Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 100, The Devil's Summons
"Want to be human."

The first page of this thick book contains creepy words.

Uesugi Sosetsu flipped through it briefly and felt his scalp tingling.

After flipping through the book again, he put it away very seriously: "Found it, the most crucial evidence."

"What?" His words attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

"Let's search again. If we still can't find the murder weapon, we'll temporarily withdraw to the headquarters." Uesugi Munen waved the thick book in his hand and said, "We have important information to share with everyone."

Thirty minutes later, more than two hundred criminal police officers and public security police officers who were listening filled the conference room at the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters. Even the local police officers in Chiba Prefecture who were involved in the case had arrived.

The interrogation of Saijo Yasue was ineffective, and Kashiwagi Hitoshi and others were helpless. Moreover, this star police inspector was temporarily disqualified from interrogation because of assault, and was replaced by Kosaka from the first department.

Now everyone is here, waiting for Uesugi Sosetsu's report.

"I want to become a human being." Uesugi Sosetsu opened the first page of the diary and described to everyone present what Nishijo Yasue wrote in the diary.

The suspect described a strange world in his diary.

(Due to some unexplainable reasons, I will not write it directly).

The world in her eyes seems to be different from the world in the eyes of normal people.

She has not been able to feel many emotions since she was a child. When she was playing with her classmates in kindergarten, she didn't understand what was so fun about it. When the teacher asked questions, she didn't understand what was worth answering. She could only feel primitive emotions, such as pain, hunger, rejection, and anger.

Once things do not develop as she imagined, Yasue Nishijo will subconsciously want to correct them.

She is therefore extremely aggressive, and at the same time she lacks any empathy. She does not feel anxious, guilty, or remorse. In her opinion, this is a necessary "correction". She certainly knows that doing so "may not be right", but what does it matter?

In his diary, Saijo Yasuie wrote in a confused tone:
"Why do they all blame me? I'm just putting things on the right track... I've been doing this for a long time, not too long, I like to make them obey, I'm doing this for their own good... I always feel like, like a wire, everyone is a wire, I want to hold both ends of the wire, and then..."

"Everyone has a wire, all I have to do is grab it hard, I know I can do it, just hard... just one push."

"A guy was tightening the wire inside the hospital. He wasn't in the hospital, so I had to help him tighten it."

"If they don't want to tighten themselves...if they want to be like a human being, they will hurt themselves there. I took a knife and tightened it three times...I took a car home. I took a lot of pills. I didn't like moving. Everything was messed up. They were wrong and I was wrong. I wanted to tell them, but they didn't understand what I meant. I couldn't tell anyone what I meant..."

The words that Yasue Nishijo left in his diary are chilling.

What she wrote was disjointed, incoherent, and many sentences were incoherent and difficult to express the complete meaning, but between the lines, a kind of linguistic terror slowly emerged.

This is how she spent her childhood.

The situation changed after she went to live with her grandparents.

Her grandparents live in the countryside and are engaged in breeding and aquaculture. After Yasue Nishijo changed her environment, there were fewer people around her. Facing the open environment, she felt much more comfortable. Compared to her mother, her grandparents would pay more attention to this child.

More importantly, as a helper to his grandparents, Yasue Nishijo found great pleasure in slaughtering animals.

In her diary, Nishijo Yasuie described the indescribable joy that came with slaughtering animals such as chickens, ducks, and fish. When she used a knife to cut the chicken's throat to drain the blood, cut open the fish's belly to remove the internal organs, and watched the drake being cut into pieces in her hands, Nishijo Yasuie felt a long-lost moment of peace and joy.

She tightened the wires, she corrected the world.

So during the time she lived with her grandparents, her mental state improved a lot and she could smile. She became so good at slaughtering that almost all the butchering work was given to her. She even helped slaughter pigs, cattle and sheep in the market, and did a good job. Every butcher in the market gave a thumbs up to this free labor.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Her mother remarried and she had to return to live with her mother. She was back to the state of wanting to be a human being but unable to do so.

Her stepfather tried to please her in every way, but she couldn't feel any emotion. She knew that her stepfather was trying to please her but she couldn't respond. She couldn't laugh. When he put an exquisite birthday cake on the table and wished her a happy birthday, all she could think about was how to cut the cake perfectly - to get the world back on track.

Fortunately, her grandparents were still alive at this time, so she could get satisfaction through other channels. During this period, her emotions were relatively stable.

But just last year, my grandparents passed away one after another.

Yasue Nishijo is depressed about her grandparents' death because it means she can no longer "fix" or "tighten the wires."

Sure enough, the death of her grandparents deprived her of the opportunity to participate in slaughtering, and she became irritable and depressed. She had no way to release her pent-up emotions, and her family could not understand her.

She started attacking the animals.

"I'm going to get rid of those animals... those things that move, they're not in sequence, and then... I'm going to separate them, I'm going to fix everything, I don't like those frogs, pigeons, stray cats that move around, at least these things are in my mind, they won't be mad at me, they're nice, I won't hurt them, I won't hurt anyone, I just got... a spell."

