【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

11 month 4 day.

Kamijou Touma returns to the Security Bureau.

Only one day had passed since the day when he fought with his life. After his injury improved a little, he went through the formalities of being discharged from the hospital despite the obstruction of his family and doctors.

It seemed that he was rejoicing that he was able to get out of the place full of the smell of disinfectant, and the sky, which had been gloomy for many days, finally began to clear up.

When he walked to the floor where the criminal department belonged, Kamijou Touma happened to meet Uiharu Shiri in front of the elevator door.

The hacker girl wearing a wreath held a cardboard box containing daily necessities in both hands, and seemed a little surprised by his arrival: "Surveillance officer? Aren't you in the hospital?"

"It was too boring to stay inside, so I came out." Kamijou Touma pointed to the box in Uiharu Shiri's hand: "What are you going to do?"

"Did no one tell you?" Chuchun Zhuli was obviously also a little surprised: "I was transferred back to the third department."

Kamijou Touma's heart skipped a beat: "Ah? What about that department?"

Could it be... that he was going to be disbanded by the He Sheng Yang Sect?

"A former comprehensive analysis officer has been transferred back, so my task is completed." Chuharu Shiri blinked, obviously not understanding the reason for Kamijou Touma's nervousness: "Although I still feel a little bit reluctant, but this paragraph It was a pleasure spending time with you."

Kamijou Touma was even more surprised now: "You mean Miss Yoshikawa?"

"That's right." Chuchun Shili smiled kindly and said, "Hurry up and hold a welcome party for your old friend. I'll go first."

Just as the departure of Fangchuan Platycodon was confusing, this sudden return is also confusing.

Kamijou Touma unconsciously avoided the office like sleepwalking, and walked around to the door of the comprehensive analysis room belonging to the first department.

What should I say when we meet?

'Welcome back' or 'Long time no see'?

He was pondering his words when the door suddenly opened.

Aiho Huang Quanchuan appeared at the door wearing her most iconic green sportswear. When she saw Kamijou Touma, she was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and pointed behind her: "The Kikyo is inside, I'll take my leave first."

Kamijou Touma nodded and walked into the room.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Fang Chuan Kikyo, who was sitting in front of the monitor, was the first to attack: "What? I've been away for so long and you can't even say 'Long time no see'?"

"Actually, it didn't take long..." After blurting out these words, Kamijou Touma knew that he had made a fool again: "No, no, no... It's great that you can come back."

Fang Chuan Kikyo had already shrugged his shoulders.

Kamijou Touma knew he had made a slip of the tongue, touched his nose, and started talking about a topic that wasn't too embarrassing: "By the way, Miss Yoshikawa and Mr. Huang Quanchuan knew each other?"

Fangchuan Kikyo nodded: "It's probably the relationship between you and Accelerator."

"Lovers?"

After Kamijou Touma finished speaking, Yoshikawa Kikyo, who was still powerless and collapsed on the chair, turned his head and looked at him as if he had been injected with a shot in the arm: "How do you want me to understand your words?"

It's not that you are using any metaphors indiscriminately.

Kamijou Touma quietly averted his gaze.

Fang Chuan Kikyo, who has always been uninterested in gossip, waved his hand: "Forget it. Don't you have anything else to ask? For example, where did I go, why?"

"You will say anything I ask?"

"Aren't you too cunning?"

"Then, your relationship with Accelerator."

Fangchuan Platycodon covered his chest with both hands, and said: "Don't think about it, we have no improper relationship between men and women, neither in the past nor in the present. The first love is still yours."

"I didn't ask that." Kamijou Touma said with a black thread.

"It's really boring." Fangchuan Kikyo, who hadn't gotten the slightest reaction from the other party, sighed, and then asked: "Have you read the file I gave you? Is there nothing wrong?"

Kamijou Toma thought that you really stole this file from the Security Bureau, and replied, "Yes."

"what?"

"The report and the dossier state that there are 48 people involved in the case except the mastermind, but I calculated that the total number of suspects and victims mentioned in the dossier is 47, and one is missing."

"I am the 48th person." Yoshikawa Kikyo replied.

"...Is that really the case?"

"You don't seem surprised?"

"Why should I be surprised?" Kamijou Touma smiled: "If I were smarter, I should be able to guess your relationship earlier."

"Forget it. People who live too smart will not be happy." Yoshikawa Kikyo replied looking at the blank monitor in front of him.

"Miss Yoshikawa, can I ask one more question?"

"Ok?"

"Ms. Fangchuan, why did you go around and go back to work in the Security Bureau in the end? With your strength, if you want to avoid being recruited by the Security Bureau, you can do it, right?"

