I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Ji Xiang..."

The entire parking lot was silent, except for the man lying on the ground sobbing softly.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

On the steps, Araki Sousuke, who was silent from the beginning to the end, still kept the posture of reaching out and touching his head, frozen in place, watching everything that happened in front of him.

On his face, black runes like tadpoles kept surging.

In the depths of the pupils, there seemed to be a group of incandescent flames burning, angrily smashing the runes into dark red sparks, but still unable to break through the shackles of the endlessly gushing black runes.

After a while, the chunky uncle stopped sobbing and got up from the ground with difficulty.

"No matter who you are... Thank you, I am finally able to explain to my wife..."

He bowed deeply to Sousuke Araki who was sitting on the steps, with a happy smile of relief on his raised face.

Immediately, he turned and walked out of the parking lot gate in a daze.

After a long time, the white flames in Araki Sousuke's eyes went out again.

Those black runes also faded slowly like the tide.

"Ah!!! Did I sit here and fall asleep?"

He rubbed his nose and looked at the empty parking lot as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"When was this... exactly, what happened?"

Stepping forward slowly, he looked down at the white bag in the middle of the parking lot and the sacrificial supplies scattered all over the place, with a complicated expression on his face.

This long-lost asymmetry of "forgetting important things" has not appeared for a long time since he "healed from the second illness".

...

43 hours before "The Gates of Hell" appears.

"Ah, ah, ah, there are so many things, I forgot to arrange this matter..."

In the Office of Section Nine, Mochizuki Ayano was scratching her hair and looking at an investigation report handed over by Takeshi Iwata in distress.

Because various cases came one after another, she was so busy that she didn't even have time to take care of her soft blonde hair.

"So, Natsume Kikuto, the license plate registrant that Tamiya-kun secretly investigated before, only admitted to the charge of 'illegally modifying a motor vehicle', and denied all other charges, right..."

"Yes, the target is just a bad high school student, and his psychological defense is quite weak. As soon as he came, he explained all the illegal activities in his daily life. However, in order to confirm the authenticity of the information, we still follow the procedure to open the 'phone book The interrogation methods such as swinging the hammer, soaking feet with electric shock rods, and suffocating masks were used in turn..."

Iwata Takeshi looked at the interrogation record in his hand and reported it expressionlessly.

"Furthermore, according to the alibi obtained from traffic surveillance, it is basically confirmed that his locomotive has been faked..."

"... I see, this investigation will stop here. It has been a hard time, Iwata Take-kun, you guys should get off work today."

While talking, Mochizuki Ayano took out a laptop from under the table and turned it on.

"Okay, teacher, you have hardly been home during this time, please pay attention to rest."

Takeshi Iwata bowed slightly, and when he left the office, Ayano Mochizuki's voice sounded in his ears again: "By the way, this matter involves the privacy and reputation of Tamiya-kun, please keep it secret."

After Takeshi Iwata nodded, and gently closed the door and left, Mochizuki Ayano stuffed the investigation report into the shredder, then held his chin, looked at the data in the laptop, and fell into deep thought.

In that computer is the private investigation data left by the deceased information team agent Seiyu Tamiya.

Tamiya-kun's private investigation involved some website intrusion and abuse of the authority of Lesson 9, which is strictly speaking illegal.

Out of respect for the agent who died, Mochizuki Ayano never reported it, but asked Takeshi Iwata to investigate secretly.

According to her analysis, Mr. Tian Gong, as an agent of Section 9, naturally knows the existence of "spirit".

Therefore, how to deal with the late second son "Liangwu" hovering beside the eldest son should also be quite distressed.

Since the farming era, there has been a saying in Japanese folklore that children who die before their parents have no time to accumulate enough "merits" and at the same time have to bear the crime of "unfilial piety" that makes their parents sad, so they will be trapped in three There will never be a day of liberation by the riverside.

Legend has it that the passing Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva took pity on these children and hid them in his sleeves and took them to the other side of the Santu River so that they could become Buddhas and re-enter reincarnation.

Therefore, parents will carve crude stone statues of Jizo for their dead children, and then tie their clothing as cloaks and hoods to the stone statues, hoping that Jizo Bodhisattva will protect their dead children and extradite them to become Buddhas. .

Therefore, rows of round-headed, round-brained, very cute "Little Jizo" statues in red hoods can be seen everywhere in Japan, and they have even become a unique folk landscape.

As everyone knows, behind every Ksitigarbha statue is a child who died young.

Based on the principle of "obsession keeps spirits" in the human world, as well as years of practical experience in eliminating spirits, the Spirit Eliminators Association really binds these naive and weakly obsessed children's spirits in the human world and cannot be freed...

I am afraid that it is the obsession formed by the "sorrow" from the parents.

But when Tamiya-kun encountered such a situation and didn't know what to do, the spirit body of the second son "Ryogo" was "eliminated" by a passing knight.

This naturally made it impossible for him not to care and not to investigate.

As the pictures in the computer switched, a screenshot of the driving recorder was flipped.

On the screenshot, it is the back of a black heavy locomotive driving away.

Hanging on the rear of the car was the license plate belonging to high school student Natsume Kikuto.

Looking at the exaggerated shape of the motorcycle, it was the same as the motorcycle that Ayano Mochizuki had seen in front of the Yoyogi apartment that day in Ayano Mochizuki's memory.

Ghost Rider.

This should be the scene captured by Mrs. Tamiya's driving recorder on the day "Liangwu" was "exorcised".

"As expected..."

So far, the cause and effect of the whole matter are generally the same as what Ayano Mochizuki had guessed before.

Fujiwara Takumi used the license plate of a high school student named Natsume Kikuto in order to disguise himself as Ghost Rider Exorcism.

And his secret removal of spirits led to the investigation of the unknowing Mr. Tamiya.

This is also the reason why she has kept this investigation secret and only conducted basic information verification in line with the original intention of maintaining the secrets of Fujiwara Takumi and Tamiya-kun.

However, in the last folder, there was a bunch of messy information that Tamiya-kun hadn't had time to sort out before his death, but Mochizuki Ayano's face changed slightly, and she looked at it intently...

It seems that Tamiya-kun hacked into the background of the front-office distribution website and obtained part of the information.

The creation date of the folder is the day before the start of "Operation Sako Capture".

The first file in the folder is a linkage poster with Ghost Rider printed on it.

"Ghost Rider X is out of the front hall ~ the messenger of justice is escorted home".

"So...Fujiwara Takumi's clothes and motorcycles were obtained from the front building?"

The second document is a screenshot of the employee profile in the background of the distribution station in the front hall.

"Exit the Ikebukuro distribution station in the front hall...Delivery employee number 9527...Name..."

"Ara Wood Zongsuke?!"