Chapter 71 Assassin 1
Tuesday, April 18th
The vibration of the plane landing and the phone turning on seemed like a license for "I can start working overtime."
For the safety of Miyano Shiho, Kurosaki Utsuki ended the trip that had never even started and returned to Tokyo early. The journey was incredibly smooth.
Considering the girl's desire to contribute to the destruction of the organization, Kurosaki Utsuki decided to place her in her brother's house. However, she only had time to explain the situation to her brother and go to Urahara's store to borrow a modified soul before she received a call from the Metropolitan Police Department.
This time, the person on the other side was Date Ko, and the assignment was her job, and since she had already returned to Tokyo, she naturally had no reason to refuse.
So four hours after returning from Hakodate and landing, Kurosaki Utsuki entered the autopsy room and began performing an autopsy on the deceased.
She was completely relieved to entrust Miyano Shiho to her brother and could concentrate on her work without any worries.
After all, there was one thing she cared about a lot in this job—
The deceased was a policeman, a detective from the First Investigation Division.
It seemed that because of this, the police, who usually entrusted her with detective work at the same time as autopsy work, did not say anything to her this time, and she did not take the initiative to take the work for herself.
...After all, in addition to her work as a forensic scientist, she also has to supervise students' internships. Her schedule is already very full, and any extra tasks have to be squeezed out of her time.
Moreover, the body this time is just a body, the soul did not follow. It is unknown whether it is still at the place of death, or has already become a Buddha without any regrets and gone to the Soul Society.
April 22, Saturday
As a result, a few days later, the body of another detective was sent to Kurosaki Utsuki.
The person who accompanied her in transferring the body was Detective Shigeru Takagi, who was quite familiar to her. He looked very unhappy, not knowing whether it was because the victim was a colleague or because the investigation had reached a bottleneck.
Once again, Kurosaki Utsuki didn't ask any more questions. At least today, she didn't want to delay at work for a moment.
Because tonight at midnight, her husband, whom she had reunited with after a long absence, would begin his real-life work as a garrisoned Shinigami. As a veteran in the Shinigami industry, she planned to first familiarize him with the general situation of Beihua City and once again confirm his combat capabilities, so that both of them would be mentally prepared for the future.
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Just as Kurosaki Utsuki had finished her autopsy report and was about to jog home with her bag, her cell phone suddenly rang. The caller was Matsuda Jinpei, whom she didn't want to ignore.
"What's the matter?" Although she didn't want to ignore him, Kurosaki Utsuki's tone after answering the phone was not friendly. She had an aura of "If you can't tell me the real business, I'll rush to the other end of the phone and beat you up."
Matsuda Jinpei was used to this and didn't care about her eagerness to go home. He asked slowly, "Can you leave work now?"
This question gave Kurosaki Utahi a bad feeling: "...What do you want?"
The person on the other end of the phone was straightforward: "I want to go somewhere and I need a female companion."
"...Why don't you ask Miwako?" She understood before she even finished her words. "Are you going to conduct another illegal search?"
Don't ask her why she said "again".
Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue. Kurosaki Utsuki could imagine the man on the other end of the line pretending to be righteous. "That's not a violation. I'm off duty now. I'm not out as a detective."
……Oh.
Although she laughed dryly in her heart, Kurosaki Utsuki still couldn't refuse the commission from her friend - she really had no friends now, and in her small circle of friends, only Matsuda Jinpei could keep in touch at any time. How could she let him go on an adventure alone?
Anyway, her husband wouldn't mind at all if she went on a date with his childhood best friend... probably.
·
The target is a bar suspected of secretly selling illegal drugs. Because this bar does not accept single customers, Matsuda Jinpei needs a female companion who can ensure his own safety while he concentrates on the investigation, and Kurosaki Utsuki is obviously his best candidate.
"Are you sure you want to play lovers with me?" Kurosaki Utahi frowned in the passenger seat of the white RX-7. "I don't think it's possible."
