[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

Author: summer is a bit cold

ONE

In your eyes, what is the soul?

The heavy rain is pattering, the black world, and the muddy figures are running in the mud.

The residue of the spirit left in the body after death?

'Slap'.Step into a puddle.

Or is it an obsession that is not willing to die?

The figure looked back, but ran faster.

The engine that makes the machine of the 'flesh' go into motion?

The figure finally lost all strength and fell to the ground.He looks back.

A kind of dispensable thing?

It was the outline of a girl.

What would it be like to have a soul?

The girl is like a puppet being pulled by a string, and slowly begins to dance, as if it is some kind of sacrificial dance.

So what if the soul is missing?

There was no trace of expression in the girl's empty eyes.

As the girl danced, the figure gradually dissipated.

Houses in the distance were gradually reduced to ashes in the flames.

Everything, dissipated into nothing.

It seemed that the string holding the girl suddenly broke, and the girl fell to the ground suddenly.

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"Ah?" I suddenly woke up from the dream, ah, is it this dream again?

I don't know how many times, every time something happens, I will have this dream.

So, what's going on this time?Thinking of this, I got up, walked into the bathroom, and looked at myself in the mirror.

My name is Haruka Ozawa.

TWO

I am an ordinary college student. Because of someone's last wish, I am the Department of Education of the Faculty of Arts. As for other majors, there are psychology and philosophy, that's all.

I came to an added two-story building behind Building B of the school building.On the first and second floors of this building, there are many small cubicles divided into four tatami mats, which are places that the school lends to students for club activities.My destination is the deepest compartment on the first floor.

"Film Studies Club"

Yes, it is here.

I checked the number and knocked on the door, but there was no response.Although I knew it was rude, I still opened the door without permission to peek at the situation in the room.

As soon as I opened the door, I met the eyes of a slender man facing her.The white shirt was hanging sloppily on the man's body, and his hair seemed to be raised high from a sleep.Although casual and decadent hairstyles are very popular recently, the man's messy hair is obviously caused by not combing after waking up.Cheeks as pale as pottery, and eyes that are still sleepy.I blinked, closed the door again and opened it again after confirming that the number plate was correct.

"Can you please come in and close the door?" The man looked at me and said impatiently, "If you are looking for the "Film Studies Club", you are right."

I nodded, walked in and closed the door.

In addition to that man, there were two other men in the room.The two looked at the playing cards and tried not to let the man see the cards.It was a five of spades.

"Sorry, if you have something to ask me, don't stand there, can I trouble you to sit over there? I won't be able to concentrate."

I looked at the door again, and after confirming my guess, I walked over there silently, shook the dusty chair, and sat down.

The man closed his eyes and clenched his brows with his fingers, as if he was thinking about something.After a while, he opened his eyes and murmured.

"Five of Spades."

The two men made discouraged noises and dropped their playing cards on the table.

"Damn! Let you hit the mark again!"

Cursing, they took out thousand-yen bills from their pockets, put them on the table and left the room.

"Please sit down, do you have anything to do with me?" The man put the banknotes into his jacket pocket and asked with a big yawn.

I obeyed and sat on the chair that the two men sat on just now.Although this chair is not covered with dust, it still makes people unable to distinguish its original color.

"It's really something." I said lightly, then stood up again, took down the mirror on the door, sat back on the chair, picked up a poker face to me, and asked him, "How much?"

"..." He stared at me wordlessly.

I put down my cards, "So, I hope you can show proof."

"That's right, I don't have super powers, but I can see the souls of the dead. This is not a super power, but a physique. For example, you wouldn't say that absolute pitch is a super power, right? Physique, yeah, it can be said to be a kind of talent... In short, I can't see through objects, and I can't use my mind, but I can see the soul of the dead after I was born." He said bluntly, "As for the proof..."

"I don't know if that's proof that there's a soul in this room right now."

"Oh?" I said lightly.

"The one in this room now is your twin sister..."

"Sister...?" I murmured.

