The Strange Tales of Tokyo Monk

The two figures, one in front and one behind, did not have any further conversation.

Aso Momoko's parents showed great enthusiasm for the arrival of Hiramiya Chiya. Aso Momoko curled her lips and went up to the room on the second floor alone.

"Hiramiya-san, thank you so much for this time!"

Momoko Aso's father bowed deeply to Chiya Hiramiya.

For the first time in three years, he felt like his precious daughter was alive again.

When she took the initiative to talk to him, he wanted to ignore his image and squat on the ground and cry loudly.

The loss of one daughter had devastated him, and he thought he would go crazy if he lost another.

Hiramiya Chiye patiently chatted with Momoko Aso's father for a while before getting up and going upstairs.

"The door is not closed."

"The door lock has just been replaced."

"If you break it again, I'll ask you to pay for it."

As soon as Hiramiya Chiye reached the door, Momoko Aso's voice was heard from inside the room.

When he pushed the door open, Pinggong Qianye saw Aso Xiangxiangzi floating in front of him, looking at him with curiosity and joy.

"Hiramiya Chiye-kun, you're here, come in."

As she spoke, she floated to Momoko Aso's shoulder and sat on it, her legs swinging gently.

"In fact, even without my help, as long as your obsession gradually fades away, your sister will naturally be able to enter the reincarnation cycle normally."

"That's different."

Momoko Aso shook her head, leaning her cheek against her sister's legs, and whispered, "I hope she can have a better life in the next life, instead of ending it hastily like this life, leaving only regrets. And only your profession is best at blessing the afterlife."

Next life... Pinggong Qianye is a Buddhist, but he cannot be completely sure whether the next life really exists.

Despite his own birth, it seemed to have proved that humans have an afterlife.

If you are lucky, you can even start over with the memories of your previous life.

But is this an isolated case, or will all living beings inevitably go through this process?

"Don't you believe in reincarnation?"

"Believe it." Pinggong Qianye smiled.

"I believe too."

"Then let's get started."

Pinggong Qianye didn't say anything more. If one wanted to send the soul to reincarnation, the most commonly used mantra was the "Rebirth Mantra".

"I didn't expect that when I leave this time, Hiramiya Chiye will come to see me off. Thank you so much!"

Aso Kaori floated in front of Hiramiya Chiye, gave him a gentle hug, her face slightly stunned.

In this brief moment, she seemed to have touched Pinggong Chiye's body instead of passing through it illusoryly.

She opened her eyes wide and stared at Pinggong Qianye for a while, then stretched out her right hand and carefully touched Pinggong Qianye's cheek.

It was indeed warm and solid, not just a mass of air.

People who practice Buddhism are truly amazing.

Aso Xiangxiangzi wanted to reach out her hand again, but was interrupted by Aso Momoko who couldn't stand it anymore, "Sister, I will remember the promise between you and me, and you should also remember the promise between me and you."

"Of course, when has my sister ever lied to Taozi?"

"Hook."

"Taozi can be very childish sometimes."

After the man and the soul pulled the hook, Momoko Aso hugged Kakako Aso tightly in her arms, closed her eyes, unable to bear to watch her sister disappear in the end.

"Hey, Taozi, keep working hard in the future."

Aso Kakako reached out and gently stroked Aso Momoko's cheek.

Warm and tactile!

Momoko Aso opened her eyes instantly and looked at her sister in her arms.

At the moment when Pinggong Qianye clasped her hands and chanted the "Nirvana Mantra", she could feel that the sister in her arms was no longer illusory and untouchable, but real!

"elder sister……"

Momoko Aso also reached out and touched her sister's cheek. The touch was real, no different from that of a living person.

"Taozi, I have to go now. Goodbye."

Aso Kakako's body floated up from Aso Momoko's arms, and she lowered her head and gently kissed Aso Momoko on her forehead.

The figure gradually turned into golden light and dissipated.

"Sister, goodbye..."

Momoko Aso squatted down and cried softly.

She has never believed in Buddhism, but if there really is an afterlife, then it is not wrong to believe in Buddhism.

But this world is so terrible and stupid that it would not fulfill the little hope in her heart.

If I had scolded it less before, perhaps it would have been able to help me.

Oh, this world really should be destroyed.

"Amitabha."

Pinggong Chiye chanted a Buddhist name, then silently left the room, went downstairs, and left under the curious and complicated gaze of Aso Momoko's father.

When he walked out of Momoko Aso's house, he once again felt the gaze from the second-floor windowsill.

Momoko Aso sat in front of the windowsill, wiped away her tears, her eyes red, forced a smile, and waved at him.

Chapter 56 Dog Killing

Late at night, in the alley near Shiraishi High School.

The lights in the community were dim, and only the street lights on both sides of the road were still flashing a dim light.

"Wang!"

"Wang Wang!"

