【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

"So... this is...?"

Kamijou Touma held the paper bag with light pink floral prints in his hand, not knowing what to do with this gift exuding a light creamy sweet fragrance.

"It's a visiting gift!" Chuchun Zhuli touched the wreath on his head shyly: "Although you have already returned..."

"Yes, I mean... what's in it?"

"Cream biscuits from Rokkatei! Sweets make you happy! Cheer up, Supervisor!"

What the girl said made Kamijou Touma feel a throbbing pain in his heart.

"What? Doesn't it suit your taste?" Seeing that the smile on Kamijou Touma's face disappeared, Uiharu Shiri couldn't help becoming nervous.

"No. I just remembered something. The sweets are very good. I happily accepted them." Kamijou placed the mahjong paper bag on the desk and smiled slightly at the girl in front of him.

This gentle smile like a warm spring breeze made Chuchun Shili a little confused, but she still quickly remembered the ultimate purpose of this trip: "Surveillance officer, the matter you asked me to investigate yesterday has come to fruition."

"So soon?"

"Actually, it was completed last night, but you didn't respond to me when I informed you." Chuchun Zhuli pointed to the computer on the desktop with some hesitation: "For the convenience of explanation, can I borrow this for a while?"

Kamijou Touma hastily stepped back a few steps to make room for the girl to work: "Please go ahead."

After connecting his portable terminal with the computer host, Hatsuhari opened several files on the screen: "Then I'll start?"

Kamijou Touma nodded in agreement.

"First of all, according to what you said, supervisor, I searched the database for treatments related to maintaining hue, and after filtering out duplicate results, there are still more than 640384 items. After removing all treatments except 'instruments' as required, the remaining The result is 173985 entries. Then exclude the conditions that are too large, too popular, need to be used in a specific environment, and widely known. The final result is this number - 3531."

"This is not a small sum..." Kamijou Touma murmured to himself in a slightly troubled voice.

"It's really not a small amount, but it's not over yet." Hatsuharu Shiri continued: "The monitoring officer said that the function of this instrument is to 'keep the hue clear no matter what'. This statement is actually very interesting. No matter what kind of treatment method, equipment or medicine, most manufacturers dare not write '100% can cure the disease' on the instructions, even if they really want to brag, they will say '90.00% cure rate' to prevent the real In that one percent case, you will be sued to the Bureau of Medical Affairs or the Bureau of Medicine and Food. Just like the cold medicine you usually take, the fatality rate will be written clearly."

"It seems so."

"So according to this condition to exclude, these are the last things left." Chuchun Zhuli adjusted a table to the front of all windows.

The number of items is 7, and several of them have been crossed out.

"Among them, there are two types that have been found to cause a huge burden on the human body in the short term and have been discontinued. There are three types that have received complaints because they did not achieve the desired effect after listing. The production was terminated because the company went bankrupt before the news was released. There is one. The last low-frequency neck massager was produced by a company named Zein 11 years ago, and the product was immediately recalled within three hours of its launch, and the company was dissolved for unknown reasons a week later.”

The neck low-frequency massager mentioned by Chuchun Shili looks like a widened and lengthened physiotherapy electrode patch. Its size seems to cover the entire back of the neck, and a wire extends from the bottom to connect to the battery and other devices. Inside the black box of the line.On the description, there are high-sounding words like 'promoting blood circulation and relieving nervous tension by massaging acupuncture points close to the brain'.

Speaking of which, Kamijou Touma seemed to have had a similar conversation in the past when he asked about the strangely shaped collar on Accelerator's neck. Although it was just an unintentional topic, the answer given by Accelerator is indeed a bit weird:

"What the hell is the collar on your neck? It shouldn't be an ornament, I see the light on it flickering occasionally."

"This? What do you think?"

"Don't throw the question I asked you back on myself!"

"You have so many questions. Could it be that the treatment equipment is not working?"

"Therapeutic equipment?"

"Yeah, as a person with a personality defect, you must have some means to ease your emotions, otherwise, when you are with an idiot like you, you will really be so angry that your blood vessels will burst one day."

