【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

It was a small room less than [-] square meters. Index sat on the dusty floor, her wrists tied behind her back were aching from the rough rope. The girl beside her was tired from crying and leaned against the wall. On the mottled wall, curled up.

There is no window in this room, and you can only see things with the light that penetrates through a little gap, so Index has lost the sense of time, and only knows that they have been locked up here for a long time.

It seemed to be raining outside, and there was a damp smell in the air.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is not the first time he has been kidnapped like this.

Index thought without any sense of crisis.

It was just that on the way back from get off work, I met a teenager who lied about losing his puppy, and was entrusted to follow him to find it, but he was brought here by Corona.

Such a naive and unnutritive deception.

But even if time goes back and everything before repeats itself, Index will still smile and say 'yes' to the other party.

She is such a person.

The door was roughly kicked open, and a large amount of dust was blown up in the light that shone into the room.

"What a strong lady, I thought you would cry if you were locked up all night." The vicious boy seemed to want to praise Index's calmness: "I brought your acquaintance."

"Acquaintance?" Index frowned.

Then, the boy threatened them to stand up with what looked like a pistol.

"No—I'm not going! You're a murderer! You must be taking me to another room to kill me! I'm not going!"

The strange girl kicked her legs and tried to hide herself in the corner of the room, but her only answer was a loud slap.

The boy put the 'gun' in his hand on the girl's temple, and scolded: "I told you to stand up, can't you hear me! Believe it or not, I will shoot you to death now?!"

While screaming, the girl stood up while being pulled by the boy, and was pushed towards the door.

"I'll go by myself. Please don't push me."

When the boy pointed the gun at her, Index replied calmly.

At the end of the dark corridor, there was a room with the sign of 'Operating Room', and the door opened a gap, which was probably the destination that the boy said.

The strange girl stopped at the door, hesitating as if afraid of her own fate, so the boy kicked her hard in the back:

"Hey! Hurry up and get out of here for me—!"

The girl slammed into the wooden door and fell on the ground full of broken glass and dust, crying out of pain or despair.

Index glanced at the rude boy, and walked into the room obediently.

But she almost stopped breathing when she saw the man lying on the hospital bed in the middle of the room:

"Dang, Ma...?"

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It's like having a long dream.

When Kamijou Touma opened his eyes again, what he saw was an unfamiliar ceiling covered with cracks and mildew, and a chandelier that was half broken and covered in dust.

He moved his eyes calmly, observing everything around——

The first thing that catches the eye should be the instrument that looks like a lamp extending from the ceiling, followed by the wall covered with old blue-green tiles, and the large and small promotional posters that have been yellowed and blurred. Finally, his hands and feet were strapped open to the hard bed.

"Yo, you wake up quickly." A harmless-looking teenager's face broke into from directly above the field of vision.

It's hard to imagine that it was this ordinary-looking boy who kidnapped and killed innocent girls one after another.

"Tsurui Internal Medicine..." Kamijou Touma smiled weakly, and read out the words on the poster that caught his eyes even if he didn't look carefully: "It's too far away from Tosaka Shimo Dental Hospital. You don't even have your own Parents are lying."

"Thank you for noticing that." Hiroki Sakaguchi looked a little surprised. He walked away from Kamijou Touma, pacing in this room that could be known as a hospital operating room without looking closely: "The previous Although the girls were actually killed in Tosaka, I felt that it was not safe to be found out, so I changed another base. I didn't trust those two guys at all, so of course I couldn't tell them the truth. The so-called 'Three Caves of the Rabbit', isn't that what it is. This abandoned area in Bunkyo Ward is my kingdom."

"Since you have tied me here, what are you going to do next? Kill me?" Kamijou Touma asked calmly.

"It's a trivial matter to kill you, but as a person, I still have a sense of ritual. Just wait a moment." Hiroki Sakaguchi walked out of the room full of stale musty smell, humming a song.

Kamijou Touma let out a foul breath from his chest, pressed his right hand bound by the belt to his wrist, and touched the blade fixed by tape along the cuff of the suit little by little.

Not taken away.Kamijou Touma let out a low laugh——

Probably thinking that his methods were extremely clever, Hiroki Sakaguchi was tied to the operating table directly after he caught himself, without even a basic body search.

But any murderer would never have imagined that a policeman would deliberately single-handedly break into the murderer's lair and be caught.

Kamijou Touma gritted his teeth, twisted his wrist in an extremely awkward position, and inserted the blade into the gap in the belt.

Hiroki Sakaguchi's roar and the girl's cry came from outside the door.

The belt was split in half and only needed a jerk to snap, but then there was still the left hand and both feet.

Kamijou Touma weighed it for a moment, held the blade in his hand, and continued to lie there calmly.

A strange girl fell into the room as if being kicked from the back, and fell on the dirty floor.

Then, a familiar figure walked into the room.

The little silver-haired nun couldn't help but hold her breath when she saw Kamijou Touma's face:

"Dang, Ma...?"

"Index."

