Jiuyuan had been taken home by Hachisha, and the boy still looked depressed. Hachisha put Jiuyuan, who looked pale, directly on the bed.
Hanako also came back from outside. He pursed his lips and looked at Hisayuu on the bed with some worry.
Oda Sakunosuke knocked on the door, came in with a cup of hot water and placed it on the bedside table.
Oda Sakunosuke: "...Is Kuen-kun okay now?"
Hanako shook his head and sighed. He looked at Hachisha with a warning look and said, "Let's all go out and let him rest for a while."
They ran into Geto Xia Yu who was coming back from outside. When he saw everyone was there, Geto Xia Yu asked the most crucial question directly: "Did you see what the Snow Woman did?"
Oda Sakunosuke, who had been busy with other trivial matters just now, shook his head.
Xia Yujie looked unhappy and warned, "You better take a look. The Internet is already in chaos." He looked at the unattended room again and softened his tone, "I'll stay. There has to be someone here with Jiuyuan-kun."
"Excuse me."
After saying this, Hanako led Odasaku and Hachishaku to the living room.
Morofushi Jingguang was paying close attention to the intelligence on the Internet. He had saved the video of the Snow Girl and planned to send it to them after they returned.
"Let's take a look at this." As soon as he saw everyone coming, he walked to the computer and quickly pulled up the video.
"About 20 minutes ago, the Snow Woman sent a video on Twitter." From his own perspective, Morobushi Kagemitsu felt very delicate when he saw such news, but he summarized it realistically: "The Snow Woman made some satires... the actions of some government officials, and this was the cause."
He tapped the keyboard quickly to bring up other screens.
"After the message on the BBS was blocked, the Snow Girl directly used the hacker's means to project the screen on the electronic screens and TVs on the road, announcing that those who lurk in the dark and have evil intentions will be punished, claiming that she..."
“They will come directly to your door.”
Hanako's expression was tense, but after hearing what Morofushi Kagemitsu said, she sneered and then relaxed her expression.
"Even though I don't like that guy, I have to admit that he did a good thing that made people happy."
Hanako's attitude can already represent some problems to a large extent, and Morobushi Kagemitsu will not touch this mold.
However, Hachishaku next to them did not join their conversation from the beginning. He sat alone on a round stool, and the cold object in his hand turned out to be a kitchen knife. No one knew when he took it away.
He held the knife in one hand and put his other hand on the tip of the knife, muttering: "Damn damn damn damn damn snow man——"
"I'm going to kill him, kill him, kill him--"
"I will chop off his head and give it to my child—"
"Yes, I'm going to kill him, kill him..."
He stood up from the chair, walked slowly to Hanako's side, squatted down, then held his shoulders and stared at Hanako.
Morobushi Kagemitsu next to him was made uncomfortable by Yasha's crazy look, and Hanako didn't like his touch either, frowning, "What are you doing? Now is not the time for you to go crazy."
Yasha ignored his reminder and said, "Tell me, tell me where the snowman is! You can find him, right?!"
"You want to kill him?" Hanako pried open the fingers of Yasha that were pressing on him one by one, "Don't dream, the master won't let you do what you want."
"Just tell me where he is."
"...Are you sure?" Hanako raised her eyes. "This time it might not be as simple as just confinement. Is it worth it?"
In response, Hachisha's eyes became more and more crazy.
Knowing that persuasion would not work, Hanako did not waste any more time and said, "Okay, I'll tell you..."
Hanako pretended to take a fortune, then showed an intriguing expression and told him the location of the Snow Girl.
After Hachishaku escaped, Hanako asked Odasaku in a leisurely manner, "Do you have any tea and snacks at home? We'll have something interesting to watch later."
Morofushi Jingguang turned off the TV next to him that was still playing the news, and asked in confusion, "Good show? Are you referring to Hachisha-sama and the Snow Woman?"
"The Snow Girl is busy making trouble for those bastards who are trying to get in his way, and Hachisha is going to make trouble for the Snow Girl..."
Morofushi Jingguang asked what he was most concerned about -
"Will Master Hachisha stop the Snow Woman from attacking those people?"
