Chapter 1 New Tokyo doesn't believe in love
Wano Country, New Tokyo Metropolis.
Today, under the rule of the Heaven and Human World Government, it is also known as "Academy City".
The tram sped through the tunnel.
There was a whistling whistling in my ears.
In the slightly crowded compartment of the Hanzomon Line train, the passengers holding the poles swayed gently, and a teenager of high school age and the other "head-downers" around them stared at their mobile phones, occasionally. Raising his head and looking around, his eyes inadvertently swept across the window glass facing him.
In the dark tunnel, the bright interior lights of the car made the window glass particularly reflective, reflecting the appearance of a 16- or 17-year-old boy. The figure under the black hood looked a little thin and thin, and his face was pale and seemed to be malnourished for a long time. The facial features under the slightly long slanting bangs on the forehead are really too outstanding and eye-catching, no matter where they are placed, they can be called Tokyo handsome.
Higashinohara glanced at the reflection on the car window, and his eyes drifted to the side, passing the pair of "couples" reflected on the car window glass.
The man is probably in his 40s and looks like he is above the level of the head of the company. Although his forehead is bald, he has the temperament of a backbone elite in the workplace.
The girl next to her is much younger, in her twenties. She looks like a chick who is just entering the workplace. She looks like a young bird nestling next to the middle-aged man in the crowded carriage.
This age gap.
Either a sugar daddy or an extramarital affair.
Love?
Sorry, New Tokyo doesn't believe in "tears".
The phone camera is slightly raised,
Aim at the window.
focus
Higashinohara tapped the shooting virtual key on the screen.
The next second, without the usual flashing lights and clicking sounds, the picture was frozen on his screen.
I have to say that the high-definition image of the custom mobile phone equipped by the detective agency is very clear even when taking pictures of the reflected image on the glass of the tram, and there is no flash or sound that cannot be turned off.
Higashinohara took a few photos in a row, and then he lowered his head calmly and continued to be his tram "head-downer".
However, he sighed in his heart, and his face was a little helpless.
No way, it's not Higashinohara's hobby of candid photography in this regard, it's really all for life.
Living in Tokyo is not easy.
Even New Tokyo is the same.
Higashinohara's mind reluctantly came up with the phone call he received half an hour ago when he was on duty as a part-time disciplinary committee member in this area after high school.
During the phone call, the unscrupulous uncle who provided him with accommodation in New Tokyo broke Higashinohara's "retention" with only half a month's rent reduction, forcing him to take up this so-called "big list".
And the detective agency that the unscrupulous uncle is currently running, which seems to Higashinohara to close down at any time, can receive the biggest list so far, which is probably the investigation of extramarital affairs.
That's right, the middle-aged man who was secretly photographed on Higashinohara's mobile phone just now is the hero of this extramarital affair investigation - his wife suspected that he was having an affair and entrusted the Aragaki Detective Agency to collect evidence in favor of divorce in court.
Coincidentally, it was written.
A week ago, this man had also commissioned the Aragaki Detective Agency to investigate his wife. After getting the evidence, he looked at the different men in the photo who cheated with his wife. And all kinds of interesting props that he had never seen before.
Crying is a heart-wrenching one.
Unexpectedly, a week later, the protagonist became himself.
Higashinohara clicked again to shoot.
The speeding trams stopped one by one, the doors opened and closed, some people got on and some got off, and then roared into the seemingly endless dark tunnel.
Suddenly, the LCD screen that was playing the advertisement on the wall of the tram turned, and a picture of a girl with messy hair appeared. Her clothes looked worn and dirty. The most striking thing was her short silver-white hair and two heads. The pair of milky white cat ears on the side look a bit like the cat ears of the British Shorthair in the previous life.
If it was Higashinohara who just came to this world half a year ago, he might still wonder if the two ears in front of him are fake ears, in order to cater to some lsp's strange cat-eared mother xp system.
Now, he no longer has such doubts.