"Your temper isn't much milder even after using the treatment equipment..."

Although accepting such a plausible answer, Kamijou Touma subconsciously never believed that it was really so simple. Accelerator is definitely not the kind of person who likes to hide his emotions. Even if he wants to disturb the whole world, he will put himself Not to mention actively looking for ways to correct an overly angular personality, the rhetoric of 'in order to ease emotions' is more like an impromptu lie.

Seeing Kamijou Touma lost in thought, Uiharu Shuri took the initiative to stop explaining: "Shall I continue?"

"Sorry, please continue."

"Such an unexplained recall is too strange, and when I searched the information, I found that although the Medical Affairs Bureau proposed the recall, it was the Security Bureau that formally supervised all recall processes."

Even if it belongs to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it is too abnormal for the criminal department to intervene in medical affairs, and the only reasonable explanation can only be——

"Is the production of this instrument involved in a criminal case?"

"Yes." Chuchun Shili nodded, and turned to another document: "This is an undisclosed follow-up investigation report on Zein Company."

Just reading a few pages of Kamijou Touma roughly understands why this matter eventually turned into a criminal case.

The neck low-frequency massager was originally a smoke bomb released by Zein. The part that really plays a role in massage therapy is less than one-fifth of the total volume of the product, and the other four-fifths are used for things that have nothing to do with treatment. field.

"Isn't this a hue metering device?" Kamijou Touma said looking at the circuit diagram inserted in the document.

"It is indeed a hue measurement device." Hatsuharu explained: "Theoretically, Japanese citizens have the right to know the hue of others, so it is not illegal to use a measurement device to scan the body of others. You should know, supervisor, the Sibyl system The work done is actually not a 'direct determination' of the psychological index, but an 'data analysis'."

"Yes."

The 'hue' and 'criminal coefficient' that are often confused by the general public are actually two completely different concepts for civil servants of the security bureau - 'hue' is usually just the mental structure and pressure of the street ultrasound scanner A set of simple data obtained by the judgment of tendency is more like a test paper with completed answers, such as the score of somatization factor is 2.75, and the score of psychopathy is 2.4, so the hue scan is usually instant; The final conclusion drawn after sorting out the data presented in the first test paper is the 'crime coefficient', but because the Sibyl system has multiple tasks of functional diagnosis and health management, there is usually a certain delay in this final conclusion.

"Zein designed their product to take advantage of the fact that 'hue detection is done by the biometric scanner rather than the Sibyl system'."

The following documents began to contain difficult English nouns. Kamijou Touma, who knew nothing about it, could only quietly listen to the explanations given by his juniors, and secretly said in his heart that he should learn English well.

"To put it simply, the hue measurement device in this instrument will scan the body of people within a radius of ten meters, and select the person with the clearest hue to copy the data, and finally convert this set of data into a signal through the wearer's neck. The sender feeds back into the street scanner. In this way, no matter what the user’s own hue is, what the scanner finally reads and sends to the Sibyl system for analysis is the data copied from others—it cannot fool Sibyl system, it will fool the simpler street scanners. This is probably the original intention of the designer.”

If such an instrument is really known by some people with ulterior motives, the disaster it will eventually bring can be imagined. It is no wonder that the Medical Administration Bureau will transfer the leading power to the Security Bureau. It is not difficult to quickly recall the product and dissolve the company. understand.

"Wait a minute." Kamijou Touma raised his hand to indicate that it would take a while to collect his thoughts.

In the "Salome" incident a month ago, Kamijou Touma was the only one who noticed the anomaly——

Accelerator's crime coefficient has dropped from 496.9 to 184.3.

If explained in this way, everything makes sense.

As long as the setting of 'select the clearest hue copy' is changed to 'select the turbidest hue copy', you can turn the uncontrolled exoneration constitution person into a personality defect person.

The reason why the crime index dropped suddenly was probably because the criminal with the highest crime index died on the spot that day.If one could compare the time of Fujiwara Akatsuki's brain death that day with the time when one party's crime index changed, the two might reach an astonishing agreement.

But after solving this mystery, Kamijou Touma felt more and more doubts in his mind——

Why did Accelerator wear such a collar?

