【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

"It turned out to be another child with a withdrawn personality who doesn't like to socialize with others, meow. He couldn't ask any clues. It's really troublesome to walk alone." Motoharu Tsuchimikado walked out of the elevator and folded his hands behind his head. , sighing the futility of this afternoon.

Yubi Danxi rubbed her aching ankle, and then complained: "I said I would walk all over Shinjuku and Bunkyo District, so I came out wearing sneakers. My legs hurt so much, I have a runner who loves to run." The surveillance officer on the scene is really not a good thing."

"Speaking of which, what are you going to do tonight, sir?"

"Me?" Kamijou Touma pointed at himself, with an expression of not understanding the meaning of Motoharu Tsuchimikado's question.

"It's you. You don't need to think about it. Accelerator escaped. It must not be safe near your apartment now."

"What's that."

"With your tone, don't you want to go back to your apartment to rest?!"

Facing Tsuchimikado Motoharu who opened his mouth wide in surprise, Kamijou Touma waved his hand decisively:

"Even if you ask me to go back to live, I don't have time to sleep leisurely now. It's a Sphinx. My parents didn't take it with me when they left, so I can't leave it alone at home. Go back by the way I'll be right back with a few changes of laundry."

"Speaking of which, it seems that the second department and the third department have not appeared for a day." Jie Biaodan hoped that it was only [-] o'clock in the evening and almost every room in the criminal department was dark and said: "There is only us in such a big place." A few, it feels weird."

Kamijou Touma glanced at the empty second department office from a distance, but didn't answer.

After taking away the casual clothes and mobile phone that had been placed in the office, Kamijou Touma greeted his colleagues and drove away from the security bureau.

The wind blowing in from the car window carried the unique bleakness of this season. Although it was approaching evening, the sky above my head was obviously dark and abnormal, and I could feel the moist water vapor in my breath. It seemed that it would rain heavily at any time. Perhaps because of this reason, there are few pedestrians on the street.

There was no umbrella prepared in advance in the storage slot inside the car door, Kamijou Touma said helplessly to himself:

"This is troublesome, I hope I can get home before it rains."

However, the reality is often not as expected. It happened that the elevator in the parking lot was out of service, and Kamijou Touma, who had to run all the way back from the parking lot in the rain, was dripping water from almost every piece of fabric on his body.

"Unfortunate..."

Kamijou Touma opened the door of the apartment with his heavy clothes that had absorbed enough rain, and was about to dry the water stains on his hands when he turned on the light, but was stopped by a strange feeling——

There are people in the room.

After recognizing this fact, every tiny movement of the body is as difficult and heavy as moving forward in viscous liquid.

Although Kamijou Touma should have been alarmed by the many noises that Kamijou Touma made before, the black figure on the sofa sat there like a puppet without any reaction, and there were one or two weak meows from the direction of 'him'.

But it didn't sound like the frightened growls of threatened animals.

Facing the dark room, Kamijou Touma asked softly:

"……One way?"

The man whose name was called seemed to move.

The billowing thunder that flashed through the cumulonimbus outside the window illuminated the room just at this moment, and in those fleeting seconds, Kamijou Touma met a pair of dark red pupils.

When the thunder exploded, everything in front of my eyes was swallowed by thick black as if it didn't exist at all.

The time was too short, and Kamijou Touma didn't have time to see clearly what kind of emotion was hidden in those eyes, nor did he notice what kind of expression the other party was wearing.

But, there he is.

"Come back—" Kamijou Touma tried to take a step forward as he spoke to the person in front of him as if he was afraid of frightening the birds that fell on the treetops: "I will remove the suspicion for you, So it’s okay if you don’t have to run away. You don’t have to be alone, no matter what happened in the past, I will bear it with you, and I will stand by your side. So—come back—”

Accelerator stopped gently stroking the Sphinx's back. He picked up the drowsy three-colored cat on his lap and put it on the ground. But the man got up from the sofa and slowly walked towards the other person in the darkness:

"What about your own memory?"

Accelerator stood still in front of him, even though he could only make out a vague silhouette in the darkness, Kamijou Touma could still feel that pair of red eyes staring at him.

"Answer me, Kamijou Touma, where's your own memory?"

The other party's silence made Accelerator feel as if a part of his heart had been taken away by someone, sending out bursts of tingling pain:

"You don't even remember what I have done, how can you have the courage to say something stupid like this together?"

