Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 247 Evil Knowledge
"You, you're seeing things. I told you this is a cursed mark..."

"What's the curse? Haven't you ever used a scratching rake?"

"How could a scratching rake leave black marks?" Yuan Yuzi questioned.

"Isn't this because you drew it with a black water-based pen?" The expression on Fushimi Shika's face seemed to be asking, 'Are you an asshole?'

"Are you listening to me seriously?" Yuan Yuzi snorted.

She was in a good mood and didn't bother to argue with Fushimi Shika. She flipped open her little notebook and started explaining from the beginning, selflessly sharing her findings.

Think about it carefully, the two of them started at the same starting line, but she was able to solve the case first, doesn't that prove her reasoning ability? This is the healthy competition of the reasoning team!
This time Fushimi Shika finally listened. When he learned that the place was haunted and people had died there, he felt something was wrong. It felt like the set of a horror movie. If he had known this earlier, he would have charged Yazaki Momo more money.

In the past, Fushimi Shika thought that the male and female protagonists in horror movies were stupid for insisting on living in haunted houses, especially when a whole family moved into an old house that was obviously problematic, and the parents always turned a deaf ear to all kinds of supernatural phenomena... Now it seems that they were forced by life!

If it weren't for poverty, who would live in a haunted house?
Fushimi Shika's desire to make money became stronger and stronger. Today, he saw an interview with Onoue Hiro on TV, which said that she had borrowed nearly 2 trillion yen over the years, second only to Tokyo Electric Power Company, which made Fushimi Shika jealous.

Aren't they all scammers? Why do psychics make more money than lawyers? Two trillion yen is almost equal to the turnover of a big law firm in three years!

Right now, Onoue is going to perform a spiritual ceremony for the royal family. It seems that she not only wants to be rich, but also wants power. With Princess Kiko's endorsement, she might even be able to enter politics and predict elections...

Just thinking about it makes me jealous... no, I'm filled with indignation!

Fushimi Shika suddenly asked, "Have you found out how much the Onoue psychic is paid?"

"What reward?" Yuan Yuzi didn't react for a moment. In her eyes, monks never touch money, especially the great masters, who have nothing to do with the smell of copper.

"Doesn't Princess Kiko have to pay to hire a psychic? Is the Japanese royal family so prestigious? Can they make a living just by scanning their faces?" Fushimi Shika said sarcastically.

"This... I didn't find out." Yuan Yuzi paused, vaguely feeling that Fushimi Shika was picking on her: "And this matter isn't important, right?"

"Why isn't it important? This is important!"

Fushimi Shika slammed the coffee table. Such an important matter had not been investigated clearly. Gen Yuzi had been busy for nothing these two days. The latter vaguely sensed that something was wrong and asked suspiciously, "Are you planning to steal business from Onoue Psychic?"

"How is that possible? Am I the kind of person who uses feudal superstition to cheat people? You can question my devotion to justice, but you cannot question my firmness in materialism!"

After Fushimi Shika finished speaking solemnly, he stood up, stretched, and said he was going out for a walk.

Yuan Yuzi didn't suspect anything. This guy had been lying at home for two days. If he didn't move his muscles, his muscles would atrophy. She asked Fushimi Shika to help walk the dog when he went downstairs, and to buy two bento boxes when he came back. She and Sakurako hadn't had dinner yet!

Fushimi Lu received the lunch money and took Jun out. He went straight to the bookstore, asked Jun to wait outside, and leisurely flipped through the reports on Japanese psychics, and occasionally asked the clerk to help introduce some basic historical and popular science books.

At first, Yuan Yuzi was secretly delighted. Asking Fushimi-kun to run errands was like getting a white indulgence for free. It was a huge profit!
But as time went by, Gen Yuzi was like a working cow that was about to starve to death in the rental house, waiting for the overtime delivery rider to deliver food... She waited for hour after hour, and finally she called to ask, and found out that Fushimi Shika hadn't bought her lunch yet!
"If you don't buy it now, the convenience store will close!" Yuan Yuzi was very angry. People tend to be irritable when they are hungry.

Fushimi Shika hung up the phone and left the bookstore. It happened that the convenience store was having a 50% discount on bento in the evening, so he also embezzled the money for a bento and bought himself a box of chocolate. He held a pile of packaged books in his left hand and two bento boxes in his right hand. Ajun was having fun in front of him. After going upstairs and going home, Yuan Yuzi was lying on the sofa like a salted fish, looking like a reincarnated evil spirit.

Fushimi Shika calmed Yuan Yuzi's anger with two chocolates, and he sat on the sofa and flipped through some books. Yuan Yuzi showed off her bento and looked up. The titles on the covers were mostly related to psychics: "Theta Healing: The World's Strongest Energy Therapy", "Translator of the Spirit World", "Psychic Detective Shirozuka Emerald"...

She puffed up her cheeks like a hamster and asked vaguely, "What are you looking at these for?"

"As the saying goes, only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. If I don't understand the psychic's usual tricks, how can I expose Osaka's scam?" Fushimi Shika said confidently, as if he was reading a book by sages.

That's it!

Yuan Yuzi suddenly realized that it made sense. If she had known this earlier, she would have bought some books to read. In order not to be overtaken by Fushimi-kun, she picked up a book and started reading after finishing her lunch.

As he read on, Yuan Yuzi felt that something was not right. The book was full of weird stuff. One moment it said there was mysterious energy in the universe, the next moment it said psychics were born with different blood from ordinary people, but it didn't mention any tricks to deceive people.

She looked up and saw Fushimi Shika reading with great interest, so she couldn't help asking, "You're not a psychic, so is it useful to read these? Besides, if Onoue psychic is really a liar, she must be a very good liar, right? How could the book say that she performed any tricks?"

"This is called no matter how things change, they still remain essentially the same. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense." Fushimi Lu had his own ideas in mind.

Gen Yuzi always felt that something was wrong, but she didn't know what to say. She thought that since it was a free book, she would be a waste not to read it. She also wanted to read the books that Fushimi-kun had read. In short, she couldn't let Fushimi-kun get ahead!

The two of them leaned on the armrests of the sofa, one on each side, and lowered their heads to read seriously. The living room became quiet. As the night deepened, the TV was on, and the background sound was the lines from "Beautiful Unrequited Love".

They were all silent, but it didn't feel awkward or boring.

Yuan Yuzi kept watching until midnight. The more she watched, the more energetic she became. It felt like she was reading a ghost story. Her body changed from lying on her side to squatting, as if she had opened the door to a new world.

"Is what the book says true or false..." She asked from time to time, looking up.

"Of course it's fake." Fushimi Shika didn't even raise his head. These fictitious social science books were all made up just to attract attention, just like the encyclopedias he read as a child in his previous life.

"Why does it feel so real..." Yuan Yuzi muttered softly.

It was getting late, so Fushimi Lu yawned, put the book on the coffee table, and went back to his room to take a shower and sleep.

Seeing that he stopped reading, Yuan Yuzi put the book back on the coffee table and neatly put it away.

Evil knowledge drilled into her head. When Gen Yuzi was taking a shower, she always felt that there was someone behind her, and the face in the mirror didn't look right. She was suspicious even when she lay on the bed, and couldn't help but tremble while hugging Ping Sakurako.

When Yuan Yuzi thought about the spiritual ceremony she would have to attend tomorrow, she couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts...

I hope nothing unexpected happens tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)