Tokyo Detective Chronicles

Hoshizaki Rina's face darkened.

Before Shimizu Hitomi could react, she turned around and walked a few steps to the door of the women's restroom, pushing open the slightly ajar door!

The scene inside the door came into view.

Hayakawa Chiho was cornered against the wall, her hair disheveled, her eyes red-rimmed, and her fingers trembling as she gripped her clothes buttons.

"Hey, hey, hey, is that for real? What kind of expression is that? It's disgusting."

Surrounding her were several flamboyantly dressed girls, the one in the lead looking smug.

Seeing that Hayakawa made no further move, Akiyama Aiko stepped forward to forcibly remove her clothes, while someone nearby held up a mobile phone...

He made no secret of his intention to upload the video online.

"What are you doing!"

Rina Hoshizaki's voice wasn't loud, but it carried a hint of anger, startling everyone who turned to look at the doorway.

"Hoshizaki...classmate?"

Hayakawa Chiho also saw her. She was taken aback at first, then her eyes shone brightly, but were quickly covered by a deeper worry.

She shook her head, anxiously gesturing with her eyes for Hoshizaki Rina to hurry up.

"Fushimi-senpai, he..."

The others breathed a sigh of relief when they realized the visitor wasn't a teacher.

Akiyama Aiko frowned and interrupted Hayakawa.

She quickly raised her chin again and said to Hoshizaki in an unfriendly tone, "This is none of your business, mind your own business..."

Before she could finish speaking...

It seems that it was only with the appearance of Rina Hoshizaki that a specific opportunity finally arrived.

Beneath Hayakawa Chiho's feet, the shadow cast by the dim light swayed slightly, then suddenly seemed to come alive, silently spreading and writhing.

Several thin, black, tentacled shadows, invisible to ordinary people, rose silently from the ground and wrapped around Aiko Akiyama's ankles, calves, and waist, then her chest, arms, and neck...

Killing an ordinary person is not that difficult, nor does it require much effort.

简单到只需要对脖颈施加差不多11-13公斤的压力，目标会在10-15秒内失去意识，就这样持续2-5分钟，就能造成绝不可逆的脑死亡。

It can be made even easier if drugs, sharp instruments, blunt instruments, and the environment are used properly.

The reason why people don't die so easily is because of laws, morality, and a layer of protection called the boundary between the ordinary world and reality.

But once someone... or something else crosses these restrictions...

Killing a vulnerable, ordinary person without leaving a trace is not much more difficult than snapping a cat's neck.

The shadow moved...

Before the word "trivial matter" was fully uttered, Akiyama Aiko suddenly felt her legs go weak, and an irresistible force came from the soles of her feet.

"Thump!"

"what!"

To everyone's astonishment, Akiyama Aiko suddenly collapsed to her knees without warning, emitting a pain that was unbearable to even hear about.

The crisp sound of a knee hitting the tiled floor was particularly jarring in the now-silent bathroom.

"Aiko-nee? What's wrong?"

Her followers were startled and instinctively tried to help her up.

They discovered that the two of them couldn't lift her off the ground at all.

However, the truly terrifying things were only just beginning.

Akiyama Aiko, who was kneeling on the ground, began to lean forward uncontrollably, and her forehead slammed hard against the ground at Hayakawa Chiho's feet!

"Thump!"

"What did you do to me!" Aiko Akiyama screamed.

"Thump!"

"No...no!" The voice grew louder, trembling with sobs, but the kowtowing became even more forceful.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

"Stop...stop now..."

Akiyama Aiko cried incoherently while frantically banging her forehead against the ground.

Her vision went black, and she felt a sharp, intense dizziness.

They looked like they were possessed, their faces filled with terror and tears, their eyes unfocused, as if their bodies were completely out of their control.

Akiyama Aiko suddenly grabbed her own neck again, and as the force tightened, she could only make a hoarse hissing sound.

