Chapter 93 You Fell Down by Yourself
Jiang Xia drove the puppet, calmly looked at Xichuan Suimei's back, and followed her neither hurriedly nor slowly.
…
Nishikawa Suimei followed the secret passage and ran into the hall.
Fortunately, there was no one in the hall at this time.
She ran to the huge portrait of the old master and pushed it to the left with force as the anonymous person said.
The portrait creaked and turned, and a vertical passage gradually appeared on the wall behind it.
Nishikawa Suimei looked at this secret passage she had never seen before and suddenly laughed.
——The “treasure” must be here!
She has been around the entire castle, and this is the only place she hasn't been to!
…
On the wall of the passage, there was a row of iron ladders leading upwards.
Nishikawa Suimei entered the passage and climbed up quickly.
After climbing for an unknown amount of time, I finally reached the top and saw a half-open door.
She was suddenly ecstatic, and she burst open the door and rushed in.
…and landed in a small empty room.
——This is the top of a tower, which looks like it is less than ten square meters. There is an old light bulb hanging on the roof, and there is a small window opposite the door. Away from the window, there is a box of old books.
Apart from that, there is nothing.
…
Nishikawa Suimei was stunned by this impoverished place.
“……”Where is the treasure?
...Where's her treasure!?
Behind me, there was a sudden rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
——Anonymous climbed up skillfully, holding the layered black gauze skirt, a beat slower.
She stepped onto the rooftop and bent over to smooth the wrinkles on her skirt.
Just as she had regained her elegant image, Nishikawa Suimei suddenly rushed over like a madman and grabbed her neck: "Where is the treasure?! Did you take it? Give it back to me! Give me back my treasure!!"
"The treasure is behind you." Anonymous spoke slowly and leisurely. Nishikawa Suimei's full strength of pinching and grabbing seemed unable to hinder her steady airflow at all.
Like an enthusiastic tourist being asked for directions, she raised her hand and pointed at the window with her slender fingers: "Isn't it engraved on the wall over there - 'I want to give the view from the top of this castle to the first person to arrive here'."
“…”
Nishikawa Suimei subconsciously followed her direction and looked at the wall.
There was indeed a faded sign hanging there.
Xichuan Suimei left Anonymous and ran over in disbelief. She was trembling all over, and after staring for a long time, she could barely recognize the old words on the bronze plaque.
...It is exactly as the anonymous person said, word for word.
"..." Is this the "treasure" she gave up everything to pursue?
…
Nishikawa Suimei slowly shifted her gaze and looked outside at the dark, eerie and quiet woods, and was stunned.
After a long while, she raised her hand tremblingly and stroked her old and deformed face: "I...just for this kind of thing, just for this kind of thing...I turned myself into this half-human, half-ghost appearance..." Tears rolled down her orange peel-like wrinkles.
——The treasure she had been pursuing for so long turned out to be just a joke. Her youthful appearance and her precious youth of more than ten years were all lost in this meaningless thing.
When she thought of this, Nishikawa Suimei almost had the urge to jump off the top of the tower and end this absurd life.
But in the end, she looked at the bottomless abyss below, collapsed in front of the window, and did not move.
"..."Only at this point did Nishikawa Suimei realize very clearly that she did not want to die yet.
If you think about it carefully, even though the treasure is gone, the lady still has a lot of valuable things.
She was able to have plastic surgery to look like an old lady back then, and now she can have a normal face again.
…It’s time to give up the obsession with treasure hunting, leave this gloomy castle that traps you, and start a new life.
…
Nishikawa Suimei held onto the wall, slowly stood up, and looked at Anonymous with complicated eyes.
Although I don't know why this woman knows so much and why I told her everything, but...
Nishikawa Suimei smiled sarcastically: "Thank you so much."
"You're welcome." Anonymous smiled.
Nishikawa Suimei looked at the beautiful face and thought of herself again, feeling mixed emotions.
