Chapter 151 41: Gradually Bright (5k) [Happy Children's Day]

"If the enchantress is not Qianye, how did she know about me while staying in the detention room?"

During the call with Yumi Takashima, Toyokawa told her about the conversation he had with Chiba before he left.

"Perhaps she had already discussed with the real Charm Girl beforehand and came to the Special Affairs Bureau to wait for us to catch her."

"I'm rushing to Nanako's concert now. After it's over, I request that she be included in the protection." Toyokawa did not continue to argue.

"Okay, I'll take care of the formalities." Takashima did not refuse. Since the charm girl had issued a threat, it was in accordance with procedure to provide protection.

Toyokawa hung up the phone. He had already arrived at Nagai Gymnasium.

You can see that outside the gymnasium, there is a large poster of Nanako hanging, and there is a lot of noise coming from inside.

Hoshino Nanako, as an idol who has only debuted for a few months and is not from a group, it shouldn't have been possible for her to become popular and hold a concert so quickly.

But she was attracted to by a guy named Toyokawa Kamikiyo at first sight. If you say he fell in love at first sight, it must be because Nanako was pretty that attracted him. But if you say he was just attracted by her beauty, after officially dating Nanako, he started to show no respect to other more beautiful women.

From then on, Nanako received a huge amount of resources and became famous amid the gnashing of teeth of many people.

Moreover, unlike other idols who need to avoid emotional issues, her emotional issues are actually her biggest selling point, especially after the extraordinary animal turmoil, the official released some information about Toyokawa Kamikii.

The agency struck while the iron was hot and invited a very appropriate song - "Superpower Boyfriend". Toyokawa even took half a day to shoot the MV. Then Nanako became an instant hit with this song and the real-life linkage!
Osaka is Nanako's hometown. Perhaps with the idea of ​​returning home in glory, she couldn't wait to plan her first trial concert. However, due to concerns about her popularity, she only planned to hold the concert for one night.

When I walked to the entrance of the gymnasium, I saw Nanako's agent waiting there anxiously.

"Nothing happened?"

"No, Master Toyokawa, everything went well. Are you going to the reserved seats directly? I think the fans will be very happy to see you."

"No, don't worry about me."

After saying that, Fengchuan went straight into the void.

The agent looked around and was somewhat accustomed to Fengchuan's elusiveness, so he didn't stay for long and hurried back to the backstage.

In the void, Fengchuan slipped into the concert venue silently.

He had no way of finding the threat among these tens of thousands of people, so he could only stay near the stage and be alert to everything.

On the stage, Nanako, who didn't know that Toyokawa had arrived, started to move around and interact when she sang the second half of the song "Super Boyfriend".

Fans responded enthusiastically.

Just in front, one of the men who seemed absent-minded took out a gun from his arms and pointed it expressionlessly at Nanako Hoshino who was still smiling.

Bang bang bang!
Three consecutive gunshots abruptly stopped the cheers of some nearby fans.

People nearby looked in the direction of the sound and saw Fengchuan appearing at the scene at some point, holding a pistol with smoke coming out of the muzzle.

Just a few meters opposite him, the man who had taken out a gun had several bloody holes on his body, and what appeared at the muzzle of the gun in his hand was a rose.

"Kamiqing-kun" Nanako covered her mouth, not knowing what was going on.

Toyokawa Kamishiro was breathing heavily, staring at the rose at the muzzle of the man's gun, a feeling of shame that he had been tricked filling his brain.

A riot broke out at the scene.

"This is the Special Affairs Bureau investigating the case. Please don't panic."

Nanako began to divert everyone's attention and talked about other things incoherently.

Fengchuan put away his gun and dragged the man out of his position.

"Wake up! Wake up! Have you seen the charmer?!" Fengchuan slapped his face and yelled at him.

The man had blood gushing out of his mouth. He trembled a few times but didn't say anything.

At this time, in the gymnasium, the fire bell rang loudly and clouds of smoke floated out.

The crowd then began to panic on a large scale.

"Everyone, everyone, please don't crowd, use the fire escape!" Nanako was still sweating profusely as she comforted people on the stage. This concert with frequent accidents made her feel like she was suffocating.

Toyokawa took the rose gun, jumped onto the stage, hugged Nanako, and in a blink of an eye, the two of them disappeared into the air.

Osaka Special Affairs Bureau.

In the guard room opposite the detention room, Shirai was drinking bottled oolong tea and sitting opposite Takashima who was reviewing files. He had come out of his previous emotions.