After spending half a year to understand the history of this world, Higashinohara guessed that this should be a cat girl. No, cat girl, a cat girl of the "Heavenly Human Race". Looking at her pupils and appearance, she might be a cat of impure blood. Female-ancestors are mostly mixed-race descendants born after the intermarriage of "heaven and man" and human beings implemented by the world government of the gods and humans more than 500 years ago in order to maintain the rule and abolish the apartheid policy.
"Wow! Eighty million yen of jewelry was stolen?"
"Catwoman is Tmall, right?"
"Oh, I said earlier, there aren't many good things in those days."
"Shh! Be quiet! Beware of being overheard by the Judgment Division of the Heaven and Human Government."
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Listening to the whispers of the surrounding passengers in the train, Higashinohara squinted slightly and glanced at the announcement issued by the New Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
theft?
Wanted?
The narration on the TV said that a jewelry and jade shop in the 13th district of New Tokyo, commonly known as the "rich district" Setagaya district, was stolen. Consciously led the catwoman thief into the jewelry store on the fourth floor of his villa.
It was only after he woke up that he discovered that he had lost jewelry and jade items worth at least 80 million yen.
The Metropolitan Police Department also reminded that the Catwoman thief is likely to be able to control the ability of the spiritual system, and enthusiastic citizens who hope to cooperate in the arrest must be careful.
Capable?
Higashinohara was not surprised when he heard the words.
The new Tokyo of this world is also known as "Academic City" in Wano country. There are four prestigious academies for the nationally renowned, as well as the scientific research institute for the fruit of ability. The proportion of urban capable persons is second to none in the country.
Ashamed to say, the high school student named Higashinohara in this world of Soul Piercing is one of the "ability people". The low-level ability person of the second stage and the first stage of sad reminder has the ability called [Shadow Instant] Speed-type ability. , and at present he can only cast an extra phantom out of thin air. It is said that when the ability is improved to the extreme, four super-fast real shadow formations can appear during the battle.
It is for, the instant prison shadow kills formation!
Well, although this sounds like a middle school and domineering.
In fact, in the talent ability sequence of this world, [Shadow Instant] is a gray ordinary ability ranked 98 in the talent sequence number, and there is still a big gap from the green excellent ability of the top 72-36 in the world.
Even in the real battle, improving the level of strength through acquired efforts may make up for the gap in the ability sequence, but it is difficult to make up for the gap between the blue high-risk abilities with the top 36-20 talent serial numbers.
Compared with the world's top purple epic ability owners and big pirates who sit on one side on the mainland or in the four major seas, and whose talent serial numbers are among the top 20-10, they are cloud mud. The huge gap between them is simply not something that can be bridged by the hard work of the day after tomorrow.
As for the top ten orange world-destroying abilities in the talent sequence, it has never appeared in the historical text for more than a thousand years.
Higashinohara is currently in Phase 2 and Phase 1.
There are nine levels and five levels of abilities, and when they reach the fourth level, they can be called superpowers. Above the sixth level, there are only a handful of absolute ability people in the world who control the field.
However, the serial number of the ability determines the initial value and growth limit of this ability, that is, the highest level of ability that can be reached. If a person with a gray serial number like Higashinohara wants to improve the level, it is like climbing a steep peak, one step at a time. I don't know how many people with abilities with lower talent serial numbers can only stay in the lower third tier all their lives.
According to rumors, the ability person with the lower serial number wants to counterattack, unless he has the ability to have the ability to grow, can he achieve the extremely rare second awakening and advanced step by digging to the limit of his own ability, breaking the shackles of the ability sequence Shackles - that is, from the lower-level ability of the same line to the upper-level ability of the same line.
It is a pity that the example of the ability serial number advancement can be counted on the fingers for thousands of years under the rule of the government of heaven and man. For most ordinary power users, it can basically be regarded as an impossible event of "miracle".
