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Chapter 772 Capgras Delusion Syndrome
The weather is very nice today, the snow has cleared.

The winter sun shines on your body and you can feel a little warmth.

The unmelted snow adorned the empty streets of Wakasa Bay, giving everything a just-right silvery white hue. Against this refreshing scene was the beautiful girl in front of me.

Because they were walking side by side, Kamiyagawa saw the silhouette of Onizuka.

The elegant black camel-hair coat and the long, streamlined hair swayed slightly with her steps.

Between the ends of her black hair, you can see her white, soft earlobes, which are small and exquisite.

"Achuan, what's wrong?"

Perhaps noticing Kamiya's gaze, Onizuka turned around and looked into the latter's eyes before asking a question.

"nothing."

Kamiya shook his head.

He felt the pulse in his wrist seemed to be beating a little more violently.

This beating feeling was not his own pulse, but came from the other end of the invisible illusory red rope tied to his wrist.

"Ah, the old house of the Ezaki family is just ahead." Onitsuka put his hands behind his back and took the initiative to change the subject. "Our people have already contacted the Ezaki family. He will be waiting there."

Esaki Shoie was the younger brother of the late folklorist Esaki Nagayasu.

I usually live in the urban area of ​​Tsuruga City.

Someone from the Countermeasures Office recently contacted him and asked him some brief questions about the late Nagayasu Ezaki.

It is reported that Nagayasu Ezaki had a house right on the edge of Wakasa Bay during his lifetime.

After his death, as he had no children, the house was eventually transferred to his younger brother's name.

Never resold or rented out.

The main purpose of Kamiya and Onizuka's trip was to investigate the house again to see if they could find any useful clues left by Ezaki Nagayasu.

Look in the direction indicated by the little witch.

There is indeed a house with a courtyard standing quietly beside the coastal highway.

That is the destination of this trip.

The iron gate of the courtyard of the Ezaki residence was rusty and open.

A middle-aged man in his fifties was standing in the somewhat deserted yard.

His hair is still black, he is full of energy, speaks softly, and is elegant and reserved.

This person is Ezaki Shokai, and he gives a very good first impression.

"Mr. Ezaki, we are from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Our people should have greeted you earlier today."

Kamiya and the other man showed their ID cards to Ezaki Shoken to prove their identities.

"Mr. Kamiya, and Ms. Onizuka?"

"Ah."

The two police officers who came from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department looked too young, which surprised Ezaki Shoka, but he didn't say much. After checking their IDs, they were quite cooperative.

The house that everyone is in now looks deserted and dilapidated, perhaps because no one has lived in it for a long time.

The stone bricks on the wall are slightly mottled due to long-term erosion by sea breeze, and are covered with moss and unknown wild plants.

"I'm really sorry. A few years ago when my parents were still alive, they would come here occasionally... but now, I... I basically never come here. This old house has been neglected, and I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

Esaki Shoie said this, and took Kamiya and Onizuka into the interior of the mansion.

The space in the house seemed a bit empty and deserted. The floor of the entrance hall was covered with an old carpet that was worn out, revealing the wooden boards underneath. There were few pieces of furniture, most of which were covered with white cloth and covered with thick dust.

The two young exorcists glanced at their surroundings and exchanged glances with each other.

"Mr. Ezaki, if possible, we would like to ask you something about your brother."

"My brother... ah, okay, you guys ask."

The old man looked a little sad.

In fact, he didn't know why the police had started to reinvestigate his brother's case today.

There are still some doubts about what happened to Nagayasu Ezaki, but the overall conclusion has been made.

Moreover, because the case happened more than 40 years ago, the statute of limitations under Japanese law has long passed, and in theory the investigation will not be reopened.

"Mr. Ezaki, your brother is a folklorist, right?"

"Well, I think so. He did some folklore research on his own. I remember that he was a bit fanatical about it. When I was a kid, I could see some strange things in his house. The documents he collected and the strange objects he found from nowhere were piled up in the study on the second floor. But those things disappeared after he passed away."

"So what did Nagayasu Ezaki mainly research?"

Kamiya and Onizuka have some information about Ezaki Nagayasu.

However, the content of the material mainly records the circumstances of his death, and his identity as a folklorist is only briefly mentioned.

And the information does not directly record what he was mainly researching.

Before coming to Fukui Prefecture, Onitsuka Kirihotaru had tried to search for more information related to Ezaki Nagayasu.

But I didn't gain much, I only found a few articles published by this late scholar.

The article mainly revolves around the local festival "Tsuruga Festival" in Fukui Prefecture. The content is nothing special. It mainly studies the humanistic culture related to the celebration ceremony such as "Mikoto Mikoto" and "Folk Song Dance".

Normal to the point of being a bit boring.

Perhaps Nagayasu Ezaki has studied or published other even more bizarre folk content, but he may have used an unknown pen name, or it may have been published in some third-rate journal that no one cares about and has now gone bankrupt.

"My brother's research... I remember it was about the Tsuruga Festival or something like that." Ezaki Shoka tried to recall, "There may be others, but I really can't remember clearly. My impression of my brother only stays in his teens. Moreover, I don't know much about folklore research, and even some... some..."

Some resistance.

Ezaki Shoka didn't finish his words, but his expression was enough to make it clear.

After "that kind of thing" happened to his brother Nagayasu Ezaki, people around him said that his brother became mentally abnormal because he was always keen on studying some strange things.

Such rumors would naturally have an impact on the young Ezaki Shoka.

He has a certain psychological trauma from this.

"Oh, right." Ezaki Shoka seemed to have remembered something, "I remember a while ago, my brother told me that he seemed to be studying aliens and UFOs. I don't know what the details were."

Studying aliens?
Kamiyagawa was a little confused after hearing this.