From a human perspective, he couldn't help but expect such an ending.
"No." Hanako ended his fantasy indifferently.
The boy picked up a magazine from the bookshelf and began to flip through it, explaining nonchalantly, "Hachisha doesn't stand on anyone's side. He only stands on the side of the things he likes. And you got one thing wrong... What does the life and death of human beings have to do with him?"
The only sound in the room was the rustling of the boy turning pages.
It seemed that the content of this issue of the magazine was particularly boring. He closed the book with a snap and looked out the window at the sky that was like sticky navy blue ink.
"——Don't forget, he is a monster that curses people."
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Ishida Daisaku left the conference room, suppressing the churning in his stomach.
As soon as he walked out of the door, his colleague deliberately bumped into his shoulder. Seeing his gloomy face, the latter couldn't help but want to make a sarcastic remark to him, but was glared at by Ishida.
"Hello……"
Before he could even utter his prepared sarcasm, Ishida Daisaku strode away.
As I walked, I cursed in my heart: Damn it. Why did all the bad things happen today?
He had an important meeting this afternoon that he couldn't get away from. When the meeting was about to end, he received news that Hachisha-sama had taken Yomikawa away, and not only that, he had also lost many of his subordinates.
He admitted that it was his greed that was at work, but he had clearly paid attention to the size...
In his opinion, it was just a matter of using cotton strength to do the job, so how could it cause such a problem?
He soon found the reason - Noguchi must have made a mistake, and the guy went too far when carrying out his orders and offended the boy.
Apparently he had forgotten what he had said to Noguchi: "Yoquanchuan is just a kid, and he will tell you everything if you scare him a little."
He got into the car with a sullen face and ordered, "Go to the Special Powers Division."
Ishida rubbed his forehead with a headache and leaned back in his chair.
The more he read the reports sent by his subordinates, the more frightened he became. More importantly, it really hurt.
Each faction in the department is developing its own power. If they want to gain power, they need some armed forces in addition to money and power. Those guards sent to suppress Ba Chi were almost all given a lot of benefits by him in private, and were almost used by him as a private team. It was a gray transaction that could not be made public. Now that they have been harmed because of Ba Chi, it is equivalent to that all the money has been wasted. He cannot openly say that the other party has damaged his interests, otherwise he would be incriminating.
Seeing that Ishida looked bad, his assistant continued, "...In addition, Noguchi was also killed by the monster..."
"I know." Although Ishida was upset, he still said, "Make proper arrangements for his funeral. He is a man who is incapable of accomplishing anything."
"Yes, I'll arrange it for you right away." The assistant lowered his head and used his peripheral vision to secretly observe the current condition of Ishida beside him.
Ishida was so upset that his breathing was a little irregular, and he didn't notice that his assistant was in a bad condition.
He kept thinking: If he doesn't calm down at this moment, his subordinates will also become scattered, and the network he has worked so hard to build will become shaky. He cannot afford such a loss.
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter, so he absolutely cannot fall here.
He took a deep breath and continued to read the report, but his breathing stopped when he saw the last surveillance video.
(What is this…!)
Hachisha-sama stared at the camera with resentment. Even though he couldn't hear her voice, he could still read the malicious curse from her lips.
Ishita wipes his sweat.
(After all, it’s just a hint. Is there really a curse in this world?)
(How can you believe these mysterious things——!)
(No, no, contact the security first and get more bodyguards for me... let them take over...)
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Ishida quickly turned on his phone and tried to make a call. However, as soon as he unlocked the phone, a line of red bloody words on a black background popped up on the screen. The words seemed to be deeply engraved in his heart.
“I found you.”
He was so scared that he quickly threw the phone to the side, and it hit his assistant. The assistant also noticed his panic and had to hand the phone to him with a bitter face. However, when he saw the words on the screen, his face froze and he quickly lowered his head to hand the phone back.
Before the phone was handed to Ishida, the face of the snow woman appeared on the screen.
What should have been a pure and flawless face came out as a warning of death that made Ishida's heart beat faster.
"Since you guys won't come, I'll have to come find you."
Ishida's hand, which was originally about to take the phone, stopped in the air, and then clenched his fist tightly.
