In the anime, Kira Yoshikage longs for a peaceful life

Chapter 17 Thinking is a trap, knowledge is poison

"Yeah, yeah, yeah~"

Kira Yoshikage glanced through the crowd with an extremely calm expression.

From the explosion to the injuries to the chaos in the entire venue, he was a pure bystander from beginning to end, watching everything happen calmly and not trying to help any strangers.

As for helping Kitagawa Umi, it was because she had given money after all, and had not yet paid the balance.

Kitagawa Umi and Yuigahama Yui looked at what was happening in front of them and found it hard to accept for a moment. Only Miura Yumiko was a little calmer. She pulled them closer to Kira Yoshikage and asked softly:

"Kira-kun, what should we do now? Should we run?"

Kira Yoshikage looked at the crowd rushing towards the exit and replied calmly:

"Wait."

Although most people would instinctively run towards the exit in this situation, this is not the right thing to do.

Because in such a chaotic situation, the crowded crowd can easily cause more serious secondary accidents, such as stampedes. For another example, the criminals who made bombs may still stay in the venue, ready to wait until the crowd is the densest and continue to throw bombs at the crowd.

But most people don't think about this. At the moment the bomb explodes, their brains simply process the situation -

For example, the meeting venue corresponds to danger, while leaving the venue corresponds to safety.

In comparison, finding a safe place to hide is a better option.

This can avoid secondary accidents that may be caused by crowds, and can also avoid the risk of further explosions.

Of course, staying also carries risks.

For example, if the criminal remains in the venue, the two sides are likely to collide head-on.

In this case, hiding in the meeting venue is the most dangerous.

But Kira Yoshikage obviously had no such worries.

"Kira-kun, the criminal, the criminal may still be here..."

Kitagawa Umi's voice trembled slightly.

Kirara Yoshikage asked:

"Why do you say that?"

"because."

Kitagawa Umi's face turned pale, and she pursed her lips and said:

"When he gave me the bomb, he ran towards the exhibition hall..."

Kira Yoshikage immediately realized that the bomber disguised the bomb as a frog doll and gave it to tourists visiting the exhibition hall. But now it was noon, and most tourists would choose to leave the exhibition hall and go to the restaurant street outside for lunch.

Therefore, most tourists who received frog dolls moved towards the exits. However, the bomber knew that the bomb was about to explode, so in order to avoid being affected, he would not actively move towards the exit where the bomb was.

Therefore, he could only run into the venue!

"how does he look like?"

Kira Yoshikage asked as he scanned the crowd.

"He was wearing a frog puppet costume, so I couldn't see his face clearly, but he was taller than me, probably around 1.7 meters tall..."

Kitagawa Umi tried hard to recall the appearance of the bomber, but the other party was wearing a leather suit, so it was really difficult to get any useful clues.

But for Kira Yoshikage, this was enough.

His eyes began to quickly scan the crowd, screening out those who were about 1.7 meters tall.

Apparently, there was another reason why the criminal ran into the venue.

He had to hurry and take off his puppet costume.

Although the furry doll costume is confusing when sending out the bomb, it will make the person who receives the bomb doll relax his vigilance.

But once the explosion occurs, the person wearing the frog puppet costume will become the main suspect.

That's why the other party took off his puppet costume and wanted to take the opportunity to escape among the crowd.

Correct

Yumiko Miura and her colleagues were also trying hard to observe the people passing by, trying to find the criminal among them.

But this is easier said than done?

There were tens of thousands of tourists in the venue, and they didn't even know what the other person looked like. Trying to pick each other out in the vast crowd was like looking for a needle in a haystack, which was almost impossible.

Kira Yoshikage originally thought so, until his eyes fixed on a young man wearing a peaked cap.

He was about 1.7 meters tall, and unlike the others, he had a more or less frightened expression on his face.

His face was somewhat gloomy, but when his eyes swept across the victims lying in a pool of blood, a joyful and cruel smile unconsciously appeared at the corner of his mouth. That tax-evading expression was like an artist enjoying his masterpiece.

Kira Yoshikage looked at him quietly, and a big pink cat quietly emerged.

boom!

Before the young man could even stop smiling, his body was blown away by an invisible force!

The attention of Kitagawa, Umi and the other two were also attracted by this sudden scene, but they did not see what attacked the other party. They only saw someone in the crowd flying out and hitting the wall. In addition to the dull impact, there seemed to be a crisp sound of broken bones, which made people shudder.

Everyone was surprised as to why the young man was suddenly sent flying, but few people paid attention to the black tattoo on the back of his hand. The tattoo was in the shape of a sewn eye surrounded by a black circle, and outside the circle were many regularly drawn black lines radiating outwards, making the circle look like a dark sun.

"Foolish eyes?"

As soon as Kira Yoshikage saw the tattoo, he immediately connected everything together - this was a terrorist attack planned by the Anti-Intellectual Cult.

Anti-Intellectualism, an extreme religious organization that has emerged in recent years.

This organization is widely distributed throughout the world, and their logo is a sewn-on eye.

The anti-intellectual religion calls it the eye of foolishness or the eye of total darkness.

This also corresponds to the idea that anti-intellectualism has always advocated: thinking is a trap and knowledge is poison.

They advocated burning all books, eradicating all places that provided education, and leaving people to live solely on instinct and the experience passed down by their parents.

At first, anti-intellectualism was just about distributing leaflets and recruiting people on the streets to spread the word.