"Meeting with touching acquaintances!" Like a show host who deliberately created a funny atmosphere, the young man burst into the eyes of the two and laughed exaggeratedly: "How is it? Mr. Police? Don't you have any touching speeches about this moment? "

"That's it. You designed this trap just to use her to lure me into the bait." Kamijou Touma said indifferently, looking sideways at the silver-haired girl who was stunned by the sudden meeting, carefully After carefully confirming that the other party was not injured, he let out a sigh of relief.

Although another strange girl bruised her cheek and knee when she fell, she did not appear to have suffered inhuman abuse.

However, the number of people who needed to be saved suddenly became two, which somewhat made him feel powerless.

"Trap... why did you arrest Touma?! Hey! What do you want?! Please don't hurt Touma!" Index's tone suddenly became agitated, and she hurriedly stood up to the boy she didn't know very well. Shouted loudly.

"It's not your turn to make a request!" Hiroki Sakaguchi grabbed the collars of the two hostage girls in annoyance, and after letting them stand together as he wanted, he looked at Touma Kamijou: "How about answering a question?" So, Mr. Police?"

Kamijou Touma changed the topic as if he didn't understand the meaning of the other person's words: "I can't speak English, I have a hard time with English."

He blinked at Index, who was looking at him worriedly, and showed a relieved smile between his words.

Looking at the two people who still couldn't feel the atmosphere of fear at this moment, the muscles on Hiroki Sakaguchi's face twitched unnaturally, and he took a step across to block Index's small figure, with a malicious expression on his face :

"I am wanted by the Security Bureau now, so the three hostages are really powerless. Since I can be tracked down to this point, it means that you, Mr. Police, also know my behavior pattern. Let's do a multiple-choice question—this Both ladies were captured by me last night, so they should be killed by me after eight o'clock tonight. But, maybe I will be arrested and taken to the police station before then, so I now give you, Mr. Policeman, a choice—"

The girl who had been sobbing in a low voice raised her head upon hearing this, and looked at the back of the boy in front of her.

"I'm going to kill someone now, choose between the two of them."

The smile on Hiroki Sakaguchi's face gradually became ferocious like a deformed mask, and he let out a piercing laugh like scratching a blackboard backwards:

"Come on, choose one of them and let me kill you in front of you. Aren't you a policeman? Let's see, between a strange girl and a lover who is extremely important to you, which one will you choose?" If the one who survived is lucky, he may be able to be rescued without incident. Anyway——no matter who you choose, you will end up becoming a murderer like me!"

It seems that the other party treats Index, who has a close relationship with him, as a girlfriend.

"That's it." Kamijou Touma smiled when he heard the words: "Choose one or the other?"

The man's calm made Sakaguchi Hiroki feel unhappy, but he still replied: "That's right."

"I understand." Kamijou Touma nodded, and then asked loudly, "Index, do you believe me?"

"Well, I believe in Touma." Index replied.

The other girl who saw the conversation between the two completely panicked, she screamed hoarsely: "Are you trying to conspire to kill me?! Don't be kidding, you garbage policeman! Your duty is to protect people like us. You ordinary people! Why do you want me to die for your lover! Hey——! I was caught here because you are incompetent! It is because you are trash! Trash! Go to hell! Go to hell—! Don’t drag me to death! Stop joking! Why should I die! If you choose me, I will be a ghost and I will not let you go! Did you hear that! Your duty is to protect me! My father is an official of the government If I die, none of you will be better off!"

When the girl was exhausted and could no longer make any sound, Hiroki Sakaguchi shrugged innocently: "She said so. So, how do you choose?"

"Hmm... can you give me a little time? It's a bit difficult to make this choice, after all, the girl over there is threatening me." Kamijou Touma smiled wryly.

"It's useless to delay. The police won't be able to find you here in a short time."

"I'm serious. 10 minutes. I only need 10 minutes, right? If I haven't chosen after 10 minutes, you can kill them all."

Hearing this, Hiroki Sakaguchi was taken aback: "You policeman, maybe you are worse than me."

"Then, shall we talk about something in these 10 minutes?"

"When death is imminent, are you still in the mood to chat with the murderer?"

"I'd rather be a smart ghost."

Kamijou Touma, who was tied to the hospital bed and said humble words in a serious manner, made Hiroki Sakaguchi laugh, and he sat on another dilapidated hospital bed next to him in a good mood: "Okay, what do you want to know? 10 I'll tell you in a minute."

Kamijou Touma thought for a while, and asked his first question: "Did you kill Suzuki Asahi?"

"Ah, that coward. I killed it."

"why?"

"Because no matter what you do, you will definitely find me from him. So I asked him to the rooftop and pushed him down. I also took the memory card in his mobile phone, and I have forgotten where to throw it."

"Have you been using your mother's authority to obtain information?"

"Part of it." Hiroki Sakaguchi thought for a while: "But sometimes it is much more convenient to collect information in places like abandoned zoning."

"What is the method of abducting the girl?"

"Why do you feel that you are the one who is tied up, but I am the one who is being interrogated?" Hiroki Sakaguchi pointed a finger at himself, then scratched his hair in distress: "Just publish a post on the website to attract them to take the bait , agree on a place to meet, ah, those places are all places I have chosen without cameras. Then if they are deceived, they will obediently follow me back to the place where the corpses are disposed of. If they don’t cooperate, they will be knocked unconscious with an electric baton , put it in a suitcase and bring it back."

