Another string reel from Bandoli

Chapter 36 Hikawa Hina Wants to Become a Travel Companion

No matter what happened on the campus of Yugaoka Girls' College, for Genmaki Kan and Hikawa Hina, the astronomy department was still their only hideout.

I have no idea what is happening outside.

Act as if you are oblivious to what is happening outside.

And when the Astronomy Club Director Hikawa Hina, following the instructions of her nominal club member, collected the errand fee (about 2 yen annual club fee) from the school canteen and bought a lot of snacks.

The development and research of Xianjuan Liver is entering a new stage.

"What are these?"

As soon as Hikawa Hina returned to the club room, she became interested in the contents of the large cardboard box on the table.

The carton of ripe mangoes, now a little worn by the passage of time, contains dozens of child-sized props that look like they were modified from cartoon toys.

"Is it some secret prop?"

Hikawa Hina asked excitedly as she took out a rubber chicken in her left hand and a boomerang in her right hand.

The strange instrument exceeded the data parameter error and seemed to be overloaded. The location where he modified the boiler began to hiss and spark.

"I made this when I was a kid. I used to use it as a small prop to negotiate with some kind-hearted people." Xianjuan Gan took out a pink toy gun from the cardboard box, aimed it and pulled the trigger.

A beam of light struck the hot boiler, then covered it with a layer of frost and gradually expanded. It stagnated and became silent. Even the sparks that flew out seemed frozen in the ice.

The boiler maintains a boiling state, moving slowly at a speed that is imperceptible to humans.

"Don't Freeze" is a classic joke played by the guitarist and the guitarist.

"...I don't understand what you are trying to say, junior." Hikawa Hina shrugged. It's not that she couldn't understand jokes, but her knowledge of European and American comics was only superficial compared to the most classic ones that ordinary people knew.

Bend down, take out the screwdriver and scan the faulty part.

Blue Light Monitoring found that the cause of this unexplained failure was that an internal screw had mysteriously loosened.

The frequency of the remaining energy fluctuations is too low, not even at the level of one watt of electricity.

He didn't even turn his head.

"Senior sister, please put down the explosive in your hand. The rubber chicken has been there for almost eight years. I can't guarantee its safety." Unlike the past, his tone was calm.

——Of course I'm kidding. The rubber chicken has been specially treated. Now it's really just a toy.

He didn't want to blow up the Astronomy Department yet, as it would be troublesome if something unexpected happened to [that].

Hikawa Hina wasn't surprised at all and let go of the rubber chicken, letting it fall back into the cardboard box.

After all, he really has the ability to create superheroes and super villains in comics.

"Um, do you want to be a superhero?"

"Why do you think that?"

Hikawa Hina glanced at the several floating virtual screens in the air, which were projecting photos and annotations strung together like a spider web, like a clue event board in a detective agency.

"Junior, aren't you investigating a missing persons case? I thought you wouldn't be interested in those rich ladies. After all, you are quite - hate the rich."

Although Hikawa Hina is not like the other friends of Xianjuan Gan who have known each other since childhood and have grown up with them.

But she sacrificed some of her guitar practice time to review some supernatural event archives in recent years that are known to the public and can be searched through the search bar, or compiled by supernatural fans.

She can always see something from behind that would not be noticed by everyone.

Among them are inevitably those chaebol groups that were [inexplicably] driven to bankruptcy.

What they have in common is that Hikawa Hina was able to identify the real culprit behind the scenes through unconscious conversations during her spare time and through conversations that the person himself might not even care about.

Rich ladies?

Hikawa Hina first saw the hotly searched kidnapping case on her mobile phone. The thought that flashed through her mind in the first few seconds was that the kidnapping and murder case was caused by Xianjuan Gan, who turned them all into wine or bear cookies.

Maybe it's the can she is eating from in the bookshelf in the Astronomy Department's office.

—After all, he did do it once.

Or is he the same as the young master of the Ujigawa family?

