A comic book, but a librarian

Saki Kawasaki was just about to discuss how to get the cell phone of the girl who called herself Akino from the store manager, when she saw Uesugi Sumika chatting and laughing with the store manager and taking the phone from his hand. She obediently swallowed the rest of her sentence.

"You shouldn't worry about the details at this time. Since you have decided to find that girl, you should use the fastest method. As for the process... as long as it does not violate the basic principles, it's fine."

Uesugi Cheng snapped his fingers, and the manager fell asleep on the cash register. Uesugi Cheng simply slapped a ten thousand yuan bill on the cash register table and started making large purchases in the convenience store.

The cell phone of the girl named Akino looked a bit tattered. There were cracks on the edge of the screen and it started up a bit slowly. Uesugi Cheng was not in a hurry. He asked everyone to find a place to sit down. In his hand was a magazine that he had just found from the shelf.

"Is that ok? We can all sit here?"

They were sitting outside a convenience store at the moment. A group of high school students, both boys and girls, were sitting together as if they were discussing something. At first glance, this scene looked very youthful... if you ignored what they were discussing and what they were holding in their hands.

"No problem. I've done some tricks so that people nearby won't notice us. Now let's see what's inside this phone."

Uesugi Cheng didn't care much about personal privacy issues. After all, the girl's life was not certain to be saved, and personal privacy was nothing compared to life.

She opened the phone directly and faced the password lock on the screen. Saki Kawasaki subconsciously wanted to find a clue from her memories, but she didn't expect that the phone actually entered the password and unlocked it by itself in an instant. It was so strange that it seemed as if there was someone inside the phone helping them.

"What are you standing there for? You don't think the message will pop out of your phone and show it to you, do you?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at his assistants helplessly. They were so shocked by a small evil spirit invasion. If he made a big noise in the future, one or two of them would be as stupid as Muggles and would mess up his plans.

"The chat history... has been cleared, but the photo album..."

The album hasn't had any new photos belonging to the phone owner for a long time. Most of them are work-related photos or screenshots. Judging from her choices and a series of performances, Saki Kawasaki feels that Akino is not an uneducated girl. On the contrary, she feels that her colleague Akino may have a high status.

"Is this a picture of her and her parents? How old does she look?"

Uesugi Cheng asked. Most of the photos in her phone were related to work. There were basically no photos related to her...

The girl in the photo of three people was smiling very happily, and it seemed like the photo was taken a few years ago... Uesugi Cheng looked through the properties of the photo and found that the photo was taken about four years ago.

"Four years ago, she was living a very normal life...but four years later, she even had to run away from home and might even be caught and brought back? What do you think?"

"No... We only have a photo and we don't even know where the person is, and there is no way to find him."

Hikigaya Hachiman was very calm. This was not something that could be found with his mediocre computer skills. Even if Yukinoshita Yukino asked her family to help her look it up, it would probably take enough time for tragedy to happen.

"That's no problem. I can just find someone. It just so happens that I have some connections in the Metropolitan Police Department."

Uesugi Sumire picked up the phone. Yukinoshita Yukino next to him was already a little numb. He casually asked someone from the Metropolitan Police Department to help him check someone's personal information. Even if Uesugi Sumire's sister is a prosecutor, she shouldn't have such ability, right?

"Inspector Inudo? Are you free? Do me a favor. I'll send you a photo later and you can help me check this person's identity information. It would be even better if he has an address or something."

The dog boy Ranko on the opposite side was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Uesugi Sumire to speak so directly. She paused and finally asked a question out of professional ethics.

"What do you want these for?"

"This girl may be related to a cult incident. I'll deal with it. If she's not related, I'll talk to you later."

There was a quick response from the other end of the phone. Inudo Ranko gave Uesugi Sumire the phone number of the detective from last time, saying that if there was any need, she could directly contact him for police assistance, anywhere in Tokyo.

"I feel like you're a very omnipotent young master now... Is this possible? It feels like you got the speedrun guide for a game."

Hikigaya Hachiman watched the whole process silently. Unlike Yotsuya Miko who had no idea at all, or Kawasaki Saki who had almost blind trust in Uesugi Sumire, he deeply understood how terrifying the connections in Uesugi Sumire's hands were. Of course, Yukinoshita Yukino should also have the same feeling.