Matsuda Jinpei, who had already made a plan, advised her nonchalantly, "Hagi won't mind. This is just for the investigation of the case."
"No, that's not the problem," Kurosaki Utsuki interrupted seriously, spreading her palms and introducing the other person to relieve the pressure. "The problem is whether you, Jinpei, who has been single since birth, can really play the role of "boyfriend"."
After a strange silence, Matsuda Jinpei jumped up, grabbing his curly hair and saying, "Kurosaki Utsuki!"
When did this woman become so malicious!
Forced to work overtime, Kurosaki Utsuki lazily responded, "Yes~ But you should call me Hagiwara Utsuki. Although I still use my real name at work, I haven't given it up since I became a naturalized citizen."
This was not to maintain her married persona. She did not change back to her original name simply because she was too busy to go to the district office to handle the formalities.
Looking back, after she became a naturalized citizen and changed her surname that year, it took her so long to finally update all her documents and cards. She didn't want to repeat that pain again.
The curly-haired young man stared at her speechlessly: "Then what do you say we should do?"
"I think the realistic setting is great." Kurosaki Utsuki nodded to herself. "A single man and the young wife of his deceased friend—it's very exciting just to think about it."
"Huh?" He didn't understand.
"That's settled—by the way, your deceased friend will be back tonight, so be careful not to be haunted by his vengeful spirit."
"Hello!"
To sum up, although Jinpei Matsuda was a little reluctant, he still accepted Kurosaki Utsuki's suggestion, naturally entered the role, and interpreted himself in a sense.
Unfortunately, the two people sat in the bar for two hours and spent more than 20,000 yuan, but they did not find any violations of the store. There was nothing unusual in sight, and there were not even any suspicious people.
Kurosaki Utaki stared at the ticking time on her phone, calculating how long it would take to get home. She had decided to persuade Matsuda to give up tonight, but when she looked up, she was met with the expectant gaze of the person opposite her: "Utaki."
That look was too sincere. Even though she knew that the other party wanted to ask her for something and had bad intentions in his mind, after being stared at for five seconds, she still snorted coldly in despair and turned her head away.
“…I know!”
Really, the power of the Shinigami isn't meant for this... Kurosaki Utsuki complained in her heart as she found a comfortable position on the table and used the Shinigami Proxy Certificate to leave her body.
This wasn't the first time she was asked by Jinpei Matsuda to search for evidence in spirit form, but it was the first time she did it in front of him.
Matsuda Jinpei hadn't seen her spirit form since the wedding ceremony seven years ago, so his eyes widened in surprise at her current appearance: "You... really haven't grown up."
The spirit of the girl in front of him, who looked like a high school student, gave him the illusion that he was exploiting a minor - of course, it was just an illusion.
"I told you this is the price of saving the world." Kurosaki Utsuki glared at him and turned to walk towards the bar.
·
As a spirit invisible to ordinary people, Kurosaki Utsuki had a smooth journey.
After observing openly for a while from the inside of the bar, avoiding people and flipping around a little, she glanced at her body from a distance, which seemed to be "drunk and asleep", and continued to move towards the direction of "No entry for non-staff members".
And successfully found a hidden secret room behind the full-length mirror in the locker room.
The boxes of bottled pills piled up in the small room made Kurosaki Utsuki's eyes light up, and after reading the English on the bottles without Japanese labels, the corners of her lips curled up even higher.
"This is truly a great achievement." The orange-haired deputy Shinigami quietly left the room, his steps becoming increasingly brisk. His bad mood from being forced to work overtime was completely transformed into joy because of this great discovery. "I want Xiao Zhenping to treat me to something..."
She returned to her original seat via the bar along the same route, and raised her voice from a distance.
"Zhenping, I found a lot of good stuff—eh?"
Who is she? Where is she? How could her body move on its own? Her master is still outside!
What kind of monster dared to enter her body?
