On the degree of compatibility between Guardian Egg and Yokohama

Ango Sakaguchi's expression was very solemn. He and Aoi Suzuki looked at each other for a long time, and then turned to look at the arsonist who was lying on the hospital bed unconscious. After struggling for a while, he finally agreed to Aoi Suzuki's request.

The prisoner's body still lies in the morgue and has not been cremated.Investigators tried to find clues on the body, but found nothing—until Aoi Suzuki arrived.

Standing in front of the dead prisoner, Aoi Suzuki put her hands on the corpse, and the same white light as before overflowed from her fingers.

She felt—the trace of the contract.

The breach of the contract was indeed the cause of the man's death.

Aoi Suzuki turned to look at Ango Sakaguchi.

"He wanted to confess before, didn't he?"

"That's right." The young man recalled the scene before the prisoner died, "but he didn't even finish a word."

Suzuki Aoi asked, "Are there any spiritual practitioners in the Supernatural Secret Service Division?"

"...No." Ango Sakaguchi shook his head - they are the Supernatural Secret Service Division and not any other organization, not to mention spiritual practitioners are very mysterious, and under normal circumstances, they will never meet in a lifetime.

Moreover, Yokohama is the site of people with different abilities.

But what troubled him at the moment was that the cause of death of these two people was inseparable from the spiritual practitioners.To put it more bluntly, it is the spiritual cultivator who kills.

"The cause of death is the execution of the contract." The prisoner violated the pre-established contract, and all paid his life that was placed at the other end of the balance.

Suzuki Aoi looked directly at Ango Sakaguchi: "If you don't trust me, you can find other insiders to investigate again."

At least on this point, Ango Sakaguchi believed that the boy in front of him was telling the truth.

Then, he heard the young man say: "But the other end of the contract is not necessarily a spiritual practitioner."

Sakaguchi Ango frowned: "...that is to say?"

"Perhaps spiritual practitioners are only acting as bridges - purely third-party witnesses."

Ango Sakaguchi looked the boy up and down, as if he wanted to find any clues on him.

"You seem to know a lot about spiritual power practice, but the power you used to suppress the flames before was not spiritual power."

According to the boy, it is similar to the power possessed by the guardian spirit holders of the Tokyo High School.

There is no doubt that Snow White's identity is doubtful, because he claims to have lost all his memories, but he knows about spiritual practitioners and high specialists.

and...

"Spiritual practitioners and holders of guardian spirits, what kind are you? Or..." Ango Sakaguchi lifted his glasses a little higher, the lenses reflected the cold light of incandescent lamps, "Both?"

This is obviously not in line with the conclusions of current scientific research - because in all survey samples, the forces of different systems are incompatible.

Human beings can only awaken one kind of power at most, and any addition will exceed the tolerance limit of the human body.

Suzuki Aoi looked away, watching the investigators pull up the white cloth and cover the corpse again.

She looked at their hands in plastic gloves, and was in a trance for a moment.

"Maybe it's all of them." She murmured, "Maybe I'm not a human being?"

After finishing speaking, she raised her head and looked at Ango Sakaguchi, the corners of her mouth slightly curled up: "My strength has obviously violated common sense, hasn't it?"

Regarding the shell of Snow White, her original intention was to simply design him as the holder of the power of the guardian spirit, but the plan could not keep up with the changes, and she could no longer just watch the rare clues slip through her fingers .

The next moment, Suzuki Aoi's breathing stagnated.

She thought that apart from Dazai Osamu and Edogawa Ranpo, there might be one person who could recognize this vest—Jiba Shizuka.

That's right, Zhang Jingsi knows that she has both spiritual power and the holder of the guardian spirit at the same time.

And the identity of the Snow White boy happens to be a combination of two kinds of power.

Lowering her eyes, Suzuki Aoi frowned slightly—hoping that the two blindfolds of gender and power presentation could be hidden from Shizuka's eyes.

Perhaps it is safer to let the two identities appear in front of him "unintentionally" at the same time.

It's just... I hope that after doing this, the daily life of her and her mother will not be disturbed-this is also the original intention of her making Baixue's vest.

Although it was only for a moment, Sakaguchi Ango still noticed something was wrong, combined with the state of amnesia mentioned by the other party, he asked:

"Bai Xuejun, do you remember anything? Or have you found any useful clues?"

The boy's demeanor just now made him have to doubt this.

Suzuki Aoi looked up at him with a very natural expression, without any trace of panic or guilt.

"I remembered something, but..." the boy's tone was flat: "It doesn't help this case."

"It's just a private matter."

Suzuki Aoi's lack of cooperation caused Ango Sakaguchi to frown. Just as he was about to say something, there was a knock on the door.

"Sir, Mr. Ranpo from the Armed Detective Agency has arrived!"