But the kowtowing showed no sign of stopping.

The girl holding her phone nearby involuntarily pointed the camera at this horrifying scene, forgetting to turn off the recording.

It presents a bizarre scene reminiscent of the climax of a mockumentary horror film.

The two followers were also terrified and stood there motionless.

The others turned pale and retreated step by step.

"Ai... Aizi... What's wrong with you? Don't scare us!" Her voice trembled.

"There's a demon... there must be a demon here!"

One of her henchmen was trembling with fear when she suddenly turned around, shoved everyone aside, and rushed out of the restroom without looking back.

"I'm not playing anymore! I want to go home!"

As soon as she ran away, the other two girls also became like frightened birds.

Especially the one who was recording with his phone, after looking at the scene on the screen, hurriedly turned off his phone, screamed, and ran out.

As everyone else left.

Inside the restroom, only Akiyama Aiko, who was still choking herself and kowtowing and crying, remained, along with Hoshizaki Rina and Shimizu Hitomi at the door, and Hayakawa Chiho, who looked bewildered and terrified.

"No...don't go..."

Only now did Aiko Akiyama truly feel fear, and her pupils began to dilate.

"I was wrong... I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!!!"

"..."

Rina Hoshizaki was shocked by this supernatural scene, but soon seemed to understand something.

She glanced at the slightly undulating shadow extending from beneath Hayakawa Chiho's feet with a complicated expression.

Among them, he was the most composed.

However, it was Shimizu Hitomi who seemed to have nothing to do with this matter.

She narrowed her eyes, scrutinizing Akiyama Aiko's strange behavior, then glanced at Hoshizaki Rina and Hayakawa Chiho. Though puzzled, she had already picked up her phone and secretly recorded the scene before her.

"Fushimi...it's that Fushimi again..."

His breath was ragged with excitement, and his pupils were filled with an intense curiosity that he could hardly conceal... His thirst for knowledge and his desire to peep were being ignited by the scene before him.

"Hayakawa-san."

"Are you alright?" Hoshizaki Rina knelt down in front of her, her voice gentle.

"Hoshizaki-san..."

Hayakawa Chiho looked up, her eyes still red, but more than that, they were filled with confusion and lingering fear: "Akiyama-kun... this is...?"

"I don't know, don't overthink it."

Rina Hoshizaki interrupted her, extending her hand: "Can you stand up? I'll see you out."

If things continue like this, she's really afraid that Akiyama Aiko will actually die in the women's restroom.

Hayakawa Chiho hesitated for a moment, then grasped Hoshizaki Rina's hand and used it to help her stand up.

Her legs were still a little weak.

"Th-thank you..."

Rina Hoshizaki and Hitomi Shimizu helped Chiho Hayakawa up and quickly left the restroom.

Karin floated silently behind Hayakawa Chiho. If she weren't afraid of causing trouble for Fushimi Iori, given her personality before meeting Fushimi, she would have already...

She glanced coldly at Akiyama Aiko, who was convulsing on the ground.

"No, don't leave me! Please save me!"

As the footsteps gradually faded away... after a while...

The invisible constraint on Aiko Akiyama finally disappeared.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

She abruptly stopped kowtowing and crying, collapsing onto the filthy ground as if all her strength had been drained, gasping for breath, her eyes glazed over, her body drenched in cold sweat, and a shocking patch of blood on her forehead.

She trembled and curled up in a ball, her eyes bloodshot.

Fear and uncertainty were ever-present.

……

In an empty classroom, Hitomi Shimizu fetched some drinking water for Hayakawa.

"Hoshizaki-san, Fushimi-senpai, he..."

Rina Hoshizaki pondered for a moment, then patted Chiho Hayakawa on the shoulder and smiled reassuringly:

"Don't worry, he'll definitely be fine."

"I'm going to make a phone call."

Then he took out his phone, dialed Fushimi's number, and walked out of the classroom under the watchful eyes of the two of them.