Chapter 16 Sixteen Ghosts Behind

Generally speaking, Toru Amuro would not intervene in other people's private disputes, but it seems that the situation is different at the moment.

If I guessed correctly, the two people downstairs were the boss classmate mentioned by the front desk. Their original purpose of coming here was the boss. Now they heard the information related to Chijiang Nayue before they started to act. It was really a pleasant surprise - although this information did not sound very serious.

Toru Amuro looked at the spirit behind him with a look that seemed to want to say something but was hesitant.

Chijiang Nayue was reminded by his gaze, and suddenly came out of the confusion she was in when she was suddenly mentioned while watching the play. She said calmly and innocently: "Don't look at me like that, I really don't know them."

His brain will not remember unnecessary and useless things. Not to mention that he is actually the 28-year-old Akae Nayue now, it is even more impossible for him to remember who had a crush on him in high school. Isn't this normal?

"But it's strange." Amuro Toru heard the boy say with interest afterwards, "The red-haired person, she looked very angry and said something without thinking, right? But in fact, she was not really angry from beginning to end."

Chijiang Nayue stretched out her hands and made a photo frame gesture, tilted her head slightly, closed her right eye, and passed her gaze through the center of the gesture, concentrating on scanning the faces of the two people below.

"It's really interesting. She's 'anxious.'" The Savior observed the body movements of the two people and recalled the micro-expressions he had seen when watching the play before. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. "And the black-haired girl opposite, she is very calm... before, she looked like she was being pressed step by step, but in fact she was very calm from beginning to end."

He lowered his arms and said to Amuro Toru beside him with a smile, as if revealing a surprise: "It looks like you are really lucky today. You have three more investigation subjects, Mr. Amuro."

Toru Amuro started to have a headache.

In fact, with Chijiang Nanyue's own ability, he realized the incongruity of the two people downstairs the first time he saw them, and the labels in his field of vision also floated around the two people... But he is currently playing the role of his young 18-year-old self, so he cannot show his true colors in such a place.

Alas, he really has good intentions. Thinking of this, Chi Jiang Na Yue turned around and pretended to wipe the corners of his eyes twice, and was slightly moved by the seriousness of his own acting.

Maybe today is really Toru Amuro's lucky day. Just a few seconds after Akae Nayue finished speaking, the paper sliding door at the main entrance of the hotel was opened again, and this time two men of similar build came in.

The one walking ahead wearing glasses is their main target, Tsuda Atsushi. Then, the one a little behind and looking down at his phone must be the 'Fujimiya' they are talking about.

Tsuda Atsushi walked quickly and his expression looked a little gloomy.

——He obviously also heard the last words that Kumu Li Ke said before.

"Kumu, could you please think before you speak?" The young man said as he pushed his gold-rimmed glasses. His dignified demeanor disappeared without a trace after he opened his mouth. His words were merciless. "I told you not to say those things here."

"'Those words'? How come I don't know what Master Tsuda said? Why don't you tell me in detail?" The red-haired beauty crossed her arms, her aura was unfazed, and she sneered, saying in a sinister tone, "Oh, now I remember, Master doesn't even dare to mention the name of classmate Akae."

Her voice and expression were as cold as ice: "Tsuda Atsushi, what qualifications do you have to ask me not to say 'those words'? Just because you didn't even attend the funeral of your classmate Akae, yet every year you gather us here hypocritically to 'remember' your pathetic high school life? Your face really makes me more and more disgusted the more I look at it."

As Toru Amuro and Nazuki Akae listened upstairs, they couldn't help but lean back a little: My goodness, they have gone crazy and have turned into indiscriminate attacks.

It seemed that this remark really hurt Tsuda Atsushi, and his expression became even uglier. He subconsciously took a step forward to say something, but another person behind him grabbed his arm in time to stop him from speaking.

The brown-haired young man who seemed to be called Fujimiya also frowned, but he still advised in a gentle voice: "Like, stop saying angry words, you know that Atsushi didn't mean that..."

It would have been fine if he hadn't said anything. As soon as he opened his mouth, Kugi Riko's anger reached another peak. She interrupted Fujimiya with an even more angry look: "Shut up! I haven't settled the score between you and He Lai Ling yet. Now it seems that you and Tsuda are just friends because you have similar interests. After all, you are both betrayers, right?"

Just as the argument below was about to become heated, a crisp "pop" stopped everyone's emotions.

Looking over again, I saw Kumu Li Ke covering her face and He Lai Ling who was standing in front of her with her hands still on.

"Have you made enough noise?" He Lai Ling's chest rose and fell rapidly as if because of anger. "You suspected that I was hanging out with Fujimiya behind your back. I can think that you are too sad and say things without thinking, but how can you talk about your senior in this tone?"

He Lai Ling said coldly: "Wake up, Li Ke, you are not the only one who is sad about the death of Chi Jiang."

Kumu Liko did not reply, but covered her face, pushed away the two people who were still standing at the door, and ran straight out the door.

The downstairs became quiet again for a while.

"I'll go find her." He Lai Ling was silent for a while, then stood up and chased after her. Only Tsuda Atsushi and Fujimiya were still standing below.

Amuro Toru breathed a sigh of relief, and facing Akae Nayue's watchful eyes, he pretended to have just walked to the stairs and came down calmly.

For a moment, all eyes below were focused on him.

"Who?" Tsuda Atsushi raised his eyebrows.