"Mr. Takashima, do you still doubt Miss Nishimura?" Shirai asked when he saw Takashima put down the documents in his hand.

"A little bit. The flower arranging activities among the ladies were actually organized by Nishimura in the beginning. It was only in the past two years that it was gradually handed over to Maria Yuki." Takashima replied without hesitation.

After saying that, Takashima stopped searching and looked at Shirai: "When you comfort the soul, can you definitely see the other person's memories?"

Shirai shook his head: "Only very deep and deep bad memories can be felt by me, but they are only fleeting and fragmented."

She turned her head and looked out the window, able to see Chiba's condition in the detention room.

It is still the same as when they left.

He just slumped in the chair, as if he had lost all sense of the outside world.

Every time he watched it, Shirai's heart ached.

"You don't have to feel guilty. First, you did it under my orders. Second, if she is a charmer, then you have eliminated a considerable threat. Third, even if she is not a charmer, it means that she only has hatred in her heart, and her enemy has long been on the missing list, so he should be dead and the hatred should have been eliminated. So now, you have helped her get rid of it, so that her hatred will not spread to others."

Takashima spoke to her in analytical terms.

Although she likes to use her strength to solve everything in battle, when she was still in the Investigation Class, she was Noguchi's right-hand man, responsible for assisting him in integrating and analyzing data. She even suspected the existence of extraordinary powers earlier than Noguchi.

Shirai tried hard to smile at Takashima, not wanting to make the other person worry too much.

The cell phone rings.

Takashima answered the phone and hummed a few times, his expression unchanged.

"where are you now?"

"Okay, you can bring her over."

After hanging up the phone, Takashima tapped the table with his index finger, thought for a few seconds, and then dialed Noguchi Takeshi.

"Section Chief, we need the assistance of the Social Theory Department here."

".You got it? Yes.I understand."

Putting down the phone, Takashima looked at Shirai: "Do you have any energy left?"

"Sure, are you needing me somewhere?" Hearing that, Shirai perked up.

"Toyokawa and his Nanako."

After a while.

Toyokawa Kamikiyo took Nanako back to the Osaka Special Affairs Bureau.

Even Nanako's makeup and performance costumes were not changed, which shows that they left in a hurry.

When Fengchuan saw Takashima, he looked very unnatural and flustered, and hesitant to speak. He felt as embarrassed as if he had done something wrong and was discovered by his homeroom teacher.

"I"

"No rush, let Shirai handle it first."

Shirai gave them a reassuring smile, then held their hands, using gentle white light to heal their tense and tired hearts.

The paleness on Nanako's face recovered visibly.

"You should not appear in public now. Section Chief Noguchi will help you make arrangements. If you need to hold a press conference to clarify these matters, the process will be discussed with you in advance."

After learning that Noguchi Takeshi already knew about this, Toyokawa couldn't help but feel nervous even though he had expected it.

"I suspect that man is controlled by the charm girl. This is the rose gun on him." Fengchuan took out the rose gun and handed it to Takashima.

I looked at the rose gun in my hand. The gun was made of plastic, but the rose inside was a real flower.

"I have arranged for someone to retrieve the body, and there should be results soon. Now, you and Nanako should go and have a rest. Remember, don't read the messages on the Internet."

Takashima gave some instructions after crushing the rose.

"I understand."

Toyokawa was a little discouraged and was about to pull Nanako away, but before he left, there was a commotion in the detention room and Captain Takeuchi opened the door and came in anxiously.

"Captain Takashima, Chiba Kikue seems to have had a poisoning reaction."

Poisoning?

How did you get poisoned?
Should you pre-poison your clothes or bite your fangs?
Takashima looked at Shirai, who shook his head in astonishment: "My ability probably can't cure the poison, but I can try."

The two walked into the detention room again and saw Qianye lying on the ground with a blue face, foaming at the mouth, and his body twitching slightly.

Shirai tried his best to use his abilities, but unfortunately it had little effect. He could only shake his head at Takashima with sweat on his forehead.

"Arrange a car to take her to the hospital."

"Yes."

To be on the safe side, Takashima personally picked up Chiba and planned to accompany him all the way.

But just when she walked out of the detention room with Chiba in her arms, something unexpected happened.

"vomit--"

A vine spurted out of Chiba's mouth, as if it had eyes, and it turned and inserted into the detention room next door, tightly wrapping around the neck of Yuuki Hisahi who was leaning against the iron bars eating melons!

