Chapter 348 The Murder Case in Shikatori Town Begins
Early the next morning, Mikael and the others were enjoying the breakfast provided by the hot spring hotel. Suddenly, the sharp siren of a police car sounded on the street, and the only old police car in the town was seen driving in the direction of Shikatori Shrine.
Not long after, they heard someone discussing something in the hall. Although they didn't pay special attention, Mikael still heard words like "shrine murderer" and "murderer", which couldn't help but arouse
caught his interest.
Only after I pulled someone over to ask about what happened in detail did he know exactly what happened last night.
When Shikatori Shrine holds the Miko Festival every year, it also offers a complete set of training courses for miko, which is an important source of annual income for the shrine.
Although the courses are expensive, many parents who want their daughters to learn traditional culture will also send their children to the shrine for a week of study. During this course, the girls live and work like ancient shrine maidens.
However, this time there was a big accident in the witch training course. Three of the girls were killed. It was said that the bodies were desecrated and brutally nailed to the wall next to the statue.
"Is he a perverted murderer again?"
Mikael touched his chin, and he began to wonder if he had Conan's physique, and why he could encounter murderers wherever he went during this period.
He subconsciously thought of the coveted magician Soren Araya. After all, the last perverted murderer Shirazumi Rio was one of his works.
"It's actually a murderer again... I will never miss it again this time!"
Zhiya also heard the whole story, and a dangerous light of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he even forgot about going to the beach for vacation.
"It's really troublesome."
Aozaki Orange sighed softly. There is no doubt that even if they are not related to the murderer, they have been implicated. At least until the suspicion is completely eliminated or the murderer is caught, no one here can leave.
Out of curiosity about the murder scene, after using magic to create a sibling that confuses the eyes and ears, Mikael and the others came to Shikatori Shrine. Due to the characteristics of concealment magic, no one noticed them at the scene, so they easily entered the murder scene.
Although it was unknown where the three girls were killed, their bodies were found in the main hall of the shrine, so Mikael and the others headed straight for the main hall.
The main hall of Shikatori Shrine is not very big, it is just a simple Sumiyoshi-style building. The vermilion pillars have faded due to the passage of time. Passing through the partition that separates the outer and inner formations, you can see the sculpture of the White Deer Goddess reflected in it.
caught their eyes.
The legend of the White Deer Goddess is painted on the wall of the inner formation, but now three girls' bodies are nailed on it. The girls are dressed in the white clothes and scarlet hakama of trainee witches, with warm and gentle smiles on their faces, and they are lifelike.
, fixed on the wall in a dancing posture.
From a distance, it looks like girls singing and dancing around the White Deer Goddess. It does not look like a cruel murder scene at all, but gives people a strange sense of divinity, peace and joy.
"There's something wrong with these people..."
Ori stared at the exposed fair skin of the girls and whispered.
She reached out her hand, and did not worry about violating the rules of the scene. She gently held the girl's exposed arm, which had the body temperature of a living person, and the fair skin was also gleaming with blood.
Gently lifting the girl's trainee miko uniform, she saw a stitched wound on her flat belly that spread from her navel to her breasts. It looked like a ferocious centipede lying on the girl's body.
Zhi took out the short knife he carried and cut open the sutures of the wound. Unexpectedly, all the internal organs in the girl's body were removed, leaving only the cotton for filling, making her abdomen look the same as before she was alive.
It remains consistent, and there are no traces of bleeding inside, as if all the blood has been drained away.
She checked the other two victims and found that they were treated in the same way.
"There is something really wrong. This is not something that ordinary murderers can do."
Aozaki Orange narrowed her eyes slightly, subconsciously took out a cigarette from her pocket and held it in her mouth. She keenly felt the fluctuations of magic power in the bodies of these three girls. This is why the girls are still alive even though they are dead now.
A lifelike appearance.
"It should be a simple [fixed] magic."
Mikael recognized the magic formulas on the girls at a glance. The so-called [fixation] magic is to completely fix a certain moment of time on an object, but it can only be applied to inanimate objects, and as the magic injected into it
Power also has a certain time limit.
It can be said that it is a very useless basic magic, and not many magicians are willing to study it.
However, judging from the spells on these girls, this is not just a simple [fixation] magic, but also the shadow of in-depth research can be seen in it. It can be seen that the strange magician is trying to use [fixation] on living people.
magic.
He stretched out his hand, trying to summon the remaining soul fragments of the girls, but he accidentally missed it. The magician who did it was very cautious, considering that some magicians might use necromancy magic to steal the girls' souls.
Completely obliterated.
"All in all, he is a very experienced magician or magician."
Aozaki Orange held a cigarette and drew runes in the air, trying to search for the remaining soul fragments, but unfortunately he found nothing.
"And it doesn't look like some kind of séance."
She crossed her arms and looked at the relationship between the corpses of the girls and the statue of the White Deer Goddess. At the same time, she mentally recalled the magic knowledge she knew about ghost spirits, and then eliminated them one by one.
"Of course it can't be séance magic."
Mikael shook his head. Because of the summoning of heroic spirits, he had also worked hard to study the magic of seance. After all, the summons of heroic spirits is essentially an advanced seance technique, and there is also the summoning of gods on top of it.
Everything in front of me does not conform to the basic principles of seance magic at all.
"Is it possible that that guy is just a simple murderer, or is he trying to express something to us through his behavior?"
At this time, Zhi raised his own question. The murderers were all extraordinary beings, and it was impossible to speculate on their thoughts using ordinary people's thinking. Judging from the wounds on the girls' abdomens, the murderers were at least habitual criminals who were skilled in knife skills.
It's possible that similar things have been done elsewhere.
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"What are you doing in there? Put your hands up!"
Suddenly, loud shouting at the door interrupted their discussion. Mikael and the others subconsciously looked in the direction of the partition, and saw a young policeman holding a pistol in his hand and aiming nervously at their position.