The feeling of jealousy was about to surge up, but at this moment, she stared straight ahead and suddenly froze.
——On the opposite side, Anonymous’ body suddenly turned black, her skin cracked inch by inch, and tar and flames rolled in the cracks... She seemed to have suddenly changed from a human being into a corpse that was being engulfed in fire and roasted into charcoal.
Under the horrified gaze of Nishikawa Suimei.
Anonymous opened his dry mouth and his voice became hoarse and eerie, like countless resentful souls struggling in a fire.
She followed up on the previous “you’re welcome” with a familiar and intimate tone, saying, “…after all, we also want to know why you burned so many people to death.”
"!!" In an instant, Nishikawa Suimei felt as if a basin of ice water was poured into her collar, and her whole body felt cold.
The legend of revenge by vengeful spirits has existed since ancient times.
When Nishikawa Suimei saw the burnt, horrible face, she suddenly remembered the countless twisted figures who had been locked up in the tower by her and who had been screaming and banging on the door that night. She suddenly let out a terrified scream and could not help but dodge backwards, trying to distance herself.
She was originally standing at the window, and now she stepped back and out of the window.
Outside the window is the extremely steep tower top.
Nishikawa Suimei's body suddenly lost balance.
As she rolled down in panic, in her bloodshot vision, the "burnt" woman on the roof seemed to be broken into pieces and reassembled, and in an instant she returned to her previous clean appearance.
The woman in black lowered her head and watched her fall into the abyss quietly. There was no resentment in her expression. She was just like a passerby watching a play, her long skirt fluttering in the wind.
"ah--!!!"
…
The moment when Nishikawa Suimei fell.
On top of the tower.
Jiang Xia drove Miyano Akemi's puppet and lifted up the stack of shikigami in his arms so that they could occupy a good viewing position, then quickly eliminated his obsession and was picked up by the hardworking psychic.
Jiang Xia: "..." Speaking of which, Mist Tengu's "Death Reappearance" skill seems useless at first glance. But now it seems that it can be used in some strange places...
…
When Toru Amuro climbed up the tower along the passage and rushed into the small room, he just happened to see Nishikawa Suimei struggling frantically but still unable to hold on to the edge of the tower and finally falling down in horror.
Anonymous finished her work and noticed someone behind her. She turned around from the window, looked at Amuro Toru, and raised her hand to gently adjust the brim of her hat.
In the passage, Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko and Conan were still climbing.
They could see nothing but heard a scream going farther and farther away.
The three of them were startled and asked anxiously like onlookers who couldn't find the melon: "What happened? What happened?!"
Amuro Toru said in a deep voice: "Don't come up yet."
"..." Although Anonymous was not seen pushing anyone personally, judging from Nishikawa Suimei's reluctant look, her fall from the tower must have been related to Anonymous.
And before he came up, there were only two of them in the tower. If Anonymous hadn't done anything, it couldn't have been a ghost that pushed the fake old lady down.
…
Toru Amuro estimated the height of the tower and felt a little depressed.
If someone falls from here, he will definitely be smashed into a meat patty.
The fake old lady is full of secrets and is suspected to be related to the fire a few years ago. She doesn't seem like a good person.
But for now, this represents a bad signal for them.
——Although Anonymous can save people, she doesn’t mind taking their lives.
If she adhered to the idea of "try to save good people and send bad people to the afterlife"... putting aside the conflict in their values, Jiang Xia's situation would probably be very dangerous now.
After all, Jiang Xia appears to be a righteous high school detective, but in fact, as a peripheral member of the organization, he must have done a lot of illegal things.
Since Anonymous was able to accurately intercept the bomb sent by Gin, there is no reason why she couldn't find out Jiang Xia's secret identity if she wanted to know it.
Toru Amuro: "..."
If Jiang Xia is a "bad guy" in Anonymous' eyes, then why hasn't he appeared for such a long time... Could he really have been killed by Anonymous?
(End of this chapter)
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