The other side of the perfect world

#04 Inference

With a creak, the door opened, and the narrow and dilapidated safe house once again ushered in the return of two people.

"Can I use the bathroom?"

Hanging the white windbreaker on the wall, Makishima looked at the cunning who immediately took out the victim's information for research and asked.

"over there……"

Koujima pointed in a direction to Makishima without raising his head.

Shrugging, Makishima turned and walked into the bathroom.

Hearing the sound of closing the door, Qiao Nie slowly raised his gaze, and the empty space in front of him seemed to be projected into his chest, making him extremely uneasy.

Makishima... What exactly is he planning?

This "dead man" who suddenly appeared in front of him seemed to disturb his life again. He didn't believe that Makishima came to him for no purpose, but if Makishima really had some purpose, wouldn't it be more convenient to stay away from him?He didn't understand that the man's thoughts and actions had been so mysterious and incomprehensible ever since.But it cannot be denied that everything about Makishima is fatally attractive to him. As long as it is related to Makishima, he can easily lose control of himself like a robot entering a wrong program.

"no!"

Shaking his head suddenly, Kouchi desperately drove out the "Makishima" that had invaded his brain like a virus.The most important thing right now is the incident. Three people have been killed in succession. It is better to start the investigation as soon as possible instead of thinking here and there.

Forcing his thoughts to return to the main topic, he focused on flipping through the victim's information.

The first incident happened a month ago. The victim was Akira Nojima, 33 years old, living in Roppongi, and a piano teacher by profession; the second victim was Ito Tetsu, 17 years old, the ace player of Roppongi Yingnan High School football team. Because of the great power of his left foot shot, he has been photographed by countless sports universities; the third is Seijuro Sano, 25 years old, a professional model, known as "the most beautiful young man with oriental temperament", especially the waist-length black hair It has been well received in the industry.

Except that they were all men and lived in Roppongi, the victims had nothing in common in terms of age and occupation.

The sound of splashing water lingering in his ears distracted the cunning.

Makishima takes a long time in the shower...

It was only when he thought about showering that he realized that he should prepare a yukata for Makishima?

He stood up and rummaged through the narrow one-door wardrobe, took out a white cotton bathrobe that was similar to the ones the hotel provided for guests, and walked to the bathroom.

"Makishima..."

As soon as he stretched out his hand to open the bathroom door, Kou couldn't help being stunned when he saw Makishima's naked body surrounded by steam.

Hearing the sound, Makishima turned his head, his moist silver-white long hair clinging to his cheeks and neck, and crystal drops of water trickled down the hair, leaving blurred streaks of water on his skin that was as white as cream. mark.

"Cunning?"

The steam gradually dissipated, and Makishima's fair skin was more clearly reflected in the cunning pupils.Although Makishima is thin, the arms and abdomen are well-proportioned with strong and powerful muscles. Thinking about it this way, the appearance of slenderness seems to be lying.The heart and blood suddenly seemed to be boiled, accompanied by some primitive impulse.For the first time in his life, this excessively abnormal physiological reaction made Sniper feel at a loss.

"You...shouldn't you knock on the door before you come in?"

Unable to tell whether it was a complaint or a joking tone, Makishima turned off the water casually, turned around to face the cunning, his golden pupil covered with water vapor looked playfully at the man blocking the door like a log.

"You are the one, shouldn't you lock the door when you take a shower?"

In order to cover up the agitation of the abnormality in his heart, the sly face is arrogant.His eyes involuntarily swept towards Makishima's lower body, and at the moment when he was about to see the important parts, his reason forced this strange desire to rein in the precipice.

"Give!"

With a wave of his hand, he turned his face away and threw the bathrobe over.

Holding the angry yukata with both hands like a hand grenade, Makishima pursed his lips and smiled.

"Surprised...you don't seem like such a considerate person."

"Come out quickly after washing, I don't have the money to pay the extra water bill!"

After Qiao Yao finished speaking, he turned around and slammed the door behind him, decisively shutting the bewitching Chun Guang inside.

"What the hell am I doing..."

Muttering to himself with a sullen face, he leaned his back against the cold door for a moment of self-examination before returning to the room and continuing to study the case with great concentration.

The long and narrow room returned to the silence he was used to, and even the underpowered fan hanging from the ceiling seemed to have stopped turning.

When Makishima came out of the shower, he saw Kouchi sitting at the small wooden table with a serious face and thinking.This way of thinking is like a wild animal lurking motionless in the grass and staring at its prey.

"Any progress?"

