【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

Kamijou Touma stood on the open-air balcony on the floor of the Criminal Division of the Security Bureau Headquarters, silently looking at the city scenery as if shrunk into a small garden, and the wind formed in the sky violently lifted his hair and the corners of his clothes, constantly shaking with eardrums,

Everything overlooked from here becomes small and inaccessible, making people feel as if they have been cut off from all connections with the world suddenly, and can only wander outside without help.

No, rather than dissociation, it is better to say that you are escaping.

The endless search, the irretrievable departure, the inevitable death.

After reviewing Chengshan's materials and documents, repeating and overturning the conclusion countless times, the result still remains unchanged——

Those who knew the truth were forced to keep silent, and the criminals continued to act fiercely in the corner where no one knew. Today, or maybe tomorrow, someone will die because of this.

"What the hell are you doing..."

As if asking someone who didn't exist here, or questioning himself, Kamijou Touma lowered his head and exhaled all the breath that was suffocating his chest.

But there is no reason to leave all the work to the executive just because he is in a bad mood.

Kamijou Touma, who was thinking like this, was about to leave when he heard the hurried sound of high heels stepping on the ground from behind him, and complained loudly with the woman:

"How disgusting! When the whole world is so busy, you actually look at the scenery here on the rooftop—!"

Someone slapped his back hard like a hammer, and staggered a few steps. Kamijou Touma, who was lying on the railing, took a deep breath, and felt dizzy for the first time when he saw the bird's-eye view from above. .

After Kamijou Touma carefully retreated from the edge of the balcony and recognized the woman in front of him, he showed a puzzled expression for the first time: "Miss Mugino...?"

"In order to find you, I ran three floors and searched almost every office! Forget it, I won't tell you about this." For some reason, Mugino Shimori grabbed Kamijou Touma's wrist and held onto Kamijou Touma's wrist. The projection function of his portable terminal was turned on, and he operated something on his portable terminal: "This is for you."

A small file transfer window appeared on a blue background projection.

The name of the file is -

"File/10.31 Yasui Hisae".

"It's the autopsy report and the scene photos." Mugino Shenli said in a low voice, averting his gaze.

And these words naturally made Kamijou Touma extremely astonished: "This...do you really want to give it to me?"

"Don't think too much, just give me back the favor you gave me earlier." Mugino Shenli bowed his head in silence for a moment, and finally sighed helplessly as if giving up resistance: "The second department has just received an order. From now on, all In other words, although the right to investigate the 97 series cases is still in our hands, as long as Fang Accelerator is not arrested for a day, the investigation will be ranked after the arrest .”

"That's unreasonable..." Kamijou Touma shook his head.

"Is that so?" Mai Ye Shenli shrugged helplessly: "So we decided to hand over all the case information we got to you. Ah, but you don't have to worry, this is permitted by our surveillance officer."

Following the direction pointed by Mugino Shimori, Kamijou Touma saw a man with dyed brown hair who gave a clumsy first impression beckoning to him. He was standing next to several female executives in casual clothes. The center is probably another supervisor of the second department that Mai Ye mentioned.

"Although I really want to say that I will help you, but unfortunately our second department is also in a state of fragmentation."

"At times like this, just do your best."

"Do your best...Of course I have to do my best. On the one hand, I don't want to just lose to Kakine Teitoku, and on the other hand—" Mugino Shirley glanced at Kamijou Touma's face and said, "It's good to be greedy, really. If you want to help, it’s up to you, but you have to know that Kakine Teitoku will never return to the Security Bureau with his mouth alive. So... you know where he will go, right?"

The violent high-altitude wind passed between the two people standing opposite each other. Mugino Shirley narrowed his eyes, and met Kamijou Touma's gaze without hesitation. With an indifferent expression without any mercy, she smiled:

"Executive officers are all personality flaws. It is our nature to be mercenary. We don't have such beautiful words as friendship, trust, and gratitude in our dictionary."

"Then how can you expect him to have it?" Kamijou Touma said.

Mai Ye Shenli tilted his head, thought about this ambiguous sentence for a moment, and seemed to understand what the other party meant:

"Ah, that's right."

Probably because he felt that since he exposed his bad intentions to inquire about the news, staying here would only bring embarrassment, or maybe because the time agreed with the team members was approaching, Mugino Shenli put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker and prepared to leave.

