Tokyo: Rabbit Officer and Her Evil Partner
Chapter 248 - 169: Evil Knowledge

Chapter 248: Chapter 169: Evil Knowledge

"You, you saw it wrong, I told you it’s the mark of a curse..."

"What curse or not, haven’t you ever used a scratcher?"

"How could a scratcher leave a black mark?" Minamoto Tamako questioned.

"Isn’t that because you used a black water-based pen to draw?" Fushimi Roku’s expression was like asking ’Are you an idiot?’

"Are you listening to me at all?" Minamoto Tamako snorted.

She was in a good mood, not bothering to argue with Fushimi Roku, flipping through her small notebook, started from the beginning, sharing her investigation results selflessly.

Thinking it over, starting from the same starting line, she managed to solve the case first, isn’t that a better proof of her deductive ability? This is healthy competition in the detective squad!

This time Fushimi Roku finally listened. He heard that there was both haunting and deaths at that place, felt uneasy, a déjà vu from a horror movie set, he regretted not charging Yazaki Momo more.

Fushimi Roku used to think male and female leads in horror films were dumb, always rushing into haunted houses, especially when a whole family moves into an obviously problematic old house, parents pretending not to notice various supernatural phenomena...Now it seems, it’s all due to life’s pressures!

If it weren’t for poverty, who would live in a haunted house?

Fushimi Roku’s desire to make money grew stronger, today he watched an interview report on Oogami Nui on TV, saying she borrowed nearly two trillion yen over the years, second only to Tokyo Electric Power Company, making him very envious.

Isn’t it all scams? Why do spirit mediums earn more than lawyers? Two trillion yen is almost equivalent to a big law firm’s annual revenue!

Currently, Oogami Nui is going to perform a spirit summoning ceremony for the imperial family, it seems she’s not only after money but also power, with Nakako backing her up, she might even enter politics, predicting elections or something...

Just thinking about it makes one burn with jealousy...ah no, righteous indignation!

Fushimi Roku suddenly asked, "Did you find out the compensation for the Oogami Spirit Medium?"

"What compensation?" Minamoto Tamako didn’t respond at first, in her eyes, monks don’t touch money, especially enlightened ones, having no association with the smell of money.

"Does Nakako really not have to pay spirit mediums? Is the Japan Imperial Family so prestigious? Can they live off their reputation?" Fushimi Roku said sarcastically.

"This...I didn’t find out." Minamoto Tamako paused, vaguely felt Fushimi Roku was picking faults: "Besides, isn’t this matter not important?"

"How could it not be important? It’s very important!"

Fushimi Roku slapped the coffee table fiercely, such an important matter not investigated, Minamoto Tamako had been busy in vain these past two days. The latter vaguely sensed something was wrong, asked suspiciously: "You’re not planning to compete with the Oogami Spirit Medium for business, are you?"

"How could that be? Am I the type to use feudal superstitions to cheat people? You can question my devotion to justice, but you cannot question my steadfast materialism!"

Fushimi Roku vowed, stretched lazily, said he was going out for a walk.

Minamoto Tamako suspected nothing, this guy had been lounging at home for two days, without moving the body would atrophy. She signaled Fushimi Roku to walk the dog on his way out, and to buy two bentos when he came back, she and Sakurako hadn’t eaten dinner yet!

Fushimi Roku took the bento money, leashed Ah Jun and left. He headed straight to the bookstore, let Ah Jun wait outside, leisurely flipped through reports related to Japanese spirit mediums, occasionally asked shop staff to introduce basic relevant historical and science publications.

At first, Minamoto Tamako was secretly pleased, letting Mr. Fu Jian run errands was practically getting a white Redemption Voucher for free, a huge win!

But as time passed, Minamoto Tamako felt like a worker about to starve in her rented room, waiting for the delayed food delivery...waited an hour after an hour, finally called up, only to find Fushimi Roku hadn’t bought the bento!

"Buy them now or the convenience store will close!" Minamoto Tamako was very annoyed, hunger made emotions prone to anger.

Fushimi Roku hung up the phone, left the bookstore, just in time for the convenience store’s evening bento with fifty percent off sale, and even pocketed a portion of the bento money to buy himself a box of chocolate filled treats.

He cradled a heap of packaged miscellaneous books in his left hand, carried two bentos in his right, Ah Jun frolicked ahead, and after returning home, Minamoto Tamako lay on the sofa like a dead fish, looking like a demon reincarnated.

Fushimi Roku used two pieces of chocolate to quell Minamoto Tamako’s anger, he sat on the sofa, browsing the miscellaneous books. Minamoto Tamako devoured the bento, glanced up, the book covers all roughly related to spirit mediums: "Hita Healing: The World’s Strongest Energy Therapy", "Translator of the Spirit Realm", "Spirit Medium Detective Tsuizuka Hisui"...

She akın a hamster with bulging cheeks, muttered unintelligibly, "What are you reading those for?"

"As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will be victorious in hundred battles! If I don’t understand a spirit medium’s usual tricks, how can I expose Oogami Nui’s scams?" Fushimi Roku declared proudly, the posture of reading sage books.

Ah, that’s it!

Minamoto Tamako had an epiphany, thought it made a lot of sense, wished she bought some books to take a look. To avoid being overtaken by Mr. Fu Jian in the curve, after finishing the bento, she casually picked up a book and started reading.

The more she read, the more strange it felt, the book was full of mystical things, saying there’s mysterious energy in the universe, then saying spirit mediums are born with bloodlines different from ordinary people, yet didn’t mention any scamming tricks.

She looked up, saw Fushimi Roku engrossed, couldn’t help but ask: "You’re not becoming a spirit medium, what’s the use of reading these? Besides, if Oogami Spirit Medium is indeed a scammer, she’s one remarkable scammer, right? How could the book detail her fraudulent techniques?"

"What’s called ever-changing but always the same, don’t speak blindly if you don’t understand." Fushimi Roku had his own considerations.

Minamoto Tamako felt something was off but didn’t know what to say, she thought since the book was free, might as well read it, if Mr. Fu Jian read it, she had to read it too, can’t let him get ahead!

The two nestled at opposite ends of the sofa, focused reading, the living room quieted, night deepened, the TV was on with background sound from lines in "Beautiful Unrequited Love".

They were both silent, yet didn’t feel awkward or bored.

Minamoto Tamako kept reading till midnight, grew more spirited, felt like she was reading a ghost story, her position shifted from lying to sitting, seemingly opening the door to a New World.

"This, is what the book says true..." Every so often she would lift her head and ask.

"Of course, it’s false." Fushimi Roku didn’t lift his head, such fabricated social science books were purely to captivate people, like the encyclopedias he read in childhood in his past life.

"Feels like it could be true..." Minamoto Tamako murmured softly.

It was getting late, Fushimi Roku yawned, casually put the book on the coffee table, went back to his room for a shower then sleep.

Seeing him stop, Minamoto Tamako also returned the book to the coffee table, stacked them neatly by hand.

Evil knowledge snuck into her mind, during her shower, Minamoto Tamako kept feeling someone being behind her, the face in the mirror seeming odd, lying in bed feeling paranoid, couldn’t help hugging Taira Sakurako shiveringly.

The thought of touring the spirit summoning ceremony tomorrow made Minamoto Tamako’s thoughts swirl...

Hopefully nothing goes wrong tomorrow.