I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Senior Araki, please wait for me..."

Kotori Yumami pushed the bicycle onto the sidewalk with some difficulty and walked towards the special parking area.

"Leave it to me... It's really hard to go out in the middle of the night to get rid of the spirit and have to ride a bicycle by yourself."

Before he had time to react, the red bicycle had already soared into the air, and was easily carried by Araki Sousuke on his shoulders, and it was placed in the special bicycle parking area under the horrified eyes of passers-by.

Japanese bicycles, like cars, have stenciled barcodes that are difficult to remove.

If you park at will, the police will copy the license plate, not only will you deduct points and pay a fine, but you may also be towed away directly.

But the advantage of this is that no one will waste time and effort to steal bicycles.

Firstly, the cost of erasing steel is too high, and secondly, thieves would rather steal a car due to factors such as complicated bicycle transfer procedures, a national network of stolen barcodes, accidental purchase of stolen cars or confiscation of stolen cars, and no second-hand car market. I don't want to steal a bike either.

"Ah, thank you...Because the public transportation is stopped at night, I haven't got the driving license yet, and I don't have the budget to buy a car for the time being, so having a bicycle has helped a lot."

After helping Xiaoniao Youmao to lock the bicycle in the parking space and carry the package, the two took the escalator and entered the subway station.

"It's true, taxis are not available anytime, anywhere, and they are too expensive...Can't the Exorcist be active during the day?"

Looking at Yumami Kotori who was dressed as a shrine maiden beside him, Araki Sousuke couldn't help but think of the scene when he met her for the first time in a convenience store in Arakawa District a few months ago.

At this moment, the identities of the two are no longer shop assistants and customers, but companions who exorcise spirits together.

"That's something that can't be helped. The more intense the resentment at night, the more active the activities of the spirit body will be, and it will be easier to discover. At the same time, it can easily avoid the public's sight..."

Kou Yumaumi nodded, and began to explain to him seriously.

Although Mr. Araki's strength is unfathomable, due to the relationship between "illegal exorcism" all the year round, he lacks common knowledge about "legal exorcism".

This is why the association arranged for her to act together.

If a series of rules and procedures such as the "Public Confidentiality Regulations" are not followed, if there is any big scene, it will instead encourage the fear in the hearts of the people and nourish the growth of certain existences.

"Mr. Araki, there is a place next to the subway station here. In the list of commissioned tasks newly added by the association, the task difficulty level is [0]. Although it is not on the route planned by sister Hanyu, can you stop by and have a look?"

Glancing at the information on the phone, Kotori Yumasumi cautiously asked for Araki Sousuke's opinion.

"Level [Zero]? Hmph, it would be nice to have an appetizer to familiarize yourself..."

As if remembering that his exemption level was also [zero], blue veins appeared on someone's forehead.

Seeing that Araki Sosuke expressed no objection, Kotori Yumasumi opened the navigation software and headed towards a certain place in the subway station.

That's right, at Shinjuku Subway Station, which has more than 200 exits, an average of 3.26 million people boarding and alighting a day, including 16 subway lines and a maze, the fastest way to reach a specific location is to use navigation software.

Of course, it is in an area where the mobile phone has a signal, and at the same time the user must be able to accurately identify the floor he is on.

Since the last train of the Shinjuku Line departs from Shinjuku Station at 0:22, there are still many people waiting to take the last train in the subway at this moment.

"According to the information from the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, since a month ago, a passageway in the Shinjuku Station subway has frequently experienced abnormalities such as broken light bulbs, strange black hand and footprints, and crying babies..."

After walking along a connecting passage for five minutes, the flow of people gradually thinned out.

"However, due to the more frequent activities of resentful spirits after the Obon Festival, the Spirit Eliminators Association is short of manpower, and has no time to pay attention to this kind of extremely low-risk commission... Until the day before yesterday, the cleaning staff on the morning shift found the abandoned depository. There was blood oozing from the cabinet."

While walking, Kotori Yumasumi explained to Araki Sosuke the commission information she had just received.

"The staff called the police and opened the temporary storage cabinets in that passage together, and found a large amount of dismembered fresh flesh and blood in each compartment..."

"Fortunately, the Metropolitan Police Department blocked the passage at the first time, so that the case did not spread further and caused greater panic."

"Tsk tsk, it sounds very similar to the mutilation case in Inokashira Park back then."

Hearing the girl calmly recounting the bloody case, Araki Sousuke touched his nose with some palpitations.

"However, is this kind of plausible case also the responsibility of the spirit remover?"

The corpse dismemberment case in Inokashira Park was a "complete crime case" that once caused a sensation in Japan.

In 1994, 27 corpses were found in seven garbage bins in Inokashira Park in Mitaka City. The fingerprints of the hands and feet were all cut off. Finally, the identity of the deceased was determined through DNA and residual fingerprints.

Due to the lack of motivation and decisive evidence, the murderer was not found until the prosecution period of more than 10 years, and it is still an unsolved case.

"It is indeed very similar. The victim of this case was identified as the 54-year-old housewife Horimi Mari. After the police inspected the scene and retrieved the surveillance inside the subway passage, they did not find anyone other than the victim himself. There are traces left by people, and I don’t know why the victim entered this passage during the last subway shift..."

"This kind of thing is like the secret room murder in the famous detective elementary school student. There must be a murderer! It is impossible for the victim to dismember himself and put it in the locker, ha, ha ha..."

"That's right, so the Metropolitan Police Department's entrustment is just to ask the spirit remover to come over to confirm whether there are traces of resentful spirit activities, and to judge the possibility."

In the quiet, tidy and dark subway passage, it has become empty at some point, only the solemn voice of Kotori Yumasumi and Araki Sousuke's horrifying dry laugh are left.

After the Obon Festival, due to the "sudden closure" of the gates of hell, many ghosts who returned to the world did not have time to return by car.

As the activities of vengeful spirits become more and more common, for unsolved cases like this, Section 9 will issue a commission on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Department as soon as possible, and ask the Spirit Eliminators Association to send someone to confirm, so as to clarify the direction of the case.

Theoretically, tasks of this level [zero] only need the executor to be inspired, and at the same time have a certain ability to protect themselves to avoid "stepping on thunder".

Seeing that there was no one around the passage, Sosuke Araki simply took off the blindfold.

"Wow, although I heard from Kengo before I came here, there are many urban legends and ghosts with weird hobbies in the subways and sewers that almost hollowed out the entire ground of Tokyo..."

What came into view was the densely packed hand, footprints and drag marks of various spiritual activities in the subway passage, as well as traces of resentment pouring into his back with the air slowly flowing.

"...But, I didn't expect it to be so exaggerated."