【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

Thunder clouds outside the window are gathering.

This is a twelve-story apartment that has been in disrepair for a long time. The air in the building exudes a life-like atmosphere, the walls are mottled and covered with mold, fluorescent tubes flicker overhead, and the mailboxes of residents are full of customs shops. Or the advertisements of visual drug sellers, the narrow corridors are full of corrugated boxes that can be called 'garbage', through the walls with poor sound insulation, you can hear petty quarrels between husband and wife, shouts of beating and scolding children, or old lovers having fun There was a creaking sound of the bed.

The announcement about the appearance of the serial murderer on TV has been rebroadcast for nearly 10 minutes. Accelerator is still wrapped in a blanket and sitting curled up on the single bed that emits a damp smell due to the rainy day.

He thought maybe it was time for him to act.

"Hello? Someone called and said that the circuit here is broken? I'm a maintenance person, can you open the door?" Suddenly there was a vague voice of inquiry from outside the door.

Sounds like a salesman posing as a repairman.

"Get lost." Accelerator lifted the blanket on his body and touched the switchblade under the pillow.

"It's really important, please open the door, it will be repaired in a while." The person outside the door knocked on the anti-theft door and repeated.

Accelerator didn't say a word, he got out of bed, put on his shoes, and walked lightly to the security door.

The peepholes of this apartment had been dug out long ago, and old newspapers were randomly stuffed in the empty place, so it was impossible to see who was standing outside the door.

"Are you at home? Please open the door." The knock on the door became louder.

Did they finally find it here?

Accelerator held the switchblade in his hand, and put his fingers on the lock on the inside of the security door. Without making any sound, the knob that controlled the lock cylinder was quietly opened.

The knock on the door is still there.

The preparations for the raid were ready, and Accelerator pushed the anti-theft door open. The metal door knocked away the arm of the person who knocked on the door. Accelerator forced the opponent towards the wall of the corridor in one breath, and the sharp blade pressed against the door. the visitor's throat.

"I surrender! Surrender!" Unexpectedly, without the barrier of the door panel, the voice of the uninvited guest sounded very familiar.

Accelerator, who was only concerned about grasping the lifeline of the other party, raised his head, only to suddenly recognize that familiar face.

"Aren't you going to put down the knife?" Kamijou Touma asked softly in a begging tone.

Accelerator didn't speak, but the knife in his hand moved a little closer to the man's throat.

"Okay, I know."

Kamijou Touma stretched out his hands and approached slowly as if trying to appease a large uneasy beast, even ignoring the knife blade on the neck that cut into the skin shallowly, leaving a scar that oozes blood, until the two of them were no longer in touch with each other. No distance, hug like the closest lovers in the world.

Accelerator's hand holding the murder weapon slowly and feebly hangs down:

"Hey."

"Ok?"

"Why are you here?"

"Because I heard someone calling for help."

Fang Accelerator smiled weakly: "Even if it's a villain like me?"

Kamijou Touma's answer was sealed in his mouth with a light kiss, those cold lips approached briefly and then left, and then he felt the weight on his body suddenly increase.

"Now, if only for a moment, can I rest by your side?"

The body in his arms exudes an abnormally high fever, panting heavily and trembling hands and feet, as if silently telling the fact that it will collapse at any time.

The thunder outside the window was approaching, and even in the corridor, the chilling reverberation could be heard, the rain was beating on the open window sill, and the wind made the curtains flap in the rain as if they were alive.

"You brought the hound. Kamijou Touma."

There was no warmth in Accelerator's opened eyes.

Afterwards, Kamijou Touma felt the little warmth in his embrace leave him, like a ghost, the retaining hand only grabbed the air.

"and many more--!"

"do not come!"

When Kamijou Touma broke into the strange room, Accelerator was already standing on the narrow railing of the balcony, pointing to his chest with a smile:

"Don't come here again."

The city under the torrential rain was crushed into a thick gray. Neither the sparse lights nor the flash of thunder on the dark clouds could take away the brilliance that belonged to this man. The strong wind blew his hair, and the rain ran down his cheeks , he stood on the city engulfed by the rainstorm and loneliness, with his arms raised high like a white bird about to fly, and he would disappear at any time.

"Give up, Kamijou Touma!" Accelerator said in a voice that overwhelmed the thunderstorm, "The real me died six years ago. Everything you see now is just the phantom left by the ghost in this world, it's nothing What a pity! You should have an ordinary life, so go back."

"I don't want it!" Kamijou Touma roared, "That's definitely not a phantom! Even though it's too late, but now he has warmth and feelings, and he is a real person standing in front of me! If I go back here, I will definitely beat him Imagine regretting a thousand times! Ten thousand times!"

Kamijou Touma took a step forward.

"Stop." Accelerator repeated again: "I said stop. If you take another step forward, I will jump from here, and I will do what I say. Then tomorrow's news will say that it will last for four years The serial murder case ends with the real murderer's suicide, and everyone's life will return to the normal track, as long as one person dies, don't you think it's a good deal?"

