【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

"Before I leave, I want to see someone."

This is before everything develops in an unpredictable direction.

Accelerator watched the doctor nicknamed Netherland Chasing Soul leave the room, and slowly let out a slightly trembling breath.

A loudspeaker buried in an unknown corner of the ceiling in the room suddenly emitted an inexplicable clutter, and after a while, a lazy female voice finally came from it:

"How's the escape plan going? My ex-partner?"

Without a crutch at hand, Accelerator had to put half of his body weight on the hospital bed beside him, and glanced at the source of the sound as if complaining: "Don't casually monitor other people's conversations. Fang Chuan."

"If I hadn't connected the surveillance video line a few hours in advance, you might have been arrested by Hesheng Zongzong now. In a society where Sibyl's eyes are everywhere, are you somewhat self-conscious?"

"Isn't it good if you have this self-awareness?"

Fangchuan Kikyo was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "So you were ready to use me a long time ago?"

"Then it depends on whether you want to help me. My ex-partner?" Accelerator deliberately emphasized the last few words in order to counter Fang Chuan Kikyo's previous teasing.

"Anyway, no matter what I do, you will definitely try my best to cause some trouble for Hesheng Zongzong. As for me, even if I sit honestly in the comprehensive analysis room, I will inevitably be suspected of having contact with you. Better to be wronged for not doing something than to be arrested for doing something, right?"

"You didn't take such risks before."

"After all, people change."

Fang Accelerator suddenly frowned: "In order to prevent you from living in peace and comfort for too long and even forgetting what you were doing before, let me remind you, if you help me, you will die if you provoke Hesheng Yangzong .”

"You were not so kind before."

As if to respond to Accelerator's question just now, Yoshikawa Kikyo replied with almost the same words and said:

"But even after so long, you are still the weak and sad you, you haven't changed at all, Accelerator."

Accelerator turned his head and stared at his surveillance probe like eyeballs, with no expression of joy or anger.

"So? You hacked the radio just to mock me?"

"Sarcasm? Don't dare to take it. From six years ago until now, your life has been ironic enough, and I don't need to add another one. I'm just curious. You have already fallen into such a situation, and you still want to be stubborn. How long?"

"Me? Obsessed with obsession?"

"You're going to die after everything is over, right? Like four years ago."

Fang Chuan Kikyo's words made the atmosphere in the room suddenly cold, and Accelerator put away the cynical expression on his face, and his indifferent gaze seemed to be able to pass directly through the sharp edge of the camera.

"The little girl's smile made you regain your part of being a human being, and you were greatly moved by risking your life to save her. Are you happy to meet someone who desperately wants to save you? If the old things don't Being mentioned again, no one remembers what you have done in the past, and being affirmed by those around you has value, you can make up a false impression that you will tell it someday to deceive yourself, and then take it for granted and without guilt Live forever, right?"

Yoshikawa Kikyo says:

"So someone lifts your scar, and you want to end it all by killing yourself."

Accelerator remained silent.

"Don't be kidding. Your life is not worth more than anyone you kill. What qualifications do you have to put them on the same scale."

"After you die, the only one who ends the pain is yourself, and the living people continue to mourn. Because even if you die ten thousand times, no one will come back to life. You have done so many unforgivable things, thinking 'I seem to be wrong' and then looking for a rooftop and jumping off is not called redemption—it's called escape."

"And you, have been doing it."

Silence blocked every corner of this space as if it suddenly had a shape, only Yoshikawa Kikyo's words pushed them aside and echoed silently:

"If you can't let go of your pride, self-esteem, and ambition, if you don't want to bow your head to this society you hate, if you don't want to expose the fact that you are so ugly, if you don't want to kneel on the ground ugly and beg for forgiveness and help, you don't want to lose anything. Your consciousness is not worthy of the person who wants to save you."

"Is that enough? Create yourself as a character who knows how to return from a lost path and longs for the light, actually? He gave you so many opportunities to say it yourself, but you didn't say a word because you would lose everything you gained. Maybe you It is true that there is a little bit of kindness, but in the final analysis, compared with your own future, those who died are not worth mentioning at all."

"So I said, that's enough. Since you don't care about other people's life or death, just be that heartless and emotionless monster. As long as you sacrifice as many people as you want to achieve your goal, it doesn't matter how many tragedies happen for revenge. Accepted by others, don’t want to be liked by anyone. Just be like that and you’ll be fine.”

"In the end, neither side belongs to you, and you can't go back anywhere."

"This is retribution."

Facing the woman's bloody accusations, Accelerator smiled indifferently:

"Then this retribution is too light."

That's right, that's the expression.

Sitting in a dim room surrounded by countless huge screens, Yoshikawa Kikyo thought while looking at the man smiling indifferently at the camera.

That expression that hides everything and seems unmoved by anything.

To prevent Fang Tongxing from going down the road of self-destruction, the only way is to tear off that mask from his face.

"The person who can do this really shouldn't be me." Fangchuan Kikyo muttered to himself, and reopened the communication: "The preparations for escape are all done."

