Tokyo Psychic

"I take the sin in your heart!"

The thief's whisper fell into Toyokawa Shoko's ears.

Then, the last criminal fell beside her.

Shoko Toyokawa watched as the thief picked up the bag full of sin without any reluctance, sprinted to the window on the top floor of the restaurant, looked back at her, and then jumped down.

"and many more--"

She subconsciously rushed out and reached out to stop him.

The palm stretched out, as if it really caught the other person...

Shoko Toyokawa opened her eyes in a daze and found herself holding the right hand of "Amamiya Ren".

It was as if an electric current was transmitted along the place where the skin touched, flowing through the whole body in an instant.

Toyokawa Shoko immediately let go of Kurusu Akatsuki's hand and shrank back. The electric shock-like feeling made her feel at a loss.

In the front driver's seat, Hasegawa Zenkichi was driving with full concentration.

And "Amamiya Ren" beside her was also sleeping soundly.

Only then did Shoko Toyokawa breathe a sigh of relief and quietly took out her vibrating cell phone from her shirt pocket.

It's already three o'clock in the morning.

There was a message notification of "999+" in the first-grade public chat group.

She flipped to the top of the chat page and found that these people had been chatting since one o'clock in the morning and had not stopped until now.

Penguins are so cute: Have you heard about the "Thief of the Mind"?!

[Anon: By sending a warning letter, you can steal the sin in the target's heart and make the criminal truly repent... So cool!]

[Black Tea, please!] I destroyed the terrifying Kamo Group in Shinjuku overnight. I feel like a superhero from a comic book!

【...】

The phone is still vibrating.

The bright white background light fell on Toyokawa Shoko's face.

She stared at the chat log for nearly ten minutes.

Finally, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, she pressed the hot cell phone against her chest and murmured something that sounded almost like a dream.

"The evil hero who steals people's hearts, the Phantom Thief of Mind..."

She stared at the night scene passing by rapidly outside the window, her eyes filled with a mixture of yearning, gratitude and admiration.

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(I'm out of the hospital now. Time to go back to the dorm and sit in front of my computer to master Thunder. I should be able to update a lot this weekend.)

024. [Different World Navigation] (Two-in-one)

The night sky was quiet and peaceful. The bright moonlight, constantly shifting under the shifting clouds, flowed serenely across the buildings of varying heights. The dim streetlights and the barking of stray dogs added a touch of loneliness to the night.

It's four in the morning at the Shixuan Teahouse again.

Kurusu Akatsuki was strolling along the quiet streets, holding a piece of mint-flavored chewing gum he had bought at a 24-hour convenience store.

So sleepy...

He looked up at the dark sky and felt his legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

The gray-white low walls on both sides of the road continued to extend into the distance. The neighbor's Siamese cat was lying beside the wall. When it heard the footsteps approaching, it opened its lake blue eyes and stared vigilantly at the two-legged beast passing by below.

The two-legged beast was already very tired and had no time to pay attention to a four-legged cat that was active at night and dormant during the day.

But cats are amazing creatures.

Often when you deliberately ignore it, it will be curious about why you don't pay attention to it...

So the Siamese cat jumped off the low wall and followed Kurusu Akatsuki cautiously.

The thief's slightly thin back swayed in the street light.

Suddenly, I heard a soft cat meow behind me.

He glanced at the gum box in his hand, then at the Siamese cat following behind him, and his expression became subtle.

But obviously, cats are not interested in chewing gum.

It was just observing why the two-legged beast ignored it.

When it saw Kurusu Xiao turning around, it immediately stopped where it was and dared not move forward.

Kurusu Akatsuki yawned deeply, took out his cell phone to check the time, and then continued walking.

After walking a few steps, I suddenly heard the cat meowing again.

The thief immediately turned around and saw that it had indeed followed him again.

Through the light of the street lamp, I could see the light brown Siamese cat looking at me curiously with its lake blue eyes.

Kurusu Akatsuki inexplicably felt that it looked a bit like Izakaya.

I immediately felt a little guilty.

When he skipped class, he gave his transcript to Jing Qin and asked her to bring it to Mr. Sakura for signature when she got home.

I immediately thought of Jing Qin's dismal grades, and with my own transcript for comparison...

Is Jing Qinrencai still alive now?

Kurusu Akatsuki stood by LeBron's store door, took out his wallet, and began to search for his keys.

The key was found, but when he looked at the few coins left in his wallet, his hands couldn't stop shaking.

In order to get to the gang members' hideout as quickly as possible, he stopped a taxi on the roadside.

"Tokyo", "night", "taxi", "from Aoyama 1-chome to Shinjuku", combining the above keywords, when Kurusu Akatsuki arrived at his destination, the taxi meter had already jumped to a shocking number.

Paying the bus fare made Kurusu Akatsuki's already tight pockets even worse.

He felt heartbroken at this moment.

When I think about the fact that Toyokawa Shoko, who I just rescued, doesn't seem to be living a well-off life, I have to work quickly to pay back the money based on the principle of "helping people to the end"...

The wallet in my hand seemed to instantly turn into a sharp blade, cutting my palm and causing it to bleed profusely.

