Kikanshita Yuusha no Gojitsudan

Episode 168: Retirement of the Brave and the Haunted Disturbance

Side Senba

"Whoa, okay. In the meantime, the high-speed boat stands by at Odawara New Port and the U.S. Shen Fishing Port. Patrol ships should patrol Sagami Bay. Probably after sundown. Find out where you might be able to land."

Finish giving directions for now and hang up.

That's how we tell the people around us what's going on.

"As you heard, Haibao's (our) placement is complete. I'm renting a fishing boat, so I'm gonna search for a landing site in Germany."

Akechi and the guys at Odawara station snort at my words.

"I'll leave it to Senba for the better at sea. So, is there an Ate in the organization that is collecting the confiscated smugglers this time?

"There's no certainty, but it's probably the Toyota Springs. It's a Malu riot that's been roping around the hot sea from Odawara in the designated gang ○ × series, but I've been investigating it for the last year or two because it's oddly feathery. I've finally found out that they're sending drugs to traffickers in the city these days, but I don't have any solid evidence."

The head of the Odawara precinct's criminal division explains the situation bitterly.

I know how you feel.

It is difficult to gather evidence of what happened to drug trafficking in this hand. Because if you don't know the route to get it, it's not easy to get to Honmaru with the best of your ability to catch the end seller.

Japan is actually also a smuggling heaven.

Coastal security is very thin for being an island country and having one of the world's leading coastlines. Because of the overwhelming shortage of budget and personnel.

It also bites my thoughts as the Coast Guard (us), which is in a position to control smuggling from the sea.

So this discovery of a stash of smuggled goods is also a chance to grab the tail of the smuggled tissue.

"As a result of listening, suspicious passenger cars seem to drop people off and ride near abandoned hotels at night about twice a month. And apart from that, an old man living nearby has witnessed an Orientalist foreigner carrying something into the building."

Successive and potentially relevant testimonies and information previously investigated at Odawara Station will be reported.

The chief of the criminal division will organize the information and give instructions to the commissioner as he hears it. From time to time I send my gaze on whether this is good or not, but Akechi doesn't say anything in particular.

As for Akechi (Itsu), I guess he doesn't intend to hold his mouth apart from the request for cooperation beyond leaving it to Odawara Station. Well, the rank itself would be harder to do than wise, too, Detective Chief.

"So, this is the youth of the primary discoverer of this smuggling, but, uh, what do you have? He was a very vibrant young man."

It would be a natural question from the investigation officials. You would have liked to hear first-hand about how you discovered it, etc. if it was meant to be, and normally that's not a problem.

But as for this one who knows who he is, I don't want to put him in contact with the administration as much as possible. I have been able to grasp some of my personality in previous exchanges, and I know that I will not cause problems in that way. It's just because he has the ability not to be a regular person, or because his behavior sometimes cuts off the diagonal side of this prediction.

I have to keep the information a secret.

"I'm sorry, but he's got some special circumstances. The chief of police has told me to handle it as a Maltese case."

Stab the nail so Akechi doesn't pry into the chief detective without changing one expression.

By the way, Marte is a term that refers to a human being who needs special consideration in international relations and special requirements.

You'd be suspicious, but if you were a police officer, you wouldn't do anything extra.

"Okay. Well, it's not particularly problematic because you're listening to me at the Vigilante Hall. It is believed, then, that smuggling and trafficking organisations will come to collect that hotel in the near future from this seizure. Never miss it! Be sure to capture the tail of the tissue!!

'Yes!!

Police officers gathered at Investigation Headquarters respond to the strong instructions of the Chief of Criminal Division and disband them.

Well, let's just say that Me and Akechi each do their job.

Side Yuya

The sun sets and the city is about to fall asleep in the middle of the night.

The six of us were coming to the abandoned hotel again.

It goes without saying why. To fulfill the request from Kubo's uncle.

It's just, well, we know that the loss of survey workers' equipment and the roar of the beast found elsewhere was the work of local middle school students who were feeding Kuntai and Kuntai the Tsukinowagma, and the shadows witnessed in the hotel in the middle of the night make it somewhat certain that they were the ones who used this abandoned hotel as a place for smuggling transactions, so it's almost like our job is over.

