"Yes, tonight."

Yukino's tone on the other end of the phone was very confident, "The specific deduction process cannot be explained over the phone. Kuroe-kun, do you have time to come to my house now? I have prepared the map and data, and we can check them in person and then go to ambush in advance."

"To your house?"

Kuroe Minoru was stunned. This was Yukino Yukinoshita's bachelor apartment, a place that even a living male creature couldn't normally enter. And now it was open to him?

"What? Are you afraid I'll eat you up?" Yukino's voice surprisingly carried a hint of teasing...

There was still a hint of tension.

Yukinoshita nervously rubbed her long black hair, worried that she would hear a rejection from the other party at any moment.

"Oh, no, that's not it. Send me the address, I'll be right there."

Upon hearing Kuroe Minoru's agreement, Yukino on the other end of the phone let out a barely perceptible sigh of relief, and her previously tense shoulders relaxed.

"Okay, I'll send you my location. Be careful on the road."

After hanging up the phone, Yukino looked at the darkened phone screen, a faint blush creeping onto her fair cheeks.

What on earth was she saying...? What does "afraid I'll eat you up?" mean? How could such frivolous words come out of her mouth!

Yukino buried her face in Mr. Pan's pillow in frustration, feeling her heart beating abnormally fast.

Meanwhile, Kuroe Minoru, who had just hung up the phone, was preparing to go downstairs to Yukino's apartment.

However, the moment he took his first step...

"Beep—! Beep—! Beep—!"

The belated system alarm finally sounded in Kuroe Minoru's mind.

【warn!warn! 】

[An extremely heinous and evil event has been detected in the surrounding area!]

[Event Type: Assassination, Attack by Non-human Lifeforms!]

[Perpetrator: Bee Gurongi. Victims: Several innocent civilians!]

Location: Higashi Ward, Chiba City, near the seaside park!

[Time: Tonight between 20:00 PM and 21:00 PM!]

This event has been added to my to-do list!

Upon hearing the system's announcement, Kuroe Minoru suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He knew about the Gurongi bees.

In the early episodes of "Kamen Rider Kuuga", a flying Grongi appeared, and its challenge was to kill 121 people in the sky using poison needles.

He remembered that his name contained the character for "bee," so it must have been a bee.

but……

"Chiba City, Higashi Ward? Seaside Park?"

Kuroe Minoru looked at the apartment address and a screenshot of the deduction route map that Yukino had just sent him on his phone.

Yukino circled the next murder location heavily in red pen: the abandoned amusement park in the west ward of Chiba City!

"Completely the opposite?!"

……

Twenty minutes later.

Kuroe Minoru rang the doorbell of Yukino's apartment.

"Please come in."

The door opened, and Yukino, dressed in casual home clothes, came out to greet them, looking more gentle and approachable than she did at school.

"You've arrived. Please come in."

Without any further pleasantries, Yukino led Kuroe Minoru directly into the house.

Seeing Yukino turn her back, Kuroe Minoru took off his shoes and entered the room, looking around with some curiosity.

The apartment was very simply furnished, even somewhat deserted.

On the coffee table in the center of the living room, there was a huge map of Chiba City, densely covered with red and blue lines and markings.

"Let's put aside the idle talk for now and take a look here."

Yukino walked a few steps to the coffee table and pointed to a red circle in the west area on the map.

"Look at the locations of its first five crimes."

Yukino picked up a red pen and connected several points on the map in sequence. "If you connect these points in chronological order, you will find that the locations where it committed the murders are spiraling outwards from the city center as the origin."

Kuroe nodded.

Indeed, the police officers in the original work also analyzed it based on this point.

Once the intelligence was available, it wasn't difficult to reach this conclusion.

"So if we follow this expansion trajectory..." Yukino looked up, her eyes sparkling with pride, "Tonight, its next target will definitely be the abandoned amusement park in the West District."

genius!

She, Yukino Yukinoshita, is truly a genius!

He actually found traces of the monster twice, which helped him!

however.

Unlike Yukino's proud, praise-seeking expression, Kuroe Minoru's expression grew increasingly serious.

Yes! That makes perfect sense!

Judging from this spiral, the next target should be the abandoned amusement park.

Although it's an abandoned amusement park, there's a highway right outside, so it's not like you'd think you had nowhere to go and would specifically go to the seaside park in the East District!

Hei Jiangshi was completely baffled.

"So, I'm going to join tonight's operation."

Just as Kuroe Minoru was deep in thought, Yukino looked at him and suddenly spoke.

"No way." Kuroe refused without even thinking. "It's too dangerous. You saw it last time; this isn't something ordinary people can participate in."

"I won't cause you any trouble; I'll stay far away."

"We won't be affected like last time!"

Yukino looked directly into Kuroe Minoru's eyes, her tone revealing an unyielding stubbornness.

"I want to see for myself whether I've made a guess."

She lowered her head slightly, her voice becoming softer, but her gaze became even more resolute: "If... if my guess is completely correct, then I can help you from now on."

"I want to... repay you, and I also want to help protect others."

Seeing the girl's earnest gaze, Kuroe Minoru's heart skipped a beat.

Although he had a system that allowed him to foresee things in advance, it was rare for Yukino to swallow her pride and speak such a long string of truths, and it was also rare for her to have such a heart.

However, the mention of the system gave him a headache.

What exactly is going on?

"……All right."

Kuroe sighed and compromised, "But you must promise me that once we get there you will not wander off and will follow my instructions completely."

"Yes!" A hint of joy flashed in Yukino's eyes as she nodded vigorously.

……

As night falls, the lights are on.

Kuroe Minoru, carrying Yukino, was driving the Motor Pegasus on the highway in Chiba City.

The cool night breeze whistled past as Yukino sat on the back seat, her arms gently wrapped around Kuroe Minoru's waist, feeling the smooth vibrations of the motorcycle.

Soon, the motorized Pegasus approached a junction of an overpass.

This is also the challenge that Heijiang will face next.

Turn left towards the East Ward of Chiba City, which is the direction of the seaside park indicated by the system.

Turning right leads to the abandoned amusement park discovered in Yukinoshita, West Ward.

Regardless of trust or betrayal, no matter what choice you make, an innocent person will die if you choose wrong.

Kuroe Minoru tightened his grip on the handlebars slightly.

Should we trust our own memories and Yukino's, or should we trust the system?

Gritting his teeth, Kuroe Minoru's eyes instantly became incredibly determined, and he suddenly swung the handlebars.

The motorized Pegasus drew a graceful arc at the crossroads.

"wrong!"

Yukino, sitting in the back seat, immediately realized they were going the wrong way. She quickly leaned close to Kuroe's ear and shouted, "Kuroe-kun, you're going the wrong way! Turn right!"

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