i lied to the whole world

"One person can't die for love~ but~ two people can~"

The sand-colored windbreaker was drenched as if it had just been fished out of the water, and the man who looked like a salted fish was humming a little tune of his own making on the road.

It's already full moon, and there are only a few people on the street, such as drunken office workers and hot girls who go shopping at night.

No one took a second look at Dazai's embarrassing posture at this time. He was used to the indifference of the city, and he was even relieved that no one came up to meddle in his own business. The vigilance of the people of Yokohama has once again reached a new high.

Today, I started to enter the water in the morning, and spent a day happily floating in the river. There was no Kunikida's nagging, no work interruption, and no passers-by kindly rescued me. Except that I didn't have a young lady around me, it was a perfect suicide by diving into the water~

Unfortunately, it is still not successful today.

But it seems a bit strange that Kunikida has not called to urge him until now, nor has he asked Atsushi to come out to arrest people.

Dazai reached into his pocket and took out his mobile phone. As soon as he opened it, it was flooded and stopped working. He suddenly realized.

Hey, Kunikida-kun is going to curse again when I go back now, why don't I go back to the detective agency tomorrow~

Dazai happily decided on a method that would stimulate Kunikida even more, and as soon as he turned around, he planned to walk towards the dormitory.

I don't know when it started, but it was foggy around.

Jingle~

Dazai paused.

"Huh? Is it foggy?" The drunk middle-aged uncle looked up blankly.

A chuckle echoes through the area.

The rustling, the sound gradually amplifies, the whisper of someone, the hiss of a snake or the cry of an animal, and the weirdness that will never be ignored.

Jingle~

The sound of the bell was heard, as if with the ringing of the bell, the neon-colored steel forest returned to the ancient Heianjing.

"Ah, ah..." A hot girl pointed at the end of the street, covered her mouth and was speechless.

Some people turned their heads in confusion, and were stunned for a moment.

The crisp footsteps of wooden clogs walked in slowly, and the first thing that caught the eye was the figure walking in the front with an unusually elegant hairstyle.

The man's figure was no different from that of a human teenager, with a handsome face, and his long and narrow eyes lazily stared at the front with evil intentions, with a smile that was not a smile.

Strangers retreat and scatter, ghosts walk at night.

……

"No, it's too difficult to analyze what kind of supernatural power it is based on the current information. If possible, it's best to experience it at a close distance."

Poe murmured while looking at the information summarized in front of him.

Behind him, Atsushi Nakajima and others who stayed up all night have fallen into a dark and sweet dreamland, but Poe is used to staying up late to write novels, and early morning is when his inspiration is strongest.

"The most important thing now is to reduce the number of victims, but according to the hackers of the detective agency, it is basically impossible to stop the spread of this website, so the only way to catch the murderer as soon as possible."

If the police force is used to block this forum, the legend of Hell Girl can also be spread in other places. If it is pursued all the way, it may have the opposite effect. It will prove that this post is true, and it will cause panic among the citizens.

Poe muttered, and logged into the post with his mobile phone, ready to see if there was any noteworthy information.

At this time, he noticed a reply in a previous post.

33l: No, I seem to see a scarecrow in this style in someone's bag in my class.

34l: The picture above.jpg, I believe your words, please help me to see if this is the Scarecrow of Hell Girl!I took a sneak shot, can't it be true? She doesn't want to curse me to hell, does she?

35l: What should I do? Didn't I speak ill of her behind her back? She won't really want to mess with me because of this.

36l: A moment of silence for you.

37l: At this time, we must act first hhhh

"This scarecrow..." Poe frowned tightly, and suddenly woke up Kunikida, Nakajima Atsushi, and Minoura policemen nearby.

Everyone woke up:?

"It's time to work, please help me investigate the source of this ip."

……

At Yokohama Third High School, a certain class was in the middle of a math class when the teacher was suddenly called out.

He came back a few minutes later: "Maki Asada, someone is looking for you, please go out."

Asada Maki was stunned for a moment, stood up and walked out of the classroom, and came to the staff office. Two or three people who had never seen him were sitting on the sofa in the reception room waiting for him.

One of the stubble-faced men in a suit stood up and took out his police ID: "Excuse me, I do this job."

Maki Asada was stunned, and subconsciously looked around, only to find that there was no one in the staff office.

"Please rest assured that this conversation will remain private and only we will know."

Kunikida straightened up: "I'm going straight to the point, Asada Maki-san, have you seen any posts about Hell Girls recently, and have you logged into the Hell Communication website?"

Asada Maki's expression changed, but she quickly suppressed her emotions: "What hell girl, I haven't heard of it."

"Really?" Poe suddenly looked up at her at this moment, "When we talked about Hell Girl, your pupils suddenly shrank, you should know."