The sound of dogs barking came from deep in the alley, sounding like anger and fear, followed by the sound of trash cans being knocked over, and finally turning into a few miserable whimpers.

Outside the alley, next to the street lamp, a man who returned drunk late at night, held the smooth lamppost with one hand, and with the other hand, unzipped his trousers and pulled out his second brother, an expression of comfort and joy instantly appeared on his face.

I could hear the faint sound of a dog barking coming from deep in the alley in front of me on the right.

"Hey, you bastard, what are you doing so crazy in the middle of the night? Are you missing a bitch?"

"Hahaha……"

The drunk man laughed loudly, shook his second brother's hand, put it back, and zipped up his pants.

Holding the lamppost with his hand, carrying a black suit jacket hanging on his shoulders, he hummed a little tune and walked forward leisurely.

When passing by the alley, he deliberately looked into the dark alley.

The barking of dogs continued, and even tended to get louder.

"damn thing!"

The drunk man stood there and watched for a while, then squatted down, fumbled on the ground for a while, and picked up two stones of appropriate weight.

He weighed it slightly in the palm of his hand, then threw it with all his strength towards the depths of the alley.

Clang.

I could vaguely hear a stone hitting the trash can that had already fallen to the ground, but the other stone made no sound.

"Tch, it's boring."

The drunk man stared at the alley for a while, and seeing that there was no movement, he turned around and prepared to leave.

When he was passing by the alley with his back to the road, he had just taken a few steps when he suddenly felt something biting his right leg and dragging it backwards violently. He staggered and fell forward.

The moment he fell, the drunken man's head was instantly cleared of all the alcohol, and he looked back with horror in his eyes.

A black dog as big as a calf, with shiny black fur and dim eyes, was biting his right leg with its sharp and terrifying teeth.

The drunk man fell to the ground and subconsciously kicked the big black dog frantically with his intact left leg.

Click.

It was the sound of the right leg bone being bitten off!

"what!"

The drunk man let out a miserable cry. The severe pain made him lose all his strength to resist in an instant.

He could only watch as the big black dog loosened his right leg, stepped on his leg, and moved closer to him step by step.

Then, bite your own neck.

Soon, a red bloodstain spread along the street into the depths of the alley.

……

The next day, when students from Shiraishi High School passed by here, the alley and a nearby area were cordoned off by police officers to prohibit passage.

Pinggong Qianye, who always came to school late, stopped to observe for a moment when passing by here, and then entered the school gate on time.

In the classroom, when the get out of class was over, many students ran out of the classroom and gathered around the windows facing outside of the next class.

From there, you can get a vague glimpse of what's going on over there in the alley.

Perhaps taking this into consideration, the police officers hung a black cloth over the crime scene to cover up the most critical situation at the scene.

Pinggong Qianye did not join in the fun, but sat in his seat and listened to the classmates who came back from watching the fun talking about this matter.

Students have no resistance to such new things.

Pinggong Qianye just listened slowly and almost understood what happened in the alley.

A classmate who lives near the alley revealed that the first person to discover the body this morning was his uncle.

According to his uncle, the body was lying next to a trash can, with the body of a stray dog ​​next to it.

Bones were exposed in many places on the two corpses, with only one or two strips of flesh clinging to the bones. Their internal organs had been basically eaten clean, their faces had been distorted beyond recognition, and their skulls had been opened.

It doesn't look like something a human murderer would do, but more like the marks left by some kind of animal biting it madly.

The entire crime scene was simply horrific.

"You think this is revenge from the dog spirit?"

One classmate made this guess: "Hasn't there been a sudden decrease in the number of stray dogs in our school recently?"

"It is very likely that he was poached or beaten to death by a dog thief. This should have been the case last night. The deceased is most likely the dog thief!"

"When he committed another crime last night, the resentful souls of the dead stray dogs gathered into dog spirits and began their own revenge!"

The classmate described this conjecture vividly, causing many people to exclaim in surprise at the same time.

Pinggong Qianye was also a little surprised. When he heard about the case in the alley just now, he also guessed that it was a dog spirit who committed the crime.

As for the identity of the deceased, his guess was different from that of that classmate.

It is not easy to give birth to a dog spirit, especially a dog spirit that is cruel enough to kill people.

Normal death would not leave such a strong resentment, and it would not be able to gather into a vengeful dog spirit.

Only those who were brutally murdered and tortured during their lifetime would have such a strong resentment.

In order to carry out this, the murderer must have drugged the stray dogs and taken them back to where he lives, or to some other secluded place, to carry out the cruel killing.

The alley is obviously not a good place to kill people because it is not hidden.

Plus there is a trash can in that place, and there are regular sanitation workers who go there to clean up the garbage every day.

Hiramiya Chiya satisfied her detective reasoning addiction a little and didn't think too much about it.