Fangchuan Kikyo smiled when he heard his words: "What? People like us should be synonymous with freedom in your impression, right? Why do you want to stay here even if you return to a prisoner? That's what you're asking, right?"

Kamijou Touma was noncommittal.

"It's very simple. I also have someone to protect."

Even with the ability to soar in the sky, he is willing to fold his wings for someone.

That's why.

"Then..." Kamijou Touma was silent for a while, and asked, "Would you hate him?"

"What do you hate?" Fang Chuan Kikyo asked rhetorically, "Hate him for making me live more like a 'human' from a ghost wandering outside the world?"

Kamijou Touma did not answer this question, he bowed to the woman in front of him, and prepared to leave silently.

"Kamijou Touma—thank you."

He heard the woman behind him say this.

Thank you for still being willing to save that man's broken life.

Thank you for teaching him the true meaning of life.

thank you.

-

"The above is the whole content of my report." After Kakine Teitoku finished speaking, he stood quietly in front of Hesheng Zangzong.

The intellectual older woman crossed her fingers in front of her lips, looked at the report on the use of the Dominator submitted by the man, and said nothing.

The only sound in the room was the hum of the machine running.

"Apart from this, do you have anything else you want to explain? Emperor Kakine inspector." It was Hesheng Zongzong who broke the silence first.

"What is the director referring to?" Kakine Teito asked neither humble nor overbearing.

This man had made up his mind not to tell the truth about the attack on Accelerator.

He Shengyang Zong thought.

It is not impossible for the girl who was ordered to hurt others to identify the instigator, but Kakine Teitoku is indeed a useful pawn, and it is not good for both of them to tear their faces at this time.

But if this continues, sooner or later it will become a new disaster.

"No, it's nothing." Hesheng Zongzong showed a meaningful smile: "But, I have something to remind you."

"Director, please speak."

"Before all identities, you are a policeman first." Hesheng Zongzong observed Kakine Teitoku's unwavering expression, and continued: "Everything you have now, power, contacts, and news channels, is this status. Brought to you. I hope you can think about the meaning of certain actions before acting, so as to avoid bringing trouble on yourself."

"I'll consider it carefully."

After Kakine Teito finished speaking, he saw that Hesheng Zongzong had nothing else to say, so he prepared to leave.

"I have one last word for you."

The moment Kakine Teitoku was about to step out of the director's office, Hesheng Yangzong said:

"What can make life worse than death for the object of hatred is to take away the most precious 'thing' for him."

The door closed quietly behind Kakine Teitoku.

"What do you mean by what you said just now?" From a dark corner that no one saw, came a man's voice with a fake Kyushu accent.

"It has nothing to do with you." Hesheng Zongzong ignored the sharp eyes of the blond spy under the sunglasses: "Only you can't even do the monitoring task well this time."

"Yeah, I was taken aback, too." Tsuchimikado Motoharu folded his arms leisurely: "I thought Ah Shang found out that I was sent to watch him. But no matter how much you emphasize, I won't Just an executive officer, fundamentally, he has no ability to resist Ah Shang."

"This is your own problem." Hesheng Zongzong's tone was extremely cold: "Let me remind you again, it is your task to be optimistic about Kamijou Touma and those unstable contacts around him."

"I know. In return you'll keep Maika safe, right? You're so talkative."

"I miscalculated once three years ago. I must not fail again this time."

"I don't know what you're planning, but I advise you not to underestimate Ah Shang."

"That's why your position is so important. In other words, every action you make in the future will determine whether you will lose more."

-

Coming out of the comprehensive analysis room of Yoshikawa Kikyo, Kamijou Touma met Unabara Mitsuki.

It might be too far-fetched to say it was a coincidence. Obviously, this man stood here waiting for him early in the morning.

"You were released by the second department?" Kamijou Touma asked.

"Yes. Although I made a mistake, I was released." Mitsuki Kaihara smiled mockingly: "Do you feel regretful?"

Kamijou Touma tilted his head in bewilderment: "Why should I regret it? I have a headache because of the lack of manpower in the department during this time."

"I know the secret that you and Accelerator are desperately trying to keep. Who was the real culprit four years ago, right?"

"Ah, that." Kamijou Touma smiled: "Sooner or later the truth will be revealed to the world. Neither he nor I intend to hide it."

"'No intention to conceal'?" Mitsuki Kaihara sneered, "So the title of 'true murderer' has been assigned to a talented imitator, right?"

"Believe it or not, it wasn't my intention."

Unabara Mitsuki's expression showed that he didn't believe it.

"What are you going to do next?" Kamijou Touma asked, "Tell Misaka all this?"

Hearing Misaka Mikoto's name, Unabara Mitsuki's eyes dimmed: "I made up my mind a long time ago to protect Miss Misaka's smile. I don't want to see that person's heart swallowed by hatred anyway. So I thought, I probably won't say it."

