A prince from a certain American comic book

Ike blinked.

Chris then thought of something and asked, "You said this is aimed at us, so could Ms. Wickham have received it too?"

Ike suddenly paused, stunned.

Yes.

Ike stood up and said to Chris, "You should know where Ms. Wickham's house is, right?"

Chris said, "It's over there in the arts and culture district."

Ekko: "..."

An hour later.

Ike slowly parked the car on a street lined with row houses, much like Elm Street.

Bang!

Bang!

After getting off the bus, Chris pointed to the two-story white house in front of her and said, "Ms. Wickham told us about her residence when school started, and this is the one."

Ike nodded, took a few steps forward, and then suddenly stopped.

Chris looked at Ike with some curiosity.

Ike pointed to some envelopes scattered on the steps at the entrance of the house without saying anything. He suddenly had a very bad feeling.

Chris also noticed a stack of mismatched envelopes scattered by the door.

Ike turned around and looked around, his gaze landing on a public phone booth standing not far away by the roadside.

Do you have any coins?

"……Have."

Ike, who had always been penniless, took the coins Chris handed him and walked straight toward the public phone booth.

In such situations, calling for help from outside the venue is essential.

...I want to chat with more like-minded people about "The Prince of a Certain American Comic Book"~

Chapter 079

what?

Should the two of you go in and check first?

This is absolutely foolish. If Ike's guess is correct, Ms. Wickham should already be dead. Ike could easily guess what the Baltimore Police Department would think in this situation.

After half an hour.

A black SUV roared to a stop right in front of Ike.

A brown-haired woman got out of the car.

"Ike Adair?"

"Yes, you are..."

“Victoria Hand, it was Ms. Carter who sent me here.”

"Hello, Ms. Hand."

Ike smiled and shook hands with Ms. Hand, who extended her right hand, while recalling information about Ms. Victoria Hand in his mind.

Victoria Hand, a veteran S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and commander of the New York headquarters, is a stern and unsmiling woman who is highly respected by her colleagues within S.H.I.E.L.D.

But that happened after the great era had begun.

Currently, the sighted Nick Fury still holds the position of Director of the New York Operations Center, while Victoria Hand is now a mobile agent for S.H.I.E.L.D., taking over from Nick Fury to handle cases in the cities on the East Coast.

After shaking hands, Ike pointed to Ms. Wickham's house, whose door was tightly closed, and said, "It's best to turn off the power before going in."

Now only a year or two older than Coulson, Ms. Hand glanced at Ike, who had spoken up to remind her, and then nodded.

Ms. Hand waved to the back.

The tactical team of five agents quickly moved toward the closed door of Ms. Wickham's house.

Not long after.

"Power successfully cut off."

"Enter, repeat, enter."

"Go, go, go."

"Oh!"

With the five agents communicating, the battering ram slammed into the door, shattering it like a tofu block. The five fully armed agents then stormed into the house, three through the front door and two through the back.

quite a while.

After covering her earpiece, Ms. Hand hummed in agreement and then looked up at Ike, saying, "You're right, there is a corpse inside."

Ike didn't say anything.

Chris, who was standing nearby, asked, "Is this Ms. Wickham?"

Hand shook his head and said, "The body is badly decomposed, but there are no signs of outsiders entering the room. If there are no surprises, it should be the Ms. Wickham you mentioned."

Chris grasped Ike's right hand.

Ike looked up and said, "Ms. Hand, could you let your agents check the video recorder?"

Ms. Hand glanced at Ike and then gave instructions to the five agents inside.

soon.

Ms. Hand said, "The video recorder is empty."

Ike paused for a moment, then understood and said to Ms. Hand, "Could you have your agents search the house?"

What is their goal?

"It was still a videotape, a videotape without any outer packaging or any identification markings."

"……it is good."

If you watch Sadako's videotape and don't spread it, it seems like you'll die seven days later at midnight... oops, seven days later.

Therefore, it is normal for the videotape not to be in the VCR.

These days, who would leave a random videotape inside a VCR without doing anything? VCRs are now the main form of home entertainment.

This time it's the right one.

An agent, still carrying a faint stench from inside, walked out of the room with a box of videotapes in his hand.

Ike and Chris went up.

After taking the videotape from the agent, Hand said to Ike, "Is this the one?"

Ike took the videotape and looked at it.

That's right.

When Ike flipped the videotape over, he saw the exact same Japanese logo on the bottom of the tape case and felt relieved.

next second.

Ike exerted force with his right hand.

Click!

The videotape was crushed to pieces by Ike, and some of its parts playfully bounced into the air from the crack.

Ms. Hand was slightly taken aback.

Ike smiled and told Ms. Hand about what had happened.

Victoria Hand was summoned by Ms. Carter, so Ms. Carter should have a certain level of trust in her. In addition, according to Ike's database, this Victoria Hand is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., not an agent of Serpent Shield, so Ike has no psychological pressure.

quite a while.

After speaking, Acton paused and said to Ms. Hand, "Ms. Hand, this matter should be related to Eva Watanabe's parents, the Watanabe couple. I would like to ask you to keep an eye out for their location."

After thinking for a moment, Ms. Hand said, "Why would the Watanabes do this? Their daughter, Eva Watanabe, was killed by an evil spirit."

Ike and Chris exchanged a glance.

This is a long story.

In short.

The real cause of death for Tanami and Eva Watanabe was the evil spirits, but the official cause of death was that they accidentally fell into the equipment compartment and died.

Ike and the others know the true cause of death for Tanami and Eva Watanabe.

Even Tai Nan's parents knew about it.

However, Eva Watanabe's parents were unaware of the real reason; the only truth they knew was the official death report.

As for why?

The reasons involved are too complex to delve too deeply into; knowing too much can easily lead to indigestion.

In short.

In Ike's mind, the Watanabe couple must have had their daughter's cause of death confirmed again after returning to the island nation.

Then the Watanabe couple's minds suddenly opened up. For example, they thought that their daughter and Tanami were actually ostracized by Ike and others, and then a group of people killed their daughter and Tanami, and then attributed their deaths to accidental deaths...

People from island nations always think differently from ordinary people.

It's normal to have such perverted thoughts.

Ms. Hand listened to Ike's explanation with a somewhat complicated expression and said, "This reason is a bit far-fetched."

Ike shrugged and said, "Also, the evil spirit hidden in the videotape is also from the island nation, and this incident is targeting our group. So, my suspicion is quite reasonable. Otherwise, how do you explain why an evil spirit from an island nation would travel all the way to find us?"

Ms. Hand was silent for a moment before nodding and saying, "Okay, I said I would keep an eye on the Watanabe couple. But if what you said is true, then the Watanabe couple should still be in the island nation and have not returned to the mainland."

Ike nodded.

After a while.