Volume 9 by The Spirit of Salvation

Author:The Spirit of Salvation
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Haruka cleaned herself up reasonably and flew out of her room.

She went to the main road and flagged a taxi, told the driver her destination and leant back on the seat.

She felt a sense of déjà vu as she watched the city’s nightscape pass by through the window. Come to think of it, she had looked out a taxi window like this when Isshin had been stabbed too.

– No.

Haruka cleared that thought out of her head.

She couldn’t think bad thoughts. ‘It’ll definitely be OK!’ Haruka told herself that and managed to calm herself down a bit.

She got off the taxi in front of the hospital. After gathering herself, she hurriedly went to the waiting room through the night entrance.

She spotted Gotou sitting on the bench.

His head looked injured, as it was bound by gauze. The gauze was a bit wet with blood.

'Are you all right?' asked Haruka. Gotou looked up.

'Sorry. I was there, but…'

'More importantly, what's happening?'

Haruka spoke over Gotou.

Gotou glanced at the back of the waiting room. Ishii was there talking with a number of uniformed officers.

Ishii seemed to notice Gotou’s gaze as he stopped talking and walked towards them.

'Haruka-chan.'

'Ishii-san. What's happening?'

Haruka quickly finished her greeting and asked Ishii for more information.

Ishii fixed the position of his silver-framed glasses with his fingertip and began his explanation.

'From the situation, it seems that the culprit stunned Yakumo-shi with a stun gun and then hit Detective Gotou with something like a rod to make him faint. And then, that person took Yakumo-shi away – is what I think.'

'Why was I the only one who was hit?' said Gotou with a frown, looking like he was bearing with the pain.

'I think the culprit was probably using a stun gun that could not be used quickly in succession.'

'So they didn't expect there to be two people,' Gotou said bitterly.

'We are currently checking the security cameras as there is the possibility that the culprit might be recorded on them.'

'The person who got me was wearing a white hakama,' said Gotou angrily.

'Jikoukoushinkai may be involved.'

'We're going to their base. Yakumo has to be there.'

Gotou threw his gauze bandage into the rubbish bin and stood up.

'Please wait.'

Haruka called out to Gotou before he could leave.

'What?'

'Actually, I had a phone call from somebody who is likely the culprit.'

'What?'

'What did you say?'

Gotou and Ishii expressed their surprise simultaneously.

Haruka explained in detail about the mysterious call she had received from Yakumo’s mobile.

'The forest probably means Aokigahara's Sea of Trees in this situation.'

Gotou scratched his chin.

Haruka felt the same way. If Yakumo’s abduction was related to this series of cases. it was likely that the forest in question was Aokigahara’s Sea of Trees.

The culprit had also said that a corpse had been found there.

'This is definitely a trap,' objected Ishii.

Haruka had thought that too. If the person who had called was the person who had abducted Yakumo, there was no reason for them to tell Haruka where Yakumo was.

If they were going to just tell her without asking for anything, they wouldn’t have needed to abduct Yakumo in the first place.

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