In this crossover anime, Yoshikage Kira longs for a peaceful life.

Chapter 101 Yes, it must have been XX who did it!

Outside the city hall building in Nishi-Tokyo.

The blond, middle-aged man asked in a steady voice:

"Did you see that? Fu Hei."

The spiky-haired youth nodded solemnly. In his line of sight, he could see a very obvious 'trace,' like the sticky crawl trail left by a catfish as it slithered across the ground, stretching from the outside of the city hall into the distance.

"Don't look there."

Nanami Kento shook his head and pointed to the other side.

Fukuro Megumi paused slightly, looking in the direction Nanami Kento had pointed. There was nothing there. If you were to ask what was unusual about it, it would probably be a small, round pit in the ground.

Fukuro asked in a low voice:

"This is... a shell crater?"

Nanami Kento nodded slightly:

"Ah, and it's a large caliber one."

Fushiguro Megumi subconsciously looked around, her brows furrowing slightly.

Large-caliber bullets are used in either sniper rifles or machine guns.

But if it were a machine gun, it wouldn't leave only one crater, so it's most likely a sniper rifle. However, the fact that the cursed master used firearms to kill was somewhat unexpected. Furthermore, the remains at the scene clearly showed signs of the use of magic.

In other words, you first snipe the target from a distance, then run over and use magic to clean up the scene?

In that case, wouldn't it be better to just use magic?

After all, for a sorcerer, their own sorcery is the most trustworthy thing.

Furthermore.

To maintain secrecy, cursed assassins typically carry out their killings in enclosed rooms, rather than using sniper rifles on the street. Even at night, there may be vehicles and pedestrians passing by, and the sound of gunfire would alert passersby.

No matter how you look at it, using spells is much more convenient, which is different from the murder cases he knew of from curse masters in the past.

"Let's go check the other side first."

Nanami Kento patted Fushiguro Megumi on the shoulder, then walked in the opposite direction instead of entering the building. Since the traces of the curse hadn't spread inside, it meant the curse caster hadn't entered; this was the primary crime scene.

Fushiguro Megumi withdrew her gaze and, together with Nanami Kento, followed the filthy traces to a building over a thousand meters away.

Outside the building, Ichiji Takayoshi and another woman were waiting for them.

"Mr. Nanami".

Ichiji Takayoshi came forward, wanting to say something.

Nanami Kento waved his hand and looked at the rather capable-looking black-haired woman:

"Let's begin, Ms. Takanashi."

Takanashi Touka nodded gently and slowly closed her eyes.

"Does the bird swim in ten flowers?"

Fushiguro Megumi stared at the woman with a cowlick on her head, her eyes slightly narrowed.

At the High School of Spellcasting, those with spellcasting power can be broadly divided into three types.

Window, auxiliary supervision, and sorcerer.

The window represents ordinary people who can see cursed spirits, but only to the point of seeing. They possess neither sufficient cursed power to form a fighting force, nor the corresponding spells.

The assistant supervisors are stronger than the 'windows'. They usually possess a certain amount of magical power, can tame low-level magical spirits to become shikigami, and will also be trained to learn simple barrier techniques, which they can use to do some auxiliary work.

Besides these, some assistant supervisors even possess magical techniques. However, the techniques of assistant supervisors usually don't have much potential, or even any offensive power. Takanashi Touka is this type of assistant supervisor.

Her spells were not offensive, but more versatile than many powerful spells; their name was:

A scene reenactment.

This technique's ability is exactly what it sounds like: it can recreate the scene of a crime based on the debris at the scene. Like rewinding a videotape, it can recreate past events involving the target object as a 'holographic image,' up to the present moment.

Takanashi Touka took a deep breath, and with the surge of her magical power, a blurry figure slowly formed from the filth.

At first, it was just a blurry shadow.

They couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman.

But as time went on, its appearance became more and more recognizable. Although its appearance was still blurry and its specific shape was unclear, and even its color was just a chaotic mess, its general outline could already be seen.

It was a girl with shoulder-length short hair, wearing a uniform of indeterminate color, with a backpack on her back, half-squatting on the ground.

"Play it in reverse."

Nanami Kento suddenly spoke.

Takanashi Touka nodded and activated the spell to make the blurry figure move.

The next second, the girl who had been half-crouching stood up, or rather, 'flew' up. She flew from the ground all the way up into the sky, appearing on the rooftop of the building in just a few seconds.

