Yuki Tsukumo's words left Zenin Kiyoshi silent. He knew Kenjaku had framed him, but he hadn't expected the follow-up to be so extensive.
He looked at Yuki Tsukumo, his face showing no fear or wavering:
"Since Senior Yuki was willing to come find me personally and didn't restrain me through violent means upon meeting, it proves that the matter is far from being concluded. So, I would like to ask, what are the specific details of this case?"
Zenin Kiyoshi's calm and composed demeanor made Yuki Tsukumo nod slightly. After all, for a boy in his early teens, it was difficult to remain calm upon suddenly hearing such news.
Moreover, Yuki Tsukumo could sense that this matter was most likely a frame-up against Zenin Kiyoshi by the higher-ups, or that a certain faction wanted to target him, which is why they used some illogical evidence as a means to accuse him.
Although this method made Yuki Tsukumo feel quite ashamed, the other party was, after all, still the top brass of the entire jujutsu world. If she rashly disobeyed their orders, her own path forward would become extremely difficult.
The Star Plasma Vessel was Yuki Tsukumo's primary concern. Before a change in the Star Plasma Vessel situation could be achieved, she would not choose to fall out with the higher-ups.
She needed to use some of the higher-ups' authority to fully uncover the true inside story of the fusion between Tengen and the Star Plasma Vessel.
Others might not know, but Yuki, who was once a Star Plasma Vessel herself, could genuinely hear the voices of the past Vessels within Tengen.
And all those voices, upon seeing her, would only say one thing:
"Run! The fusion is a scam!"
Tengen seemed unable to hear those voices, but in Yuki Tsukumo's ears, those heart-wrenching screams always made it hard for her to let go.
If it weren't for the sudden discovery that she had the potential to become a Special Grade Sorcerer, the next person to be fused as a Star Plasma Vessel would probably have been her!
Therefore, for those girls who shared almost the same fate as her, Yuki Tsukumo always put them first in her heart.
As for Zenin Kiyoshi and Toji, they could only be considered her second priority. After all, for the problem of permanently eliminating Cursed Spirits, Yuki herself currently held little hope.
A problem that the entire jujutsu world had not solved for so many years, why should it be easily solved by her?
She didn't think she was any smarter than the sorcerers of the Heian era, nor did she consider herself a genius. She never thought she could succeed in this matter.
The reason Yuki Tsukumo persisted was purely because she wanted to.
Looking at Zenin Kiyoshi, her gaze was now filled with interrogation. For her, if the disappearances of those ordinary people and sorcerers were truly related to Zenin Kiyoshi, then she would absolutely not let him go here.
A person who arbitrarily abuses their power and inflicts pain on the weak and ordinary does not deserve to be called a sorcerer.
Although Zenin Kiyoshi was looking down at this moment, he could clearly feel the oppressive aura coming from Yuki Tsukumo.
Yuki Tsukumo was silent for a moment. Sensing that she had applied enough pressure, she slowly began to speak:
"The day before you left, in a flower shop on Beika Town's Number One Street, someone found the body of a homeless man. That homeless man had once bumped into you when you were buying flowers and had deliberately trampled your flowers on the ground.
"And this person is now dead. His body was found in a storeroom inside the flower shop. It is said that the employee who found the body fainted on the spot from shock.
"Even the forensic doctors, who had seen countless corpses, couldn't help but turn pale and feel sick to their stomachs after seeing that body.
"You know, the higher-ups have deep connections with the Japanese criminal investigation department. So after discovering that series of abnormalities, they immediately reported it to their superiors. Since Tokyo often experiences Cursed Spirit attacks, the superiors were accustomed to this situation.
"However, a series of identical bizarre death cases still caused the surrounding public to panic. In order to solve this problem as soon as possible, the police headquarters contacted the politicians at the higher levels, and those guys contacted me to handle these matters.
"I had just returned to the country not long ago and was originally not planning to accept this case. But in the documents they handed me, I immediately noticed something strange about you.
"It's not that you are the murderer, but in all the documents, if the locations of the deceased are connected in a clockwise direction, then the final locked position is exactly where your home is located.
"After realizing this, I originally thought you must be the murderer, because whether from the timing of your departure or from the general trajectory of your activities, your entire range of activities highly coincided with the mysteriously disappeared people.
"Just as the higher-ups were preparing to issue a death order for you, to have you die at my hands, the occurrence of another case suddenly dissipated a lot of the suspicion on you."
Speaking of this, Yuki Tsukumo couldn't help but pinch her head. She sighed, looking helpless:
"I don't know if you're lucky or unlucky, but on the night you left Tokyo by train, another person died on Beika Town Street. The cause of death was equally tragic, with almost no good piece of flesh on the entire body. The face had been scrubbed with a steel wool ball used for washing dishes, and the surface skin was basically all scrubbed off. Moreover, there was a thin layer of fine salt sprinkled on those wounds.
"But strangely, according to the test results, the person died at around four o'clock at night, but you had already left Tokyo by then, so the murderer could be ruled out as you.
"However, this one incident alone cannot prove that you are not the culprit, because your crazy behavior is very likely to cause a 'blind follow-up' situation. Some people may even become your fanatical admirers and visit the scenes every day."
Yuki Tsukumo sighed. She looked at Zenin Kiyoshi, at his slightly childish face, and asked once more:
"Were you truly the one behind the real cause of death of those people?"
Hearing this, Zenin Kiyoshi frowned tightly. He didn't rush to answer but continued to ask:
"Was there any change in the bodies of those people?"
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