While Yukinoshita Yukino looked like, "Is this still the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department that I know?", Uesugi Sumi received the message. Inudo Ranko was unusually fast in this regard.

"Kaji Akino...their current address is quite remote, let's go."

Uesugi Cheng put away his phone and prepared to leave.

The girl's parents seemed to have gone bankrupt for unknown reasons and moved into a cheap house in a remote area. Although on the surface it looked like a scene that one would encounter when a business failed, it now seems that it might actually be related to a cult.

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"I don't dare... I don't dare, I don't dare to run away..."

The girl curled up in the corner, barely using her still bleeding arm to cover her swollen cheek, exposing her back to receive the blows and reduce the extent of her injuries. Otherwise, she would not be able to sleep at night because of the burning pain of the wound. This was the trick of taking beatings that the girl named Kaji Akino had learned without any instruction in the past two years.

The feeling of a belt hitting the back is not as painful as a belt hitting the stomach, but a fist hitting the body is really painful... She cried and protected her face with her arms. Her furious father and mother would not let her go.

"Akino! How dare you run away! The master is right! You have been bewitched by the devil!!"

As Kaji Akino listened to these words, her heart, which had originally held a glimmer of hope, was gradually swallowed up by despair.

228

Chapter 228 The nightmare ends.

Akino Kaji was born into a happy family and lived a happy life, but such happy days disappeared one day.

She didn't know what was going on. Her father started to sit at home with a sad face, her mother also started to become easily angry, and the meals at home became simpler and simpler. For the first time, she felt the pain behind the "hunger" mentioned in the textbooks.

If it were just hunger, at least in this case Akino felt that she could still bear it. Her father's defeat was only temporary. As long as she could work hard with her parents to continue living, even if she couldn't live such a good life, Akino was willing to accept it.

But later, Dad and Mom found a "master" from somewhere, who was said to be able to help them make a comeback. That was the first time Dad and Mom hit her, just because she said that the master was a liar... But no matter how she cried, Dad and Mom, who usually doted on her, remained unmoved. The bad guy even said that he was possessed by a demon and needed an exorcism.

Of course, the so-called exorcism was beatings, from beatings with sticks, chopsticks, belts, and even poking her thighs with toothpicks... and pouring hot water on her. Her father and mother even stopped her from going to school, saying that as long as the exorcism was completed, the family's lost luck would return, and the house, car, delicious food, and beautiful clothes would all return...

But Akino only felt sad. While her mother was saying this, she stabbed her arm with a toothpick, drawing a little blood. She also told her to bear it well, saying that as long as the demon left her body, she could enjoy a happy life again. This was also the first time that Akino Kaji realized that she had such a strong tolerance for pain.

The hunger and pain caused by the abuse soon brought her illness, but her parents believed that it was the work of the devil, and instead intensified their "exorcism" on her. They even spent a lot of money to buy those consecration equipment from the "master", and even sold their house and moved into the small house that the "master" said had good feng shui.

Her survival instinct made her escape, taking her cell phone with her. Perhaps even her parents had never thought that a good girl like her would choose to run away...

"It hurts……"

Akino's eyes gradually became confused. She was pulled up by her hair by her father and punched in the stomach. Finally, she could no longer endure it and began to dry heave.

"Get out of my daughter's body! You devil! My daughter will never betray her father and mother! You must have tricked her into doing this! Get out!!"

Akino wanted to say that there was no such thing as a demon, but she no longer had the strength to speak and could only desperately endure the beating from the two people she loved most.

She fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face. Inexplicably, she thought of the blue-haired sister who had taken care of her in the convenience store, and the boss who had a sharp tongue but a soft heart. She could only say sorry softly. She had originally wanted to return the money for the bread and lunch box that sister Kawasaki had treated her to when she got her salary.

"Okay...Okay!! Since you, a monster, refuse to get out of my daughter's body, then we have no choice but to do this. Daughter...We will definitely rescue you from that devil's clutches!!"

