Ogawa Apartment, the main location of the conflict spiral incident, a preparation for an incident one month later is unfolding around here.
For safety reasons, the assassins did not get too close to that dangerous place. They just rented different apartments and even shops at different distances. They monitored everything near Ogawa's apartment day and night, and arranged them there. A code spell composed of modern magic was cast, and even when arranging the spell, the test was not activated once, all in order to avoid variables.
The murderer Shirazumi Rio also started another murder after three years.
Time flows quietly, October 1998.
A robbery took place in a corner of a residential area not far from the city center. The suspect was a thief who broke into a house when no one was home, and the house that was robbed was one of the highest-end apartments in more than ten nearby apartments.
The suspect is a habitual offender with a criminal record. He does not repeat crimes in a planned manner, but commits sudden thefts. The suspect casually entered the unfamiliar apartment as usual. Feel free to choose an unoccupied house and sneak into it.
The problem is that after a few minutes, the prisoner ran to the nearest police station to ask for help.
Although the suspect was incoherent in panic, the police officers finally understood that the bodies of the whole family were in that apartment. The police officers present led the suspect to the scene. However, the facts were exactly the opposite of what the suspect described. The family was all alive and eating dinner happily.
The criminal suspect gradually became confused. Under questioning by the police officer who thought his behavior was suspicious, it was revealed that the man had come here to steal, and he was finally arrested for attempted crime.
The suspect neither drank alcohol nor took drugs, and his mental state was intact. However, it is indeed rare for a sneak thief to be arrested as a fraudster. What is even more strange is that the condition of the body described by the criminal suspect is too detailed to be a lie.
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It was already very late, and near the station where the crowds were gradually sparse, a trembling boy was surrounded by several young people.
"Hey, Ba." One of them said in a contemptuous tone.
" Yan Tiao. You guy, stop pretending not to hear." The man roughly grabbed the young man's collar and pulled him up.
"What, you don't recognize me after school? Really? Miniba is already a member of society, so he won't hang out with us good kids anymore, right?" In response to the person who made the sound Along with it, several other people also laughed.
But the boy Tomoe didn't react at all.
"Hmph." The speaker let go of Ba's coat and punched the boy in the face. With the impact of being beaten, something fell to the ground with a clang.
¡°Don¡¯t pretend to be dead, you bastard.¡± The man who spoke cursed, and there was a burst of laughter from all around.
This voice made the boy Yan Tiaoba recover from the shock.
¡°¡ Yan Tiao¡ Ba.¡±
??Muttering his name in a low voice. Tomoe, who had stopped thinking, had even forgotten what he was doing. Saying one's own name is the ritual of reactivating the activities associated with that name.
After coming back to his senses, Ba stared at the man in front of him. His former classmates and his companions. There are still impressions of their affairs. They are just ordinary students. Although they behave badly, they only seek trouble for those who are as weak as themselves.
"Aikawa? You guy, what are you doing here at this time?"
"This is my line. Of course I am worried about whether you will sell yourself. After all, you are a weak little girl."
"Right?" The man turned around and asked his companions around him. Of course Tomoe is not a girl. When Tomoe was a high school student, his thin body and his name often exposed him to such teasing.
Ba said nothing and just picked up the empty drink can at hand.
"Aikawa." Yan Tiaoba called the man's name.
Turning towards the um that turned to his own acne, he beat it with empty pots.
The man¡¯s mouth was stuffed with an empty can. Then he slapped the empty can.
"Ouch!"
The man couldn¡¯t help but fell to the ground. The empty can he coughed out was stained with red blood.
The man¡¯s companion was so shocked that he couldn¡¯t even move.
They just happened to meet an old classmate who dropped out of high school and wanted to have some fun. Thinking that only you can use violenceBut he never expected that Ba would take action first. Therefore, I saw my companion being knocked down but failed to respond immediately.
"Aikawa. You guys are still brainless."
As he spoke, Yan Tiaoba kicked the man who fell on the ground in the head. He gestured with his toes like he was playing football. Contrary to his calm tone, he kicked down without mercy.
The man just remained motionless. I don¡¯t know if he fainted or if his neck was broken. The pain alone was not enough to stand up right away. Having judged this, Tomoe started running.