After being shrunk, he was locked in a medieval-style bottle world composed entirely of handmade intelligent robots, making him mistakenly believe that he had traveled to ancient times.

After three months of accelerated time, using a script based on fifteen ancient soap operas, themed around love, power struggles, and war, and ensuring his personality had been normalized and reshaped into a compassionate one, he was stripped naked and hung in front of a large screen in the square, using a tortoise shell tie, a method used by a single person to tie themselves.

By the way, some dark snacks were smeared on his body, and some dark snack-like jelly that had been adjusted to be harmless but detectable was injected into his body.

Make sure any of his nonsense is treated as a side effect of dark snacks.

The cause was simply because Ujigawa Zixi was provoking other people's interpersonal relationships out of her usual bad taste.

A new band that originally had a promising future was torn apart by a fierce internal conflict.

This wasn't even Xianjuan's fault, because he couldn't stand the sight of a junior girl, a grader he didn't even know, being treated like that while she was shopping with other girls in Ginza Plaza for Christmas decorations.

According to Ichigaya Yusaki's feedback, he didn't look very happy at the time.

It is said that although Ujigawa Shiyu has a bad temper, Hexian Juangan actually had a few words with her over the phone while working.

We also had a lot of fun chatting with each other and felt that we both had great taste.

In private, he actually had some understanding of the behavior of this bad-tempered chaebol son from the Toyokawa family's intelligence network.

——In the Toyokawa family’s list of people who must not be offended.

Because the style was too obvious, after Ichigaya Arisaki dragged Genmaki Gan and Aoba Moka onto the stage to save the situation, he used a sonic screwdriver to scan and investigate, and determined the cause and method of committing the crime, and pulled out Ujigawa Shiyu who was hiding behind the scenes.

Ran Yi Mio (VII) Eight Passing Flags.) After Wu Hong's death, Xian Juan Gan also dealt with Ujigawa Shiyu, the mastermind behind the scenes.

Originally, I just wanted to play a prank to make myself feel better.

Until Xianjuan flipped through the terminal to sort out the statistics and send them to the watch, Ujigawa Zixi's "brilliant record"

……

Although Hikawa Hina heard about it from Aoba Moka, later because Ako wanted to hear about the band, Genjumaki Gan admitted it. After a little investigation, it was found that the band itself had internal hidden dangers. Even without Ujigawa Shiyu, it was on the verge of collapse.

What Ujigawa Shizuki did was to push the members who were already dissatisfied with the bassist to collectively boycott public performances and disappear, thereby ruining other people's lives and adding an unforgettable "little prank" to the bassist's life.

This was just a very ordinary little game in his life experience.

He has played this game countless times.

——For no reason, it’s just fun.

So Xianjuan also played an unforgettable "little prank" on his life.

——For no reason, I just want to play Xianjuan Gan.

This game is really fun.

Anyway, when asked, this is what Xianjuan Gan said himself.

After various observation reports, Hikawa Hina herself knew that in many ways, Genmaki Kanron's personality was much worse than that of the spoiled young master of the Ujigawa Group.

Will he sympathize with these missing rich ladies and take the initiative to meddle in their affairs?

Hikawa Hina thinks it would be more reasonable to believe that these young ladies offended Xianjuan, so they were forced to wear doll costumes and play PUBG on the moon.

Xian Juangan remained silent, still without turning around. He simply spread his palms towards the floating virtual screen and formed them into tiger claws. The entire spider web began to shrink, revealing a wider area. The previous list was merely a list of victims from the K area. More victims from the Tokyo area in recent years, even from the past decade, emerged.

Red dots are spread all over Tokyo.

"If 'rich kid' was the key word, then it wouldn't be that difficult, but... we're in Tokyo."

Glacier Rinna looked at the entire map, especially an area that was densely packed with red dots.

It was a lawless place for detectives.

The phrase "a leaf blocking the view" appears to describe Xian Juan Gan.

He was fooled by his own arrogance.

