[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

Dark-skinned, with deep facial features that are different from those of the Japanese.

He and Yakumo are completely different in appearance, but I feel that they exude the same aura.

"Who are you?"

Yakumo narrowed his eyes appreciatively.

"Sorry to scare you. I'm a psychic, called Shenshan."

Kamiyama handed out his business card to Yakumo with a smile on his face.

psychic?I frowned, subconsciously feeling disgusted.

Yakumo, who can see the soul of the dead, defines the soul as the aggregation of human emotions, so he thinks that it is absurd to eliminate the soul by spells.

"You probably don't believe me? I think so."

Kamiyama handed the business card to Yakumo, with a wry smile on his face.His voice was deep and his conversation was calm.

"Although you are skeptical of me, I can see the souls of the dead as an indisputable fact."

"There was a teenage girl soul from whom she committed suicide by jumping out of desperation."

Shenshan pointed to a corner of the roof of the apartment.Yakumo remained silent, just staring at the sacred mountain.Shenshan continued to speak.

"She holds a strong hatred, and this hatred cannot be liberated by death... forming a very deep darkness."

Shen Shan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"You should be able to see the same things as me, right?"

Kamiyama stared at Yakumo's face.Yakumo's eyes turned sharp in an instant, but he still remained silent.

"Don't you think 'seeing' is sometimes a cruel thing? In this way, you will know things you don't need to know. It is a very painful thing to look directly at the most direct human emotions."

Yakumo still didn't say a word.But I seem to see what he is saying from his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I suddenly said something inexplicable."

Kamiyama smiled wryly at Yakumo, who was always silent.

"I always thought I'd see you again."

After Shen Shan left these words, he strolled towards the outside of the apartment.I watched his leaving back, and suddenly understood why I felt that Kamiyama exuded an aura similar to that of Yakumo.Because there seemed to be a dark, heavy shadow on his back.

It wasn't until the figure of Kamiyama disappeared in front of the two that Yakumo's eyes returned to their usual sleepy look.

"Yakumo, what that person said just now..."

My question caused Yakumo to contort his expression for an instant.I don't know what kind of emotion is in Yakumo's expression, but it's a level of complexity that I've never seen before.

"Whether he is a genuine psychic or not, but as he said, there is a female soul who committed suicide by jumping off the building here."

"Then..." I thought for a while, "What I have to do now is to call Officer Goto."

"Yeah." After speaking, Yakumo picked up the phone.

"What's next?" I asked after he hung up the phone.

"Go back first, and then wait for Mr. Goto's investigation results."

After finishing speaking, Yakumo strode away.I run after him.Ever since I met the psychic just now.There was something wrong with Yakumo's appearance.I can't tell why, but I can't feel the strong will that usually hides in Yakumo's eyes.Is he lost?

We walked up the steep stairs in front of the apartment, and just as we were about to finish, Yakumo stopped abruptly and turned around.

The afterglow of the orange-red sunset reflected on the apartment building, giving people a dreamlike feeling.

"When do you think people will want to end their own lives?"

Yakumo asked suddenly.

"When you feel that the whole world is colorless," I said, "when the world in your eyes is washed away by some unknown emotions, everything and anyone no longer have meaning, then it doesn't matter even if you die... ..." I paused, "Of course, from that woman's point of view, she should be escaping from something, but she found that even if she died, she couldn't escape,... In that case, it's really pitiful."

Yakumo listened to me silently, his eyes suddenly became extremely sad.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"...It's nothing." He turned his head and said softly, "If it's true what you said, then after she died, she found that she still couldn't get relief..."

Yakumo muttered to himself.As he said, if there are souls in this world, it means that even if you seek death, you cannot be freed from pain.

A damp wind blew on the two of them.

"You need to run! It's going to rain heavily."

Yakumo suddenly ran forward quickly, and I quickly followed.Not long after we started, the heavy rain fell from the sky.

The same downpour as that day.

On that day, she finally made the decision to bid farewell to the world.

Makoto left work on time on the grounds that she was unwell, and came to the family restaurant where she met Mami.Although the restaurant is only 5 minutes away from the station, she had to take a taxi to go to the appointment because of a shower in the evening.

