This Japanese Story Is Not Too Cold

In fact, Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi have always thought that Kitagawa Temple has the ability to read minds or is similar to mind reading.

So when they heard Beichuan Temple denying it, they all looked shocked.

Because some things can’t be explained clearly without using ‘mind-reading skills’——

"But I really don't have the ability to read minds. So it's natural to come and see Yoshiko Adachi." Kitagawaji said directly.

"No...right now than that...I have other questions to ask."

Next to him, Inari Kazuhime raised her hand, looking a bit confused.

"Ask." Beichuan Temple responded calmly.

"Why do we come to a family restaurant?" Inari Kazuhime asked with a look of confusion.

Yes, they were sitting in the family restaurant at this time and even ordered a dinner from Kitagawa Temple.

We were still talking about business... Why did we go out to eat all of a sudden?

"According to what you said, Adachi Yoshiko usually gets off work at half-past five and goes home on time at six o'clock, right?"

Kitagawaji confirmed calmly while eating the seafood risotto in front of him.

"That's right..." Inari Kazuhime looked at Kitagawa Temple eating, and her eyes subconsciously turned away.

"It's only 5:40 now, so I'm not really in a hurry about visiting. And -"

and...?

Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi looked over.

"I'm hungry."

Kitagawaji replied straightforwardly, and then he glanced at Inari Kazuhime, who was swallowing secretly and wanted to eat but couldn't keep his face down.

Without thinking, he called the waiter and ordered a dinner for Inari Keiichi and Inari Kazuhime:

"Before solving the incident, you must also take care of your own health. It would be the most unwise choice to force yourself into it because of physical discomfort."

Saying that, Beichuan Temple finished the seafood risotto in three strokes.

Well...

Inari Keiichi and Inari Kazuhime both turned red.

The two of them ran to the special department as soon as get out of class was over, so naturally they didn't eat much.

It's already dinner time at six o'clock, and of course I'm a little hungry.

Considering that there was something that needed to be resolved, I kept silent.

Now with the 'teacher' figure of Kitagawaji taking the lead, the Inari brothers and sisters also started to finish the meal in front of them.

Seeing them starting to eat, Kitagawa Temple's face softened.

I don't know why, but when he looks at these brothers and sisters, he always thinks of Kitagawa Eri.

At the beginning, when he took the initiative to provide three meals a day for the family, Kitagawa Eri was also like this, he seemed hesitant.

And now...?

Kitagawa Eri has completely accepted it.

I wonder if Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi will also look like Kitagawa Eri in the future.

Just as Beichuan Temple was thinking this way, a surprised voice suddenly sounded next to him.

"Mr. Keiichi? Miss Ichiki?"

The person who spoke was an office woman wearing a skirt suit.

She looks very young and has short shoulder-length hair.

But this is such a woman who is full of energy, but her eyes are haggard, her face is pale, and she looks as if she has aged five or six years out of thin air.

The other party had a small bag slung on his shoulder, and in his hand was a small paper bag containing something unknown.

It was obvious that she had just gotten off work.

"Miss Yoshiko?!"

Inari Keiichi and Inari Kazuki hurriedly wiped their mouths and stood up.

"Well... Mr. Keiichi, Miss Kazuki, we meet again."

Yoshiko Adachi smiled politely at the Inari siblings.

Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi both have regular police certificates, and they are also people who solve problems for themselves. Of course, she is very polite to them.

but--

"Who is this...?"

Adachi Yoshiko sat in Beichuan Temple opposite the two of them in confusion, and said in confusion.

"This is our Big Brother Beichuan...well...our senior. This time he is also here for Miss Anda's nightmare."

Inari Kazuhime coughed twice and hurriedly changed her words.

"Ah..." Yoshiko Adachi turned around and bowed deeply in front of Kitagawa Temple: "It turns out they are colleagues of Mr. Keiichi and Miss Ichiki... How rude."

Saying that, Yoshiko Adachi stretched out her hand.

"I am Yoshiko Adachi, please give me your advice."

"Yes. I am Kitagawaji."

Beichuan Temple's eyes flickered, he stretched out his hand and shook it briefly before nodding.

He had been looking at Yoshiko Adachi with his deadly energy since just now.