"This ending must be wrong! The dead will not come back to life! The scars left behind will not disappear! You just take it for granted that you have paid off your sins! But! Nothing has changed!"

"Then what do you want from me?" Accelerator suddenly roared hysterically: "I have been killed twice by this society! If I don't resist! They will run over my back! But I So what if I resist?! Everything I once had is against me! No one understands me! No one teaches me what is right! Or is it a mistake to say that this life was doomed from my birth! Come and tell me! Why—?!"

why?

I have asked people countless times.

If this is hopelessness, then what is hope?

If this is wrong, what is right?

If this is evil, what is justice?

What should I do when I am hopeless, when I am wrong, when I am evil?

I long for an answer.

I want to understand the world, the laws by which it works, and myself.

But no one answered me.

People are so far away from me, so far away that we can never understand each other, love each other.

I think I should have loved humans in the first place.

They are so lively, happy and angry are so vivid.

But I can't love humans.

I cannot love their greed, their indifference, or their innocence.

I longed for answers from my imperfect human beings.

In the end, all I got was one sentence——

"monster."

I want to be loved like all ordinary human beings.

But in fact, humans have never acknowledged my existence.

to the end.

I am still me.

Alone.

"I did everything four years ago, and there is nothing to hide. So let's go here. It's nice to meet you. Goodbye. Touma Kamijou."

Accelerator turned around with a slight smile, and took a deep breath of the earthy air——

Jump off.

"don't want--!"

Kamijou Touma roared and rushed over, but his right hand didn't even touch the corner of the opponent's clothes. The heavy rain instantly drenched him, and the rain that flowed into his eyes seemed to be mixed with salty liquid, dripping from his cheeks. He didn't dare to look at the scene on the ground, so he could only sit on his knees hugging the railing, crying hoarsely.

"What a stupid face."

Suddenly, a voice sounded in the distance.

Kamijou Touma looked up, but thought that he, who had always believed in science, saw the appearance of a ghost.

"It's just jumping from the opposite side. You're so stupid." Accelerator stood on the roof of a slightly lower building opposite the apartment, laughing with his stomach in his arms.

He spoke in a relaxed tone, but as long as he estimated the distance between the two buildings, his actions just now could almost be called a gamble.

"Aren't you afraid that I will also threaten you to jump from here?" Kamijou Touma asked back after wiping the water stains on his face.

"I'm not afraid." Accelerator seemed to shrug his shoulders: "You don't dare to jump down. Because you know, if you die, there won't even be the last person to save me in this world."

With a sly smile like a fox playing tricks on a hunter, the cynical expression on Fang Accelerator's face disappeared: "I don't know since when, your life seems to have been messed up by me, so I think it's time to put your I gave you my life back. Kamijou Touma. The 'goodbye' just now was a joke, let me say it again—”

"Shut up—! Don't say that—!" Kamijou Touma wanted to stop the other party's ominous farewell.

"farewell."

After finishing speaking, Accelerator turned around and left as if he had given up everything he was nostalgic for.

"Where do you want to go?" A cold breath suddenly escaped from Kamijou Touma's back, and a dominator that had been automatically unfolded into a murder gun mode, which was shining with brilliance, pointed at Accelerator's back.

It's Teito Kakine.

With a cruel smile on his face, he slowly pulled the trigger.

On the eve of the launch of the execution electromagnetic wave, which can instantly destroy the human body, a tall man suddenly broke in and knocked Kakine Teito aside.

The murder gun that lost its target returned to its original state and fell to the ground.

Kakine Teitoku, whose action was disrupted, roared angrily and threw his fist at the man's cheek: "Hamazura Shiage——! You traitor who let the prisoner go!"

The man who received a punch in the cheek didn't let the wind fall, he used his arm to block the successive fists, and counterattacked fiercely: "I don't understand your bloody tricks! It's very unpleasant to be selected as a surveillance officer! If I It is even more impossible to kill people with that kind of gun! The so-called 'judgment' is not such a rubbish law that says you can kill whoever you kill!"

The man named Hamazura Shiage took a few steps back, and yelled at Kamijou Touma who was still kneeling on the balcony: "Hey! Supervisor! The person who just left is very important to you! Important enough that you can To the point of defying orders to meet him alone!"

Kamijou Touma nodded in surprise.

"Then go protect him! Don't leave this kind of thing to outsiders who don't know anything! It doesn't matter if he is a bad person! It doesn't matter if he is a heinous murderer! Before the real trial comes, use your own way Protect him!"

Kamijou Touma looked out of the balcony, the torrential rain was still there, water droplets splashed in through the open door, and the whiteness in the gray city was gone.

His hands on the ground slowly clenched.

It doesn't matter if we want to become villains together, or be accused by everyone, or we need to be separated, or we need to live and die.

Only this time.

Only this time, I won't say goodbye.