Takashima was quick-witted and quick-handed. He cut the vines with a single move and immediately pinned Chiba under him.

"Go save Yuuki!"

There was no need for Takashima to shout. Toyokawa, who was still at the scene, had already passed through the iron bars and came to Yuki. He was pulling back and forth with the vines that had been broken but seemed to still have some strength left. Yuki's eyes almost rolled back.

"Is the enchantress really you?" Gao Dao looked at the vines twisting in Qianye's mouth, "Or are you just a puppet?"

Qianye had no intention of speaking, and she couldn't speak now.

The vine gradually became motionless and slowly withered and died. A normal-sized flower slowly poked its head out of the broken end of the vine and blossomed.

Unlike the previous blood-red flower, this flower's petals are pure white except for the stamens.

Takashima had learned some relevant knowledge and could tell that this was a calla lily.

Looking at Toyokawa, he had successfully untied the vines from around Yuki's neck. The latter was lying on the ground, gasping for breath, coughing occasionally, with a lingering fear on his face, as if he had almost gone to hell just now.

The heartbeat and breathing had been confirmed to have stopped, but she still picked up Chiba and planned to go to the hospital to confirm.

"Toyokawa, Shirai, keep an eye on Yuuki. Takeuchi, go and bring Nishimura Kayasu and Yuuki Maria over here."

Chiba was rushed to the nearest hospital, and the results came out not long after.

Declared dead.

Poisoning by globulin was detected in his body.

But this was not the cause of death, or rather the amount was enough to be lethal but before it could fully take effect, Chiba was killed by other more serious reasons.

That is, the heart is tied up by the roots, and a large amount of blood is lost, resulting in death.

Takashima guessed that the disappeared blood gave rise to the vine that wanted to attack and kill Yuuki Hisahito.

She originally used scumbag like Yuuki Hisahi as bait, and now that she has really lured him, something seems wrong.

"Are you really a charmer?" Takashima looked at the withered calla lily in his hand. It was cut from Qianye's mouth, but after the roots were cut off, the flower quickly withered.

"I've seen the Enchanter."

Osaka Special Affairs Bureau.

Nishimura Kaetsu was anxious and reached for the cigarette box many times but gave up. Finally, after learning of Chiba's death, she sighed and chose to tell what she had been hiding.

"More than a month ago, no one started going missing. When Ms. Chiba gave me flowers, she asked me something inexplicable, 'Do you want to avenge Mutsumi? I know which gang did it.' Mutsumi is my daughter who passed away ten years ago. At that time, Nishimura Takashi was only concerned with 'building an empire' outside and didn't care about Mutsumi and me at all. After Mutsumi was kidnapped, he didn't even want to negotiate, and refused to even try."

Nishimura Kayue's hands were clenched into fists and were shaking. When she talked about what happened many years ago, there was still deep resentment in her eyes, even though she had been healed by Shirai.

"I am willing, but I can't express my thoughts just because of Qianye's words."

"But you didn't show any resistance, did you?" Takashima helped her complete the sentence.

Nishimura Kayue was silent for a few seconds and continued, "Yes, I did not resist, so Chiba told me that if I made a wish to the carnations she sent me, the messenger of flowers would fulfill my wish and take away the soul of the sinner."

"My first wish was for the person who decided to kidnap my daughter to die."

"Then the enchantress you mentioned appeared."

"Even though she was wearing a mask, I could feel that she was very beautiful. She was so beautiful that it made my heart flutter."

"She told me that there were two criminals, one was Fukuda Hirokazu and the other was Nishimura Takashi. If Fukuda Hirokazu was killed, she would send a peony to his home, and if Nishimura Takashi was killed, she would send carnations."

"Why is Takashi Nishimura also considered the murderer who decided to kidnap your daughter?" Takashima asked.

"Why. Haha, it was then that I realized that he knew in advance that his daughter would be kidnapped. All he wanted was to play out a drama of 'wife, daughter and family are not as good as brothers'." Tears dripped onto her fists. The pain of her husband killing her daughter was heart-wrenching.

"So, there is no price?"

"No, I wasn't even told not to tell anyone." Nishimura Kayue closed his eyes and shook his head. He took a deep breath, stabilized his breath, and continued, "My first target was Nishimura Takashi. Coincidentally, that day was Mutsumi's death anniversary. I gave him a bouquet of carnations. He was very unhappy, but he still kept the flowers."

"Well, judging from the time, he is indeed the first missing person known so far."