But as Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi said, Kitagawaji did not see the resentment in Adachi Yoshiko.

She looks like an ordinary person, with no resentment or kindness in her body.

Beichuan Temple withdrew his gaze and then asked:

"I wonder if Miss Anda is convenient now? This is not a good place to discuss things."

Indeed, there are many people in a family restaurant and it is not suitable for talking quietly.

"This is something I was not considering."

Adachi Yoshiko naturally understood what Beichuan Temple meant. She glanced at the surrounding environment, and then smiled: "If you don't mind, you can come to my house now, and I will definitely receive you solemnly."

Since Adachi Yoshiko said so, Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi on the other side certainly had no objections.

The four of them packed their belongings and followed Yoshiko Adachi into an apartment building after paying the bill.

This apartment looks quite high-end, and you need to swipe a card to enter at the bottom. If an outsider visits, you only need to enter the room number, let the owner of the room confirm his identity, and then unlock the room to enter.

While several people were waiting for the elevator to go up, Adachi Yoshiko also told Kitagawaji why she appeared in the family restaurant.

The small paper bag in Adachi Yoshiko's hand contains the medicine she has been taking.

Since she started having nightmares every day, she started taking neuroleptic drugs regularly.

It's just that the effect of these drugs is minimal, and nightmares will still occur.

And this time, she went to the hospital to get medicine, and when she came back, she planned to have dinner at the family restaurant... but by chance, she met Kitagawaji, Inari Keiichi and others.

"I didn't expect that I just met Mr. Keiichi and Miss Ichiki... What a coincidence. It seems that something good will happen tomorrow." Yoshiko Adachi opened the door with a smile on her face.

"Uh...compared to that...how is Miss Anda doing lately? Are you still having nightmares?"

Inari Kazuhime asked sheepishly.

She and her brother didn't do anything in the first place, yet they still received such compliments from each other... This was indeed a bit embarrassing.

"Well...it's still the same as before. There is no relief."

Yoshiko Adachi laughed optimistically and waved her hands to indicate that the two of them didn't need to pay attention.

"You two don't have to worry about it, I'm almost used to it..."

"And even if the strange dream cannot be solved for the time being, it doesn't matter, because you two come to me every day and give me, a single woman, some psychological comfort... This is enough for me to thank you two. .Come, drink tea.”

She randomly found a seat to sit down, and then served tea to the three people in Beichuan Temple one by one.

Seeing Yoshiko Adachi being so polite, Inari Kazuhime and Inari Kei looked at each other, becoming more and more at a loss and feeling embarrassed.

After all, both of them are still high school students. Faced with such social rhetoric, they naturally don't know how to respond.

They turned their attention to Beichuan Temple for help, only to find that Beichuan Temple was staring straight at Yoshiko Adachi, as if thinking about something.

Is it possible that Brother Beichuan already has a clue?

Inari Kazuhime and Inari Keiichi blinked, both looking forward to it.

Of course Kitagawa Temple also felt the burning gazes of the two of them, but he was not in a hurry. He just started to scan the room after looking at Yoshiko Adachi, and it took almost a minute before he officially spoke.

"Miss Anda, your neck is here..."

As he said that, Beichuanji pointed at the other person's neck.

"Ah...Have you been discovered by Mr. Kitagawa? But this is also something Mr. Keiichi and Ms. Kazuhime know..."

Yoshiko Adachi smiled, pulled down her collar, and exposed her neck.

On her smooth and white neck, there was a clearly visible blue bruise.

This blue bruise looks like a human palm, and the traces of the five fingers are very clear.

Looking at it up close like this, it just makes people feel a little creepy and scary.

"Don't look at it like this, but it actually doesn't hurt at all. It just doesn't look good."

Yoshiko Adachi said particularly optimistically.

Beichuanji didn't say anything to attack her overly optimistic attitude. He just took a deep look at the blue bruise and asked again:

"Has Ms. Anda ever encountered any accidents or accidents? For example, a car accident or something like that."

Listening to Kitagawaji's narration, Yoshiko Adachi covered her mouth slightly and answered after a long time:

"Ah... Such a terrible thing... I have never encountered it in my memory. Because I am very timid, even if such a thing does happen in front of me, I will basically avoid it."

