Chapter 273 Eighteen Villains

“Pfft, cough cough cough—”

At the table in the corner of the cafeteria, a young man with stubborn, naturally curly black hair almost sprayed all the milk in his cup onto the face of his classmate opposite him. He looked like he really wanted to laugh but was holding back for unknown reasons, and in the end his expression became extremely distorted.

“…”

Zhu Fu Jingguang said nothing, raised his hand and touched the side of his face, which was still bruised.

He sighed and said sympathetically: "Laugh if you want, Matsuda."

Matsuda Jinpei, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly leaned back in his arms and burst into earth-shaking laughter, mixed with incoherent words. One could vaguely hear something like "Curry Man" and "Karma", which made people even more confused.

At least when Date Kou walked in from outside the cafeteria in high spirits and went straight to the table where his friends were sitting, his face was full of confusion as to "what happened".

Date Kou looked to his left at Furuya Rei, who was glaring at Matsuda Jinpei with a dark face and pursed lips, and at Morobushi Kagemitsu, who was standing beside him and looking as fierce as if he had just fought 200 rounds of Jedi Knights last night. He looked to his right at Matsuda Jinpei, who was lying on the table grinning, and Hagiwara Kenji, who was standing beside him trying hard not to laugh and discussing with Morobushi Kagemitsu about "how to quickly remove traces".

"Murofushi, what's wrong with your injuries... Did you guys have another private fight?" The squad leader Date was confused. After all, the one injured this time was the usually well-behaved Morofushi Kagemitsu. "Come to think of it, Morofushi didn't show up for the morning class just now. Was that the reason?"

"Yes, squad leader, why don't you sit down first and we will explain it to you slowly?" Hagiwara Kenji suggested, holding back his laughter, and asked curiously, "Isn't it because of this that the instructor called you over just now?"

"Huh?" Ida Hang said casually, "No, the instructor told me that a classmate dropped out..."

He sat down with his breakfast. At the same time, the victim Zhufu Jingguang sighed for the umpteenth time this morning and explained again. Everyone's attention was mainly focused on him.

Then Ida Ko heard something very unbelievable.

"You mean someone broke into your dormitory last night, ran in, pressed you on the bed and beat you up, and left a note saying 'Revenge of the Curry Man', and then ran away..." The squad leader didn't understand and was shocked. "So that's why the instructor called me over to recognize the handwriting this morning!"

"Not only that, not only that!" Matsuda Jinpei seemed to have laughed enough. He said breathlessly, "Pfft, the curry man who beat up Keidan was said to have said gloomily, 'You sweet curry □□!' while beating him up... Ah, I'm laughing so hard that my stomach hurts. Hagi, you come after me."

Kenji Hagiwara cleared his throat and continued, "The bad thing is that the whole school had a power outage last night, and the dormitory surveillance did not capture the intruder. I was in the dormitory next door, and I was not asleep at the time, but I really did not hear any movement from the dormitory next door."

The police academy's dormitories actually didn't have very good soundproofing, let alone a fierce fight - one could tell how fierce it was just by looking at the marks on Zhu Fu Jing's face and exposed skin - even if he simply rolled off the bed, the thud could be heard by people next door.

"This means that the intruder has investigated the dormitory environment in advance, or he is a member of the police academy." Furiya Ling was very angry that Kou Kairan was beaten up like this for no reason, and his face became darker. "That's why he can control the decibels of the fight so accurately... Maybe he has done this more than once!"

He is obviously a member of the police academy, but he disregarded the school rules and beat up innocent students. The "murderer" must be a dangerous person!

"I think the excuses he made when he beat people up are really funny, so funny that they seem real." Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help laughing again. He supported his face with his left hand and expressed his opinion, "If there really is a spicy curry man, wouldn't he be even more miserable?"

After all, most Japanese people prefer a lighter taste, and sweet curry is more popular than spicy curry. So the so-called spicy curry hero is simply impossible to beat!

They all knew that the mysterious man's words were just excuses and jokes to divert attention, and the note was just a smokescreen to divert the investigators' attention, so they just laughed it off.

"That's a harsh comment, Matsuda," Date Kou complained. "But it's really strange that with all these bruises, you're actually less injured than Furuya and Matsuda who had a fight that day."

It couldn't be that strange mysterious man holding back on his strength, right? What was he trying to achieve! He had already invaded the dormitory, and they were fighting like they were going to have a blood feud! But he was so fierce that he only caused 250 casualties...

But to say that it is because the mysterious man is too weak is even more impossible.

"He didn't give me the slightest chance to resist," Zhu Fu Jingguang said solemnly, "He had firmly controlled my movements from the very beginning, blocking my chances of escaping or calling for help... With this ability, he could have done something much more severe to me..."

"hiro"

"…Sorry, Zero, I was just imagining it."

