A young love story that started with exorcism

Yotsuya Miko pointed at the last image of the man on her phone and said, "Look, when he was finally arrested, his face suddenly looked much older. I feel like this is a bit similar to how Anji Penzi had his powers taken away by the EH chat group."

Hearing Yotsuya Miko's words, Takahashi Takumi finally noticed that the man in the final scene of the video of the murderer's arrest had indeed aged considerably. Of course, this couldn't be ruled out as being due to his own ability draining his vitality, but it did resemble Anji Bonzi's ability being recycled by the EH chat group.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was flipping through her small notebook. She had carefully recorded the events in the EH chat group.

"According to previous records, the EH chat group has many abilities. Not only can they secretly manipulate the network like cyber ghosts, but they can also strengthen the body, transform the human body, and even manipulate emotions to a certain extent.

This is all recorded. Perhaps it has even stronger capabilities, so it might be behind this series of events?"

This sudden conclusion caused everyone in the service department to fall silent.

If it was really the EH chat group behind the plot, then the arrested man might just be an unnecessary banner, or even the man’s arrest was part of the plan!

Takahashi Takumi had previously felt that there was an invisible force behind this incident, pushing the progress of the incident. Whether it was the sudden outbreak of information about Shuiyue Village on the Internet, the live assassination, or the direction of the Internet, it seemed that someone was guiding the spearhead towards the authorities.

Takahashi Takumi scratched his head helplessly. If this internet ghost thing really was causing trouble again, why was it doing all this? Was it just to expose the suffering of Suigetsu Village?

After watching it, Yukinoshita Yukino also felt that the man was just a pawn thrown out by the real culprit behind the scenes. The more he did this, the more it meant that he had bigger things to do.

"We can't just sit back and do nothing. The epicenter of this incident is Shuiyue Village. If only we could know what happened back then, we could at least figure out what the real murderer wants next. Then we can take precautions in advance."

"How about we go directly to the address of Suigetsu Village for an on-site investigation?" Yotsuya Miko suggested with her head tilted.

"How do we get there? Shuiyue Village is quite far away. The sun is about to set now. We have to wait until late at night to get there. Don't mess around," Takahashi Takumi said speechlessly.

Yotsuya still didn't give up, so she turned to look at Yukinoshita Yukino and Kasumigaoka Utaha. After a little thought, Yukinoshita Yukino decided that it was worth a try.

"Shuiyue Village has been sealed off for over 20 years. At this sensitive time, the authorities will definitely tighten the blockade. It will be very difficult to get in and investigate. However, some unconventional methods may have been used to get in."

"Then let's take the bus there as soon as we get out of school tomorrow, okay, Takahashi-kun?" Yotsuya Miko said expectantly, pulling Takahashi Takumi's sleeve.

Looking into Miko's eyes, Takahashi Takumi felt reluctant to refuse. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that the man arrested was indeed involved in the Tokyo Tower bombing, and those sorcerers did not know about the existence of the EH chat group, so they basically regarded the man as the real murderer. Now they are probably interrogating him to find out how many accomplices he has.

Now that the real culprit has been found, will they still care about what secrets Shuiyue Village hides? Even if they are curious, they will probably ignore it. After all, no one wants to fall out with the authorities.

Finally, Takahashi Takumi said helplessly, "If we go tomorrow afternoon after school, even if we consider the time it takes to go there and back, we'll be back very late. If we include the time it takes to search, we'll probably be back in the early morning at the earliest. And if there's a tight military blockade, aren't you afraid it'll be a wasted trip?"

"Not afraid x3"

Seeing how determined they were, Takahashi Takumi stopped objecting and just looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha. She blushed and said she was fine.

"That's it, let's go to Shuiyue Village tomorrow, but you have to listen to my instructions."

……

After the arrested man was labeled the murderer, public opinion was temporarily suppressed. Discussions about Shuiyue Village also turned into insults against the murderer, and the reputation of the police gradually recovered.

If the EH chat group was the mastermind behind the incident, they should have come out and continued to attack, but they didn't. This made Takahashi Takumi a little confused. Could that man be the murderer?

After school the next day, Takahashi Takumi and the three girls from the service club took a bus to Suigetsu Village. When they arrived at the town closest to Suigetsu Village, Takahashi Takumi and the others got off and took advantage of the night to walk quickly towards Suigetsu Village.

As expected, there was a large number of fully armed soldiers guarding the intersection quite a distance away from Shuiyue Village, and they obviously would not let anyone in.

