[Psychic Detective Yakumo] One hundred ways to tease cats

So..." Komai's words became slurred.

It seems that she is the kind of person who does not believe in the existence of ghosts.

"Do the students know about that rumor?"

"Yes. You know Yokouchi-sensei from the next class, right?"

"Ah."

"It was his claim to see a ghost on the way from school that caused the commotion, and the real man must have heard those words to say so."

I look at the pool again.

The moon's shadow was reflected on the turbid water, flickering.

Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to confirm the authenticity of that rumor——

But someone can.

I squinted my eyes in pleasure at the thought of the expression he might make when I went to see him.

【Dad, he's gone. 】

In the composition written by the child, there is only such a sentence.

Father?

I fell into deep thought, combined with the information given to me by Mr. Komai, Zhenzhen's father worked in a car repair shop, and the company closed down not long ago.But Zhenren's mother abandoned them a long time ago and eloped with a cowherd, leaving Zhenren and his father to depend on each other.

Doubtful.However, this is not the point.

The point is, for some reason, I always feel that there is a shadow of that man in this incident.

60

I stood in front of the door that said Film Studies Club, feeling a little overwhelmed for the first time.

"Leave if you don't want to see me, you don't have to stand in front like a door god." Yakumo's cold voice came from inside.

"... Excuse me." I bite the bullet and pushed the door open.

Yakumo didn't wear contact lenses, but looked at me directly with those red pupils.

For the first time, I had a very tricky feeling about the big cat in front of me who was expressing 'I'm very dissatisfied, please explain' even with its tail.

How to smooth Mao, how to smooth, this is a big problem.I politely sat down opposite him, Marilyn licked her paws, and threw herself into my arms acting like a baby.While being coquettish, she meowed a few times at Yakumo in protest.

……puff.You must not laugh at this time, you must be patient.I suppressed a smile, and looked at Yakumo with a straight face.At the same time, he gently stroked Marilyn's hair with his hands.

[This is a stupid cat who only betrays its master. 】Following Yakumo's line of sight, I seem to hear Yakumo's heartfelt voice, no more, be patient!

"Cough." I couldn't bear it any longer, so I pretended to cough. "Yakumo."

Marilyn meowed.Rolling comfortably in my arms.

"Wait for me." Yakumo looked at Marilyn in my arms with terrifying eyes, leaned over the table towards me, and stretched out his hand to it.

Marilyn seemed to have been prepared, and jumped up before Yakumo touched it, and using Yakumo's hand as a jumping point, she jumped onto Yakumo's head and fled.Yakumo, who was unprepared for this, was suddenly plotted by it, lost his balance, and rushed towards me.

bang.I was thrown to the ground by Yakumo with my chair and me.

Fortunately, Yakumo, who had reacted, put his hand behind my head, otherwise I felt that I would definitely have a concussion.It's just that the current posture——

"Such a warm hug, Yakumo." I sighed.

"Whispering!" Yakumo said angrily, trying to get up but unable to struggle, "That stupid cat, I must kill it in the future!"

As if she understood Yakumo's words, Marilyn, who was strolling leisurely, jumped on his head again and hit him hard.

This reversed our positions, and I was on top, but the good thing was that we were finally out of the chair and we were lying directly on the ground.

"...Yakumo." I suppressed a smile, "It's better to say less bad things about it. Female cats are generally stronger than male cats."

"... Get up from me, hurry up." Yakumo turned his head and muttered in dissatisfaction.

I got up from Yakumo, pulled him up by the way, and helped the fallen chair, and we sat down facing each other as before.

Although they were still sitting in the same posture, the atmosphere in the air had changed. They were sitting face to face like this, as if the events of that day had never happened.

"Haruka." Yakumo propped his chin and looked at me.

"Yeah." I responded to Yakumo.

"No... do you have anything to say to me?" He looked away uncomfortably and said.

"Yakumo," I narrowed my eyes and smiled, "I like you."

Yakumo was stunned directly, and he stared at me blankly.

"Other things, let her tell you when the time comes." I smiled, "Now, you can treat it as a gift from the previous life."

"It's the previous life again..." He twitched the corner of his mouth, "So, what trouble did you bring this time?"

"As expected of Yakumo-chan..." I clapped my hands together and looked at him brightly.

"Don't look at me with that disgusting look, tell me quickly." Yakumo said with his mouth twitching.

