I saw the countdown to their death

"Mission rules: You can only complete the mission on your own. If you ask for help, the mission will fail."

"Achieving rewards: spiritual power +1, points +1000, 100 million yen currency, a random skill, and the system's resident mall will open."

"Keywords: Tokyo Murderer."

"Warning: This task is dangerous, please consider carefully the host."

"Newcomer benefits (only): Due to the high risk of this task, the host has never accepted any task, the difficulty will be weakened to a certain extent when the task starts, and a random state blessing and 1up reward will be temporarily obtained (unused can be permanently stored)."

"..."

Hojo Satoru was frozen, and he stood in front of the school bulletin board in a daze. It took him 5 minutes to sort out the situation. First, let's talk about the problem of the supernatural research department.

First, this is the girl who overheard her talking with Tomino during lunch. Except for the three parties in the school, she is the only one who knows what the so-called archery department and 'D' mean.

Second, the content of the conversation in the office after lunch was also leaked, but it is absolutely impossible for Akasaki Erika and Kamigami Kumi to gossip.So that girl must have been in the office when I was in the cafeteria, but I didn't know that she was eavesdropping.

Third, D-0 of the old school building in Building A is the former faculty office at the top of the fourth floor. Although it is not a normal activity classroom, if she can use it openly, she must obtain the approval of the student union and even the school teacher.And the official club needs a consultant teacher. It is impossible for Akasaki Erika to agree to such nonsense. Since her name appears on the leaflet, there must be a reason why she cannot refuse.

To sum up, the girl who eavesdropped in the cafeteria had a very unusual social status. As long as the trouble wasn't too much, the school would just turn a blind eye.

Hojo Satoru turned his head and looked in the direction of the activities department of the old school building. Although he had never met her, he had already determined who she was. After all, there was only one young lady studying at Aoyama High School.

It is rumored that a girl with an IQ of 160 who has never failed in life has the nickname of "Princess Wind Chime" in school. The youngest daughter of Ryuichi Tsukimi, director of the Uesaki Foundation, is Tsukimi Sato Furin.

Others might not be able to understand this cheating flyer, but to Hojo Satoru, the words 'allow absentees to leave early, provide free lunch' are like an invitation to join the club by name.And the whole story still has a sense of threat. If you don't go, it seems that tomorrow the head of the archery department will know the meaning of 'D'.

If the above is completely correct, then the next speculation can continue.

As the heir of a large consortium, it is not a fantasy to be murdered, but why she went to Mitani District near Sensoji Temple is unknown, and it was illegal at 1:23 in the middle of the night (Japanese law stipulates that minors are still on the street after [-]:[-]) Walking is illegal).

Moreover, this matter is also related to the 'Tokyo Killer', the murderer of a series of recent serial murders. Nakaji Tomino wanted to talk about this topic, but was interrupted.

With a nickname that only appears in anime, a criminal of this level is not an ordinary person, but a character with super high sword skills. The incident is so sensational that even foreign news is headlined.

Four consecutive crimes were committed during half a year, and the victims died extremely tragically. They were either beheaded with a knife or cut into several pieces silkily, and one of them was the worst...

You must know that people are not the grass in the swordsmanship video. If it is not a professionally trained executioner, no matter how powerful a person is, it is not easy to kill the capital with a single blow.

So after this conclusion came out, not to mention ordinary people, forensic doctors themselves felt that it was outrageous.

It is said that the police also invited a contemporary swordsman master to analyze, but the other party turned pale after seeing the extremely curious scene photos, and said it was impossible, absolutely impossible!

Leaving aside the issue of strength, there are no such sharp knives in the world, let alone the people who collapse into a pile like building blocks after the staggered slashing from bottom to top. This is against the common sense of physics.

Hojo Satoru stroked his chin and began to think more seriously. Although he had decided to accept the system, he still could not touch life-threatening tasks. The main reason was that he lived in the Mitani slum near Sensoji Temple in Taito District. ah.

Big things will happen at the door of your house. If you don’t close the door tightly and go out to make troubles, isn’t that a life-threatening thing?

What are the rules of the Reborn?

No virgin, no cerebral palsy, no trouble for myself.Don't strengthen, don't shine, don't slap your face, work hard, enrich yourself, and enjoy life quietly.

But let's not talk about other rewards, what the hell is that 1up in the novice gift pack?If you guessed right, that's a common term in action games to mean an extra game chance, like the green mushroom in Mario Bros...  

So... is that a life?So is it a resurrection chance that can be saved? !

And the system mall for mission rewards...is simply a fatal temptation.

Hojo Satoru's breathing was a little short, and his throat felt a little dry.

Thinking of this, he tried hard to take a few deep breaths, glanced at the simple leaflet again, then turned his head and left.It's still early today, so I can go to the library to finish my homework before going to work.

