【Fantasy Pass】Psycho Pass Banquet

The piercing siren, the dark night, the crowd divided into countless isolated islands, the flickering blue signal light like a lighthouse...

"Didn't find it yet?"

"Chiyoda District has been completely sealed off! There is no way he can escape with that girl!"

"Has been missing for more than 72 hours, the child may have—"

"Keep looking! Find me even if it's a corpse!"

"That guy has never shot anyone other than the police, there must be a chance!"

The shower had just stopped, and the roar of thunder could still be heard in the distance, and the puddles on the ground reflected dizzying light.

The girl beside her who was already drenched covered her cheeks, wearing a coat that was still a little too big for her, while shivering from the cold, she wept helplessly.

"The newcomers who came to the pre-job training over there! There is no time to let you idle now! Now that you have obtained the temporary permission from the ruler, let's move!"

The pace of stepping through the stagnant water paused, and a girl who was about the age of college grabbed his sleeve:

"I want to go too."

"Don't follow me after a night of searching in the rain. Your physical strength will be too much."

"Don't! Don't leave me alone!" The girl screamed, tears pouring from her red and swollen eyes, and she grabbed his arm with both hands: "It's terrible. This place is terrible. That's my sister ! Please don't leave me behind!"

That face, which is still pretty even though it is wet with tears, will appear lifeless in the sea of ​​red roses in Hibiya Park in 10 minutes. Here, the flower petals that have been washed away by the rain to the ground, the bitter juice exuded by the crushed grass is mixed with the faint fragrance, the incomplete limbs, and the black sky like a curtain. An exhibit of brutal art put together by someone.

"Call out all the other policemen who are waiting at the Security Bureau! Is it plausible that the police are only worried about their own safety?!"

"Let irrelevant personnel leave quickly!"

"There is a shortage of manpower at Hibiya Park! Those who are still free go there!"

Every policeman has a look of fear on his face, a deep-rooted fear of something unknown.

He kept running forward with the exhausted girl, the sound of splashing water, the sharp whistle of the vehicle, the shortness of breath, and the indistinct cry.

Hibiya Park.

In the sea of ​​red roses in November, under the plants with a strong fragrance, there are fragmented corpses that have been dismembered.

Going around the fountain square, ginkgo grove and the first flower bed with shining lights, his inexplicable intuition drove him to run non-stop towards the second flower bed.

what's there.There must be something in there.Even if he wanted to refuse, even if he wanted to retreat, his legs stepped out step by step uncontrollably.

Go fast, go fast, you must go there.

The voice that was murmured in the bottom of his heart gradually became louder, and finally turned into a desperate cry, dragging him to the finish line with all his strength.

With a 'plop', he hit someone.

"The height is over 175 centimeters, the build is medium to thin, male."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He apologized reflexively, and then took out his ID and the photo of the missing girl: "I am a trainee criminal policeman of the Security Bureau, and this place is very dangerous now, please leave quickly, and have you seen this girl before?" Girl? High school student, about 165 cm tall, wearing—"

"On the night of the incident, he was wearing a black sweater and jacket, mask, peaked cap and gloves."

Before he could finish speaking, the man stretched out his finger in one direction.

"Standing with a slightly hunched back, the dominant hand is the right hand, no backpack, no umbrella."

"over there?!"

As if suddenly dazzled by the joy that fell from the sky, the girl beside him quickly ran to the strangely colorful red rose flowerbed in the night.

——Then there was a heart-piercing scream.

Sadness, fear, anger, panic, despair... Countless emotions erupted in hoarse and shrill screams at the same time.

He didn't have time to say anything to the person he happened to bump into in front of him, he just thought that nothing would happen to the girl who ran away rashly.

The red rose flower garden is getting closer, and the fragrance of the flowers in the air is getting stronger and stronger, and the sweet smell even makes people feel sick.

The girl who had been stubbornly looking for her sister passed out in the stagnant water and fallen petals. The tears on her face and the blood-stained palms she scratched all conveyed ominous signs.

He hugged the girl's upper body, and when he raised his head to call for rescue, he was facing a face that was exactly the same as the girl in his arms.

The girl's lonely head is wearing a garland of thorns and red flowers, lying silently in the red flowers that seem to be dyed by her blood. His arms were stretched forward, as if to hug someone.

This scene made him want to scream, but his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't make a sound.

The previous rainstorm, the soil in the flower garden, the person who showed him the direction...

His eyes moved back a little bit, but he was horrified to see the man in black who was supposed to leave standing quietly behind them ten steps away, as if he was enjoying a rare show.

Even though he was wearing black trousers and work boots, the mud in the flowerbed after the rain inevitably remained on him, and the splattered stains were particularly eye-catching under the pale streetlights.

