Tokyo: Rabbit Officer and Her Evil Partner
Chapter 247 - 168: Breaking the Curse Mark!

Chapter 247: Chapter 168: Breaking the Curse Mark!

This feeling of having done something wrong made Fushimi Roku quite displeased.

Of course, he wouldn’t simply admit his mistake but instead tried to reason with Minamoto Tamako, repeatedly emphasizing that the withered branch was just trash, and he was merely helping Tamako clean the room...

After talking for a long time, Minamoto Tamako remained indifferent.

This guy’s mood changes too quickly, Fushimi Roku felt that the "Minamoto Tamako User Manual" was out of date and it was time for an update.

He hesitated whether to splurge a bit and pay with a green redemption coupon to avoid disaster. Just then, Taira Sakurako suddenly poked her head in sneakily and abruptly asked, "Why aren’t you two kissing yet?"

Not only was Fushimi Roku dumbfounded, but even Minamoto Tamako, who was under the covers, poked her head out. The two of them looked at Taira Sakurako in unison, asking her what she meant by that.

"Usually, when a guy enters a girl’s room, they start kissing right away," Taira Sakurako said.

Fushimi Roku asked her why she had such a strange idea, and Taira Sakurako said with a matter-of-fact expression that she saw it on TV.

Generally, when the story develops to the part where the male and female leads have an argument, the guy will firmly kiss the girl, pin her on the bed, and then the girl will be enamored, thinking the guy is so manly and domineering...

"Stop watching that nonsense," Fushimi Roku said with a straight face.

"Don’t you watch it too?" Taira Sakurako retorted, unwilling to admit it.

Finally, Fushimi Roku realized where the problem was. Taira Sakurako’s worldviews weren’t fully formed yet, and her only sources of external information were TV shows, manga, and social science books. She took some exaggerations and melodramatic plots as natural things...

As a result, Taira Sakurako also came up with childish ideas like "replacing Japanese currency" and remained wary of the redemption vouchers issued by Fushimi Roku, because Japanese television stations were constantly promoting the US dollar as a replacement for the yen and exposing financial institution scams.

This won’t do.

There’s a reason why countries strongly promote compulsory education. Even for disabled individuals, there are special schools, aimed at allowing children to be exposed to the real world and participate in real interpersonal communication to build a sound worldview.

In short, it was time for the kids to go to school.

However, Fushimi Roku happened to be broke. The subsidy promised by the police station still hadn’t come through, and they couldn’t count on Minamoto Tamako either, so they could only put it on hold for a while.

Thanks to Taira Sakurako’s interruption, Minamoto Tamako finally came out of her shell. Fushimi Roku took the opportunity to issue a redemption voucher, starting with a green one, which was like spending money frivolously.

"I-I won’t scam you for redemption vouchers..."

Minamoto Tamako was still sulking. Hugging her piggy bank, she lay sideways on the bed, feeling so aggrieved that her eyes turned into wave shapes.

"Alright, alright," Fushimi Roku said, pulling out a green redemption voucher from his wallet and waving it in front of her: "If you say you won’t, then you won’t."

"I really won’t!"

"So, do you want it or not?"

"I do!"

Minamoto Tamako paused for a moment and added, "Because you threw away my flower! That was really too much! It clearly had a chance to grow petals again!"

Fushimi Roku showed no sign of remorse on his face, even curling his lips disdainfully, but he didn’t argue for once, casually asking, "What kind of flower was it? So magical that it could bloom again after wilting..."

"Just a wildflower I picked by the roadside, I don’t even know its name."

Minamoto Tamako reached out to take the green redemption voucher, turned over on the bed, unzipped her tracksuit, and stuffed the redemption voucher into her piggy bank.

Having received the redemption voucher, Fushimi Roku felt that the matter was settled. He patted his butt and slipped away to his room to read the dossier.

Having lost her flower-pet, Minamoto Tamako wasn’t in the mood to investigate the case either. She casually heated up a bento, had dinner, washed up, and rested, curling up in bed to heal her wounds.

The next morning, the two of them received a notification approving their assistance in the investigation.

Although the spirit summoning ceremony would only take one day, Yazaki Momo signed them up for three days of field work. As a reporter, she wasn’t authorized to apply for it, but the police station that commissioned her investigation had its own ways, and she just needed to give a heads-up.

Fushimi Roku was pleased to slack off, planning to lie around at home for another day.

Minamoto Tamako, holding back her anger, went out early to investigate the case, and when passing by the drainage ditch downstairs, she couldn’t help but glance down for a moment.

Due to the sudden death of her flower-pet, she wasn’t focused on the investigation today either, getting lost in her thoughts and running around, only to make futile efforts.

As evening approached, Minamoto Tamako was exhausted. She took the train home and saw Fushimi Roku still sitting on the sofa watching TV, looking as leisurely as ever, which made her even more unhappy.

Even if he gave her the redemption voucher, shouldn’t he at least say sorry?

Minamoto Tamako ’hmphed’, stomping her slippers loudly, not even acknowledging him as she went straight to her room, planning to seriously sort through the information she’d gathered and strive to surpass Fushimi Roku tomorrow, becoming a famous detective in her own right!

She pushed open the door, the sunset slanting through the windowsill, a vase on the desk that was originally empty now had a small white flower, its gentle and supple petals dyed red by the evening glow, blazing like a rose.

Minamoto Tamako was taken aback, instinctively asking Taira Sakurako, "Did you pick these?"

Taira Sakurako glanced up at her, too lazy to answer. As everyone knew, Lady Sakurako was the stabilizing force of the house, how could she possibly go downstairs to pick flowers?

There were only three people in the house, it couldn’t have been Ajun who picked it, right?

Minamoto Tamako’s mood brightened instantly, she rushed forward, knelt by the table, placed her hands on the edge, her eyes level with the petals, scrutinizing them closely.

"Like... don’t like..."

"Like... don’t like..."

Minamoto Tamako stretched out her little finger, pointing at the petals, counting them one by one, muttering aloud. When she reached the end, with one ’like’ left, she beamed with joy.

Actually, Mr. Fu Jian isn’t all that bad!

Minamoto Tamako’s mood improved greatly, wanting to find Fushimi Roku for a chat but feeling a bit shy. She paced back and forth in the room, suddenly struck with inspiration, deciding to go find Fushimi Roku to discuss the case, making the conversation more natural.

She walked out of the room, cleared her throat, and struck a businesslike pose.

"Ahem, regarding the suicide case of Miss Akishinomiya, I’ve recently uncovered quite a bit of interesting information..."

Fushimi Roku didn’t respond; he was absorbed in watching a commercial, helping Taira Sakurako choose a school.

Minamoto Tamako didn’t get angry, sitting on the sofa, pulling out a small notebook from her pocket, and leaned in, saying, "Look, this is the special mark that witnesses found on the deceased, rumored to be the ’curse of the mysterious disappearance’, those cursed would eventually return to Wulin Temple. I’ve been thinking for a long time and still can’t make sense of it..."

Fushimi Roku wasn’t listening closely, he glanced back, saw the hand-drawn mark on the paper, and instinctively asked, "Why are you drawing a scratch mark?"

"What?" Minamoto Tamako was puzzled, she didn’t understand.

"Isn’t it just a scratch mark?" Fushimi Roku rephrased it in a way she could understand: "Scratch hard enough and it’s like that, upside-down triangle, like a ghost claw."

"..."

Minamoto Tamako suddenly fell silent.

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