A comic book, but a librarian
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Chapter 83: Preparation of Paint and the Disappearance at the Unknown Station
"Ms. Nao is still so powerful. I am almost scared."
Uesugi Cheng was lying on the sofa, holding the stick of a popsicle in his mouth, talking to the phone.
"I see. So she just wants to contact you personally in the name of the Hayasaka family..."
"What? Are you scared? If the Hayasaka family supports me in interfering in family affairs and then takes advantage of it, you will probably be in trouble. After all, the Shinomiya family is behind her. Even among the nobles and chaebols, they are a giant."
"Hahahaha, if you want, I can let you do these now and give you everything. How about it?" Uesugi Nobuyuki smiled very confidently and didn't care at all about Hayasaka Nao's contact with Uesugi Sumire.
"Don't be funny, just stay there and use your talents. Your brother is living a comfortable life now. Besides, the favor of the Hayasaka family is not a big problem. The problem is... Brother, do you think there are souls in this world?"
"Well, you and I never talk nonsense, so now I understand what you mean. This time it's my fault as your brother. Next time if you need anything, just ask me directly."
Uesugi Nobuyuki pinched his nose. There were not only people but also ghosts in this world. This was not the scariest thing. The scariest thing was that he knew nothing about the existence of ghosts.
"Don't worry, ordinary people can't see or use those things. You just need to pay attention to the urban legends that suddenly become popular in those forums. As for Hayasaka, I feel sorry for Hayasaka Ai..."
Uesugi Sumiko thought of how Hayasaka Ai's expressionless face instantly broke down after she saw Hayasaka Nao and turned into a little girl who loved to act like a spoiled child and was played around with. He could only sigh. The people in the big family were more difficult to get along with than each other. He suddenly felt fortunate that the Uesugi family was still relatively normal.
"You pity her, why don't you pity me? I'm your biological brother!"
"My dear brother, don't even think about asking me to go back to help you with work. Don't you think those old guys in the family are really annoying? It's as if their brains were moved from fifty years ago, and they keep asking us to work hard. I don't have as good a temper as you." Uesugi Cheng curled his lips. He felt that he was a person with normal values, completely different from those old guys whose brains had been brainwashed by their family or something.
"Okay, okay, just come back and see me when you have time. Is there anything else?"
"Yes, I want to draw a picture."
"Ah."
“A painting I’ve always wanted to paint that will surprise everyone.”
"I'll come to show my support then, remember to call me."
"Okay." Uesugi Cheng nodded, threw away the popsicle, and in the blink of an eye he was back to the Silent Bookstore. The bookstore was particularly quiet at night, with only the sound of the night wind passing through the room.
"Six Books to Know, Inscriptions of Vinzant, and Scorching Tantra... That's enough. The knowledge in these books is enough. I didn't expect that I would have to mix the paints myself in the end."
In front of Uesugi Cheng was a bottle of liquid so white that it could still attract attention even in the dark, and a bottle of pitch-black particles.
[Yaosu]: Such pure white that it can still be seen even in the dark, just like the bright moon or an eye-catching cat. (2 lights)
【Bitter Black Salt】: Bitter as chicory, black as secret, but it is the first step in traditional alchemy. (1 light)
"Black, white, orange, rich gold... just a little bit left, just a little bit to make it all up... even though it feels like a waste, it's my dream after all."
Uesugi Cheng licked his lips and began to study the book. Although exploring urban legends was indeed urgent, the group of moths in his heart seemed to be restless and generating inspiration again. Especially after he was sure that he could draw the flame he wanted, his desire to complete his work became stronger.
However, the investigation turned out just as Uesugi Cheng had expected. Neither he nor Shirogane Miyuki could find any clues about the so-called unnamed station. Even the non-existent abandoned station that was supposed to be reached after the terminal station was not seen.
Therefore, Uesugi Sumiya could only persuade Shirogane Miyuki to go back first, leaving him alone to deal with the matter slowly.