"That's right, your older sister, named Ayaka, died in a traffic accident when she was seven years old."

"You still think that your sister's death is your responsibility."

"Your sister ran out onto the road to catch your throw, and that's when..."

"Also, your sister said she didn't hate you."

"If you don't believe me, I have other ways. Your sister has one thing that makes you feel sorry for you. She said that she hid your mother's ring, but you were scolded at that time... The tape was stuck to the top wooden board in the shoe cabinet... She wanted to tell the truth, but then she couldn't..."

I just kept silent. After listening to him, I took out my phone,

"What's the matter? It's rare that you call home."

"nothing……"

"You're still bad at lying. What happened?"

"Mom, do you remember losing your ring a long time ago? When my sister was alive."

"Why did you bring this up all of a sudden?"

"Can you go and look for the top board in the shoe cabinet?"

"Why do you still care about this?"

"Don't ask so many questions, just look for it first."

"well."

After my mother answered helplessly, the reserved music streamed from the other end of the phone, which was Chopin's "Farewell Song".Ayaka plays the piano well, even the difficult pieces for adults, she can play them accurately: In comparison, I am not as good as her.That's it.

"Found it, the ring is really there!"

"Haruka, you really did this, right?"

"It's not me, it's my sister." I hung up the phone.Looking up, "How much?"

"5000 yuan, including consumption tax."

"I only have two thousand." I held my wallet in front of Yakumo, and waved the empty wallet.

"Okay, I'll help you investigate." Yakumo pushed back my hand holding the wallet and replied.

"Do you know what it is?" I said lightly.

"Go ahead." He shrugged.

"I have a friend named Miki. She went to the abandoned house in our school that was said to be haunted by ghosts, and she seemed to really see ghosts."

"What kind of ghost?"

"I don't know the details, because I didn't go with her. It seems that Miki's boyfriend, Kazuhiko, went with a friend named Yuichi."

"As a result, did they go there specifically to experience ghost stories?"

"It's not like that. Since then, Miki has become weird. She has been in a coma and has a high fever."

"The recent epidemic virus is really scary."

"If that's the case, I don't need to appear here." I said lightly.

"That's true." Yakumo became a little obedient and asked me to continue talking.

"...Mei Shu is not only in a coma all the time, but also keeps dreaming: 'Help me!' or 'Get me out of here!' Although she has been diagnosed by a doctor, except for her high fever, she has no abnormalities in her body. It may be a mental problem. She is away alone, although I want to contact her parents, but the phone has not been connected, I have nowhere to ask for help, so I came to you to discuss."

I frowned, hating this feeling of powerlessness, just like my sister back then.

"So, you think her symptoms are related to the ghost she saw in that abandoned house, so you want me to investigate?"

"Yes, I heard that Mr. Saito is clearer about that aspect."

So it was settled.

Yakumo wanted to see Miki before going to the abandoned house full of doubts, so I took Yakumo to the hospital where Miki was recuperating.

Walk for 10 minutes from the university, walk through the station and exit at the other end, and the hospital is not far away.

"Can I ask you something?"

Yakumo didn't answer, so I took it as his acquiescence.

"Do you do things like exorcism?"

"I'm not that capable."

...I think so too.

I kept silent, came to the hospital with him, and Yakumo told the nurse at the counter that we came to see Miki.And then we took the elevator that just stopped

"Can I ask you a question too?" Yakumo said as the elevator door closed.

"There were three people who went to that abandoned house, what happened to the other two?"

"Kazuhiko and Yuichi seem to have run away. When Yuichi ran to the exit of the campus, he found himself alone. Although he was very scared, he seemed to have returned to the scene of the incident halfway. When he returned to the miscellaneous forest, he found Mei Shu fainted in the grass... Then he took Mei Shu and ran away. But Mei Shu was still unconscious, so he brought Mei Shu to the hospital. After he contacted me the next morning, I rushed to the hospital Arrived at the hospital."

"Another named Kazuhiko