Before he could say anything, the car suddenly turned sharply, throwing him and his assistant together. Ishida's head hit the back seat with a muffled sound. He finally found an outlet to vent. He covered the back of his head and yelled at the driver: "What are you doing!!!"
"There's, there's someone..." The driver ignored his reprimand and stared at the woman in white who suddenly appeared in the middle of the road ahead, "There's, there's a ghost, there's a ghost!"
After saying that, he actually opened the car door and ran away, not caring that there were two people in the car.
"Stop right there!" Ishida straightened up with difficulty, holding on to the chair, only to find that they were thrown onto the main road. There was a red light ahead, and they stopped suddenly and were almost rear-ended by the car from behind.
Ishida pushed his assistant and said angrily, "Go drive the car!"
Unexpectedly, the assistant also sat in a daze on the chair, ignoring his instructions, with his eyes full of the shadow of the woman in front of him.
Seeing the white figure getting closer and closer, it was actually glowing faintly under the dark blue night sky. Ishida felt more and more upset. He cursed, "Forget it, I'll do it myself, you bunch of rubbish!" However, when he was about to go down and drive the car himself, he was grabbed by the assistant behind him just as he touched the door handle.
At that moment when the world was spinning, he saw his assistant's face in the glass.
The assistant who usually obeyed his orders was like a completely different person at this moment. He threw his glasses aside, but his eyes were clear and he didn't look nearsighted at all. Then Ishida felt someone hit him hard on the back of his head. He was stunned by the pain and felt double vision in front of his eyes.
Ishida subconsciously touched it and found that the back of his head was covered in blood.
“You, you…”
A dizzy feeling made his body paralyzed. He opened his eyes with great effort and saw his assistant holding up a computer with his blood on the back of the computer.
As if he was still not satisfied, the assistant took out the pen that he usually kept in his pocket and stabbed Ishida's thigh with it.
"Ah!" Ishida covered his legs in pain. The pain actually woke him up.
However, the assistant did not stop. He took out a paper cutter from the drawer of the car with his right hand and stabbed Ishida with it. After the blade pierced into his flesh, he began to thrash violently. The pain almost made Ishida faint.
“Don’t faint!” Just as he was about to close his eyes, his assistant punched him in the face, causing him to cough up blood.
The assistant actually pulled the tie on his chest and fixed his mobile phone on the ceiling of the car——
"I want to thank the Snow Girl for giving me the idea." He said, "Since the day the Snow Girl punished that scumbag Harada Yusuke, I wanted to do this. I didn't expect that God would help me..."
When he saw the shadow that looked like a snow girl, he immediately realized that this was the best opportunity.
Realizing what he was about to do, Ishida could only make "ah" and "ah" sounds due to excessive blood loss.
The assistant turned on the live broadcast and wiped the blood off the knife with Ishida's clothes, as if he was preparing for the live broadcast.
"Next, let everyone see your last appearance before you died."
"Ahem, why…"
Ishida's fingers were shaking and he could hardly control his body.
"Miki Kuriyama, do you still remember this name?" The assistant drew out a knife. His white shirt was already covered in blood. He didn't care at all and continued to ask: "From your expression, you don't remember it, right? That's right, how could a big shot like you remember one of the many people you killed!"
"...I...I remember..."
Ishida spoke nonsense weakly, which only angered the assistant further.
"You're talking nonsense! Let me tell you this! Do you still remember the pregnant woman who was killed by your son's drunk driving seven years ago? She was my only relative, my sister!" He didn't believe Ishida's lies at all.
Having followed Ishida for several years, he had handled many shady things for him. He knew very well that people like Ishida would say anything to survive.
"How, is it possible..." He clearly remembered that the pregnant woman had no other relatives!
When he saw Ishida's frightened eyes, the assistant's smile gradually became more sinister - seeing that his great revenge had been achieved, he did not hide anything and stabbed down twice more, but deliberately avoided the vital parts.
"Please... please... no..."
Ishida knew that he would die if he continued like this, but how could the furious assistant let him go?
Knowing that his chances of survival were slim, Ishida's eyes were bloodshot.