When Makoto walked into the restaurant, she saw Mami sitting by the window, looking around in a panic, as if she was afraid of something.

"Sorry, I wanted to come earlier."

Makoto sat down on the chair opposite Mami.As soon as Mami saw Makoto, she shook her head violently with a weeping expression.

"It's really scary...I don't dare to stay at home anymore..."

Asami grabbed Makoto's hands, the tremor could not be hidden in her voice.Makoto can understand Mami's fear, after all, she has experienced this supernatural experience herself.The fear of someone else's soul invading her body was something she couldn't forget even if she wanted to.

"It's all right, it's all right."

Makoto moved to the position next to Mami and hugged her shoulders. The next second, Mami burst into tears as if out of control.Makoto kept stroking Mami's head until she stopped crying.

Mami cried for a while, and after she calmed down a little, she whimpered and talked about what happened beside her.

"I felt that someone was watching me all the time. At first I thought it was my own illusion... But I heard footsteps behind me, and I felt someone touching my hair when I was taking a shower..."

Makoto listened silently to Mami's eloquence, while still nodding her head.

"Then I looked out the window...and saw..."

"See who?"

"That woman! The woman who appeared in the toilet of the bar last night..."

Mami stopped at this point, she closed her eyes stiffly, as if the figure of the bloody woman appeared in front of her eyes again.Makoto couldn't help shivering when she recalled the woman who appeared in the mirror.

"Are you OK?"

Makoto asked.Asami nodded feebly, wiping away her tears.

"I was really scared, so I called a psychic."

"Psychic medium? Is it someone you can trust?"

"I've only heard his name from my friends... so Makoto, come with me to meet him!"

"Let's meet him together...is it now?"

Mami looked at Makoto with helpless eyes, and nodded in affirmation.

Makoto always felt that there was an inexplicable lump in her heart, and she didn't have a good impression of psychics.

"Excuse me, are you Miss Inoue Asami..."

A sudden voice startled the two of them.A man in a black suit at the next table stood up, his facial features were profound, and his face gave off a calm feeling.Mami immediately replied "I am".

"Nice to meet you, hello. Thanks to your entrustment on the phone call, my surname is Shenshan."

The man handed out his business card and bowed deeply.

He is the psychic that Mami found.

Why do I have to do this kind of thing?

Which policeman would accept the entrustment of ordinary people to conduct investigations?Although Ishii was full of complaints, he didn't say it out. He just browsed the past materials on the computer in the reference room.

Goto sat on the chair behind Ishii and plucked his nose hair.Officer Goto, please don't throw the plucked nose hairs on the ground!Although Ishii thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say it.

What displeased Ishii the most was that the commission came from that young man named Yakumo.Ishii seldom has a feeling of disgust towards a person, Yakumo is the only exception.

Yakumo acts as if he treats other people as fools, and Ishii doesn't understand why Haruka wants to be with that kind of person.Perhaps Haruka had some reason to fall into Yakumo's hands, so she had no choice but to let Yakumo manipulate her.This is terrible, he must save Haruka

Thinking of Haruka's smile, Ishii couldn't help but soften the corners of his mouth.

Just as Ishii was thinking wildly, the information they wanted to find appeared on the computer screen.

"Ah! I found it!"

"What? Did you find it?"

Goto stood behind Ishii and stared at the screen.

"Yes."

Ishii focused on the important information on the screen.

"Five years ago in March, a woman committed suicide by jumping from that apartment building. Her name was Rika Sawaguchi. No suicide note was left at the scene, but based on the circumstances, it was judged that she committed suicide. Ah, but before she committed suicide She was jjjed before, and she committed suicide while the police were still searching for the prisoner."

She may have been driven into a desperate situation mentally, so she chose to end her life.

Goto's expression stiffened.Ishii didn't know if Goto was out of hatred or confusion.

"I didn't expect this to happen..."

Goto muttered to himself.Ishii felt an unusual feeling from Goto's muttering.

In front of Shenshan, Mami once again talked about the supernatural phenomenon she experienced, but Mami was more disturbed than before, and her words were disorganized. In the end, Makoto added explanations about what happened last night.

Shenshan made a considerable response, silently