"Then, my second target was Fukuda, so I asked Yuuki Maria to help organize a flower arrangement event to invite Mrs. Fukuda. I took the opportunity to give Mrs. Fukuda the flower arrangement with peonies."

"I don't know more about what happened afterwards than you do. I even heard the name of Charm Girl from others. I always called her Lady Flower Envoy."

Takashima continued to understand the scenes where the charm girl appeared, which were more useful.

"If a flower is used as a substitute and when it disappears, will the substitute flower also disappear? According to Toyokawa's experience, this substitute doesn't seem to have much combat ability, but is very charming." Based on the previous clues and Nishimura's confession, Takashima finally sorted out a detailed description of the charm girl's most likely abilities.

[Flower Stand] A stand that can consume a flower to form the image of a charming woman. The range is unknown, the charm is strong, and the combat power is low.

[Vine Manipulation] Turning the people she killed into "flowers and trees" may require certain specific conditions, such as sin and soul. The stronger these are, the stronger the flowers and trees will be, and they can absorb other people to strengthen themselves. The rescued Miura Tsukami looked like he had lost his soul because the transformation process was interrupted.

Later, because the flower tree that was suspected to be Nishimura Takashi was solved by himself, Miura Tsuyoshi's lost soul came back, but perhaps due to some sequelae, he turned into a flower and showed almost no fighting ability.

Blood, flowers, and vines; these are the core manifestations of the charmer's abilities. As for the sinful soul, Takashima is not completely sure whether it is a necessity, but he is more inclined to believe it is.

After sorting out Nishimura's confession, Yuuki Maria was waiting for her.

"Actually, Chiba was the one who approached me at first, but I refused." Maria seemed to have given up on hiding the truth, and after Takashima sat down opposite her, she went straight to the point.

"I don't hate anyone in particular, and I don't want to get too involved with these mysterious things."

Gao Dao looked at her for a long time and asked: "How do you know you are the first person to be found?"

"I guessed it because Nishimura's deliberate behavior made me realize that Chiba must have contacted her. She was not familiar with Mrs. Fukuda, but she inexplicably asked me to invite Mrs. Fukuda to participate in the flower arrangement. She suddenly acted friendly that day and even gave the flower arrangement to Mrs. Fukuda. Her flower arrangement has always been the best between us, and she has never given it to anyone else. Mrs. Fukuda was very happy that day, probably because she felt very proud. I think she will definitely put the flower arrangement in a prominent place after she goes home."

"A few days later, I heard from Jiuxian about the mysterious disappearance of Futian and Nishimura Takashi. It was then that I believed what Chiba said about the so-called flower messenger."

"But didn't you say you didn't hate anyone in particular?"

"I don't, but my husband does." Maria's eyes were red, perhaps because she was worried about her husband who was being examined in the hospital. "The love of a house bird, if you love someone, you will understand."

Takashima nodded.

"In fact, I am only doing it for the sake of profit. Those gangs have hindered my husband's development. Nowadays, all the gangs are doing legitimate business, but the bosses always occupy the best resources, and the Yuki Group has always been the third, from that chaotic era to now. So, I just want to help my husband. Anyway, those people don't deserve to die. All I have to do is send a few bouquets of flowers. If I don't do it, Chiba will find someone else to do it. Isn't Nishimura an example?"

"In fact, if someone else said it, they might deal with Jiuxian, so I have no choice but to do it."

"But I didn't expect that in the end, she would not let my husband go. It turns out that there is nothing in the world that doesn't require a price to pay."

"And now that Qianye is dead, I have nothing to hide. If I have committed a crime, then arrest me. Jiuxian is unaware of it."

Takashima recalled all the clues and they all matched.

Now a large number of gang leaders have disappeared. Of the gangs that were once in the top seven, if not the top ten in Osaka, only Yuuki Hisahito is left. If it is said that the charmer chose to take final action in order to stabilize Maria, it seems reasonable.

After doing all this, he was willing to die, but was stopped by himself and Fengchuan in the end.

But shouldn't the best time be when Fengchuan is lured away? Did Shirai's healing interrupt her plan?

By the way, Shirai used light to heal Maria, and the latter's anxiety was significantly reduced.

The official investigation capabilities are not omnipotent. For example, the gangs must have secretly sent a lot of people into the sea to feed the fish, and it is also possible that those people’s relatives secretly retaliated.

There is no end to doubt, so we can only rely on empirical evidence.

(End of this chapter)