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Dou Tang replied without hesitation.
The man in the hoodie paused for a moment, then said, "What...?"
"Kinchuan Ryunosuke, what's wrong?" Dou Tang pointed his short sword at him: "You're wrapped up from head to toe, wearing ill-fitting, cheap clothes, your voice is hoarse, and you smell like rotting, burnt flesh. You just open your mouth and say you know me. Who else could it be but Kinchuan Ryunosuke?"
"I can understand the desire of some vengeful spirits and evil spirits to act mysterious after they come back from the dead; everyone likes to show off. But honestly, you're the worst one I've ever seen. Seriously, are you insulting my intelligence?"
"Uh, ah... is this... like this?" The hooded man shrank his neck: "You, how come you're so skilled at this?"
Dou Tang shrugged: "All I can say is, what kind of evil spirits haven't I seen? You're still too young, aren't you?"
The hoodie-wearing man, or rather, Ryunosuke Kanakawa, paused again, then coughed twice.
Immediately afterwards, he turned and ran!
Dou Tang was startled.
"Hey, you were saying you were going to kill me a second ago, why are you running away now!"
Chapter 63 Ryunosuke Kanakawa is dead again!
Ryunosuke Kanakawa turned and ran, as if he had never intended to fight Dou Tang, and all his previous threats were just for the sake of verbal gratification.
But Dou Tang wouldn't let him go. This guy knew about Huaiyin and Kume Chika's existence, and Dou Tang couldn't let go of such an unstable factor.
He stomped heavily on the ground, his shoes screeching against the rubber surface of the parking lot, and then he pounced like a cheetah. Jin Chuanlong had only run less than a hundred meters when he felt a chill on the back of his head. Dou Tang's large hand pressed directly on the back of his head.
Then, he slammed it down hard.
"puff!"
Ryunosuke Kanakawa was slammed to the ground, his face hitting the ground with a loud thud, causing the rubber floor to dent slightly.
Even with all that force, Dou Tang couldn't break Jin Chuanlong's skull, and he was still struggling.
Dou Tang's eyes burned with a blue light, his voice cold and fierce: "Run? You're just going to slip away after saying those tough words?"
"How did you come back to life? What do you want from me? Explain yourself!"
"Woooooooooooo..."
Ryunosuke Kanakawa struggled and stammered, but Dou Tang's eyes hardened even more: "You won't talk, huh? I'll kill you right now..."
"I... I didn't say anything..."
Dou Tang then realized what was happening, pressed his head to the side so that his face was turned to one side, and his mouth was finally free.
Reaching out, I took off Ryunosuke Kanakawa's glasses. Sure enough, his eyelids were charred and rotten, and his pupils had turned grayish-white, making him look like a blind man.
But at this moment, those charred eyeballs were staring intently at Dou Tang. Although his body was dead, Ryunosuke Kanakawa still maintained the habits of a living person and controlled his eyeballs.
"Kiryuu, Toudou...you, you can't kill me..."
Dou Tang frowned: "Isn't it a bit too late to beg for mercy now? Especially after you said those harsh words?"
"I have something to tell you: if you kill me... then you will never know who is targeting you."
Dou Tang frowned again: "Then why did you provoke me?"
“I…” Ryunosuke Kanakawa choked for a moment.
"If you have something to say to me, and you don't want me to kill you, or if you're a messenger sent by someone who's been targeting me, then aren't you afraid I'll kill you for provoking me? Do you even have a brain?"
"Damn it... I hate you, so can't I say some harsh words! Cough, cough cough cough..." Ryunosuke Kanakawa shouted a couple of times with his neck stiff, and then coughed violently.
"Hmm, I can understand. That sounds like something a high school dropout would say, without even thinking about the consequences." Dou Tang scoffed mercilessly, then said, "So, what do you want to tell me?"
"One, one word... hehehehe..."
At this point, Ryunosuke Kanakawa's attitude clearly changed. Although he was pinned to the ground by Tou Tang, his expression was extremely smug: "You, the thing you're missing, is lurking in your path."
"What am I missing?" Dou Tang repeated in confusion.
"Yes, what you're missing... something you might not even be aware of yourself."
After he finished speaking, Ryunosuke Kanakawa on the ground suddenly shuddered. Tou Tang felt as if the head in his hand seemed to collapse inward a little, so he loosened his grip for a moment.
With just a moment of relaxation, Ryunosuke Kanakawa darted out like a slippery eel, skimming the ground, and then did a somersault to his feet.
Dou Tang gave him no chance to escape, and suddenly chased after him, kicking Jin Chuanlongzhi in the knee.
"Click!"
