[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

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After the morning class, I walked out of the classroom and decided to skip all the afternoon classes.Yu hasn't seen Yakumo for a long time. I made an agreement with Yakumo before, not to cause any trouble to see him.So now is the best time.

"Ozawa-san!"

I turned around following the call, and there was a girl running towards me in the corridor.Although I haven't spoken to her, I sometimes see her in class, and I remember her name is Mayuko.

Why did she call me?

"Uh, I have something I want to discuss with you."

Mayuko said straight to the point.A person who only knew his name and appearance came to me and said that he wanted to discuss something. I didn't know how to respond. I was embarrassed to refuse in front of him.

"Well, if I can help."

In the end, I answered ambiguously.

Mayuko said it was inconvenient to talk there, so we moved to the school cafeteria.

What Mayuko wants to discuss with me is not about love or relationships, but even if you discuss love with me, I can't help you.However, why did you come to me to discuss this kind of thing?

"Please, please save me!"

Mayuko cried out in pain with tears in her eyes.

"Even though you said that..."

What Mayuko asked me to discuss turned out to be about supernatural phenomena.

Mayuko saw a ghost girl by the river on a rainy day. Although she ran away in fright on the spot, she seemed to suffer from the ghost girl every night after that.Sometimes she would be bound so tightly that she couldn't move, always felt that someone was in the room, and heard the voice of the girl "I will curse you".

"I'm sorry to bring this up to you so suddenly. I discussed it with Miki, and she said that you can solve the ghost-related matter with you."

Sure enough, it was that guy.Think about it carefully, how could someone discuss things with someone they almost met for the first time?There should be a limit to irresponsibility!I couldn't help cursing Miki in my heart.

"It's fine if you want to talk to me, but there's nothing I can do."

"Don't say that, you were the one who exorcised the ghosts from Miki, right? Miki said you could exorcise spirits, so please, please save me!"

Mayuko grabbed my hand and begged desperately.I'm the least immune to this situation, but there's really nothing I can do about it.

It was true that Mei Shu was possessed by a ghost four months ago, but I was not the one who solved the matter at that time, I was just watching from the sidelines.The real solution to the incident was the arrogant and awkward man Saito Yakumo who could see the soul of the dead with his left eye.

"No, actually um..."

I want to say something about Yakumo, but I don't know where to start, and if I say Yakumo's name casually, and talk about his tabooed abilities without any scruples, he will definitely say again: "Are you taking the liberty to mention my name to others?"

When I was troubled, Mayuko held my hand tightly and begged me, "Please, I will do anything to repay you!"

"Ah good."

Damn, I accidentally agreed.

Mayuko kept saying, "Thank you, thank you!" Tears flowed down my face.

As a result, I took trouble to find Yakumo again.

"I don't know if this can be used as a clue."

Mayuko handed me a folded handkerchief.What's in it?I lifted the handkerchief from my palm.

It is a mobile phone strap, and the small squares with English letters written on it are connected together. Although it is stained by mud, the text can still be read.Looking at those words made my heart skip a beat.

AYAKA

sister.I can't help but whisper in my heart.

"The day I saw the ghost, the thing hooked to the button of my sleeve."

A girl with the same name as her sister.I subconsciously overlapped the figure of the ghost girl Mayuko saw with my sister.

"Officer Goto, may I ask you a question?"

Ishii asked while driving.here we go again!His speech dulled the taste of the cigarette he was smoking now.This man's mouth is full of questions, it's annoying!Goto simply turned a deaf ear.

"Officer Goto has solved a lot of cases, right?"

"Um?"

Ishii began to talk to himself again.Didn't he see that I ignored him?Learn to be smart! "Ignore" means telling him not to talk to me.Goto gritted his teeth angrily.

"I know those cases were solved by your spiritual power, but what kind of spiritual power do you possess?"

"what are you saying?"

"Don't hide it. Yin-yang eyes? Or is it a spirit? Is it from practice? Or is it born?"

Is this guy an out-and-out idiot?What practice?I am not Yakumo.

