Chapter 7: Winery and Miyano's Sister 2
"Shiho was kidnapped?! Where's Dr. Elena? Is Dr. Elena okay?"
As expected, it would turn out like this... Kurosaki Utsuki reached out and pushed away Furuya Rei's anxious face, which was approaching her excitedly, and the corners of her mouth twitched speechlessly.
"Doctor Elena was at work just now. What could have happened?" She exchanged glances with Morobushi Jingguang, seeing the same helplessness in each other's eyes. "Could you at least ask about Mingmei's condition? You know how busy Doctor Elena is. On weekday afternoons, Mingmei and Shiho are the only ones who come here."
"...How's Mingmei?"
"I don't know," Kurosaki Utsuki answered simply, "I haven't seen her. In the end, I only know that Shiho was kidnapped."
So, Morobushi Kagemitsu's look became more helpless. He tried to comfort and gently pulled his friend beside him, trying to stop him from reaching out to hit the girl in front of him on the head. Based on past experience, no matter how unexpected his friend attacked, the person who was hit in the end would never be Kurosaki Utsuki.
As they were talking, several people had already entered the hospital. Kurosaki Utsuki was planning to ask Ghost about the details of the case first, so now he had to find a way to separate from the two people around him.
"You two should go to Dr. Elena first." She glanced at the stairs and said half-seriously, "I have to go deal with the nurse's ward rounds now."
Having said that, he started walking.
Furiya Rei's voice came from behind, full of suspicion and confusion: "Are you really in the hospital?"
She waved her hand nonchalantly behind her: "Yeah, a cracked rib, it seems to be quite serious."
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So, how did things turn out like this?
Kurosaki Utsuki looked sadly at the dark ceiling in the trunk and sighed for the umpteenth time today.
Who is she, where is she, what is her identity, and why was she suddenly kidnapped?
A few minutes ago, she had just changed into her hospital gown and laid down on the bed, pretending to sleep. At the same time, she had left her body and was about to go to Miyano Elena's area to check on her. Unexpectedly, she hadn't left the room for a few steps when she saw a strange nurse enter her room. Curious, she followed and saw a wet towel covering her mouth and nose.
Ten seconds later, a man dressed as a cleaner and wearing a mask came in pushing a cart. Facing the puzzled gaze of the orange-haired girl, he and the nurse moved her body to the bottom of the cart, the space where cleaning tools and sundries should have been placed, and then covered it with a blue plastic sheet.
After a brief hesitation, Kurosaki Utsuki decided to follow quietly and see what happens.
After all, "You can't get a tiger cub without taking any risks."
Soon, her still warm body was moved to a dark corner of the parking lot and then stuffed into the trunk.
At this time, a small incident happened. When the man pushing the cart was transferring the person into the car, he suddenly froze and said, "She seems to have no heartbeat."
So, Kurosaki Utsuki, who was floating behind in spirit form, had to return to her body and revive before the fake nurse's hand touched her wrist, to avoid being abandoned on the spot by the two kidnappers with unknown purposes.
Lying on her side in the small dark space, Kurosaki Utsuki couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts in her mind, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't think of a reason why she was kidnapped.
Her family's financial situation was very modest; a small clinic had to support a family of five, and the monthly income and expenditure were basically balanced. Otherwise, after she went to Mika alone to attend school, she wouldn't have to live in the Ishida family's spare room in Mika and work day and night to earn a living.
Of course, her family wasn't so poor that they needed their high school daughter to work part-time to supplement the family income. It was just that the pocket money she received every month was not enough to maintain daily life and buy amulets and props to protect her sisters and her family from the effects of the void.
Those amulets that serve as consumables are of course made by Urahara Kisuke - they are produced by Urahara Shoten, so they must be high-quality products, after all, the price is there.
If she wanted to protect her sisters whose spiritual powers were growing stronger, she had to give something... Protecting her brother was just a side effect.
She had gone astray, leaving her work aside for the time being. What she had to consider now was when to beat up the kidnappers around her, no, how to escape quietly.
Or, if the people who kidnapped her were the same group that kidnapped Miyano Shiho, she might be able to follow the clues and rescue the little girl.
The only problem was that she was only wearing a hospital gown and had no bag, so she didn't have the memory-clearing spray that was essential for traveling at home, on business, or at work. This was a little troublesome, but not a big problem - if necessary, she could just make the other person lose their memory physically.
After twenty minutes of bumpy ride, the car finally stopped. Kurosaki Utsuki took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and prepared to continue pretending to be unconscious.
…She suddenly thought of another question.
She also didn't bring the props that could allow her soul to leave her body and transform into an agent of the god of death, so now she can't pretend to be a ghost and scare people.
Is it really only possible to solve it physically?
Light streamed into the trunk, and at the same time, a man's voice reached her ears, as if he was talking to someone on the phone: "Have you been discovered?"
His tone was unclear whether it was anger at having his plans disrupted, or annoyance at having to make new plans. "Did any of the kids who were visiting her enter the ward?"
The little ghosts he was talking about should be Furuya and Jingmitsu, right?
