【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

Kamijou Touma walked out of the comprehensive analysis room as if fleeing.

He was not driven to a dead end and had no way out. Even if Yoshikawa Kikyo really wanted to continue the investigation regardless of Yoshikawa Kikyo's objection, in terms of her status as a surveillance officer and a potential prisoner, she would absolutely not be able to defy any of Kamijou Touma's orders. Order.

In contrast, it is extremely simple to give up the investigation. The victim himself has already been cancelled. He has no relatives and no reason. As long as it is said that the accidental dead body found in the abandoned area is sent to the crematorium for incineration, no one will question it. As a result, there is no need to even file a case.

But it was this situation that made him confused and even panicked, so that he was in a dilemma.

Giving up at this point means that he may live his whole life under the torture of conscience, and if the investigation fails to get the final result, he will also collapse because of his own incompetence.

In other words, even if he can successfully catch the murderer in this case, so what?

There are as many as 131 unsolved vicious homicide cases recorded in the archives of the Security Bureau, some of which are even more than 40 years old. Reduce even one item.

How to do?

In the final analysis, the naive wish of "saving everyone" is as unrealistic as the "want to be an astronaut", "want to be a superhero" and "want world peace" filled in by elementary school students in their future volunteers.

As for myself with such a desire, no matter how I look at it, I am foolish.

Exhausted, Kamijou Touma sat on the bench set up in every corridor of the Security Bureau, leaning against the cold wall like a homeless man, and closed his eyes while sighing. .

"I probably shouldn't be a surveillance officer."

The security bureau in the middle of the night is like a huge magic cave. Every room with lights out is pitch black, except for the LED lights in the corridor that are still bright. some kind of creature.

The cold and monotonous footsteps slowly approached from the side of the corridor, and then stopped in the darkness far away from the light:

"It's really outrageous."

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The second after the automatic door quietly closed and no one could be seen outside the glass curtain wall, Accelerator, who had been resting on the sofa with his eyes closed, opened his eyes.

"What did you say to him?"

The man's words pointed directly at Fangchuan Kikyo like a sharp sword, and correspondingly, she saw the doubts and disapproval in his eyes that were so sharp that they could stab people.

Even the dullest person should have noticed the obvious anger in Fang Accelerator.

Fangchuan Kikyo was not annoyed by being questioned, she just felt a little surprised, even unbelievable——

This is the first time she has seen this man blame others for defending someone in the years of acquaintance.

Really unbelievable.

In the eyes of people who have been used by Accelerator, this person is almost always humorous, elegant, extraordinary in conversation, compassionate and understanding. He is like a "perfect" person An incarnation can always show the attractive side in front of others.

However, only those who have seen his real appearance under the mask will know that this person, Accelerator, lacks his own emotional characteristics almost to a rare degree. He will 'laugh', 'angry', and 'sad', but that It is nothing more than the appropriate response that needs to be made in the face of the corresponding situation, and the purpose is only 'you can't achieve your goal if you don't do this' and 'you can't survive in the crowd if you don't do this'.In fact, he didn't understand the meaning behind those expressions, he couldn't understand, sympathize, or pity, and he was indifferent to the point of being cruel and even frightening.

Even if a tragic tragedy is happening on the street, you can still hear the screams and calmly cross the road and leave.

That's the kind of person who is now responding with 'normal' emotional responses to the frustration of those around him.

Fangchuan Kikyo tapped the table slowly with his fingers, tilted his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if watching something novel:

From a social point of view, there is no doubt that this person is slowly approaching those mediocre laymen, in other words, he is 'degrading'.

But what if you look at it from a 'human' point of view?

He is becoming whole.

Fang Chuan Kikyo, who got some kind of answer, was taken aback, and couldn't help but look at the closed glass door, trying to see the black-haired man who wasn't here.

Is it because of him?

"Answer me." Although Fang Chuan Kikyo thought for only a few seconds in the eyes of others, this time was enough to wear down Accelerator's little patience. He lowered his voice and asked again .

"It's just a fact." Fangchuan Kikyo, who knew that the other party had been dozing off, shrugged innocently and fearlessly: "Although it looks terrible, I am also thinking about him. After all, 'bad people' like us can't think of a good way to do it." Persuade him."

"Mind your own business." Yifang Accelerator didn't feel at ease at what Fangchuan Kikyo said, grabbed his crutch from the armrest of the sofa, and walked out of the room.

"The third bench on the left turn." Yoshikawa Kikyo smiled and waved his hand.

"Don't do unnecessary things."

After Accelerator finished speaking, the automatic door closed quietly behind him.

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"It's really outrageous."

The extremely harsh words echoed in the corridor at first glance.

"Why did you come out?" Kamijou Touma changed the topic lightly: "Is it uncomfortable to sleep in the comprehensive analysis room?"

"Then why did you come out?" Accelerator seemed to tilt his head slightly.

"Ah, come out and relax."

"Then it's the same for me." Accelerator, who had been standing in the darkness for a long time, finally came out and sat down in the empty seat beside the man.

Such a far-fetched reason.Kamijou Touma thought to himself.

"Hand." Accelerator suddenly gave instructions to the people around him without thinking.