"what!!!"
To everyone's surprise, Dou Tang's kick broke Jin Chuanlong's kneecap, twisting his leg in a painful way, and Jin Chuanlong let out a scream.
"You, you're not following the script! Aren't you supposed to refrain from killing the envoy?!"
Dou Tang looked at him with amusement: "What do you mean by not killing the envoy..."
But the smile on his face froze instantly, even turning into a look of solemnity and astonishment. He stepped forward and grabbed Ryunosuke Kanakawa by the neck, asking angrily, "What do you mean 'you'? Who exactly did you meet? That person knows..."
What do you know? What do you know?!
"I've changed my mind... Tell me who's controlling you, and I'll give you a quick death! A vengeful spirit!"
"Heh, heh heh heh heh... As expected, as expected, that person was right, you're a traitor, a traitor to that person..."
Ryunosuke Kanakawa kept making hoarse noises, then laughed: "Hahahaha... Alright, then try killing me, Kiryu Toudou... Do it."
His greyish-white eyes were fixed on Dou Tang's furious face, as if he were admiring it: "Anyway, you can search my soul, can't you? If you have to say, you are the master of the Yellow Springs..."
Dou Tang squinted and slowly exerted force with his hand. Jin Chuanlong, who was being lifted up by one hand, kicked violently, and his broken lower leg swayed back and forth like a rope.
“Click—click.”
A distinct cracking sound came from Ryunosuke Kanakawa's neck, signifying that the body was completely dead, dead once again.
Strangely, Dou Tang did not sense any soul. Neither the black resentment of a vengeful spirit nor the pale blue vortex of an ordinary soul appeared. Dou Tang could feel that the corpse in his hand was an empty shell.
Ryunosuke Kanagawa's soul has vanished.
Without any warning, Dou Tang saw no obvious signs of the soul disappearing or escaping, as if he had been facing an empty shell from beginning to end.
Dou Tang casually tossed the corpse in his hand aside, shaking his hand, clearly very displeased.
"You didn't kill the envoy?"
"You are the master of the Yellow Springs."
And there's also the search for souls...
Ryunosuke Kanagawa was clearly someone who had no connection to the world of evil spirits, but after his death he was resurrected by someone and learned a lot about himself.
But the question is, who knows themselves so well?
Do not kill the envoy...
Dou Tang suddenly felt a headache coming on. Something from the depths of his memory wanted to surface, but it was blocked back down, as if he had just had a dream that left only a vague impression.
Ryunosuke Kanakawa knew he had the ability to search souls; he deliberately provoked himself to kill him because he understood that his soul could not be captured by me…
How much does he know about me, and where did he find out? Even Huaiyin and Lu Zizhen don't know this!
Black Cat? Aida Gaku? Kamizaki Ringo? Ito Raimoto? None of them are possible. These people have no idea what kind of existence I really am...
Dou Tang clicked his tongue, suppressing his heavy thoughts, and then dialed the phone number left by Xing Yiren.
Hoshigito's men arrived quickly. After searching and freezing Ryunosuke Kanakawa's body, the motorcycle was completely destroyed. Hoshigito temporarily provided him with a new one, and the money was deducted from the previous bounty.
Chapter 64 She was once a human being too.
Toudou's first stop is Kuroki Keizaki's house.
Kuroki Keizaki's former madam was very respectful to this "important person from above," and was extremely attentive to him. She was also surprised by Tou Tang's youthful appearance. Tou Tang had only gone to her to get the spare key to Kuroki Keizaki's apartment, but was entangled with her for nearly an hour.
When Dou Tang came out of the shop with the pink door after getting the key, he was covered in a complex fragrance, and of course, he wasn't the only one.
"Sir, you really don't need it..."
"No need! Thank you, no need to see me off!" Dou Tang quickly waved his hand and hurriedly ran away. At the same time, he felt that it was right to come out these past two days. If he went back smelling of perfume, even if nothing happened, he felt that he would have difficulty facing Huai Yin.
The Morning Star Group's mission is to allocate housing for its female members. They are free to choose from rental properties around Shibuya, and the group will rent them for them. However, in return, they must hand over a usable key to the property so that the group can track their movements.
If other groups were managed in this way, they probably wouldn't have any new members joining soon. But it was precisely because of "Ms. Shibuya" that the female members of the Morning Star Group felt comfortable accepting this management style. After all, among all the yakuza organizations in Tokyo, Ms. Shibuya's preferential treatment of female members was genuine.
The news of Kuroki Keizaki's death has not been released. Previously, members of the original Momoan group lied to cover it up, claiming that she had been transferred to do internal work. Therefore, the group continued to pay rent for Kuroki Keizaki.