However, he still wants us to see a little more of what's going on with his client's intentions, and there's actually some things that haven't been resolved.

I hear about the malfunction of the measuring equipment and the flattening of the car tires as if they had been torn apart, and the screaming of a woman whose soul was drifting through the building or cleaving from a neighbor.

I thought the failure of the instrument and the flat tire was what Shohiko and Kenji initially did, but the two strongly denied it. That's right. He said he didn't do anything so vicious.

Both can be coincidental, or expensive. Instruments generally fail at their core, and even tires are not so uncommon to flat to tear. There's a lot of things falling out here.

The human soul was merely mistaken in sight or an abandoned hotel became a spiritual spot and there was a tail on the rumor, and I think the scream would be (there were people here who actually heard it) the wind or something.

So I don't need to get so serious and investigate, but it's only been two days since I've been here. Naturally, I haven't even investigated abandoned hotels at night, so there's no way I haven't checked just once.

And it's not like I'm a little concerned.

"You don't have to push Sy and Tia, do you? Me and Mel or Leiria can check the hotel at night."

I'll ask two questions for the second time.

"Yes, it's okay. Nothing. I'm not scared."

"Wow, so am I."

No, even if they freak me out like that.

Park your bike on the property, remembering some anxiety, and circle around the property first.

None of the lights on the property are on, so it's obvious, but the surroundings are dark.

Even so, the sky is clear and a stunning starry sky, and the moon is thin but out, so it's not that inconvenient for me or the other world groups at night.

Plus, they all have the powerful LED maglite I bought from AO Zon, so the brightness is enough. Or when everyone can dot it, it reflects randomly in all sorts of places and is dazzling.

"Nothing for now, huh? Well, of course."

"… expect next"

"You don't have to do anything! And, you know, you're making sure there's nothing, right?

"If it's outside, I'll be fine too"

"I'm missing a few things, but, well, that's not good."

…………

Explore the atmosphere so vibrantly.

Sy and Tia are keeping things busy all the time, but I guess they're scared.

Just one of you. You're quiet.

"Mel, is something wrong?

"Huh?! Oh, excuse me. It's not like something happened, but I'm a little uncomfortable with this place. I didn't think anything in particular during the day..."

Does Mel think so too?

I've been feeling somewhat uncomfortable since about noon today, too, and the subtle atmosphere is coming from this hotel.

It's not like I feel a gaze or any sign of a person, but it already feels like I can only describe it as uncomfortable.

It was a long time ago, but don't get a little frustrated that it's odd and unexplained, unlike the signs I felt when I went to a psychic spot during my sleepover.

I thought it might be my fault, but maybe there's something about it when I feel it even Mel.

Nevertheless, I can't help but care about something I don't know why, and if I tell Cecil or Tia, it'll just make me anxious, so let's just let it go.

"Anyway, it doesn't make sense for the six of us to move with Zorro. Will it split in two hands? Me, Si, Ayumi, Mel, Leiria and Tia, we'll each go around the main building and the new building."

I'll take care of the two that seem to be laborious in many ways. If Tia was with Mel and Leiria, she wouldn't have to drag the image of Japan horror like she did when she was traveling in different worlds.

I'm worried about Laylia's rampage, but with Mel, we'll figure it out.

"Yes. Then we'll go around the new building. I'll call the phone if you need anything."

Unlike other worlds, I appreciate the telephone getting through. You don't have to think about meeting me or anything.

After Mel and the others dropped us off into the new building, me and Ceci, Ayumi's Japanese trio, opened the main building, the back door that we had already used several times, and entered the building.

It is naturally dark because it is dark outside even when you go out to the entrance lobby. Ordinary hotels always have lights on such as emergency exits, even if the lights are dropped, but there is no way that such a thing is working in a hotel that has gone out of business. Only our Maglites are the light sources present in this building.

"I knew a hotel without anyone was creepy."

"Aka sister, it's sloppy. My master will take my rightful wife's seat."

