【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

It will be an extraordinary day for a teenage girl.

As the class monitor, as usual, she helped the teacher sort out the homework submitted that day, then tapped her sore shoulders and looked out the window, but suddenly saw a black shadow falling quickly from a few meters in front of her, screaming, With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the girl poked her head out and saw the boy lying prone on the long steps in front of the teaching building, the blood color continuously spreading around him centered on him.

The police were yelling 'protect the scene', until the sad siren sounded, the girl slowly remembered:

Ah, someone died.

He just passed him at such a close distance.Thinking of such a fact, the thought of 'I killed him' popped up in the girl's mind unbelievably.

No.not me.

The stomach twitched violently, the girl vomited some transparent gastric juice, and burst into tears uncontrollably when the door of the staff room was pushed open.

-

The corpse on the long steps has been properly kept in the transport vehicle, but the blood and brain tissue are still left on the gray bricks, like a stubborn stain that will never be erased.

The self-supporting machines around the entrance of the teaching building made the students who stayed in the campus restless. Kamijou Touma stood in the "house garden", staring silently at the disconnected fence net and the deadly scene. hollow.

"It is confirmed that the deceased is Suzuki Asahi, a third-year student in Group D of Yuwenguan High School. The time of death is between 16:30 and 16:50." Jiebiao Danxi read the case report without emotion behind him: "Preliminary It was confirmed that the cause of death was an accidental fall from a building caused by a break in the welded part of the fence. There is no surveillance camera in the garden above the house, and it is impossible to confirm whether anyone was in the same place as the deceased."

"Do you think it was really an accident?" Kamijou Touma asked.

"There were no witnesses, the fence was broken, and the deceased had no external injuries. It can only be said that it was an accident. Although it is true that Suzuki had close contacts with Morimoto, we cannot say that Suzuki died of homicide based on this." Jiebiao Danxi said: "'The murderer committed suicide because he was afraid of the crime being revealed', maybe he will be bitten back by the other party like this."

"I saw it just now." Kamijou Touma's gaze was still glued to the hideous gap where the fence net broke: "Although there is rust on it, the actual reason for the break is external force."

"Even if you say that, they will just shirk that the students accidentally broke it when they were playing around."

"What was that thing that fell from above with Suzuki Asahi? The one that broke into pieces."

"The mobile phone. After hitting the granite, it fell apart completely, and the debris was everywhere. The collection operation took more than ten minutes."

"Can you recover?"

"That's the problem. It's possible to connect the broken motherboard chips, but the most critical memory card inside can't be found. Without that, no matter how powerful you are, you can't restore all the data."

Kamijou Touma, who turned around and walked towards the elevator machine room, asked, "Do you think that thing will disappear out of thin air?"

"Although things like memory cards are small, they won't break. They should just fall nearby. However, after Suzuki Asahi fell, the scene was immediately protected by all of us. There is no outsider who will take it with us." Let's go. If he hadn't taken out the memory card in advance..."

"Then it can only be another person who was there at the time."

-

The girl stared numbly at the steam rising from the cup of hot water, and sat on the sofa without saying a word.

"Are you all right?" asked the black-haired man facing him.

The voice was not loud, but it made the girl's fingers tremble slightly, and she nodded:

"Well...it's okay."

"The surveillance camera in the corridor captured that you were the last person who had contact with Suzuki Asahi. So I want to ask you, did he do anything special at that time?"

"Suzuki...did he commit suicide?" Recalling the scene of the boy falling in front of her, especially when she knew that the person was a classmate she had talked to ten minutes ago, the girl's teeth were chattering constantly.

"The current speculation is... an accident."

The intertwined fingers clasped tightly and then loosened. The girl said, "Because the teacher said that Suzuki's appearance is a bit strange... he thought he was sick, so he told me to go and see."

"What did he tell you?"

"...He said he was fine, and said he had important things to do, and told me not to disturb him. He seemed very anxious..."

"Where's the mobile phone? Did he have the mobile phone at the time?"

"Yes...he was talking on the phone with someone, but I didn't hear the content. Suzuki went upstairs after that, and I left too...and after that..."

The girl covered her cheeks with her hands, but tears continued to drip from between her fingers:

"It would have been nice if I... had called him to stop... then... the accident would not have happened, it was all my fault..."

Kamijou Touma walked up to the girl and patted her on the shoulder lightly: "You have done enough. You don't need to be responsible for anyone's death."

"But...but if I—"

"Everything will pass."

-

"This is the fourth person."

On the slope a little far away from Yubunkan High School, Kamijou Touma, who stopped the convoy, looked at the shrunken Yubunkan High School and said.

Nearly four hours of evidence collection has made the surrounding night extremely dark. Although the police have completely withdrawn from the inside, the middle school is still brightly lit. I am afraid that the school is trying its best to clean up the blood on the steps.

Tomorrow morning, there will be no more traces of someone who has disappeared here.

"Do you think it was done by the same person?" Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked using the communication device in the escort car.

"Morimoto Haruko and Suzuki Asahi had been in close contact for the past week, and then Morimoto Haruko died, and Suzuki Asahi just happened to die while we were investigating. He was on the phone with someone before he died, and the most important memory The card is lost. What did he do in the garden after school? What did he do in front of the fence?” Kamijou Touma ignited the engine again: “I met Suzuki Asahi before he died. He was scared. I knew it wasn't the fear of 'someone died,' but the fear of 'someone died and it was my fault.'"

