Seeing Toru Amuro fell into silence, the old woman raised her hand tremblingly and pointed to the deep forest:
"According to the direction you are taking now, it is actually a very smooth road - turn left at the fork in front and you will be there in ten minutes.
"Although it's a little willful to say this, I hope you can give me a ride. That dinner is really important, and I'm almost late..."
Kidd looked at the old woman trying to hitch a ride, then at Toru Amuro, and leaned back in his chair again.
... He originally planned to wait until he reached the intersection leading to the Dusk Annex, and then find a way to damage Toru Amuro's car. In this way, in a place with no signal, he could only look for houses within sight.
Use the phone to ask for help - such as the Dusk Villa in the distance.
That was Kidd's destination.
However, Kidd observed the current situation and realized that this time, it seemed that he didn't need to bother to do anything.
Because if I remember correctly, the old woman who came to take the ride was actually a celebrity.
——Her name is Chima Yoyo, and she is a relatively famous easy chair detective, that is, the kind of detective who can deduce the situation by simply listening to the client's narrative at home without going to the scene.
Kidd felt that as a colleague, Toru Amuro should know her. And according to what Toru Amuro muttered before parking the car, even if it was for the reputation of Amuro Detective Agency, the boss would not refuse such a convenient request for a ride. After all, it was dusk.
The annex is really not too far from here.
…
Although Toru Amuro looked worried, he finally sighed, nodded, and agreed.
Grandma Qianjian said thank you.
Then she returned to her own car, opened the passenger door, and pushed the person inside: "Wake up, we have to change cars."
Kidd looked through the car window and looked at the passenger seat of the car ahead with slight curiosity.
In his impression, according to previous investigations, Qianjian's mother-in-law did not open a detective agency, nor did she have an assistant. She usually lived alone at home. Why did she bring an extra person to the party this time?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a strange young man getting out of the car in front of me.
The man seemed to have just woken up, and his fluffy natural hair was slightly messed up. At this time, he was yawning. As he got out of the car, he took out a pair of light-colored sunglasses from his pocket, opened them and put them on the bridge of his nose.
Toru Amuro was leaning on the window frame and was distracted, wondering whether he would have to stay in the "Twilight Annex" tonight.
When he noticed another person in the car in front of him got out of the car, he glanced casually.
Then his eyes stopped.
...Matsuda??
…
Several of Tohru Amuro's close friends are all dead now.
Among them was Matsuda Jinpei, who was shattered by the bomb.
Although Matsuda's body was difficult to identify when he died, he was indeed the only one in the Ferris wheel that exploded. The police should not have collected the wrong body. Matsuda Jinpei was indeed dead.
but……
Toru Amuro suddenly remembered the figure he had seen in the mountains a while ago when he and Jiang Xia received the commission to "hire a killer to kill themselves."
Although the distance was far away at the time, the figure of the acquaintance was easy to identify. No matter how he looked at it, Toru Amuro felt that it was his old classmate who unfortunately died - the clothes and sunglasses may be naturally curled, but the acquaintance's actions and figure were unique
, easy to identify.
But at that time, just a few seconds after looking at it, the person who was highly suspected to be Matsuda Jinpei was washed away by the landslide. Even after digging for a long time, he could not be dug out.
In addition, apart from Toru Amuro himself, no living person had ever seen "Matsuda Jinpei". In the end, Toru Amuro had no choice but to regard what happened that day as a hallucination.
…
However, he didn't expect that as soon as he reluctantly convinced himself that it was an illusion, he saw someone who looked like Matsuda Jinpei again.
...Even putting aside the friendship between old classmates, the mere fact of "resurrection from the dead" was enough to make Toru Amuro's breathing stop.
Just now.
Toru Amuro used the car lights to look at the people getting out of the car in front of him for a while, and gradually realized something was wrong.
——The "Matsuda Jinpei" he met this time, whether it was sunglasses, curly hair, or black casual suit, was exactly the same as what he remembered. But there was no longer that sense of familiarity between his actions.
If you look closely, you will see that although they look surprisingly similar, there are some differences from Matsuda...
"..." Could it be that the person I saw in the mountains last time was not Matsuda, but the person in front of me?
As for the similar body shapes... maybe I saw a familiar outfit, so I unconsciously made up the corresponding actions?
…
The young version of "Matsuda Jinpei" that got out of Senjian's mother-in-law's car was of course driven by Jiang Xia, and was a puppet constructed with Matsuda Jinpei as the main raw material.
The appearance of the puppet will neutralize the characteristics of the ghost fetus and the soul of the medium. Therefore, the current Matsuda puppet naturally looks similar to Matsuda Jinping.
Previously, after Jiang Xia settled down the main body, he went down the road and hit the car of Qian Jian.
——Matsuda Jinpei’s puppet, this person who was arranged by him to be a "Nishito" smuggled from Myanmar, with the pseudonym "Kurosawa Zuo", is still an invisible person in society, without a corresponding detective identity. If he
It is too suspicious to go to the Dusk Villa alone as a guest.
So Jiang Xia found a companion for herself.
During the trip, in order to explain the problem of not bringing any luggage and to make the old woman less wary, Jiang Xia pretended to be her parents and casually made up that she was a passenger who committed suicide in the mountains after suffering a terminal illness.
Mother-in-law Qianjian seemed to have some sympathy for this, and she had other plans. After a moment of silence, she let Jiang Xia get in the car, and the two naturally became companions.
The last time "Nishitu" was released in Danyuan Mountain, the Nishitu buried by the landslide was opened by Matsuda Jinpei - after Jiang Xia took the strange tear-shaped crystal, the ghosts and shikigami
They got a big increase.
In the past, if the vest wanted to move, Jiang Xia had to go into battle personally, but now, the ghosts can move on their own for a long time.
This is probably one of the reasons why Tohru Amuro thought Nishitu was Matsuda Jinpei last time in the mountains, because what was inside the shell was indeed Matsuda Jinpei.
However, the ghosts are born unable to speak. Even if they can drive the puppets around, they cannot make a sound. And compared to Jiang Xia himself controlling the puppets, the ghosts are more murderous and tiring to drive.
Therefore, except for occasions when double opening is required, Jiang Xia usually goes into battle in person at other times.
...such as now.
…
The headlights were dazzling. Eka and Senma Yoyo, who were standing in front of the Mazda, did not see Toru Amuro's change from calm to shocked to pretending to be calm.
Mother-in-law Qianjian pushed Jiang Xia, a companion she picked up on the way, awake and reminded him to change cars.
Then she walked to the Mazda in small steps and grabbed the tool man at random.