Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 295 Do you want to take a mixed bath together?

"She... everyone knows that she is a bad woman who doesn't behave herself..."

"That's right, she hooked up with a foreign tourist and ended up getting pregnant before marriage..."

"I'm usually lazy, I just sit at the beach every day, I'm not serious..."

……

The hotel owners gave overwhelmingly negative reviews to Koizumi Mizuha, and it was obvious that she once had a very bad reputation in the town.

When Gen Tamako learned that Koizumi Mizuha had an abortion and abandoned her child, she was shocked. She never thought that there would be a mother in the world who didn't love her daughter.

Considering that Ping Yingzi traveled thousands of miles to find her relatives, this incident must have been a big blow to her.

"Is this so..."

After listening to this, Fushimi Lu looked thoughtful. He suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth in the lobby.

The innkeepers looked up at him, feeling an inexplicable sense of oppression that made them silent for a moment. Especially when Fushimi Shika walked past them from behind, the feeling of being on edge was particularly unsettling.

"Is there a possibility that Koizumi Mizuha is not missing, but dead?" Fushimi Shika walked around behind the crowd and asked softly.

……

The banquet hall was eerily quiet for a few seconds.

"Who knows..."

"That is to say..."

"Since she is missing, who knows whether she is dead or alive..."

Several of the hotel owners murmured, and even Yuan Yuzi could see that these people seemed to be hiding something.

In the process of getting along with Fushimi Shika, her ability to read people's expressions has greatly improved. Although she is still not very good at interrogation, she can roughly tell whether a person is lying or not - at least she will not believe everything others say like before.

Very suspicious!

Mizutani Hiroshi and Maori Kei looked at each other. As reporters and photographers, they could also see that these people were not in good shape.

Fushimi Shika asked a few irrelevant questions, such as how Koizumi Mizuha lived before she disappeared, what her hobbies were, and who she was in close contact with...

The hotel owners answered one by one: Koizumi Mizuha was a tower keeper. She was too young and a widow, so she could only do simple and boring jobs. During the tourist season, she would work as a dancer to earn extra money. She liked to go to the beach to watch seagulls, and occasionally paint and dance. It was said that she was very talented. As for the people she had close contact with, it seemed that the only one was Mr. Tsuchiya, who was the chairman of the town council and had frequent dealings with the residents...

Perhaps Fushimi Shika was pushing too hard, and suddenly someone complained, "What does this have to do with the missing persons case?"

At this time, another person retorted: "Maybe there is a connection. Maybe Koizumi's soul came back and went back to Izu Town to take her daughter away... I think the woman who walked out of the bonfire was her!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone became agitated and could not help but look up and carefully examine the dancer on the screen again.

"Now that you mention it, they do look alike..."

"Indeed, especially the figure..."

"The temperament is also very similar..."

Everyone was talking at once, and Fushimi was about to guide the questioning and let them speak one by one, when suddenly someone stood up, pointed at the screen and shouted, "That dancer's dress is Koizumi's!"

As he spoke, he rushed forward and pointed to a corner of the furisode, on which there was a fuzzy red spot: "This was stained by Koizumi when she was painting. I still remember that she complained to me that the paint couldn't be washed off..."

The innkeepers were horrified and started to make a fuss, clamoring to leave, saying that they were going to ask the abbot of Shuzenji Temple for help in exorcising the evil spirit. Yuan Yu couldn't hold back, and she tried her best to dissuade them, wanting them to provide more clues. But the innkeepers were unwilling to say more, and it was useless even if she talked until her lips were worn out.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Fushimi Shika did not stop them and let them leave.

The banquet hall of the East China Sea Pavilion suddenly became empty and extremely quiet, and even the sound of words echoed.

Mizutani Kan wrote quickly, recording what he saw and heard today in a small notebook - the journey to find his relatives was not smooth, and he had originally given up, but he never expected to have an unexpected gain.

Yuan Yuzi's head was buzzing with noises. She kept recalling the innkeepers' theories about Koizumi Mizuha returning to the spirit world and taking her daughter away...

"Could it be that Sakurako was taken away by the ghost mother?" She couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Otherwise, how to explain the sudden appearance of the corpse in the bonfire? How to explain the sudden disappearance of Sakurako and the dancer?
"Of course not." Fushimi Shika said casually.

He had a vague guess in his heart, but he didn't have a complete context.

However, one thing that is certain is that there are no ghosts or gods involved in this case.

In the final analysis, Fushimi Shika still holds a skeptical attitude towards whether ghosts and gods exist in this world. Even though he encountered a Waterloo at Wulinan and encountered some monsters beyond common sense, Nuecha is at least a fungus, an entity, and an observable existence.

But ghosts and gods are another matter.

Hearing this, Yuan Yuzi showed alertness and asked quickly: "Have you figured out the truth?"

Although now is not the time to be fussy, she still cares about Fushimi-kun's reasoning speed. If Fushimi-kun is ahead again, then she will lose to Fushimi-kun in reasoning ability again...

Once in the painting class, once in the Sugamo Apartment, the Tenchu ​​Fire does not count, the death of the psychic at Wulinan does not count, and the Daisetsuzan shooting case barely counts as half a time...a total of two and a half times.

As the saying goes, three times the limit, I can't let Fushimi-kun surpass me this time no matter what!

"No, just a guess."

As he spoke, Fushimi stretched and planned to go to the hot spring. Gen Tamako quickly followed him and asked him what his guess was. Mizutani Hiroshi and Maori Kei hurriedly packed up their equipment, restored the projector to its original state, and followed with a notebook and a camera.

"You should know that Japan used to be a feudal society. After the Meiji Restoration, big cities like Tokyo became relatively civilized, but the local areas are still relatively conservative and backward... To put it bluntly, the bad habits of the old society are very common."

As they walked, Fushimi Shika said, "Minamiizu Town is the southernmost tip of the Izu Peninsula, right? The tourism industry has only taken off in recent years. Before that, how do you think they lived?"

Yuan Yuzi suddenly thought of the news about the mass murder of villagers in the mountainous area, the violation of women, the trafficking of captives, and the bad folk customs. She was horrified and asked quickly, "Could it be that those residents killed Koizumi Mizuha?"

"I didn't say that." Fushimi Shika glanced at her, walked through the corridor, and turned into the hot spring: "It's just that she is alone, a weak woman, and it must be very difficult for her to live here, right?"

"This……"

Gen Tamako wanted to say that this was his subjective conjecture, but when he thought about the residents' previous groundless malice towards Fushimi-kun, he was unable to refute it for a while.

She wanted to continue discussing the case, but she saw Fushimi Shika lifted the curtain of the hot spring, and it seemed that he was going to slack off again. She hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Fushimi Shika's arm: "Sakurako's whereabouts are unknown now, why are you still in the mood to take a hot spring bath?"

"Will Sakurako come back if you don't take a bath?" Fushimi Lu argued, "Besides, what else can we do now besides taking a hot spring bath?"

Yuan Yuzi thought that there were many things she could do, such as investigating the identity of the charred corpse, visiting tourists and local residents who had not come to Tokaikan... Before she could say anything, Fushimi Shika said, "Do you want to come with me? Speaking of which, the hot springs in the mountains seem to be mixed bathing..."

Yuan Yuzi was stunned for a second, then suddenly turned her face away. Her eyelashes trembled rapidly like butterfly wings burned by fire, and the skin from her ears to her neck seemed to be covered with layers of flush.

"I-I don't want it!"

(End of this chapter)