Yasuie Nishijo, whose words are incoherent, begins to fantasize about the existence of a god, a god who sits on a high throne and whose blood keeps flowing down the steps. She believes that as long as she meets the other's needs, her grandparents will come back and she can return to her previous happy life of slaughtering people.

Gradually, she became dissatisfied with simply attacking animals.

So she committed the first crime. According to the description in the diary, Yasue Nishijo knew the victim of the first case, Junpei Doi, who was an acquaintance of her brother and often came to her house to play with her brother. She knew that Junpei Doi liked seabirds very much, so she found an opportunity to block him on the road. She told Junpei Doi that she found many seabird eggs in a warehouse by the sea.

Because he knew her, Junpei Doiyuan went there happily, and under her seduction, he squatted with his back to her without any precautions.

This is the first case.

After committing the crime, Yasue Nishijo described herself as feeling "unprecedented satisfaction", as if she was addicted, and she couldn't wait to plan a second case.

The log records in detail how she scouted the area, how she paid attention to the surrounding environment, how she confirmed which places were unlikely to be passed by or noticed by others, and also summarized what was discovered and what was not discovered in a series of previous animal dissection incidents, and judged what to do to minimize suspicion on herself.

Before committing the crime, she often wandered around many places in Chiba Prefecture, assessing the terrain and looking for opportunities.

As for why the head had to be left behind, she stubbornly believed that it was a sacrifice to "God" and a necessary ritual.

Uesugi Sosetsu finished introducing Saijo Yasuie's diary on the stage.

Because some of the scenes were described in too much detail, many police officers in the audience could not help but feel itchy in their throats, and a few even felt nauseous and retched, in great pain.

The elites of the Investigation Section were also shocked.

This was the first time they encountered this kind of murderer.

"This is simply outrageous!" Kashiwagi Ren slammed the table hard and stood up: "We will immediately inform the Joint Special Investigation Headquarters that we have found the key evidence!"

"What a sin this is, Amitabha." Inspector Okada, who was standing next to Uesugi Sosetsu, was stunned halfway through hearing what he heard. Saijo Yasue's values had a huge impact on the young man's world. A deep chill came over him from those words that were incoherent and illogical.

"I didn't expect it to be true." Inspector Higurashi also lowered his head: "I have always wondered why, but now it seems that there are not so many whys in the world."

"Yes, there are not so many whys in the world." After reading the diary, Uesugi Sosetsu also felt a deep chill.

This is a sociopath.

More importantly, he felt the same way.

Because when he just woke up, Uesugi Sosetsu felt about the world in the same way as Saijo Yasue. He also felt that everything was fake. He no longer wanted to understand others, and at the same time he was unable to explain his own condition. He fell into a deep and twisted internal friction, and was filled with frustration and resentment.

Fortunately, he slowly recovered, and surrounded by his family and friends, Sister Mikoto, and Professor Erina, Minami, and Ohnochi, and with his awakened supernatural powers, Uesugi Sosetsu slowly found himself again.

But even so, Uesugi Muneyuki still has some sequelae. For example, she hates the "politeness" of the Japanese and likes to speak the truth bluntly. Similar to Saijo Yasue who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, she will feel uncomfortable if she doesn't cut or chop something. Uesugi Muneyuki herself also has a strong demand for "Princess Connect".

Oh no, I'm not a sociopath too, am I?

While Uesugi Sosetsu was still thinking, the police captains below had already reacted.

"Finally, this is decisive evidence, right?" Inspector Kosaka of the First Department suppressed his nausea and breathed a sigh of relief. "Not only did the criminal record the murder process in detail in his diary, but it also contained many details that we have not announced to the public. There is no doubt that Yasue Nishijo himself is the real murderer of the Chiba County serial murder case!"

"Finally, after four weeks, thousands of police officers, and tens of thousands of people, this major case is finally going to be solved!"

In the conference room, everyone was excited and felt relieved.

"This matter is not over yet." Uesugi Munenchi poured cold water on them: "We have not found the murder weapon yet, and she herself has not confessed yet."

The elites of Investigation Section 1 nodded one after another.

However, when they found the imprisoned Yasue Nishijo with the diary, her attitude was calm.

"I didn't do it." Facing the questioning of Inspector Kosaka, Nishijo Yasue had a blank expression on her face and even wanted to laugh: "I didn't kill anyone. I'm innocent."

"Then how do you explain these things?!" Inspector Kosaka suppressed his anger and turned over the crucial evidence and threw it in front of Yasue Nishijo.

“I wrote it for fun.”

Nishijo Yasue was calm and composed, even trying not to laugh: "Do you think I wrote these?"

"Who else could have written it if not you?"

"Ah, hehe, really?" Nishijo Yasue couldn't help laughing. She smiled palely, then lowered her head with a puzzled look on her face: "Then you are really smart."

"I am innocent. I am not guilty."

After that, she stopped answering any questions.

(End of this chapter)