Hanada Minoru, who had been hiding behind the counter and pretending not to exist, seemed to be frightened by the quarrel between the boss and his classmates. But now he stepped out and introduced himself: "Boss, this is Mr. Amuro. I made a reservation through the official website you made."

Tsuda Atsushi's expression eased a lot, but judging from his expression, he was probably also surprised that there was actually someone who made a reservation for their remote hotel on the official website.

"Welcome to stay. I hope you like it here." The black-haired boss nodded and apologized, "I have something to do. I will leave first. If you have any needs, you can directly ask Huatian."

After Kumu Riko left, he returned to the cold and elite look that Amuro Toru had seen in the files. If they hadn't just witnessed their quarrel with their own eyes, this look might have really scared a lot of people.

I don't know why, but Toru Amuro always felt that after observing him closely, Tsuda Atsushi in front of him seemed to give him a very strong sense of déjà vu.

At this moment, Akae Nazuki, who was slowly floating over, seemed to be more interested in Fujimiya behind her. She approached Fujimiya with great interest and looked at his mobile phone screen.

From Amuro Toru's perspective, Tsuda Atsushi's face and Akae Nazuki's face appeared in the center of his field of vision at the same time.

Toru Amuro was suddenly stunned, and then he felt an inexplicable anger.

Perhaps it was too sudden, the perceptive Tsuda Atsushi seemed to have caught something and turned his attention back to him. Akae Nazuki behind him also seemed to have sensed something and raised her head to look at him in confusion.

——More like it.

Amuro tried his best to calm himself down quickly and conceal his emotions neatly.

Only when Tsuda Atsushi walked up the stairs alone and disappeared in front of them did Amuro Toru loosen his fingers that he had subconsciously clenched just now.

There were already several crescent-shaped marks on his palms from his short fingernails.

Tsuda Atsushi and Akae Nazuki are so similar.

This doesn't mean that their facial features are similar, but everything other than facial features...hairstyle, posture, tone of voice and even expression.

In other words, if you watch from the back, anyone who is not familiar with Akae Nazuki would basically think that Tsuda Atsushi is the 26-year-old Akae Nazuki who is not dead - of course, they are facing all the unrecognized versions of outsiders, but this is also scary enough.

Toru Amuro suddenly figured out the doubt that Kuroda Heiwei had mentioned before, the boy who appeared in the cemetery and 'Akae Nazuki' who appeared outside the Metropolitan Police Department at the same time.

Yeah, why couldn't one of them be pretending?

He thought about it for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

Then the one who went to the cemetery to pay respect should be the real Akajiang Nayue, and the one outside the Metropolitan Police Department was probably someone else pretending to be her.

It couldn't be Tsuda Atsushi. Eight years ago, Tsuda Atsushi was just an ordinary 18-year-old boy. Unlike Akae Nazuki, it was impossible for him to escape quietly from the layers of public security surveillance.

Another person's face appeared in Toru Amuro's mind.

Therefore, the person who pretended to be Akajiang Nayue and cooperated with him to create an alibi at the door of the Metropolitan Police Department and then escaped was Vermode, the thousand-faced witch who was good at acting and disguise!

It seems that since Vermode helped, what Akae Nazuki said before, "I was not burned to death," can be explained. It is estimated that the body found in Akae's house was not Akae Nazuki's, but someone else's.

A chill ran up from the palm of his hand. Amuro Toru shifted his gaze slightly and saw a warning look on Akaegawa's face as she floated back to his side: he should come back to his senses.

Yes, there is Fujimiya in front of us, maybe he knows something.

Toru Amuro immediately changed his tone and said hesitantly, "The guy just now... I always feel that he looks like someone I know."

He used these words to find a suitable reason for his previous thoughts.

The brown-haired young man was stunned and looked at Amuro Toru with a strange look: "Wait, you said it looks like someone you know?"

He also realized that his reaction was too strange, so he cleared his throat and introduced himself first: "Sorry, I'm a little surprised. My name is Fujimiya Tatsuya, and the person just now is Tsuda Atsushi. We are high school classmates."

"Excuse me, Mr. Amuro, what is the situation this year?"

Amuro Toru said cheerfully: "Although I look young, I am actually 28 years old. I am a private detective who came here to travel from Tokyo."

"If he's two years older... he's still a detective in Tokyo." Fujimiya Tatsuya muttered to himself before speaking again, "What a coincidence, maybe you're not mistaken, Mr. Amuro."

"I think the person Mr. Amuro knows is called Akae Nazuki, right?" The young man laughed dryly, and after Toru Amuro nodded, he explained in a low voice, "Atsushi and I were originally classmates with Akae-kun."

"Atsushi has always been a fanatical admirer of Akae-kun, but I think Mr. Amuro should also know what happened eight years ago..." Fujimiya Tatsuya said helplessly with a mixture of anger between his eyebrows, "Anyway, Atsushi has become like this since then. In the past eight years, he seems to have been secretly imitating Akae-kun by watching the videotapes left behind in the school. We only discovered it a few years ago."

The person being imitated beside him raised an eyebrow: His admirer? But that Kuki Riko had clearly mentioned before that Tsuda Atsushi did not attend his funeral that year, and even called Tsuda Atsushi a "traitor".

Akae Nayue stroked his chin and muttered without context under the attention of Amuro Toru: "I really hate dogs after all."