"Ayumi, isn't that weird, after all? Besides, sit down my real wife, I don't like the way you say it."

"Akanene, it's hard to say. And it's a bit of a callout and GOOD!

"Yayumi's treatment of me has been cluttered lately!

Oh, wow.

I want to just walk away and leave Ayumi and Ayumi hanging out with the camp, but it's hard to walk and enemies because I'm disappointed in each of my arms.

Are they close or not? Well, we go shopping together sometimes, so I guess we're close...

Anyway, if I did this, it would be morning before I finished turning around.

The new building has 12 floors and many rooms, but the main building has seven floors and fewer rooms than the new building itself, while there are several restaurants, bars and other stores, and the main building itself is bigger.

It's bad enough to keep Mel and the others waiting, so let's just go around.

If the elevator is alive, it goes to the top floor and then comes down in sequence, but the electricity is cut off, so I decide to go up one floor at a time as I go around on the stairs.

First go around the restaurants, shops, baths, etc. on the ground floor and go upstairs.

There is an elevator in the central part of the building, an orthodox construction with stairs on both sides, so when you go up the north stairs and get out upstairs, check the rooms in turn. Now take the south stairs to the third floor.

Either way, I just don't have to go back using the same route. Thank you.

All the keys are left open in the store and in the rooms, so as I dilute my magic and explore the signs, I step into all the rooms to check for anomalies while illuminating them with lights, just in case.

"Hey, Hiroya, it's early."

That's a dialogue I don't want to hear from her.

No, I know it's a walking speed.

"Brother, no, I know you want to get this over with because you're freaking out on the inside. But if it stays like this, Aka, my sister is going to leak it, so we should go slower."

"Who's going to leak it!

It must be Ayumi who's freaking out.

He's weird. He can't let go with my arm in his arms.

Finish the third floor with the tension missing and the fourth floor. And go around the fifth floor.

Nothing unusual, as a matter of course.

Of course I don't see any human souls, nor any shadows.

Sixth floor.

No abnormalities.

Hmm, finally going up the stairs to the seventh floor and stepping onto the last floor.

They don't have rooms here just in the lookout restaurants and bars.

Stepping in, I feel a slightly cold breeze.

... Is it even open in a window somewhere?

At the stage I looked around during the day, no windows were open, and there should have been no glass damage.

Besides, I feel weird and uncomfortable.

Is there nothing else that Si and Ayumi feel, the same feeling coming from both arms as before?

Explore the signs of the entire floor.

Yeah, nobody.

You don't even feel like a ghost.

Still look around the bar with care and enter the restaurant behind it.

The lookout restaurant was large and there were terrace seats in the back.

The glass door that leads to the terrace seat is open?

I temporarily opened it for police field verification, but I should have kept it locked up to prevent accidents.

The room where the smugglers were found had police officers in it again to put the dummies down after collecting the stuff, but nothing was found from the terrace here, and I remember checking and then closing the keys. And the only key here should be the one I have. Well, it's not like the ex-employee who worked here doesn't have it.

Personally, it's funny, but now I have Si and Ayumi.

Once on the terrace, explore the surroundings carefully and without overlooking.

If it was a classic horror, the door would close as soon as I got out, but that didn't happen.

Or, to this extent, glass can easily be broken by a cover glass that can be worn on the pre-palate used to experiment in science.

There are numerous tables and chairs scattered on the terrace.

It would have been abandoned when it went out of business, but it was almost broken because it had been raining for several years.

I don't feel any signs, but I look around every corner just in case.

"Phew. There's nothing weird about that."

"... hey, Hiroya..."

"To, to, brother no..."

Hmm?

Sy and Ayumi hug my arms hard.

There's an overwhelming difference in volume.

Usually, if I thought about this, Ayumi Hirashi would stare at me with her eyes, but I don't have a reaction.

I look at the two of them alternately while I think about something that doesn't matter.

and both Shi and Ayumi are solidified looking at the restaurant.

"What's up? Anything wrong?

"Oh, oh, alle..."

"So, so I got out..."

What? What?