Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: The Lonely Fiend Makima Absolutely Hates

The mission location was an apartment building. First, they needed to investigate the two survivors from the households that had been attacked.

The rooms were 101 and 202 respectively. Kotone Asaba and Makima went to visit them and obtain eyewitness testimony.

Kotone Asaba first knocked on the door of Room 101, the first unit on the first floor.

"Who is it?"

A very guarded and frightened voice immediately came from inside. From the sound of it, it should have been a young woman who was not very old.

"We are Devil Hunters from Tokyo Public Safety. We have already learned that you were attacked by a Fiend, so we came to offer our condolences, visit you, and investigate your eyewitness testimony."

Kotone Asaba explained his purpose in a kind tone.

At that moment, the resident inside cautiously looked through the peephole. When she saw that the man and woman outside looked human and were both extremely attractive, but their eyes were different from ordinary people’s, she became terrified.

Even though a Fiend’s distinctive appearance generally was not in the eyes, she was still extremely afraid. The Fiend from a few days ago had left her with severe psychological trauma. "Y-you people?!"

"Please don’t panic, ma’am. May I ask, are you observing us through the peephole?"

As he spoke, Kotone Asaba took out his Tokyo Public Safety ID from inside his coat. "This is my work identification. I know our eyes may frighten you, but we mean you absolutely no harm."

After a while, the resident inside finally opened the door with great caution.

Kotone Asaba was not in a hurry either. He waited for her to slowly open the door before entering.

He saw that she was indeed a very young woman. She was still wearing a school uniform, so she looked like a female college student.

"This is a condolence gift."

Kotone Asaba handed the female college student the items he had specifically selected from the supermarket before coming here.

He had already learned the specific situation of this incident. The resident of this household was named Reiko Yoshimura. After she was attacked by the Fiend, her parents and younger sister all died, but she herself was fine. After being attacked and fainting, she woke up again in the hospital.

The resident of Room 202 had experienced the same thing. After being attacked by the Fiend, his wife at home had also died mysteriously.

She had suddenly experienced the pain of losing her family and had become an orphan in an instant, so Kotone Asaba did not dare stimulate her. He had even brought a condolence gift.

"Thank you..."

Reiko Yoshimura wanted to thank Kotone Asaba, but after what had happened recently, she truly could not bring herself to smile.

"How is your mental state right now? Do you still need more rest, or can you cooperate with our investigation now?"

Kotone Asaba asked for her opinion.

He noticed one detail. Reiko Yoshimura had been attacked the day before yesterday, and after the attack, she had taken leave and temporarily stayed home instead of going to school. However, she still had not changed out of her school uniform.

That showed that Reiko Yoshimura’s mental state had been very poor recently. She had no energy to shower, change clothes, or anything like that.

"I’m all right. Let’s start the investigation now."

Reiko Yoshimura closed her eyes for a moment and took a slight deep breath.

"Then please provide detailed testimony. The more detailed, the better."

Kotone Asaba said.

At present, he did not have much information about this incident. He did not even know what kind of Fiend that Fiend was, let alone where that Fiend could be found.

"All right. Let me think carefully..."

Reiko Yoshimura organized her words. "It was probably around 5:30 in the evening the day before yesterday. At the time, I had gone to the convenience store to buy salt and soy sauce. On my way home, a person dressed in black, wearing a black hood that made their appearance impossible to see clearly, suddenly blocked my path. Judging from the build, I felt it should have been a man. I could vaguely see some sharp white teeth around the mouth under the hood, and he was holding a black crossbow."

Kotone Asaba nodded slightly. If Reiko Yoshimura’s eyewitness testimony was correct, then the suspect could basically be confirmed as a Fiend.

"Then, without saying anything, it suddenly attacked me with the black crossbow in its hand. I think I lost consciousness and fainted at the time. After a kind person sent me to the hospital for an examination, they found nothing serious wrong with me. But when I returned home, I heard the terrible news. My father, my mother, and my younger sister had all died mysteriously."

"The police and forensic doctors all came, but even they could not determine the cause of death. After all, at the time, my father and mother had been preparing dinner in the kitchen, and my younger sister had been doing her homework. The door had been properly locked, and there were no signs of any outsider breaking in. They all suddenly died while they were in the middle of doing things."

"It feels like the only possibility is that the Fiend placed some kind of curse on me. Otherwise, why was I the only one unharmed, while all of them died mysteriously?"

