[Bungo Stray Dogs] Snus

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This is really a failed operation.

Steinbeck sat in a dimly lit room. Although he didn't know where it was, he could guess something.

It should be a prison, to detain them.

At this moment, his hands were shackled, and all the seeds on his body were taken away. In order to prevent hiding, even his clothes were changed into a solid-color suit, which looked a bit like a prison uniform.

Honestly, it's ugly.

But this is not what he wants to pay attention to. The only light source in this room is the desk lamp on the table. He just tried to hit the wall, and the dull feedback indicates that it is very strong.

He tried to analyze where this was, but the only thing he could think of was that it wasn't an ordinary prison.

The seeds were taken away, completely deteriorating him, a person with supernatural powers.

It's really sad. He was caught in prison as soon as he set foot on this land of the Far East. Well, he is too despised the people with supernatural powers in this land.

He didn't expect that there would be someone who could face Lovecraft head-on, although he didn't know where that colleague came from and what kind of supernatural power it was.

But there is no doubt that the power displayed by the two of them that night was at the monster level.

and.

If Lovecraft is also in this prison, he should be able to escape easily, but the premise is that he needs to be awake, and he doesn't know what the supernatural being did to him that night.

To be honest, even in North America, well, in fact, I don’t go out very often, because some things in life are always active in my hometown, but as far as he knows, such power is very rare even in his country.

All right.

I don't want these anymore.

You should think about how to get out.

The safest way, of course, is that Fitzgerald can get them out. Although he doesn't like this boss who always takes money to talk, it is better to be able to pay himself than not to be able to pay.

He knows the power of the Guild, as well as its influence on the surface. They should be able to break away from this place soon. This is the influence brought by the country, um, or it should be said to be an advantage.

But the premise is that this is not a private place.

Correct.

It's one of those secret prisons.

uncomfortable.

It's so frustrating.

Ding-dong-

Something rang, no, it’s time to say, almost three times a day, through a small door on the black door made of unknown metal, meals will be delivered on time.

Every time it is rice or something. To be honest, he prefers some bread. Of course, vegetables and the like are better.

No matter how unappetizing the meal was, Steinbeck left the bench he was sitting on, the little door opened and the tray was brought in.

Looking at the pair of white gloves that were quickly retracted, he couldn't help scratching his temples. It was impossible to find a chance to chat. The delivery door was quickly closed, and people outside seemed to regard him as a wild beast.

Ok.

It may also be that people with supernatural powers are themselves dangerous.

He picked up the plate and put it on the table. The desk lamp was still working, illuminating the white grains of rice, but today there was a new dish, which was the vegetable salad that he was still thinking about just now.

Thank God.

It seems that the guards of this kind of prison heard his wish. Steinbeck felt that his mood was a little better. He broke off the disposable chopsticks and picked up the rice. Everyone will get used to it.

He couldn't help cursing in his heart, and stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth, just

click-

Something hard pierced into his mouth while his upper and lower teeth were clenching. The rusty smell quickly interfered with the taste buds' judgment on food. He put down the bowl and saw something black inside, small, round but Not so round.

He lowered his head and spit the contents of his mouth onto the corner of the dinner plate.

There is a silver-gray key in the rice grains mixed with scarlet.

Steinbeck raised his eyebrows. It seems that God also likes to eat bread.

Ango Sakaguchi doesn't know what God likes to eat, he only knows that he can't eat anything at the moment.

The sound of sirens spread across the streets of Yokohama. The shadow of the ambulance was so fast that only the red taillights could be seen. The contacted medical staff quickly moved the emergency patients out of the car.

Among them, eight out of ten are top experts in Yokohama's inner row, and there may be some others who are preparing at the other end of the phone line.

His subordinate Tsujimura's pointed-soled black leather shoes made a clicking sound, as if someone was beating a drum on his eardrums, and he felt all the exhaustion caused by days of work broke out at this moment.

His head is a little dizzy, and his reason seems to be on the verge of collapse. What is still maintaining its own operation at this moment is the emotion called nervousness.

And in this dark corridor in front of the operating room, all that is needed is silence.

He didn't calculate how long this silence lasted. His brain seemed to be on standby the moment he learned that his boss was injured. No, it might have failed.

The subordinates talked anxiously about why the officer went out alone and was stabbed in that kind of dilapidated dilapidated building. The person who found it was the military police who had received the report.

After receiving the information, the Supernatural Secret Service Division began to operate at high speed, but as a secret agency with little real power that did not exist within the government, other officials with little supernatural power would not buy it at all.

Heh, even if you are saved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, what does it have to do with us? Even the ministers can't even think about dictating Taoist prefectures and counties.

