A Scientific Urban Detective

“Oh~ Looks like I came all this way for nothing.” After discovering that Lin Wuming had also received the relevant information, Shokuhou Misaki sighed, “Impressive. It seems that Judgment also has some remarkably talented people.”

“Shokuhou, you just said ‘also received’ the information,” Lin Wuming countered, “So, you’ve also discovered something?”

“Yes.” Shokuhou Misaki nodded seriously, “That’s exactly why I came.”

“If it’s the Anti-Skill’s interrogation records, we already know about them,” Himegami Touma said.

Today, Shokuhou Misaki assisted Anti-Skill in interrogating Mito Kougama. Therefore, it’s not surprising that she obtained this information.

“No, it’s not just that.” Shokuhou Misaki raised a finger and shook her head, “Actually, I didn’t tell the Anti-Skill teachers everything.”

Well, it seems the gap between students and teachers, adolescents and adults, really exists—Lin Wuming thought to himself—the Judgment chairman was like that earlier, and now Shokuhou Misaki is the same. Everyone seems to have tacitly chosen to hide things from Anti-Skill.

“But why? The Anti-Skill teachers aren’t bad people, are they?” Lin Wuming couldn’t help but ask.

If it was the chairman, it could be understood, since as the leader of an organization, they sometimes have to consider things like “morale” and “sentiment,” and can’t always make perfectly rational decisions.

But what’s going on with Shokuhou Misaki? The “Underground Arena” case has nothing to do with the Misaka Sisters she cares about or the survivors of “Artificial Intelligence Factory.” She should have no reason to hide anything.

“It’s not that I’m deliberately hiding anything,” Shokuhou Misaki explained, “When I was at the police station, I really told the Anti-Skill teachers all the information I knew, without holding anything back.”

“What I brought now is information I personally investigated afterwards.” Shokuhou Misaki said, “Because this information is quite shocking, I thought it would be best to discuss how to handle it with Senior Wuming first.”

Shokuhou Misaki is a Level 5 “Mental Out.” Her superpower not only affects humans, but can also read “memory information” attached to objects or environments.

This application is called “Memory Tracing” by Shokuhou Misaki. It is thanks to this application that her investigation range has been greatly expanded.

It can even be said that “Memory Tracing” is a very important part of why Shokuhou Misaki’s “Mental Out” was able to become a Level 5.

This is also a “secret weapon” that Shokuhou Misaki wants to keep secret and doesn’t want the outside world to know about.

Therefore, Shokuhou Misaki chose to conduct her own investigation in private and conceal her actions and findings from Anti-Skill.

Through interrogating Mito Kougama, Shokuhou Misaki obtained the past meeting locations of the organizers, as well as the locations of past competitions.

Of course, those places are now long deserted. By the time Anti-Skill went there, they couldn’t find anything.

But for Shokuhou Misaki, the “clues” still existed.

Therefore, after Anti-Skill withdrew, she personally went to those places to investigate. Through "Memory Tracing," she directly saw the true faces of the four organizers, as well as the names they called each other in private—which are likely their real names.

“Also, the thing that I care about the most,” Shokuhou Misaki said with a serious expression, “The four girls who are the organizers call themselves the dark side ‘Item’!”

“Item!” Lin Wuming and Himegami Touma couldn’t help but exchange glances.

Because of Kinuhata Saiai, they knew that Kinuhata Saiai had joined the dark side “Item,” and according to the information provided by Lin Wuming, they knew that the leader of “Item” was the Level 5 “Meltdowner,” Mugino Shizuri.

The other two members were Takitsubo Rikou and Frenda.

They did indeed have four people, but they couldn’t be matched with the images that Shokuhou Misaki projected in her mind.

This “Item” that was the organizer was led by a “Ligustrum Tree” that Mito Kougama had mentioned, named Ligustrum Tree Koji Maple, a girl with golden curly hair; it is worth noting that she was wearing Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, immediately attracting Lin Wuming’s attention.

After removing their masks and voice changers, it could be seen that these girls, like the real “Item,” were very young, even younger than Mugino Shizuri and the others.

It’s hard to imagine that these four young and beautiful girls are actually the organizers of the “Underground Arena”...

“Well, it’s not entirely unimaginable, is it?” Shokuhou Misaki said, “Senior Wuming should know that such situations are not uncommon in this city.”

Indeed, Lin Wuming nodded silently. In this extremely youthful city, even super criminals have a tendency to be younger.

Now that the investigation has reached this point, as long as there is a suitable opportunity to inform Anti-Skill of this information, finding those organizers is almost a matter of time.

Of course, it can’t be ruled out that they have already “faked their deaths and escaped,” changing their identities.

But in any case, they have undoubtedly been exposed. Once they are on the wanted list, they will no longer be able to recklessly engage in the “Underground Arena” like before...

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“Will it really be like that?” Shokuhou Misaki poured cold water on him, “Don’t be too blindly optimistic about Anti-Skill, Senior Wuming!”

Regardless of whether the organizers are really “Item” or not, at least their identity as the “dark side” is certain.

To be able to create such a large-scale event in Academy City, hosting a free-for-all bloody death match competition with over a hundred participants for many years, it would be a lie to say that they are not a dark side organization with no background or influence.

Since it concerns a dark side organization, then the authority of Anti-Skill may not be so effective.

Anti-Skill and dark side organizations are two sides of the same coin. In theory, they are on the same level, and there is no saying that one can order or subdue the other.

“So… in the end, we still have to rely on ourselves?” Lin Wuming complained.

“What’s wrong with that?” Shokuhou Misaki asked rhetorically, “Anyway, Senior Wuming was originally planning to solve this case personally, right?”

“Cough,” Lin Wuming shook his head, “It’s not really solving it personally, it’s just that I’m responding to the chairman’s request to take a step ahead and collect key evidence…”

Unlike illegal experimental institutions, the “Underground Arena” does not only have simple victims—a considerable number of contestants actually participate voluntarily, in order to seek the huge reward of hundreds of billions of yen.

In this case, if I rashly intrude, I am likely to be jointly attacked by the organizers and most of the contestants…

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