Just like the brother of the girl with blue hair dyed with red highlights, although according to the records, Xianjuan Gan has ruled out that he is not a similar case.

But it wasn't just the young ladies who were kidnapped and murdered.

There are many more civilians and even teenage idol models who do not disclose their identities to the public because of pressure from their companies or social concerns.

Or maybe it just caused a slight ripple and was then swallowed up by the cover-up.

And he had no idea about the pattern of these missing people.

Familiar faces, both male and female.

Most of them were his peers, or just a few years older.

Xianjuan Gan frowned in confusion.

He seemed to have some impression of them...

Despite the ambiguity, despite never meeting.

But I always feel like I should know them...

Their clothing, their appearance, and even their school uniforms...

But he was sure that there was no record of them in his memory.

When he tried to search for when he first met them, the memory he retrieved was 404, as if the file was lost.

For some reason, Xianjuan Gan recalled the memory of his flesh and blood being tilted by the golden portal.

Could it be... in my older, lost memories?

He wasn't sure.

Where is the relevance?

Xianjuan Gan glanced at a girl with light brown hair. She was a photo model for a popular magazine in Chiba City. Even her father was a detective.

It was still suppressed due to social impact issues.

If this happens even to the direct blood relatives of the police station, make it public.

Then the social reputation of their police force will be in big trouble.

Some of them were not kidnappings at all, but accidental deaths, and the cremated bodies were still thrown away before that.

In the end, such accidents are often covered up by the crematoriums that value their reputation or are settled privately with the families.

Even those parents who are unwilling to accept their fate and try hard to publicize the issue will be ignored because of his usual activities and indifference.

Just by using big data at the terminal to retrieve the destroyed "irrecoverable" surveillance footage, so many cases emerged.

Because of that legendary era, Tokyo was once plunged into a crime boom.

A large number of crimes of varying quality and quality have done a good job of concealing the "real stuff".

"Thanks to their efforts, they have confused the public. Unless I go to all the crime scenes and track them down one by one, I will not be able to confirm how many real [pests] there are." Xianjuan Gan was still busy, his hands never stopped, and he spoke calmly while carrying Hikawa Hina on his back.

He couldn't understand why the people in this area were so keen on impromptu crimes, and why they were so unskilled and liked to show off.

He'd had enough of arriving at a locked-room murder scene rumored to be haunted, only to be met with clues of fishing line and the smell of bitter almonds.

The tests involve gunfire, smoke reaction at the scene; the tests involve blood splatter, luminol occult blood test; the handwriting and footprints at the scene are measured under blue-violet dual light and professional-grade multi-band light source.

If there was someone with some forensic knowledge to examine the body, more than 80% of their cases could be solved on the spot.

Are all Tokyo police useless?

"It's rare to see a junior so attentive. Is this a true supernatural crime? Have we encountered the real deal?" Hikawa Hina's eyes sparkled with excitement as she shouted, "Take me with you. Is this an urban legend? Aliens? Or perhaps a resurrection of ancient people?"

"Senior, you should stay in school. We'll talk about things related to aliens and the astronomy department next time."

Xianjuan's eyes were wandering.

"There's no supernatural phenomenon that I'm responsible for. I'm just curious about the whereabouts of the mysteriously missing body, and I'm not sure what it is."

"Missing bodies, isn't that a supernatural phenomenon? Aren't they the work of our juniors sneaking into the morgue to collect organs for soup or testing dangerous drugs and chemicals?"

"Senior, you're joking. I don't need that much trouble. I have enough cloned organs. It's not difficult for me to create a few corpses for experiments."

"That incredible moving human model of Yuqiuba?" Hikawa Hina jumped to another seemingly unrelated topic.

"Oh, that's the clone I created that gained self-awareness and tried to escape."

He downplayed the topic of his use of vole consciousness transplantation to create active human bodies.

Xianjuan Gan was still with his back turned, continuing to monitor the remaining abnormal purple energy.