"Or, do you have an impression of this photo?" Poe took out the photo printed out from the post from his arms, and the content on it probably showed half of a black scarecrow exposed in a black schoolbag.

"..."

Asada Maki gritted her teeth and insisted on her rhetoric.

"Asada Maki-san, right? Well, we are not interrogating you. Many people have disappeared so far. The police are investigating this matter. So, um, if you really came into contact with Hell Girl, I hope you can tell us. " Atsushi Nakajima said anxiously.

Hearing Atsushi Nakajima's excited words, Maki Asada shrank obviously, but her tone soon became cold: "I don't know what you are talking about, that scarecrow is a picture I saw on the Internet and thought it was very funny, I made it for myself, but now I have thrown it away. Is there anything else I can do?"

Hearing what the girl said, several people looked at each other in blank dismay, but there was nothing they could do.

At this time, Asada Maki got up and bowed to several people: "Then I have to go back to class, so I will leave first. If Officer-san has any questions, please show me the official arrest warrant."

After all, she left the office without looking back.

"It's amazing, today's female high school students," Poe said in admiration for some reason, "except for panicking at the beginning, they are not wavering at all in the face of police officers. Are teenagers' psychological quality so good now, or is it that you, Officer Jipu, are too incompetent? majestic."

Jipu: "...Who said that, haven't you seen that kid who invited to the police station before said everything? This is definitely an exception, an exception."

"Does that mean that little girl has such a firm determination to send those who hate her to hell..."

Kunikida sighed: "The question now is, what should we do next? We finally found a breaking point. If the parties do not cooperate, the search will not proceed at all."

"What about the arrest warrant?"

"Do you think we can apply for it on the grounds that we found that the urban legend is related to the recent missing persons case?"

"No, you can say that it is related to the crime of the superhuman."

"A person with supernatural abilities? Are you sure?" Minura asked.

"If it is a human being, it should be a person with supernatural powers. It is not clear whether it is a single person or a criminal organization. If possible, I would like to watch how the hell girl makes people disappear at a close distance. Maybe a lot of things will be clear. ’ said Poe.

Jipu felt a bit of a headache: "... If people with supernatural powers commit crimes, we will not be in charge of them. We have to apply to the Supernatural Secret Service Division."

"By then it will be too late. If it were me, if the police came to my door, I would either be so afraid that I would give up the plan temporarily, or I would definitely pull the rope first." Poe rested his chin on one hand.

"Now we have to do what we can do first." Kunikida frowned: "Atsushi, can I trouble you to watch her, if she shows signs of showing a scarecrow, please stop her immediately."

"Ah, okay." Atsushi Nakajima immediately stood up.

"Also, I will ask the clerk to apply to the Supernatural Secret Service Division first, hoping to handle special matters." Kunikida took out the phone.

Poe finally looked at Jipu: "Officer Jipu, if possible, can you go to the database and get the information on that girl just now, I want to confirm something."

"I see."

Everyone had their own things to do. Atsushi Nakajima opened the door of the office, only to find someone standing at the door, who almost fell to the ground when he opened the door.

Jipu was startled, and almost subconsciously pulled out a pistol: "Who is it?!"

"Um, I didn't eavesdrop on purpose." The eavesdropper was wearing the school uniform and raised his hands in embarrassment, "I'm the one who reported it to you."

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, Atsushi Nakajima continued to perform the task of watching the girls outside the classroom, Kunikida and Minoura returned to the office after each made a phone call to explain the matter.

It's just that this time, the one who sat in the original seat of Maki Asada turned into a boy with freckles on his face.

"We happen to want to find you too, you are the one who replied under the post."

"Yes."

The thing is probably like this, after Zaipo found out about the reply, he woke up Jipu and the others with the principle that he would rather kill by mistake than let it go, and the network security personnel of the police took action and found the ip address of the person who replied.

And the other party cooperated very well after being contacted by the police, or they couldn't wait to say everything, so Kunikida and the others locked on Asada Maki of Yokohama No. [-] High School.

"Are you sure you saw the scarecrow in her bag with your own eyes?"

"Of course, I still took pictures! I can show you the pictures now."

"Ah, we've already seen that photo, no need." Poe narrowed his eyes under his bangs, "But how did you connect the scarecrow with the hell girl?"

The boy with freckles on his face seemed to be stuck, and a stiff smile appeared on his face after a while: "Well, that's of course because I'm a fan of this kind of legend, so I heard people say it on the Internet, plus the reality It’s not surprising to have this kind of association when seeing this kind of thing in the movie.”

Poe tilted his head and looked at him: "Isn't it because the friend disappeared that the existence of the hell girl was confirmed?"

"What are you?" the boy blurted out, and then he covered his mouth violently.

