Tokyo, My Childhood Friend is a Ghost Story

Chapter 114 Calm down, or I'll get someone to beat you up.

"I understand the situation. I will let Hanako out briefly when necessary."

"Kashyapa-kun, to avoid any misunderstanding with the police, from now on, Hanako will refer to Hanako in the restroom, and Yoshimura will refer to Ms. Yoshimura. Is that alright?"

Uta Kasyapa nodded; Higa Haruko's request was indeed reasonable.

"Well then, Hanako will now show you the way. Tomorrow, Superintendent General, your subordinates."

Seeing Higa Haruko, who had been summoned by Uta Kasaya and driven all the way here, hesitate to speak, Asahi Toshifuku nodded.

"President Higa, rest assured, the people I brought have all experienced supernatural cases."

Having received an affirmative answer, Haruko Higa asked Hanako Yoshimura to squat down, then raised her hand and pressed it against Hanako's temple.

As spiritual energy, invisible to ordinary people, was released, Yoshimura Hanako opened her eyes a moment later.

However, unlike Yoshimura Hanako's original gaze, her eyes now appeared rather quirky and mischievous.

"This feels so strange. He's really tall."

"Stop talking nonsense. So many people have been disturbed in trying to solve your problem. Hurry up."

Urged on by Haruko Higa, Hanako, having learned of everyone's request, immediately revealed the name of the school where the crime scene was located.

Led by Hanako, the group arrived at the location of her body in the abandoned Fujimoto High School campus.

Uta Kasaya and Fukue, wanting to take care of Kayano, who was terrified of corpses and looked somewhat nervous, did not follow the others to the abandoned toilet where Hanako died.

In the abandoned toilet area, decades of wind and rain have long since turned it into a place overgrown with weeds, and the ground is covered with a layer of black soil.

Just as the forensic doctor began to gradually clear the scene and find Hanako's remains, she stepped forward and precisely pulled out a rotten, broken rib from the soil.

"Stop cleaning it, it's right here. After all these years, have my bones turned into this shape?"

Hanako's words sent chills down the spines of the surrounding police officers and forensic doctors, but fortunately, with Haruko Higa present, the group wasn't too afraid.

"Stop staring blankly at your ribs. Now, start retracing the route you took at the time of the incident."

Urged on by Haruko Higa, Hanako nodded, casually tossed her ribs to the forensic doctor, and led the others outside.

Led by Hanako, the group quickly followed the path of her death to the new campus of Fujimoto High School.

"It's changed so much, I hardly recognize it."

In Hanako's slightly melancholy tone, Asahi Toshifuku and a group of police officers were discussing the direction of their investigation.

"First, we can rule out students. According to Hanako, the person who attacked her was an adult, and a faculty member is highly suspected."

"Yes, and the scope should be focused on veteran faculty and staff; new faculty and staff do not have the opportunity to commit the crime."

The suggestions from his subordinates reached Asahi Toshifuku's ears. He looked at Hanako, who was standing on the hillside outside the school wall, staring intently at the group of junior high school students playing in the schoolyard.

If she hadn't been suddenly killed, she would probably be a mother by now.

“Besides faculty and staff, you should also consider other professions that are not affiliated with the school but have reasonable mobility requirements.”

Fu Jiang's sudden words startled the police officers present.

"Hanako's disappearance would have prompted her parents to report it to the police, and the school must have been thoroughly investigated. This suggests it was probably a random killing. I think your focus should be on investigating individuals who could have moved around freely."

Fu Jiang's words made the police officers present thoughtful. The span of time was so large that they had only noticed the changes brought about by the time span, but had not considered the logical problems inherent in the time span itself.

“Miss Fu Jiang is right. We should split into two groups: one group should re-examine the school’s faculty and staff, and the other group should investigate the professions that provided the means to commit the crime 32 years ago.”

After giving the order, Asahi Toshifuku looked at Fukie with some confusion.

"How did Miss Fujiang come up with this idea?"

Fujiang glanced at him without explaining, then turned and walked to Yuda Kasyapa's side, pinching and kneading the dried fruit that Jiayezi had taken out of her bag.

Uta Kasyapa, who overheard their conversation, was fully aware of the situation, because Fukue was originally a highly dangerous, indiscriminate serial killer who brought death wherever she went.
"Hanako, have you formed a demon realm?"

Haruko's shout brought Hanako back to her senses.

