ichimura finally woke up; he could find a reason for the other party that he fell asleep because he was overworked, and he would still feel a little uneasy. At this time, it was already getting late.

……Dividing line……

The night in late winter and early spring fell quickly, and when the lights were turned on one by one, the three cherry blossoms still hadn't returned. Keigo Atobe, who had been sitting alone for a long time, went to the courtyard and looked up.

The dark mountains almost obscured the vision, and the dark purple glow seemed to be swallowed and disappeared quickly. The air smelled of corruption and new life unique to the forest—the atmosphere of this place always made people feel depressing.

Even the shrine gave Atobe Keigo a subtle, decadent premonition.

While he was in a trance, he seemed to catch some sound in his ears. Keigo Atobe listened attentively, softly and shallowly, mixed with the tide-like sound of the wind passing through the forest, and seemed extraordinarily light.

It's music.

Atobe Keigo thought about it and then searched along the road.

That direction should be the main hall. I remember that Akiyoshi Suoko mentioned the ritual of praying to the gods. If the time is not now, then the music at this moment is the practice of the witches.

I don't know how many courtyards have been bypassed, and the eyes suddenly open up. The first thing that catches Atobe Keigo's eyes is the sea of ​​brilliant lights, as if to crush the night, the lights gather all the bright and bright colors.

Lacquer hairpins engraved with exquisite patterns, and layers of long sleeves sway in the ambiguous light and shadow.

The witches walked the ancient dance steps, and the delicate faces like flower bones appeared and disappeared. From nowhere, there were indistinct giggles, mixed with sacrificial Kagura, and exuded a strange smell of sadness.

Atobe Keigo found the three cherry blossoms in the sound of waves, and at the same time, he also saw the woman who was hidden in the crimson brocade and white petals, dressed like those witches, but sitting in the center.

In the distance, the woman raised her sleeves to half hide her face. The strange thing is that Keigo Atobe could clearly hear her crying, soft and touching but full of sorrow.

Who is that?

The bell rang deafeningly crisply, and in an instant, the phantom woven by smoke dissipated, and as far as the eye could see, the priestesses in full costumes sang and danced, while the sad woman hiding among them disappeared like night dew.

……

"Are you okay?"

Feeling a bit of coldness on his cheek, he narrowly pulled back Keigo Atobe's sanity, and after his gaze gathered, he realized that at some point, Sakurako Sanjo stood in front of him, looking at him halfway up, with some doubts and worries in his eyes .

"Ah, what can I do? It's you, just running around." He raised his hand and knocked on the head of someone who had the courage to admit his mistakes and not repent. Keigo Atobe quickly glanced behind her, and the music had stopped , the shrine maidens scattered nearby were laughing and laughing leisurely, so calm that no one noticed it just now.

Atobe Keigo closed his eyes, suppressed all his doubts and astonishment to the corner of his heart, then pulled the three cherry blossoms over, turned around, and walked in the same direction as he walked back and forth, as if nothing had happened on his face, only the strength of tightening his fingertips Vent his nervousness.

According to the data seen during the day, the prayer ceremonies here are all at night. What is the reason?According to ancient legends, the origin of worshiping the moon is to appease and frighten the dead, if what he sees is not a hallucination...

Hmm - no, no, it should be a hallucination, definitely a hallucination!

Atobe Keigo shook his head violently, rejecting all the messy and unscientific suspicions in his mind, and turned his mind to associate it with the current events.

If...the murder has something to do with it...as expected...

Turning his head to look at the three Sakurako walking side by side, Atobe Keigo pursed the corners of his mouth, and finally swallowed back the words that had come to his lips.

If everything is really closely related, it means that the source of the murder definitely did not happen when the Atobe Group developed this place this year, combined with the legend passed down by the local people for generations...

Coveted treasures, loyal guardians, poignant love, deprivation of people who confuse people's opinions, and thinking about it in reverse, maybe it is betrayal, plunder, and silence.

You must know that in many cases, the truth hidden behind the beautiful false appearance is often chilling.

Of course, before finding out the key, these are still his own speculations; at present, there is even more difficult matter, those two girls of unknown origin.

Takahashi Akiko, and Sakurai Cherry.

Although Sanjo Sakurako didn't say anything, it doesn't mean that Keigo Atobe couldn't understand. How could a person who can make Sanjo Sakurako jealous be an idler?

Even though the three girls hit it off right away, during the day, especially after Sanjo Sakura made a move, even after they were intimate, there was still a hint of tentativeness in their words from time to time.

So, women are trouble.

Atobe Keigo snorted secretly.

……

Walking slowly along the path of coming, before you know it, the laughter of silk and bamboo is left far behind, and the solemn and quiet incense sticks in the air are replaced by the old and humid atmosphere.

The surroundings became extremely quiet, and under the dim light, Keigo Atobe suddenly heard Sakurako Sanjo whispering, "Kingwu, do you want that batch of gold?"

Her tone was extremely careless, as if she was asking a question that couldn't be more ordinary.

Atobe Keigo paused suddenly, his heart was filled with turbulent waves in an instant, and after a while he slowly turned his head to look at Sanjo Sakura, but saw that she was also looking at him, her eyes flashed, making people tremble with fear...