Kaji Akino forced herself to open her eyes and saw clearly the kitchen knife with an incredibly sharp tip in her mother's hand. She gave up resisting and lay on the ground blankly. She just looked at her mother without any hesitation, like a puppet with its strings cut. She no longer protected her important parts of her body, nor did she resist. She just looked at her mother's face.

"I'm sorry, Sister Kawasaki... I wanted to pay you back."

She found that she didn't even have the strength to say her last words. Her stomach was stepped on by her father's foot, and her mother didn't seem to want to kill her with the knife, but to bleed her.

At this moment, the door was opened. Although the sound was not loud, the three people in the house obviously heard it. Perhaps they thought that the "master" had come, so the parents slowed down their actions, but Akino no longer cared about it. She looked at the ceiling with a distracted look, and the despair deep in her heart prompted her to close her eyes.

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"One! Two! Three! It's open!!!"

Hikigaya Hachiman fiddled with the door lock for a while, then knocked hard and the door lock was successfully opened. His night wandering skills had not made much progress recently, but his skills in unlocking doors had become more and more proficient, and his method of finding the point that could become a 'door' was becoming more and more precise.

"You bastards! Stop it!!"

Saki Kawasaki's anger was ignited almost instantly. She swung the package she was carrying and smashed it over, knocking the woman holding the knife to the ground. Then, in the surprised gaze of the two people in the house, she swung her fist and hit her.

"Yukino! Call the police!"

After giving an order, Yotsuya Miko rushed into Kaji Akino's "home". The poor, thin, bruised girl was lying defenselessly on the floor, looking as if she had fainted and couldn't move. Without saying a word, Yukinoshita Yukino picked up the phone and dialed the number that Uesugi Sumire had given her.

After wiping his sweat, Hikigaya Hachiman suddenly seemed to realize something. He didn't even care about the fierce fight and just observed this cramped and uncomfortable little house.

"You are all demons!! The great Lord God will definitely punish you!! He has already sensed the movements of you lawless demons!!"

The man spoke crazily. Kawasaki Saki's fist was indeed powerful, but there was no way to completely subdue an adult male in an instant. The other party picked up the sharp knife without hesitation and stabbed it on his arm, looking at the blood flowing from his body with a threatening smile.

However, nothing happened. He looked at the blood flowing in horror as if nothing had happened. Then he screamed as if he had a mental breakdown, crying bitterly and shouting stupid words like "don't abandon me". He knelt on the ground and stopped resisting.

"This is... a cultist."

Yukinoshita Yukino was filled with rage, and if the two adults had not been unable to resist anymore, she would have wanted to beat them up herself.

"There is something, but not much..."

Uesugi Cheng clapped his hands. The man had indeed summoned a bloodthirsty evil spirit, but it had now returned to heaven and earth. However, even so, the people in this small house also explained a problem. The cult they believed in did have some strange aspects.

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Chapter 229: Teamwork and Solo Finishing.

"Impossible!! Impossible!! How could you possibly!!"

The man had gone crazy. He picked up the knife and tried to stab it into his neck. Of course, Saki Kawasaki, who was faster than him, kicked his arm without hesitation and kicked the knife away.

"How can it be impossible? Although the thing you believe in is quite powerful, it is just an evil spirit after all. But I am very curious, where did you find this thing to worship? Can you tell me?"

Uesugi Cheng walked into the room at some point. He put his hand on the middle-aged man's head. His eyes were so sharp that people couldn't look him in the eye. He just stared into the man's eyes, and his words were filled with an irresistible sense of majesty.

"me……"

The man's expression gradually became confused, and then he actually spilled all the information he knew, and then he fainted.

"Killed to death?"

Hikigaya Hachiman walked out from a deeper room with obvious confusion on his face.

"I am a law-abiding citizen. How could I possibly kill someone?"

Uesugi Sumiko's words made everyone except Yotsuya Miko turn their eyes away, as if they didn't want to comment on what Uesugi Sumiko said.

"It's just a little hypnosis, but...what should we do with this child, everyone?"

Uesugi Sumire squatted down and touched the forehead of the girl named Kaji Akino. She seemed to have a high fever. Some of the scars on her body had not been treated and had worsened. Her thin body collapsed in Kawasaki Saki's arms, and she looked like she was unconscious.