Zhu Fu Jingguang touched the scab on the corner of his mouth, where he had been hit hard last night. The opponent even said, "I'll return this punch to you."

But Zhu Fu Jingguang has never been the type to start an argument with others, and he couldn't remember who he had punched in this place. He could only temporarily conclude that the mysterious man might be someone with whom he had had a conflict, or that the other party said this just to confuse people.

"What does that curry man look like?" Matsuda Jinpei asked, leaning his upper body toward Morobushi Kagemitsu. "If we can't see his face, we should know his body shape, right?"

Morobushi Kagemitsu seemed to recall some horrific scene: "...I don't know."

"The man was wearing a large cat suit, which covered his face, body and even voice." He once again felt the social death and pain of being beaten by a cat who called himself Curry Man. "He was well prepared. The handwritten note looked like it was printed..."

“Wow.”

Matsuda Jinpei sighed dryly: "Well, at least we can catch the mysterious man based on who bought the doll costume."

——Jinpei Matsuda, who said that, would never have thought that the first person among the five people to know the true identity of the legendary cat curry man would be himself.

However, when he met the mysterious man, Jinpei Matsuda didn't have the energy to think about anything else. He didn't even pay any attention to him, because there were things happening in front of him that deserved his attention.

"You said the bomber took Hagiwara hostage at gunpoint and then drove away?!" Matsuda Jinpei's hands trembled, and a bad feeling spread in his heart, but he forced himself to calm down, "Which direction did they run to?"

"We've sent people to chase him, but they're likely to be thrown off. The criminal seems to have changed cars several times along the way." The colleague he questioned sighed and told Matsuda Jinpei the location, "Now we can only trust that Officer Hagiwara can keep the criminal stable..."

Before he could finish his words, the curly-haired police officer, who looked much more mature, rushed out the door like a whirlwind, leaving only his back.

—

Jinpei Matsuda was originally preparing to go out for some fresh air. Just as he was about to go out the door, he heard a gunshot from the alley behind the club. Even if it was muffled with a gun, the sound could not be ignored, especially for a police academy student.

Although after thinking that this was Hakata, Matsuda Jinpei didn't find the sound of gunfire strange, not to mention that this might be the territory of some □□ organization, and entering the scene by mistake would cause trouble...but these thoughts did not leave much trace in his mind, he had already rushed into the alley.

Then I saw a very bad scene.

In the alley, there was a boy with black hair and red eyes lying on corpses and a pool of blood.

There was a buzzing sound in Jinpei Matsuda's brain immediately, and all the pain disappeared in an instant. Instead, long stretches of memory images flashed through his mind, as if they were superimposed on reality.

[A stranger with black hair and red eyes was holding a gun, squatting beside a familiar corpse. When he saw him approach, he turned around and smiled at him.]

The boy who had just separated from them in the club stood up from the unfamiliar corpse and looked up at him with a cold expression.

"Ah, you're here at last," the stranger said with a smile, but he didn't sound very happy. "Yes, I killed him."

The stranger said this, but his movements could be described as gentle as he closed the familiar corpse's purple eyes.】

"...We are both late." The boy who could be considered a friend turned his face away, "The murderer ran away before I arrived."

He seemed to want to walk out of the pool of blood, but the soles of his shoes, which were already stained with the dead man's blood, left a bloody footprint on the ground after just one tentative step. It looked like a scene from a horror movie.

So he retracted his steps and returned to the pool of blood. He just lowered his head and sent a message to someone on his phone. He also casually told Matsuda Jinpei: "Call the police and tell them that [Adam] is in trouble. They will rush here immediately."

Indeed, if it was just a murder case, the Hakata police would not rush out in the middle of the night. They would probably delay the case for a long time. However, when an accident happened in a store like Adam's that seemed to have conflicts with the local government, the police would not sit idly by.

Jinpei Matsuda said nothing, called the police as he said, and then leaned against the wall and stared at the boy.

Akae Nayue wanted to ignore it at first. He was also digesting the memory fragments that he and Matsuda Jinpei had just obtained simultaneously. However, Matsuda Jinpei's eyes were getting hotter and hotter. He couldn't bear it anymore and looked up: "Matsuda-kun, why are you looking at me? You don't want to ask if I'm the murderer, right?"

He made up an excuse to try to get Matsuda Jinpei to stop staring at him.

Jinpei Matsuda's expression was actually very subtle, as if he was jumping back and forth between 'this guy is so daring' and 'it's a shame I got fooled', and his inner thoughts kept changing.

He discovered one thing, which was the expression on Akae Nazuki's face when she said in the box that she was going to "call the police", and the expression on the face of the stranger with black hair and red eyes who looked like an enlarged version of Akae Nazuki when she said "I killed him"...

It's exactly the same.

But he was silent for a long time, and finally asked an irrelevant question: "Do you like sweet curry or spicy curry?"