"... Never mind. She's just a hostage to threaten the dean not to act rashly. We'll release her later. This time, we must capture them—of course, this also applies to the genius kid we already have."
Eh—will you let her go back after a while?
I didn't expect him to be such a nice person.
Kurosaki Utsuki opened her eyes without any warning.
The man standing next to the trunk, talking on the phone, immediately caught her eye. He wasn't the fake cleaner who had carried her from the hospital. He looked younger and thinner, with short silver hair, green eyes, and a handsome face. He was wearing a long, jet-black coat, as if he was emphatically rejecting the breath of spring.
"You're a really nice person." That's what she said.
The orange-haired girl sat up and tilted her head, feeling the increasingly gloomy gaze of the person opposite her, and a smile quickly bloomed on her face.
"By 'they' you're referring to Dr. and Mrs. Miyano? Indeed, I've heard there's a pharmaceutical company that invites them every two years, but each time they're stopped by Long Xian, who tries to find some evidence of the company's crimes. Are you related to them?"
The fact that she was able to deduce this point from a few sentences was not entirely due to her brainpower, but was based on the speculation made by Ryugen Ishida during his earlier investigation.
He believed that the pharmaceutical company had more serious problems than the criminal evidence, but he was already very busy with his job as a doctor. He was okay with occasionally helping his colleagues and subordinates solve their problems, but he had no interest in investigating further.
Unfortunately, this group of people persisted and actually captured her as a hostage.
Looking at the silver-haired man's black muzzle of the gun that was suddenly pointed at her, Kurosaki Utsuki slowly shook her head and couldn't help sighing, "Is it really that serious? Facing a weak girl like me, he actually pointed such a dangerous weapon at my head..."
Her delicate little face seemed to say, "Have you ever been called a pervert by a little girl in public?", and her voice rose and fell as if she were in a stage play, with exaggerated intonation fluctuations.
"At this point, even if I suggested we fight one-on-one without weapons, you would definitely be too cautious and refuse to agree."
This kind of words, which seemed like a provocation but did not belittle the other party, successfully aroused the other party's interest.
"Yes, you are very brave." The silver-haired man sneered and put the gun into his pocket. "Wait until you have suffered a lot, then let her give you an injection."
As he said this, he raised his chin, signaling the fake nurse who had tampered with her body in the ward not far away to get ready.
"Okay."
Kurosaki Utsuki nodded.
The man who had carried her was out of sight, having probably gone into the semi-abandoned factory building next to the fake nurse. If she was right, the kidnapped Miyano Shiho might also be hiding there.
"If you lose," the orange-haired girl hopped lightly out of the trunk, stood barefoot on the ground, tilted her head slightly, and flexed her wrists expectantly, "please give up this job and never cut your hair again, to commemorate this humiliating defeat."
Half a minute later, under the fake nurse's horrified gaze, the girl skipped to her, leaving behind a silver-haired young man lying flat on the ground with his eyes wide open, looking like he had died with his eyes open, but in fact he was still breathing, just unconscious.
"Did you see what I did just now? This is the first time I've boldly punched someone to the ground." After all, her previous opponents were only delinquents and hooligans, not bad guys of this level. "What was that needle he was talking about?"
She smiled and winked cutely, continuing to provide reasons for the other party to answer her questions.
"You had no intention of killing me, yet he didn't seem to mind me seeing his face. From this, I can only conclude that you have a method to distort or erase memories, and that's the injection he mentioned, right?"
"Even though I only punched him twice and he lost consciousness, you should know that I can keep you awake to endure everything. Don't you think it's unnecessary?" She tilted her head cutely, her smile becoming more and more charming. "You're going to be arrested by the police anyway, so telling me won't hurt—eh?"
In response to her, the fake nurse stabbed herself with a needle.
As the liquid was pushed into her body, the person dressed as a nurse softened and fell to one side.
“Ah…it’s actually like this…”
Kurosaki Utsuki shrugged regretfully, ignored her, and began to head towards the enemy base. She would have to find a cell phone—one that was unlocked and could make calls—to call her friends and ask them to do her a favor and deliver the bag from her hospital room.
The key point, of course, is the memory-clearing spray in the bag. With just a light spray, the person she just beat up and the person she is going to beat up next will all forget everything that happened in a short period of time, and instead fill in a bizarre but firmly believed memory.
...Although, it was really cool when she acted like a bad guy and threatened people just now!
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Look what she found—
Hiding in a dark corner, a bad guy who just made a call, his phone definitely unlocked! And he has green eyes similar to the silver-haired man outside! No matter how you look at it, they're in cahoots!
Kurosaki Utsuki hung up the phone, then carefully placed the phone, with the screen still on, on the back of the young man who had been easily knocked down by her with a knife-like move. She brushed off the non-existent dust on her hands, picked up the phone again, and prepared to call her friend.
"What's Jingguang's number... Never mind, let's just call Furuya. His number has a lot of zeros, so it's easy to remember... Wait, this guy, was he calling the police just now?"
Looking at the call log, where the number 110 that had just been dialed was hung up, the orange-haired girl's eyes gradually became complicated.
...Oh no, did she beat up a kind passerby by mistake?
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