"Why did you kill those girls?"

"Why? Well...boring. I thought I was a potential criminal anyway, so why not do something like a potential criminal to pass the time."

"Did the homeless man who died on October 10th also be your work?"

"When? How do I remember. But I remember there was a homeless man. I thought it could be stunned, but I didn't expect that old guy to die in one fell swoop. Yes, there was also a cleaner, but that guy didn't die. He was caught halfway. He ran away."

"Anything else? No victims we found."

"It should be gone, only ghosts remember this kind of thing clearly."

When Hiroki Sakaguchi said this, his expression was extremely calm, as if he was telling something about others, flat and indifferent:

"I'm actually not interested in the "banquet" or "Murderer A". I only know about him to borrow a criminal method. In the final analysis, I just want to take revenge on the society.Okay sir, do you have any more questions? "

"How did you manage to maintain a clear hue while killing people?"

"Ah, that. It's because of this." Hiroki Sakaguchi pulled down his collar by about ten centimeters, revealing the 'accessory' like a collar underneath: "This thing, and the patch on the back and The device hidden in the waist. My mother stole it from the security bureau and gave it to me when I was seven years old. She said that it can read other people's hue to make fakes. In short, this is the principle, so even if I kill people on the street, the hue is normal La."

"What about your own hue?"

"Who knows. It's probably too dark to be cured."

"Have you been wearing something like this for life?"

"Of course. After all, I have been judged by Sibyl as a potential criminal since I was six years old. Otherwise, there is no way to survive in a world where everyone is a good boy. Even so, I still have to tremble like a street mouse, I'm afraid that when the equipment breaks down, doesn't work well, or is discovered by someone, I will be arrested and sent to that place that is no different from hell."

"……Over ten years?"

"Yes. More than ten years." Hiroki Sakaguchi said in a tone that seemed to be mocking himself: "Hey, Mr. Police, do you say that I killed someone because I was a potential criminal, or did I become a potential criminal because I killed someone?" What about committing a crime? Before anything happens, can someone be convicted based on just one person’s character and thought, and then change another person’s life? However, he is obviously a rubbish, and he still insists on standing next to a glamorous person , you have already stood here, but you still have to pay the price for being different. It's ridiculous, right?"

"No. Not funny at all."

Hiroki Sakaguchi thought that he would be ridiculed by the other party if he said something stupid to himself, but he didn't want to meet a pair of extremely sincere eyes when he raised his head.

He originally thought that he would see disgust, contempt, pity or something else in the eyes of the other party, but there was nothing there. If there was anything, it would be that the eyes were so calm, as if...

Looking at it like a human being.

An ordinary human being who is not excluded by anyone.

what.

At that moment, Hiroki Sakaguchi thought.

Is this what I've always wanted?

Not to question this hopeless society.

Not to be superior to anyone.

Not for pointless revenge.

Just, to be treated like a real human being.

However, if this is salvation.

But it came so late again, so regrettable.

Hiroki Sakaguchi raised his head and looked at the cobweb-covered ceiling——

Huh?What am I regretting?

What am I to regret for the eyes of a dying stranger?

The ten years of life that passed in vain?Or hands that have been stained with blood and can no longer be washed?

"What big talk?"

Finally, he said.

Hiroki Sakaguchi jumped down from the hospital bed: "Anyway, you can only pretend to be good-looking, you must hate me to the core, right? Why do you lie to me with that hypocritical expression? You and those two who claim to be my family It’s like this guy, he keeps saying it’s good for me, but he doesn’t treat me like a monster! Everyone is just talking nicely! Everyone has never really looked at me! I’m fed up——! "

He kicked over the hospital bed where he was sitting just now, and pointed the nail gun in his hand at the two girls next to him: "Is it 10 minutes? Forget it, I'm a murderer anyway, and I regret it. I want you to choose now." , Choose one of the two of them! Die now! After them, you will be! I want you to be cut alive by me! Chopped!"

"Then Index will be fine." Kamijou Touma replied.

His decisiveness and straightforwardness made Hiroki Sakaguchi think that there was an auditory hallucination for a moment: "What?"

"Ah, I mean, that little silver-haired girl. Just kill her."

This time, not only Hiroki Sakaguchi, but even another girl who was already in despair raised her head and looked at him in astonishment.

Kamijou Touma pretended to be unbearable and turned his head away: "Well, please block me when you make a move, I'm a little dizzy."

"... Is that so?" Hiroki Sakaguchi turned around thoughtfully, pointed the nail gun in his hand at the silver-haired girl with closed eyes, and finally asked thoughtfully: "Your lover I chose you, how is it? How does it feel?"

"Anyway, Touma is that kind of person." Index replied.

"A deadhead who values ​​mission more than love? Or a cold-blooded guy?"

Hiroki Sakaguchi sneered.

"No. Someone who will definitely come to save me."

For some reason, the girl who was 'on the verge of death' showed a reassuring smile.