"Then, Yakumo-chan~" I continued to say brightly, "Come with me to the elementary school where I practiced~"

So, we came to the elementary school where I practiced.

"Who was the one who saw the ghost before?" Yakumo asked me.

"It's a teacher named Yokouchi," I quickly replied, "It seems that I saw a man and a child who spontaneously combusted...ah, it's there."

"Haruka!" Yokouchi walked towards me, "Who is he? Is it your boyfriend?"

"Yes," I said with a smile, "because he heard that there were ghosts in the elementary school, he was worried about me, so he came here to have a look."

"Mr. Yokouchi, I heard that there was a fire accident here before, isn't that true?" Yakumo ignored me, pointed his left index finger between his eyebrows, and asked.

"Yes, but I don't know the details very well."

"So that's how it is." Yakumo said, walked quickly to the fence of the swimming pool, climbed up the iron fence and jumped in.

I also climbed over the fence and climbed in behind Yakumo.Yokouchi just looked at Yakumo and me from a distance, maybe out of fear, he didn't follow.

"Let's go in and take a look." I turned around and greeted Yokouchi, then ran after Yakumo and stood beside him.

"See what?"

"Well, I see." Yakumo looked at me and realized that although I couldn't see the ghost, but sometimes I would get a headache because of the ghost's thoughts, he said in a low voice: "If it doesn't work, it's okay not to follow."

"It's okay." I shook my head, reached out and grabbed the corner of Yakumo's clothes openly.

Yakumo walked around the swimming pool to the opposite fence, and dodged in sideways—it turned out that there was a long and thin passage only one person wide behind the bathroom.I was afraid of being lost, so I followed right away.

"There are stairs, be careful."

I listened to Yakumo's words and nodded.

Then I carefully probed down, and then stepped on it with confidence.

"Clumsy." Yakumo waited for me below for a while, seeing that I got down safely, and teased me.

"Be careful with the Ten Thousand Years Ship," I said.Then his hands warmed up, and Yakumo took my hand and walked forward.

Next, Yakumo turned right and continued on, and I followed Yakumo and turned right.

"Be careful with your head." Yakumo, who was walking in front, said.

Eh?head?I reached out and covered my forehead in time

【Nick! ] I slammed into my hand hard.

"Didn't I tell you to be careful?"

"I'm fine." I shook my hand and said, "It's just knocked on my hand."

"It seems that there is still hope." While teasing me, Yakumo stooped and walked into the shorter passage.

It turned out that only the entrance of the passage was shorter, and after entering it, it seemed to be able to stand up straight.Looking up, I saw many thick pipe-like things on the top of the head.Maybe it's the water pipe?

After advancing about 10 meters, Yakumo stopped.Peering forward behind Yakumo, I spotted a metal door with a sign that said "Pump Room."

"It's here," Yakumo said with his usual firmness, reaching for the handle.Such places are usually the key.Although he didn't want to do this, Yakumo opened the door all at once.

A mixed stench of burnt and fishy smell came to the nostrils.Disgusting.

"Stand still." Yakumo solemnly ordered me, then covered his mouth and nose with his hands and walked into the room.

I ignored his words and peeked inside through the half-open door.

In the dark room surrounded by concrete, I saw the back of Yakumo squatting down.The stench was stronger than before, so Yakumo covered his mouth and nose with both hands.

What did Yakumo see?I moved my body and looked deeper into the room.

"Ouch!" A wave of nausea flooded my body, and I couldn't move because of the strong smell. Yakumo quickly stood up and pushed me, who was pale, out of the room together.

"Obviously told you not to watch!" Yakumo said sullenly.

That being said, I've seen it...

"Ha, ha..." I gasped for breath, holding on to the railing, and I couldn't even speak.The lungs seemed to be full of that kind of breath, which was so uncomfortable.

On the concrete floor, there were scorched black things that looked like coke. In addition, there was a human left wrist that fell beside it—it was still alive...

"Spontaneous combustion of the human body..." Yakumo said with sharp eyes.

"That hand," I finally breathed out, putting my hand on my chest, and said. "It belongs to someone else."

Yes, I see it.

"What is this?"

This was Hideyoshi Hatake's first impression when he saw the charred body.He has practiced medicine for 30 years, and has been a forensic doctor based on dissecting weird corpses for 20 years. He has seen countless corpses so far.Fragmented, rotting, and burnt corpses have of course been seen a lot