Hearing Kurosaki Utsuki's voice, the man who had just held her wine glass and taken a sip at her lipstick mark put down the glass and quickly turned his head to look at her. The face she saw in the mirror every day showed a doting expression that she rarely made: "Utsuki-chan!"
…She knew who it was.
"Kenji, what are you—"
It was her long-lost husband, Kenji Hagiwara.
A familiar female voice immediately answered, "Because it would be weird for Jinpei-chan to keep talking to the air—what did Kaku-chan say he found just now?"
This feeling is very strange.
Kurosaki Uta frowned as she hoped for "herself", but after a moment she considered the overall situation and explained her discovery to Matsuda Jinpei.
Upon learning the good news, the active criminal police immediately and calmly sent an email to their colleagues. The police response speed in Beihua City has always been very fast, whether the destination is a murder scene or an illegal store that requires an urgent search warrant to search.
By the time Kurosaki Utaki had finished a glass of wine, the entire bar was surrounded by police.
Matsuda Jinpei stood up, identified himself, and greeted Date Kou, who had just entered the store. Then, the squad leader pointed toward the door and said helplessly, "The media has heard about this. Who should we call to deal with it?"
Before he could finish his words, he and Matsuda Jinpei had already looked towards "Kurosaki Utaki".
"Psycho-Psycho Detective Kaki Hagiwara" makes her long-awaited comeback appearance—the media will surely be very excited about this topic.
Before the person outside the body could say anything, "Kurosaki Utaki" stood up very consciously and expressed her determination to deal with the media with her own actions - then she suddenly turned her head towards her wife, with "Please help me" written all over her face.
Because the police were visiting, all customers were asked to stay where they were. Kurosaki Utaki moved effortlessly, quickly arriving just a short distance from the security tape at the entrance. She was a little distance away from the media and onlookers in front, and also from the police blocking the side door in the back.
The spirit of Kurosaki Utaki, who had been following "himself" the entire time and had no intention of refusing, twitched its lips and said, "Why don't you come out?"
"I tried that just now." The "self" in front of her blinked aggrievedly, her Death Proxy Certificate lying on her open palm. "But it seems that the size is not right or there is some other reason. Something is stuck between the spirit and the body..."
Oh, she understood.
This is like a stupid test like putting a light bulb in your mouth. It may be a little difficult to put it in, but it can be done. However, when you take it out, you will be embarrassed and have to find a doctor who can save you as soon as possible under the attention of everyone you meet on the road.
Sadly, although she has a medical license, she knows nothing about removing light bulbs.
"Alright then." Kurosaki Utsuki nodded and patted "himself" on the shoulder seriously, a look that said, "You have a long way to go." "After we deal with the media, tomorrow's autopsy and dissection practice will be handed over to you."
The "self" opposite immediately revealed an expression that was about to cry but could not: "Xiao Gexi..."
How could he know how to do dissection or teach practical classes?
"Now, 'Utahiki-chan' is you," Kurosaki Utahiki said with a sincere, yet somewhat sinister smile. "Don't mess up your job, and don't forget that you're still the local resident Death God—that's wonderful! I've been looking forward to a vacation for years, and I didn't expect it to come so unexpectedly. I'm truly grateful for nature's gift."
"Xiao Gexi, I was wrong..."
well……
"Really! Kenji is an idiot!"
Didn't Mao's textbook teach this?! A prosthetic body must be as close to one's own appearance as possible, otherwise it'll either feel too restrictive or easily come loose. And this guy actually dared to enter her human body—
Although, if the time of entry was short enough and the spirit hadn't fully adapted to the body, it wouldn't have caused much of an impact, and it was impossible for it to be unsheathed. But the question was, her body, was it an ordinary body?
The "self" opposite her stared at her with a pitiful expression, which made her face angry, but her heart gradually softened.
"...Okay, I'll go ask Urahara-san what to do later."
Kurosaki Utaha pursed her lips and pointed at the cameras and flash lights outside the door.
"Now, bring out my aura of 'Hagiwara Kakiko' and don't be careless."
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