As she spoke, Reiko Yoshimura’s emotions began to collapse. It seemed she had remembered the sight of her parents and younger sister dead.

She lowered her head, covered her face, and cried softly.

"I understand. Thank you for being willing to provide us with testimony."

Kotone Asaba said, "We should go ask the eyewitness from Room 202 now. He was attacked by the Fiend just like you. Once we gather enough information, we will definitely help you avenge them."

After saying that, Kotone Asaba stood up and left the unit.

Makima did not say a word throughout the entire process.

Only after they were outside the door did she say, "Based on that person’s description, it should be the Loneliness Fiend. I have seen the Loneliness Devil before. The black crossbow is a weapon on its body. It is an extremely unpleasant fellow."

"Loneliness Fiend? Do you know its habits?"

Kotone Asaba asked.

The Loneliness Fiend did indeed match the situation very well. The victims themselves were unharmed, but their families all died mysteriously at the same time. That meant the Loneliness Fiend’s attack on Reiko Yoshimura was to make her lonely, killing all of her family and leaving only her to live on alone.

No wonder Makima had said it was extremely unpleasant...

"I don’t know. I am not familiar with it."

Makima shook her head.

"Then we still need to investigate the resident of Room 202 and see if we can learn anything. Otherwise, we won’t know where the Loneliness Fiend is right now."

Kotone Asaba said.

"I will have small animals monitor all of Tokyo. If the Loneliness Fiend appears, we will be able to find it."

Makima did not hide from Kotone Asaba her ability to control small animals to monitor people.

They arrived in front of Room 202, and Kotone Asaba knocked on the door and asked politely like before.

Compared to Reiko Yoshimura, this resident was even more dispirited. He looked listless and self-destructive, and he was not cautious toward outsiders either. He easily opened the door for Kotone Asaba and Makima.

Judging from his appearance, he had drunk heavily last night. He was even still holding a liquor bottle in his hand now.

However, that could not be helped. This young salaryman named Ichiro Ono had only just experienced the pain of losing his wife yesterday, and she had even been his wife whom he had married not long ago.

For a salaryman who was already usually in a repressed state, suddenly losing his newlywed wife had dealt him an even more fatal blow. He had even thought about suicide at one point and could only continuously use alcohol to numb himself.

"Mr. Ono, I sympathize deeply with your unfortunate experience. This is a condolence gift for you."

Kotone Asaba said.

"Thank you... I’ll cooperate with whatever you want to investigate, but can you let me finish this bottle first...?"

Ichiro Ono’s face was drunken and flushed as he shook the bottle in his hand. There was just a little less than half of it left.

"That’s fine."

Kotone Asaba waited quietly.

Ichiro Ono drank all the remaining liquor in the bottle in one breath, then exhaled in satisfaction. "Hah..."

"That Fiend, it should have been a Fiend, right? I encountered it yesterday a little after five in the evening. At the time, I still hadn’t reacted when that thing suddenly attacked me with the weapon in its hand. Before I could even clearly see what it looked like, I lost control of myself and fainted..."

Again, a little after five in the evening?

Kotone Asaba realized that both times the Loneliness Fiend had attacked, it had been a little after five in the evening, once the day before yesterday and once yesterday. Moreover, the room numbers had followed such an orderly pattern, 101 and 202.

There was likely some kind of pattern here.

"Before I was attacked, I had already heard that a female college student had been attacked by a Fiend the day before yesterday, but I never expected that Fiend to come out and harm people again so quickly, much less that I would be the one who fell victim to it..."

"I think I was unconscious for about ten minutes. When I woke up, there were a bunch of people around me. They had called the police and an ambulance. I realized something was wrong and hurried home, but it was already useless. My wife, she... she..."

Ichiro Ono had originally used alcohol to numb himself, but very quickly, his emotions collapsed again.

There was not much Kotone Asaba could do about it. He could only offer a few words of comfort before leaving, then call someone to arrange psychological counseling for Reiko Yoshimura and Ichiro Ono.

Through Reiko Yoshimura and Ichiro Ono’s eyewitness testimony, Kotone Asaba discovered what was very likely to be a pattern.

According to his deduction, the Loneliness Fiend would most likely appear again a little after five this evening and attack the resident of Room 303.

Kotone Asaba glanced at the time. It was already past five...