Yes, so what?

"Use the Ghost Domain to bring your memories to light. This will provide concrete eyewitness accounts and make it easier to find some."

Hanako was taken aback by what she heard, while Asahi Toshifuku clapped his hands excitedly.

"Yes! If we can see obvious physical features, it will be much easier for the profiler to make a selection!"

"But how are we supposed to see these images?"

After his initial excitement, Toshifuku looked at Haruko Higa and Hanako with some confusion, and the latter blinked blankly as well.

"Just get ready." Half an hour later, as all the police officers' eyes were marked with special runes by Haruko Higa using her spiritual power, Hanako began preparing to unleash her demon domain at her command.

However, before liberation, Hanako, as if remembering something, turned her head to look to the side.

What are you waiting for?

Haruko followed her somewhat frightened gaze with confusion, and at the end of her line of sight, Uta Kasyapa and the other two were standing there quietly.

"Understood, we won't go in."

Subsequently, under Haruko Higa's command, within a hundred meters of the abandoned toilet, the world gradually lost its color, turning into a dark gray.

A torrential downpour began, though it had no physical form, it sent chills down one's spine.

Fortunately, Haruko Higa used a spell to give these police officers a special blessing; otherwise, they would have been coughing nonstop before the recording was even finished.

"Ms. Hanako, you are 1.76 meters tall, of medium build, with slightly long knuckles, and wear a size 42 shoe. Please try again!"

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As the police spoke, Hanako, her eyes filled with a sinister glint as she witnessed the scene of her victimization, coldly glanced at the two officers.

"Calm down, or I'll get someone to beat you up."

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The moment the words "give me a beating" were uttered, Hanako's eyes cleared instantly, and she quickly made the demon realm reappear.

The suspect slowly approached Hanako from behind again, and then pulled out a hammer wrapped in cloth from behind his back with his left hand and smashed it heavily on Hanako's head.

In reality, Hanako's death was far more cruel and horrific than she herself described.

The stronger the girl's will to survive, the more cruel the torture she endured.

Unable to struggle, the limbs being pulled constantly throbbed with excruciating pain, preventing sleep due to the pain, until the brain could no longer bear it and the person fell into a coma.

Later, her body began to necrotize, and the girl's consciousness had already become clouded due to nearly half a month of torment.

Even so, the girl did not give up hope of survival.

Whenever footsteps approached, the girl would endure the excruciating pain and try her best to make a sound. However, after maintaining the open position for a long time, her jaw muscles had become stiff and necrotic, and were covered with maggots.

And every so-called hope is nothing more than the devil coming to inspect his own achievements.

One day, two delinquent girls passed by an abandoned toilet. The girl desperately used her last bit of strength to twist and turn wildly.

Large numbers of white maggots began to fall as she writhed. Just when she thought she was about to be saved, the demon outside drifted further and further away from the conversation with two delinquent girls, gradually turning into despair.

But she still didn't die, even though her body was crawling with maggots.

Until the demon saw that she was no longer worth observing, he picked up a wood-chopping knife and chopped off her head.

The desperate scene made the police officers present feel a pang of pity, but they still suppressed their emotions and went to the suspect's side to continue observing.

"Major discovery: the suspect is left-handed and has a missing left eyebrow, suspected to be caused by a slashing injury!"

As he watched his subordinates quickly obtain various information about the suspect, Asahi Junfu's expression was complex and filled with emotion.

"If all cases could be solved like this, that would be truly amazing."

Haruko Higa sadly lit a cigarette for herself and then exhaled a puff.

"Do you think if I hadn't been there just now, and you didn't have any way to retaliate, you would have been killed by her?"

Toshifuku was taken aback at first, then gave a wry smile.

"Is this ultimately an evil spirit?"

"It's not her fault. She was born from resentment, so it's natural for her to react when she saw the hellish scene of her suffering."

Time and again, he cooperated with the police to obtain more information, and time and again he observed the various aspects of his own death.

Not to mention Hanako, even the police officers became extremely angry and saddened after witnessing Hanako's death multiple times.

"Look here, when he came on the tenth day, there seemed to be something on the sole of his shoe!"

Amidst the surprised shouts, the police officers quickly looked in the direction their colleague pointed.

Lying on the damp, dark toilet floor in the ghost realm, through Hanako's repeated scenes, the police finally saw what was stuck to the sole of the killer's shoes.

"This is a stamp!?"

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