【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

"……who is it?"

Accelerator's lips moved, and unconsciously said a question that even he couldn't hear.

"Who the hell...?"

The tactile sensation of viscous liquid continuously slipping from the fingertips, the red tentacles continuously climbing up his palm like ivy, knuckles, tiger's mouth, palm, wrist...

Gradually, those reds began to twist wildly, as if being boiled by boiling water. Occasionally, "fragments" would overflow from the boiling waves and fall to the ground, but those "fragments" were not boiling liquid , but some wriggling red reptiles!

The 'green vine' that was constantly devouring his body turned into a crimson swarm of worms. Every worm was crazily trampling on the body of its companions, constantly attacking upwards, as if they wanted to use the top layer as a place for them to break out of their cocoons. nest.

A huge moth suddenly flew by in front of him, and the dark ripples on the wings looked like an ever-changing distorted smiley face.

They are coming alive.

Feeling creepy, Accelerator dropped the crutch in his hand, trying to knock down the swarm of insects that had begun to pupate on his arms, but bumped into something beside him while backing——

The girl whose body was suspended in mid-air swayed gently as if dancing, her long black hair was floating back and forth, her cloudy black eyes were staring blankly at the ground, but the corners of her torn mouth seemed to float up. A weird smile.

You killed her.

You think that if you just keep your mouth shut, your mistakes will go away.

This is the sin you will carry all your life.

So, she is back.

They are all back.

Accelerator felt as if his legs, hands and torso were pierced by countless spikes and he was unable to move. He could only be forced to stare at the girl in place. A person's appearance is substituted.

Then, she stared at him with eyes that couldn't be closed, and spoke——

"--Are you OK?"

It was like being awakened suddenly from a horrifying nightmare. When Kamijou Touma patted Accelerator on the shoulder, he flinched as if he had been hit by static electricity, because the breathing mechanism that had almost stopped tense began to operate again at this time, and the lack of There was a tearing pain in the lungs that had been oxygenated for a long time.

Accelerator looked at his hands, but there was nothing there.

His physical strength was lost with the cold sweat soaking through his back, he panted quickly, as if he would die in the next second due to not getting enough oxygen, his constricted pupils moved back and forth between his hands and the corpse in front of him, The field of vision also shakes chaotically.

"It's okay, it's okay..." Accelerator covered his nose and mouth with his palms, as if he wanted to turn around and leave, but his immobile body staggered because of this movement.

Kamijou Touma quickly grabbed his shoulders just as he was about to fall to the ground.

"are you uncomfortable?"

Even though he asked like this, Kamijou Touma knew very well that the other party's behavior was not purely physical discomfort, but more like a state of hysteria:

About 5 minutes ago, when Accelerator was repeatedly stopped by others but still destroyed the corpse, he stood beside the corpse as if his soul had been taken away, then he looked at his hands and began to mutter to himself, and finally Unexpectedly, he threw away the crutch in his hand, as if something terrifying was attached to it.

He was forced back by an invisible monster in the air, and he trembled uncontrollably after bumping into the girl's corpse hanging from a tree branch.

The sudden change made everyone stunned. On the one hand, they didn't know what to do, and on the other hand, Accelerator was like a string being pulled to the limit. The wrong external force will be broken due to overwhelm.

Except Kamijou Touma.

'What the hell happened', 'couldn't acting rashly make things worse' lingered in his mind for a second before being left behind.

This guy has to be pulled out of this nightmare now.He was thinking of only one thing.

After putting his palm on Accelerator's shoulder, Kamijou Touma felt a terrible killing intent burst out from the other party's body, but he seemed to recognize who was standing there at this moment, with a heavy and cold expression. The breath began to slowly dissipate.

without crashing.Contrary to the reassuring result, Kamijou Touma couldn't feel relaxed at all.

Accelerator looked at his hands in disbelief——

The crutches were gone.

Since when did you disappear?Why is it missing?Who dropped it?

Like a tower of cards, when one of the bottom cards falls, the crumbling top slowly crumbles with it.

The trembling of his hands suddenly stopped at that moment, and Accelerator took a small step slowly to widen the distance between him and Kamijou Touma. When he raised his head again, the panic just now had completely disappeared, and it was replaced by the There was a calmness and indifference on the face that made people feel chills down the spine.

Kamijou Touma hesitated for a long time before asking: "...is it all right?"

"It's okay. It's just a migraine." Accelerator bent down to pick up the crutches on the ground, his expression still unwavering.

Kamijou Touma's Adam's apple rolled, and he asked with difficulty the question that had been lingering in his heart since just now: "Just now... no, do you remember what you said before?"

The left temple seemed to be hit by an electric current, and the severe pain made the muscles on Accelerator's face twitch.

What did I say?

Then why can't I remember?

No, I'm just standing here, doing nothing, saying nothing.

Accelerator tilted his head slightly, showing a strangely empty smile: "Did I speak? No, you probably heard it wrong."

"Really...didn't say anything?" Kamijou Touma felt the expression on his face becoming stiffer a little bit.

And what responded to him was Accelerator's roar like a raging wild beast:

"No—! I said no! Can't you fucking hear—?!"

Kamijou Touma felt unfamiliar with this man whose back was arched suddenly, his whole body was tense, and his face was distorted by anger.

"Okay——! No! No meow!" Motoharu Tsuchimikado waved his hands exaggeratedly at this time and broke into the narrow space between the two, pushing them away as far as possible regardless of whether they would encounter resistance : "Ah Shang, you heard it wrong yourself, don't blame others, meow."