When Higashinohara arrived in this world half a year ago, he was in the second-level, first-level, and after more than half a year, he was still in the second-level and first-level. If he fails to meet the academic test standards next year, he will not be able to repeat the grade for the third time. Nine times out of ten, he will be dismissed by the school.
Just thinking about it makes my head go crazy.
It doesn't conform to the law of transmigrators at all.
Alas, let's get half a month's rent first.
After the train arrived at Jimbocho Station and got off, the middle-aged man sent the innocent-looking female subordinate home without incident, and the two of them warmly invited him downstairs. After a half push and a half, they went upstairs together in tacit understanding.
Next to the vending machine downstairs, Higashinohara, who was looking up at this scene, leaned there, sipped the hot coffee in the hall, thinking about the appropriate time to go to collect evidence according to the progress of middle-aged people.
Unexpectedly, it didn't take a while.
A shadow swayed under the yellow light of the corridor.
Um? Coming out soon?
Higashinohara's face was strange, but the next second, his mouth could not help but open slightly.
The cold wind of late autumn blows back and forth.
A figure of a middle-aged man with a blue nose and a swollen face, wearing only pink boxer pants, and a face full of despair, gradually emerged in the dim corridor, holding a loose and empty wallet in his hand.
On the stairs behind you could vaguely hear the young people's scoldings like "Dare to molest my girlfriend", "I'll let you go for the sake of losing money this time, be careful!"
ah this?
Good guy. What's the situation?
Is it a fairy dance?
I am so silly!
real!
When Akiyoshi Takuren walked down the corridor and stepped on the ground with his last foot, his mind was in a trance, his body almost fell over, and he staggered toward the bus stop sign on the street.
I thought I could regain my youthful heartbeat, but I didn't expect to almost have a myocardial infarction.
The scene just upstairs came to mind.
The innocent girl who was originally soft and weak suddenly seemed to have changed when a yellow-haired young man broke into the door and caught the rapist.
In an instant, Akiyoshi Takuren's heart that still had residual heat completely lost its final temperature.
Sin! ! !
After the bus stop.
Higashinohara stared at Takuto Akiyoshi who put his head in his knees after putting on his clothes silently, and put his head in his hands, his thinning hair passing through the gap—what can be imagined is what kind of "pain mask" that face will be.
Tonight's event may be the last straw. It has completely crushed the middle-aged man. Presumably he can't go home and continue to face his wife hypocritically to maintain a marriage full of cracks.
After hard work, when a person reaches middle age, one night he finds that he has nowhere to go and no one to rely on.
It's not easy being a man in New Tokyo!
Higashinohara had never been married in his previous life, and he was still a high school student in this life. He just felt that it was a little pitiful for middle-aged people to be played like this, but it was difficult to develop any other empathy.
After all, it had been a whole night, and Higashinohara was weighing his wallet, considering whether to invite this sad middle-aged man on the street to drink a hot drink from a vending machine.
At this time, not far from the street corner, a bus came over the corner with its yellow headlights on.
Bang-dang-!
A bottle of hot drink fell from the vending machine.
Well, the cheapest kind.
Higashinohara bent over to pick it up and was about to turn around.
He suddenly found a petite figure jumping from the front door of the bus in front of the bus stop, wearing a black hoodie similar to his upper body, short skirts, pantyhose and boots on the lower body, a very ordinary Wano country Street girl dress up.
However, this time,
Dong Ye Yuan's eyes narrowed suddenly.
If he read it correctly, in the night, he clearly saw a fleeting silver-white short hair and a pair of short cat ears on the girl's head.
The next moment, the girl pulled up the large hood of the black hoodie.
At this moment, there was only a middle-aged man sitting holding his head and a petite girl who just got off the bus under the bus stop sign with the yellow street lights. What Higashinohara just saw seemed to be just an illusion.
what is this?
He was having some doubts when, at this moment, the petite girl under the stop sign suddenly leaned towards Akiyoshi Takuren.
Is it a reserved program for the streets of Wano Country?
