【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

The girl's body covered by a white cloth was quietly carried into the escort car by a self-supporting machine under the watchful eyes of a group of strangers she had never known. The park at six o'clock in the morning was as cold as usual, and the blood on the ground The characters are still brightly colored, and the dim sky and street lamps that have not been extinguished make this farewell ceremony look extraordinarily sad.

"Ah, what should I do with this? I just analyzed the final bid, and there are no fingerprints on it. Do you want to take it back to the bureau?" Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked with a CD found next to the corpse in his hand.

"There's no time." Kamijou Touma shook his head, and opened his car door: "Let the escort car go back to the station, and hand over the corpse to Netherland Soul Chaser Doctor for investigation. Let's go directly to Yu Wenguan High School, and the CD can be used there. look."

It is only a 15-minute drive from Kawabatatai Park in Taitung City to Yuwenguan Private High School. The police suddenly visited without warning and the guard on duty fell into a panic: "Please, please wait outside, I will contact the principal right away." Explain the situation."

Looking at the guard on duty who started talking about the school's communication lines, Kamijou Touma, who felt shut down, shrugged silently at Motoharu Tsuchimikado and Danki Yumebi who got out of the car.

Standing for another ten minutes in the bleak autumn wind, perhaps the principal who had just woken up from his sleep was driving the car late.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm a little late." The middle-aged man with thinning hair wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, shook hands with Kamijou Touma, and then yelled at the guard on duty to open the school gate: "Excuse me, Supervisor Kamijou. Did you come to our school for the first time for something?"

"It's nothing, I just found some clues, so let's see if I can confirm my guess." Kamijou Touma didn't want to point out the fact that 'the murderer is in this school', so he changed a more subtle way: "By the way, can I borrow your school's screening room?"

"Okay, okay, of course." The principal agreed repeatedly, and led the three of them to the screening room of the teaching building. On the way, they kept looking for topics to relieve the embarrassment quietly spreading in the air: "The accident a while ago is thanks to everyone who took care of you, but we The safety facilities in the school are very complete, and accidents like that really shouldn't happen, and then we fully reinforced the fence of the sky courtyard, just to prevent accidents like that happening to students again."

The screening room arrived about a few minutes later, the principal still wanted to enter the room with Kamijou Touma, but was blocked by Yubi Taki and Tsuchimikado Motoharu, one on the left and one on the right.

"Sorry. I have something to deal with, please wait a moment." Kamijou Touma said without apology, and locked the door behind him.

After the sound behind him was completely cut off, Kamijou Touma breathed a sigh of relief. He deftly opened the only computer in the room, and after opening the completely sealed CD box, a note fell from the inside. On it was printed a line of small characters in black ink:

To my dear parents.

These words gave Kamijou Touma an instinctive foreboding.

The disc reading starts after the disc is inserted into the drive.

The projection screen responded for about two seconds and began to play the contents of the disc.

The first is the dark background because the lens is blocked, and the low sobs are the same as the background sound.

Afterwards, the objects covering the lens were removed, and what appeared on the screen was Takase Yoki's tear-stained face and the blade on her neck.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry. I was really wrong... Please don't kill me, please..."

The girl kept uttering words for help with her trembling lips, but the blade by her neck never trembled.

"Mom and Dad, please help me... I don't want to die, I will be obedient, I will be obedient in the future... I beg you..."

A black object flashed past the camera, judging from Takase Yoki's reaction, it was probably something like a teleprompter.

Takase Yangji looked at someone beside her who was not showing his face with eyes of astonishment and fear, and then the blade gently cut the skin on her neck.

The girl screamed in fear:

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry—! I'll tell! I'll tell! Please don't kill me!"

The gangster who held the girl hostage was not in a hurry to force her to continue speaking, but quietly waited for the girl's trembling due to pain and fear to stop:

"...This is my revenge."

It seemed that she had already foreseen her own death from everything she had experienced, the girl stopped crying, and a smile appeared on her face.