It is not in front of the station where there are more pedestrians passing by, but in a more secluded alley.
Seeing Tomoe running away, they finally grasped the situation.
The person who planned to swindle some money knocked down his companion and ran away. The beaten companion fell to the ground with blood flowing from his mouth
"That bastard, are you kiddingbeat him to death!"
I don¡¯t know who shouted, and this passion quickly spread to others. They pursued the doe in pursuit of the escaped doe in order to exact revenge.
"Beat him to death, okay?" Hearing the cries of those guys, Ba couldn't help laughing.
Although those guys said this seriously. But there¡¯s no need to seriously consider the actual meaning of that statement. It is really rash for an unprepared person to declare this to the other party based on his will.
I can¡¯t help but tremble when I think about it. His teeth sounded as if they were about to break, and the illusion of a storm appeared in his mind.
Those guys don¡¯t understand what killing is all about. It's because they don't understand that they say that.
"Then, let me teach them." The corners of Ba's mouth twisted coldly, as if echoing the dryness in his heart.
"My personality is not cruel. Although it is my creed to hit back when I am hit, but this is the first time that I have made my opponent faint just after being hit. I feel really strange tonight. No, maybe. Just trying to be weird.¡±
"This area is fine."
The gaps between buildings are not called roads but are called alleys.
Stopping in a deserted alley, he confirmed that the number of enemies was five, and slapped the enemy standing at the front.
Hit the opponent's jaw with your palm. Just like an amateur fighting, you punch me and I punch each other. The person who fails to hold on first will be beaten up by the other party. Tomoe knew very well that if they beat each other, they would have no chance of winning. So - "If you want to do it, then get serious and kill the other party."
Before the opponent comes over and is surrounded by those guys, you have to deal with them one by one as quickly as possible.
The guy who was beaten hit back. Before that, Tomoe's finger poked into the guy's left eye.
A scream full of pain sounded. Tomoe took this opportunity to grab the guy's face and slam the back of his head against the wall with all his strength.
With a snap, the man running at the front slowly sat down, with blood and tears streaming from one eye, and the blood on the back of his head was still on the wall.
"Just like this, you can't die."
The other four people stood stunned, staring at this tragic situation that people dared not face squarely. Seeing blood in fights was probably a common occurrence for them, but this was probably the first time they saw such a life-and-death amount of blood.
Taking this opportunity, Tomoe attacks the nearest enemy.
He slapped her with a palm and grabbed her hair. He pulled it down, and then his knees came up to meet him. There was the feeling of a broken nose on my kneecap. This blow also completely shattered the opponent's will to fight back.
After that, I hit the opponent¡¯s face with my knee two or three times, and finally my elbow penetrated deeply into the back of the opponent¡¯s head.
Under the impact, even the wrist bones were creaking.
The second man fell.
Ba kept kicking the opponent's face and his knees were wet with blood.
"Xantiao, you guy!"
Two people. After leaving two people unable to stand, the guys finally seemed to be ready. The remaining three people had no reason or structure, and just rushed forward together.
In this way, the result was obvious. Tomoe, who was alone, was no match for the three of them. He was beaten and kicked. Tomoe hit the wall feebly and sat down on the ground.
"It's just three people beating a non-resisting person like a sandbag Look. Even if there is no killingIn this world, people can still kill people Is this a sin? . Killing people who have a clear will to kill like themselves, and killing people who have no purpose but achieve the result of killing people like them. Comparing these two situations, which sin is more serious? " Yan Tiaoba was thinking wildly in his heart.
"Isn't that a very nice expression, Yan Tiao!" Ba received a heavier kick to the chest and couldn't help but cough. I don¡¯t know if his mouth was split because of the beating, or if he was bleeding internally. What he coughed up was mixed with blood. "These three people felt nothing. If this continued for a few seconds, Yan Tiaoba would undoubtedly die here. Then, I finally discovered it. I don't care about my own life."
"Dingle bell!"
A crisp voice sounded.
"Compared with the dull sound of a fist hitting the body, it was as light as a bell.
The three people stopped moving and turned towards the direction of the sound the narrow entrance of the alley.
Opening his swollen eyes, Tomoe looked at the visitor.
The jet black, ink-like black hair barely touched her shoulders. The hair is casually cut short, but it is very suitable for this person.
