Shinrei Tantei Yakumo - Volume 10 Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Translated by Niulili

Ishii was busy listening to the local residentsー.

It was a straightforward search to visit shops and homes near the condominium, he show photos of Nao, and collected sightings.

However, the result was not good.

As the sun got darker, he felt like his feelings were getting more and more depressed.

ー It’s not good this way.

Although he tried to inspire his feeling, there was no response so far, it was likely his heart was truly broken.

“Maybe Gotou’s daughter might not have come here.”

Miyagawa vaguely said.

Ishii also had that possibility in one corner of his head, but he did not dare to say it.

“I agree…”

As he said it, his fatigue suddenly came to his body.

Since yesterday, he had been physically tired from searching for the whereabouts of Nao without sleep and rest, but his mental wear had been great.

Above all, he was disappointed at the fact that his guess might had be wrong.

How many hours did they waste ?

While doing this, Nao might had be going farther and further. No, she might be at risk of life.

Maybe, she was already…

Even when he was standing, he started to feel pain, and the sound of the siren of an ambulance echoed.

The sound was getting closer and closer.

Then, it passed by Ishii, he followed the tail lamp with his eyes, and saw that it was headed for the apartment.

ー What happened ?

After seeing Miyagawa’s face, Ishii rushed to the condominium as if to chase after the car.

He fellー.

“What are you doing !”

“So, Sorry”

Ishii stood up rubbing his struck knee and ran again.

When he arrived in front of the condominium, as expected, the vehicule had stopped and there was a crowd of people.

“Excuse-me”

Ishii screamed out the crowds and proceeds to the back.

The first thing that came into view when he came to the front entrance was the blood pool that spread on the stone pavement.

Ishii suddenly closed his eyes when he saw the red-black stain in the setting sun.

However, nothing would start if he closed his eyelids here.

Ishii prepared himself and opened his eyes.

A man was lying on his back.

The blood pool may had flowed from the man’s head.

Even at first glance, from that amount, he knew that the emergencies were too late.

“W, why …”

As Ishii confirmed the face of the man who was lying down, his surprise was further doubled.

“What ?”

Miyagawa asked immediately.

Ishii couldn’t reply, and swung his mouth like a goldfish in search of food.

“Oï. Ishii.”

Miyagawa hit him on his back and he regained some composure.

“This is Sayama-san…”

When Ishii spoke, Miyakawa leans over, “Who is that ?”

He told Miyagawa that he was following the psychic phenomenon of Makoto at the apartment, but he didn’t said that the client was Sayama.

When Ishii explained that, Miyagawa’s facial expression suddenly strengthened.

“Oï oï. It’s too good to be a coincidence.”

“Yes”

It was exactly what Miyagawa said.

At this timing, Sayama, which was the client, was dead. He couldn’t clean this up as an accident

But Ishii didn’t felt only surprised

It was yesterday that Ishii met Sayama. It was not a close relationship, and there are few words that they directly exchanged.

Even so, this person who was supposed to be living and laughing until yesterday suddenly lost his life. He was shaken.

“Did he get killed by the ghost ?”

Miyagawa said with a confused expression.

“That’s…”

Ishii had a different feeling.

The basis for the denial laid in the theory that Yakumo always said.

Yakumo, which could saw the soul of the dead, defined a ghost as a mass of dead human thoughts. So it had no physical influence.

At first, Ishii was skeptical of his opinion, but after many incidents with him, he began to feel he was right.

In other words, it was impossible that Sayama get killed by a ghost.

However, the body of Sayama was actually here. In the first place, the phenomenon that Ishii experienced in Sayama’s room did not apply to Yakumo’s theory.

“He seems to have jumped off.”

Voice of onlookers reached Ishii’s ear.

Reflectively, he look up at the apartment.

Sayama’s room was certainly the eighth floor on the top floor. The height was nearly thirty meters. If you fall from such a place, there would be no more.

Did Sayama fall from there ? If so, was that a suicide ?

ー No, that’s wrong.

Ishii canceled his thoughts.

He didn’t knew what kind of person Sayama was, but considering the situation they met yesterday, it was hard to think of suicide.

Then was it pushed down by someone ?

He felt that it was a little different too.

Here, the reasoning in Ishii was born.

Sayama was haunted by a ghost and frightened. And, rather than to die, he jumped in order to escape from the fear of ghosts.

However, Ishii had no way to confirm his reasoning. Only one can do thatー.

It was Saitou Yakumo.