This damn impression space actually judged me as an "invader", and I couldn't get any loot like money from the cognitive level after defeating the shadow.

It hurts, it hurts too much!

Can I be given twelve months' share of the club's activity funds in advance?

Kurusu Akatsuki clenched his fists. What made him feel even more miserable was that in order to avoid attracting the attention of the police, he stuffed all the "sins" stolen from the hearts of the gangsters into the Velvet Room and asked Lavenda to deal with them on the spot. He had no way of waiting for them to materialize into objects and then bring them back to reality to sell for money.

Well, let’s go to bed first.

He closed his wallet and opened the store door with his key.

I pulled the light cord and looked back to find that the Siamese cat had followed me all the way.

Kurusu Akatsuki thought about it, then went to the kitchen to find some leftover chicken breast scraps from yesterday, and placed them on the cement floor outside the door under the vigilant gaze of the Siamese cat.

"Good night."

He didn't care whether the cat could understand him or not, and locked the shop door.

Then I took my change of clothes to the bathroom, took a quick shower, and tidied up the store.

Kurusu Xiao turned off the lights, groped his way back to the attic in the dark, threw himself onto the bed tiredly, and fell asleep in just a few minutes.

The brown-haired, blue-eyed Siamese cat squatted outside the store for a long time, then picked up the chicken breasts and slowly left.

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Drop, drop, drop.

【AM7:10】

Kurusu Xiao, who was severely sleep-deprived, slapped the alarm clock that was jumping up and down next to his pillow with a dark face.

He slept for less than three hours.

But even if you are full of resentment, you still have to get out of bed, change clothes and wash up.

Being a thief of the mind is life, and working and going to school are also life.

The water left over from the shower in the bathroom at night had not yet dried, but Kurusu Akatsuki was already standing next to the sink brushing her teeth in front of the mirror.

He looked at the faint dark circles under his eyes and the toothpaste foam at the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help sighing in his heart.

Kurusu Akatsuki, who has no parents and lives in an attic under someone else's roof, begins to imagine that a white owl will suddenly fly in from the second-floor window and deliver a letter of admission to her hands.

I really want to go to Hogwarts to study, diligently research some household magic similar to the "Decontamination Charm", return to modern society after learning enough, and then start a company and start making a fortune with the power of magic.

Of course, Harry Potter is just a novel after all.

There is no such nonsensical and exaggerated magic in this world that is similar to that in comic strips.

Kurusu Akatsuki wiped her face with a towel dipped in hot water, forced herself to walk out of the bathroom, and prepared to face today's work.

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after an hour.

Kurusu Akatsuki and Isen Rinna stood in the tram station with dark circles under their eyes, looking at each other.

"What were you doing last night? You don't look like you slept well."

Kurusu Akatsuki asked first.

The corner of Jing Qinrencai's mouth twitched. "I did poorly on the test and had a nightmare."

She really couldn't sleep last night.

The first week after leaving my hometown and coming to Tokyo, I started my first exam in Tokyo——

I opened the math test paper and couldn’t understand any of the questions.

I opened the English test paper and couldn't understand a single sentence.

Open...

When the results and rankings were announced, Jing Qinrencai actually felt a sense of "relief", followed by an indescribable panic.

She dreamed that she was sitting back in the examination room, facing a hellishly difficult test paper. Kumamoto's parents, teachers, and classmates gathered around the table, showing expressions of ridicule, contempt, or disappointment.

All the anger and unwillingness collapsed into self-abandonment and tears the moment I faced the test paper with the pen in my hand. Then I stood up and roared at them, unable to bear it any longer. In fact, I rolled to the ground and found that it was three o'clock in the morning. My tears had wet the pillowcase.

After a big fight with my parents, I transferred to Tokyo alone.

As a result, her results in the first exam were terrible. It didn't look like she could get into university through her own efforts. She might have to flee back to Kumamoto in disgrace next year... This was a huge blow to Isen Rinna.

The depressed mood was completely beyond words.

She looked up at Kurusu Akatsuki, who also looked tired.

He is handsome and has outstanding academic performance. He transferred from the countryside to Tokyo alone and was also fighting against an invisible and huge thing... But every step he took was firm and powerful, as if no difficulties in life and career could hinder him. Then he moved forward step by step and stood at a height that others had to look up to.

Even so, Jing Qinrencai found that she couldn't feel jealous at all.

Only envy and yearning.

It seems that this is the perfect image that I can reach, the ideal "idol".

Jing Qinrencai tightened the straps of her schoolbag.

I remember that when Sakura Sojiro saw her report card, his expression was very serious. He changed from a kind and reliable uncle to someone who looked very much like Kumamoto's stubborn and scary father.

Even though Sakura Sojiro signed the transcript without saying a word, I Serina still felt some disappointment from him.

If someone came and laughed at her at this time, maybe she would be scared and run away from school again?

"Shouldn't you say something?" Kurusu Akatsuki's voice suddenly came, making Jing Qinrenai tense all over.

The only thing she didn’t want to be laughed at by this person…she took two steps back in fear.

If the people who laughed at her were her former classmates, bullies, or her parents, she would definitely stick her neck out and pour out her anger and sadness on them.