Do folklorists still study this?

"Is there anything else you can tell us about your brother?"

"My brother, he..." Maybe it was because he hadn't been in this old house for a long time and was a little sad. Although Jiang Qi's face was slightly gloomy, he slowly opened up, "He is twelve years older than me. In my memory, my brother is a very good person, a very good big brother. He is humorous, optimistic, and cheerful. Everyone likes him, and so do I."

"My brother's wife is named Jiajin. Jiajin is also a very good person. They have been together since college and have a good relationship. They got married soon after graduation. After they got married, they moved here and lived in this house."

"My brother is not just...what do you call him, a folklorist? Yes. Not just a folklorist. Those studies are just hobbies, he has a real job with a good salary. He is a journalist."

"My brother and his wife, Kazu, lived a good life here, really. People around them envied them and regarded them as role models. Until... that day..."

"I remember it very clearly. It was a rainy night. Mom and Dad received a phone call. It seemed to be from Gajin. After hanging up, they looked a little strange and anxious. They told me to stay at home and then hurried out."

"I later found out that my parents went to my brother's place that night, to be exact, right here in this house."

"Brother, he...he..."

Having said this, Jiang Qi frowned and his eyes became a little unfocused.

His voice was hoarse, his throat was rolling, and the words were like a mouthful of thick phlegm stuck in his throat. It took great effort to finally spit them out: "...He's crazy."

"The specific things happened when Jia Jin cried and told my parents that night. Later, my parents slowly revealed them to me."

"One day, my brother stayed in his study for a long time without any warning, flipping through the books he had collected almost frantically. He became very uneasy and nervous."

"He said he could hear strange noises in his house. Someone was calling his name at night, there were loud scraping noises echoing in the corridor, and there were wailing sounds coming from somewhere underground."

"The situation got worse and worse, and my brother stopped going to work at the newspaper."

"The more his wife, Kazu, tried to comfort him, the more frightened he became. He yelled at the gentle Kazu and told her to get away. He was unwilling to sleep in the same room with Kazu anymore, and instead locked himself in the study, sometimes talking to himself and sometimes being hysterical."

"When my parents arrived at my brother's place, he was already very ill. Several people couldn't hold him down, and he was screaming crazy words. He said that Jia Jin was not his wife, but some unknown terrifying thing disguised as Jia Jin and staying by his side."

"My parents said that Jia Jin, who was at a loss at the time, just stood there crying when he heard his brother talking nonsense."

"My parents took my brother to the hospital. After the doctor's diagnosis, he was diagnosed with a very rare disease - Capgras syndrome. He is..." Ezaki Shoka's speech became difficult again, "...sick."

Capgras delusion, also known as "impostor syndrome," is a form of paranoid schizophrenia.

Medically, this symptom is usually caused by damage to the line of visual information from the fusiform nucleus to the amygdala to the limbic system. The core manifestation is that the patient believes that a close person around him has been impersonated or replaced by another "person" with the same appearance and behavior.

After the onset of this symptom, the patient has a high sense of insecurity and is often accompanied by violent tendencies.

This is mentioned in the information about Ezaki Nagayasu that Kamiya and Onitsuka have.

And through what Ezaki Shoken just said, there is more detail about his brother's behavior after he fell ill.

It sounds like Nagayasu Ezaki's consciousness suddenly collapsed and he suffered from schizophrenia after he came into contact with some folk research content.

But to put it bluntly, it seems... reasonable that folklorists would go crazy after coming into contact with folk customs that they shouldn't be exposed to?

I just don’t know what Nagayasu Ezaki watched before he went completely crazy.

The folklore material he studied last should be very important.

"A week after my brother was sent to the hospital, my parents took me to see him."

"At that time, he had taken sedatives and was completely unconscious. But when I walked to the bedside, I don't know why my brother, who was still sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes. He twisted his body, grabbed my hand, and roared at me--"

"Zhijia! They don't believe me, you have to believe me! The current Kazu is definitely not the Kazu we know! She has been replaced by something. Although they look the same, speak in the same voice, and even have the same smell, the current Kazu is not the real Kazu, believe me, believe me!"

Ezaki Shoka will never forget the way his brother looked at that time——

His face was distorted, his eyes were wide open, and his bulging eyeballs reflected madness and fear. His pupils were completely unfocused and throbbing wildly, as if he was looking for some unreachable phantom.

The body seemed to be controlled by an invisible force, shaking uncontrollably. The sound was sharp and piercing, like a piece of iron scratching on glass, full of sharp pain.

"I had never seen my brother like that... never. He was so sick that I didn't dare get close to him. I was so scared and terrified that I shook off my brother's hand and hid behind my parents. Then the doctor came into the ward and injected my brother with a sedative... Then he finally, finally calmed down."

"My brother stayed in the hospital for a year."

"Gazin was really sad during that time. Even as a child I could see it. But she still loved her brother. She was really a good woman."

"She has been taking care of my brother, feeding him water and food, speaking to him in a soft voice, and family members also take turns to visit him. Although my brother is not very conscious most of the time due to the effects of sedatives, his condition has improved a lot."

"So the doctor gave us a choice. Continue to live in the psychiatric hospital, or take my brother home and take good care of him with medication."

"My parents gave the decision to Kazu."

"And Jiajin chose the latter. She brought her brother back to the house where they lived together."

"Then... that incident happened. My brother had been home for only half a month... He jumped into the sea and died in Wakasa Bay."

The tone of Ezaki Shoka changed from sadness to pain:

"The witnesses who were at the bay at the time saw the brother drag a bloody woman out of the back seat of his car, whose name was unknown whether she was dead or alive, and push her off the cliff of the bay. He laughed hysterically at the edge of the cliff, and then...then he jumped into the sea..."