Kamijou Touma didn't answer.

"However, this does not mean that I will let go of everything." Mitsuki Kaiyuan raised his hands and said, "These hands are already stained with blood, so it doesn't matter if I bear a few more lives. The person who brought her grief, I All of them will be dealt with. Prepare yourself, and I will also be prepared to be killed by you."

"Can you give me a little more time?" Kamijou Touma asked suddenly.

"what?"

"Give me a little more time. I'll find a way to save everyone from suffering."

"The only way to save everyone from suffering is for him to die."

"Is that really so?"

Kamijou Touma's gaze is so sharp that it makes people feel cold all over:

"In this world, is there a death that does not bring pain?"

Their conversation ended here. After Mitsuki Unabara left, Kamijou Touma stood in the corridor for a while as if suddenly feeling infinitely confused.

Everything in reality made him unable to breathe, but pushed him to move forward, every step felt like walking on thin ice.

But he finally took a step and walked to a certain room in the corridor.

When he knocked on the door, the frog-faced doctor looked at Kamijou Touma outside the door in astonishment:

"Do you really want to do that? The truth of the case has been revealed, so why should you..."

"How should I put it?" Kamijou Touma scratched his cheek and smiled a little shyly: "It can be regarded as fulfilling an agreement."

Netherland Chasing Soul stood in front of the bed that looked like a torture platform, and asked Touma Kamijou again, who was wearing a helmet-like head-mounted player with various wires extending out:

"I want to remind you again. Memory mining is a technology that uses drugs and external stimuli to directly read the visual information of memory from brain waves and visualize it. It is equivalent to forcibly tracing back the memory at that time, because it is easy to cause trauma, even torture. Even if you don’t know how to use this kind of technology, your psychological coefficient may be irreparably damaged... It’s too late to stop now.”

"I've made up my mind." Although Kamijou Touma couldn't see the face of the doctor in front of him because of the equipment, he still tried his best to show him a relieved smile: "I said, this is an agreement. If the memories are all discarded, I think I may not have the face to see that person again."

"does it worth?"

"worth."

"……it is good."

In the end, as if he had finally made up his mind, he attached the electrodes to Kamijou Touma's neck and the back of his head, and started the program.

It was a broken memory.

It is also a memory that should not be forgotten.

He sees rainstorms, street lamps, and roses in full bloom.

"Answer me, Kamijou Touma, where's your own memory?"

Now, they're back.

They are here.

I am also here.

-

the weather is nice today.

Kamijou Touma, who was standing at the entrance of the public cemetery, thought so.

He meditated silently on the area of ​​the cemetery of the person who was to be worshiped, obtained by "special means", holding a bouquet of white flowers in his hand, and kept walking through this cemetery that looked like a large parking lot.

Before the destination of his trip, Kamijou Touma stopped in his tracks.

A woman with capable short brown hair is clasping her hands together and kneeling on one knee in front of the tombstone with the words 'Misaka Mie' written on it. On the virtual portrait projected on the monument, a girl with a similar appearance is smiling at the camera. There was a small bouquet of unknown white flowers, and some things that were probably the favorite of the deceased.

After closing her eyes and worshiping, Misaka Mikoto slowly got up and asked without looking back, "Are you also here to see my sister?"

"Yes." Kamijou Touma didn't dare to get too close to disturb her, so he had to answer from a distance.

Misaka Mikoto stared at the girl's smiling face and said: "I will continue to investigate the case. The so-called 'mastermind' was only 14 years old four years ago. I don't believe he can organize more than a dozen murders by himself. The real murderer There must be someone else, and I will never give up until I get the answer."

"What about after you get the answer?"

"I'll make him pay the price he deserves." A ferocious look flashed in Misaka Mikoto's eyes, and she said sharply: "I don't care what kind of past he has, and I don't care what difficulties he has. I am tired of listening to these self-deceiving excuses made up to get rid of crimes, for me, killing is killing, and the pain my sister went through before she died, I will let him pay back a hundred times, a thousand times."

"I think so too."

Kamijou Touma stepped forward and placed the lily in his hand in front of the girl's tombstone.

Hands together.

He didn't know what to say to the girl's undead, and he knew that he was not qualified to ask anyone for forgiveness.

The sun pierced through the clouds and cast dazzling light and shadow on the ground, Misaka Mikoto left, leaving only the lonely shadow of Kamijou Touma on the ground.

Everything around was immersed in a depressing silence.

Kamijou Touma got up and walked towards the gate of the cemetery.

He took one last look at the tombstone standing quietly in the autumn sun.

The breeze blows the white flowers in full bloom, swaying quietly.