What a joke!Even if the difficulty is weakened, you can directly reward a life and a temporary buff after accepting the task. One can imagine how dangerous the factor is, and even if it is completed without any danger, what is the use of the chance of resurrection?

For a person who does not want to die, one life is enough to live a whole life, and for a person who wants to die, is it enough to give him ten lives? As for the life and death of this eldest lady, it is none of my own business, I don't even know her!

Not to mention knowing that a beautiful girl is about to die, it is inhumane to remain indifferent. If it is a simple task, you can help out of humanitarianism, but it is another matter if it endangers your own safety.

……

When he came to the library, he found a corner seat by the window. Hojo Satoru opened his schoolbag, but he looked at the mathematical formulas in the workbook, but he didn't have any desire to learn at all. Curiosity and other strange emotions filled his mind.

Today is Tuesday, May 5th, and the incident occurred at 25 am on the 27th, which is Wednesday night tomorrow.

Is that mysterious girl whose life is in danger really Miss Tsukimisato?If so, why did she provoke the ghost slayer?Or, did someone find a murderer and buy him a murderer?

In other words, although this incident has caused a lot of uproar in Japan, I have only heard about the latest case in bits and pieces.

Thinking of this, Hojo Satoru frowned and took out his phone, opened Google and searched for the keyword 'Tokyo Murderer', and the Asahi Shimbun's bright red headline immediately appeared on the screen.

[Tokyo Ghost Slayer committed another crime after 30 days! ! ! 】

[Recently, a 50-year-old man in Arakawa District was brutally cut in half, and the murderer sneaked into his home at three o'clock in the morning and killed him...]

Chapter 8 Sudden Bad News

At around [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Hojo Satoru showed up at the convenience store where he was working on time. From now on, he will work four hours until ten o'clock.

The elder brother of the day shift had left long ago, and since it was proposed to adjust the working hours today, the shop manager was standing at the counter temporarily on duty.When the uncle saw Hojo Satoru put on his uniform, he nodded and smiled at him, then walked towards the office.

7eleven is also known as "Qi Zai", which mainly focuses on food.As the largest chain store in the world, the food sold in each country will also depend on the situation. For example, in addition to the same layer of oden, Japan also provides a variety of bento, exquisite and cheap. This is most of Hojo Satoru food source.

In addition to taking care of the cash register, Hojo Satoru also needs to sell oden, cook instant noodles (similar to car noodles) for customers, replenish the shelves and other chores. At first glance, it sounds like a lot of things, but the store is not very big, so it is not very busy. If it is really impossible, press the button under the cash register, and the store manager will come out to help, and he will take care of it temporarily if he needs to go to the toilet.

The boss is an Internet addict uncle, and his work content is to soak in the office and indulge in online games. He seems to be the guild leader of online games.

Hojo Satoru glanced at the shelf of Kanto cooking, first added some white radish, dried kelp, tofu, and fish balls, which were selling well, and then added soup, then looked at the snack shelf and sorted out the goods a little.

At this time, a crisp sound came from the sensor at the door, and a stylishly dressed, dark-skinned hot girl from Shibuya came in.

"welcome."

Maybe Hojo Satoru wasn't her type, the hot girl ignored his professional smile, walked straight to the shelf, and came to the cashier with two pork cutlet lunches.

"Thank you for your patronage. It's 1200 yen in total."

After paying the money, the hot girl turned around and left, but after walking out of the store, she looked at Satoru Hojo a few more times through the glass wall.

After a while, another high school student came in. From the uniform, he should be a boy high school student. He walked around the store, and when he was politely asked what help he needed, he left as if he hadn't heard it.

After that, several gluttonous female high school students came to buy some oden and ice cream. The four of them stared at Hojo Satoru's face intentionally or unintentionally. After being returned with commercial smiles, two of them lowered their heads shyly, and One boldly asked for contact information, but was rejected.

After eight o'clock, a woman came in and walked around, then came to the cashier with two discounted bento boxes.

"Help heat it up, thank you."

"OK, just a second."

Hojo Satoru took the bento with a smile, and after dipping the label on it with a scanning gun, he opened the lid and put it into the two microwave ovens behind him.

During the period, the woman turned to go shopping again, and at the same time she heard her phone call from the opposite side of the shelf. After a while, there were some instant noodles, pickles and other things in her hand, but she was a little embarrassed at this moment.

"Guest, do you have any questions?" Hojo Satoru asked politely.

"Well... my daughter won't go home for dinner today, can I get a refund?" But before she got an answer, she waved her hand embarrassedly, "It doesn't matter if there is no way to refund, how much is the total here?"

At the same time, the two microwave ovens heard a crisp sound of 'ding' one after another, and the lights went out.