On the other hand, the information provided by the Hayasaka family did have a certain effect, but that was only a certainty. Information that was difficult to distinguish between true and false required manual screening, but the Hayasaka family did not have the conditions to do the screening, so they could only hand it all over to Uesugi Sumiya.
"Am I still too morally upright... Do they believe in this kind of thing?"
Uesugi Sumire was speechless as he looked at the documents in his hand, but then he thought that apart from a gifted prodigy like Yotsuya Miko, he had not met any other person with strong psychic abilities in Tokyo, let alone anyone with even a little bit of inspiration.
"Forget it. They can't verify this kind of stuff anyway. They've tried their best to pick out the fake stuff at first glance. But on my side..."
Uesugi Cheng remembered the "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Yes, Minister" he had watched in his previous life, and decided to do them a favor like a British civil servant.
"Hello? Why is it that someone has been calling me everyday lately... What the hell are you talking about?!!"
Uesugi Cheng frowned again. He felt that he had not had much free time since the summer vacation started, and he had even started to become particularly unlucky recently.
"You didn't look for Hikigaya's family or his sister when he was sent to the hospital, but you called me? Is there something wrong with you or with me?" Uesugi Sumire suddenly felt like he was the victim of a telecommunications scam. How could the person he was chatting with just two days ago suddenly say that he was sent to the hospital?
"Okay, okay, I'll come over. Hikigaya Hachiman specifically asked me to go look for him, right?"
Uesugi Cheng sighed. He had a bad premonition in his heart. This premonition has always been very accurate, so accurate that he feels it might be better if he didn't have this talent.
Uesugi Sumire rushed to the hospital and saw Hikigaya Hachiman, who looked extremely haggard with a thick bandage on his head.
"I'm sorry to call you here at this hour...something happened."
"I guessed it. What happened?"
Uesugi Sumire looked at Hikigaya. There were obviously no serious external injuries, but Hikigaya's soul seemed to have fallen into extreme weakness for unknown reasons.
"I've arrived at the 'unnamed station'."
Hikigaya's first words made Uesugi Cheng's eyes widen.
"That's right, Acheng. I almost died in that station... I don't know how I came back alive."
Chapter 84: The Case of the Disappearance at the Unknown Station
"Tell me more carefully. I have been looking for the station for two days and couldn't find it. How did you get in?"
Uesugi Sumiko used the fruit knife in his hand to skillfully peel the apple into a circle, then put the peeled apple into Hikigaya Hachiman's hand. He stood up and looked out the window.
"You know I would never do such a dangerous thing, but..." Hikigaya Hachiman seemed a little hesitant.
"Did someone send you something?"
"No, it's that I couldn't get through to Komachi's phone... I remember that I couldn't get through to Komachi's phone, and then I remembered that she seemed to say that she was going to take the subway to go out and play, so I was anxious and decided to go to the subway station to check."
Uesugi Cheng lowered the curtains. He had just confirmed that there were no eavesdropping devices or people here, so he spoke with confidence.
"So you took the subway to the end of the line? What did it look like there?"
"I... I don't know? Uh... my head hurts... I, I seem to have been taken out by someone, but I really don't remember what happened. Anyway, it seems that no one has been to that station for decades, but I saw a lot of people in white clothes... I don't even know if they can be considered human. They look no different from dead people, but they can move."
Hikigaya Hachiman covered his head in pain. He felt that his memory was obviously missing a part. For example, there was a note in his pocket. He had no idea when he wrote it.
"Left, right, left, second room."
"It seems that you are a little bolder than I thought. People know that it might be better not to run around in a place like that, but it seems that you actually went in. So what's next... do you still remember who brought you here?"
Uesugi Sumiko reluctantly took the note from Hikigaya's hand. The handwriting was obviously from Hikigaya Hachiman himself. Uesugi Sumiko didn't think that he would do something meaningless in such an emergency.
"I'm sorry, Cheng. I thought I would die deeper inside the station. In fact, after I arrived at the station, I couldn't contact the outside world no matter how hard I tried, so I just kept walking along the tracks. But my head hurts when I think about what happened next, and I can't remember anything at all."