"Are you afraid that I will betray you and abandon you as long as I know the truth?"

"I don't care about that kind of stuff at all."

"Then why are you coming back, why are you standing here?"

"To correct a mistake."

Accelerator's words have a determination that seems to be able to cut off all the past:

"That day, your mother asked if I would hurt you."

"I didn't answer directly, but that stupid woman just believed it."

"So now, I have to correct that answer."

"because--"

Before Kamijou Touma sensed the murderous intent revealed by the other party, he was suddenly hit in the abdomen. The severe pain and the inertia of the human body made him bend down subconsciously, but his lowered head bumped into Accelerator head-on A knee shot delivered.

The center in charge of all activities almost stopped functioning immediately after being hit so hard, and Kamijou Touma, whose eyes were black and his limbs were weak, immediately took two steps back and fell on his back.

"I'm not only going to hurt you—"

Kamijou Touma, who was trying to maintain the last bit of consciousness, felt that Accelerator was straddling him, and his cold fingers grasped his neck and exerted force.

"I'll kill you too."

Clearly feeling the tactile sensation of his fingers sinking deep into the flesh, Accelerator continued:

"Do you know how much I hate you?"

"Clearly don't remember anything, but pretend to know everything to deceive everyone."

"Self-righteous imposing that stupid idea of ​​pacifism on everyone."

"Even if you face an enemy who wants to kill you, you still have to put on an expression of wanting to save him."

"The guy I'm going to kill is damned. If he's alive, there will be misfortune. So he's damned."

"From the very beginning, I didn't want anyone's understanding, anyone to save me."

The pulse felt by the fingertips was getting weaker, so Accelerator smiled:

"It's time to completely correct the mistakes made four years ago."

"Just die with your dream that everyone can live happily. Kamijou Touma."

Am I really causing you so much pain?

Kamijou Touma thought about such a question.

The mobile phone that fell to the floor from the fight just now vibrated regularly, and the automatically lit screen reflected a small space between the two, finally allowing them to see the expressions on each other's faces.

The faint sound of sirens came from far away, Accelerator retracted his hands as if frightened, silently looked at the unconscious man in front of him for a few seconds, then stood up with difficulty and left.

The puddles of water under your feet are cold, the clothes soaked in the rainstorm are cold, and the hands that have repeatedly hurt others are cold.

"over there--!"

"Stop him!"

"Don't let him run away!"

Again.

Back to square one.

Alone again.

But it's time for you to hate me.

Then, there is no need to look back.

-

"That guy has been lying like this all morning."

"Let Ah Shang stay alone for a while. He was almost killed by someone he trusted. No matter how strong a person is, there must be a buffer time."

Outside the door came the whispering voices of Yubi Tamaki and Tsuchimikado Motoharu, and Kamijou Touma silently looked at the blank ceiling of the ward, his throat still felt swollen and painful, and he occasionally coughed up a little blood.

I remembered.

That face, that expression seen in the dim light...

Obviously it should be the first time I saw it.

But it seems that it has been rehearsed thousands of times, which makes people feel familiar and painful.

Kamijou Touma stretched out his hand and touched the left side of his chest. The unspeakable pain was spreading from there like a virus, burning the heart and lungs, flowing to the limbs and bones, making the fingertips tremble uncontrollably.

so sad.

Not because of the 'I will kill you', not because of the 'I hate you', not because of the 'die'.

It was because of something hidden behind those vicious words, something he had resolutely left behind.

The sphinx who was brought along grabbed the bed sheet and climbed up, stepped on Kamijou Touma's chest and rubbed against his face, purring incessantly.

"Are you trying to comfort me?" Feeling a little funny, Kamijou Touma grabbed the back of the Sphinx and grabbed it from his body, while he sat up on the bed with one hand, with a self-deprecating tone Said: "That's right, after all, I'm broken in love."

Sanhuamao hooked Kamijou Touma's cuff with its claws, hugged half of his arm and acted like a baby, the metal bell on the collar rubbed against his palm from time to time.

"Ah Shang."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu's shout suddenly came from outside the door, Kamijou Touma raised his head, and saw his two executives watching Hesheng Somune enter the room with disgusted eyes.