Yukinoshita Yukino suggested finding a place with weak guards, and all staff used absolute Qi-retracting techniques to reduce their presence to a minimum, so that they could pass through silently in the night, and she said that this was only a method she had experienced.

"After using Jue, people walking on the street acted as if they couldn't see me. The owner of the snack stand ignored me no matter how much I called out. When I lifted Jue, he was even scared."

That sounds a bit like Bunny Girl Senpai, but it seems to work.

At this time, Takumi Takahashi took out a nuclear radiation detector and saw that the number detected was 0.2 microsieverts, which was exactly the peak value of human body radiation safety considered by the international community.

When Yukinoshita Yukino and the other three saw the nuclear radiation detector that Takahashi Takumi was holding, they were a little surprised and looked at the numbers on the instrument solemnly.

"Takahashi-kun, there's nothing in there..."

Chapter 214: Disappearing Nuclear Wastewater

Takahashi Takumi pointed to the 0.2 microsievert displayed on the nuclear radiation detector and said: "It is still within the safe range now, but I don't know what it will be like inside. Do you still want to go in?"

Yukinoshita Yukino and the other two looked at each other and said firmly, "Let's go in. No matter what, we must find out what happened in Shuiyue Village."

Takahashi Takumi nodded, but still consoled him: "After all, it happened twenty years ago, I'm afraid it has almost faded by now."

In order to avoid the guards more safely, after Takahashi Takumi used the circle to find an area with weak defenses, Takahashi Takumi and the other four used Jutsu, quietly avoided the guards, and walked towards Suigetsu.

As Takahashi and his companions neared Suigetsu Village, the radiation detectors began to sound alarms. The radiation level detected had increased from 0.2 microsieverts to 1 microsievert, though this level wasn't a significant problem unless they were staying there for a long time.

Just as the shadow of Suigetsu Village was seen in the distance under the moonlight, the nuclear radiation detector in Takahashi Takumi's hand showed that the value had exceeded 2 microsieverts, which was 2 times that of Tokyo.

Going further and closer to Shuiyue Village, the number quickly rose to 4 microsieverts, doubling.

It is obvious that Shuiyue Village was contaminated by nuclear radiation. Although we don’t know why the village was contaminated by nuclear radiation, the village was probably blocked in order to cover up this fact.

Unexpectedly, he got such a fact. Takahashi Takumi stopped immediately and there was no need to go any further.

After returning, Yukinoshita Yukino and the other two naturally came to Takahashi Takumi's house together, which made Takahashi Takumi a little helpless. It would be fine if only one person came, but what if three of them came together?

"I've already told my mom that I'll be staying over at Yukino's house tonight. Hehe, it's the same if I come over to Takahashi's house," Yotsuya Miko said with a blushing face.

"I'm afraid it's unsafe for me to be alone in your house."

After saying that, Yukinoshita Yukino turned her head away, while Yotsuya Miko hugged Yukinoshita Yukino and said with a smile: "Yukino, let's sleep together."

Although he really wanted to tell you that you could sleep together when you return to Yukinoshita Yukino's apartment, Takahashi Takumi held back. If a beautiful girl comes to stay at your house, no one will chase her away, right?

Kasumigaoka Utaha directly took out a set of her own clothes from her schoolbag and said with a smile: "Anyway, there is a vacant room in Takahashi-kun's house, so I will take one, so that Takahashi-kun can guide me at any time."

After saying that, he gave Takumi Takahashi a wink.

Yukinoshita Yukino and Yotsuya Miko were not to be outdone. They took out clothes from their backpacks, obviously treating this place as a settlement.

Takahashi Takumi watched them walk into the bathroom together, and heard the sound of water dripping and the occasional coquettish voice coming to his ears. It was the sound of girls playing in the bathroom.

Takahashi Takumi turned over and lay on the sofa. What he discovered in Suigetsu Village today was within his expectations. After all, when the Shinomiya family's house was flooded last time, Gojo Satoru had already hinted that it was radioactive water.

Since the murderer deliberately used radioactive water, it was obvious that he wanted to make the Shinomiya family feel the torture of nuclear radiation. Combined with the previous revelations about the fate of Shuiyue Village, it was expected that Shuiyue Village was contaminated with nuclear radiation.

However, at this time, another big news broke out on the Internet. The official Deputy Chief of Police will hold a press conference at 12 o'clock tomorrow, and will publicly release the interrogation record of the arrested murderer. However, as soon as this announcement came out, there was another notice with a dolphin icon indicating that the assassination of the Deputy Chief of Police will begin at 12 o'clock tomorrow.

