Chapter 316
"It's too easy to disprove this kind of story!!!" Looking at the replies that kept popping up on the computer, Iwanaga Kotoko grabbed her hair in annoyance and complained, "Damn it, am I going to lose to that woman this time! But, if I want to use the story to reasonably deny the existence of the living festival Kaguya-hime-"
"This amount of clues is really too little. Even if we make up a new story using the parts that have not been denied before, there will definitely be parts that can be denied by the other party." On the other end of the phone, Abe Harusai made a calm judgment, "But, if we can't solve the living festival Kaguya in one go..."
"She will become stronger, and it will be harder for us to overthrow her."
＜2999＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:25
Why don't we consider some possibilities with a wider impact?
＜3000＞Name: Anonymous Hope 09/17 21:25
?
＜3001＞ Name: Don’t want to go to work 09/17 21:25
The possibility of a greater impact?
＜3010＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:25
So far, our focus has been on the possibility of a single person committing the crime.
Why is it impossible that this was a gang crime involving multiple people?
"All we have to do now is wait." Fujimaru Ritsuka took his hands off the keyboard, breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair. "Although the number of people participating in the post has increased significantly due to the previous discussion, if we want this story to become a deadly weapon that the enemy cannot defend against... the current number of people is far from enough."
"Let's see how many people will be attracted by the gang theory."
＜3489＞ Name: Prayer for extension of deadline 09/17 21:29
No, a gang crime is the most unlikely hypothesis, right?
If it was a gang crime, the criminals should have hidden the body to delay the crime instead of just dumping it at the scene.
＜3490＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:29
I didn't say today's death was a gang crime.
＜3491＞* Name: Escape from Overtime Hell 09/17 21:29
ha?
＜3492＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:30
I support the view that today's death was the work of an individual.
But I think Kaguya-sama is not an ordinary urban legend, but a type close to fable.
＜3492＞ Name: Kuebiko 09/17 21:30
In other words...
＜3499＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:30
In the story of the living festival Kaguya-hime, there is a rather shocking large-scale crime case hidden.
This is what I mean by “group crime”.
"More people are attracted here than before!" Iwanaga Kotoko frowned and thought about how to quietly stop the other party from escalating the situation, but she didn't have time to find a way before the other party started to explain his reasoning. "If this continues... more people will know about the legend of the living sacrifice of Kaguya!"
＜3504＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:30
The original story mentioned that the villagers took away everything from the living sacrifice Kaguya, leaving only the remnants.
It is also mentioned that the Living Festival Kaguya-hime would fulfill all their wishes in the past.
In ordinary society, there is something that can be said to be a universal wish-granting machine that can satisfy all human wishes.
It is enough money.
＜3505＞Name: Anonymous Hope 09/17 21:30
Hey, hey, hey, it’s a bit exaggerated to this extent! ! !
This is just an ordinary urban legend, how could it lead to such a big event!
＜3512＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:30
It’s not too late to listen to what I say first and then refute it.
"As expected, as long as the scope is too large, even if they can't see the possibility, they will be frightened by the fear brought by their instinct for survival and strongly oppose the story." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed and continued to type on the keyboard, "Is this the so-called 'fear that goes deep into the bone'?"
"There are many people who oppose the Master's opinion in the replies... Judging from the number, it has far exceeded the situation when refuting the previous hypotheses." Abe Haruaki raised his eyebrows and decisively stepped on Asaya Doman in his words, "Doman received the least rebuttal - it seems that everyone knows that your story is something that can be defeated at one blow."
"Pure fiction can certainly be perfect, but its own shortcoming is that the foundation of the story can be overturned in an instant." Watson, who rushed to the control room from 221B, joined the dialogue of this battle. "A story that is too realistic must find a way to tie together the motive, method, and logic of the murderer in a strict manner in order to be established."
"But this is exactly your strength." Fujimaru Ritsuka hit enter to reply, smiling and responding to Watson, "However, such an obvious and powerful rebuttal proves that everyone is afraid of this possibility - because of fear, they are frantically trying to deny the possibility of this story existing."