Hikigaya lay back on the bed helplessly and threw the apple core into the trash can. He looked extremely tired even though he had just woken up not long ago.
"Sorry, I was too impulsive. If I had been calmer..." Hikigaya Hachiman relaxed his posture a little, looking a little helpless. He didn't expect that he would become the one who held the team back.
"No, do you remember the last time I asked for leave, I had to run away?"
"The time I went out with Yotsuya-san? Of course I remember that. What's wrong?"
"If I'm not mistaken, you're being targeted..."
Hikigaya sat up suddenly and pointed at himself.
"Me? Why am I worthy of being targeted? No, if the other party is an evil spirit... there is no need for a reason to target anyone. Maybe it's because I lost my composure that I'm being targeted..."
"Let me put it this way. Once you are targeted, no matter what you do, you will be drawn there in the end, because in your subconscious, you are destined to go there... So don't worry about it. In other words, the breakthrough is in you."
Uesugi Cheng sighed. He finally found a way to enter the station. Hikigaya Hachiman's weakness was not entirely due to physical injuries, but more because part of his soul was left there and he could not get it back.
"Hikigaya, part of your soul was probably left in that place... That's why your memory is so torn. You should know what I mean."
Uesugi Sumiya is certainly unwilling to let his friend Hikigaya get involved in danger, but just as he said, Hikigaya must find back the lost part of his soul, and Uesugi Sumiya must rely on the attraction between Hikigaya Hachiman and his soul to find that way.
"I know. I will go with you. Yotsuya-san was able to solve the problem with you. I think no matter how incompetent I am, I won't be a drag. At worst, you can just leave me there and run on your own."
Hikigaya Hachiman laughed twice as if he was mocking himself, but he actually just wanted to comfort Uesugi Sumire a little.
"Ah, your family seems to be coming over, so I'll be leaving now. What you need now is to rest well and prepare yourself so that we can try to find your soul. Yotsuya Miko seems to be still traveling and won't be back for a while, so this time it's just the two of us who will act."
Uesugi Sumiya's words made Hikigaya Hachiman twist his body uncomfortably. If Komachi and his parents knew about this, he would probably not be able to go out again. However, he had no way to stop this from happening.
"You should have a good talk with your family first. It's not appropriate for me to get involved in your family affairs." Uesugi Cheng put the fruit knife in the fruit plate and prepared to leave the ward.
"By the way, Acheng, although I don't know who brought me out, I have a hunch that if I see him again, I will definitely recognize him. Although it may sound a bit boastful, I feel that since the start of school, my mind seems to be much clearer, really..."
Hikigaya's sudden words sparked a little interest in Uesugi Cheng.
"Hachiman, if that's the case, maybe you have unexpected talents in some areas, even in areas that you don't even know about."
"I think it's better not to have such talent sometimes. After all, it's good enough for someone like me to live a peaceful life." Hikigaya Hachiman blinked hard, and he began to feel as if he was hallucinating again.
"It's not up to you to decide. You still have to know what you should know when the time comes, otherwise no one will be able to save you if something happens to you."
Uesugi Sumire coughed twice. Hikigaya Hachiman's family would be here soon. He had no intention of explaining for Hikigaya. After all, he himself couldn't quite explain what had happened.
As for what he intends to teach Hikigaya, it will naturally not stray from the great art.
[Night Travel]: "Traveling at night is neither faster nor safer. This is why we do it." Knowledge of the roads and paths that transcend the mundane.
Hikigaya's intuition and sharpness are even more outrageous than he imagined. After all, he is the one who can get to the heart of the problem almost every time, so the night wandering technique may be very consistent with his nature.
However, Uesugi Cheng felt that even if his prediction was wrong, he had enough time to teach Hikigaya Hachiman to find a subject that suits him. The top priority now was to find back the missing part of his soul.
Chapter 85: The Case of the Disappearance at the Unknown Station
"Ah, this is rare. Is he from the Metropolitan Police Department?"
Uesugi Sumire sat in the corner of the hospital, looking at the uncle in front of him.
