Chapter 576: Skilled Worker
Seeing that Amuro Toru had fallen silent, the old woman raised her hand tremblingly and pointed at the deep forest:
"The direction you are going now is actually very convenient - turn left at the fork in front and you will arrive in ten minutes.
"It may sound a bit self-willed, but I hope you can give me a ride. That dinner is really important, and I'm almost late..."
Kidd looked at the old woman who was trying to hitchhike, then glanced at Amuro Toru and leaned back in his chair.
...He had originally planned to wait until he reached the intersection leading to the Twilight Annex and then find a way to damage Toru Amuro's car. In this case, in a place without signal, he could only look for a house within sight and call for help - such as the Twilight Annex in the distance.
That was Kidd's destination.
However, Kidd observed the current situation and realized that this time, he didn't need to bother doing anything.
If I remember correctly, the old lady who came to take the bus was actually a celebrity.
——Her name is Chikan Nozomi, and she is a well-known armchair detective, that is, a detective who can deduce the situation simply by listening to the client's description at home without going to the scene.
Kidd thought that as a colleague, Amuro Toru should know her. And according to what Amuro Toru muttered before parking the car, even for the sake of the reputation of the Amuro Detective Agency, the boss should not refuse such a convenient ride request, after all, the Twilight Annex is not too far from here.
…
Although Toru Amuro looked hesitant, he finally sighed, nodded, and agreed.
Grandma Qianjian thanked her.
Then she returned to her own car, opened the passenger door, and nudged the person inside: "Wake up, we have to change cars."
Kidd looked through the car window at the passenger seat of the car in front with a little curiosity.
In his impression, according to previous investigations, Grandma Qianjian did not run a detective agency, nor did she have an assistant, and she usually lived alone at home. Why did she bring an extra person to the party this time?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a strange young man getting out of the car in front.
The man seemed to have just woken up, his fluffy natural curls were slightly messy, and he was yawning. As he got out of the car, he took out a pair of light-colored sunglasses from his pocket, opened them, and put them on his nose.
——This is Jiang Xia's new vest, a puppet based on Matsuda Jinpei's frame structure. When Jiang Xia made a fake certificate for him, he casually gave him the name "Kurosawa Sa".
Toru Amuro was originally leaning against the window frame, daydreaming, wondering whether he had to stay in the "Sunset Villa" tonight.
He casually glanced over when he noticed another person in the car in front of him got out.
Then his gaze stopped.
...Matsuda? ?
…
All of Toru Amuro's close friends are now dead.
Among them was Jinpei Matsuda, who was blown to pieces by the bomb.
Although Matsuda's body was difficult to identify when he died, he was the only one in the Ferris wheel that exploded. The police would not have made the mistake of collecting the wrong body. Matsuda Jinpei was indeed dead.
but……
Toru Amuro suddenly remembered the figure he had seen in the mountains a while ago when he and Jiang Xia received the commission to "hire a killer to kill themselves".
Although the distance was far, the familiar figure was easy to identify. No matter how Toru Amuro looked at it, he felt that it was his old classmate who had unfortunately died - the clothes, sunglasses and natural curls might be the same, but the familiar's movements and figure were unique and easy to identify.
But at that time, after just a few seconds of watching, the person who was highly suspected to be Matsuda Jinpei was washed away by a landslide. After digging for a long time, he was still not found.
In addition, apart from Toru Amuro himself, no other living person had ever seen "Jinpei Matsuda". In the end, Toru Amuro had to regard what happened that day as an illusion.
…
However, he did not expect that just when he had barely convinced himself that it was an illusion, he once again saw someone who looked like Jinpei Matsuda.
...Even if we put aside the friendship between old classmates, the fact of "resurrection from the dead" alone is enough to make Amuro Toru's breathing stop.
Just at this moment.
Toru Amuro used the car lights to look at the people getting out of the car in front for a while, and gradually realized something was wrong.
——The "Jinpei Matsuda" he met this time was exactly the same as he remembered, whether it was the sunglasses, curly hair, or the black casual suit. But his actions no longer had that familiar feeling.
If you look closely, although they look very similar, there are some differences between them and Matsuda...
"..." Could it be that the person I saw in the mountains last time was not Matsuda, but the person in front of me?
As for the similar figure... maybe I saw a familiar outfit, so I unconsciously imagined the corresponding actions?
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The young version of "Jinpei Matsuda" who got out of Chiken's car is of course the puppet driven by Jiangxia, which is constructed with Jinpei Matsuda as the main material.
The puppet's appearance would neutralize the characteristics of the ghost fetus and the medium's soul. So the current Matsuda puppet naturally looked similar to Matsuda Jinpei.
Before that, after Jiang Xia settled his main body, he went down the road and bumped into a car from a Qianjian generation.
——Matsuda Jinpei's puppet, the man he arranged to be "Situ" who smuggled from Burma and used the pseudonym "Kurosawa Sa", is still an invisible person in society and has no corresponding detective identity. If he went to visit the Twilight Villa alone, it would be too suspicious.
So Jiang Xia found a companion for himself.
When he was trying to scam the old woman, in order to explain why he didn't bring any luggage and to make the old woman less wary, Jiang Xia used the ghosts of his parents and made up a story that he was a traveler who had a terminal illness and came to the mountains to commit suicide.
Grandma Qianjian seemed to have some empathy for this, and she had other plans as well. After a moment's silence, she let Jiang Xia get in the car, and the two of them naturally became companions.
The last time this vest was released in Danyuan Mountain, it was buried by a landslide and was opened by Matsuda Jinpei - after Jiang Xia ate the strange tear-shaped crystal, the ghosts and shikigami received a great boost.
In the past, if the vests wanted to move, Jiang Xia had to do it himself, but now, the ghosts can move for a long time on their own.
This is probably one of the reasons why Toru Amuro mistook the new vest for Jinpei Matsuda last time in the mountains, because the person inside the shell was indeed Jinpei Matsuda.
However, ghost fetuses are naturally unable to speak, so even if they can drive puppets around, they cannot make any sound. Moreover, compared to Jiang Xia controlling the puppets himself, driving ghosts is more murderous and tiring.
So except for occasions where dual opening is required, Jiang Xia usually takes action himself at other times.
...like now.
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The headlights were dazzling, and Jiang Xia and Chikan Kyouyo, who were standing in front of the Mazda, did not see Amuro Toru's change from calm to shock and then to pretending to be calm.
Grandma Qianjian woke up Jiang Xia, a companion she met on the road, and reminded him to change cars.
Then she walked over to the Mazda in small steps and grabbed the tool man at random with ease.
(End of this chapter)
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