"Let's send her to the hospital first. We'll talk about the rest after she wakes up..."

Yukinoshita Yukino has probably guessed what happened, and because of this she can't make any comments. For a girl, how to face her parents, how to face the rest of her life, these are questions she can't answer, so she can only save Akino's life first.

"By the way, Hikigaya, you ran in there as soon as you entered the door. Did you find anything?"

At this time, Uesugi Sumire mentioned Hikigaya Hachiman, who was not involved in this battle at all.

"Ha... The structure of this house is really a bit strange. I'm not sure whether the designer did it on purpose, but I can feel that living in a house like this for a long time will easily cause various problems for a family..."

Hikigaya Hachiman touched his head. He couldn't explain why he thought this way, but his intuition told him that if a family lived in such a room for too long, it would be easy for small conflicts to arise or even intensify.

"Oh, I see... The police will be here soon to help deal with this abuse case. Please help me deal with it. I have something else to do."

"Wait? What do you mean we can help you deal with it? The police are something we can deal with?"

Hikigaya Hachiman was once again shocked by Uesugi Sumire's wild remarks. Dealing with the police might be a common occurrence for a young master like Uesugi Sumire, but it's not the same for common people like them. They don't have the ability to do that.

"It's okay, we've already agreed, it's just a formality... The problem is that we have to get rid of the cult this guy believes in. After all, they seem to be able to come up with something, and they are much more dangerous than the usual cults that cheat people out of money and sex."

Uesugi Sumiko pushed the middle-aged man aside and took out a jar from somewhere, which contained some suspicious-looking ointment. He applied the ointment on Akino's wound.

"That's all. At least this pain-relieving ointment can ensure that the wound doesn't get worse. Let the hospital handle the rest. I'm going to finish my work."

Uesugi Sumiko handed the remaining ointment to Kawasaki Saki, then stood up, looking like he was about to leave.

"Are you going to find the cult's hideout? Alone? What if there are guns on the other side?"

Yukinoshita Yukino stopped Uesugi Cheng. No matter how you look at it, it is still a bit too risky to go alone. What if the other side has a gun? What will Uesugi Cheng do? Even if his spiritual power is strong, it is impossible to stop modern thermal weapons, right?

"Don't worry, I'm not a reckless man. I just scouted the place in advance. Besides, I don't think the other party will be indifferent to the death of the tentacle. Maybe they are already preparing to escape. And I was just helping the police to keep an eye on them. Otherwise, those guys would never be able to catch anyone."

Uesugi Cheng took out a chocolate bar from his pocket and started chewing it. With a smile on his face, he looked like someone who was going on a picnic.

"Even if that's the case...how about at least bringing a helper?"

Yukinoshita Yukino touched her forehead. She always felt that Uesugi Sumire was too casual in doing such things. How could he be so casual when he didn't even know how many people were on the opposite side?

"No need. I'm not going to do anything big. I just want to take a look."

Uesugi Cheng waved his hand again and left without looking back, leaving several high school students looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Why don't we control these two people first? I'm afraid that once they wake up..."

Yotsuya Miko spoke up at the right time, saying that their first team collaboration was actually quite good, although they basically relied on Uesugi Mamoru to speed run the game.

"Yes, I'll contact the hospital first. Akino's injury looks serious."

As Kawasaki Saki said this, she found that Kaji Akino's frown seemed to have gradually relaxed, as if she was gradually being rescued from the torture of pain.

[Regensburg Pain Relief Ointment]: A priceless herbal preparation introduced to the Silence House after Dr. Nathan was exiled from Regensburg. (2 Hearts 2 Honey)

"As for me...I'll negotiate with the police."

Yukinoshita Yukino was a little lacking in confidence. After all, she had never had any dealings with the police in her less than twenty years of life. The people on the other side might even be police from the criminal squad, who were much more troublesome than those patrolmen on the street.

"Wait a moment, all of you, and take a look at the floor plan I drew."

Hikigaya Hachiman sat on the sofa, looked seriously at the pencil and paper in his hands, and began to write and draw.

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