"Before the police came to find you, we certainly investigated whether there were any missing persons around you. As expected, it was a friend of yours. You should have known about it, so you believed in the existence of Hell Girl , You will be so afraid when you see someone holding a scarecrow among the classmates who have had friction with each other."

The boy was dumb for a while, then nodded after a moment of silence: "Yes, so please protect me, I will tell everything I know!"

From this boy's mouth, Kunikida and the others knew the ins and outs of his resentment.

How should I put it, it was really a small incident. The boy had pursued Asada Maki before, but was rejected by the latter without hesitation. The young man became angry for a while and slandered others behind his back, but was bumped into by the master.

"The way she looked at me at that time was really scary. She must have hated me." The boy held his head, his face full of annoyance, "I tried to apologize to her, but she refused to accept it with a puzzled face, but I I really don’t know how much she hates to find Hell Girl.”

Kunikida didn't know what to say for a while.

Poe: "What did you slander her for?"

"Eh...because she was nowhere to be seen all day long, I followed her after school out of curiosity, and found out that she was doing several jobs at the same time, so I told the others in class."

Minura: ...

This motive is so trivial that it makes people full of doubts.

Jipu couldn't help but said: "What are you young people thinking about now, is this worth going to hell?"

"That's right!" The boy was also full of grievances.

"I understand." Kunikida rubbed the center of his brows. As a former math teacher, he understood the sensitive and fragile psychology of young people of this age. "I will try my best to adjust the conflicts for you. You should go back to class first."

The boy then went back.

Kunikida sighed softly: "When the price of lynching becomes less easy to reflect, the impulse of people's hearts will be infinitely magnified."

"Yeah, especially young people of this age are more likely to become extreme." Jipu said.

"However, it is a good thing for us to find a target who may be missing. As long as he is protected in advance, there should be no more missing persons."

"Really," Poe objected at this moment, "is it really so?"

"what happened?"

"It is actually an extremely coincidental event that we can find people who have not disappeared, because the entire population of Yokohama is too large, it is not clear how many people will get the Scarecrow of Hell Girl, according to the previous month In terms of the frequency of 120 people, about 4 people will disappear a day, and according to statistics, the further we go to the back, the more people will disappear, that is to say, every day we delay, more than 4 people will disappear.” Poe muttered in a low voice.

Jipu couldn't help but said, "Well, can you speak louder."

Kunikida frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?"

"In other words, even if we can save this person, it won't help. Only by finding the real murderer behind it can we solve everything. Therefore, I think this is an excellent opportunity to see exactly how the murderer makes people disappear. .”

At this moment, both of them understood what Poe meant.

"But isn't this just waiting to die?"

"Will not save? No, there is no evidence that the hell girl will kill, and all the victims are just missing. I personally think that this is the choice that can save most people." This is Poe's purely rational After thinking about the angle, the judgment is drawn.

But Kunikida couldn't accept it.

Just when the atmosphere in the office was silent, Kunikida's phone rang suddenly, but he didn't check the connection, thinking it was the result of the clerk's application.

"Hey, Kunikida, is the mission over there going well?"

"Dazai!" Kunikida almost jumped up, "Where are you going! You don't even answer the phone!"

"Sorry sorry, my phone was damaged when I entered the water, hehe~"

"Hey, you're big, we need manpower here, where are you now?"

"Regarding this, Kunikida, have you heard of any famous urban legends recently?"

Kunikida's expression froze: "Could it be that you met a hell girl?"

"what is that?"

Kunikida fell to the ground: "Isn't it so?"

"Well, that's how it is. It seems that your case involves the urban legend of Hell Girl, but unfortunately what I encountered was not this single urban legend, but the entire Hyakki Yakō, ah, I saw a wonderful story scene."

"Hundred ghosts at night?"

"Ah, in short, I still have something to do here. Anyway, Mr. Po is also on your side, so I don't need me. I have to hang up beforehand."

"Hey! Dazai!"

There was a beeping sound from the phone.

Kunikida almost crushed the phone: "That bastard who is too free!"

"What happened?"

"I don't know, Dazai said something about Hyakki Night Walk suddenly, and then he seemed to want to investigate, so he didn't come."

"Hundred ghosts at night..." Poe touched Carl on the shoulder, "Japan is so powerful, the legends are all true, and there are legendary creatures like monsters."

Kunikida: "? No, please don't have any strange misunderstandings about Japan. This happened suddenly recently. We have never heard of any monsters before. At most, there are only curse spirits."

Jipu: "The possibility of a curse spirit has also been ruled out. I checked with an official magician a week ago."

"Did it all happen recently..." Poe keenly captured this information and fell into deep thought.

"what happened?"

"No, nothing, let's focus on the investigation here first."

It's just that there is always a feeling that a storm is coming, is it an illusion?Poe sat on the sofa, holding Carl in his arms and stroking.

Hell girl, Hyakki Night Walk, what is going on in this city...