Shinrei Tantei Yakumo - Volume 10 Chapter 1

Chapter 1 

Translated by Niulili

Gotou Kazutoshi looked up at the apartment and sighed a little…

It was an eight-story brick walled apartment. It was U-shaped and had a beautiful garden where the lawn were planted and cobblestone trails continuing to the entrance.

Surrounded by beautiful plantings, the grounds were planted with lawns and cobblestone trails continuing to the entrance.

It was built about half a year ago, and it seems to cost 70 million yen with 3 LDK. It was very close to the station and there was a sense of luxury, but it was still expensive.

At first, although this was Tokyo, if it exceeded one signal, it was Kanagawa prefecture.

Soaring prices had been greatly affected by trains. In the past, there was only a stop at Meishin Station, but with the revision of the schedule, the price of land increased as the express train also stopped.

“What did you saw ?” He called out Eishin, who stood next to him.

Although he was quite old, his body was solid build and fleshy. On top of that, he was a monk, dressed in a formal coat, with a mild smile, but it was only a sham. If he opened his mouth he could be sharp, it looked like a monk who could ate people.

“I do not know. I can’t see it just by looking at it”.

When Gotou told him to spit, Eishin sneered and laughed.

“Your body is big, but you’re good for nothing. Unlike you, I’m not solely about my body.”

“Shut up !”

“You shout in vain, who do you think you are talking to ? It’s better to expel you of the house.”

Eishin grinned.

Gotou had no choice but to swallow his anger. Gotou went to this apartment only because he was asked by Eishin.

Gotou used to be a police officer, but he caused problem in a case and he got disciplinary dismissal.

Since he was at a good age, he couldn’t stay unemployed, he started searching for a job that made use of his past experience. It wasn’t just simple research, it was research that mainly dealt with psychic incidents.

When one of this family members inquired that psychic phenomenon was happening in this apartment, Eishin brought this request to Gotou.

It might be a pleasure to bring in the work, but Gotou didn’t feel like riding. A request from Eishin would always be a bother. There was no basis, but he only had a bad feeling this time.

He would like to decline, but now the Gotou’s family lived in the temple’s vault. It was the temple where Isshin served as a priest.

Originally, Gotou who wasn’t a monk couldn’t live in it, but it been possible thanks to the influence of Eishin.

With that in mind, Eishin is leading Gotou in such a troublesome way. Recently, at the end of the day Gotou got accustomed to the monk.

“It is bad. Let’s go faster than that.”

It would be bad to argue here so he didn’t start. When Gotou urged Eishin, he walked toward the entrance responding “Um um”.

Eishin called room 301 on the intercom and informed them of the visit, the automatic door of the auto lock opened.

Once inside, there was a large lobby space with a sofa. It was well kept, and it looked like you had stepped into a hotel rather than an apartment.

They got into the elevator at the back, went up to the third floor, and went to the front of room 301, the door opened at the same timing.

It was a woman in the early thirties who shown her face. This woman would be Setsuko Hirota, the client.

“I am sorry for the wait” Setsuko spoke, her face tense.

“No, no. I am always indebted to my father. This is nothing.”

Eishin was different from Gotou, as he laughed loudly

“Thank you very much.”

After carefully saying thanks, Setsuko turned to Gotou. Even if she didn’t mention it, you could see that she was doubtful of Gotou’s presence.

“This man, who look like a bear, is my disciple.” Before Gotou spoke, Eishin introduced him.

ー Who is the disciple ! First of all, that’s not my name !

He wanted to complain, but he stopped. He didn’t thought he could beat Eishin with words. In the first place, it was useless to get rid of him as long as he lived in the temple.

“Nice to meet you”, Gotou greeted.

Setsuko seemed to be convinced, and urged “Please.”

Following Eishin, he took off his shoes at the entrance and entered.

He looked for gloves before entering, it was like the police age habit.

“It’s here”

Going through the hallway, it was the living dining room where the counter kitchen was installed.

It was a fairly large space, in wooden floor. The windows were large, but from the direction of the sun, it looked like the sun was hard.

There was a dining table in front of the counter kitchen, and there was a television in the back.

It was a clean room, with no trace of life, like a model room. They must had moved not long time ago.

According to the story he heard from Eishin, psychic phenomena were frequent in this room.

You could hear things like rap sounds, and even though you didn’t touch, things seemed to move or the TV turned on itself.

If it was only that, it would be cleared by a misunderstanding but the problem was beyond that.

Setsuko saw a boy ghost in this room. Also, not once or twice. When that happened, you could not get rid of it by mere misunderstanding.

“How is it ?” Eishin approached Gotou’s face and whispered with a low voice.

“I’m not Yakumo, I can’t see it just by looking at it.”

“That’s right. You’re just a monk” Eishin laughed as mockery

It was really embarrassing, but it was a fact that Gotou could not do anything in front of a psychic incident. In the first place, Gotou had no kind of psychic ability at all.

Still, there was a reason that Gotou intended to deal with psychic incidents as a main search. That was the presence of Saito Yakumo.

Although he was a fucking sassy university student, Yakumo had a peculiar constitution. Yakumo had a red left eye which could see the soul of the dead.

When he was still in the police, Gotou had led a number of cases and solved them, with the help of Yakumo’s predisposition.

Gotou thought to do search for psychics etc would be nothing because he thought it would be better to bring in Yakumo, but it may be difficult now.

“What are you doing ?” Eishin smitten him.

“I don’t do anything in particular”

When Gotou shook his head, something strange happened.

The photo stand placed on the sideboard fell with a noise. Everyone in the room froze.

Setsuko put her hand on her mouth and opened her eyes wide.

Wind ? No, that couldn’t be it. This was a room and the windows were not open. Someone moved around and the sideboard didn’t shake

“Just now, was that some porn ?” Eishin said in an unnatural tone.

“Poltergeist” Gotou corrected Eishin’s words, walked to the sideboard, and grabbed the photo frame.

It was a silver framed photo frame, which contained wedding pictures. He turned it over and observed carefully, but it seemed that there was no particular mechanism.

“Is this something common?” Eishin asked Setsuko.

Setsuko nodded, keeping her expression of surprise

However, it was not possible to judge whether this was a poltergeist phenomenon just by a falling photo frame.

Gotou tried to return the photo frame to the sideboard, and he heard a strange noise.

*Growl*

It sounded like a beast snarl.

“What?”

Gotou looked around for a while, but could not grasp the source of the sound. The noise was too loud to be a mistake.

ー What the hell is happening

When Gotou was stunned with the photo frame, he heard a voice from nowhere. It was a child’s laughter.

And not from one direction. But from all around, as if the laughter surrounded them.

He thought he was mishearing, but it was not the case.

“Nooo !” Setsuko raised her voice, she crouched down and hang her head.

Eishin looked surprised too.

If what happened now was a poltergeist phenomenon, something with a tremendous power was hidden.

An unpleasant feeling spread inside Gotou.