Kamijou Touma thought for a moment that he had an auditory hallucination: "What?"

"Hand. Stretch out."

Kamijou Touma, who didn't understand the purpose of these words at all, hesitantly handed out his right hand.

"Palm! Idiot!"

Sure enough, he was scolded.Confused, but feeling the tense nerves begin to relax, Kamijou Touma slowly turned his palm over.

'Snapped'.

Accelerator's right hand, which seemed to be holding something, slammed into his palm angrily, and after a slight tingling sensation, something fell into his palm.

"Well……?"

mischief?A ball of paper with words written on it?Kamijou Touma made a random guess, but was surprised to find that it was a handful of paper crane candies after the opponent's hand was removed.

It is the kind of hard fruit candy wrapped in transparent colored sugar paper that teenagers and girls like very much.

"...Do you like candy?" Kamijou Touma didn't know where to start, so he chose a question that the answer would definitely be negative.

"do not like."

"That--"

"Foods high in sugar will increase insulin rapidly, reduce the concentration of tyrosine and phenylalanine in the blood, and allow tryptophan to quickly enter cells and convert serotonin into the brain, making people feel happy and satisfied." From Accelerator spat out a strange language that sounded like an alien noun: "In short, eating sugar can make people feel happy."

It seems to explain why feeding sweets to crying children has an incredible effect of stopping crying.

In any case, he felt that the image of the other party was subtly inconsistent with the exquisite candy, and Kamijou Touma couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "Where did this come from..."

"It was stolen from Fangchuan."

The image of Accelerator snatching snacks from a weak woman with a cold face involuntarily popped up in his mind, the corners of Kamijou Touma's mouth twitched up for a moment, but was pulled into a tight straight line by the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

what should I do?

"Now." The one who broke the silence was Accelerator, who never liked to take the initiative to speak: "I mean at this moment. What will happen if I randomly throw garbage in this corridor."

"How?" Kamijou Touma could only reply hesitantly due to the jumpiness of the topic: "Of course there will be a cleaning machine to clean it up."

"Then what if the cleaning machine doesn't come?"

Kamijou Touma was silent for a moment: "Then, someone will pick it up and throw it into the trash."

Accelerator turned his head to look into the man's eyes: "Is this person who picks up trash obliged to do so? Did someone order him, force him to do so?"

"Of course not. Isn't the law marked with unreasonable provisions like 'If you don't pick up the trash thrown by others, you will be punished'?"

"That is to say, this person did it with his own will and good thoughts. Even if he didn't do it, there would be no punishment and no one would blame him, but he still did it. Why? ?”

"Because... now that you see it, you can't ignore it. It's just a matter of lifting your finger and doing it."

"Then there must be a lot of guys like me throwing rubbish in other places. In this case, is this person going to regret and even hate himself for not picking up the trash in time?"

"Of course not! Even if you want to lend a helping hand to something you haven't seen, you can't do anything... ah..."

Kamijou Touma's rebuttal stopped on the way, and Accelerator stopped asking, but looked at him without saying a word, his eyes seemed to be asking:

Don't you know the answer?

After another long silence, Kamijou Touma shook his head with difficulty: "It's different. Someone was hurt, someone died, but I turned a blind eye. This cannot be compared with your analogy."

"Then let me ask you this, who was at fault at the beginning?" Accelerator held out two fingers: "Whether it was the one who left the trash, or the one who turned a blind eye."

The one who kills, or the one who turns a blind eye.

Kamijou Touma didn't answer.

"As we chat here right now, there is a mentally ill person trying to commit suicide in an isolation facility 70 kilometers away. Someone is dying of cancer in a small town [-] kilometers away. [-] kilometers away Out there is a battlefield littered with dead bodies. What are you going to do? Shot yourself a tube of drugs to give yourself superpowers and run to them to save everyone? It's a pity that while you're rushing to make these preparations , and hundreds of people died because of your 'turning a blind eye'."

Accelerator continued to say, "Have you calculated how many people die every second in this world? Isn't it very unrealistic? In your heart, everyone should be happy and saved, isn't that true?" The work of man is the work of God. But it is really unfortunate—” He paused for a moment, “There is no God in this world.”

"Even if there is, don't you think it's strange? Even gods exist, but there are so many unreasonable things in the world. Some people kill, some people are killed, liars, drug addicts, war criminals, murderers, etc. People live together with good people. If it is said that irrationality should not exist, that is to say, even God will not feel sorry and sad for the tragedies in this world.” Accelerator’s words seem to want to bring darkness to the world. The oppressive force revealed on the face: "Those 'throwing garbage', murderers, and those who bring sorrow, they are the ones who should be suffering, and they should be sleeping in the dark. It's not you .You exist not to think about why tragedies are born, but to end tragedies.”

Gradually gaining the lost strength from the not gentle words, Kamijou Touma clenched his palm tightly.

what should I do?

The answer is, do it like all cops do.

Don't care about the reason, don't care about the result, don't care about whether it's worth it or not.

It's just that simple.

Accelerator's last words were drowned out by the exceptionally loud indoor broadcast at midnight:

"Then tell that bastard - you were wrong and it's time to pay it back."