Looking up at Makishima, the white yukata didn't fit Makishima too well, it was a bit too big.This is the first time Koujima has seen Makishima wearing Japanese-style clothing, which highlights the restrained temperament of the Japanese more than Western clothing.Long silver hair, fair complexion, white yukata... This feeling of being white from head to toe is just like Makishima's hue, which is always pure white.

"Is it really okay for you to look at me with such hot eyes?"

Makishima joked and sat next to Kou, the thick paper on the table caught his attention.He casually picked up a piece of paper and looked at it. The scene of the death of the first victim was printed on it. Those pictures were all shocking and bloody, but they failed to stir up even the slightest wave in his golden pupils.

"What do you think?"

Cui Nian turned his head and stared at Makishima's side face and asked.Makishima was sitting next to him, and he could clearly smell the aroma of shampoo wafting from his half-dried silver-white hair.

"That's right... the murderer knows the victim very well, at least they must have known each other."

Makishima flipped through the information at hand and said casually: "...the murderer hates men physically, no...not hate, but love and hate!"

"Any other discoveries?"

Gently put down the paper in his hand, Makishima met Kouya's impatient eyes, and replied with a smile: "Are you using me? I don't want to be a partner of justice."

"A partner of justice?"

Cunning couldn't help laughing, "No matter how stupid I am, I won't be so stupid as to ask you to be a partner of justice. I just think that your opinion is more valuable as a criminal."

"Are you also a criminal... If you confuse me with this murderer, I will be angry... Speaking of which, why did you start the investigation after three crimes? Don't you think it's a bit late?"

Makishima asked calmly while maintaining the posture of reading the documents.

Cunningly scratched at his hair irritably, there were a few strands of neatly combed hair that looked like crooked tree branches.

"I also want to investigate as soon as possible, but that Gao Yuming has been sleeping. I heard from Mr. Zahe that he would cover his head and sleep for a long time after receiving a commission. We are very lucky to see him today."

"So... I brought you luck?"

Putting down the materials in his hand, Makishima looked around the room, and finally landed on a simple bookshelf nailed with rough wooden boards.Standing up, he went to the bookshelf and took out a book called "Chunqin Copy", and looked through it with great interest.

"Hey! Have you read all the information about the victim?"

Kouchi expressed helplessness for Makishima's move to make his family's free library.

"You actually have this book... I always thought that a writer like Junichiro Tanizaki should not be your favorite type! The perfect combination of beauty and ugliness... This is the theme that Junichiro Tanizaki has been pursuing in his works. Sasuke for Let the beauty of the disfigured Chunqin stay in my heart forever, even blinding my own eyes... Is this an extremely great love? Or is it self-deceiving self-satisfaction?"

After closing the book, Makishima continued to search in the simple bookshelf, his slender index finger lightly sweeping the spine of each book, as if plucking a brass wind chime.

"No matter what happens, as long as the eyes can't see it, it's as if it didn't happen... How do you feel? Just like people living in the Sibyl system, they turn a blind eye to the problems of this society, no, they don't want to see them at all, because As long as you can’t see them, just pretend they never existed, it’s really convenient!”

Snapped!

There was a muffled sound from the small wooden table, and Makishima turned around, and saw that Qiao Zong's right hand was slapping it, and it could be seen from the protruding blood vessels that he was exerting great effort.

"I don't have time to discuss philosophical topics with you... After all, you just can't stand the system ignoring your existence, so you want to destroy it, don't you?"

"Well...it's more about liberation than destruction..."

Holding "The Proper Scope of Government" by Herbert Spencer in his hand, Makishima took a few steps towards Kouya, bent down and stretched out his other hand to grab the baggy rope hanging around Kouya's neck. tie.

"But now I... am more interested in you."

That's right, I don't know when it started, the revenge psychology caused by the system's exclusion of him gradually turned into a competition and competition with this man named Shinya Kou.It's like a lonely child finally found a playmate with whom he can play hide and seek, and it is impossible to let go no matter what.

Stared at by those beautiful golden pupils, the cunning and steel-hard heart defenses softened involuntarily, just like what he said to Teacher Zaga at the beginning, he is not incomprehensible to Makishima's thoughts, it should be said that he is right. Because the understanding is very thorough, it is even more impossible to let it go!

"In that case, how about sitting down and helping me resolve this matter?"

Patting the vacant seat beside him, he proposed to Makishima.

"Obviously you can solve it without my help."

