I survive in a high-risk world by writing essays

The person Misa Iwacho mentioned lived at 3, 16-chome, Yasho-cho, which was far away from my house, but it was quite close to the Sato house where the fourth cat was found.

Because I noticed that among the houses I passed by, there was a sign (name plate) of [Sato House] hanging on the door.

But the places where the other three cats were dumped are far away from here. I don't know if there are any points worth deliberating.

"That's right here, that person lives on the third floor." Yan Changmeisha pointed to the door on the far right upstairs, "He may be at home now, what are we going to..."

"Go straight up and knock on the door, and take him down when the people inside come to open the door!" Ning Ning clenched his fists and made an extremely simple and rude proposal.

Is this kid always so reckless?

"However, even if it's really a cat abuser, he's not breaking the law, Ningning." Akane Aoi showed a gentle smile, "On the contrary, if we just break in like this, it's considered illegal intrusion into other people's houses."

Ning Ning: "Uh..."

"Akane is right." I nodded approvingly, and looked up at the ordinary closed door.

But humans not only allow entering other people's houses to be illegal trespassing, but there is no such thing as a curse.

I plan to let Jiao or Ryoko Zhihua sneak in to take a look later. If the other party is an ordinary person, he will not be able to see the curse, and he can find clues to solve the problem smoothly.

If you can see it, then this incident is not just a cat abuse incident.

Well, the logic is pretty straightforward.

"However, classmate Yan Chang's cat has been lost and has not yet been found. If you delay for a while, you may be in danger. It is not suitable for us to delay the process of identifying the suspect for too long. What Ning Ning said is not to rush to knock on the door directly. Lost a way." When the two little girls Chigenkui and Yanchang Meisa were not paying attention, I gave Jiao a gesture to let him sneak into the suspect's house through the window on the other side, and then spoke to the three little girls. , "From the attitude of this person after opening the door, we can actually see a lot of problems. Only by contacting the problem can we find the problem, but this behavior has the risk of alarming the snake."

I explained the pros and cons to them.

After thinking about it for a while, the little girls agreed to my proposal.

As the only adult present, I certainly wouldn't let them walk in front, so I let Ning Ning lead the general, and let them stop at the stairs after going upstairs, and then I went to the door by myself. Walk through the closed door.

The sound insulation effect of this door seems to be not very good. As I gradually approached, I heard a strange sound coming from that door.

It's a bit like a chewing sound, but this kind of chewing sound is obviously impossible for humans to make, and it is still the sound of biting a hard bone.

My footsteps stopped for a while, and I listened carefully to the strange sound coming from inside.

And when I listened carefully, the chewing sound disappeared again, replaced by subtle voices and walking sounds, and even a vague scream from across the door.

It was the screams of people.

Um...

Kind of suspicious... no, very suspicious.

"Tuk Tuk"

I raised my hand and knocked on the door.

All sounds from inside the door died away.

After a while, I heard a male voice asking, "Who is it?"

"Express delivery." I just found a reason, regardless of whether the people inside believed it or not.

The doorknob was slowly unscrewed from the inside. I watched the door open a little bit. The person who opened the door was still muttering 'I haven't bought anything recently'. Showing a polite smile without sincerity, "Excuse me."

"...Who are you?" The thin man in a sweater who opened the door asked in bewilderment and surprise.

At this time, the three girls who were waiting at the stairs saw the door open, and they already ran over one after another.

"Is it him?"

Iwacho Misa nodded vigorously.

"Wait, wait, what are you guys doing?" the thin man hurriedly said, his eyes fell on her following Iwacho Misa's nod, and he said a little uncertainly, "I remember you are from the Iwacho family in front. daughter?"

I saw the window behind this thin man open silently, and Jiao had already taken advantage of this time to enter his home.

...But when I opened the door and saw the person, I actually felt that this person should not be the person who abused the cat and threw the corpse.

First of all, there is no smell of blood, and there is no smell in the room that can be seen at a glance-of course, these can be disguised, or it may be that the smell is clean, the cat abuse is not at home, but in some other place such as the darkroom of the basement warehouse.

However, a person's temperament and impression cannot be faked. Although this person meets the conditions in my profile, he is too herbivorous.

Unless this person is particularly good at disguising.