"You didn't expect that there would be someone who slipped through the net, did you? It's all thanks to your incompetence that you got my household registration information wrong and lost it in the process. God really helped me! My poor sister died because of your son's drunk driving, but you used tricks to let your bastard son escape legal responsibility. From that day on, I knew that no one except me could redress my sister's injustice!"
He felt a crazy pleasure in his heart as he saw the person who had caused him to lose his only relative now being slaughtered in his hands like a dead fish.
"Are you surprised? Do you think you won't fall into the hands of a small person like me?"
The assistant was so excited that he was shaking all over. He stabbed Ishida in the stomach several more times. He said, "Your son of a bitch ran away after the accident. My sister struggled for a long time on the road in the middle of the night before she died. I can't imagine how painful her death was... My sister went to the nursing home and orphanage to volunteer every break when she was in school. She was very kind since she was a child, but she lost her life because of scum like you... Why can you still live well? I want you to understand how painful it is to watch yourself die——"
"Oh, and there's also your bastard son who drove off a cliff last year because of drunkenness." He grinned. "I was in charge of collecting his body at the time. Seeing his body torn into pieces by animals, I want to laugh out loud when I think about it now. Even if you tried your best to save him, it was useless. He still died. Now you are the only one left."
"Enjoy your last moments before you die."
After he finished speaking, he raised the knife high in his hand again.
The knife flashed in front of the camera, and the next second, blood splattered everywhere.
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Changes occurred again on the huge electronic screen in the center of the commercial street.
Everyone who had just gathered here saw the video of the Snow Girl. Some people were wandering around and did not leave. After seeing the scene on the screen, they were confused at first, then became excited, and gradually... they felt a little cold.
The screen was suddenly divided into more than a dozen grids, and it seemed that each grid was broadcasting live. There was also a separate video account below. You could see the content by searching on the Internet. Some were on Instagram, some on Twitter, and some on YouTube.
The content of each live broadcast looks a little bad, like... a death live broadcast room.
Some people have already opened one of the live broadcast rooms, and their expressions are getting uglier and uglier as they watch.
In the picture, a young man is pinning another middle-aged man in a car and stabbing him with a knife.
Some of the blood splattered on the camera lens.
The words spoken by the young man on the screen were heard word by word, and almost every word was full of blood and tears, which made his hand holding the phone tremble a little.
At the same time, major forums and websites are hotly discussing this matter.
Today can be said to be one crisis after another, and everyone is busy eating melons.
【Did you see this? I was in @UIddee222's livestream and heard him say that he was taking revenge on his enemies.】
[@eeeeeoh21114's livestream is the same. She tied up the rich and powerful rapist who destroyed her family... I saw that she was already preparing to have that man jailed.]
[@krine090's anchor said that the person he stabbed with nails was the culprit who killed his family members after failing to seize their land. He was stabbed with nails because his parents' bodies were covered with broken glass...]
Netizens quickly summarized the information, and the crimes of the people in the video were exposed one by one. Those perpetrators turned out to be victims of violence. Not only that, they were all poor people who had no way to seek justice because the perpetrators were rich or powerful.
[I know the man tied up in the 14th picture! His family seems to be a wealthy family...]
[Wait, I seem to know No. 17! He gave a speech at our school! I heard he did a lot of charity work, but I didn’t expect he was a pervert who sexually assaulted young children. Damn, I said at the time that I would donate to welfare organizations like him in the future. I’m disgusted.]
[I know No. 8, he is...]
[Not long ago on the 1st, there was also a magazine...]
An hour ago, everyone was just a group of happy spectators, but now no one is in the mood to be a happy spectator.
This scene was so magical and realistic that many netizens felt heavy-hearted while watching it.
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Dazai was on his way to Kuen's house, and while walking he was checking the news bombarding his phone, with push notifications from major websites popping up one after another.
Finally arriving at the door of Hisaen's house, he knocked on the door symbolically and said to the inside: "Odasaku, I'm here to play." Then he opened the door and went in, while Odasakunosuke brought over the tea set that had been prepared aside.
Dazai smiled and asked, "What? You knew I was coming."
Odasaku nodded: “That’s exactly what I feel.”