Although Makishima said so, he sat down calmly, but instead of continuing to study the case materials, he leisurely looked at the treasure he had just found - "The Appropriate Scope of Power of the Government".

"Didn't you also see the conclusions I drew before? What else do you need from me?"

Although his eyes were fixed on the book, Makishima's thoughts undoubtedly remained on the incident.Dual-tasking may affect thinking for ordinary people, but in Makishima's view, it does not constitute any hindrance at all.

Qiao Yao nodded, and sorted the messy papers on the table according to the form corresponding to the victim's personal history and the death scene.

"The corpses of these three victims all have obvious patterns to follow. First, they were disfigured. The first victim, Akira Nojima, was cut more than 30 times in the face, and the entire face of the second victim, Ito Tetsu, was stripped off. The third Sano Seijuro was splashed with sulfuric acid beyond recognition, no matter what the method was, his purpose was probably to destroy the victim’s face. The second is that all three victims had parts of their bodies cut off, Nojima’s hands and reproductive organs, Ito is the left foot and genitals, and Sano is the hair and genitals. Judging from the common parts they were cut off, one can imagine the murderer's hatred for this male feature, but...you think it is love and Hate? Why?"

As if he thought this question was funny, Makishima burst out laughing, and his eyes, which had always been between the pages of the book, slowly moved to Sly's face.

"Although you can fully understand the criminal's psychology, you are obviously not perverted enough... No remains of the corpse were found at the scene, which means that the murderer is very likely to keep this part. Just imagine, what kind of psychological effect? Will it make you want to keep or collect something?"

Facing Makishima's question, Kouchi hesitated for a moment before answering: "You like it?"

"bingo!"

Holding the three pieces of paper with the photos of the corpse in front of him, Makishima continued to explain: "Assuming that the murderer has a distorted love for this characteristic of men, the reason why he wants to cut them off is nothing more than that he likes this thing very much... ...but don't want them to grow on these three men!"

"So that's the case, it really makes sense."

"And the reason why it is said that the murderer and the victim knew each other..."

"Is it because of the other parts that were cut off?"

Cui Nian tacitly took Makishima's words.

"Except for the genitals, Nojima, Ito and Sano have different cut-off parts, but it is clear at a glance when they think of their respective occupations. The cut-off parts of Nojima are his hands, because he is a pianist; Ito's left foot was cut off because he was the captain of the football team and he shot very well with his left foot; and Sano's hair was because as a model, he was most proud of his long black hair. Send it!"

"Ok!"

Makishima nodded slightly, "The murderer obviously knows the victim, knows the identity of the victim and their most important things."

"So the murderer hates the victim so much that he wants to take away their most important thing after killing them?"

"Or...love them so much that even if you kill them, you have to keep this most important part."

Cui Nian couldn't help but startled for a moment, then showed a wry smile, the gaze he looked at Makishima seemed to be woven with countless emotions, it was indescribably complicated.

"It's true, there is no definite boundary between love and hate."

Hearing these words, Makishima's lips parted slightly, forming a vague yet meaningful smile.

beep...

The mobile terminal made a noisy sound, and the man sitting on the sofa reading a book reluctantly put down the book.

The photo displayed on the electronic screen is a middle-aged man with a pale complexion that can be seen everywhere. Although it is a ID photo, the man is obviously not energetic. A sense of decadence and gloom.

"Did something happen?"

He pressed the answer button. Although he hated someone interrupting his reading, it was his duty to answer the employer's questions.

"I, I'm Oda Kiyoya... My, my crime coefficient is getting higher and higher. It's already... over 400. What should I do? What should I do!"

The voice of the man on the other end of the terminal sounded desperate, as if he was cornered.That's right, it is impossible for a person with a crime coefficient of over 400 to even walk on the street, let alone continue to work.If the hounds of the Public Security Bureau point at it with a dominator, I'm afraid it will directly activate the "lethaleliminator" mode and be wiped out!

The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, contrary to the panic of the man, his voice was as calm as the surface of a lake without waves.

"It doesn't matter, is there any medicine left? Is it taken according to the dosage?"

"That's right! I'm not overweight..."

"Then from now on, if you take twice the amount every day, the value will drop soon."

"Ah good……"

The man's voice sounded a little hesitant, but he knew that the man would definitely do what he said.For his experiments, such obedient mice are really rare.

Turning off the mobile terminal and picking up the book "Untimely Investigation" again, he raised his neck and leaned comfortably on the back of the soft fabric sofa.

"Then... what will you guys do? Shinya Kona and... Makishima Shōgo!"