"Uesugi-san? Are you here to visit a friend?"
What Uesugi Cheng did not expect was that the Kogure Soichirō in front of him seemed even more surprised than him, but he still asked first.
"Yes, a classmate is in the hospital, so I came to see him. Officer Kogure, what are you doing?"
Soichiro Kogure hesitated for a moment and was unwilling to speak. Uesugi Sumiko immediately understood and didn't ask any more questions. It had nothing to do with him that the other person was unwilling to talk. The police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department were just ordinary people after get off work. Why did he need to know other people's private affairs?
"Hey, Uesugi-san, please be careful."
Soichiro Kogure really had nothing to say, and in the end could only squeeze out these words dryly. Uesugi Sumire didn't care much either. He waved at him and simply left the hospital.
Then he returned to the hospital and followed Soichiro Kogure secretly without him noticing.
Uesugi Sumiya had a hunch that he had seen a confidential document in the hands of Kogure Soichiro's boss, Fumi Junya, but Fumi Jun was unwilling to reveal the secret at the time. Now it seems that the document may be related to today's events, and even if it is wrong, Uesugi Sumiya would only waste some time.
Uesugi Sumire watched Soichirō Kogure walk into a ward, wrote down the door number and was about to leave, but when he turned around he bumped into another person.
"Hey young man, what a coincidence, I see you again."
The middle-aged woman holding a cigarette looked familiar. Uesugi Cheng thought about it and finally found a name in his memory.
Inudo Ranko, the director of the Police History Compilation Office and Jun'ya Kazeumi's real superior, but from the outside she seems to be a very unreliable person, with horse racing tickets, cigarettes, and a nonchalant look, if you ignore the spiritual power that is looming in her.
Uesugi Cheng also gradually discovered the difference between him and psychics. What they did was to "cultivate spiritual power", while Uesugi Cheng was doing along the way to increase his soul quality, that is, to strengthen the soul itself.
"Yes, what a coincidence, Head Inudo, what on earth happened that made you and I meet here?"
Uesugi Sumiko asked the question even though he knew the answer. He thought it was impossible that there was no one in Japan who knew about spirits. So the Police History Compilation Office, which had an official background but which made Uesugi Saki keep it a secret and seemed extremely strange, might be the most likely group to know the relevant knowledge.
"I have to say, boy, you look really scary at times. But since you are here, I won't play dumb. Junya went to get himself killed and was carried out of the underground station with his friends. I was also the one who brought your classmate out. He was seduced."
The cigarette was put out. I don't know if it was because he knew in advance that Uesugi Sumiko didn't like the taste of cigarettes or because he simply thought that smoking was not appropriate when talking about serious matters.
"I see. Then where exactly is the underground station mentioned in the urban legend..."
"It's a mess left by some predecessors. Don't worry, this is our problem. The Police History Compilation Office will take care of it."
Inudo Ranko became serious unusually. She didn't seem to want to say the name "Police History Compilation Office" at first, but finally chose to act under this name.
"Really? The Japanese police are so responsible? Then you should also know about the matter of the two generations, right?"
"......So I say, little brats like you are annoying sometimes. The matter of offspring is beyond our information range, and we didn't expect so many coincidences to eventually lead to such an incident."
Inudo Ranko licked her lips helplessly, as if she was trying to resist the urge to light another cigarette.
"To be honest, I'm still a little worried about what you police officers are doing...so I probably won't slow down."
"Young man, we will soon completely seal off that station, and what you are worried about will not happen."
Uesugi Cheng didn't say anything. He waved his hand and prepared to turn around.
"It's okay. I have to get back at my classmates, right? Just do your job. It won't affect you."
Uesugi Sumire came back and planned to go back to see Hikigaya.
"Why are you back again..." Hikigaya Hachiman was sitting on the hospital bed, looking even worse than before.
"There was a small problem. I guess we need to find out what happened." Uesugi Sumire was surprised to find Hikigaya alone again.
"What's that expression on your face? I persuaded my parents and Komachi to go back. I look normal now. Besides, it's not good for them to know about this, right?"
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