Dazai looked around and found that there was no one in the main hall on the first floor.
"Well... although I think this possibility is very small, I still want to ask - is everyone out?"
Oda Sakunosuke pushed the small cake he was trying to bake over to him.
"No, almost all of them."
Dazai was very skilled at it, just like he was at home. He picked up the remote control and turned on the TV. After seeing the picture, he turned it off again and complained, "As expected, there is nothing else to watch except this now."
Oda Sakunosuke asked curiously, "Are you looking for someone?"
Dazai's tone suddenly softened. He leaned on the table and asked with a smile, "Why do you think so?"
"Intuition." Odasaku said, putting the remote control that Dazai still had on the table back on the table, and said, "Ango must be having a headache now."
"Some of us here are also having a headache..." Dazai waved his hand, "Assuming that the Snow Woman and the Snow Man have some kind of relationship, then this big drama may have been planned by the Snow Man."
Odasaku: “…What do you mean?”
"Starting with the perfect entry point of Yusuke Harada, and taking advantage of the ambiguous relationship between Kuen and the monster from the outside world's perspective, the seed of doubt of 'does Yomi River Kuen and the snow woman also have an unspeakable relationship' is planted in people's hearts."
Odasaku commented pertinently: "Indeed, in the eyes of people who are already suspicious and timid, even if this possibility is extremely small, they will not allow the danger behind it to become a reality."
Dazai: "The Snow Woman's plan looks crude, but it is useful enough. Because there are too many layers of transmission of orders and executioners, no matter how the orders are executed, there will be deviations in the end, which is very likely to lead to the outcome they don't want to see. In this way, he can force Kuen-kun and humans to turn away -"
He continued: "It's a very simple, very low-level attempt to sow discord, and unfortunately it now looks likely to succeed."
"Not only that, this time it's even a disguised purge of some people in the Special Powers Division..." Dazai smiled with a wicked smile, "In other words, the guys in this faction targeting monsters will definitely be devastated after this purge, and the other factions in the Special Powers Division will benefit in disguise."
Odasaku listened quietly and said, "In other words, the faction that has benefited will take this opportunity to consolidate its power."
"Well, but they have to deal with the big problems in front of them first - appease the masses, deal with the upper echelons, and most importantly, how to deal with the precarious relationship between Kuen-kun and the government due to the provocation of the snow woman."
"That depends on whether their compensation can satisfy Jiuyuan-kun..."
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[How could this be... Is there really so much darkness in this country? Are there so many bastards like Yusuke Harada? ]
[Whenever I think about if my relatives or friends encounter this kind of thing, I will be blocked everywhere when I want to seek justice for them, and even my life may be in danger, I feel very scared.]
[I know that fighting violence with violence is wrong, but when I think about how they are desperate and would rather sacrifice their future lives, I feel so desperate...]
[How ridiculous! Human laws cannot punish humans. It would be better to let monsters eat all these people.]
[Upstairs, I think the monsters don't like eating these dirty things that rot teeth, right? ]
More and more people gathered in the square, many of them looking up at the screen, or occasionally looking down at their phones.
At this time, someone exclaimed quietly——
"It's the Snow Girl!"
Others followed his gaze and saw a white-haired woman standing in the empty space below the screen.
She was staring at the screen like everyone else, not knowing what she was thinking.
How does she view humans?
Were these things also made by the Snow Woman?
What is the Snow Woman's attitude towards humans, friend or foe? What is her purpose...?
Conversations such as "It's a snow woman", "It's really a snow woman", "Why is she here" have spread among the crowd. However, before this wave of turmoil has subsided, there is another commotion from the other end.
The crowd unconsciously made way for a passage.
A two-meter-tall woman in a white dress holding a kitchen knife walked out with a strange laugh, "Bo, bo, bo——"
When she saw the figure of the Snow Girl, her laughter became even sharper, almost making everyone present cover their ears.
"Great, great, you are here... Hehe... It's all because of you... It's all because of you... I will carry your head to my child, he will definitely forgive me... He will definitely like this new toy..."
As she said this, she rushed out and shouted:
"Put your head—"
"Hand it over!"