This instantly set the entire Internet on fire. Everyone was shocked by the preview. The last live broadcast of the assassination of the head of the Shinomiya family was explosive enough, but no one expected that this time he would actually threaten to assassinate the Deputy Director of the National Police Agency. It was such a heinous act and too arrogant.

However, the trailer also seems to indicate that the man arrested is not the real murderer, at least not the only one. So, when the authorities previously vowed that they had apprehended the culprit behind the Tokyo Tower bombing, doesn't that mean the police were lying?

This has made many people angry and say that the people have been deceived. Some radicals even said that the police just caught a scapegoat to calm the situation, and actually did not care about the lives of ordinary people. There is a subtle trend of calling for people to protest at the National Assembly.

"I said the last video was like a movie, what do you say now?"

"Could that man have been tortured into confessing?"

"In fact, I am the mastermind behind this. Tomorrow I will personally assassinate the Deputy Minister."

"Another assassination? That serial killer hasn't killed so many people, and if he wants revenge, won't you use the law? This kind of person is a violent person, a born bad seed. Who in their right mind would do this?"

"So what exactly happened in Shuiyue Village?"

"Who knows? It happened over 20 years ago. I'm not interested in knowing."

……

Takahashi Takumi found that the public opinion this time did not seem to be as consistent as the previous times, and there were even many voices insulting the murderer behind the scenes.

Come to think of it, once the assassination is exposed, it can only happen once and never again, although I don't want to be shrouded in the shadow of assassination.

After thinking it over, Takumi Takahashi took out his cell phone and decided to call Gojo Satoru. After the call was connected, Takumi Takahashi directly told him his speculation about the arrested man and the matter about the EH chat group.

Gojo Satoru on the other end of the phone brought an even more critical news.

It turned out that it was because of the former Prime Minister that the Shinomiya family's homes were all filled with water containing nuclear radiation, so the source of this water containing huge amounts of nuclear radiation was investigated, and in the end, a shocking news was discovered.

Among the nuclear waste water stored in the nuclear power plant on Island F, 100 cubic meters of the most seriously contaminated untreated nuclear waste water that had come into contact with the melted core had disappeared at some point.

The nuclear waste water that has come into contact with the reactor core has not been found yet.

Because the matter is of great importance, all the warlocks have to go out and search for it.

After hearing the news, Takumi Takahashi was stunned. He didn't expect things to develop to this point.

Since the murderer wanted his enemies to experience the effects of nuclear radiation, he seemed to have a reason to steal the wastewater. But how could 100 cubic meters be enough to use up all of it? Even if it was just enough for his enemies to swim in, it would be enough.

After Yukinoshita Yukino and the others came out of the shower, Takahashi Takumi told them all the information, and the three of them were stunned for a moment.

Yotsuya Miko was very puzzled and asked, "My family uses no more than 10 cubic meters of water a month. Isn't it too much to bring 100 cubic meters of water for revenge? Does he have so many targets for revenge?"

Chapter 215 Waterworks

If the purpose is revenge against a specific person, then these 100 tons of nuclear waste water are naturally too much and unnecessary.

However, if his target was not just the upper echelons of society at the time, the fact that he could blow up Tokyo Tower right from the start showed just how crazy he was. Therefore, the person behind this was likely to carry out indiscriminate revenge.

“Where will the 100 tons of nuclear waste water be dumped?”

Yotsuya Miko swallowed her saliva, and the water droplets that had not been wiped off the ends of her hair dripped onto the back of her hand.

"Oh my!" Yotsuya Miko jumped suddenly, a terrible thought flashing through her mind. She quickly grabbed Takahashi Takumi's hand and said nervously, "Takahashi-kun, do you think you're planning to dump nuclear wastewater directly into the city's water supply?"

Hiss! This bold idea made Takahashi Takumi gasp. If this were to happen, wouldn't 20 to 30 million people in Tokyo be in trouble?

Yukinoshita Yukino stood up nervously. When she thought about the consequences of nuclear waste water being put into the water supply network, her palms were sweating. She took a few deep breaths before she managed to calm down.

"That's probably the case. We need to quickly find the stolen nuclear wastewater. Since the Jujutsu High School has already learned about this, it means the official authorities know about it too.

But there are currently 11 major waterworks in Tokyo, so it's impossible to say which one will be targeted first. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility of releasing the pollutants into smaller waterworks."

Takahashi Takumi nodded and added, "The key is that we don't know what kind of abilities the mastermind behind the scenes has, but what is certain is that ordinary people's guarding is completely ineffective. With so many water plants, even if all the sorcerers were mobilized, it wouldn't be enough."