"Don't trust the ruler."

Kamijou Touma said suddenly.

"What do you mean?"

Kamijou Touma, who would have told the other party everything in the past, flashed the scary word 'witch hunting' in his mind.

"It's nothing."

The lie was formed in an instant.

"It's just that the recent case made me feel that it's really not okay to leave everything to the ruler. The murderer is still active in this city looking for prey as usual, and the hue that has already killed people can't be recovered no matter what. That's normal, but why isn't the pressure alarm responding at all?"

"That's all?" Mugino Shenli's sharp eyes just now returned to normal, and his shoulders slumped a little bored: "I thought I could hear some shocking news. In Japan where Sibyl has not been used in the past, murderers always use it. All kinds of methods to prove my innocence—faking alibi, pretending to be a suicide, pretending to be an accident, so since the pressure alarm didn’t go off, what means were used to make the pressure alarm never go off.”

While saying 'goodbye', Mugino Shimori walked away waving his hands, and Kamijou Touma stared at her back, constantly thinking about what she said casually.

Absolutely no sound?

Suddenly, some kind of light and fleeting thoughts crashed into my mind like lightning, without specific boundaries, but gradually began to have outlines.

divides criminals and ordinary people,

so that the alarm will never go off and it will go off—

numerical value.

But where is the error?

Pressing his clenched right hand to his lips, Kamijou Touma walked towards the main entrance of the terrace balcony while talking to himself.

That's right, the puzzles to be solved are emerging one after another, and now is not the time to stand alone and feel sad.

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"The victim, Hisui Yasui, 17 years old, was a second grade student at Shinjuku Yamabuki High School. He asked his mother to stay at a friend's house last Saturday, October 10, and had no contact with relatives since then. On the evening of October 28, 10 Around 29:6, Yasui Hisae appeared in the surveillance cameras near Sudou Park for the last time, and has since lost hearing from him.”

Accompanied by the sound of tapping on the keyboard, a photo of a young girl appeared on the projection screen—shoulder-length short hair neatly trimmed. Although she could not be called beautiful, she at least had a good appearance, but her eyes looked slightly gloomy.

Overall, it's such a first impression.

The huge projection screen with light blue brilliance makes this office that can accommodate more than a dozen people, but now there are only three people left, even though Motoharu Tsuchimikado and Danki Yusuke, who are sitting under the stage, are watching the office The official's secret source of information is puzzling, but due to the serious and serious expression on Kamijou Touma's face at the moment, no one has the courage to change the subject yet.

"This is the last video clip of Hisae Yasui captured by the surveillance camera provided by the intelligence department."

After the video was clicked, it started to play automatically. On the street where few people passed by, the girl wearing a camel sweater and a white knee-length skirt was very eye-catching. She walked through the surveillance cameras in just ten seconds. The short distance that can be photographed disappeared at the other end of the sidewalk.

This is Yasui Hisae's last trace of his own life.

"This girl was looking around all the time when she walked by." Tsuchimikado Motoharu said, "Did she date someone?"

Kamijou Touma replied: "I have investigated Yasui Hisae's interpersonal network, and she has not made an appointment with any of these people."

Jiebiao Danxi pointed to the stopped video on the screen and waved her hand to the left: "The video went back six seconds, and she took out her mobile phone to look at it at that time, can you zoom in on the screen on the mobile phone to see where she is?" What are you looking at?"

"This intelligence department has already checked, there is reflection on the screen, and the original picture cannot be seen clearly."

Jiebiao Danxi propped her chin and raised her eyebrows, and a low hum of interest floated out of her nose.

"The situation of the previous victim is basically the same. Yasui Hisae, who disappeared on the 29th, was killed after being imprisoned by the prisoner for more than 30 hours, that is, on the evening of the 8th. The time of death was between 10:[-] and [-]:[-]. The artery ruptured."

“稍稍停一下。”结标淡希抬起双手比了一个暂停的手势：“如果我没记错的话，No.1受害者是28日晚6点后失踪，然后No.2受害者29日晚也是6点后失踪？”

"That's right." Kamijou Touma nodded.

"Two or three hours after she disappeared, the No.1 victim died."

This sentence of Jiebiao Danxi is a bit difficult to understand, but once understood, it makes people feel a chill down the spine for a moment.

