Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 268 Goodbye Kawai
The fog was very thick and the water vapor soaked her skin. Yuan Yuzi felt sticky and her throat felt like it was blocked when she breathed.

She turned on the flashlight, and the circle of light pierced through the thick fog. She could hear the echo of footsteps down the corridor. The lobby was noisy just now, but now it became as cold and quiet as a ghost town.

"Ms. Ono!"

Yuan Yuzi shouted, holding the flashlight under the gun handle, and scanned the lobby back and forth. Ono Xuan didn't drink tea in the morning, so it shouldn't be a problem, but now she didn't respond, which made Yuan Yuzi feel more and more uneasy.

She reached out and pressed the chandelier switch twice, but there was no response. The hall was still dark. In desperation, she could only bite the bullet and walk to the sofa in the middle of the living room.

The body that was sewn on the tail turned over at some point and was lying on the sofa. Its body was covered tightly by a blanket, and there seemed to be something crawling underneath.

Now was not the time to explore, but Yuan Yuzi could not help but reach out and grab a corner of the blanket. Her strong curiosity overwhelmed her fear, prompting her to lift the blanket - she saw that the body sewn on the tail was "sprouting", and the originally dry skin was covered with dark green fungal spots.

Da da.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her. Yuan Yuzi was startled and turned around abruptly. She scanned the area with the flashlight, but found nothing. The Western-style furniture looked particularly strange in the dim light.

She was not sure if what she heard just now was just hallucination, after all, drinking Nue tea would cause hallucinations.

"There's nothing to be afraid of...Come on, the great detective has nothing to fear!"

Yuan Yuzi secretly encouraged herself in her heart. She had prepared herself mentally and would not be afraid no matter who she saw.

Thinking back to the precious people she had lost in her life, she would be satisfied as long as she could see them again, even if they spoke harshly to her.

However, after she scanned the hall a few times, she discovered that something was missing: the bodies of the assistant and the red carp were lying quietly on the ground, covered with green fungus spots, and even plant roots were beginning to grow upwards...

Only Prince Fumihito was missing.

Yuan Yuzi broke out in a cold sweat, fear overwhelmed curiosity. Although the hallucination could not cause any substantial harm, who knew if there were other scary things in the thick fog - sometimes a murderer is scarier than a monster.

She didn't bother to investigate further and quickly walked into the bedroom to look for Mrs. Kiko.

There was no one in the room. Yuan Yuzi looked around and heard footsteps in the corridor outside the door. She quickly pressed against the wall, covered the flashlight with her palm, letting out a ray of light, and quietly poked her head out.

What came into her sight was a pale human face.

The face was so close that it almost filled her entire field of vision. She recognized it; it was the believer who had been shot dead.

"Why... do you want to kill me..."

The believer uttered incoherent mumblings, with a hideous expression on his face. A large pool of black blood gushed out of his chest, soaking the floor and forming a small pool of blood.

"S-Sorry...I didn't mean to..."

Yuan Yuzi's face turned pale. She knew it was an illusion, but she still apologized subconsciously.

The believer did not intend to let the matter go. He pressed on step by step, as if in a nightmare, and questioned Yuan Yuzi harshly - his wife and daughter were still waiting for him to come home, his parents were still waiting for him to support them, he was just bewitched and did something wrong, why should he be shot?

"What right do you have to judge me...Give me back my life!"

The believer stretched out his hands and suddenly grabbed Yuan Yuzi's neck.

At this moment, Yuan Yuzi's breath was choked. She felt as if her neck was really being strangled by a pair of hands. She couldn't tell reality from illusion for a moment. The flashlight fell to the ground with a snap. "No... I'm sorry..."

Yuan Yuzi struggled non-stop, but the opponent was too strong. As time passed, she gradually lost her strength, her vision went dark, and she couldn't help but raise the gun.

"Are you going to kill me again?" the believer asked.

Yuan Yuzi's heart tightened, his hand holding the gun was shaking, and he couldn't pull the trigger.

She wanted to convince herself that it was an emergency, the suspect was armed and was trying to commit a crime, and the police had the right to shoot him according to the law...

However, Ping Yingzi also pointed the paper gun at herself at that time, and she still remembered what she said.

'The law is not a weapon to attack others.'

She could have broken the man's hands and feet and stopped his evil deeds, but she killed him by mistake out of fear... It was her fault, her dereliction of duty. As a police officer, she actually closed her eyes when she fired the gun.

Even if the law allowed it, she believed she had done something wrong.

Yuan Yuzi could feel the force on her neck getting heavier and heavier. She placed her left hand on the believer's wrist, and her right hand holding the gun slowly dropped, her mind gradually becoming confused...

The ghosts seeking revenge seemed more terrifying than she had imagined.

At the moment when she was about to lose consciousness, there was a burst of hurried footsteps in the corridor, followed by a muffled "bang" sound, and the hand that was pinching her throat suddenly loosened its strength.

Yuan Yuzi collapsed on the ground, coughing violently, gasping for breath, feeling dizzy and coughing up a lot of saliva.

Before Yuan Yuzi could come to her senses, a warm and strong hand suddenly grabbed her arm. She looked up and saw the believer leaning against the door with his head covered. A figure pulled her up and shouted:

"Run!"

Yuan Yuzi was startled, then staggered to her feet, and the two of them ran in the dark corridor.

The man was tall, with long hair dancing in the dim light. Memories overlapped before her eyes, and Yuan Yuzi's breathing became more and more rapid. Suddenly, she grabbed her arm with her backhand, stopped and asked her to turn around: "Kawaai!!"

A familiar face appeared before her eyes, and Yuan Yuzi burst into tears. The touch in her hand was so real that she could even feel the beating pulse. Even if it was an illusion, she was reluctant to let go, fearing that the person in front of her would disappear in the next second.

Nagano Kawai turned around and seemed to want to say something, but now was obviously not the right time. She opened her mouth again to urge Gen Tamako to run, but the latter stopped, wiped away her tears, removed the safety of her pistol, turned around and faced the fear in her heart.

There was a figure standing at the end of the corridor, and the believers were chasing after him in the direction of the flashlight.

Yuan Yuzi took a deep breath. She knew what she was afraid of, but she also knew what she should protect. She held the gun in both hands, tilted her head and aimed at the believers, and shouted: "Stop! Police! Don't move, squat on the ground with your hands on your head!"

The believer paused, as if hesitating. Yuan Yuzi immediately pointed his gun upwards, fired a warning shot, and shouted, "This is your last warning. Put your hands on your head!"

The believer turned around and ran away. Only then did Yuan Yuzi realize that the guy was a real person. After all, how could an illusion be afraid of bullets?
She mistook the murderer for a dead believer!
Thinking of this, Gen Tamako turned around, looked at Nagano Kawai, and opened her mouth to ask who she was, but the words were stuck at her lips.

She couldn't ask.

(End of this chapter)