[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

While rubbing his sleepy eyes, Yun slowly got out of the sleeping bag.

"It's really lucky that you can live in this kind of place." I sighed.

I found a chair and sat down, waiting for Yakumo to finish grooming.

"I go home sometimes too."

"Do you have a home?"

Yakumo didn't answer, just took out the toothbrush from the refrigerator and began to brush his teeth.

"Are the parents worried?"

"Worried? That's not the case."

Yakumo replied with a toothbrush in his mouth. His tone was like that of a rebellious middle school student, which made me laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Most of his face was under the towel, and he stared at me coldly from the gap in the towel.

"For a moment just now, Yakumo looked like a child, the kind in the second grade of middle school." I smiled.

Yakumo sat down while wiping his face with a towel, stared at me dissatisfied, and finally sighed.

"If you were worried, you wouldn't want to kill me."

"How to say?"

"My left eye can see things that other people can't. I don't know if they feel scared or hate it. One day, my mother was driving me out and she said 'sorry' and put her hand on my neck. ;Her strength is getting stronger and stronger, and my consciousness is getting weaker and weaker. Later, I was rescued by the police who just passed by. My mother fled in fear of crime, and her whereabouts are unknown. And my father does not even exist in my memory. In this world there are parents who don’t love their children, and there are children who don’t love their parents.”

"...Although it's not good to complain at this time, it's really a plot that only exists in TV dramas." I sighed.

"Now I'm staying at my uncle's house. Although he wants me not to look outside, he has his own family after all, so I can't bother him too much."

Yakumo's left eye has been hidden behind the contact lens, and the pupil has also turned black.What should I say to Yakumo?I searched for the appropriate language in my mind.I hate to admit it, but I'm really bad at comforting people.

"You don't have to worry about it."

Yakumo spoke as if he sensed my mood.

"Sorry." I bowed my head.

"Why are you apologizing?"

"because……"

"As long as you see that my eyes don't escape, that's enough."

Yakumo seemed surprised by the words he blurted out, and looked sullen. His reaction made me chuckle.Yakumo stared at me like reprimanding, and I quickly stopped laughing.

"Yesterday made me understand one thing."

Perhaps Yakumo felt embarrassed, so he suddenly changed the subject.

"what's up?"

"The black shadow that attacked me yesterday is undoubtedly a living person."

"How can you be so sure?"

"That's where my eyes come in handy. My right eye can only see solid objects, and my left eye can only see the spirits of the dead."

"That is to say, your right eye can see the shadow that attacked us yesterday, but your left eye can't?"

"That's right...Even if I say that, don't come up suddenly and cover my eyes! Don't verify what I said all the time, okay!" Yakumo dodged my hand, "I also care about that The closed room was opened."

"But who opened it?"

"I don't know, but there are many suspects."

"Maybe it has something to do with Aizawa-senpai?"

"Aizawa?"

Yakumo was confused.

"It's the person Mr. Takaoka mentioned yesterday. He is Yuri's boyfriend, and he introduced me to you."

"He also has this suspicion."

Looking up at the ceiling, Yakumo crossed his arms and said.

"You seem suspicious of him."

"It can't be said like that, but I always feel that something is wrong."

"Then let's ask Aizawa-senpai directly, and I also want to talk to Takaoka-sensei again."

"If you want to investigate, please feel free."

"Fine. But have you noticed?"

"Pay attention to what?"

"When I said 'teacher' that day, that shadow paused, right?"

"..."

"Well, to be on the safe side, I'd better ask the senior."

Yakumo and I then made an appointment to meet again in the evening, and they decided to act separately.Therefore, Yakumo asked me to make three chapters with him:

Do not go to sparsely populated places, avoid the core when you ask anyone, and contact him as soon as you have a clue. In this way, I should be able to avoid the danger of being attacked during the day: after all, that happened just yesterday Yakumo urged me to be careful about my own safety.

I ran up and down the campus, and finally found Aizawa in the cafeteria—he seemed to have skipped class, drinking a can of coffee while reading job advertisements.There are people coming and going here, so it shouldn't be a problem.

"Senior Aizawa."