Higashinohara, who was holding coffee and a hot drink in his hand, was stunned for two seconds, and took two steps back into the darkness behind him, ready to wait and see what happened.
As he thought about it, the middle-aged man, after tonight's stimulation, probably won't have much interest in the creature like a woman in the short term, right?
Under the bus stop.
Akiyoshi Takuto sensed the approaching footsteps, and just looked up with a sullen face, but his whole body was shocked, and he raised his head in a daze and couldn't look away.
ah this? !
Tonohara is stupid.
Are women really that fragrant?
But in the next second, he realized that something was wrong.
Under the hood of the black hoodie, the girl couldn't see her face clearly, and could vaguely see a strange red shimmer flashing through it - the middle-aged man who had been sitting slumped in the chair immediately stood up like a puppet.
Immediately afterwards, the girl turned and walked towards the subway station.
The middle-aged man didn't say a word, and followed every step of the way as if obsessed with each other, like acquaintances who knew each other - if it wasn't for Higashinohara who kept staring, even passers-by would be hard-pressed to spot the two. Human anomalies.
Staring at the backs of the two,
Tonohara frowned slightly.
Suddenly, for no reason, he recalled what he had just seen on the tram as wanted by the Metropolitan Police Department, and then recalled that he had just seen dazzling silver short hair and pointed ears.
And the weird scene in front of me.
Could it be that this is the Catwoman from the robbery?
At this moment, the first thing that came to Higashinohara's mind was the amount of wanted bounty he saw on the train.
Information provider:
A reward of 400,000 yen will be awarded after verification and arrest.
You know, the monthly salary of office workers in New Tokyo is only more than 300,000 yen.
The local rent ranges from 50,000 yen to 100,000 yen per month, and the place where Higashino lives is cheaper as long as 48,000 yen, plus the living expenses are probably less than 150,000 yen per month.
It is equivalent to saying that if he can help the people of the Metropolitan Police Department catch this catwoman, he can solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation for more than two months, and occasionally he can go to the meal point to fight teeth to improve the next meal.
Now the middle-aged man in front of him is miserable enough tonight, so even if Higashinohara is not a bounty of heart (well, this is really heart-warming), he has to act as an enthusiastic citizen.
He immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed the police number of the Metropolitan Police Department.
After hearing his description, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately took it seriously, and asked Dongye to keep the phone off to locate him. People from the local police station and the Third Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department would soon arrive at the scene.
At the end, the other party also emphasized his tone to remind him not to act rashly, because the mental ability of the other party is not yet clear, so as to prevent stunned snakes or cause unnecessary danger.
In fact, if the other party doesn't say this, Higashinohara will not go up to be a hero by himself.
Being a hero also has to have the corresponding strength.
Even if he is a so-called [Shadow Instant] ability person now, the ability of the second stage and the first stage is really not enough.
As for Higashinohara's part-time street discipline committee member, that's just an extra-curricular task assigned to students by Takehara Minami Super High School. It counts as a grade point assessment at the end of the semester. Maybe there is also the ability school to show favor to the city government and ordinary people. intent is in it.
If you have to compare, they are similar to the security guards in the community. They all look tall and energetic, but they belong to the "image post". If you really want to fight crime like the police, then forget it.
The night wind swept up the withered and yellow leaves, and on the pitch-black street, Higashinohara hung far behind the two people in front, made a few stops of the tram, and then left the station and entered the long-distance bus station in Shibuya District.
Along the way, the suspect girl didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and Higashinohara even vaguely felt that the other party seemed a little nervous and was in a state of nervousness.
Well, if you commit a crime, you should be nervous for fear of being caught - this also confirms Higashinohara's inference that the girl under the hoodie is probably the Catwoman thief.
Even after nine o'clock in the evening, the brightly lit Shibuya Coach Station was still bustling with people. After all, this was New Tokyo, a prosperous city known as "Academy City" in Wano Country.
