I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

Eight o'clock in the evening, Toshima Ward, Ikebukuro.

"Record: After witnessing the abnormal lights in the target apartment at 4:35 last night, no other situations have been found for the time being."

In the apartment room, Mochizuki Ayano picked up the recording pen and recorded the information on time.

Big dark circles hang on her face, and she can go out without makeup. COS has collected 320,000 alternative names for the popular panda "Cai Bang".

Because the left eye can see some things that cannot be observed by the [Spirit Detective Glasses], so she volunteered to perform the surveillance task herself.

"Ding dong."

With the sound of footsteps, someone outside the door rang the doorbell.

"Hello, Ms. Mochizuki, the goods you ordered on the pre-departure hall have been delivered."

Outside the door, the delivery man said respectfully.

"Okay, please leave the things at the door, I'll get them later."

Mochizuki Ayano focused on the opposite apartment and just replied coldly.

When monitoring is weird, it is common sense to minimize contact with the outside world.

So in the past few days, she has been relying on the door-to-door delivery of the Qianguan website.

What's more, she was wearing only a pair of panties and a T-shirt in the room, in a vacuum.

Naturally, he would not open the door to pick up the meal.

"I'm going to protect the people I love and the smiles of the people I love."

Through the door, such an unknown voice sounded vaguely.

After five minutes, Mochizuki Ayano carefully brought in the goods that were placed at the door.

It was a big bag of food and daily necessities.

Just as she returned to the window and picked up the binoculars to look out, her cell phone rang.

"Kaihe Kaori, a resident of room 405, died suddenly and without warning in the isolation protection room. The time of death was 8:35, and the cause of death was heart obstruction. Section chief, I'm sorry, it was our dereliction of duty..."

On the other end of the phone, there was an agent's frustrated voice.

Just yesterday when they found that the light was staying in Room 405, they immediately took isolation protection measures for the female living alone in that apartment, and also conducted a physical examination on her, but found nothing abnormal.

Unexpectedly, there was still a problem under his nose.

"Exactly 16 hours, damn it... Did she have any abnormalities or say anything before she died?"

"There was no sign. She was watching the latest episode of "Tokyo Hotel" before she got sick. However, when she was dying, she said...she shouldn't take the elevator."

Mochizuki Ayano immediately took out her notebook and recorded the word "elevator".

Is it a ghost or a strange murder?

There is no particularly clear line between weird and wraith.

After all, weirdness often takes the form of wraiths too.

The only difference is that, compared to Wraiths who act entirely on obsession, Weird has rigid and irresistible rules of conduct, as well as characteristics that are difficult to completely eliminate.

This is also a point that is extremely distressing in the handling of supernatural cases in Lesson 9.

It is difficult to know the truth without probing.

But temptation means sacrifice that may occur at any time.

The 2CH forum's description of "Hell Apartment" is extremely vague, only mentioning that the lucky ones who are selected by this apartment will get a special pass to hell.

Supernatural cases are often hidden in a large number of suicides and accidents that are difficult to identify and cannot be traced.

In Japan, where suicide has become a culture, people commit suicide anytime and anywhere.

Although the number of traffic deaths in Japan is less than 4,000 per year, the number of accidental deaths due to various other reasons is quite terrifying and difficult to count.

After the search support and analysis center regularly compared the big data of the cases, it was discovered that in the dozens of seemingly unrelated suicides and accidents that occurred in the past two years, the deceased were all residents of this apartment.

And there is a fixed time interval between each case.

The reason why they didn't find out until now is because...these cases all happened outside that apartment.

It can be said that this apartment, where the "murder method" is extremely hidden, can enter the field of vision of Lesson 9, which is completely an accidental gain.

The reason why this apartment is so important is because this is the first weirdness that shows "anti-investigation awareness".

"Is the 'rule' of that apartment really as simple and incomprehensible as 'in the room selected by the light, one person will die'?"

Staring at the word "elevator" on the notebook, Mochizuki Ayano fell into deep thought.

Her gaze shifted to the information about the apartment on the desk.

The Ikebukuro Royal Kobo Apartment was built ten years ago. There have been no strange rumors or strange cases since it was built.

According to the floor plan of the apartment, this long and narrow six-story old-fashioned apartment with a total of 24 units, each unit is connected to the front and back of the apartment, so from her side you can see the windows of each living room.

But if you want to say something strange, there is only one elevator in this apartment.

Of course, because there are stairs in the apartment, the floors are not high, and there are not many residents, so it is still enough.

Could it be... all this has something to do with that elevator?

Thinking of this, Mochizuki Ayano began to get dressed.

"Hi, Siri, call Takeshi Iwata."

"Okay, calling Takeshi Iwata."

"Chairman, I'm at Mount Haruna..."

On the other end of the phone, Iwata Takeshi's deep voice came.

At this moment, he is leading a team to squat in another place that seems to be a strange existence.

"I want to go to the elevator room on the first floor of the apartment to confirm it in person. Now I will hand over the on-site command right here to you. The monitoring work will continue with the group downstairs."

She decided to take a look at the elevator for herself.

"But... Section Chief, this does not comply with the 'weird contact action guidelines'."

"Strange Contact Action Guidelines" is a series of specific action rules formulated by the research institute. Before thoroughly understanding the rules of weirdness, try to avoid contact with weirdness.

"Don't worry, I just went to the elevator room to take a look. It's better than waiting here. I can't do anything. If you let that apartment go on like this, the roof above can't stand up to the 'spirit'. It really needs to change. It's hell... Besides, I'm not among the people restricted by the institute's rules."

Having said that, Mochizuki Ayano smiled self-deprecatingly

"But... Received, I asked the people on the 10th floor to continue monitoring."

Takeshi Iwata seemed to want to say something, but finally chose to remain silent.

It was already half an hour after Mochizuki Ayano put on her clothes, put on light makeup, put all kinds of equipment in her backpack, and stood in front of the gate of Ikebukuro Royal Kobo Apartment.

"The apartment group has obtained the monitor permission of the target apartment."

A message came from an agent on the tenth floor of the same building.

"receive."

After saying this into the earphone, Mochizuki Ayano stepped towards the elevator.

"Lisa-chan, I'm downstairs, what's your house number?"

At this time, a cute girl standing in the elevator and talking on the phone caught her attention.