As long as you untie it, you can regain your freedom, as long as you take it off, you can reintegrate into society. Is there any reason why he must be bound?

"Did the supervisor find anything?"

"Ah, just something irrelevant, you can go on."

Hatsuharu who was instructed continued to speak: "The person in charge of the Zein company did not intend to make a long-term profit from the beginning, but just to make a high profit for a period of time through this gimmick, and then leave Japan by smuggling. Before the cargo ship left the port area, it was purged by the rulers because it resisted arrest. At that time, the criminal department was responsible for the arrest, and the intelligence department was responsible for recalling the goods for final processing."

"Are there any products that have not been recalled and left in the hands of ordinary people?"

"No." Chuchun Shili shook his head: "The security bureau's intelligence control is in place, and there is no case of refusal to return if there is no relevant news. There are 105 sold products and 4895 unsold products. It was recovered under the supervision of the intelligence department, numbered and disposed of, and the high-level personnel involved in the design and planning were also arrested by the criminal department."

The difference between the actual result and the previous guess is too large, and Kamijou Touma couldn't help muttering to himself: "It's strange... If it wasn't like this, how did the murderer avoid the camera inspection? Isn't there any data leakage?"

"Wouldn't the world be in chaos if the data for making this kind of props leaked out? What's more, whether you want to make a machine that can hide the hue or secretly hide the machine so that one day it can be used in illegal ways, while thinking like this, that person's Hue is hopeless, how can we wait until he really does it."

"That's right. I'm probably just overthinking it." Kamijou Toma shrugged with a wry smile, "But thank you anyway. It's very lucky to have such an excellent comprehensive analysis officer transferred to the first department."

"How dare you do that! I'm just doing my duty." Chuchun Shili, who was praised, felt a little hot on her face, and she hurriedly cupped her cheeks with both hands: "Then, if there is nothing else, I will leave first."

"Let me show you off. I just happen to have something other than work I want to ask."

"It's not for work...?" Chuchun Shili said as he walked towards the door.

"It's a little bit of my own problem."

"How is it?"

The automatic door slid open quietly in front of the two of them, Uiharu Shiri walked out of the office first, and Kamijou Touma, who was a little slower, was about to speak out his question, but he heard a shower of frantic footsteps approaching from a distance in the corridor , and the girl's energetic cry——

"Early—spring—"

No one could clearly see what happened, Kamijou Touma felt as if an afterimage flashed in front of his eyes, and then the skirt of the flower wreath girl who was facing him turned up from bottom to top.

"Pfft..." Kamijou Touma hastily covered his mouth and turned his head to the other side before seeing something he shouldn't have seen.

"Wow, today is a water blue pattern with lace --!"

Before seeing it, it was described vividly.

It felt like being forced to be a pervert for a while, not knowing what to do, Kamijou Touma silently took two steps back.

"Saten-san—how could you...why did you do this in front of someone's boss—!" Uiharu Shiri, who was about to cry, blushed, and kept hitting the smiling girl beside him with his fists.

"Oh—it's a surveillance officer other than Misaka-senpai—!" The girl with beautiful straight black hair and an extremely lively look looked at Kamijou Touma, her two bright eyes were full of envy: " It’s great, to be able to fight on the spot with the Dominator handsomely.”

"Hey! Don't move! I really know how to shoot—" The girl who pointed out the pistol with two fingers and read the lines of the TV series suddenly sighed: "That's great, it's because I want to be a policeman so much, obviously In the end, they were all assigned to the Security Bureau, but the judgment I got was not from the Criminal Division but from the Intelligence Division."

With the sudden appearance of the mysterious girl and the ensuing peachy incident, Kamijou Touma, who feels that the amount of information is really huge, reveals his sense of existence in a low voice: "That..."

"Saten-san! Introduce yourself!" Chuchun Shili reminded anxiously from the side.

"Oh——" The girl who finally remembered the basic manners immediately saluted Kamijou Touma: "It's the first time we meet, I'm Saten Ruiko, Team B of the Intelligence Division, please give me your advice."