Higashinohara stared at the door of the ticket office of the station, and noticed that the petite girl under the black hoodie did not enter, but Takuto Akiyoshi turned around and entered the ticket hall alone.
Um?
Do you want to help me buy a ticket?
Is this about to leave Tokyo?
A thoughtful look appeared on Higashinohara's face.
After a while, the middle-aged man came out after buying the ticket, and handed the ticket and the change left after buying the ticket to the girl in front of him with a slack look.
The girl under the black hoodie took the money and the ticket, lowered her head and looked at the destination on the ticket seriously, her body trembled slightly involuntarily, she seemed very happy, and then she carefully put the ticket in her arms.
Then, she stuffed the change left over from the ticket purchase into the middle-aged man's wallet, raised her hand halfway and paused, then took out a few large-denominated bills from her wallet and stuffed them into the middle-aged man's wallet together. In the wallet, he then bowed slightly to the middle-aged man who was still dumbfounded.
"It's quite a matter of business."
Higashinohara made an evaluation in his heart. Tonight, the middle-aged man was emptied of his wallet by the female subordinate's fairy jumping. I'm afraid he never dreamed that he would make up some of the losses from the female thief wanted criminal.
However, at this moment, without warning, a long siren sounded in his ears.
Immediately afterwards, the red and blue flashing lights of the police car completely illuminated the darkness around the station.
One after another police cars parked in the open space at the entrance of the long-distance station in a quick and orderly manner, and the wind whistling of the helicopter's propellers could be heard overhead.
Higashinohara was a little puzzled. Even if the amount of money involved in the robbery was relatively large, the Metropolitan Police Department would not take it so seriously.
Is it because Catwoman has a celestial bloodline?
Heaven and Man established the world government more than a thousand years ago and became the ruler of more than 300 countries in this world. He has privileges that are unimaginable for ordinary people, and can be called a real version of the "world aristocracy".
Even if Catwoman is a mixed race and is not an orthodox god, she is estimated to apply for arbitration from the World Government after her arrest, which explains why the New Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attaches so much importance to her.
As soon as the police car stopped, a large number of people dressed in the uniforms of the third investigation team jumped out of the car, like two black snakes in the darkness, they first coiled around the long-distance station.
The passengers in the station were all surprised, and then looked around blankly.
Did something happen?
The entrance of the ticket hall.
The girl under the hoodie is like a cat with fried fur, her body suddenly tense up, her eyes swept around in a panic, ignoring the middle-aged man next to her, she chooses one direction and lowers her head quickly. Walked forward.
After the girl left, Takuto Akiyoshi's eyes gradually returned to clarity, and he was startled by the noise around him, and he looked around blankly.
How am I at the coach station?
His mind was a little dizzy and painful, and his memory seemed to have a fault just now, and he only vaguely remembered that he seemed to see a girl with very unique pupils.
Right girl!
Akiyoshi Takuto seemed to have remembered something, but at the same time, he didn't seem to think of anything. When he was at a loss, he realized that he was still holding a wallet in his hand. When he lowered his head, he was stunned to find that the originally empty wallet contained several large-denomination bills. .
what's the situation? ? ?
"Are you sure the suspect is at the station?"
"Yes, it was a report from an enthusiastic citizen. He said he would always follow. We located his mobile phone and it is now at the station."
After a brief conversation, a tall man in a navy blue windbreaker and silver-rimmed glasses pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, put his right hand against the matching sword on his waist, and said in a slightly low voice:
"Then surround the whole place. The first team of people who cooperate with the Metropolitan Police Department is on standby and pay close attention to any suspicious people. The second team will go to take over the monitoring room of the station, and the third team will go in to search for people, so cheer up! Any corner, remember! The other party is likely to be a spiritual capable person! Be careful!"
"Yes!"
With a crisp answer, the people of the third investigation team merged into the crowd in front of the long-distance station like countless trickles pouring into a river.
"Let me, let me, my husband has a heart attack. We are visiting Tokyo. Where is the nearest hospital?"
