Tokyo Psychic

[NAVI-S1mple: Uh... Currently, we only have the function of registering the access IP address and then locating it via satellite maps.]

[NAVI-S1mple: But for the Phantom Thieves' operations, it should be barely enough!]

[Big Space Man is really scary: Well done, Ms. Sakura. Next, I will try to recommend this website to people who may need it. Please ensure the security of the website.]

Then quickly, Kurusu Akatsuki switched pages and clicked on Toyokawa Shoko's avatar in Line.

[Big Aliens Are Terrifying: Toyokawa-san, have you heard of the urban legend of the "Mind Thief"?]

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(The remaining six chapters will be released at 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM respectively)

066. Toyokawa Shoko: It's time to explode (two in one)

(Additional updates at the end of the month: 3/8, 4/8)

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In the dim and small bedroom, the mobile phone screen lit up, and the dim white light sprinkled on the girl's face, an almost sickly white.

"Mind Thief Channel?"

Shoko Toyokawa looked at the web page that jumped on her phone with some confusion.

Although the girls in the band all knew that Kurusu Akatsuki was in the late stage of Chuunibyou and graduation was nowhere in sight, being able to directly forward an urban legend like "The Thief of the Mind" to someone else's Line... was indeed something that most Chuunibyou people couldn't do.

Anyway, after hearing about the "Psychic Thief Channel" incident, no one in the band took it seriously except Toyokawa Shoko and I Serina.

Jing Qinren knew Kurusu Akatsuki's true identity, so she immediately saved this strange-looking website.

And Shoko Toyokawa saw with her own eyes how the black and red notice letter was opened, and she also personally experienced the "everyone out of control" incident of the Shinjuku Kamo group.

While many people on the Internet questioned the authenticity of the urban legend of "The Thief of the Mind", she firmly believed in the existence of the legendary thief and was sincerely grateful for his help.

The browser successfully loaded and entered the Phantom Thief Channel.

Against a spacious black background, a dazzling bright red block slowly emerged, accompanied by an animation of a bubble explosion. Then, pitch-black writing twisted and squirmed within the bright red:

[Do you believe in the existence of mind thieves? ]

[Are there evil people with twisted desires around you? ]

【Has your life taken a sharp turn for the worse because of this? 】

[No matter what, please write down their names and the things that bother you——]

[When night falls, mysterious warning letters unfold among the tall buildings. ]

[The Heart Thief will steal the evil hidden deep in people's hearts. 】

The huge input box almost fills half of the phone screen.

Shoko Toyokawa looked at the input box on the screen. All the thoughts flashing through her mind were interrupted when they were about to be put into action, and she was left with a terrible indecision.

Suddenly, a loud sound of smashing things could be heard coming from the living room across the wall. The drunk man seemed to have woken up and was cursing something loudly but incoherently. He was probably blaming the world, or chewing on some unspeakable regret and remorse.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of a door opening was heard at the entrance.

Silence returned to the living room.

Shoko Toyokawa quickly put on her slippers and ran out of the bedroom. The living room that she had just cleaned and tidied an hour ago was in a mess again.

Overturned ashtrays, broken beer bottles, and expensive watercolor paints from junior high school were scattered everywhere... Her schoolbag was opened, emptied of its contents, and thrown on the sofa. The textbooks and exercise books inside were casually discarded on the floor and the coffee table. The open zipper was like a distorted smiling face, facing the bewildered girl, mocking her life.

Shoko Toyokawa grabbed her collar tightly, making sure that the collar of her pajamas fit her neck perfectly without any gap, as if this could slightly calm the chill that was surging in her heart.

At this time, there were sounds of footsteps outside the door, and then the key was inserted into the door lock and turned. The drunk man broke into the room and immediately noticed Shoko Toyokawa standing in the living room.

Those bloodshot eyes were filled with an ugly resentment and regret, combined into a kind of desperate hysterical madness.

"You still have money on you?"

He asked his daughter in a low voice, and his attitude was so humble that Toyokawa Shoko felt great disappointment and sadness.

The bearded man repeated his previous question, "Do you have any money on you?"

A color that made Toyokawa Shoko feel terrified gradually appeared in his eyes.

Toyokawa Shoko subconsciously took two steps back, which instantly made his expression become a little terrifying. "You should have saved your scholarship for the new semester and the money you earned from your recent part-time job. Take out some and lend it to me... I'll pay you back tomorrow."