The blond executive laughed and dragged Accelerator away from the corpse, but anyone could see that there was no joy in his expression.

Mitsuki Kaihara also put away the easy smile on his face, and asked worriedly: "Surveillance officer? Are you okay?"

"I heard……"

Kamijou Touma was talking to himself in a voice that no one could hear clearly.

what he heard-

When he was about to touch Accelerator's shoulder, the man kept repeating the same sentence.

Like being possessed by a ghost, with his head down, frantically, constantly, constantly, thousands of times, tens of thousands of times, he kept repeating the same sentence:

"why."

Why.Why.Why.Why.Why.Why.Why.Why.Why.

why?

Accelerator, who was pulled forward by Tsuchimikado Motoharu like a walking corpse, suddenly felt a little itchy on his face.

Something cold and soft was running down his cheek.

He reached out and wiped it lightly.

The tip of the hanging left finger was stained red.

is blood?

Several bright red worms were writhing and screaming at him.

-

"found it!"

Jiebiao Danxi, who had bowed her head in the grass for a long time, finally found the waterproof paper that Accelerator had thrown away before, but she didn't know if there was any evidence of survivors on it after such a toss.

Kamijou Touma stood in front of the girl's body, did nothing, just stood there quietly.

After leaving Kamijou Touma, or rather the corpse, Accelerator, who was under the care of Tsuchimikado Motoharu, seemed very quiet. He sat on the stone road leaning against the light pole of the street lamp without any scruples, burying his head in the In the arms that hugged his knees, his expression couldn't be seen clearly.

Fang Accelerator didn't become abnormal after coming here, but suddenly fell into a state of madness.Kamijou Touma knew this very well, so he tried his best to see what happened from the corpse in front of him.

What did he just see?

The tragedy of the girl's death was indeed heart-pounding, but it was definitely not a reason to make him go crazy instantly.

Her eyelids had been cut off.The murderer forced her to open her eyes?for what?

For... see?

The flashlight in Kamijou Touma's hand was aimed at the ground, where there were simple patterns like children's graffiti.

Yes, Accelerator saw this.

He stood there, beside the girl, and went with her to see the message left by the murderer.

Kamijou Touma walked over without hesitation. With the change of perspective, the pattern changed from lines with unclear meanings to a single word, a word that made him feel the blood flow backward in an instant:

"Why".

why.

Accelerator repeated this sentence on the verge of madness, asking, asking, and asking all the time.

why?

Who is he asking?What does he want to know?

Who is the murderer asking?What does he want to know?

Kamijou Touma's eyes fell on the girl's forcibly torn lips - Accelerator took out the waterproofed piece of paper from her mouth.

But the question is, how on earth did he know?

"Surveillance Officer? Can the corpse be put down?" Seeing that Kamijou Touma, who was walking around beside the corpse, finally stopped, Mitsuki Unabara asked tentatively.

Accelerator was like this just now. After he made a series of unimaginable actions, he became weird. If the surveillance officer also went crazy after this, it would inevitably remind people of evil spirits and other things. .

"Wait first." Kamijou Touma beckoned to his subordinates: "Here, I wrote a word."

Mitsuki Unabara walked to where Kamijou Touma was standing in confusion, and carefully observed the pattern written in black matter: "W...h...Why?"

Is it really just the word 'Why'?Or some other kind of abbreviation for a sentence?

Withered leaves swayed and fell in the cold wind, it was already autumn.

autumn.

"Jiebiao Danxi!" Unabara Mitsuki, who remembered something, suddenly yelled out a cold feeling gripping his hands and feet.

"Ah? What's the matter?" Jiebiao Danxi, who was sitting on the freestanding computer and operating a laptop, raised her head irritably.

As if he was in a hurry to confirm something life-threatening, Mitsuki Haiyuan asked anxiously with a pale face: "Just now, the piece of paper that Accelerator took out from the mouth of the deceased! What is written on it?"

Jiebiao Danxi took out the piece of paper sealed in the evidence bag from the box divided into countless interlayers, glanced at it, and said: "It is 'A'."

Unabara Mitsuki's expression froze on his face, he trembled all over, and confirmed again: "Is it... red oil-based printing ink...?"

Jiebiao Danxi glanced at the simple composition analysis on the computer screen and nodded.

When he looked at the girl hanging from the tree again, Mitsuki Unabara's eyes showed a hint of surprise and disgust, and he muttered to himself: "Impossible...it's been four years...he doesn't Should come back..."

Jiebiao Danxi looked at the ordinary-looking piece of paper in her hand suspiciously, but the unexplained expression quickly collapsed from her face, replaced by a deep fear.

Kamijou Touma didn't understand what kind of change had taken place in their state of mind, and stood there helplessly like an outsider: "What does that mean...?"

"Banquet."The worst serial murder case in Tokyo that happened four years ago. Mitsuki Kaihara looked at Kamijou Touma in astonishment, as if he was looking at an unknown creature he had never seen before: "Surveillance officer.Why don't you know? "

"I..." Kamijou Touma couldn't help taking a step back from the man's aggressive questioning: "Why should I know?"

"Because——" Unabara Mitsuki's gaze became extremely cold in an instant, and every word he said was very simple, but it pierced into Kamijou Touma's heart like a thunderbolt:

"Four years ago...you were the only one who saw the true face of the murderer."