Chapter 29 Twenty-nine Ghosts Behind
Akae Nayue remembered that he had killed Gin once when he still called himself a player.
In that round, Rum killed his good friend Jinpei Matsuda, and the player who received the news rushed in without hesitation, holding the gun and shot a hole in Rum's forehead, and was then shot in the head by Gin who was guarding the door of the room.
Unfortunately, his supernatural power makes it difficult for him to die, so Akae Nayue even performed a magic trick in front of Gin, shocking Gin so much that his san value dropped wildly... Well, that didn't happen.
After being resurrected on the spot, Akae Nayue started fighting with Gin, and finally used the vase fragments to kill Topkiller, then ended that round by himself and started over.
None of this is important. What's important is that Akae Nazuki does have a good understanding of Gin because they have killed each other once. From a certain perspective, perhaps Gin is the first person in the main world to discover Akae Nazuki's "true face".
Of course, this true face refers to Gin's words: "You clearly know that your nature is a monster."
Well, it was useless even if he found out, after all, Akae Nazuki killed Karasuma Renya without hesitation and became the boss himself. As for Gin, he was tricked into his own camp by him with a big cake, and then when everything was over, this former number one killer of the organization was immediately thrown back to his hometown, the port mafia, by Akae Nazuki.
Well, in general, Akae Nayue has already gained a lot of experience from tricking Gin, and his experience is still of great reference value to the Gin in this parallel world.
For example, after the initial surprise, it was easy for Akae to realize that Gin didn't actually see him, nor did he realize that he was really there.
He floated to the back of the long-haired man and poked his hat, then looked at him knowingly and quickly turned around and became alert.
As expected, Gin only noticed the temperature changes around him.
"You really are a wolfhound, Koto-chan." The voice of the spirit behind him sounded so happy that he seemed to be flying - even though he was actually flying all the time. "As a wolfhound, it's terrible to lose your master, the boss, right?"
"That's great—"
The young man said softly and with a full smile: "It is my greatest luck to be able to witness your misfortune."
When Toru Amuro saw Gin, he decisively found an excuse to separate from the others. At this time, he was leaning against the shadow of the corridor to hide his body. From his position, although he could not see Gin, he could see the spirit behind him. Similarly, he was the only one who heard the words that were supposed to be spoken to Gin.
After a while, Toru Amuro wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, and at the same time strengthened an idea that already existed in his mind: Never let the little devil hold a grudge completely!
He first pretended to sympathize with Gin who was targeted by the ghost, but then he suddenly realized that he was the one who should be sympathized with.
Akae Nazuki has no physical body now, so if she wants to do something, Amuro Toru is the only one who can act on her behalf.
Don't mess with the little devil, or you'll end up in misfortune!
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In order to prevent Toru Amuro from being discovered by Gin in advance, the two of them left the deck quickly without staying to see what Gin was doing.
Although that is convenient, it is also dangerous.
"Maybe if I stay with Xiaoqin for a while longer, I can remember more memories." They are now in a restaurant. Without a seat, Akae Nayue can only hang on Amuro Toru's shoulders and pretend to be a back pendant. She also complains, "After so many years, he still remembers to revisit the old place. Maybe Xiaoqin misses me too?"
The champagne that Toru Amuro was drinking almost choked him to death.
Forget about that weird name, just say this to Gin and see if he agrees!
Moreover, Toru Amuro also has his own selfish motives in this regard.
He turned his head and pretended to look at the door, but in fact he was glancing at the spirit behind him. The black-haired boy still had his head hanging dejectedly, childishly pretending not to notice his gaze.
No matter how relaxed Akae appears, Gin is still a dangerous person, especially since he actually killed Akae once... Although Toru Amuro is happy to help his own ghost regain his memory, he doesn't want the child to recall his own death over and over again.
That was definitely not a good thing, Amuro Toru's intuition told him.
In any case, he would never let Akajiang Nayue go alone to find Gin.
【Tied.】
Toru Amuro tapped his fingertips on the table and helplessly reminded the spirit behind him of the word.
Besides, they were still tied together, and Akane couldn't get far away from him... Wait, could the little devil be planning to let him follow Gin from a distance? That would definitely be discovered by the sharp killer.
The ghost behind him seemed to know that he had guessed it, and turned his head away guiltily. ...That's what he really thought!
Toru Amuro became even more helpless and couldn't help but hold his forehead.
"...That's why I decided to come here to collect materials. After all, there is such a mysterious story." The sunglasses girl sitting opposite Amuro Toru was chatting with others. She took a sip of juice and said with a smile, "It's suitable for writing into a novel, right?"
In the previous introduction, Toru Amuro just learned that this former client is now working as an English tutor and writing novels. After hearing this sentence, he immediately captured the "mysterious story".
"What story?" His face showed just the right amount of curiosity. "I haven't heard of it before."
"You're talking about the 'Red-Eyed Ghost'." Surprisingly, the person who answered the call was the man in the black sweater who had hardly spoken. He had already turned off the Tetris game in his hand and looked up to explain, "Rather than a story, it's more like an urban legend or a ghost story. It's just popular among the former passengers of this cruise ship. I don't know why no one has mentioned this on the Internet."