Conversations like this have happened many times in this family.

And all the money "lent" to him simply disappeared.

Toyokawa Shoko forced herself to remain calm. "That money is all for paying off debts. A few days ago, Master Okazaki specifically reminded me over the phone that if the debts continue to be delayed, the Toyokawa family's reputation will become increasingly worse..."

"I owe so much money, how can I pay it off just by working and studying?" The man waved his hands angrily, creating chaotic shadows in the darkness.

Toyokawa Shoko's lips trembled, but in the end she was unable to make any accusations or refute her biological father.

The man's face became increasingly blurred in the darkness. "It's because there are so many debt collectors that I have to find a way to make money...make money."

He repeated the word "making money" over and over again, as if this would convince him sincerely.

"So, give me the money quickly! Can you please listen to me?"

Shoko Toyokawa opened her mouth, but no words came out. All kinds of painful emotions seemed to be suffocating her throat.

She could only helplessly retreat, while the man standing in the darkness quickly stepped forward, roughly pushed his daughter away, and broke into her room.

"Please don't do this!" Shoko Toyokawa finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at the man who was rummaging through her room.

Items such as cosmetics, pens, and school uniforms were constantly thrown on the ground.

Drawers were opened one by one, and the money that she had carefully hidden was finally found by the man.

"All this adds up to almost 800,000 yuan," he said, tears welling up in his eyes as he dug out a thick stack of banknotes from the innermost drawer of his desk. "There's a way, there's a way... there's hope!"

Shoko Toyokawa could only watch helplessly as the money she had saved from working hard, the various scholarships awarded by the school, and the part that Kurusu Akatsuki had given her were all taken away easily by the other party.

The man didn't give Toyokawa Shoko any chance to explain or dissuade him, and staggered out of the apartment almost as if he was running away.

Only Toyokawa Shoko was left staring blankly at her bedroom where almost all the cabinets and drawers were opened and the floor was littered with study supplies and cosmetics, like a doll with its strings cut off, unable to move.

As the door opened and closed, the space in the apartment quickly became silent.

It was so quiet that you could even hear car horns blaring in the distance.

It was clearly the end of spring and the beginning of summer, but the corridor was filled with an icy cold air that made people shiver uncontrollably.

The heat in the body seemed to gather towards the eyes, and then flow out little by little.

Then hot tears ran down her cheeks, dripped down her chin and landed on the floor, making a crisp "click" sound.

It was as if the thread holding onto her sanity broke in an instant, like a flood breaching a dam. No matter how Shoko Toyokawa wiped her eyes with her sleeves, she could not stop the emotions from bursting out.

She bent down and squatted on the ground to clean up the messy room.

Even after carefully folding all the clothes and placing them at the end of the bed, the bright red input box of the "Phantom Thief Channel" on the still lit phone screen was so glaring.

In a trance, it seemed as if the thief she had met in her dream was holding out his red-gloved hands, leaning over the edge of the abyss, waiting for her to hold them.

It seemed that as long as I held his hand, I could be easily pulled out of this nightmare.

Shoko Toyokawa wiped away her tears.

She walked over somewhat sluggishly, looking at the hiragana and katakana floating up and down on the screen, and stretched out her cold hands towards it as if grasping at a life-saving straw.

She was clearly the only one in the room, but it felt as if her cold hands were completely covered by something hot. She felt a warmth of being held tightly, and then she had the courage to tell everything.

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【Thanks. 】

Kurusu Akatsuki looked at the private message that Toyokawa Shoko sent to him on Line at one o'clock in the morning.

He rubbed the Siamese cat rolling around on the edge of his bed, then tapped the number pad with one hand to answer her, "I don't know what you did, but I'm not sure about the authenticity of this website yet. Remember not to reveal too much personal information."

After typing in this advice that was enough to help him temporarily escape his "Chuunibyou" identity, he still didn't receive a reply on the screen.

And it remains in the "unread" state.

The corner of the thief's mouth twitched, and then he quickly switched pages and clicked on the account in the contacts that would never be recorded by the operating server, with the note "Sakura Futaba".

[Big Alien is really scary: Miss Sakura, please help me locate "Toyokawa Shoko".]

A few seconds later, Sakura Futaba sent a location message.

[NAVI-S1mple: She's been away from home for thirty minutes.]