"This is my revenge."

A very sad and desperate smile:

"I'm sorry, Mom and Dad. I'm sorry."

The last ray of light disappeared into the air, and the room was engulfed in deep darkness.

When he walked out the door, the principal who had already shown an impatient face greeted him with a particularly hospitable smile.

"How is it? Is there any information in it?" Tsuchimikado Motoharu also asked.

"Nothing at all."

Kamijou Touma smiled, and with a slight force on his back, he broke the disc into pieces.

No one heard the slight sound, and Kamijou Touma said in an ordinary tone as usual: "Next, I have a question to ask your school's handicraft tutor, can you please invite him to school?"

"Is this... related to the previous case?" the headmaster asked tentatively.

Kamijou Touma didn't speak, just silently looked at the man in front of him.

Soon the principal was defeated in a speechless atmosphere: "Okay, I will contact you right away, but before that, please come to my office for a while?"

"No." Kamijou Touma flatly rejected the proposal: "Let's just go to the manual classroom and wait."

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Chika Toyoda looked nervously through the window at the three policemen in the handicraft classroom, still not understanding what she had done to be called to school early in the morning.

After graduating many years ago, she came to this school to teach in the handicraft class. Although the students are a bit bad, but fortunately, the salary level is not low. She carefully recalled her ordinary resume, and she could never think of such a situation happening anyway. reason.

"Hurry up and open the door." The principal urged from behind, and it was unclear whether the disgusted look was pointing at the three policemen in the room or himself who had made some mistake.

"Yes."

Toyota Chika knocked on the door, and a polite and gentle answer sounded from the door:

"Please come in."

So she walked in the door, and it was about the black-haired man who was the head of the three sitting at the desk like an ordinary student, pointing to the chair directly opposite her: "Please sit down."

Chika Toyoda timidly and quickly glanced at the man and woman standing beside him like two hounds on the left and one on the right, hesitated for a moment before sitting down: "Um... what can I do for you?"

"You don't have to be nervous." The man smiled gently, took out a transparent ziplock bag from his coat pocket and put it on the table: "It's actually like this, an evidence was found in the case we were investigating."

Seeing that Chika Toyoda's eyes fell on the evidence on the table, the man explained again: "It's sewing thread. I won't explain the specific reason when it comes to the case. Can I trouble you to recall any abnormalities in the recent handicraft class? "

"……abnormal?"

"Yes. There are missing items, students behaving strangely, and so on."

The police's words reminded Chika Toyoda of a trivial matter that happened recently but she didn't take it seriously. She quickly opened the portable terminal used for teaching, operated it a few times, and then put it on the desk case and pushed it towards the desk in front of her. Man: "Although I don't know if it's related, but this is the list of items for the handicraft class."

"List?"

"Yes. Occasionally, some related associations borrow classrooms, and small items were always lost in the past few years, so I made a list to check the inventory in the classroom." Chika Toyoda clicked on it The position of the first column: "On the 26th of last month, there were no spools of black sewing thread in the classroom. I thought it was because the students accidentally dropped it in the corner after using it, so I didn't pay much attention."

Toyoda Chika looked at the three policemen in front of her without knowing why, and exchanged glances, and the leader continued to ask: "Did anyone else enter this classroom that day?"

"I don't think there's any other than me."

"Please give me the list of classes that are in this classroom that day."

"Ok."

There were three classes that had been to the handicraft classroom that day. The black-haired man who got the list thanked him and did not delay for a moment. He opened the sliding door of the classroom and said to the principal who was lying outside and eavesdropping on the conversation: " Please call the tutors of these three classes."

-

There are only six people in this ordinary handicraft classroom, three policemen headed by Kamijou Touma, and three class teachers who are puzzled.

Kamijou Touma stood in front of the podium, looked around at the three teachers who were a little nervous because of the identity switch, and started his own topic: "I don't think you all understand why you are here."

The three nodded in unison.