"Husband, husband, say something."
A third investigation team at the station had not had time to take over the emergency exit, and a family of three appeared in front of the station security personnel who were notified that they were standing by.
The middle-aged woman in a red woolen coat was struggling to support her pale husband with her shoulders, her face full of anxiety, tears were coming out, and a daughter who was pulling a suitcase was helping her.
"Ah this?"
Security personnel at several stations were stunned.
They had just been notified to stand by at the exit, keeping an eye out for any suspicious single girls, waiting for someone from the Metropolitan Police Department to take over.
"Squad leader, what should I do?"
"Do you want them to wait?"
While they were discussing, the woman next to her sounded again with a crying voice, "Why did you stop me, my husband is already in a coma, who will be responsible if something goes wrong! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
Maybe it was because he was impatient and didn't hold it, and the middle-aged man who was being supported suddenly stumbled to the ground, and there was a sudden rush of chickens and dogs around.
Seeing that the middle-aged man was pale, lying motionless on the ground, the woman's sharp voice hit the eardrums, and several security personnel were also stunned.
Illness comes like a mountain.
Heart disease is no joke.
"Squad leader. This."
"Let them go out, anyway, it's a single girl, a family of three." Having said that, he was suddenly afraid of being held accountable later, and hurriedly added, "Send someone to follow, um, follow and help. ."
Hearing this, the woman quickly thanked him. A tall security guard quickly squatted down on his back and stood up with the middle-aged man on his back. The gate at the exit of the station bounced open.
Many stranded passengers in the back watched this scene, but they could understand the special circumstances and special treatment, and no one said anything.
Seeing that the family of three was about to leave the station, unexpectedly at this moment, an abrupt young voice suddenly sounded from behind.
"Why! I'm also in a hurry to go home, why can they go out first."
The voice fell, and everyone's eyes suddenly converged.
At the exit of the station, Xia Li was about to follow the couple under her control through the gate. The sudden voice behind her made her body froze, and her pointed ears almost popped out under her hood!
Hard hard!
Hard ears!
Who is so nasty!
When Xia Li turned her head, she saw that a teenager who looked like a high school student had walked out of the crowd, standing in front of several security guards, pointing at them and shouting in dissatisfaction, and the security guards with their backs at the gate stopped involuntarily. Down the pace.
Da da da-!
Suddenly, Xia Li's pointed ears under her hood moved slightly, and the sound of hurried footsteps came to her eardrums not far away, and her face suddenly became anxious.
Oops!
Gotta get out of here quickly.
The anxious Xia Li turned around immediately, and walked quickly towards the troublesome young man behind. When approaching, she suddenly stepped forward and stared at the opponent's pupils, and said in a low voice:
"Charlie V. Prudence is here to order you!
Back off! "
In fact, Higashinohara had already noticed a group of people from the Metropolitan Police Department who came to take over not far away, but he was weak at the moment, and the girl he was staring at all the way was more likely to be a capable person. Reasonable way to "smart".
Unexpectedly.
The girl in front of her was unexpectedly decisive and walked straight towards him. A pair of bright silver eyes like Kazilan jumped into her eyes, and the strange red pupils in the middle instantly swallowed him like an endless black hole.
Higashinohara's head made a "hum", and his consciousness suddenly seemed to have fallen into an abyss where he could not see his fingers, and his body had already lost control of the sinking and sinking.
Oops!
Intentionally tricked!
Unexpectedly, at this moment,
In the depths of Higashinohara's soul, there was a loud "bang"!
The flipping of a booklet sounded clearly, and a booklet with a dark cover suddenly appeared in the middle of my mind. Immediately, countless blank pages were quickly turned from the back to the front, and finally it was fixed on the title page.
At the same time, a mechanical ethereal voice sounded deep in my mind.
[The Handbook of Guilty detects the existence of the host in this world]
[Start scanning. Conditions match]
【Start binding】