Chapter 240: 236 Dog

Once again having her thoughts seen through by Matsumoto Gin, Uda Ryoko felt like a bird stripped of its feathers; without them, she looked incredibly ugly.

Uda Ryoko simply stopped pretending and said with a sense of venting: "Yes, yes, I followed up on her reports on purpose. I made the campus media keep making an issue out of Kawakami Rumi, then made sure all the teachers and students couldn't take their eyes off her, so everyone could notice her ugliness at every moment! This way, everyone would have to realize that the former angel had turned into an ugly monster. Everyone could no longer avoid this fact, and those with hearts like mine would feel immense satisfaction—hahaha, that bitch finally fell! Who told her to be so arrogant all the time!"

Uda Ryoko laughed wildly, hysterically, yet a trace of despair flickered in her eyes as she provoked Matsumoto Gin: "How about it, Lord Enforcer, are you going to arrest me?"

"Rest assured, I won't arrest you for being low-class or morally corrupt," Matsumoto Gin shook his head and said calmly, "unless you have done something that actually harmed the other party."

"What have I done? What does her death have to do with me!?" Uda Ryoko sneered, then gulped down half a cup of tea, as if she were drinking down her own courage.

Matsumoto Gin couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Death? I was actually going to say that you had participated in disfiguring her."

Uda Ryoko, having incriminated herself again, clenched her fists. She felt she was being toyed with by Matsumoto Gin, and his laughter reminded her of the adults who used to treat her as a joke back then. "You bastard, are you looking down on me!?"

Matsumoto Gin controlled his laughter with ease, "Not at all, I just think you are somewhat pathetic."

"Well, according to our investigation into the Kawakami Rumi suicide case back then, we discovered an interesting detail, which is... actually, on the night Kawakami Rumi expressed that she wanted to commit suicide, someone had called her." Matsumoto Gin watched her face lose its color and said softly, "You made that call, didn't you?"

"Do you have evidence?" Uda Ryoko said with a sunken face, her hand gripping the cup trembling.

Matsumoto Gin spread his hands and shook his head, "Unfortunately, I don't. This is just my personal conjecture."

"The call made to Kawakami Rumi back then came from a public phone booth. There were no cameras in the park where that booth was located or in the surrounding area, so the subsequent investigation didn't yield any results. Moreover, Kawakami Rumi's phone only had call logs and no recordings, so it's unknown what the person who called her said at the time. Whether that call was the final straw that broke her is also hard to say."

"Therefore, even if we finally found the person who made that call, we couldn't truly convict them."

Uda Ryoko laughed, "I thought you had mastered some powerful evidence."

Matsumoto Gin shook his head and said earnestly to her: "Miss Uda Ryoko, please do not misunderstand one thing. My purpose in coming here was never to hold you accountable. I just wanted to confirm one thing, and judging by your performance just now, I am very certain that you are not the person I am looking for, so... you know, you are actually quite lucky."

"What he said is true; otherwise, he would have already drawn his blade and cut you down," He Jia'an, who had been silent until now, finally spoke up.

Uda Ryoko was horrified, "You... you are not Enforcers, who, who exactly are you!?"

Hearing this, Uda Ryoko was one hundred percent certain that the two in front of her could not be Enforcers, but they were definitely not ordinary people either.

Subsequently, Uda Ryoko thought of a possibility, but it was a truth even more desperate than confirming their identity as Enforcers.

"You... are you Investigators?"

Matsumoto Gin smiled; the truth was already self-evident to Uda Ryoko.

Investigators had come to her home to ask about matters related to Urban Legends, which meant that "Urban Legends" were all real!

"Rumi... Kawakami Rumi will kill me... she will kill me..." Uda Ryoko collapsed to the floor, whispering incessantly.

"If you feel you didn't do anything bad to her, why do you think she must kill you?" He Jia'an asked.

Uda Ryoko remained silent.

He Jia'an and Matsumoto Gin exchanged a glance; there was actually nothing left to pursue, and even if there were, it wasn't their job to do so.

They had experienced even stranger and more grotesque things as Investigators, and they could more or less imagine what a villain like Uda Ryoko had done in the past.

It was nothing more than kicking Kawakami Rumi while she was down in her despair. She had made an anonymous call to her, delivering a series of groundless, malicious accusations and spiteful, vicious curses, ultimately extinguishing Kawakami Rumi's last shred of hope for life.

One disfigurement made her see the world for what it was. Everything beautiful she possessed was built upon that once-lovely face. Once she lost her looks, it was like a high-rise with a weak foundation; once the foundation was destroyed, everything collapsed. What fell down was not the happiness of the past, but hypocrisy and spite.

Hanako's Curse was actually attached to her mother, Takayama Keika, because Takayama Keika carried Hanako's resentment.

By the same logic, Mimiko's Curse should also be attached to a similar person, at least someone who deeply empathized with Kawakami Rumi.

He Jia'an had originally thought it would be Misaki Naomi's chemistry teacher, but unfortunately, that guy was actually a deeply hidden pervert with strong antisocial personality tendencies.

Judging by the corpses of beautiful birds hidden in the secret compartment under the floorboards, Kawakami Rumi's disfigurement back then had a great deal to do with this pervert; he might have been the one who caused it all.

Heaven has eyes; the Moon of a Thousand Illusions also did a good deed—that pervert had already strayed into the Inner World and died miserably.

Therefore, He Jia'an later thought of Uda Ryoko, hoping there might be some twist in the story regarding her.

As it turned out, unfortunately, this woman was also a pervert.

Good grief, is there not a single normal person on the entire Sakura Island?

"Excuse us." He Jia'an and Matsumoto Gin rose to leave; time was not in abundance.

After leaving Uda Ryoko's home, the two did not take a car, but instead broke directly into the Kawakami House, which had already become a deserted residence.

And less than five minutes after the two entered the Kawakami House, they rushed out, their expressions urgent.

Matsumoto Gin had already drawn the katana hidden behind his back, his eyes cold and sharp.

The Investigators from the Chosen Alliance who had been waiting outside were all stunned. Someone asked the figures rushing past in a loud voice: "Senior Matsumoto, what happened to you two?"

At first, they thought some fierce creature was hidden inside the Kawakami House, but after waiting in battle readiness for a few seconds and seeing no movement, and noticing that the faces of the two who had hurried away did not look panicked, they dismissed that thought.

"Dog! It's a dog!" Matsumoto Gin barked.

That Shiba Inu at Uda Ryoko's house had once been Kawakami Rumi's beloved dog while she was alive!