Kurusu Akatsuki had no time to care about how Sakura Futaba knew Toyokawa Shoko's residential address. He clicked on the location information and saw that this girl was suddenly so close to the Metropolitan Police Department.

I was so upset that I wanted to find ten Akechi Gorous to fight with me right there and then, beat them up like crazy...

He did this after settling accounts with Shido Zhengyi in his previous life. The battle-hardened thief found the "beautiful boy detective" who marketed himself on TV shows every day. Even though the other party was holding a pistol, he was subdued by Kurusu Akatsuki in an instant, snatching the gun away. Then there was an unlimited office fight.

Goro Akechi was beaten so badly that he admitted in the court trial as the "culprit of the out-of-control incident" that he accidentally fell down more than 30 steps while fleeing, leaving him with bruises all over his body, a bleeding head, and two broken ribs.

The Phantom Thief stared at the motionless position on the screen and quickly continued to ask Sakura Futaba.

[The giant cosmic being is terrifying: Can you mark all of her movements?]

Sakura Futaba soon sent new location information.

[NAVI-S1mple: She seems to have not moved in ten minutes.]

[NAVI-S1mple: Also, many special communication signals have been detected around Ms. Toyokawa!]

Kurusu Akatsuki anxiously put on his sportswear, then his shoes, and finally hurriedly picked up his cell phone and rushed downstairs.

[Big Universe People Are Really Scary: I understand, thank you for your help. ]

Then he turned off the screen, put his phone in his pocket, walked into LeBron's bathroom, dressed neatly, and locked the frosted glass door.

Kurusu Akatsuki looked at himself in the mirror, and then his consciousness began to sink into the impression space of Tokyo City.

The crimson lines flickered around him, and the thief almost immediately rushed out of his "maintenance workstation" and jumped into the rusty railway.

When a jet-like white light appeared in front of him, he jumped up, grabbed the guardrail of the sliding door of the tram car, then flipped over to the roof, following the tram's extremely fast movement in the interconnected Tokyo impression space.

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(The original ending of this chapter was a bit abrupt, but considering there's still a few hours of downtime in between, I've cut off one chapter and put it in the evening chapter, combining it into a "four-in-one" format to give everyone a more complete reading experience. This chapter is tentatively 3985 words, just below the paywall, so everyone can read the book cheaper, which is considered compensation.)

067.Black Lace Mask ( in )

（月末加更：5/8、6/8、7/8、8/8）

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Shoko Toyokawa believes in the legend of the "Phantom Thief of the Mind".

But instead of pinning all her hopes on others and passively waiting for "rescue", she would rather find ways to save her life on her own.

So, with gratitude to the Kaito who was not here, who helped her to fight against the many constraints in her life, she changed her clothes, took out her cell phone and called "Inspector Hasegawa".

After the "Kamo Group's Collective Out-of-Control Incident", Hasegawa Zenkichi would chat with Kurusu Akira and Toyokawa Shoko via text messages from time to time, asking them if they had been harassed by gang members or discovered any supernatural phenomena.

As usual, Shoko Toyokawa first explained to the police inspector on the phone that no unusual "out-of-control incidents" had occurred in her life recently, and then began to explain the purpose of the call.

Although it involved complicated family conflicts, Hasegawa Zenkichi still listened patiently.

Intervening in other people's family affairs is a very troublesome thing for the Metropolitan Police Department.

The notion of "family" often cloaks what could be considered "criminal" behavior in a protective or educational light, making it difficult to discern right from wrong and making everyone involved seem to have legitimate motives. Even when cases go to court, the ultimate outcome is often a lenient sentence, or even just a verbal admonition.

So under normal circumstances, unless serious domestic violence or excessive violation of the law occurs, the police are generally unwilling and find it difficult to handle such cases.

However, when Shoko Toyokawa mentioned words like "gambling" and "debt", Hasegawa Zenkichi came up with some ideas that should help her get out of the predicament.

"Mr. Toyokawa, would it be convenient for you to come to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Chiyoda right now? I'm working overtime. I'll call a few officers who specialize in these cases to help you sort out the cause and effect of these events," the inspector said patiently. "It's a bit late now, so you can just take a taxi. When you get to your destination, call me and I can advance your fare."

After thanking him solemnly, Shoko Toyokawa went out with some of her identification documents.

She was lucky. As soon as she walked out of the apartment building, she happened to see an empty taxi parked on the side of the road.