Hojo Satoru turned his head and glanced, "You can retreat."

"Eh? Okay, okay, thank you."

After finishing speaking, under the surprised eyes of the woman, he used the scanning gun to 'drip' her belongings, and repacked one of the lunch boxes and handed it to her, "Thank you for your patronage, the total is 2650 yen."

After receiving the change, the woman held a plastic bag, bowed politely and turned to leave. Hojo Satoru repacked the remaining bacon and cheese bento and put it aside, took out his wallet from his pocket, and put his own money into the cash register .

After the bento is requested to be heated by the customer, it is definitely not refundable, but Hojo Satoru is too lazy to argue with the customer, especially this kind of Japanese women.

The Japanese are best at doing one thing face to face and another behind the other. For example, if the shop assistants do not serve well, or even make mistakes accidentally, they will not only say nothing on the surface, but will also be polite to you, and even comfort you in turn.Let you fully feel the warmth and feel that there are still many good people in the world.

Then they turned around and immediately took out their mobile phones to complain to you.

The working hours are long and long, but they will pass quickly when you are busy or in a daze.

At ten o'clock in the evening, after the handover of store manager Hojo Satoru, he began to do the final finishing work.The content is to collect unsold lunch boxes, cakes and other things on the shelves, and throw them into the trash can for sorting food waste in the alley at the back door.

This is also one of Hojo Satoru's food sources. In fact, he doesn't spend any money on the bento he brings to school, and the store manager knows it well when he keeps one or two lunch boxes. It's an extra benefit for outstanding employees.

Disposal is not random throwing away, each portion needs to be disassembled and dumped into the trash can to ensure that it is completely inedible.This is indeed a waste, how could the fresh bento of the day go bad in one day?As for why it can't be given to the poor for free, if it were given away for free, many people would not buy it if they had money, and they would make a special trip to receive relief at that point.The fact is that the boss will appear inhumane out of self-interest, but the poor are also very real.

……

The subway in the city is open until 11 o’clock. The Mitani area where Hojo Satoru lives is not far from the Shinjuku area where he works. It takes about 20 minutes to take the tram, and it takes about 10 minutes to walk out of the subway station to get home.

Hojo Satoru carried his schoolbag on his back and walked slowly towards home. This is not an entertainment area, and the closer you are to home, the more desolate the surrounding environment will be.

The houses here are full of dilapidated garbage, and the hotels here do not require any documents to check in. The minimum price of 120 yuan soft girl coins is the cheapest in Tokyo, and even part of the revenue is brought by cheap prostitutes.

Street bulletin boards are filled with wanted notices, mostly for violent crimes.The only park called 'Yu Ji Park' has been occupied by bums, drug addicts, alcoholics, and ordinary people hardly come near it.

This is the only place in Tokyo where you can find loose liquor and loose tobacco vending machines. The prices are around 100-300 yen. Minors also buy tobacco and alcohol through these vending machines.

The walls of the public toilets here are not posted with 'come and go and flush', but to remind you not to throw away used syringes at will.

Speed ​​thieves, gangsters can be seen everywhere, sometimes someone will come to ask you if you want a disc, the kind of uncensored output that cannot be bought in regular stores.Selling stolen goods, mobile phones, and illegal drugs are also emerging in an endless stream.

Here, even the 60-year-old old man wears a jacket embroidered with horizontal beards, which is only worn by delinquent teenagers.

There is no deliberate smearing. The real Japan is like this. There are prosperity and darkness and corruption. There are not many places, but they are covered up by the bustling and feasting.

Hojo Wuang glanced at the street lamp, the drowsy light made him a little helpless.

Why live here?

A simple calculation made it clear that I brought a total of 50 yen from my home to Tokyo, including all expenses for basic necessities, food, housing and transportation.

The hourly salary in Tokyo is about 1500 yen, which is about 75 soft sister coins. Hojo Satoru works for four hours a day, which is 300 per day, and after one month, it is 9000. Last month, he worked 150 hours, which is equivalent to a monthly income of more than [-].

The renting system in Japan is very unfriendly. A typical single-person dormitory costs [-] to [-] a month, while renting a house in China is at most one-pay three, and Japan’s renting a house may be one-pay ten.

First of all, you have to pay a deposit (deposit). The total amount of this money is about half a year’s rent, including house cleaning, repair costs, depreciation costs... The money will be refunded depending on the situation when the rent is returned.

The second is key money, which is paid to the landlord as a fee, usually one month's rent.This is a thank you gift, to thank the landlord for renting you a house. This money is equivalent to a red envelope, and it is non-refundable.

The third is the "intermediary hand counting material", which is the intermediary fee, usually one month's rent. In Japan, you can only rent through an intermediary. Even if you bypass the intermediary and contact the landlord, the other party will most likely not rent it to you.

