I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

"Don't worry, what do you want to say?"

Seeing the man's anxious appearance, Sosuke Araki hurriedly moved his ears over.

"jingle……"

Amidst the noisy crowd and the chaotic traffic, a crisp bell sounded clearly into Araki Zongsuke's ears.

He was originally speaking to comfort the missing man, and suddenly raised his head with feeling.

"jingle……"

Looking at the sound, on the opposite side of the zebra crossing, under the dark sidewalk, a woman wearing a simple kimono with long hair half-hidden her face, is standing and squatting, and bends there, staring quietly at the crowd.

From the gaps in her long hair that almost covered her entire face, she could vaguely see pale skin that was not human-like, as well as half of her huge, dark eyes without white eyes.

Her hands leaned forward slightly, folded in front of her abdomen.

A strand of dark red string passed through the blood hole between her hands, through the back of her hand covered with dark red blood scabs and dripping blood, and then tied together again.

Below the blood-drenching string, there is a small patina bell hanging.

"Jingle Bell……"

Following the breeze under the curtain of night, he made a crisp sound leisurely.

The white-clothed woman was obviously only expressionless, standing quietly in the shadow of the roadside, staring silently at the man in Araki Zongjie's arms.

But it gives people a sense of horror, cold to the bones.

"Bold evildoer, I saw at a glance that you are not human..."

With a strong sense of disobedience, Araki Sosuke pulled off his blindfold.

Just when he looked up across the street again, the horrible woman had disappeared without a trace.

"I, I can't help it..."

The man in his arms stretched out his hand and fumbled around, pushing hard at Sousuke Araki's arm.

"Go... hurry up..."

He seemed to have seen something terrible. He suddenly raised his head frantically, his expression became extremely distorted, and he stretched out his hands to cover his mouth tightly, as if he wanted to stop himself from making a sound.

"The name... is called [Beep...]."

However, he still desperately squeezed out the voice from his throat through his tightly clasped hand, and said a four-character name with a volume that only Araki Sousuke could barely hear.

After saying this, the man showed a relieved expression.

"jingle……"

"You knew already."

At the same time, there were clear bells and a low and hoarse voice of a woman beside Sosuke Araki's ears.

"Be careful... who knows the name..."

Immediately, after reminding him with a weak voice, he rolled his eyes and became confused.

"What's the matter with this name? Wait...you hold on to it..."

Not having time to pay attention to the man's inexplicable words, Araki Sosuke hurriedly flattened the man, and then raised his legs to a vertical state.

This action can help blood flow back to the heart and ease the man's condition to the greatest extent.

"Has the ambulance come yet? He has lost consciousness!"

Even so, the blood still faded from the man's face at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a deadly pale...

After five minutes, the ambulance came and carried away the angry man.

Everyone can see that because of hemorrhagic shock, the possibility of a man being rescued is already very low.

Standing on the side of the road, Araki Sosuke, who was full of blood in his black sportswear, lowered his head, staring angrily at a place across the zebra crossing, clenching his fists.

Seeing the vivid life disappearing little by little before his eyes, the feeling of helplessness reminded him of the rainy night when Xingping was lost.

"Mr. Araki, you have done your best... the rest, leave it to the doctor."

Behind him, Tori Yu Mayumi gently pulled his cuff.

"Yes, Araki-kun, you have dealt with it in a timely manner."

"To tell you the truth, I was so scared that I almost peeed when I saw a lot of blood..."

Hou Hailu Dou also patted his shoulder vigorously.

"Sleeper, did you... have seen anything before?"

Mai Hanyu folded her chest with her hands, her slender eyelashes drooped slightly, and followed Araki Sosuke's gaze, looking across the empty street.

"Yes, that weird woman! What happened just now must have something to do with her..."

Thinking of the woman who was staring at her, with the infinite peace and indifference to life in her eyes, Sosuke Araki clenched his fists tightly: "No matter what she is, I must get rid of her!"

...

Half an hour later, the Headquarters of the Soul Eliminators Association, the Institute of Truth.

"I just received a call from the Metropolitan Police Department. The man died after being sent to the hospital."

Sitting in front of the computer, Hou Hailu Dou spread his hands and said the news that silenced several people in the conference room.

"By the way, through preliminary investigation, in view of the bizarre cause of death, the Metropolitan Police Department shared the first-hand investigation data to the Association for identification."

Hou Hailu Dou opened the folder and played a video.

"This is a picture taken by police surveillance in nearby places..."

In the picture, a man ran out of a building, looking back and panicking along the sidewalk all the way.

"The man's name is Su Shengliang, a clerk in the DVD marketing department of BIGC Electric, Akihabara..."

BIGC Electric is one of the landmark buildings of Akihabara, a large electrical shopping mall, not more than one kilometer away from the location of the Association of the Soulsetters.

Hou Hailu Dou skillfully switched the positions of the surveillance cameras, capturing Su Shengliang's moving route.

"...According to the company, he has no plans to work overtime tonight. I don't know why he will be there in the middle of the night."

As the camera zooms in, you can see Su Shengliang with a panic face, running around like a headless fly, looking back at him from time to time, as if something terrible is chasing him.

"Oh, at this time, he still looks very energetic...Looking at this distance and running speed, it means that he lost his eyes not long before he met us."

As reminded by Wu Yuyu's words, everyone noticed that Su Shengliang's eyes were still conveying panic and fear perfectly at this time.

"Then... here..."

As the camera switched to another section, Su Shengliang, who was running, encountered the fate that every character in a horror film would encounter.

He fell down.

Following his fall, the surveillance camera seemed to be disturbed in some way, and the picture became no longer continuous due to the sudden appearance of disorderly black lines and snowflakes...

"This is the magnetic interference phenomenon caused by resentment?"

Looking at this familiar scene, Yu Mayumi Torii, who had just explained the task situation upstairs and opened the door with a yawn, covered his mouth and exclaimed.

"At this time, there must be a hidden energy field life form that cannot be captured by the camera! Therefore, he should be here, being..."

When the picture was restored, Su Shengliang was gone.

On the ground, only the blood splattered from Datan was left, as if someone squeezed a tomato juice drink here.

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