The investigator looked very excited, obviously he had heard about the brilliant deeds of this famous detective.

Or maybe they are fans of the other party.

The arrival of the foreign aid made Sakaguchi Ango heave a sigh of relief, and he shifted his attention away from Suzuki Aoi, and asked, "Where's Dazai?"

"Mr. Dazai is here too."

"I see." The arrival of the famous detective gave Ango Sakaguchi more confidence. He turned to Suzuki Aoi and said, "Come with me."

This time, Suzuki Aoi cooperated very well and followed him into the room where the arsonist was placed just now.

......

In the ward

Hearing the movement from the door, Osamu Dazai turned around, saw the people coming, and greeted them without interest.

He raised his hand and waved it perfunctorily.

"Snow Bai, and Ango."

Ango Sakaguchi stopped in his footsteps, his brows furrowed in an instant, he glanced sideways at Aoi Suzuki and then fixed his eyes on Osamu Dazai: "You really know each other."

But this guy said that kind of ambiguous thing to him in the fire scene.

Edogawa Ranpo also imitated Dazai and waved his hand, looking equally perfunctory.

"Mr. Bai Xue and...Mr. Glasses."

Ango Sakaguchi frowned even tighter—even the famous detective knew the boy who followed him.

Suzuki Aoi stepped forward to return the gift.

"Mr. Dazai, Mr. Ranpo."

Tangle is entanglement, but seeing the scene in front of him, Ango Sakaguchi suddenly felt a lot more stable in his heart - the guy who is close to the Armed Detective Agency may have a lot of mysteries and troubles, but he is definitely not a heinous villain.

Even though this boy is obviously more familiar with the former cadre Dazai Osamu.

At this moment, Suzuki Aoi's camp was redrawn in Sakaguchi Ango's heart.

"Until the contract is terminated, he can't reveal any clues about that power." Aoi Suzuki got straight to the point, "The reason why I was able to save him just now is that he just had the idea of ​​leaking information, but in fact what I didn’t even have time to say it.”

"With the permission of the other party to the contract, he can only tell us the clues he knows after the contract is voided."

Ango Sakaguchi nodded, and described the current situation to the two foreign players in a few words.

Osamu Dazai cast his eyes on the face of the prisoner lying on the bed: "...What made him willing to reveal that information when he knew he would lose his life?"

The biggest possibility is - they are experiencing something more terrible than death.

Suzuki Aoi's next words also confirmed his thoughts.

"Because it's painful." The girl walked to Dazai Osamu's side, and her eyes fell on the prisoner's bandaged face, "The pain of being engulfed by all the malice of human beings and swallowed by one's own desires."

"That's the price of power - if we hadn't stopped him then... this man's ego would have been destroyed."

This is something more terrifying than physical death.

"Just like what you found out..." Suzuki Aoi turned around and met Ango Sakaguchi's gaze, "They were all members of an extremely ordinary crowd."

It's not heinous, nor is it an extreme anti-social personality, they are really just normal people.

But everyone will have evil thoughts, desires, and all kinds of dark thoughts.

The role of crystallization is to magnify these things that can only be stored in the brain for a flash to the extreme. The terrible aggressiveness will completely destroy the user's self and become an inhumane 'monster' wrapped in negative emotions .

The reason why they are willing to reveal information even when they know they will die is because...they are asking for help...

Suzuki Aoi thought—what is the difference between becoming such a mantra before the complete fusion of human beings and the world?

She was thankful and genuinely happy for the changed world, but now it seems...

Maybe fate is a circle, going round and round, always returning to the original point.

"Maybe they just simply don't know the consequences of doing so, and don't believe that they will really die after breaking the agreement." Sensing that Aoi Suzuki seemed to have fallen into a dead end in thinking, Osamu Dazai interrupted her thoughts aloud.

Seeing that the girl's attention was on himself again, Osamu Dazai asked: "In other words, anyone in Yokohama can become this kind of 'monster', right?"

Suzuki Aoi nodded: "That's right."

Everyone has the potential to be a butcher.

Hearing this, Osamu Dazai thought for a moment, then asked Ranpo Edogawa standing on the other side: "Mr. Ranpo, did you find anything?"

Edogawa Ranpo kept rubbing his chin with his index knuckles, looking completely immersed in the reasoning crowd.

"...Interesting...so interesting!" The detective's habitually squinted eyes were sparkling at this moment, "This kind of case that cannot be seen through at a glance is suitable for me as a detective!"

Seeing this, Osamu Dazai smiled helplessly—it was rare for Mr. Ranpo to be so energetic.

"The only thing that is certain is that the person who gave them this power must still be in Yokohama." Edogawa Luanpo took off his glasses and said to Osamu Dazai: "All the clues on the prisoner were burned by the flames, I'm going to Look at that corpse."

There must be new clues on the dead robber!