There are still ancient habits in this country that are enough to make him vomit blood and anger.

After receiving the news that their subordinates were injured, the big figures of the Ministry of the Interior just gave you an attitude that we have done our best.

For them, no matter who established this secret agency, they must keep a certain distance.

He thought to himself that this must be the reason for his lack of real power.

The lights in the operating room were turned off, but the alarm was still on. The nurses pushed people out, and the officer was unconscious under the breathing mask. The operation didn't take long but was labor-intensive.

The doctor who came out couldn't speak well of the senses of this young man who used his power, but he would naturally follow the orders of the dean.

"Maybe I'll wake up soon, if it's just an injury."

The doctor who also wears glasses is a little tired when he speaks. This is something that will happen after the operation. It may be that he has seen a lot in the hospital. No matter what kind of person he is, he can put on a calm appearance.

It was completely different from the calmness he maintained, and Sakaguchi still realized the strangeness in this sentence by relying on his own reason.

"What's the matter with just being injured?"

"The patient's stab wound hasn't gone any deeper, and logically speaking, he doesn't need surgery, but his coma state is abnormal. After that, some routine tests may be needed before we can draw a conclusion. We will do our best here. Cooperating." The doctor didn't stay for long.

Da da--

The noisy voice sounded again, and Tsujimura's figure appeared in the corridor. She had followed the mobile bed to the ward.

Ango Sakaguchi was doing his best to calm himself down, and while it made him look the same as usual, he would have liked a refreshing drink if he could.

He reached out and touched his throat. "What's the matter, Tsujimura." When he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was a little hoarse.

"Senior, there is an abnormality on the farm chief's side."

It seemed that there was always something that didn't want him to calm down. Sakaguchi took a step towards the ward. Several investigators from the Secret Service Division were guarding the door at the moment. Tanada was injured and unconscious. Now he is the top person in charge.

The Secret Service will not stop for anything.

But at the end of the corridor, another person came hurriedly, and Sakaguchi felt his eyelids twitching all the time.

"Guild's people have escaped." The subordinate came over and said so. "Most of the place over there was damaged. According to analysis, it should be John Steinbeck's supernatural power—the Grapes of Wrath."

Even if Steinbeck is captured, he cannot be placed in the prison on this land. As long as someone blows wind on the concession, he can be easily released on bail.

And for the crimes committed by people with supernatural abilities, even if they are foreign, in the outer suburbs of the night, they simply cannot grasp the evidence that can bring them to prison.

He obviously blocked the other party's supernatural power, Sakaguchi frowned, he quickly came to two conclusions in his mind, but he needed to go there later, because his supernatural power needed to be touched.

"Monitor the traffic in Yokohama, and ask the military and police to set up roadblocks when necessary."

Small-scale military and police can still be mobilized, and they cannot be too prominent, as if the definition of an organization does not exist.

Ango Sakaguchi walked into the ward. There was still the same doctor inside, but he had already changed out of his surgical gown, but the way he stood there just looking at him still showed some indifference.

And on the officer who lifted the bedding, he saw something that was not what a normal wounded patient should have.

Something like a pattern in Western mysticism floated on the wound, filled with an abnormal sense of evil.

He also instantly understood why the doctor said 'if it was just a stab wound', it was obviously caused by a person with supernatural powers, and it was not an ordinary injury at all.

What is this ability?

He who had conducted espionage activities in Europe had heard that there was a person with supernatural powers whose supernatural powers were virus-type, which grew and gnawed in the patient's body through tiny creatures. Within 48 hours, the patient would gradually weaken and die.

That person with supernatural powers was very active in the past few years, but he was as hard to catch as a loach. It had caused many people headaches for a while, especially since all the people with supernatural abilities he targeted died in the fighting with each other.

It is known as 'cophagy'.

But, why is this co-phagia on the officer?

That person with supernatural powers also participated in the bounty offered by Renhu this time, or is he also a member of the Guild?

So, who is the other end of this co-eating?

Should he look for this uniqueness among the supernatural power users in Yokohama, or prepare a big show and wait for them to go on stage together.

'Dong Dong', the door of the ward was knocked, and Sakaguchi felt his heart beating fast. He felt that his body was already stiff at the moment, as if he was being pulled by his limbs like a puppet on a string, ready to go on stage.

Tsujimura didn't know what her boss was thinking, she opened the door, and there was a nurse outside, pushing a cart with medicines, it seemed that she was just passing by. "Excuse me, is there a Mr. Sakaguchi here?"

bang bang-

The faint smile on the female nurse's face is like a presence in the shadows asking if you are ready?