For safety reasons, new tenants need to change the locks, and a door lock exchange fee is required.The fire safety deposit and fire insurance are paid once a year, regardless of whether the lease has been completed for one year or not.

Public expenses, such as electricity, water, cleaning and management fees for public parts such as stairs, passages, public toilets, etc. After paying these fees, the last thing is the rent.

This explains why 120RMB a night in Japanese Internet cafes is labeled as cheap, because you spend 120RMB a day, and it’s only 3600 in a month. In addition to free drinks and ice cream, water, electricity, showers, and laundry are all free of charge.

In fact, Hojo Satoru also planned to live in an Internet cafe for three years at the beginning, but he immediately rejected it after the on-site inspection.The environment in that place was so noisy that I could even hear the heavy panting of the needlework next door, and I couldn't even straighten my legs when I slept.

The above only counts the problem of housing, and the next is 'clothing, food and transportation'.

Since you have to work part-time after school, it is impossible to go home and cook by yourself. Take the normal expenses as an example, Yoshinoya beef rice 45 yuan (RMB), ramen set 40, bento 25 yuan, rice ball 10 yuan, mineral water 6 yuan, water and electricity The fee is 200 yuan, the mobile phone card is 300 yuan, the subway station is 8 yuan, and the starting price of a taxi is 27 yuan... To sum up, foreigners with a monthly income of more than [-] yuan will not have a good life in Tokyo.

And the rent in Mitani District is about [-] yen, and there are very few messy expenses.And Hojo Satoru rented it even cheaper... because of the biggest reason, it was a haunted house where people died.

Satoru Hojo paid [-] yuan for the rent and [-] yuan for the agency fee. There is no need to give the thank you money, but the landlord will thank you for renting this room instead.

The rest of the expenses only cost about 10. After all, the place is so messy and the house is so bad, the landlord didn’t confiscate much of those messy expenses.

Even so, Hojo Satoru also spent about 40 yuan in a few days, including [-] yuan for four sets of school uniforms, as well as daily and school supplies.If it wasn't for the detailed planning and strong action, he might really be a refugee from an Internet cafe that he loves to see.

Before he knew it, Hojo Satoru came to a very old low-cost apartment. The apartment was only two floors high, with eight rooms on the first floor.

This kind of apartment is a symbol of the poor. It is the kind that has a high rate of appearance in anime, and most of the people who live in this kind of apartment are the protagonists.For example, a loli devil who never gets discouraged, a bald head who becomes stronger even after becoming bald, a golden-haired angel who fell because of games, who also works in a convenience store, and a buddhist devil who lives with three subordinates...

Hojo Satoru walked up the second floor from the side stairs, and came to the topmost room. After opening the door, a faint musty smell came over his face.With a soft clatter, the warm yellow light illuminates the [-]-square-meter single room that includes the living room, balcony, bathroom and kitchen.

"Should I say I'm back, or her aunt?"

Hojo Satoru put down his schoolbag after muttering in a low voice, and started to eat bento on the low table cross-legged.It is normal to have dinner in the middle of the night. After all, I don’t get off work until ten o’clock, and it’s almost eleven o’clock when I get home. I can’t eat free bento blatantly in the break room after get off work.

Chewing the cold rice, Hojo Satoru didn't feel how hard it was. The current embarrassment is just because the expenses are relatively high when he first arrived in Tokyo. Now the housing and living problems have almost been solved, and the part-time job is also very stable.

From next month onwards, you won't have to eat free bento anymore, and you still have to spend the money that should be spent, and it will definitely not work if you continue like this.

At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated suddenly, looking at the contact named 'Aihara' on it, Hojo Satoru pressed the answer button in doubt, "Cousin... so it's Xiaoyou, what happened today?" Suddenly called me?"

"Tokyo, Tokyo is super nice, it's exactly the same as in the anime... It's not really short of money, recent stipends..."

As a shy voice sounded from the receiver, Hojo Satoru also showed a smile on his face, but after a few seconds, his expression gradually became stiff, and while putting the chopsticks in his hand back on the table, he also "rubbed" Suddenly stood up from the cross-legged sitting position.

"Can you say that again?"

In the receiver, the little cousin, who has been playing since he was a child, spoke with worry in his tone, carefully telling everything that happened this month, and Satoru Hojo's eyes became more and more serious.

The warm lights in the small room flickered, and a breeze blew in from the balcony. Hojo Satoru walked to the balcony, laying on the railing and holding the phone without saying a word, listening quietly.

The street lights on the street downstairs were dimmed. A drunk man staggered over while making a loud phone call.Then he vomited while holding the electric pole, and fell asleep leaning against the low wall after vomiting.