But as time went on, their behavior became more and more outrageous and eventually turned into a full-blown terrorist attack.

Bomb the schools, bomb the libraries, even bomb the TV stations and government buildings!

In the past year alone, at least hundreds of schools have been attacked by anti-intellectual cult bombings, and even teachers in those attacked schools have received death threats from the cult.

It is also because of the anti-intellectual terrorist attacks that tens of thousands of students are unable to continue their studies and have to transfer to schools in other areas.

For example, Kira Yoshikage.

He used to be able to attend public school, but now he can only attend expensive private school.

This is all thanks to anti-intellectualism.

Regardless of the purpose of the anti-intellectual cult, they are still terrorists, secretly planning terrorist attacks again and again.

The various actions of the Anti-Intellectual Cult were undoubtedly destroying the peaceful life that Kira Yoshikage was trying to maintain.

Chapter 18 Today is another peaceful day

"Kira-kun."

Kitagawa Umi was shocked by the sudden change and subconsciously turned her gaze to Kira Yoshikage.

Kira Yoshikage withdrew his gaze, as if he had seen nothing, and said calmly:

"We should go, keep up."

The man's spine had been broken by Killer Queen and he would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

So he could only lie on the ground and wait in pain for the police to arrive.

Once the police discover the foolish eye symbol on the back of his hand, they will know that he is a member of the Anti-Intellectual Church. They will also be able to guess that the Anti-Intellectual Church planned the attack, and maybe they can follow the clues and catch other accomplices of the Anti-Intellectual Church through him.

Even if the Japanese police were less capable, they would definitely be on their way here.

Just leave the job of cleaning the floor to the police.

Kitagawa Umi listened to Kira Yoshikage's calm tone and inexplicably felt at ease, and nodded obediently.

There were not many people left in the venue at this time, but the exit was still blocked.

But Kira Yoshikage still managed to make a path through the crowd, and led Kitagawa, Umi and the other two out of the exhibition hall and to the square outside the exhibition hall.

Looking at the people fleeing in all directions in the square, Yuigahama Yui was a little overwhelmed:

"Where should we go now?"

Kirara Yoshikage kept his eyes fixed on the people passing by and said:

"Leave here first, walk on the street, don't go to the subway station."

Like the exhibition hall, the subway was crowded with people and there was still a possibility of a stampede. Moreover, the exhibition hall had just exploded and the nearby subway stations might not be able to maintain operation.

In comparison, wide roads are safer, and you might even meet a policeman on the road.

Moreover, in Kira Yoshikage's opinion, the bomber was most likely to have come by subway -

There is no security check in the subway in Neon, so even if the bomber swaggered with a bag full of bombs and took the subway to the exhibition hall, no one would check him. Given the degree of madness of the other party, since he could "release" time bombs in the exhibition hall, it is not necessarily that he did not plant bombs in the subway station in advance.

If that really happened, I'm afraid no one in the subway station would survive.

As for Kitagawa and Umi, they had almost been killed by the bomb and now had blind trust in Kira Yoshikage. Even if Kira Yoshikage said he wanted to go back to the exhibition hall, they would still follow him even if they were a little scared, not to mention that leaving through the street sounded quite reliable.

A police car with red and blue flashing warning lights on its roof sped past, accompanied by shrill sirens.

However, it was just as Kira Yoshikage thought.

The police did not try to check whether there were criminals among the passers-by, not because they did not want to, but because they could not.

There were hundreds of thousands of people visiting the exhibition hall, but the police force in Tokyo only had 40,000 people. It was unrealistic to control all the people present at the venue and conduct a forced check. All they could do was rush to the scene of the crime as quickly as possible to seal it off and investigate.

Looking at the police car speeding by on the road, Kira Yoshikage stopped:

"Kitagawa-san."

"Ah, I'm here."

Kitagawa Kaimeng, who seemed a little dazed, came back to her senses instantly and raised her head nervously.

Kira Yoshikage stared into the girl's eyes and spoke calmly:

"Don't tell anyone about what happened today."

"it is good."

Kitagawa Umi hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice with some hesitation:

"Kira-kun, can you tell me why?"

Kirara Yoshikage withdrew his gaze from the girl and said calmly:

"Because it makes things complicated, and I hate complicated things."

"I see."

Kitagawa Umi was silent for a while, then nodded solemnly:

"I will keep it a secret and won't tell anyone."

She is not stupid. Kira Yoshikage has never touched the frog doll, but he can tell at a glance that there is a bomb hidden in the frog doll. Even the bomb exploded in front of her but did not cause any harm. All this is not accidental. Perhaps it is because Kira Yoshikage has some special ability.

This may be a superpower that often appears in fantasy novels, or it may be something else.

Kitagawa Umi was very curious, but she knew that if it weren't for Kira Yoshikage, she would be a tattered corpse now. So what she had to do was not to explore Kira Yoshikage's secret, but to keep it for him.

"I will keep it a secret too." Yumiko Miura immediately agreed.

"Me, same thing to me." Yuigahama Yui said in a low voice a little nervously.

Kira Yoshikage withdrew his gaze from the girls and glanced at the security guards who were maintaining law and order.

If nothing unexpected happens, the police should be able to spot the anti-intellectualist in the exhibition hall and their attention will be drawn to him.

And passers-by like them will definitely be ignored.

Good, today is another peaceful day.