Chapter 293 You Wanted to Soak

In the restaurant, a group of people were eating dessert while waiting in line to take a bath.

After a while, "Uncle Yifang" came back steaming with a towel draped over his shoulders.

Jiang Xia's gaze paused on him - on the fake Yoshifusa Tadao's thick and powerful legs, there was a shikigami that was equally fresh and hot.

After the bathroom was vacated, others went there to take a bath.

At around ten o'clock, Jiang Xia walked into the steamy bathroom. As soon as he entered the room, he stepped on a ball of murderous aura.

He subconsciously looked around and saw that there was no one else, so he picked up the murderous aura as if nothing had happened and put it in his arms.

Jiang Xia was not surprised by this result. At least when he saw the ghost on the fake Yoshifusa Yuuchi's leg, he had already thought of the current development.

In my memory, the second wife who attended the wedding banquet planned to kill "Uncle Yoshifusa" while he was taking a bath. However, the fake Yoshifusa was not a weak old man, but a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master. He was suddenly stabbed in the back and subconsciously fought back.

After one move, the second wife was stabbed in the chest by the kitchen knife in her own hand and unfortunately died.

The fake Yoshifusa Tadaoki was stunned for a while looking at the corpse, and then realized that this situation could be considered self-defense and he should not have to go to jail.

But at the same time, if this matter is discovered, he will have to go to the police station. And once he leaves, the son of Shinichi Yoshifusa, the Brazilian boy, will have to stay alone in Yoshifusa's house tomorrow, otherwise he will not get the inheritance.

Before this, they actually received two threatening letters from different people. That is to say, in addition to the deceased step-wife, there is another person who will harm them. He can't leave the Brazilian boy and go to the police station.

So the fake Yifang hesitated for a moment, dragged the second wife who came to deliver the head to the well in the courtyard, tied her up with the well rope, and threw her body into the well. He planned to wait until the will was announced tomorrow morning, then reveal his identity as the "murderer" and do the record.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decided to make the corpse appear in everyone's sight as soon as possible.

At present, it seems that the hidden "Murderer No. 2" is rather timid, and it would not be difficult to get rid of the murderous aura from her with a little manipulation.

If I can solve this matter tonight, I can catch the early bus back to Tokyo the next day to take part in any case that Asami Endo might be involved in.

Although Jiang Xia has not thought of any cases related to the "real-life reasoning game" yet, this kind of activity sounds like it could easily lead to accidents. For example, when simulating a murder scene, someone could actually stab a corpse... and a ghost.

…

Jiang Xia relaxed his thoughts for a while, then put away his murderous intent and looked at the bathtub filled with hot water next to him.

Theoretically, he should take a shower first and then soak in the tub.

But when he thought about the fact that at least three uncles had just soaked in this water, he didn't want to go in, even though the water looked clear and clean...

Jiang Xia stood beside the wooden barrel and observed for a moment, then slowly turned his head and looked at the Mist Tengu floating beside him.

Then, ignoring the other person's slightly blown feathers, he whispered, "Go take a dip and test the water temperature."

As fellow Japanese... ghosts, they should not mind this custom of bathing in the same vat of water. In fact, those aunts just now also bathed in the same vat of water.

In the absence of murderous aura, the influence between ghosts and real objects on each other is very limited.

But we can still get some feedback. For example, when ghosts pass through walls or fixed objects, the resistance they encounter is slightly greater than when they float in the air. This is why mermaids can happily bathe in various liquids.

Similarly, ghosts can also sense airflow or temperature and can help measure the water temperature... Just as Jiang Xia thought of this, he saw the mermaid next to him jump into the water, holding the piece of murderous spirit that she had played with for a long time as a swimming board, and floating happily in the water.

Jiang Xia: “…”

Next to it, Mist Tengu actually doesn’t like water very much.

Although the mermaid was trying to steal its life, it did not dare to slack off because it remembered what Jiang Xia had just said. Instead, it slowly descended, flapped its wings and hovered over the water, then slowly stretched out one leg and dipped its translucent toes in the water.

As an increasingly clever ghost, Mist Tengu keenly discovered that the emphasis of his master's previous command was on "test the water temperature" rather than "take a dip."

So this should be OK...

Jiang Xia looked at how cautious Mist Tengu was, not wanting to get his body wet, and then looked at the mermaid who had dived into the bucket and didn't want to come out. He sighed, and handed the task of measuring the water temperature to the mermaid, letting Mist Tengu act freely.

The Mist Tengu flew away from the water, returned to the air, and secretly swung his feet.

Jiang Xia pulled a small stool over and sat down. After a while, when the mermaid told him that the water temperature was getting colder, Jiang Xia took a shower with the shower device next to him that still had some hot water, letting some hot steam come out of his head, pretending that he had just taken a serious bath.

Soon, he returned to the restaurant steaming like the others who had bathed before him.

When the host politely asked how he felt, he responded truthfully: "The water is a little cold."

On the way back just now, Jiang Xia built a puppet outside the side door of a nearby yard, and made the puppet appear to have half of its body hidden by the door frame, and was stealthily peeking into the yard - yes, it was the same posture that Kudo Yusaku had been maintaining before.

When Yuuchi Hiromi heard Jiang Xia say that the water was cold, she stood up like a host and prepared to run to the bathroom to boil it again.

Jiang Xia wiped the water off his hair as he brushed past her and went into the house.

Just as she was about to sit down, she heard a frightened scream from Hiromi Yuuchi in the yard - she found a "suspicious person" peeping at her from the small door on the side.

Thanks to the energy cores accumulated before and the energy extracted from the mermaids, the ghosts can already control the puppets to do some very simple actions on their own.

The moment the puppet heard Hiromi Yuuchi's scream, it flashed to the side, and its figure was blocked by the door, completely disappearing from Hiromi Yuuchi's sight.

Jiang Xia moved his mind slightly and disbanded the puppet.

Then he turned around and ran towards the sound with the others, and found Hiromi Yabuchi sitting in the corridor, staring at the side door with a look of horror on her face.

A similar thing happened in the original world line. At that time, the "suspicious person" who scared Hiromi Yuuchi and led everyone out was the sneaky Yusaku Kudo.

But now, for some reason, Kudo Yusaku is still sleeping in the warehouse.

So Jiang Xia could only work part-time again, so that it would be smooth sailing...

He followed Hiromi Yuuchi's direction and looked at the empty side door.

Then he quickly looked away and turned to look at the well not far away where someone had died, wondering, "Why is the bucket stuck there?"

(End of this chapter)