"Look, I'm awake now." The kidnapper who kicked Tsushima Shuji said proudly.
"...Cough cough cough." Tsushima Shuji was still coughing non-stop, as if he would die of coughing in the next second.
"...He won't be kicked to death by your kick, right?" One of the kidnappers asked hesitantly.
The next second after he asked such a question, Tsushima Shuji vomited blood.
"You are really a well-deserved sick man. No wonder the newspapers said you were short-lived. This is not going to work." The kidnapper who kicked Tsushima Shuji was just stunned and said without paying much attention.
In any case, they had no intention of letting Tsushima Shuji leave alive. They would kill him when he lost his use value.
"Don't let him die too quickly. It's best to solve the puzzle before he dies." The woman gradually walked up, stood there and glanced condescendingly at Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha who were sitting on the ground, and who were lying on their sides.
Shuji Tsushima on the ground.
"Ito Mirisa." Tsushima Shuji, who had not spoken since he opened his eyes, stopped coughing and spoke slowly.
"I didn't expect that a big shot like you, President Tsushima, would remember me." The fat woman's smile was pretending to be sweet, and her voice was particularly gentle.
"In this case, please cooperate with us."
"I needed to find something, but that guy refused to tell me the answer no matter what, so I killed him. Because I believed in the strength of you two, I invited you here." The woman looked at Tsushima Shuji.
Said so.
"Are you talking about Kusukawa? You killed him." Hattori Heiji said in a heavy voice from the side.
One of the purposes of his coming to Tokyo this time was for Kusukawa, Toyama and Ye's father's former subordinate. He said he had something important to say, but he lost contact with him.
So Toyama and Ye's father asked them to come and visit.
"Kusukawa from the Aideto Detective Agency? Ah..." Tsushima Shuji's face was expressionless, with blood on his lips, but his tone was particularly clear.
"What's the reason that makes you kill someone? Let me think about it..."
"That's it, you seem to be teaching people how to escape tax obligations in private." Shuji Tsushima said in a light tone.
"Mr. Kusukawa knows about this, so you want to kill him... cough..." Before Tsushima Shuji could finish his words, he was kicked again.
This kick made him roll around on the ground.
"Shut up and stop talking, or you will be like that guy immediately." The kidnapper threatened viciously.
"Ahem..." Tsushima Shuji lowered his head expressionlessly and spit out a mouthful of blood, then raised his head.
"Come and kill me. After killing me, with your brains, I'm afraid you won't be able to understand the code left by the detective in a hundred years, right? What a pity." He smiled slowly, his voice was obviously extremely calm, and when others heard it, he smiled slowly.
It was extremely sarcastic in his ears.
The enraged kidnapper knelt down and grabbed his hair.
He hit the ground twice with "bang bang", and then pulled Tsushima Shuji's head back hard.
But he didn't see the expression he wanted to see on the other person's face.
Pain, struggle, fear, cry for help... none of them.
Even though his forehead had been hit with a wound and blood was slowly dripping down his cheek, the young man's face was still expressionless, with a kind of absurd emptiness.
"Aren't you going to continue?" he asked.
"Madman." The kidnapper cursed and let go, kicking the man aside.
Shuji Tsushima rolled around on the ground and looked up at the kidnapper with an expressionless expression.
He doesn't like useless pain that can't kill him.
Naturally, he wouldn't like someone who treated him like this.
So he slowly vomited blood and changed his position, from lying to sitting.
"The puzzle is on the table. If you can solve it, we will give you a happy death. If not..." the kidnapper showed a sinister smile.
"Did you hear that? You guy." This time it was not Shuji Tsushima who suffered, but Heiji Hattori.
When Tsushima Shuji was beaten, Hattori Heiji had a gloomy face but could do nothing.
And when it was his turn to be beaten, he still had time to smile.
"I'm sorry, my ears seem to be a little insensitive. I can't hear anything you say." He said jokingly, not caring at all about the pain from being beaten.
"In this case, how about cutting off your ears? You can't hear anyway, so there's no use keeping them." The woman suggested with a sweet smile on the side.
However, she is a bloated, fat woman, and her eyes are very sinister at the moment, which has nothing to do with sweetness.
Instead, it feels like a perversion.
"That makes sense." A male kidnapper agreed with the proposal. As he said that, he took out a knife from his body and grabbed Hattori Heiji's ear with one hand.
"Heiji——" Toyama Kazuha couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Do you still want to know the answer?" Shuji Tsushima said casually, sitting against the wall of the attic.
The kidnapper stopped what he was doing and looked at Shuji Tsushima in surprise.
The young man sitting in the dark environment seems to be integrated into the darkness, which is a bit unpredictable.
"If he can't hear, how do you expect me to communicate puzzles with him?" Tsushima Shuji sighed, his tone helpless.
"If you want to get the answer faster, it's best not to do that. My wisdom is limited." He said with a hint of seriousness and a hint of joking.
Even in such an environment, there is still a sense of relief.
Such disapproval made the kidnappers very dissatisfied and felt that they were being underestimated.
So the kidnapper let go of Hattori Heiji's ears and walked towards Tsushima Shuji.
"You still have time to care about others, don't you realize the seriousness of the matter?" He said this, and stabbed Tsushima Shuji in the shoulder with the knife in his hand.
After circling the shoulder with the dagger, he slowly pulled it out.
The blood instantly stained the shoulder area of Tsushima Shuji's white shirt.
"Okay, don't kill me." The woman ordered from the side.
"You'd better give me the answer quickly." She said this and left the attic.
The two men also left.
Only Tsujima Shuji, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuba were left in the attic.
"Heiji, Tsushima, are you okay..." Toyama Kazuha's voice sounded a little at a loss.
"What can happen to me? Idiot." Hattori Heiji said nonchalantly.
"I'm fine, too." Shuji Tsushima broke free from the handcuffs in his hands, touched his injured shoulder with one hand, and felt sticky blood all over his hand.
"You were actually kidnapped..." He slowly came to Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, took out a piece of wire from his hair, and easily unlocked the handcuffs on their hands.
"This is what I'm asking you. Why are you here?" Hattori Heiji asked in a complicated tone.
He left clues so that Tsushima Shuji could lead people to rescue him, not to let Tsushima Shuji be kidnapped with him!
"Well... I fell asleep squatting on the street, and then I woke up, ah, to be precise, I woke up after being kicked, and I ended up here." Tsushima Shuji said lightly.
This reason left Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha speechless.
"Speaking of which, you were beaten very badly, Hattori-senpai." Tsushima Shuji said expressionlessly.
"You're not bad either." Hattori Heiji replied.
Two equally scarred people looked at each other and smiled at the same time.