Maybe he should have thought of it earlier. When he collided with that person, the touch of his clothes showed that the man in front of him was completely soaked, and even the brim of his peaked cap was dripping downwards. In such weather, why would there be a person wearing So weird in the rain in an empty park.

"Stand there. Don't move. I am the surveillance officer of the Criminal Division of the Security Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and you are now suspected of participating in a series of cases such as the 'Major Designated Incident 97 by the Security Bureau'—" He said it so naturally and smoothly in the training center He had rehearsed countless lines in advance, but was shocked by his almost ruthless calmness: "Now I will arrest you, please don't make any resistance."

As if he heard something funny from his words, the man in black first let out a low muffled laugh, and then laughed exaggeratedly with his stomach in his arms. It was as harsh as scratches on the glass.

But the hoarse voice was faintly familiar.

The laughter stopped abruptly, and the man in black stood up straight, and said every word in a tone that was almost disgusting: "You are disgusting to me just like this deformed society."

He couldn't see the emotions in those eyes covered by the peaked cap, but he could really feel the sharp malice and hatred directed at him for some reason.

"Why don't you all die?! Everyone! All! Just die!"

He put down the girl in his arms for the time being, stood up and pulled out the ruler from the holster around his waist, pointing at the man who started yelling for some reason: "I'll say it one last time, don't act rashly. Otherwise——"

"Otherwise what?!" The man asked back with a louder roar: "You shoot! Shoot and kill me! This is the end of everything! Kill me! If you deny me, kill me—!"

"Crime coefficient · 26.7. Non-execution target. Trigger locked."

With a light click, the trigger of the Dominator in his hand was automatically locked, and the red prohibition signal flashed on the front sight in his field of vision.

"Why?" The person he aimed the gun at suddenly asked, his voice trembling with excitement or pain: "Why didn't you kill me?! Why did you betray me? Why did you deny me?! Why is it you?! You There is no way to punish me with the justice bestowed on me by others. If I ruin your life! If you hate me! If you really want to kill me—put down that gun and kill me—!”

As if the wound was touched in an instant or the bottom line that could never be challenged, the man in black suddenly threw a knife from his cuff and rushed towards him.

In short, he also felt inexplicable sadness and pain in almost the same brief moment. He did not dodge, but threw down the ruler in his hand as if welcoming some kind of relief, and clenched his right fist.

Since Sibyl couldn't see and the sole suspect couldn't escape easily, he did everything he could to bring him down.

The sharp blade barely slashed across the front of the skirt, and his fist was also dodged by the opponent's short body.

He hugged the right hand of the man in black holding the knife with his backhand, lowered his center of gravity and kicked the ground and twisted his body. He threw the restrained man into the red rose bushes with a back throw, and then pressed his legs on the man's hands at the fastest speed. The knees of his legs prevented him from getting up, and he took the knife from the man's hand and threw it out. The green branches and leaves fell into the smelly soil, and the petals that were already crumbling after the heavy rain fell one after another.

He heard the man in black who was suppressed by him make a low gasp, and his right hand was shaking unnaturally.

Only those eyes, blood-red pupils tightened tightly as if to convey a message that would kill him alive.

At the moment when he was confused by the familiar eyes, a sharper scalpel pierced his abdomen.

The pain of the blade piercing into the body is not very clear, and the brain is immersed in blankness as if it has been anesthetized by some drug. In the whole world, only the hatred and killing intent in those eyes are real, like another knife, slow and sharp Cutting his heart so skillfully, it was so painful.

"One, uh—"

The moment he let go of his hand, he was strangled by the neck of the man who turned over, and he was crushed again among the broken flowers and branches. Kill him.

"Don't call me by my name! You are not qualified! Only you are not qualified to call my name—!"

The man roared, roared, and tried his best to kill him, but his trembling fingers seemed to be useless.

The feeling of suffocation is not good, and the spinning world makes people want to fall into a deep sleep, but he still stretched out his hand, from the fingers pinching his neck, the thin wrist bones to the wet sleeves, and then ripped off the clothes that had been hidden all along. Covering the person's face.

Why are you laughing?

He thought vaguely.

The face that he had looked at countless times and always had an indifferent expression, even though it was on the verge of collapse, it still had a fake happy smile, and even with a smile, it still made people feel deep despair.Pleasure and pain, expectation and disillusionment, love and hate, countless kinds of ultimate contradictions are mixed together strangely.

"Just live with this nightmare."

The man let go of the hand that was restraining him, stood up staggeringly, supported his immobile right arm, and disappeared into the night alone.

Nightmare.

Yeah, it was all a nightmare.

As long as he wakes up, he will forget all the pain.

and the appearance of that person.