"You have been working hard too, I don't mean to blame you."
Mina's face was blushing, she lowered her head and said softly, "My lord..."
"I'm going to visit the homes of the dead now. If you won't sleep, then come with me."
Seeing that she was not planning to sleep again, Satoru asked her to follow along, maybe she also needs some care, after all she's Terumi Mei's people.
Next, Satoru went to the homes of the deceased in the order of their deaths. For those who lived alone, he went to their neighbors or close people to investigate.
Facts have proved that Kirigakure had already found out everything that could be investigated, and the attitude of those who have been questioned had changed from cooperation at the beginning to impatience. Obviously they have been asked these many times.
"I have been asked so many times, have you caught the ghost?"
Many people have asked this question, but Satoru was not able to answer it, and he was even a little frustrated about it.
After going to so many scenes, he never felt a trace of evil spirit or resentment at the scenes. People who died unnaturally will have resentment, which remains on the scene of death or on the body of the murderer.
What he felt was a smell which was somewhat fishy, and even people with sensitive noses couldn't smell it, but Satoru could. He was good at dividing everything in this world into different elements, and these flavors were one of them.
A strange coldness rushed straight from the soles of his feet to the brain, Satoru stood at the intersection of vertical and horizontal intersections, looked left and right, and felt that all of this was a little unreal. It was almost noon and with the fog that had not cleared coupled with the absence of people on the streets because of the supposed "ghost", Kirigakure had become like a dead city.
"My lord, what are you thinking?"
"I was thinking about the so-called 'ghosts'."
"Ah! There really is a ghost?"
Mina's voice was a bit awkward, and she covered her mouth belatedly, for fear that she would alarm others and bring panic to them.
Satoru said dumbfounded manner, "Which ear of yours heard me say that there are ghosts? I mean, there are no ghosts in this world, but I don't deny that there are other unnatural forces, such as demons, or curses and the like, or some mutated creatures, these are all possibilities."
Every time Satoru said an option, Mina's expression turned increasingly ugly.
These things beyond cognition were much scarier than "ghosts"!
Seeing Mina's expression, Satoru knew that she was afraid.
"Don't be afraid, with me here, no one will die here."
"Even if you are here, maybe the damned will still die. After a few people have died, everyone had started to be alert, but people still died. There was a death of such a person recently, he went to sleep with his family, but when his family woke up, they only found his body was bitten beyond recognition and they didn't even notice. So what if there were people around? Wasn't the damned still died?"
These words were very pessimistic, perhaps in the day after day of deaths, Mina's thoughts have been poisoned.
Even she was like this, there was no need to mention how much in despair those ordinary villagers were in.
'This matter cannot be delayed any longer.'
Terumi Mei didn't wake up after sleeping all day, when night fell, Satoru sat on a chair in the tallest building in the village, overlooking the whole village.
At night, Kirigakure was shrouded in even more fog, and one's vision will be greatly affected.
Satoru closed his eyes while thinking and focused on his other senses.
Satoru could only pin his hopes on his sense of smell.
He still remembered the strange smell, which was the smell left at the scene.
Suddenly, a faint smell came.
Though not strong, but Satoru could smell it.
This smell was very similar to the one engraved in Satoru's memory, causing him to stand up abruptly the moment he smelled it, trying to distinguish the direction from which it came.
But, the smell was not the same, what's was the difference?
Satoru thought for a long time, and came up with a very bad conclusion.
'It is fresher!'
Without the fermentation time, and without being blown away by the wind, the smell was fresher, as if it just appeared.
'The "ghost" has appeared.'
The hairs on Satoru's whole body stand on end! It's not fear, but excitement!
He's finally going to meet the real culprit!
"Ahhh! Help!"
A woman's terrified scream came from a distance, and the voice sounded familiar.
Satoru didn't have time to get to the bottom of it, his body was already running too high in that direction!
That's the direction of Terumi Mei's house, it was very close to her house.
The smell became stronger and stronger, and Satoru felt that it was like some kind of peculiar floral fragrance. It was both fresh and rotten.
He jumped vigorously on top of each roof, while lowering his head in the range of his sight, looking for possible targets. The cries for help were still going on.
'It's there.'
In an alley, Satoru saw two figures twisted together.
A tall man squeezed a short woman into a corner, as if he wanted to bite her neck!
…
That woman turned out to be Mina.
Mina saw Satoru who jumped down from the corner of her eye, and quickly shouted, "My lord, save me!"
Satoru had never been so fast in taking action against someone.
In just a split second, the man flew out and hit the far wall. The wall was cracked and he was clamped inside.
Mina directly went towards Satoru.
"My lord, he is a 'ghost', he wants to bite me!"
Satoru comforted Mina, and walked towards the man, and when he was about to detain him, the man slowly moved his limbs that should have been crushed long ago, and walked out slowly.
*Crack*
*Crack*
'He can still move? This is not something humans can do…'
After some weird screams came out of his throat, he ran on all fours and rushed towards Satoru.
Such an attack, even if Satoru was hundred years old, he would not pay attention to it. He dodged it easily, and pushed the person to the ground with one foot.
"Do you know this guy? He has an armband on his arm with Kirigakure's logo."
After hearing Satoru's words, Mina, who had calmed down, walked over hesitantly, and after just looking at it, she covered her mouth in surprise.
"Yano-san?!"
'Who knew she really knows him? I just asked for formality.'
"Who is he?"
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