? Slender body and silhouette. Snow-white skinand eyes as deep as the soul. The graceful standing posture is completely inappropriate for this dirty alley.
That¡¯s two rituals.
"Hello." The girl with a mixture of Japanese and Western styles greeted her politely.
"What advice do you need from me?"
There is no answer.
"I want to ask if you have any advice. Are you deaf, are you?" A man came closer and cursed.
Shi Shi still didn¡¯t answer, but gently stretched out a hand and took the wrist of the young man surrounding him. Gently pull closer. The man rolled over lengthwise as if he had no weight, and fell headfirst to the ground.
This is a move called the Uchigi in Judo. The series of actions are so fast that it gives people the feeling of watching in slow motion.
Pushing a person's chest with the palm of his hand, the person fell to the ground on the spot.
The remaining person tried to escape, but was knocked down by a roundhouse kick.
"Tch, your stupid head is as hard as a stone." Shiti straightened out the kimono he had just messed up.
Ba was speechless and just looked at Shi's figure from a distance.
"Hey, I'm talking about you." Shiki turned to Bae, reached out and took out a key from the pocket of his leather jacket, and threw it towards Bae, "The thing you lost must be yours." Then, just like when he arrived, He left with a leisurely pace.
Ba: "Wait a minute, you!"
Type: "What's the matter? I don't have any other lost items here."
Ba: ¡°Hey, you¡¯re not planning to leave just like that.¡±
Style: "Don't worry, that guy's eyes over there are no longer working, but he can't die at this level. Should we wait for the first guy to wake up to do something, or should we clean it up now?"
Ba nodded in agreement.
Style: "Really? But who should be called in this situation? The police? Or the hospital?"
Ba: "The police can't do that."
Form: "Why?"
Ba: "I killed someone."
Liang Lili finally felt a little interested in the boy: "Well, I really can't tell."
Tomoe: "It's true. I killed him just now. He stabbed his stomach with a kitchen knife and cut off his head. There's no way that guy is still alive. Now those gang of cops are still looking for me with red eyes. Yes. , I became famous at dawn!"
Shiki: "Really? Then it's true. Then don't contact any hospital. If that's the case, you can go directly into the iron grid. Ah, if your clothes are soaked with blood, just take them off and throw them away." I was wondering if that was some kind of trendy thing."
Ba: "Well, aren't you scared? I have killed people before. It doesn't make any difference whether I kill one person or two people. Do you think I will let you leave like this after knowing the inside story?"
"Killing one person is different from killing two people." Liang Li said. This is what her grandfather once said to her: "A person can only kill one person in his life. If you kill others and use up If you die, you will never be able to kill yourself, and you will never be able to die as an individual." This is the confession of an old man who has participated in atrocities in the war.
Yan Tiaoba was obviously higher than the two rituals, but at this moment it was as if he was being suppressed in turn. He didn¡¯t know what to say, so he just squeezed out one sentence: "I really killed someone."
Liang Lili laughed: "I know, because I am like that too."??
Then, the two rituals turned around again.
Ba: "Wait a minute, I just said that you are like that, you help me. Since we are the same people, we"
Style: "Same person Well, it's true that you are empty too. But what do you mean by help? Is it to get rid of the sin of murder. Or is it to treat physical injuries. Unfortunately, I am not good at either."
"Ah, yes, what kind of help do I need? I want to be helped. I just think so but don't know exactly what I want to be helped for. I can't think clearly either. That's obviously more important than anything else. It's important, something that has been engraved in Yan Tiaoba's heart." Yan Tiaoba thought for a while, and finally could only make do with an answer: "it won't be long before they are discovered here, hide me before then. "
Style: "By hiding, does it mean providing a hidden house?"
Ba: "So, just help me find a place where no one will notice."
Style: "There is no place on this street that no one will notice. If you don't want to be seen by others, you can only stay at home."
Ba: "I said that would never work! Won't you hide me in your own home, you stupid woman?"
Style: "Okay. I have no problem with it, you can use it as you like."
Ba: "Eh~~!"
Style: "It turns out it's that simple. You just want me to do this for you."
On this day, Yan Tiaoba met the two rituals.
In a house in the suburbs, the girl listened to the report.
"The incident has finally begun." The girl said softly.