"Huh? Are there so few sorcerers?" Yukinoshita Yukino asked in confusion.

Takahashi Takumi sighed and said, "Of course, basically, it's good enough for Jujutsu High School to recruit students every year. Otherwise, do you think that Gojo Satoru would come over specifically to take care of Shibata and Yoshino Junpei? Jujutsu masters often die during missions, so the number of Jujutsu masters is basically less than a hundred, and many of them have to stay at the high school. Some of them only serve as logistics and are not suitable for combat.

Therefore, the sorcerer alone cannot take care of all the water plants, and the same goes for the four of us."

"What should we do? We have so many water plants that we can't keep track of them all. What if he succeeds..."

For a moment, everyone in the living room fell into deep thought. Things had unfolded beyond their expectations. Takahashi Takumi was in a state of panic. Who could have imagined that the dark side of the world was even more terrifying than Gotham City? His peaceful school life hadn't lasted a few days. He was dealing with evil spirits and cursed spirits every day, battling ghoul curse masters, and now a city-destroying disaster. The key was that no one knew who was behind this!

And at tomorrow's press conference, someone will try to assassinate the Deputy Director of the National Police Agency, which will surely lead to even greater chaos.

"Forget it, we have to go to school tomorrow. It's late now, let's go to bed first." Takahashi Takumi shook his head and decided to go back to his room.

"Oh, are we just going to leave it like this?" asked Yotsuya Miko, tilting her head.

"So how do you plan to manage it? Have you come up with a good plan? Maybe we've all got it wrong. We should get some sleep first. Maybe when we wake up every morning, we'll find Gojo Satoru and the others have retrieved the nuclear waste water."

Not only was Yotsuya Miko silent, but even Yukinoshita Yukino was speechless. The idea of nuclear wastewater being dumped into the waterworks was just their conjecture, and it wasn't certain to be true. Why would they go to a nearby waterworks and guard it in the middle of the night? That didn't make sense.

Seeing that they were still reluctant to go to bed, Takahashi Takumi said helplessly: "Even heroes have to sleep. Aren't you tired after running such a long way back and forth today? Don't forget, we are still students. Don't take too many responsibilities on your shoulders that don't belong to you.

Besides, you should think about whether you still want to go to school tomorrow. Judging from the way you look, I think you are all going to skip class and leave."

After saying this, Takahashi Takumi went into the room, leaving Yukinoshita Yukino, Yotsuya Miko, and Kasumigaoka Utaha standing there staring at each other.

Speaking of skipping school tomorrow, Yukinoshita suddenly felt a surge of excitement. She'd always been a top student, even when singled out and bullied by classmates, she'd never considered skipping. And now, because of the nuclear wastewater incident, she could skip school tomorrow to investigate. While it was a perfectly legitimate excuse, it still made Yukinoshita a little excited.

Yotsuya Miko also said with some distress: "Should I skip class tomorrow?"

At this time, Kasumigaoka Shiyu was speechless and directly woke them up and said, "You are stupid. Even if you don't want to go to class tomorrow, why don't you just call the teacher and ask for leave? Why do you have to skip class?"

"Oh, that's right!" Only then did Yotsuya Miko realize that she could ask the teacher for leave.

"Humph, that bad guy Takahashi-kun will mislead us."

"Misleading?" Yukinoshita Yukino seemed to be thinking about something. A flash of inspiration came to her mind, as if she had thought of something, but she couldn't grasp it.

Takahashi Takumi returned to the room and collapsed powerlessly on the big bed.

So annoying! These past few days have been like a criminal investigation, not fun at all. The mastermind behind this is hiding everywhere, not daring to confront them head-on.

Now thinking back calmly, after organizing his thoughts and re-sorting out a series of information, Takahashi Takumi discovered that the most important thing was that the nuclear waste water should have been stolen long ago. The mastermind used nuclear waste water in the two assassinations at the beginning, so as long as he wanted to dump the nuclear waste water into the water plant, he should have done so long ago.

Now there is no sign of contamination in the tap water, which means he has no such plan. As for what he is going to do, perhaps there will be an answer tomorrow after the assassination of the Deputy Minister of Police.

The door opened with a click, and a pretty figure quietly walked in.

"Takahashi-kun~"

It was Yotsuya Miko's soft voice.

Takahashi Takumi looked back and saw that it was Yotsuya Miko who came in. She was now walking to the bedside in a playful manner, shyly twisting her fingers.

Takahashi Takumi couldn't help but laugh at her shy look: "I've been to your room several times, are you so shy just because you come to my room once?"