"It seems that eight years ago, a crew member heard a noise in the corridor in the middle of the night. He opened the door but found no one outside. Just as he was about to go back to the room door..." he whispered, "he saw a pair of red eyes in the air at the end of the corridor, and the air was filled with a strong smell of rust."
"That person didn't know what happened. He fell into a coma immediately after looking into those eyes. When he woke up, he found himself lying on the table. It was like a dream. Only half an hour had passed. When he went out, he didn't smell the rusty smell anymore."
The woman in sunglasses continued, her tone mysterious: "However, when he believed it was just a dream, he found that many of the tourists on the boat had strangely disappeared."
"In addition, there have always been tourists who have taken the Linorea claiming in various forums that they heard footsteps in the corridors of the ship at night; that when they went to the deck to watch the moon, they found that the restaurant was brightly lit, but when they walked in, there was no one; and that the three lower decks, which were clearly prohibited in the manual, would be filled with dim music at night."
"Super fun, isn't it!" she said excitedly.
I don’t know if Toru Amuro choked or not, but Nazuki Akae was definitely choked.
Let's not talk about the latter ones. The first one, the 'Red Eyed Ghost', isn't that him at the age of 18? Even the time gate matches.
It sounds like not all crew members on this cruise ship are outsiders of the organization... or, not all of them are fully aware of what happened eight years ago.
Oh no, Toru Amuro's investigation is going to be hindered again.
Chijiang thought with a happy mood that month.
But how come these people's naming ability is even more outrageous than his? He did have the nickname of the Unsheathed Sword in the port, but who knew that even in a parallel world, he still couldn't escape the fate of being given a nickname.
It sounds so ugly!
The savior secretly added another entry to Gin's grudge book in his heart.
"It's so boring to just talk about this." The young man with the earrings looked around and whispered, "Let's sneak out tonight to take a look, just like we planned."
"Not so good, right?" Natalie, who had not been participating in the conversation, frowned and said worriedly, "I remember it was written in the cruise ship manual that the deck would not be open after 11 o'clock."
"Of course they went there secretly!" The woman in sunglasses said as a matter of course, "Otherwise, how do you think these stories spread?"
I don't know why, but when looking at this group of people, Chi Jiang Na Yue suddenly had a sense of déjà vu as if she was in the main world watching the young detective team that often sneaked out for adventures.
Although Toru Amuro didn't know the detective team yet, he was still speechless about this. He looked up and exchanged a glance with Kou Date on the other side, and saw funny emotions in each other's eyes.
Before they discuss sneaking around and violating the ship's rules, do they really remember that there's a detective and a policeman sitting at the table?
"It doesn't matter. These guys have nothing to do with what you want to investigate. Let them have fun. It won't affect our purpose anyway, and they won't die on the boat for the time being." Chijiang Nayue accepted it well. He whistled and said happily, "And this way we can throw them back to the police officer. Perfect~!"
"——The premise is that I guess you don't want to be involved in any love-hate case again?" Ling Youyou stretched out her voice and deliberately teased from behind.
Detective Amuro's mouth twitched, and he actually felt an immense sense of identification with this.
No one knew why, but in the month before they came on the cruise, Toru Amuro inexplicably encountered a lot of cases, and most of them were murders in passion caused by emotional disputes, and there were also many financial disputes.
This made him speechless, and he didn't know where so many cases came from recently.
However, this chat was not just a waste of time, at least they found out some interesting things.
[That 'story' is true, right?] Toru Amuro pretended to play with his phone, but actually wrote in his memo, [There are also things about the lower three floors.] "If nothing unexpected happens, yes." Akae Nazuki made a lazy response from her nose and said slowly, "Now you can be sure that there is indeed cat poop on this cruise ship."
Great! In addition to the captain and deputy captain, they now have another target to investigate... No, if you insist, they would have investigated the lower three floors first, right? The first target could not be achieved on the first night, but the mystery of the lower three floors had already been exposed.
"So just follow my advice and go find Koto-chan directly." Akae Nazuki said with a smile, "I remembered something. If you run into him now, there will be no chance of him being randomly accused and killed."
[Refute.] Amuro Toru typed without hesitation.
"Then there is nothing we can do."
Chi Jiang Na Yue said regretfully: "You'd better pray that you don't run into these 'explorers' outside when you take action tonight."
After all, I'm not afraid of a great opponent, I'm only afraid of a pig teammate.
At first, Toru Amuro didn't take this reminder seriously. He thought it was just a prank and misleading by the little devil who was unhappy after his proposal was rejected.
It was not until 11:30 that evening that Toru Amuro, who had cautiously followed the route he had planned during the day and hid in the stairwell door closest to the three floors below, heard excited voices coming from the corridor.
"Wow, it's really quiet here!"
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Since you know you need to be quiet, can you please speak a little more quietly, as if you are afraid that the crew won't notice that you are on an 'adventure'?
Mr. Undercover felt his heart breaking.
Akae Nazuki, who has extensive experience observing the Boys Detective Corps, laughed and said, "Did I remind you? Don't underestimate the stupid yet strong curiosity of humans, Mr. Amuro."