"Uncle, Mimi from Misa's family is lost. We want to ask if you have seen her cat." Ning Ning stepped forward to stand in front of Misa Yanchang, raised her head and asked calmly, hanging on her body The right hand on the side hides back and gestures to Hanako seemingly indistinctly.

"Uncle, uncle?" The thin man seemed to be shocked by this address, but he still thought about it carefully, "Is it that cute little milk cat? I haven't seen it before. I rarely go out, you want If you are looking for a lost cat, you should ask the ladies who are often out and about."

As soon as the thin man's words fell, a black shadow suddenly flashed in my peripheral vision, and jumped out from under the table in the room, about to jump out of the wide open window.

Before we had time to react, the general led by Ning Ning had already jumped out quickly, and got into his room through the gap exposed by the thin man.

Because it was very honest before, Ning Ning's rope was not tight, and the general broke free immediately.

I saw the general pounce on the window with a fierce tiger, and suddenly held down the black figure that was trying to jump out of the window.

It was a one-eyed old cat with a broken tail. It was probably because of poor balance without a tail that it was held down by the general before jumping out of the window.

My gaze fell on the base of the broken tail of the one-eyed old cat.

"It's really you!" Of course, everyone else saw this scene, and Misa Iwacho, who lost her cat, asked courageously with red eyes, "Where did you get my Mimi!"

"What? It's really not me!" At this time, the thin man finally understood why we knocked on the door today, and he quickly defended, "This old cat should have escaped from the cat abuser. A few days ago, it ran out of the window of my house covered in injuries and fell in front of the garbage room not far away, so I went to pick it up and take care of the injuries, I..."

It really wasn't him.

I listened to this thin man's incoherent justification, and after he finished speaking, I looked away from the window and asked politely, "Excuse me, can I go in and take a look?"

The other party hesitated a little, and finally nodded under the suspicious eyes of the three little girls, "... yes."

After getting permission, I went into this man's room and walked to the window.

The general who was holding down the one-eyed old cat with a broken tail loosened his paws, and the old cat with its frayed hair made a sharp cry, especially when someone approached, it jumped back into the cardboard box under the table as if in a state of stress.

I looked down from the window and saw that there was a road section with a corner below. Behind the wall next to the road section was the back of [Sato House] we passed by on the way here.

Three floors, this position can clearly see everything that happened on the road below, even the faces of passers-by can be seen clearly.

And this section of the road, I also confirmed in the photos, is where the fourth cat was found.

"When the cat abuser left the cat there that day, did you see it from this window?"

I stood at this window and watched for a while, then turned around and looked directly at the thin man, and spoke firmly.

The other party was stunned for a moment, with a hesitant expression and didn't know what he was worried about. After a while, he nodded and admitted, "Yes, I saw it."

This thin man is called Miyazaki Aozora.

It is completely in line with the profile image I gave before, 31 years old, a thin male, living alone, rarely in contact with others, the rare difference is that he is not unemployed, but a freelancer whose occupation is similar to mine.

a cartoonist.

"But it's almost the same as being unemployed. The serialized manga was cut in half not long ago." Miyazaki Aozora added himself.

Then after talking, I also figured out where the weird chewing, screaming, talking, and walking noises I heard before knocking on the door came from.

Before opening the door, Miyazaki Aozora was watching a movie on a movie projection screen and speakers at home. He was watching a movie about American vampire werewolves. The chewing sound was the sound of werewolves eating, at the highest volume.

——These are off-topic.

"Uncle, if you see the cat abuser, do you recognize him?" Ning Ning raised her hand and asked, thinking that Miyazaki Aozora rarely communicates with people, so she probably doesn't know many people, so she changed the question, " Or have you photographed or drawn that person? We can use the portrait to find that person!"

"I didn't see the face. The man was wearing a hoodie and a coat when he left the cat. The hood of the hoodie was pulled up to cover his head." Miyazaki Aozora shook his head, "I only saw that he was wearing a The gray sweater looks less than 1.7 meters, and it may also be because the person is hunched over, so he looks shorter."

So, is the thread broken again?

I touched the general's head while I was thinking. The general was lying on the ground watching the one-eyed old cat hiding in a cardboard box under the table.

The one-eyed old cat didn't probe at all.

"Perhaps the cat will know where the man lives." I thought.