"Then let me just say it directly—one of the three students here has a serial murderer in their class."

This time, not only the three teachers who were suddenly told the shocking facts exclaimed, but even Motoharu Tsuchimikado and Danki Yumeki gasped.

"This is not alarmist talk, including the killing of Haruko Morimoto and the falling of Suzuki Asahi that happened in the school before, all of which were committed by someone in your class."

The three teachers glanced at each other, and there was a little more guard in their eyes besides the fear.

"This murderer has killed five people so far. We have no idea who the next one will be. It may be me or you. The victim will be kidnapped by the murderer, held in solitary confinement for a day and night, and then cut his throat to death. I don't think anyone would want to die like this."

These words are even more dangerous than before. If they were just stating a shocking fact, they have now become veritable intimidation.

"Then, I'm going to tell you a few characteristics about the murderer. I believe that the three present here are excellent teachers who care about students. They will definitely be able to find the murderer hidden in the crowd according to my tips. But if you can't find There is nothing you can do about it. A murder case is a game between the murderer and the police. If you lose, you will see more dead people. If you win, you can end everything.” Kamijou shrugged helplessly, “So, For the sake of everyone's safety, I hope to get cooperation, after all, it is really for you."

The three people in the audience nodded in agreement almost immediately.

Touma Kamijou seems content with the panic he's created right now:

"Then first of all, the murderer is a male, over 170 centimeters tall, right-handed. He lives in Bunkyo District or the surrounding areas. He has low self-esteem and is very conceited. He is very cowardly, irritable, and has a bad relationship with his classmates. Xia is silent most of the time, without complex and profound social relationships. Physical strength is not outstanding, and he does not or rarely participate in club activities, so acting alone will not arouse suspicion. Born in a family with an overprotective mother, he urgently needs to show himself A sense of power, but sending a video to the parents of the deceased showed that the suspect complained about his parents. He had the experience of killing small animals, his intelligence was not outstanding among his peers, and he occasionally played tricks, so he could get high marks in the test But generally it won’t be No.1.”

Kamijou Touma's speech was neither fast nor slow, with an equal speed, leaving enough time for the three of them to think.

About two or three minutes later, one of the female teachers stood up from her seat in horror.

"What? You already have the answer?"

"Yes, it's Sakaguchi... Hiroki Sakaguchi!" The woman opened the teaching portable terminal, quickly called up a student's information, and handed it to Kamijou Touma.

Kamijou Touma just glanced at it, and felt the blood rushing to his brain.

The boy named Hiroki Sakaguchi in the photo has regular facial features, and looks just like the boy who occasionally passes by on the street.

But Kamijou Touma recognized this face.

When investigating the "Salome" series of cases, he was attacked when he was saving a girl who was stabbing someone with a knife. The flash of resentful eyes in the crowd is a scene he will never forget .

"It's him." Kamijou Touma dropped the portable terminal on the podium.

It turned out that resentment had already sprouted in places he didn't know.

But Kamijou Touma couldn't do anything.

If he chased up that day, he would grab the black shadow buried in the crowd.

Will everything be different.

"Where is this student now?" Kamijou Touma asked while holding onto the edge of the podium.

"I asked for leave yesterday."

Did you simply hide because the website was blocked?

Kamijou Touma took a deep breath:

"Arrest notices issued throughout Tokyo. Make sure to find him before there are new victims."

After this announcement is released, I am afraid that the whole of Tokyo will be shaken by it.

At this point, the boy's life is irreversible.

Thinking of this, Kamijou Touma suddenly raised his head——

Yes, issuing a notice means announcing the face of the murderer to the citizens of the entire Tokyo, so people hiding in a certain corner of the city will definitely be able to see it.

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

What will he do?

What would you do if it was that person?

"Akami! Where are you going?" Tsuchimikado Motoharu couldn't help but chase after Kamijou Touma who suddenly ran to the door of the room.

"Prevent Accelerator from killing someone!"