The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 729 Hope and Despair (32)

After seeing Fushigi Yin's body, Inuyama Heita and Qian Xiaoyi walked out of the Metropolitan Police Department and came outside.

"Companion? Mr. Fushiki's companion?" Inuyama Heita asked doubtfully, "You mean... the one who helped him, the traitor in the Hope Cult? Mr. Fushiki gave the demon sword to that person and let him escape?"

"I guess so." Qian Xiaoyi said.

Inuyama Heita asked another question: "Who is fighting Mr. Fushigi?"

"Don't detective novels often have such plots?" Qian Xiaoyi said: "The person who rushes to the deceased the fastest is usually the murderer."

Because he was always called a detective or something, Qian Xiaoyi finally read two detective novels when he had nothing to do.

"Is it that priest? Mr. Fushigi's targets are all the high-ranking members of the Church of Hope, so... that priest could be one of them?" Inuyama Heita asked in surprise, "Isn't he an exorcist? He's also a priest, and he also believes in cults?"

"It's possible that they are just collaborating, and true religious people are much better at running a cult than ordinary people." Qian Xiaoyi waved his hand: "I'm just speculating, there is no substantial evidence, but if my guess is correct, as long as we can find the knife, all the mysteries will be solved."

"If that's the case, then why..." Inuyama Heita pondered, "Mr. Fushiki's companions didn't pass this information to us? In that case, if Mr. Fushiki wanted to take revenge, the only one he could rely on was the Exorcist Alliance, right?"

"Who knows." Qian Xiaoyi said, "Either the other party wants to use this information as a bargaining chip. After all, he is an insider and will definitely not make a move without some benefits. Or... maybe there are some concerns. For example, we speculated before that the priest might be the murderer, and he is also an exorcist. So the mysterious man who witnessed everything had doubts about the alliance and decided to wait and see for a while."

Inuyama Heita calmed down. Now that he had witnessed real death, he finally saw the bloody reality. He hoped that this kind of organization could not be defeated by one person as in the comics.

Thinking of wanting to imitate Fuki Inu and run out alone to seek revenge, Inuyama Heita felt ashamed of his own immaturity. He asked, "Then how do we find that person?"

Qian Xiaoyi replied, "Don't worry about this. I've already said that everything I said just now was just my guess. There is no evidence to prove the accuracy of these inferences. If we directly conclude without evidence, it will be no different from conjecture. So next we have to take the initiative to collect evidence."

"Collect evidence?" Inuyama Heita asked, "How should we do it?"

"The first thing is to confirm the identity of Fu Mu Yin's companion." Qian Xiaoyi said, "We don't need to rush this. The Hope Sect must be looking for him. In order to prevent us from believing him, I'm afraid that the information about 'the real murderer who killed Fu Mu Yin' will be spread soon."

Inuyama Heita nodded: "Not only are we looking for him, but the Hope Church is also looking for him, so they will definitely release information to interfere with our vision and make us unable to believe what that person said. Then what?"

"Then we need to investigate the priest." Qian Xiaoyi said, "We need to figure out why Fu Muyin ran to the church, whether his target was the priest, and how Fu Muyin discovered the priest's secret."

Inuyama Heita was a little worried: "Should we go to the church to investigate? But wouldn't that be a bit of a red flag? It's like telling the priest directly, 'I suspect you.'"

"So of course we can't just show up in front of him. We need to find an ordinary person who won't be suspected." Qian Xiaoyi said, "I have thought of a good candidate."

"Who?" Inuyama Heita couldn't guess the identity of this candidate.

... "Let me go to that church? Sure." In the blues bar, Mike, wearing round-frame sunglasses, stood behind the bar and wiped the glasses. Even the bartender's uniform could not hide his muscles.

Mike, a black man who works as a bartender in the bar opened by Maria, Qian Xiaoyi's fitness coach, and a devout Christian, is the person Qian Xiaoyi knows and no one is more suitable for this task than him.

Maria was a little doubtful. She looked at Qian Xiaoyi and asked, "But, Xiaoyi, if you say so, wouldn't it be dangerous there? After all, it is a secret base of the cultists. If Mike goes there alone, what if he is discovered and attacked?"

Qian Xiaoyi looked at Mike's muscular figure and thought unscrupulously: Being attacked? In this state, he can definitely fight his way out.

But it was just a thought. Qian Xiaoyi explained, "Maria, you think too much. I'm not asking Mike to be a spy to steal confidential files. I just want him to get in touch with the place and learn about the believers there. He doesn't need to do anything dangerous. And he happens to be a believer, so it's completely reasonable for him to go to church to worship."

"Ms. Maria, there's absolutely no problem with me." Mike said in a strange Japanese accent. "In fact, I've also heard of Father Kamino's name. He has a good reputation among my church friends. Many of my friends have gone to worship there. If he really is a heretic in disguise, I can also warn my friends."

Mike's accent is deliberately retained. Maria said that this makes him look more like an American bartender. People who come to the bar to get drunk like this high-end style.

Qian Xiaoyi nodded: "Then I'll leave it to you. You don't need to do anything extraordinary. Just communicate with other believers and get to know the basic information of the church."

"No problem." Mike grinned, revealing his shining white teeth. "Come to think of it, that church seems to be called Santa Maria Church. The name of the Virgin Mary is the same as that of Ms. Maria. This alone gives me a reason to go and worship. If that priest is really a heretic, I will never allow him to continue using this name."

"Oh, you are so annoying, Mike," Maria said shyly.

Mike said he would go to St. Mary's Church to worship this Sunday and get to know the people there and the priest.

Because of family reasons, he has been a Christian since childhood and is familiar with the scriptures. He is also a foreigner. Although he is a little conspicuous, it is not inappropriate for him to choose a suitable time to go to church to worship. Even the priest probably can't find any fault with him, right?

After deciding on the person to spy on, Qian Xiaoyi returned to the office and waited for good news. At the same time, he also asked other acquaintances for information about Father Kamino.

While he was waiting for Mike to gather intelligence, a piece of important news reached his ears.

"Got it, the murderer who killed Fukiin!"

Hoshiba Rang called to inform him, his voice full of anger: "The [19th Saint] of the Hope Cult - Okubo Kenjiro, I heard that he used despicable and shameless external methods to threaten Fushiki with Miss Yoko's safety, which forced Fushiki to commit suicide. He is really a complete bastard! But this also explains why there is no special aura left on Fushiki, because the other party did not use those abilities to fight Fushiki, but used this insidious method!"

"Yeah~" Qian Xiaoyi said faintly, "He's really a bastard."

[The 19th Saint]——Okubojiro, has become the number one enemy of the Exorcist Alliance and everyone wants to kill him.

(End of this chapter)