"Senior Nanami."

Fushiguro Megumi's expression was somewhat subtle. "Doesn't this situation seem a little familiar?"

"Ah."

Nanami Kento nodded thoughtfully; she resembled the girl they had met yesterday.

Although the face is not clearly visible, the outline and hairstyle are undoubtedly the same person. Although the color of the uniform is not visible, the style is exactly the same. And the way the other person jumped off the rooftop is almost a complete replica.

The only difference is that yesterday the girl only jumped from the fifth floor, a height of more than ten meters, which is not an exaggeration for a sorcerer.

But this building in front of us has at least thirty floors, which is at least a hundred meters high!

The fact that he could jump from a height of hundreds of meters without getting hurt was undoubtedly due to the technique he possessed.

Nanami Kento and Fushiguro Megumi are fairly certain that the two girls are the same person, and unsurprisingly, there should be another black-haired girl on the rooftop. Judging from the absence of any other debris at the scene, that black-haired girl did not use any magic, and may not even have used any at all.

Fushiguro Megumi frowned and asked:

What are they trying to do?

Yesterday they killed terrorists, which makes perfect sense. Even if they hadn't done it, Fushiguro Megumi would have done it herself.

But why did they kill the mayor of Nishi-Tokyo?

Is there some connection between the two?

It wasn't that Fushiguro Megumi made a baseless connection; the main issue was that these two events happened on the same day.

The fact that terrorists were killed in the afternoon and then the mayor of West Tokyo was assassinated in the evening makes it hard not to suspect that the mayor of West Tokyo was colluding with terrorists.

After all, the two girls have been confirmed to be members of a special organization called DA, which belongs to the government and whose duty is to maintain social stability. They wouldn't do anything illegal or disorderly, would they?

They guessed that the mayor of Nishi-Tokyo deserved to die, but they couldn't just report it to their superiors like that, could they?

Could it be that the one who did it wasn't a curse master, but a curse master from the government?

What about the evidence?

Their guesses shouldn't be taken as evidence!

Without a doubt, Nanami Kento thought the same thing. He looked at Ichiji Takayoshi and asked:

"Ichiji, is it possible to get in touch with DA?"

Ichiji Kogeki nodded:

"Sure, the higher-ups have already informed me and given me DA's contact information."

Nanami Kento pushed up his goggles with his index and middle fingers:

"Then let's go pay a visit. We need to make things clear."

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Kyoto, the main residence of the Shinomiya family.

Led by the butler, Shinomiya Un'taka walked along the corridor to the innermost room.

Pushing aside the screen, his father, Shinomiya Gan'an, knelt before the table.

Without hesitation, Shinomiya Un'yō walked straight to the opposite side of Shinomiya Yan'an and knelt down as well.

Shi Gong Yunying asked without any politeness:

"Father, shouldn't you tell me the truth now?"

"of course."

Shinomiya Yan'an nodded calmly and asked, "Yun Ying, what do you think a god is?"

Shi Gong Yunying frowned slightly:

"You can just tell me the answer; I don't want to guess."

Shinomiya Gan'an wasn't annoyed; she simply smiled and continued:

"So-called gods are the carriers of human faith."

"This vessel can be a person or a spirit."

"The 'lake god' worshipped by the Shinomiya family over the past three hundred years was originally a sorcerer."

"Of course, although he was a sorcerer, his strength was far from being considered powerful. According to the sorcerer's classification of strength, he was only a level 3 sorcerer until his death, almost at the very bottom of the sorcerer class."

"That sorcerer was well aware of his limited potential, so he never thought about having great power while he was alive, but hoped to become a 'god' after he died!"

"Because whether a sorcerer is powerful or weak, they can become a 'spirit' after death. Sorcerers call this 'spirit' a 'curse' or a 'cursed spirit'."

"Because they usually die with great resentment, once they become cursed spirits, they will harm the world and become 'curses' that need to be exorcised and exorcised by other sorcerers."

"But there is a way to wash away their resentment, which is to enshrine these powerful sorcerers in shrines after their death and worship them as gods! In Buddhist terms, this process might be called 'golden statue'."

Shi Gongyun's eyes flickered slightly:

"Sugawara Michizane?"

"similar."

Shinomiya Yanan nodded slightly. "Just as I said before, that sorcerer is not powerful, but the spells he possesses are very special, which is why he is confident enough to become a god after death."