Chapter 531: Suzuki Family's Perverted Hobby Asking for Monthly Tickets (〃)

Editor-in-Chief Doi finished his tea, put down his cup, and began to humbly ask for manuscripts: "Mr. Torakura, I'll leave the new series to you soon."

"Let me finish writing this one first." Daisuke Torakura turned to his student Shunya Tadokoro and said, "Take the red wine and movie tapes to the study. They are the source of my inspiration."

After saying that, he pushed open the door to the corridor and headed for the study.

Tadokoro Toshiya nodded in agreement and prepared to go to the collection room to get the movie tapes.

Just now, Daisuke Torakura asked him to take the guests to visit the collection room.

So when Tadokoro Toshiya stood up, he invited him, "Would you like to go and have a look together? The videotapes collected by Mr. Torakura are all rare and out-of-print treasures, and are usually displayed in the collection room. In addition to videotapes, there are many other rare collections there."

Although this villa has a signal, the signal is very poor and it is not convenient to use the mobile phone.

Since they had nothing to do anyway, a group of guests got up and followed, regardless of whether they were interested or not.

The collection room is on the other side of the hall. Next to the wooden door is a downward staircase that connects to the underground library. Shuichi Hamura, who is engaged in vampire research, is said to come here often because it houses many vampire-related books.

Others were not very interested in the documents and went straight into the collection room.

Compared to Daisuke Torakura's study, the collections in the collection room are larger and look more eerie.

In addition to the cross, silver sword, wooden nails, etc., there is also a vampire mask that looks like human skin, and a pale white hand placed in a glass display case.

Toru Amuro took a closer look as if nothing had happened, and found that the hand was fake. He then stood up and looked away with peace of mind.

In a corner of the collection room, there are two rows of bookshelves that reach the ceiling, filled with countless vampire-related movie tapes.

Tadokoro Shunya took out the movie that Daisuke Torakura liked to watch and introduced it to the guests who were paying attention to this place:

"Torakura-sensei would watch a vampire movie every night. It was 1930's Blood Feast, his favorite. The teacher also bought the props used in the movie at a high price."

"The prop in "Bloody Feast"...it's this cypress nail." Jiang Xia looked at a collection on the table.

The cypress nails were placed vertically on a collection shelf covered with black brocade. They were as long as a human forearm, with one end sharpened and a large amount of "blood" splashed on the tip. It looked like it had been nailed into the heart of a vampire and then pulled out.

——At the end of the movie "Bloody Feast", the vampire was nailed to the cross with such a wooden nail and burned in fire.

Tanosuke Shunya nodded: "There is also a matching cross in the teacher's study - the one you just saw."

“…”

Suzuki Sonoko looked at the realistic fake blood on the wooden nails, and thought of the cross in Torakura Daisuke's study that was also stained with "blood", and she stepped back in disgust.

Why would Daisuke Torakura, a man who calls himself "Dracula", prepare some vampire hunter props? It's unlucky... If my sister wasn't interested in vampires, she would never come to this weirdo's villa today.

...But then I thought, if I don’t follow him, I won’t be able to meet Jiang Xia.

As Suzuki Sonoko was thinking, her thoughts couldn't help but stray away from the vampire exhibits.

——The Hu Cang family’s villa is not very big, and the guest rooms should be concentrated together, not far away... Although she will probably be arranged to stay in the same room with her sister at night, she can completely use the excuse of being afraid and run to Jiang Xia in the middle of the night with her bedding to sleep on the floor... Or, Jiang Xia is so considerate that she might hear her say she is afraid and run to her room on her own initiative, hehehe...

Toru Amuro vaguely heard laughter.

When he turned around, he saw Suzuki Sonoko, the female classmate who seemed to be very familiar with Jiang Xia, looking at a blood-stained cypress nail with a charming smile full of greed and yearning.

Toru Amuro: "..."

...It's not just the little boy with glasses. Everyone around Jiang Xia seems to be weird.

...Speaking of which, the Suzuki family can be considered a wealthy family. If they wanted to build a secret room or even a dungeon to hide their whereabouts, it would be a piece of cake... Smiling like this at a nail that pierced a humanoid creature, does Suzuki Sonoko actually have some weird hobbies behind her back?

...When I have time, I'll have my subordinates investigate this family.

…

Although the exhibits in the collection room are precious, there are not many of them.

After the group of people finished their visit, each with their own thoughts, they returned to the hall.

After serving wine and movies, Toshihiko Tadokoro took out a deck of cards for the guests to play with.

While the cards were being shuffled, a man came down the stairs.

——Etsuko Torakura, who had just returned to her room to rest, reappeared in front of everyone.

She looked at Jiang Xia and said softly, "Thank you for taking care of me when we were in Danyuan Mountain last time. I have prepared a gift. Would it be convenient for you to come with me to get it?"

At the same time, he winked secretly, indicating that he had something important to say.

Jiang Xia stood up and followed her upstairs.

Halfway through the walk, I suddenly heard someone behind me.

When I looked back, I saw Toru Amuro following me.

…

As a time management master who holds multiple positions, Toru Amuro is very well planned when doing things.

He still remembers the original purpose of this business trip - to take Jiangxia to a place where he is unfamiliar with the place for quarantine and observation.

Although the plan has been disrupted by the endless cases and acquaintances, the week has not yet passed, the final destination has not yet been reached, and the plan has not yet ended. Even if it is for the sake of sunk costs, we must persist and try to get the best observation results...

Moreover, Toru Amuro always felt that today's events were too coincidental - the road randomly thrown by the dice should have met the requirement of "unfamiliar with the place", but in just over ten minutes, they met three people who knew Jiang Xia.

As an undercover agent who hides among a group of suspicious people every day, Toru Amuro inevitably suffers from the habits of everyone in the organization and becomes suspicious of what happened today.

...I have to come and see.

…

Etsuko Torakura also discovered that there was an extra tail behind her.

She looked back and hesitated for a moment, then realized that Jiang Xia had no intention of stopping Amuro Toru. Then she thought about it again and realized that this mixed-race boss seemed to be a private detective and had never had any negative reports. Or to be more precise, there was no report related to Amuro Toru on the market, which showed that his confidentiality seemed to be good...

So Etsuko Torakura thought: I heard that in addition to talent, experience accumulation is also very important for detectives. Boss Amuro seems to have more experience than Jiang Xia. Since he wants to come, let's go together.

The three men soon came to her room.

Etsuko Torakura opened the door.

After Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru went in one after another, she leaned against the door, closed it, and locked it.

…

downstairs.

Suzuki Sonoko went to the bathroom and when she came back, Jiangxia was gone.

"?" She looked around and asked her sister in confusion, "Where's Jiang Xia?"

(End of this chapter)