"I thought you would lock me up here and report to He Sheng Zongzong directly." Yifang Accelerator said sarcastically.

"Who knows. Maybe it would be better for me to betray you to her, but I still hate her more than you." Fang Chuan Kikyo tapped the keyboard with his fingertips: "The surveillance probe blacked me out 10 minutes ago. When I lost the route, I kept looping the same video from four hours ago. If you don’t compare it carefully, you can’t see any flaws. As for your portable terminal, I wrote a set of programs that can cut off the monitoring signal for 10 minutes without triggering an alarm. , after taking it off, no one will be able to find your whereabouts again."

"You prepared so many things in the 10 minutes of chatting?"

Fangchuan Kikyo did not answer this question: "Then, I also asked that doctor to bring you a small gift."

"what?"

"All the files of the "Banquet" that have been sealed. "

Accelerator's face was like a mirror with cracks, and there was a twisted looseness:

"What the hell are you trying to do? I'm warning you, Fang Chuan, stop involving irrelevant people."

"Irrelevant? The trainee policeman who appeared at the scene as one of the victims four years ago and witnessed the murderer's true face can't be said to be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try to stop him, even if everyone gives up, the one who wants to find out the truth People will never give up. Instead of letting him touch something he shouldn't touch unprepared, it's better to take the initiative to give him what he needs—"

"If you dare to do that, I will kill you!"

"Oh, what a terrible speech." Fangchuan Kikyo turned off the monitoring screen in front of him, leaving only the broadcasting line to continue running: "It should be impossible to hack into the place with the highest protection level of the Security Bureau without leaving traces. No matter how stupid those guys in Ke are, they will probably be able to find a loophole in the system, and we don't have a long time to chat. But I remember I said that this 'gift' is for you."

Now even if you don’t see it with your own eyes, you can still imagine the murderous look on the face of Accelerator. Fangchuan Kikyo feels a little bit of the joy of successful revenge for this:

"It's up to you how you want to use it. It's up to you to burn it, throw it on the side of the road, or give it to someone else. It's your choice. I've been a happy killing partner for so long, I still can't understand you, maybe you think you have It doesn't matter if you kill so many people and take a few more lives, but I still think that since I'm ready to die, I still want to go on the road clean."

There were footsteps coming from far and near outside the comprehensive analysis room. Fangchuan Kikyo took a deep breath and said with a smile before completely unplugging the power cord of the analysis equipment:

"If you want to start over, how about trying to destroy your past self first?"

At the moment when the door of the comprehensive analysis room was violently opened by the self-supporting machine, Yoshikawa Kikyo unplugged all the power cords that kept the equipment running. Open your eyes to see the person standing outside the door:

"I really miss this feeling. It's like going back to the past."

-

This is what happened before everything started.

The overclocked computer mainframe under liquid nitrogen cooling makes humming noises. In the room without even a single light, there are only faint fluorescent lights from scattered display screens, and an overly bright and inappropriate light source from outside the door.

The short-haired woman who lost her image and curled up on the computer chair was typing on the keyboard in a dizzying manner, while ordering the person who leaked the beam of light into the room:

"You're getting in the way of my work. Either come in with the door shut, or get out with the door behind you."

"KIKYO." The white-haired young man standing at the door with a cold face like a dead man said only one word, and the crackling typing stopped.

The young man did not close the door, but kicked away the coffee cans scattered on the ground like strolling in the courtyard and walked in:

"Yoshikawa Kikyo, 28 years old, graduated from the Electronic Information Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo. He gave up the Ministry of Defense technician job assigned by Sibyl and settled in Shinjuku after falsifying his identity and information. He has broken into the security system of the Ministry of Health and Welfare three times. The code name is KIKYO. Your battle is over. It's down, doesn't it matter if you lose?"

"Compared to this." The woman named Fangchuan Kikyo typed a few times on the keyboard at hand, and the data stream that was eating each other on the computer screen disappeared, replaced by a personal message: "I know you. Are you Yifang Accelerator. On February 2rd, he escaped from the isolation facility after causing one death and four injuries in the Sakurada Treatment Center. The 3 Baishan Road Suidoqiao incident was also your work. This time, three policemen died. But it must be traced back to your Whereabouts, it should be the Xiyuan High School armed wounding case in September last year. I'm right."

Using interrogative sentences without any doubt about his intelligence, Yoshikawa Kikyo sat leisurely with his knees hugged, as if he had no idea what kind of dangerous person was standing in front of him.

"Why are you so interested in me?" Puzzled by the woman's strange behavior, Accelerator tilted his head slightly like a child.

"Of course I'm curious. I really want to know what method was used to beat two people to serious injuries but still maintain a clear hue and go back to school as usual. The cunning rabbit still has three caves. If one day The catastrophe is approaching, I must find a way to save my own life. In addition to that, you were locked up in the Sakurada Treatment Center for six months. During that time, I hacked into their security system twice, but nothing Any document shows that you were transferred to this medical institution, and then I tried to search all the surveillance data by setting your face as a priority identification object. Guess what?"