During the twenty hours of being imprisoned, Haruko Morimoto should have struggled, cried, and begged. The murderer listened to the beautiful screams and faced her day and night. When the sun rose and set, the girl who was unable to scream could only Bound somewhere in the room, weeping and silently praying for someone to save him.

For the murderer, they may be more like disposable toys that are used and thrown away. There is no need for any mercy or repairs, and they lose their use if they do not get a satisfactory response.

Then, Yasui Hisae came.

When Morimoto Haruko was killed, the girl who had just fallen into hell was taken there by the murderer. She fell into a coma under the action of a stun gun, or she heard and witnessed the whole process of another person's death.

In any case, no one hopes it will be the latter.

"In this case, the second girl was killed yesterday, does it mean that the murderer may have kidnapped another person?" Jiebiao Danxi asked a new question.

And if this person really existed, he would die tonight.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu crossed his arms behind his head, and said in a helpless tone: "That's what I said, but the investigation right is in the hands of the second department, so we can't do much."

"No." Kamijou Touma took a deep breath: "I will issue an announcement with the supervisory authority. Although it may not have any real effect, it is better than doing nothing."

"What if Hesheng Zongzong asks?"

"Then let her say what she says. Our purpose is to solve the case, and we don't care about anything else." Kamijou continued when the projection screen behind the mahjong was beating, and when the eyes of the members refocused on it, he continued. sermon:

"On the 31st, that is, at 3:22 a.m. today, Yasui Hisae's body was found by the Shinobu Pool in Ueno Park in Taito District. It is speculated that the murderer entered the park from the weakly monitored part of the two sections and dumped his body."

Although the following photos of the corpse did not have the impact of being at the scene in person, they still made people feel cruel. The girl named Yasui Hisae was quietly leaning against the cherry tree planted by the lake as if she had a short afternoon free , but the supposedly comfortable and peaceful scenery is creepy, because the figure of the girl illuminated by the white searchlight, the part above the neck is empty.

The head that should have grown there is right now placed in the girl's intertwined arms. She 'opened' her eyes and stared at the 'Why' that was scribbled on the warning sign in front of her. The dried blood stained her The clothes they wore were stained a viscous, heavy black.

"The deceased had partial electric burns on his back, his eyelids were cut off, and a piece of waterproof paper was hidden in his mouth, which is exactly the same as that of Morimoto Haruko's corpse. In addition—" Kamijou Touma paused and said: "I saw Yasui when I came back Kueda's mother."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu tilted his head inexplicably: "Only mother?"

"Father is a potential criminal who has been purged."

"Oh..." Tsuchimikado Motoharu let out a sigh of emotion or ridicule.

"Because of this reason, the relationship between Yasui Hisae and his mother is not harmonious, so she was not surprised when Yasui Jiue said that he was going to stay at a friend's house but never sent any contact."

"It turned out that the daughter who just left home in anger never came back alive." Jiebiao Danxi shrugged her shoulders helplessly: "What a sad mother."

"What I am more concerned about is how the murderer selected the victim. The distance between Shanbuki High School and Yuwenguan High School is not at 01:30, and the victim's mobile phone contacts and visit records have not been checked. something unusual..."

"Excuse me...is Inspector Kamijou Touma here?"

The voice from the door made Kamijou Touma stop thinking. There was a young man in uniform standing there. Unfortunately, Kamijou Touma didn't have any impression of his face.

"It's me, what's the matter?"

"People from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology want to see you in the reception room."

Could it be that he was complained about something he did yesterday?

Kamijou Touma, who was thinking in this way, explained to Yumibi Taki and Tsuchimikado Motoharu what to do next, and was led to the reception room by the young man who led the way.

Kamijou Touma, who was ready to accept the question and mustered up his courage, heard a voice that was very familiar to him say this sentence:

"hungry."

"Huh?" Kamijou Touma, who thought for a moment that he hadn't rested for so long that he had auditory hallucinations, shook his head vigorously.

"I said, I'm hungry."

The silver-haired girl, whose figure was completely blocked by the high back of the chair, poked out half of her head from behind the sofa like a cat, and repeated again.

"This opening line is too standard, isn't it?"

For some reason, feeling that all the troubles that bothered me before miraculously disappeared at this moment, Kamijou Touma showed a reassuring smile that he didn't even notice:

"Index."