A Certain Scientific Mental Out - The Queen's Play by Kazuma Kamachi

Author:Kazuma Kamachi [Kamachi, Kazuma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5

“Ugh. Is this one of those ‘signs’?”

Makigami Komaki, a member of the Shokuhou Clique and of Judgment spoke half in exasperation and half in fear. She was in the entranceway to Tokiwadai Middle School, viewing the rows of shoe lockers.

Today was Sunday.

She had donned her uniform and come to school today because she wanted to avoid any watchful eyes.

Shirai Kuroko, also of Judgment, ran her fingers along the “sign” in question.

“This is one of the nametag stickers they sell at the school store to label your umbrella or whatever, isn’t it? There seem to be more of them again,” sighed the twintails girl.

There had long been stories of burglars and salesmen adding strange stickers or graffiti to a home’s mailbox or nameplate as a sign to their colleagues, so was this some version of that? These stickers were small and sold at the school store, so even the stricter teachers wouldn’t take issue with them.

“So someone applies this sticker to their shoe locker…”

“To ask our mystery perp to attack them in the near future.”

That logic made no sense, but it was the truth.

That arrangement had been uncovered while questioning a few of the victims.

Makigami held her index finger to her slender chin.

“This takes a biological interpretation of a vampire, right?”

“Right. It’s based on the stories of the victims experiencing powerful pleasure when they were bitten and had their blood sucked. There is a theory that if you rapidly remove blood from someone without triggering their sense of pain, the process of blood loss would create an illusion of feeling good.”

In this case, the willing victims said they had never seen the attacker, so the attacker had not approached them directly and cut them with a blade or extracted the blood with a tube.

It was likely some kind of esper power.

Unlike inhaling lighter gas or drinking cold medicine, this blood loss ecstasy did not involve ingesting a chemical substance, which made it hard to detect. The downside went without saying: if it was done by an amateur, it could kill the victim.

Talk of this case had rapidly grown within Tokiwadai of late.

Nine girls were known to have fainted because of it. They were thought to simply be anemic at first, but it turned out they had severe internal bleeding.

Furthermore, if the point was to experience pleasure, this was a strange case where the fainting was an unfortunate accident for both the attacker and the victims. Who could say how many girls hadn’t passed out and had managed to leave before they were discovered.

Shirai Kuroko called up some recorded voices on a special phone with its security boosted to Judgment standards. These were the results of the questioning she completed during the week.

“I am Yanagisakiin Rondo from the gymnastics team. You wanted to know about internal bleeding, correct? Yes, bumps and falls are not the only way to bruise. You can tear your muscles or blood vessels if they cannot withstand your body’s movements. That is why I always tell the underclassmen to watch what they eat and make sure to stretch before bed.

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