I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 17: Doubt

He Ma carefully scrutinized the girl in front of him, and it was considered a pretty decent face and average figure—this is usually the conclusion drawn by comparing the girls with the average figure of their own.

"You mean what you said," Kazuma said. "Did you always think that your friend Watanabe-kun was murdered?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, then nodded with a determined look: "Yes. It's inconvenient to speak here, can we speak in another place?"

While speaking, the girl glanced at the white water marks on Bai Feng Qingliu's clothes and said, "Ah, I'll be waiting in the room, the two of you can take care of your own affairs first."

After speaking, she started to back off.

"Then I'll go first. I live in room 217."

Before Kazuma and Qingliu could say a word, the girl ran away.

Qingliu looked puzzled: "Why is she running so fast? Isn't that how ordinary people react when they encounter a 'detective' who can ask for help?"

He Ma glanced at Qingliu and understood: "Qingliu, take a paper and wipe your place, yes, it's here."

As he spoke, he gestured with his hands on himself.

Qing Liu looked down suspiciously.

"Fuck, this is just spilled milk!"

"Yes, but apparently Miss Akanishi didn't see the scene where your milk was spilled. She must have thought..." Kazuma closed his mouth and smiled at Qingliu without saying a word.

"It's okay for others to misunderstand, what do you mean? You bastard! Pervert!" Qingliu uttered a curse that would make Tsundere lovers excited, and took out a tissue to wipe the stains on her bathrobe.

Kazuma: "Want to help?"

"Go away, stay away from me, pervert!" Qingliu raised her foot to kick the calf bone of He Ma, but was swiftly avoided.

Kazuma: "Okay, I'll stay away, just as Miss Akanishi invited me to her room, I'm leaving!"

"Wait a minute, I'll go too!" Qing Liu threw the tissue into the trash and ran to catch up with Kazuma.

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When Akanishi Kaede opened the door, he glanced at Qingliu who was following Kazuma with a surprised expression.

"This is my apprentice, who is now a guest assistant." He Ma explained, "There are also the white marks you saw just now. It's actually when drinking milk..."

"Isn't it more suspicious that you explain it like this?" Qingliu interrupted Kazuma, it seems that if Akanishi was not in front of him, he would have kicked Kazuma directly.

"Anyway, I don't have that kind of relationship with Qing Liu."

Akaishifeng glanced at Qingliu, "Oh", and took a step back: "Please come in."

He and Ma entered the room and looked around: "Miss Akanishi lives in such a big house by herself?"

"This is already the smallest room in the hotel." Miss Akanishi smiled, "We don't have any other girls at the Institute of Fantasy Biology. The boys are in a room, I sleep in one by myself, and I also want to share a room with others. Girls sleep in one room, so they can chat or something."

He Ma was shocked, this woman naturally used the technique of "Versailles Literature"!

Miss Akanishi pointed to the small coffee table by the window: "Sit over there, I just boiled the water, and when the water boils, I will make tea and bring it over."

Kazuma nodded, came to the coffee table, and sat cross-legged on the cushion.

According to the etiquette, the women I just met should sit upright in the room, but Kazuma hates Japanese-style sitting very much, and thinks that it is a kind of torture. As long as he is not forced to sit upright, he must sit cross-legged.

Qing Liu was going to sit upright, but when she saw Hema cross-legged, she thought about sitting cross-legged on Hema's left. As a result, as soon as her **** hit the cushion, she felt that it was not right, so she changed it to a duck seat.

Kazuma: "Aren't you a rock girl? It's okay to sit cross-legged like a man."

"That's me before." Qingliu replied.

He Ma glanced at Miss Akanishi, who was still guarding the kettle to make tea, and felt that it would take some time to come over to get down to business, so he continued to chat with Qingliu: "Then what are you now?"

"Ordinary adolescent girl." Qingliu replied.

"Really? It doesn't look like it."

"Even if you openly look at my chest, I won't get angry because of this."

You lied, you are obviously angry, and even a fool can tell you are angry!

At this time, Miss Akanishi came over with a tray: "I simply made some tea. I hope Mr. Kiryu will not mind."

"Thank you." He Ma took the tea, took a polite sip, and put down the teacup.

Qing Liu didn't even take a sip and put down the teacup directly. Judging from her appearance, the teacup should be too hot.

Miss Akanishi sat across from Kazuma: "Although Kiryu-sensei already knows my name, let me introduce myself formally. My name is Kaede Akanishi, a second-year student at Meiji University and a member of the Fantasy Creature Research Society. ."

"Kiryu and Ma." Kazuma's self-introduction is simple and clear, and it's just a cutscene anyway.

Qingliu: "I am Kiryu's apprentice, Baifeng Qingliu."

"I know, Miss Bai Fengfeng, newspapers and magazines have published a lot of stories about you and Mr. Kiryu."

Qingliu: "Then you should also know that most of the news is fake, right?"

Kazuma: "Don't kill all the news with one stick, there are still reporters who insist on reporting the truth."

"Is there?"

"Yes." Kazuma is also not sure, "Digressing. Our business is not important, but your business, Miss Akanishi. You always thought Watanabe-kun killed him? What's the reason?"

