Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 137, The Road to Slavery
There is a psychological phenomenon called the suspension bridge effect, which refers to the fact that when a person is in a tense or stimulating environment (such as walking across a suspension bridge), his heart rate will involuntarily speed up. If he happens to meet another person at this time, he may mistake this physiological reaction caused by the environment as a physiological reaction caused by the other person making his heart beat faster, and thus develop feelings for the other person.

In the 20s, scientists conducted an experiment in which they had subjects walk across a violently shaking suspension bridge. The subjects were men aged 70-18 without female companions. An assistant was arranged in the middle of the suspension bridge to have the subjects fill out questionnaires with obvious sexual connotations and evaluate the assistant. The subjects did not know the real purpose.

It turns out that these experimenters tend to give higher evaluations to female lab assistants than to male lab assistants, and more than half of the experimenters will try to contact the female lab assistants afterwards in the hope of further development.

After seeing senior Mai again today, Uesugi Sosetsu finally understood why his face always blushed, his heart beat faster, and his heart was pounding whenever he saw senior Mai.

It was not because he was obsessed with her, but because subconsciously, his inner world was trying hard to tell Uesugi Muneyuki: This woman is dangerous! Very dangerous!

However, Uesugi Sosetsu did not understand this earlier and mistook this emotion as his secret love, which left a mark on his mind. Now he cannot change it. Moreover, she is indeed a goddess-level figure. Even if there was no suspension bridge effect, Uesugi Sosetsu himself would have given her a very high evaluation.

This makes him appear more passive.

Hearing Uesugi Sosetsu's question, Shirakawa Mai smiled sweetly. She did not answer immediately, but looked out the window.

Grandpa Konno's wild vegetable tempura shop is located near the mountains, more than 400 meters away from the school. Except for the woods, fields and a few fields, the surrounding shops and streets are almost all closed. During the New Year holiday, there is snow all around, and not even a single person can be seen. Naturally, no voices or footsteps can be heard.

Unlike rain, snow makes no sound. As the paper door closed and the senior sister fell silent, the room became a silent world. Uesugi Sosetsu felt like he was deaf.

Even so, I could occasionally hear the crackling of the flames in the stove next to me, and the faint sound of boiling water from someone cooking outside.

"Because she begged me." Senior Mai was silent for a long time before she spoke.

"She? Who?" Uesugi Sosetsu thought for a moment and said, "Nana?"

"Well, she begged me to save you and take care of Asuka." Senior Mai crossed her arms in front of her chest, her cold and beautiful eyes looking at Uesugi Sosetsu calmly: "So I decided to save you once."

"Then why didn't you save her?" Uesugi Sosetsu looked puzzled: "And why didn't you take care of Asuka?"

After saying that, Uesugi Sosetsu suddenly thought of a terrible possibility: "Wait, is it you?"

"That's right, my secret cannot be exposed." Senior Mai said meaningfully in her intellectual and cold voice: "Will you tell others about your affairs? My lovely junior, the legendary rookie forensic pathologist Uesugi-kun?"

"No." Uesugi Sosetsu immediately replied: "You won't either."

"So this is the price." Senior Mai raised her proud chin and beautiful face, a cold light flashing in her noble eyes: "You should understand why I invited you here, right?"

"We are the same kind." Uesugi Munen understood: "We are dangerous to each other."

"That's right." Shirakawa Mai smiled. In addition to her extremely beautiful appearance, her temperament seemed to be innate, bright and charming, and peerless: "We are the same kind, but for each other, the same kind sometimes does not mean empathy, but danger. You must have experienced this in Nishijo Yasuie."

"Yes." Uesugi Munen lowered his head in frustration: "And I don't even know what's going on."

"That's why you came." Shirakawa Mai smiled brightly, a smile that said "I know how to control you", but soon turned into a sigh: "We are all too lonely. We all have a lot to say to others, but our reason tells us that we can't do this. I don't know what you said to Saijo Yasue, but from her actions I roughly guessed that you probably shared some of your experiences."

"But I ended up getting killed." Uesugi Munen nodded: "I regret it."

He now has no shortage of friends, family, or women, but he still often feels lonely, and the pain of having supernatural energy but being unable to express it has already begun to show.

"Very good, so I think you realize the dangers of the other world, and I think you also realize the loneliness of those of us in the other world, so I invited you here." Senior Mai got a very satisfactory answer from Uesugi Sosetsu. Her cold expression gradually became gentle, and there was a hint of appreciation and smile in her eyes: "Your appearance here means that you also desire, just like me."

We are all lonely.

"Can I ask you a few questions?" Uesugi Sosetsu tried to say.

"I can answer three questions for you, and then I will give you a chance to choose." Shirakawa Mai raised her lips with a teasing smile.

The junior who was very calm, rational and good at planning, ended up knowing nothing.