"But when this story brings them a greater fear than Kaguya Hime, their loud rebuttal only proves that they believe in this story more than Kaguya Hime."
＜3957＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:35
Quite simply, the story of Kaguya-sama hints at the existence of a large transnational criminal organization.
All the fastest ways to make money are written in the law -
Of course this includes organ sales, doesn't it?
The villagers took away the blood, flesh, skin, bones, and internal organs of the living sacrifice Kaguya-hime.
Although not all parts of a person's body can be sold for money by criminal gangs, most of the parts mentioned in ghost stories are of the type that can be smuggled.
Although skin transplants are usually autologous or artificial, they are not necessarily smuggled for medical purposes.
For example - some special props made of human skin?
After all, even if we don’t consider the situation in Japan, in overseas regions like Southeast Asia, this kind of thing is an excellent material for some beings.
＜3958＞ Name: Escape from Overtime Hell 09/17 21:35
This is impossible!
If a large-scale case of this heinous nature had occurred, the police would have started investigating and arresting the perpetrators long ago.
It is impossible for such a large criminal group to appear in Japan!
＜3959＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:35
That's why I said it was a transnational criminal group...
＜3991＞ Name: Kuebiko 09/17 21:35
No, even if it is not a transnational criminal group, this possibility still exists!
As long as they have an unshakable backing behind them!
Because it is mentioned in the ghost stories that human desires can never be satisfied!
＜4002＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:36
Yes, just as the emperors of ancient China pursued immortality, modern humans cannot give up their desire for eternal life.
＜4147＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:37
So after the emergence of cloning technology, perhaps some people have thought of using the organs of young clones to replace their own aging parts to ensure eternal youth - but cloning technology is too complicated, and most countries in the world have banned the research of this project on the grounds that cloning technology violates ethical principles.
New technologies are stagnant, but that doesn't mean the powerful and wealthy don't have other options.
The only difference between cloned organ transplantation and xenogeneic organ transplantation is that cloned organs will not cause the human body to reject them.
＜4150＞ Name: Pray for extension of deadline 09/17 21:37
Since the technology of cloning humans has stagnated, even if I can support a research institute privately, I may not be able to get the results I want...
So - why not just take the organs that need to be transplanted from other people! ? !
＜4298＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:39
That's it.
Moreover, organ transplantation itself is a normal treatment method, but the supply is often less than the demand, which leads to the emergence of an illegal organ black market.
The characteristics of the black market...
For ordinary people like us with limited imagination, as long as we have money, we can buy everything on the black market that is not allowed to appear in the normal social market - the seller will explain the basic conditions of the organs, the age and health status of the donors, but we will not explore the reasons why the sellers buy them. For those old guys who pursue immortality, it is a wonderful source of organs.
If they just keep buying, there will always be a time when they don’t have enough money. At this time, it is time for them to start looking for organ sources themselves - by looking for donors themselves, they can not only find organs that better meet their needs, but can even open up a whole new supply line in the black market to maintain their financial needs.
This is consistent with the records in the ghost stories that the gods fulfilled all the wishes of the villagers.
＜4306＞ Name: kuebiko 09/17 21:39
But if this is possible, how could they leak the information to the outside world?
How could he take the initiative to act as the living festival Kaguya-hime and attack passers-by at night?
＜4353＞ Name: Griffin 09/17 21:39
have no idea.
But either one of the insiders suddenly had a change of heart, or someone escaped and tried to warn others.
But I think the probability of it being an insider is approaching zero.
Moreover, we can reversely infer what the performer wants to express based on the existence of Kaguya-hime.
For example, the time when the Living Matsuri Kaguyahime appeared may indicate the time when the criminal group took action, and the place where she appeared was the fork in the road, which may be the base or stronghold of this group at a place where there is a fork in the road. From the very beginning, when the Living Matsuri Kaguyahime appeared, she only took away the personal belongings of the witness, which proves that she did not intend to harm the witness.
The subsequent attacks tended to injure people in the hope that witnesses would pay attention to their own safety. After all, even the other witnesses who had felt murderous intent from the living festival Kaguya-hime before this case did not actually suffer any physical injuries, right?