"I didn't expect things to turn out like this." Sitting in front of the hospital bed, He Sheng Zongzong said with a regretful tone: "Although we have long guessed that Accelerator will return to your apartment at the right time, we have also arranged for the second department to come back to your apartment." I was watching nearby, but I didn't expect that he would actually kill you. In the end, Accelerator escaped."

"That's why rescue came so quickly." Kamijou Touma stroked the Sphinx who was sitting obediently on the quilt, not knowing whether he was responding or talking to himself.

"It's really unreasonable to make a deployment without notifying you, but there's nothing you can do about it."

"It's natural for me to hide it from me." Kamijou Touma spread his hands in understanding: "If it were me before, I would definitely try my best to help him escape after knowing this kind of thing."

Hesheng Zongzong showed a rather surprised look: "You before?"

"Yes." Kamijou Touma let out a sneer: "I thought that as long as I continued to work hard and give trust, I would eventually be able to let him open up to me one day. But I was wrong, I want to save him, he But he wants to kill me. I only understand now that such a person has no heart at all."

"It's best for you to think like this. The second department is still searching everywhere for his whereabouts, so I have one thing to ask you - when the second department arrived on the scene, there were signs of being turned over everywhere in your apartment , we suspect that Accelerator may have taken something. Do you have any clues about this?"

Kamijou Touma supported his head and thought for a while, then replied: "No. I won't put anything special in my apartment. I really can't think of anything that would attract him there."

"Is that so?" Hesheng Zongzong pondered for a moment, as if he was about to get up and leave.

"Chief."

Kamijou Touma called out suddenly.

"Anything else?"

"Can the 97 series of cases be handed over to me?"

"This..." He never thought that a man would make such a straightforward request, and He Shengyang Zong didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"The second department is busy with arrests and doesn't care about this side, right? Then I will investigate. I will no longer be deceived by those illusions, and I will personally convict Accelerator." Kamijou Touma showed confusion on his face. With a cold smile full of hatred and revenge: "Trampling on my goodwill and wanting to be free is absolutely unforgivable. Even if I want to chase him to the ends of the earth, I will never let him go."

Facing Kamijou Touma who said these words, Hesheng Rangzong gradually showed a gentle and encouraging smile like an elder:

After all, the trust between people is such a fragile thing, as long as it is slightly damaged, it will collapse completely. No matter how close you were before, you will turn against each other because of a little thing.

"Okay. Since you asked for this, then it's up to you to complete the revenge."

After Hesheng Zongzong, who had completed the purpose of this trip, left, Kamijou Toma's face returned to the blankness just now.

What is Accelerator taking from his apartment?

There was obviously nothing left of him there.

As for himself, it seems completely useless.

Or even if there were one or two items that were worth the risk of being caught, why would he needlessly wait until Kamijou Touma returned?

Wouldn't it be better to find out early and leave quietly.

Kamijou Touma touched the pinch mark left on his neck, and laughed dumbly:

If you really wanted to kill me, why would I be sitting here right now.

The Sphinx, who was rolling on the futon, screamed, and suddenly grabbed Kamijou Touma's skirt and tried to climb up.

"Hey. I usually ignore me except when I'm begging for food. Why is it so clingy today?" Kamijou took off the mahjong three-flowered cat's claws from his clothes, and passed his hands under its armpits to hug him. In front of myself: "What did that guy whisper to you, do you want to hear it?"

The Sphinx meowed, and pressed the cat's paw on the face of the man who made the unreasonable request.

So, what if Accelerator took nothing at all, but left something behind?

A strange idea suddenly broke into Kamijou Touma's mind.

But where will it hide?

The clothes on his body were replaced with patient uniforms. The previous clothes may have been searched for several times or simply thrown away.In order to find out possible clues, his own apartment has probably been searched by the second department.

In the end, Kamijou Touma's eyes fell on the Sphinx who kept throwing cat fists.

The heart suddenly beat wildly and irregularly, and Kamijou Touma, who tried hard to control the body and expression language, immediately hugged the Sphinx into his arms, and groped along the collar worn by the three-colored cat with his index finger and thumb.

After half a turn, Kamijou Touma felt a tiny bump that shouldn't exist at the nape of the Sphinx's neck.

From the perceived shape and size, it should be something like a memory card.

Say what you don't need to save.

Say what you don't want to understand.

Nonsense.

Speak up if you want to be trusted.

If you feel hopeless, call for help.

"It's...unforgivable."