I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

Eight o'clock in the evening, Toshima District, Ikebukuro.

"Record: After witnessing the abnormal lighting in the target apartment at 4:35 last night, no other situation has been found for the time being."

In the apartment room, Mochizuki Ayano picked up the voice recorder and recorded the information on time.

With large dark circles hanging on her face, she can go out without makeup. COS has collected 320,000 alternative names for the popular panda "Cai Bang".

Because the left eye can see some things that the [Spirit Detective Glasses] can't observe, she voluntarily asks to perform the surveillance task in person.

"Ding Dong."

With the sound of footsteps, someone outside the door rang the doorbell.

"Hello, Ms. Mochizuki, the merchandise you ordered in the front hall has been delivered."

Outside the door, the delivery person said respectfully.

"Okay, please put your things at the door, I'll take it later."

Mochizuki Ayano focused on the opposite apartment, but replied coldly.

When monitoring weird, try to minimize contact with the outside world. This is common sense.

So these days, she is living by going out of the front hall website to deliver goods to the door.

What's more, she only wore a pair of panties and a T-shirt in the room, in a vacuum.

Naturally, I will not open the door to pick up the meal.

"I want to protect the smile of the person I love and the person I love."

Across the door, such an unknown voice rang out vaguely.

After five minutes, Mochizuki Ayano carefully brought in the merchandise placed at the door.

That is a big bag of food and daily necessities.

When she returned to the window and picked up the binoculars to look out, the phone rang.

"The resident of Room 405, Kaori Kaori River, died suddenly without warning in the isolation protection room. The time of death was 8:35. The cause of death was heart obstruction. Section chief, sorry, it was our negligence..."

On the other end of the phone, an agent's frustrated voice came.

Just yesterday they discovered that the lights stayed in Room 405, they immediately took measures to isolate and protect the women living alone in that apartment. By the way, they also performed a physical examination, and no abnormalities were found.

Unexpectedly, something went wrong under my nose.

"Is it exactly 16 hours, Damn it... Was there anything abnormal or said before she died?"

"There is no sign, she was watching the latest episode of "Tokyo Grand Hotel" before the onset of the illness. However, as she died, she said...she shouldn't take the elevator."

Mochizuki Ayano immediately took out his notebook and recorded the word "elevator".

Was it a grieving spirit or a weird murder?

There is no particularly clear boundary between the weird and the resentful spirit.

After all, weirdness often appears as a resentful spirit.

The only difference is that compared with the resentful spirits who act solely on obsessions, Weirds have rigid and irresistible rules of conduct, and the characteristics that are difficult to completely eliminate.

This is also the point that lesson 9 is extremely distressed in dealing with supernatural cases.

Without temptation, it is difficult to know the truth.

But temptation means sacrifices that may occur at any time.

The description of the "Hell Apartment" on the 2CH Forum is extremely vague. It only mentions that the lucky person selected by this apartment will receive a special pass to hell.

Supernatural cases are often hidden in a large number of suicide and accident cases that are difficult to identify and cannot be traced back.

In Japan where suicide has become a culture, people commit suicide anytime and anywhere.

Although the number of traffic deaths in Japan is less than 4,000 per year, the number of accidental deaths due to various other reasons is quite terrifying and difficult to count.

After the search support analysis center regularly compared the cases with big data, it was discovered that in the dozens of seemingly unrelated suicides and accidents that occurred in the past two years, the deceased were actually residents of this apartment.

And there is a fixed time interval between each case.

The reason why I haven't found out until now is because...These cases all happened outside the apartment building.

It can be said that this apartment's "killing technique" is extremely concealed, and it is completely unexpected to be able to enter the field of view of Lesson 9.

The reason why this apartment is attached so much importance is because it is the first weird that embodies the "anti-investigation awareness".

"Is the ‘rule’ of that apartment really just as simple and incomprehensible as ‘in the room selected by the light, one person will die’?"

Staring at the word "elevator" in the notebook, Mochizuki Ayano fell into deep thought.

Her gaze shifted to the information about the apartment at the table.

The Ikebukuro Royal Kobo Apartment was built ten years ago. There have been no weird rumors and no strange cases.

According to the floor plan of the apartment, this long and narrow six-story old-fashioned apartment with a total of 24 units, each unit type is connected to the front and back of the apartment, so from her side you can see the window of each suite's living room.

To say something weird, this apartment has only one elevator.

Of course, because the apartment has stairs, the floor is not high, and there are not many residents, it is still enough.

Could it be... all this has something to do with that elevator?

Thinking about this, Mochizuki Ayano began to dress.

"Hi, Xili, call Takeshi Iwata."

"Okay, I'm calling Takeshi Iwata."

"Chairman, I'm at Haruna Mountain..."

On the other side of the phone, Iwata Takeshi's low voice came.

At this moment, he is leading the team to squat in another place that seems to be weird.

"I want to go to the elevator on the first floor of that apartment to make a confirmation. Now I will hand over the on-site command to you. The monitoring work will be continued by the team below me."

She decided to take a look at the elevator herself.

"But... Section Chief, this does not meet the'Weird Contact Action Criterion'."

The "Weird Contact Action Guidelines" were formulated by the research institute. Before we thoroughly understand the weird rules, try to avoid contact with the weird, and a series of specific rules of action based on observation.

"Don't worry, I just went to the elevator to take a look. It's better than waiting here and I can't do anything. Okay, let the apartment go on like this. The rooftops above can no longer stand on the'spirit'. It has become hell... Besides, I am not among the people limited by the guidelines of the research institute."

Having said that, Mochizuki Ayano smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly

"But...received, I let the people on the 10th floor continue to monitor."

Iwata seemed to want to say something, and finally chose silence.

It was already half an hour after Mochizuki Ayano put on clothes, put on light makeup, put all kinds of equipment in the backpack, and stood in front of the gate of Ikebukuro Royal Cobo Apartment.

"A group of apartments have obtained the monitor permission of the target apartment."

An agent from the tenth floor of the same building sent a message.

"receive."

After saying this to the earphones, Mochizuki Ayano stepped towards the elevator.

"Risachan, I'm downstairs, what's your house number?"

At this time, a cute girl standing in the elevator and talking on the phone attracted her attention.

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