"Newcomer, listen carefully. I declare in advance that I do not possess any spiritual powers. If the incident you mentioned refers to the murder of a university lecturer, the incident of hiding a body in a garage, and the incident of fraudulently claiming insurance money, I do not Didn't do anything."

"You are so humble! It's hard to imagine that Officer Goto is such a cautious and self-disciplined person."

Ishii smiled, showing a row of neat and white teeth.

Don't look at me with those sparkling eyes that you only have in shojo manga!

"I'm not humble. I'm really not doing anything."

"Everyone knows that Officer Goto is a "Phantom Detective"!"

What "spiritual detective", how dare you give me such a messy nickname!I'm not the protagonist in the comics, are you laughing at me?

"I can't stand it! It's so annoying! Shut up and drive. Fucking bald!"

"Bald? I'm sorry, I'm not bald. Although my father's hair volume is indeed a little less than the average person, but my father's father, that is, my grandfather, he still had gray hair until he passed away. Inherited from generation to generation It's possible, but it's too early to tell if I'll be bald."

Say what you like.I don't want to control you anymore!

25

I went to a two-story modular house in Building B. Each floor has ten small cubicles the size of four stacks of tatami mats. This is a place lent by the school for club activities.

I'm standing in front of a door marked "Film Studies Club" in the deepest part of the first floor.

Yakumo lived in this compartment.Founding the "Film Research Club" was actually a huge lie. He deceived the school and borrowed this room as his own residence, which is his unknown home.

I really miss it, when was the last time I saw this door?

After that day, the work at hand suddenly increased, and it seemed that a long time had passed by the time I resolved these matters to the point where I could be in a daze in class.

I fell into emotion for no reason. Although I didn't see Yakumo again, we didn't lose contact because of this.

Gee.

This time it really brought a big trouble over.

"Do you want to go in or not?"

I stood at the door in a daze.

"Come in or not, and decide quickly."

It seems that he has been waiting.

I raised my hand and opened the door.

Yakumo appeared in front of my eyes.He was still sitting on the chair directly in front of me with the same disheveled hair and the look of just waking up.

Yakumo has a fiery red left eye, which he usually wears with black contact lenses to hide it.For him, that innate ability was a taboo.

"have not seen you for a long time."

I sat down in front of Yakumo familiarly.But Yakumo yawned big and scratched his head like a cat.

"How did you come here today?"

"I realized that I almost forgot about your face, so I ran over to consolidate it."

"Is my face an English text?"

"Oh? Looks like English is really not that good."

"You bastard..." Yakumo glared at me, speaking in a blunt and awkward tone of concern that didn't match his expression, "Are you sleeping?"

"Well," I thought for a while, "probably so." And I had nightmares.

"Are you so impatient to appear in my left eye?"

"Come on," I shrugged, "Isn't there you?"

"...It's because you treat me like your butler that my English is not good." Yakumo said dissatisfiedly while staring at me.

"The two have nothing to do with each other." I shrugged, "But it seems you have found a way?"

Yakumo pointed to the photo on the table, which showed a woman in her early twenties.It looks a little plump, and I think her smile is sweet.This photo was taken in a villa or something, right?The background is a lush forest.

"Is this your girlfriend?"

"Haven't seen you in a while, the screws in your head are loose."

Yakumo sighed with a look of seeing the end of the world.

"So your reminder is so important."

"I don't want to tell you this... Take a closer look at the tree in the background."

"There is a human face on the tree trunk?" I found that there was indeed a sad-looking human face on the tree trunk. "Is this a ghost photo?"

"No, it's just a pure illusion."

"Oh."

"The brightness of the light makes the uneven tree trunk look like a human face. When the human brain recognizes things, it will look for similar things from past memories as a comparison, and then recognize them. As long as the shape is similar, it will subconsciously Think it looks like a human face, and if I tell you there’s a human face there, you’ll see it with preconceived notions. The facts are right in front of you.”

"Such a thing is indeed possible. ... Is this the way you used to learn English?"

"You know Okochi-sensei who teaches English, right?"

"Yeah, it's the American teacher."

"What a good analogy! This