"So, has Ms. Anda ever had a dispute with others? For example, any kind of particularly intense conflict."

Beichuan Temple asked again.

"Well... this... probably doesn't happen. My colleagues and I get along quite well. If we have to argue, it must have happened seven or eight years ago, right? My mother and I discussed whether to go to school University stuff.”

Adachi Yoshiko said thoughtfully.

"Yeah?"

Adachi Yoshiko's answer made Kitagawaji fall into silence.

It wasn't a car accident or committing suicide by jumping off a building, and there was no dispute with outsiders.

Then the only people Adachi Yoshiko can come into contact with in terms of ‘dead people and spiritual bodies’ are——

Beichuan Temple looked up.

In the corner of this fairly spacious living room is a small ebony cabinet.

"Ms. Anda, that little cabinet behind you should be a tomb, right?"

Kitagawaji asked without hesitation.

Hearing Beichuanji's question, Adachi Yoshiko also blinked in surprise.

She followed Beichuanji's gaze and looked back, then said with some admiration:

"It's a blessing that Mr. Kitagawa noticed it. I usually put things away, and it looks like it's just a small cabinet... Even Mr. Keiichi and Ms. Kazuhime didn't notice it."

Adachi Yoshiko turned around with gentle eyes: "Yes, that is the shrine. My parents are enshrined in it."

"Serving your parents?"

Next to them, Inari Kazuhime and Inari Kei looked at each other.

"Yes." Yoshiko Adachi stood up, then walked to the ebony shrine, opened the shrine, and took out small cushions and incense burners from the small cabinet underneath.

She said in a soft voice: "My father passed away when I was very young, and my mother and I have always depended on each other."

Yoshiko Adachi looked at the two photo frames at the niche.

Above the photo frame are two photos.

One male and one female.

They correspond to her fathers, Adachi Bear and Adachi Azusa respectively.

Yoshiko Adachi lit the incense, offered it to her, and spoke softly:

"My mother is a very gentle person, no matter who she treats. After my father passed away, she raised me by herself and allowed me to receive a better education... I have always wanted to repay my mother... "

"But the fact is that I have grown up now, but my mother is no longer here."

Her voice was soft, rather than telling Kitagawaji or the Inari brothers and sisters, it was better to say that she was whispering to herself.

"I'm sorry for bringing this up so suddenly." Kitagawaji said expressionlessly next to him.

There was no emotion in his voice, and there was no trace of apology in it.

This made Inari Kazuhime roll her eyes.

"Oh, this is actually nothing."

Yoshiko Adachi laughed twice, her laughter a little dry: "Actually, I think my mother's death had a lot to do with me."

"Oh?" Beichuan Temple's eyes flashed.

He didn't expect that he could hear such rare information here.

"Yes." Adachi Yoshiko nodded and continued: "My mother actually went on a trip with her during the May Day Golden Week this year... When we arrived at a famous sea cliff attraction, she asked me to take photos for her... and then behind her The handrail suddenly became loose and detached, and she fell to the shore and died."

"...This is a particularly regrettable thing."

Kitagawa Temple said expressionlessly.

"Yes. So I have always blamed myself for this incident. Maybe it is because of this incident that I have nightmares every night. The doctor said it was my own fault... I also think that may be the case."

Adachi Yoshiko exhaled helplessly.

No matter how open-minded she is, she is not that open-minded.

After all, her mother died under her nose.

"I originally wanted to make my mother's life happier...but it ended up like this."

Yoshiko Adachi gently stroked her mother's photo frame, her voice sounding full of bitterness: "But it's useless no matter how much you blame yourself."

There is no resurrection after death.

Yoshiko Adachi could only accept all this and live alone in the metropolis of Tokyo.

"I see..."

Beichuan Temple nodded, indicating that he understood the other party's mood.

"That's about it for my mother... The only thought she left for me... is probably the amulet she gave me eight years ago. There is nothing else."

Adachi Yoshiko, who had finished the offering, rubbed her eyes, then stood up and sat in front of Beichuan Temple again.

"amulet...?"

Kitagawaji touched his chin.

His eyes flickered slightly, as if he had thought of something.