Chapter 73 Winter Rain is Coming
From the day Yukimura Aoi fell from the building, Seiji Yasukawa never sang again.
He had been uneasy, always feeling like someone was peering into the apartment building on this floor. Occasionally when he went out to buy daily necessities, he vaguely felt someone following him behind him.
But when he looked back, or looked out the window, he found nothing. There were no ghosts or people, and the apartment building was so calm and depressing.
At first, he felt that he was guilty, so he was suspicious.
But as time passed, the feeling of being spied on became stronger. Yaskawa Seiji was sure that someone was watching him, but the other party did nothing, but it made him feel like a thorn in his back.
In order to relieve his uneasiness, Seiji Yaskawa investigated everyone related to the falling case. Neighbors on the same floor occasionally talk about Yukimura Sunflower. They reminisce about the carnival that night and it feels more exciting than AV. Nagashima Tsuyoshi across the street is busy suing the patrol police. Currently, no prosecutor is willing to take the case, so he Consider whether to appeal in person, or spend a little money to have fun.
The two patrol officers are also very peaceful. One of them has been temporarily detained and is under investigation; the other has been suspended and lives in the dormitory on weekdays. He occasionally goes to the hardware store or something, but he doesn't seem to have bought anything.
Who is it?
Could it be that the resentful spirit of Snow Village Sunflower is really haunting her?
Seiji Yasukawa had a troubled conscience, so he bought a bouquet of flowers, quietly went out in the middle of the night, walked to the zigzag apartment building, and lit a candle at the place where the Snow Village sunflower fell to death.
"Please rest in peace..."
He knelt on the ground, folded his hands, and bent over in sincere prayer.
The candlelight flickered, lengthening his shadow, and the apartment building reflected two figures.
--laugh.
The flame flickered for a moment and was about to go out.
Seiji Yasukawa felt a chill on the back of his neck. He stretched out his hand, and raindrops crossed the sky and fell on his palm.
It's raining, there's a faint thunder, the wind is like a cold knife, and the winter rain is coming.
He hurriedly put down the bouquet and walked into the corridor, intending to go back to his room.
However, before taking two steps, the feeling of being spied on came over again.
Seiji Yaskawa often peeks at others, so he is particularly sensitive to other people's sights. Even if he didn't look back, he could feel that someone was following him.
He couldn't help but quicken his pace and trot along the corridor from the first floor to the third floor. The moment he turned the corner of the corridor, he turned around suddenly, and in the dim light of the flashlight, he vaguely saw a man wearing a raincoat.
"Who?!"
Seiji Yasukawa broke into a cold sweat. He took two steps back, trying to scare away the peepers.
But he miscalculated. Not all peepers were as timid as he was. There are not only beasts lurking in the darkness, but also hunters.
There were crisp footsteps coming from the corridor, getting closer and closer. Only then did Yaskawa Seiji realize that the other party had let him see it on purpose.
His heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. His reason told him that he must reveal the other party's true identity now, but his intuition screamed at him to run away.
The footsteps stopped at the end of the corridor, and the edge of the flashlight's aperture illuminated the stair railing and half of the plastic raincoat. The other person's figure disappeared in the darkness, seeming to lure him closer.
Seiji Yaskawa lowered his gaze, and the drooping cuffs of his raincoat revealed the tip of a knife.
The cold light is revealed.
He screamed, turned around and ran away. The man in the raincoat did not chase him. He ran all the way home, locked the door, lay down shivering, and peeked out through the crack in the floor door.
The footsteps sounded again, slowly and slowly, getting closer and closer until they stopped at the door. Yaskawa Seiji could see the soles of the other party's shoes, which were a pair of rain boots with the soles smoothed out.
Immediately afterwards, there was a strange clicking sound from the door lock. Seiji Yasukawa raised his head and was stunned for five seconds before he realized that the other party was picking the lock.
"Who are you? If you do this again, I'll call the police!" Seiji Yasukawa said with a stern expression. This damn place didn't even have water or electricity. How could there be a phone line? The other party obviously knew his bottom line, and the movement of picking the lock never stopped.
The dog was about to jump over the wall when it got angry. Seiji Yasukawa swallowed, grabbed a clothing pole to defend himself, and planned to rush over and fight the opponent as soon as the door opened.
A minute later, the door unlocked and he heard a click and a turn of the knob.
But the other party didn't open the door and just stood outside the door.
Seiji Yasukawa was tensed up. After waiting for a long time, there was no movement, and the pressure was getting bigger and bigger. He took a step forward and tried to twist the door lock. The door suddenly opened, and the black muzzle of the gun came in, pressing against his head and approaching step by step.
Seiji Yasukawa stepped back step by step. He tripped over the low table and fell to the ground. The other party was wearing a mask and a rain hat covering his eyes, and his pupils vaguely reflected a ferocious light.
"Don't, don't kill me! I'll give you money, you can take whatever you want..." Seiji Yasukawa begged.
The other party took out a small hourglass from his pocket, placed it gently in front of Seiji Yasukawa, and said in a hoarse voice: "I will give you five minutes to defend yourself."
Seiji Yasukawa was startled, and he realized that the other party was here for Yukimura Aoi.
The death of that beautiful woman had infected those people with murderous karma, which would lead to disaster sooner or later, but he didn't expect retribution to come so quickly.
"I, I didn't do those things! They threatened me, saying that if I called the police, they would shoot me through the head...I, I just took something..."
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Seiji Yasukawa trembled and confessed the truth.
On the first day that Ping Yingzi moved here, he cut a crack in the corner and peeked in every day.
In fact, you can't see anything from just a crack, and they usually don't get naked at home.
Seiji Yasukawa was just envious. He envied the energetic life of his neighbors and the warm bond of taking care of each other. He is like a rat in the sewer, relying on the happiness leaking from other people's fingers for comfort every day.
On the day of the incident, residents in this corridor broke into the home of Xuecun Kuihua. Seiji Yasukawa hesitated for a long time before he mustered up the courage to dissuade them and threatened to call the police.
Unexpectedly, Nagashima Takeshi had a gun on him.
Seiji Yasukawa clearly remembered that the bullet flew past his hair and he collapsed to the ground in fear. Nagashima put the warm muzzle of the gun against his forehead and threatened to blow his head off if he revealed even a single word.
Seiji Yasukawa was frightened. He did not have the courage to call the police, but his conscience was uneasy, so he sang "Aoi" with the door open late at night, and made up a story about a ghost in the apartment, hoping to attract the patrol to investigate.
"They were so frightened that I peed, and they all laughed at me... That guy Nagashima Takeshi suggested something exciting, so he ran out with his suitcase, leaving the injured Yukimura Aoi to chase after him..."
"I, I didn't steal these noodle dishes on purpose, I just, I just liked them so much that I was obsessed with them and thought it would be a pity to throw them away... so... I picked them back up..."
As Seiji Yasukawa was talking, seeing the other party put down his gun, he let out a long sigh of relief.
The man in the raincoat asked who were the people who broke into the next door. Seiji Yasukawa reported the house number one by one, and then he said tremblingly: "You, if you can guarantee my safety, I can testify in court..."
"No need." The other party interrupted.
The hourglass dropped the last grain of sand, and silence fell in the room.
After a while, the other party put away the hourglass and suddenly asked: "Can you sing Peking Opera?"
"Can...can sing a few songs..."
As soon as Seiji Yasukawa finished speaking, a five hundred yen coin was tossed over. He hurriedly caught it and saw the man in the raincoat opening the door. He turned back, looked at the wolf like a hawk, and ordered:
"Open the bright spot and play a song of stealing the royal horse."
(End of chapter)