Miss Akanishi lowered her gaze, and clenched the cup full of hot tea with her hands on the coffee table.

The teacup must be very hot. He and Ma just took the teacup himself and knew this.

But Akanishi-san seems to be completely unaware that the teacup is hot.

She stared at the tea stalks floating in the teacup, as if looking for the upright stalks that represent good luck—in Japan, the stalks in tea stand up, which means good things will happen.

Kazuma: "Miss Akanishi?"

"It was the **** of the shrine who killed Watanabe-kun." Akanishi suddenly whispered.

"Oh?" He Ma used a long ninety-degree turn to express his feelings at the moment, "Why do you think so? Don't talk about women's intuition, we have to talk about evidence."

"Because Watanabe-kun found out that the Lord of God is abnormal." Miss Akanishi continued.

"What's wrong?" Kazuma leaned forward, pressing his elbows on the coffee table.

Miss Akanishi thought about it and said, "I'll start from the beginning.

"We are the Institute of Fantasy Creatures. Outsiders think we are a group of idiots who focus on finding hammer snakes, but in fact, we mainly study the realistic origin and evolution of various fantasy creatures. For example, we studied the legend of Yuzao before. Formation and evolution.”

When He Ma heard this, he suddenly wanted to tell the girl: "You are busy working in vain because Tamamozen is not a legend, she really exists..."

But he didn't speak. After all, it's not good to interrupt people's conversation.

Miss Akanishi continued: "Last year, Watanabe-kun, Oda-kun and I were both new members of the research group. We came from the same high school..."

"Three Meiji University high schools in the same year?" Seiryu interrupted Miss Akanishi.

It stands to reason that at this time, as a female dependent on Kazuma's side, she can't intervene, but rock girls don't follow Japan's set of rules.

Miss Akanishi tilted her head: "Yes, is there any problem?"

"Isn't that a very difficult university?"

"It's really hard to take the test, but I went to a prestigious private school with a very high enrollment rate. Our school has people who go to the top six schools in Tokyo every year."

Kazuma: "It's like a famous private school. For example, the North High School I attended in high school was an ordinary public high school. In the same class, there were two Dongda University, one Keio School and one Shangzhi. That's a miracle. Miss Akanishi, you continue. "

Akanishi Kaede nodded: "Okay. We entered Meiji University from the same private high school. When we were in high school, we were the paranormal department, and we were keen to discover the causes of urban legends..."

Huh? Why does the content of the activities of this spiritual department feel a little familiar?

"...So after arriving at Meiji University, we were very interested when we saw the recruitment of the Fantasy Creatures Research Association.

"Of course we still went to Meiji University's Occult Department first, and found that there are some real supernatural enthusiasts, the kind who are keen to share information on various urban legends.

"After we felt that the Department of Spirituality at Meiji University was not suitable for us, we went to the Institute of Fantasy Creatures and stayed there until now."

Kazuma: "It's you who have stayed until now."

"No, Minister Takei said, Watanabe-kun and Oda-kun will never be removed from the membership roster. It doesn't matter. Last summer, we saw a report in a tabloid about the discovery of a hammer snake. Near here.

"Minister Takei immediately ran to book a hotel room. Unexpectedly, all the hotels in the "discovery place" were all booked for lovers of hammer snakes.

"At this time, the minister saw the advertisement leaflet of this hot spring street, and he thought that the geographical difference was only ten kilometers. If there is a hammer snake, its habitat must also include this hot spring street.

"If there is no hammer snake, maybe we can investigate the folk customs related to it here."

Kazuma: "In the end, when you came, you found out that there are only demon foxes who like to eat children's hearts."

Miss Akanishi smiled: "Yeah, and it's a common legend in the countryside to scare children and let them go home early. On the first day we came here, we knew that this time it would definitely be empty.

"But Minister Takei said that all the funds were spent, and we had to do something, otherwise we would be like **** who cheated the funds and came out to eat, drink, and have fun, so we started going up the mountain every day to find the hammer snake, and we should exercise."

Qingliu: "Your summary is long enough."

"Uh, this..."

Kazuma: "It doesn't matter, this kind of detail is a very important part of understanding the truth."

In fact, he really wanted to know about the discovery of the mallet snake last year, but in 1981, there was no Internet, and he couldn't easily find a lot of information by typing a few keywords in a search engine.

He could only ask Miss Akanishi: "Do you have any reason for the report of the mallet snake that led you to start this hot spring trip last year?"

"Yes, since I suspected that Watanabe-kun killed him, I have been collecting relevant evidence. I cut this report and pasted it into my newspaper clippings."

Miss Akanishi stood up, went to the door and rummaged through her luggage, came over with a newspaper clipping book wrapped in a plain book cover, opened one of the pages and placed it in front of Kazuma.

"This is the story."

He Ma glanced at him and nodded: "Okay, I don't know what it's used for, but please keep this clipping book safe by Miss Akanishi. Let's go back to the topic just now, how did Watanabe-kun find out that the Lord of God is abnormal, and what is it? abnormal?"