After I greeted him and sat down across from him, Aizawa raised his head and smiled at me in a friendly manner.He's short, round and cute as a stuffed toy.I tried to imagine Yuri and Aizawa standing side by side, and I always felt that there was a sense of imbalance.

"What's wrong? Any clues?"

Facing Aizawa's question, I shook my head.Not to mention there are any clues, the current situation is even more chaotic.

"But it's really hard for you, that Saito Yakumo is a cunning rascal, right?"

"Well, about that... Anyway, he said he didn't know you."

Aizawa couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Of course! To him, I'm like part of the landscape. Before, I just accompanied my friends to find him and see him guess the numbers on the poker cards."

That's deceiving.I fell silent.It's better to keep silent about this kind of thing, Aizawa actually introduced me to Yakumo just because of this, so it's okay not to tell him.

"Then, although it is very hard, I still ask you to work hard!"

Aizawa stood up from his seat.

"Ah, please wait a moment."

I have to ask Aizawa about something.I quickly called Aizawa to stop.

"Is there a problem?"

Aizawa sat back on the chair again.

I ignored the three chapters of Yakumo's agreement and asked straight to the point

"Senior Aizawa, do you know Yuri Shinohara?"

"Yuri Shinohara——"

The moment Aizawa heard this name, his expression was obviously distorted, and his eyes seemed to see something evil.

His reaction was unusual, and I ventured to continue asking.

"I heard that Aizawa-senpai is dating Shinohara-san..."

"We're not dating."

"what?"

Aizawa pouted.

"I don't know where you heard about it, but we have no relationship!"

"But……"

"I was dumped by her after I confessed to her! And what does it have to do with this incident?"

"It doesn't matter at all," I said, "Senior, do you know who told me?"

"Who is it?" Aizawa stared at me.

"It's Teacher Gao Gang." I said, "Senior, why did Teacher Gao Gang say that?"

"How would I know!" Aizawa said irritably, "I'm leaving."

I watched his back gradually going away, and I felt a little relieved.

Yakumo moved the sliding desk in the reference room, browsing the back of the file folders arranged in an orderly manner - the completed drawing of the student dormitory.Yakumo quickly found what he was looking for, and he pulled out the document from the top of the bookshelf: the document was very old, with a yellowish color and a musty smell, and it was written: Completion, Showa 30 .

Yakumo moved the documents to the reading desk and flipped through them page by page. The documents recorded the boundary map and the expected completion map in detail.After turning about ten pages, Yakumo found the floor plan of the building.

There are two records on the plan, one is the plan of the first floor of the abandoned house, and the other is the first floor of the basement.

Yakumo carefully traced the structural diagram with his fingers.found it!It records the location leading to the basement in the room that cannot be opened.

Yakumo took out the key he borrowed from Yamane yesterday from his pocket. There were three keys on the key ring, one was the entrance door, the other was the master key of each small room, and the last one was the key to the basement.Only the bed in the "unopenable room" was positioned differently, presumably to hide the door to the basement.I'm afraid there's something hiding in the basement.

Yakumo left the campus as unobtrusively as possible, and entered the miscellaneous forest through the forest path again.It took more time than he thought to walk through the mixed forest without roads, and a lot of fallen leaves got into his shoes.Maybe my thoughts are a little too naive!As the sweat oozing from his forehead increased, the regret in his heart gradually increased.The surroundings had begun to get dark, so he had to quicken his pace anyway.

He brushed aside the branches and leaves on the road and moved forward silently.

I glanced at my watch, it was already three o'clock, and there was still nearly an hour before the meeting with Yakumo.I couldn't help sighing, I have nothing to do now, I can only pass the time in the restaurant blankly.

"Haruka-san."

I looked up to the source of the sound.It's Takaoka.His face looked tired from lack of sleep.

"Teacher, I just have something to ask you."

This is a great opportunity.It's a bit dangerous, but it's a good bet.

"what's up?"

Takaoka sat down across from me.

"The senior said he wasn't dating Yuri at all, how did the teacher know about this?"

"Oh that," Takaoka breathed a sigh of relief, "I just heard some rumors, haha."

"So does the teacher know who Yuri likes?" I asked.

"I..." Gao Gang showed an unnatural look on his face, "How would I know?"

"The teacher felt that he was dumped as soon as he confessed.