He immediately ran up to the third floor to check on the resident of Room 303.

Right at that moment, Makima suddenly spoke. "I found the Loneliness Fiend. It is on the balcony of one of the rooms upstairs."

She could not determine the exact room. She had only heard, through a little bird’s ears, the sound of someone being frightened by a Fiend.

"Just as expected!"

This time, Kotone Asaba did not even bother with the stairs. He directly transferred to the third floor with Makima.

Although Makima had not stated the specific room, since the Loneliness Fiend had truly appeared at this time, it basically confirmed Kotone Asaba’s deduction. It should have appeared on the balcony of Room 303.

But when Kotone Asaba directly used phasing to pass through the door of Room 303, he was already too late. The Loneliness Fiend had already run away.

There was only a young man lying unconscious on the floor inside the room.

Kotone Asaba ran out onto the balcony but did not find where the Loneliness Fiend had gone.

"It sure runs fast..."

Kotone Asaba clicked his tongue lightly. He had not expected the Loneliness Fiend to be this troublesome.

However, since they had already discovered the pattern of the Loneliness Fiend’s appearances, catching it was only a matter of time.

According to the pattern, the Loneliness Fiend would definitely appear again a little after five tomorrow evening and would attack the resident of Room 404. When the time came, he just needed to wait there directly.

Makima also had no way to deal with the Loneliness Fiend for now. As long as the Loneliness Fiend did not make any identifiable sounds, she could not locate it through monitoring alone.

"Forget that for now. Let’s handle what’s in front of us first."

Kotone Asaba immediately went over and helped the unconscious young man up from the floor, then moved him onto the sofa.

After that, he went to look for the young man’s family. If things went as expected...

But an unexpected situation really did occur. This Room 303 only had that young man living in it by himself. There were no other relatives here.

It was simply unclear whether the young man’s relatives far away would be affected...

After discovering that there was no one else in the entire room, Kotone Asaba returned to the living room.

Right at that moment, the young man quickly woke up.

"Hah!..."

The young man suddenly woke up as though he had had a nightmare.

He touched his face and body in terror, then discovered that nothing had happened to him.

But immediately afterward, when he saw the two strangers before him, he was frightened even further.

"W-who are you people?!"

"Don’t be afraid. We are Devil Hunters from Tokyo Public Safety. You were attacked by a Fiend just now and only woke up after being unconscious for a few minutes."

Kotone Asaba skillfully showed his identification.

Only then did the young man’s panic ease somewhat, and he also remembered that he had been attacked by a Fiend.

"Then, please calm down first. Once you have mostly recovered, please accept our investigation."

Kotone Asaba said.

"O-okay..."

The young man drank some tea to calm his nerves.

While calming down, he also secretly glanced a few times at Kotone Asaba and Makima. He had not expected the two people in front of him, who looked even younger than him, to actually be Public Safety Devil Hunters. Their eyes were also so strange.

"All right. Ask whatever questions you need..."

At that moment, the young man said.

"Please provide your personal information, as well as the specific details of when you were attacked by the Fiend."

Kotone Asaba said.

"My personal information... My name is Takuya Ishikawa. I’m twenty-four years old, a student, and I’m 170 centimeters / 5 feet 7 inches tall..."

The young man named Takuya Ishikawa was only halfway through speaking when Kotone Asaba interrupted him. "That’s enough. Next, tell us the specific details of when you were attacked by the Fiend."

"Ah... there aren’t that many details, really. That thing suddenly appeared on the balcony without any warning. I knew very well that people in this apartment building had been attacked by a Fiend one after another over the past two days, so I had been extremely careful, but it was still impossible to guard against..."

"When that thing attacked me, it didn’t say anything either. Right after that, I fainted, and then things became like this."

Takuya Ishikawa said.

"Do you live here by yourself?"

Kotone Asaba continued asking.

"Yes. Six years ago, I came to Tokyo alone to attend university. I’m currently in graduate school. I only have time to go back and reunite with my family during long holidays."

Takuya Ishikawa answered.

"I suggest you call your family now and ask about their situation. That Fiend’s ability is rather special. The families of the previous two victims have already... However, those family members were living here together with them. At present, we cannot determine whether distant family members will also be dragged into it."

Kotone Asaba reminded him.

Takuya Ishikawa’s expression instantly froze, his eyes widening. He immediately scrambled to find the phone.

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