Kuroki Keizaki is warm and generous and very popular. Dou Tang's visit to pick up the key caused quite a bit of controversy. Many female employees kept asking him about Kuroki Keizaki, but Dou Tang only said that his team needed to talk to him.
He had just reached the first floor and was about to leave when the stairs behind him made a clattering sound. The madam had actually chased after him and grabbed his sleeve.
"Brother, wait a moment."
The madam looked to be in her forties or fifties, with many wrinkles on her face, clearly having retired from her frontline work and lacking proper care.
Her eyes were somewhat dim, and her face held a pleading look: "Jingxiao...she didn't cause any trouble for the group, did she?"
Dou Tang paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Don't worry, Madam. I'm just going to check on her place. The team has other arrangements for her, so it's not a bad thing."
"Well, that's good... So, does that mean she's not coming back?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, yes."
The madam quickly patted Dou Tang's hand: "Okay, wait a moment, I'll go get something, wait for me!"
Dou Tang stood beside the motorcycle with his hands in his pockets, waiting for a few minutes before the madam arrived carrying a large pile of things.
Down.
It was a cloth bag used in supermarkets, filled to the brim with a bunch of things. The madam said, "This is... Jingzaki wasn't here for her birthday last time, but we prepared a gift for her. Young man, could you please give this to her?"
"So many?" Dou Tang took the bag with some surprise. It was a bit heavy. Dou Tang glanced at it and saw that it was full of cosmetics and jewelry, at least thirty pieces. In other words, every employee in the store had prepared a gift for her.
Everyone in this shop has their own hardships, and they all ended up in this less-than-honorable industry, but they are still living, breathing human beings with warmth.
The tote bag looked old and had creases, probably a bag that the madam had found at the last minute. Dou Tang could even imagine the madam walking around the store with the bag open, her face full of joy, and every female shop assistant who saw her quickly took out a gift she had prepared in advance, which was proof that they had been waiting for Jingxie to return.
He could even imagine the bustling scene inside the store, with women calling out to each other, taking gifts from the lounge, their bags, and their lockers, and placing them into the old bag, which grew heavier and fuller.
This made Dou Tang feel a pang in his heart, a sense of unease.
"Yes, Jingxie... well, anyway, I'm leaving her in your care, is that alright?"
Dou Tang pondered for a moment, then nodded.
"Yes, I will definitely deliver them to her. Don't worry, not a single one will be missing."
The madam smiled with relief, saying, "Then I'll have to trouble you."
Dou Tang tied the old bag shut, put it in the storage box under the motorcycle seat, and then put on his helmet.
"That's settled then, Mama-san, let's go back now, the sun is too strong outside."
The madam touched her arm: "Yeah, young man, speaking of which... you're always in the shop serving customers, it's been a long time since you've been out in the sun."
"I'll stay in the sun a little longer, then I'll go back."
Dou Tang nodded, lowered his helmet and goggles, started his motorcycle, and sped away.
………………
Kuroki Keisaki's place wasn't far from here, and Toudou arrived quickly.
Unexpectedly, her place was very simple. Dou Tang originally thought that a popular woman like her would live in a brand-new and decent apartment building, but he did not expect that it was just a... very ordinary old apartment, and the room was probably not big, only the size of a hotel room.
Carrying the old bag upstairs, Dou Tang opened the door with the spare key.
The room was simply furnished and everything was in good order, but it had a lingering damp smell, which meant that Tou Tang was right; Kuroki Keizaki really had come back.
The kitchen is right inside the door, and the tableware is placed next to the stove, indicating that it is for more than one person.
Further inside, there was a small door. Dou Tang pushed it open and found that it was a restroom. There were only one set of toiletries on the sink, so it seemed that there were more than one set of tableware for guests who came from time to time.
Both the kitchen and bathroom trash cans were clean, but there was no dust on the rims, so it seems she had just changed the trash bags when she came back recently.
The stove was clean, but the toothbrush was a little wet, indicating that she hadn't started cooking, but still maintained her washing habits.
Dou Tang couldn't help but smile. A female ghost who still washes up every day?
Further inside, there was a neatly made large bed, but the sheets and blankets were hanging out to dry on the balcony, leaving only a bare mattress.
Dou Tang touched the mattress; it was damp, indicating that she had lain on it. The blankets and sheets were clearly wet from that time. She hung these two items on the balcony to dry, but didn't touch the mattress.
It was as if she were still that weak woman, as if she were still alive, still human, so that one person could not lift a heavy mattress.
Noticing these details, Dou Tang sighed deeply.
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