"Senior—" Tsujimura turned to look at him.

When Sakaguchi turned around, he pushed down his glasses. He had recovered his composure, but the clothes on his back were already wet. He walked over. "I'm Sakaguchi."

The female nurse's smile seemed even brighter. "There is a gentleman downstairs, let me forward this letter to you."

It was a white envelope, pure white without any other colors, Sakaguchi took it hesitantly, and squinted at Tsujimura. "You go to him, and don't care about the means if necessary."

Hearing this, Tsujimura knew immediately that he had to be caught. Even if he used his unskilled ability, although he didn't know what happened, the best thing about this subordinate was that he could obey orders, and he quickly turned into a ghost in the corridor. black spots.

The doctor came out of the ward, he seemed only interested in patients with abnormalities.

The investigators from the Secret Service Division outside the door also acted quickly. Sakaguchi walked to the window and looked downstairs. The military and police were walking this way.

He turned the envelope over, and it seemed to be carefully crafted, without any other traces, even the seal was glued on.

He took the dagger out of his pocket and cut it along the corner.

Inside is a photo, the pixels of the photo look very bad, it may be due to the light, or it may be that people can't take pictures.

On the top is a comatose teenager, with blood and some scars on his face, it looks like he has gone through a battle.

Sakaguchi's heart sank.

Flip to the back of the photo.

— Detective agency.

Big thorns, without any cover, this is the purpose of the opponent.

The condition for unlocking co-phagia is very simple, that is, to kill one party within 48 hours, which is why those people with different abilities will kill each other.

Because as long as you die, I can live.

And if they want to kill the boy, it's not just a problem between the two parties with different abilities, but a struggle between the two organizations.

Sakaguchi sat down in front of the chief's hospital bed and looked at the person on the bed. The other party's ability was to learn the details of the ability activated nearby. In countless battles, the other party had always been present at the scene.

This is a necessary condition for the activation of the supernatural ability, but what kind of information is there that is worth going to the deserted small building alone.

During the process of co-phagia activation, people will wake up, so that they can kill each other. This ability full of evil nature can imagine the evil taste of that ability user.

After the chief woke up, he would definitely tell them the information about the person who attacked him, the information about the other party's supernatural power, and the reason why he went out.

If the other party still uses co-phagia under this premise, then the person who attacked the chief, or the other party's intelligence, may be insignificant in the eyes of the people behind it.

Is the co-phagia just to put the Secret Service and the Detective Agency in a hostile position?

Sakaguchi thinks it is a bit suspicious, and he deeply feels that the reason behind this may be far more than this, but the information he has now is not enough to be able to analyze anything.

He looked at the photo and thought about what to do. The position of the detective agency is similar to that of the military and the police. Mafia is better.

"senior!"

With hurried footsteps, Tsujimura reappeared, her hair was slightly disheveled, her breath was unsteady, and beads of sweat dripped from her flushed cheeks.

The look told him that the result was not good, and Sakaguchi handed over the envelope and the photo. "Although there may be no fingerprints, just to be on the safe side, check again."

"Yes—" Tsujimura looked at the photo. "This is--"

"Only by killing him can the supernatural power of the officer be released."

"But—" The principled Tsujimura could not agree with such a decision, but when she looked at the chief on the hospital bed, she swallowed the words.

The noise in the quiet corridor gradually rose, and the investigator's footsteps were hurried and eager. "Senior Sakaguchi, the Guild is here."

He raised his eyelids to look at this subordinate.

"They went directly to the detective agency. John Steinbeck joined them soon after we found out. We were one step too late!" The search officer spoke quickly, but not chaotically, but his expression was tense.

The reward amount of 70 billion is not simple. There must be something hidden behind it. The Zhongyuan Zhong of the port mafia is not as simple as I imagined. There must be something left unsaid.

Behind this is the exchange of benefits from a huge organization, but Sakaguchi feels that there is a big hand inside, pushing something.

He stood up and kept his eyes on the officer.

——What is the mission of the Secret Service Division?

When I was promoted to Assistant Counselor, the other party once asked me this question. At first, I was just a small investigator. After the tragic dragon battle, I had the ambition and drive to climb up.

But at this position, he finally knew that no matter what position he climbed to, he had no choice.

Ango Sakaguchi twitched his lips. He knew that after he said this, some things might be accelerated, but 48 hours was not enough time to find someone.

——As long as it is for peace, even good people have to die.

"Kill this member of the detective agency." Ango Sakaguchi pushed down his glasses. Things on the scale are never equal, but there is still time to fight.

He lowered his eyelids. "Help me contact the Port Mafia."