Fangchuan Kikyo smiled slightly:

"There, no camera has ever captured you."

Accelerator still had that almost unwavering expression: "Should I applaud your cleverness?"

"That's not necessary. I don't want to go into the question of where you were for those six months. What I really don't understand is another thing-the street video first captured you on February 2, which means You did escape from somewhere on that day, and then on May 3, the Baishan Road Waterway Bridge was the first time you killed someone after you regained your freedom. This time you provoked the entire security bureau. You left two messages , one is a witness who saw you, and the other is 'Why'."

Accelerator waited silently for Fangchuan Kikyo's next words.

"Then I also want to ask you, why? In the past three months, what are you waiting for when you are tired of fleeing? People like you, if you get bored with someone, you will take revenge immediately, but facing yourself Barking hound, you chose to escape, so why did you give up your persistence that day?"

"Because Tokyo is too big."

Half of the young man's face was bathed in the light outside the door. It was as pale as an uncolored sculpture, without any vitality. The other half of his face blended into the thick darkness in the room, only the red eye Reflecting the faint blue light of the display screen, black and white, light and dark, so contradictory and harmonious intertwined in front of Fangchuan Kikyo.

"If you keep running, there will never be an end in sight. Nowhere belongs to me, and I can't go back anywhere."

Fang Chuan Kikyo tidied up her wrinkled home clothes, and stood up from the chair: "I still hate kids like you."

"I'm 20 years old, not a kid."

"Then when will you be able to change this eccentric personality? It's tiring to be rigid and tiring, and you'll be more or less conscious of being abandoned by society, and you can just pass by?"

Accelerator stared at the woman in front of him for a while, and suddenly showed his first smile since meeting him. He was arrogant and extremely vile, and he stretched out his hand:

"Then, as a hopeless partner in murder, let's start a casual revenge."

Perhaps finding some resonance in this person, Yoshikawa Kikyo held that hand without the slightest hesitation.

Maybe there used to be a destination waiting for us somewhere, but now, nowhere belongs to us, and we can't go back anywhere.

"make a deal."

-

"If you want to start over, how about trying to destroy your past self first?"

Yifang Accelerator stood blankly in front of the main entrance of the Security Bureau, holding the memory card that Fangchuan Platycodon was handed over to him by the hands of Netherland Chasing Soul.

Unlike those narrow and dark treatment facilities - wide streets, flowing crowds and speeding vehicles, the greenery on the side of the street exudes high-spirited vitality and is full of noisy noises, like a dense large The net tightly wraps around the heart, and the city, which is filled with a peaceful atmosphere under the warm sunlight, expands into the distance without bounds.

Facing such an ordinary scene, Accelerator took a step back.

The chest pain that was simply treated with the fixation belt was dull, as if being pressed by a heavy object, it was suffocating, and the heart seemed to be about to stall. Maybe it was because of the body that was not suitable for activities. His hands and feet were trembling constantly, the desire to vomit appeared in his stomach, cold sweat continued to slide down his forehead, and the feeling of dying that everything was no longer under his control made him want to yell, but he didn't know what to do in his throat. It was blocked for a while, and only a faint breath sound was emitted.

After standing blankly by the side of the road for a long time, the man who suddenly bent down in cold sweat like an emergency attack quickly attracted the attention of passers-by, and a slightly bolder woman stepped forward and tried to help:

"Sir? Are you all right?"

Reflexively wanting to push away the people around him with his injured left arm, Accelerator felt a sharp pain that went straight to his brain, and more than half of his sanity lost in confusion instantly returned.

"It's okay...it's okay." Accelerator hugged his left shoulder to avoid the woman's touch, and stopped a taxi casually.

"Where are you going?" the driver asked, looking at the pale man through the rearview mirror.

where to go?

Is there any place here where I can rest?

The feeling of fear that he was about to die just now returned, and Accelerator held down his chest that was palpitating due to panic attacks, and gave an address to the driver with difficulty.

"10-6, Kojimachi [-]-chome, right? Please fasten your seat belts." Surprised that the man in the back seat with gloomy eyes and looking sick actually lives in a high-end residential area, the driver started the car while expressing his heart.

Accelerator leaned against a corner of the back seat, trying to relieve the panic caused by the acute anxiety attack. The narrow space did indeed play a role in soothing the nerves. Only then did he realize that his palms had been unconsciously clenched since just now. a memory card.

"I just said where I was going." Fang Accelerator suddenly asked the driver who was concentrating on the road conditions.

"Huh? 10-6, Koji-cho [-]-chome, Chiyoda-ku? Did I remember wrongly? Or are you going somewhere else?"

Subconsciously said there, does it mean that I still have nostalgia for the past?

The man in the back seat was silent for a few seconds:

"No, just go there."

Perhaps as you said, Yoshikawa.

Nowhere belongs to me.

So there is not even a way out.