Miss Akanishi nodded: "The three of us were keen to investigate the causes of various legends when we were in high school. The stories of demon foxes told by the old ladies in this hot spring town seemed unremarkable, but we still conducted an investigation. Then we found an interesting thing."

"What's the fun thing?" and Ma asked in this place very cooperatively.

"The legend of the demon fox on the hot spring town seems to have been formed after the Great Kanto Earthquake during the Taisho period."

Kazuma: "What we heard is that this place used to have a tradition of sending children who couldn't support them to the mountains and forests, but it basically disappeared after the Meiji Restoration, until it entered a difficult period again after the Great Kanto Earthquake. It just relapsed."

"The person who said that also warned you not to sing "Passing Song" in the mountains, right?" Miss Akanishi said.

"Hey, yes. Are you also a famous detective?" He Ma joked.

But Akanishi Kaede was serious and didn't mean to joke at all: "We heard this statement last year. But we also heard more.

"We visited Granny Noda in the hot spring town many times to help her clean the house, cook and so on. In the past, we used this method to win over the old people when we went to inquire about those ancient legends.

"This time it worked too. When we asked Granny Noda where she heard the fox legend, she told us it wasn't a legend, she saw it with her own eyes when she was a child. She woke up one night, Hearing a noise in the neighbor's house, he got up and looked out the window.

"As a result, she saw the white-haired demon fox coming out of the neighbor's house, holding the comatose neighbor's child in her arms.

"The demon fox also saw her, and grinned and showed her fangs. She screamed and screamed in fright, and crawled away from the window.

"Then the fox started banging on the window, and the shadows of everything in the room seemed to come alive at the same time..."

Miss Akanishi stopped, gasping for breath, as if the scene just described made her a little breathless.

A moment later, she said, "When Granny Noda told this scene, it was so scary that I couldn't even reproduce a tenth of her."

Kazuma: "I think it's okay."

Akanishi Kaede shook his head again and again, took a few deep breaths, and then continued: "Mother-in-law Noda's words made us very excited, because we felt that we found something 'different' this time. When we investigated supernatural legends before, We have never encountered such a direct account of the 'witnesses' to us."

He Ma thought, I will introduce you to the real Tamamo Mae when I look back. She can tell you many stories of her own experience.

"Watanabe-kun went to the shrine to inquire about the situation according to our previous practice of engaging in club activities. Because the shrine often records local legends and so on, this is originally one of the responsibilities of the priest, and the local chronicles in some places are also responsible for the shrine. Write."

This seems to be quite common outside of China.

In most regions, the written language is basically in the hands of nobles and priests. It is rare in the world that a poor family like China can read and read, and even pass the examinations of famous officials to prime ministers.

Japan has studied China for hundreds of years, and many powerful areas have not been learned at all. In rural Japan like this, before the Meiji Restoration, maybe only priests could read and write, and naturally local chronicles were written by priests.

Kazuma: "So Watanabe-kun saw something at the shrine, right?"

"Yes. He came back from the shrine that day, and his expression was ugly. When I asked him what happened, he didn't say anything. He just said that he was tired and wanted to take a bath and sleep, so he went into the men's soup.

"I was very worried about him, so I asked Oda to take the opportunity of taking a bath to ask him what was wrong. Oda agreed, took a change of clothes and went into the men's soup, while I went to the women's soup. I listened to their side while taking a shower. But nothing happened.

"When I came out, they had already washed themselves. They were sitting on the bench at the entrance of the bathhouse, each holding a jar of milk that was more than half-drinked, with a solemn expression."

He Ma and Qing Liu glanced at each other, and then said in a speculative tone: "Then, I guess something happened to them the next day."

Miss Akanishi nodded solemnly: "Yes. Before entering the mountain that day, Watanabe and Oda were having a serious conversation, and they were avoiding me. As soon as I went over, they started talking about pornography~IndoMTL.com~ Usually they absolutely Not so.

"Afterwards, I made a heartbreak and yelled at them: 'Don't exclude me!'

"In the end, Watanabe-kun came over and patted me on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, it's nothing serious.'

"Then they..."

Miss Akanishi was lying on the table, sobbing.

He Ma suddenly asked: "I heard that you vomited while you were waiting for news from the search and rescue team when you came down from the mountain that day. Are you nervous?"

Miss Akanishi cried and said, "Of course it is! I had a very bad premonition that my stomach was cramping. And I was very thirsty at the time, so I kept drinking water and vomited."

"Was the weather also hot last year?" He Ma asked.

"It should be... not as hot this year. Why are you asking this?" Miss Akanishi raised her head and looked at Kazuma suspiciously.

"You said you were thirsty, maybe hot?"

Miss Akanishi shook her head: "I don't know. It may be that they are so nervous that they want to drink water. Many people eat when they are nervous. It may be that kind of reaction."

Kazuma nodded: "I understand. So you have always suspected that Watanabe-kun saw something at the shrine and was silenced by the god."

"That's it."

He Ma thought to himself, this is interesting, the Lord of God also suspects that Watanabe-kun killed him, and judging from the Lord's words, it seems that he and Watanabe-kun have a good relationship.

Hmm... Kazuma touched his chin and fell into deep thought.