If you don't understand him, it will be easier to grasp him. His inner worldview, his outlook on life and his use of supernatural powers will be completely shaped and cultivated by me.

"Where does your power come from? Does it have anything to do with your being the head of the Kanto Shinto Federation?" Uesugi Sosetsu tried to ask the first question.

"These are two questions, junior." Senior Mai and Uesugi Sosetsu looked at each other. The goddess senior blinked her innocent and bright big eyes, as if saying, "Junior, don't try to be smart with me!"
Uesugi Sosetsu laughed. You said three, so three?
The senior and junior exchanged glances. Senior Mai tried hard to hold back her laughter, poked the table with her hand, and said in a playful tone, "You ask such a rash question right away? Well, this time it's a special offer for juniors, don't do it again!"

"Actually, I don't know where my power comes from. I was chosen by my master when I was very young and brought back to the Kanto Shinto Alliance for training. I followed my master's guidance to cultivate the power of the other world all the way." Senior Mai cleared her throat and put on a serious expression: "Seriously speaking, my supernatural power is related to the Kanto Shrine Alliance, but it is also unrelated."

"Yes and no, right?" Uesugi Soyuki frowned, thinking, isn't this the same as saying nothing?
There are two more questions.

"Do you know about the existence of other worlds? For example, in your Kanto Shrine Alliance?" Uesugi Muneyuki asked, "Are they also so aggressive?"

This junior student asked more and more questions.

Senior Mai tilted her head, a cunning look flashed in her eyes, and she decided to talk about something useful: "In fact, none of the other supernatural power holders I know of are alive, because they are either dead or in hiding."

"No one? Then where is your master?" Uesugi Sosetsu widened his eyes.

"My master is dead. I killed her." Mai Shirakawa seemed to have activated some strange habit. Her big eyes sparkled with a strange light. She said sincerely, "She trained me, and then wanted to kill me and take my Dharma image. So I killed her. I also imitated her notes and tone, and announced that I would take over as the head of the Kanto Shrine Alliance."

"Huh?" Uesugi Sosetsu was so angry that he laughed when he heard that. "What about the others? Are you the only one with supernatural abilities in the entire Kanto Shrine Alliance?"

"They are all dead." Shirakawa Mai wrinkled her nose, pretended to cry, and said pitifully: "They were all killed. Only the master survived. Later, the master also died. I am the only one left."

“…………Really?” Uesugi Sosetsu narrowed his eyes.

"Why would I lie to you? Do you know about the Himiko Tomb incident?" Shirakawa Mai had a playful expression.

"!!!" Uesugi Munen suddenly remembered what his brother Uesugi Sadanori had found out: "Wait, what are you saying?"

"That's why the inner world is so dangerous. Every being in the inner world is carefully hiding themselves, and every being in the inner world is trying hard to find opportunities to eat others." Senior Mai thought to herself that the junior brother really knew something: "But, let me ask you a question, Uesugi-kun, how strong is Saijo Yasue?"

"Very strong." Uesugi Sosetsu answered without hesitation.

"What if she faces a few armed policemen?" Senior Mai continued to ask, "What are her chances of winning with just three ordinary detectives armed with SIGs?"

"Um... well, the chances of winning are probably less than 20%." Uesugi Muneyuki said with shame: "And we have to launch a surprise attack."

"Times have changed, Uesugi-kun." Senior Mai rolled her eyes at him speechlessly. "In ancient times, our supernatural abilities might have been really powerful, but in modern times, the strongest among us can only deal with semi-automatic rifles at best. This is in Japan. In the United States, where everyone has a gun and armored vehicles are deployed, if a supernatural person dares to show up, he will be killed in seconds."

"So that's how it is." Uesugi Sosetsu understood completely.

The Kanto Shrine Alliance once had some people with supernatural powers, but with the excavation of Himiko's ancient tomb, a tragedy similar to the fight between the Sword Sect and the Air Sect occurred, which eventually attracted the intervention of foreign forces, resulting in the death of all these people with supernatural powers. In the end, only Senior Mai's master was still alive, and Senior Mai killed her master in return, which resulted in Senior Mai being the only person with supernatural powers left in the entire Kanto Shrine Alliance.

That's it!

The last question.

"Why do you want me? Or, why didn't you kill me directly and take my power, but instead chose to invite me and want to meet me?" Uesugi Munen asked the last question carefully.

That's what I want you to ask.

Shirakawa Mai was secretly spinning her thumbs, and when she heard Uesugi Sosetsu's question, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she whispered "idiot" in her heart.

But she smiled happily, her body and mind filled with joy and delight.

"What if you have passed my tests several times, and I would have killed you without hesitation if you had made the wrong choice a few times before?"

"Hey?!"

"I'm serious, fellow student!"

(End of this chapter)