"Accomplice?" Mitsuki Kaihara asked.

"The hue shows that he has been under a lot of pressure recently. I think he didn't participate in the killing, but did something unconsciously or was deceived, which led to the death of Haruko Morimoto."

"Then it's silence."

"He shouldn't have killed Suzuki Asahi."

"You mean murderer?"

"Well. He's on his way to death."

The portable terminal suddenly rang to receive a text message, and Kamijou Touma opened it roughly, and then suddenly stopped breathing.

Sensing the sudden acceleration of the escort car, Motoharu Tsuchimikado asked, "Ah-san? What's wrong?"

"It's Executive Officer Mugino. Another girl is missing. Yasui Hisae, from Yamabuki High School in Shinjuku District, said last Saturday that she was going to stay at a friend's house, but there has been no news since then. The last time she appeared was at Sudou in Bunkyo District Near the park. Now the whole security service is out to find her whereabouts."

Then--

At 3:22 in the morning, Yasui Hisae's body was found in Ueno Park, Taito District.

-

The lights in this room are still on 24 hours a day and night, so it is impossible to make people feel the passage of time.

"Hey, let's go and see him. If he faints, pour some cold water on him to wake him up."

"Do you have to leave all of this to me?"

The men and women not far away were arguing needlessly, but they stopped after Accelerator raised his head and glanced at them.

24 hours, no, probably longer than that.

The continuous sleep deprivation and the previous head injury seemed to have a chain reaction. Now, if Fang Accelerator moved a little, the world would spin around in front of his eyes.

The current self may be really embarrassing.

While thinking about these insignificant things to distract his attention, Accelerator vaguely heard the sound of someone approaching quickly in the corridor.

Is that guy back?

The sound of footsteps became clearer and heavier each time, as if he wanted to pour all his dissatisfaction onto the ground.

When the rhythmic sound finally stopped, the door of the room was pushed open with great force, and the loud noise made by the door panel hitting the wall caused Accelerator to hear only the buzzing in his ears for a while .

Surrounded by a cold aura like ice, Kakine Teito strode up to Accelerator, grabbed his collar without any explanation, and moved toward the door like he was pulling a lifeless thing. go outside.

Passing through half of the criminal department's floor, when the cold wind howled from behind the glass door, Kakine Teito quickened his pace and forcefully pushed Accelerator against the glass guardrail of the open-air balcony.

His back hit the hard railing, and the severe pain made Accelerator almost suffocate.

"Where is your accomplice?"

Kakine Teitoku asked.

Accelerator gritted his teeth and showed a provocative smile: "...you are so confident, you can find it yourself."

As soon as he finished speaking, the pain from rubbing against the railing suddenly intensified, and most of Accelerator's body was already in the air, only Kakine Teitoku's hand holding his collar maintained a state that would not let him fall .

"Where is your accomplice—?!"

Kakine Teitoku's questioning had completely lost his rationality, and he was just yelling madly.

Accelerator silently looked at the vast city turned upside down. Even though the night sky was pitch black, there were countless artificial lights forcing it to light up. Everywhere was filled with colorful and disgusting lights. Even the corroded bones disappeared.

"Haha...hahahahahahahahahahahahaha——"

Kakine Teitoku stared in astonishment at the man in front of him whose life was controlled by others but laughed without hesitation. He opened his hands with all his strength, as if he would fall down in the most perfect posture at any time, and said:

"If you want to do that, do it."

Kakine Teitoku loosened his fingers slightly.

"but--"

Accelerator laughed like a victor and said:

"Don't forget, you lost. Hide back like a lost dog with your tail between your legs and watch others find out."

Just as Accelerator's collar was about to fall out of his hand, and his body slowly fell towards the ground, Kakine Teito caught him desperately.

"Just being shaken like this, you lose again."

Accelerator, who was barely pulled back from the line of life and death, said when his feet touched the ground.

Life and death, emotion and reason, are all played with in the applause.

Countless failures.

Countless times.

countless times.

At that moment, Kakine Teitoku couldn't hear any sound, and didn't feel anything, the cold substance seemed to freeze his chest cavity suddenly and filled his brain.

catch him.

kill him.

'Crack-crack--'

The sound of cracking was heard one after another, Kakine Teitoku didn't know what he was doing, he just felt that the metal prosthesis seemed to have a life of its own, and tried everything to destroy the man in front of him.

"Surveillance officer—! Stop—! You will kill him—!"

Kakine Teitoku just watched all this indifferently until someone stopped him.

"He's lying."

Accelerator leaned on the glass curtain wall, knelt on the ground as if his body had completely collapsed, his expression was extremely painful, sporadic red spilled from the corners of his mouth.

"He's just pretending—!"

"Don't touch him! Broken ribs, no, pneumothorax—a ruptured liver or a ruptured spleen at worst! Call that doctor!"

There was so much blood pouring out of one of the passageways, and the constant dripping to the ground with every retching and coughing, that one wondered if there was so much blood in a person's body to shed.

This is retribution.

That's right.

Kakine Teitoku, who was standing in the same place dumbly, saw Accelerator whose eyes had begun to collapse and showed him a cruel smile.

That look just said to him:

you lose.