Chapter 55 (1/2)

55 The Slasher’s Identity

What appeared before our eyes was a large display of about 50 inches

The Goddess snapped her fingers once again, and a video started strea

“Everyone, this h-end residential area is the home of the modern day necromancer, Tooru Kizaki!”

It was a japanese talk show

A faed female reporter with heavy makeup that emphasised her nostrils turns her face and approaches the camera

The sight of a high-end residential area that even I know the name of was projected behind her

In the i in front of a noticeably large mansion

“Wo! What is this!?

So projected on this ordinary board!?”

After finally recovering fro around to the back of the display to peer inside

She asked the Goddess as cheerfully watching on,

“…Is this the aforementioned slasher?”

“Yes

The prograar, but this was the most detailed one

Wouldn’t you at least want to know Tooru Kizaki’s profile for when you take him on hereafter?”

The fele mansion

Next to that interco stone nameplate with “Kizaki” written on it

“――hello?

Who ht this be”

“I am Nikaidou, from Fusou TV”

“――I’ any interviews”

“The world won’t consent to that!

For your son to have caused such an incident, how do you feel as a parent of his――”

The intercom cut off with a click

The reporter relentlessly continued to ring the intercom even after that, but there was no response

In the end, the relay ended with the camera aimed at a curtain-coveredof the mansion

Then in the studio, the commentator used the panel to explain the details of the incident with a know-it-all look

Tooru Kizaki was 34 years old at the time of the incident

He was four years older than eneration as me

But as far as his personal history goes, it’s better to say that the worlds we live in differ

With the director of a pharer of a large hospital as his mother, Kizaki was a typical medical elite

After graduating as the top student of the ained clinical experience at a teaching hospital in America When he returned to japan afterwards, he exploited his reputation as a genius surgeon

But behind his brilliant mask, he was the chairman of a cult circle that worshi+pped the devil (Beelzebub)

Their secret doctrine was very thorough, but police ca one after another from within the circle in the recent years

However, Kizaki was smart and had vast connections in various circles so they couldn’t find many leads on him

The situation no doubt shi+fted on “that day”

Kizaki appeared on the road in front of htered his ex-wife and shot the detectivehim with a pistol

After killing three people on the street, Kizaki got into a scuffle with a male civilian bystander (me)

He then died when this man stabbed hih school girl as petrified with fear

――Thethe slasher and was shot to death by the police officers who ca afterwards, as was reported over and over

However, three――if you include Kizaki’s ex-wife, the detective tailing hiht up with the detective, it would coht from this slasher incident where six lives were lost was

After Kizaki’s death, the police raided the house in the metropolitan area where Kizaki lived

Inside the house valued at 500 eon, was a basement that didn’t exist on the blueprints

The confinees fitted with iron lattices were still cute

Aside froes, a “torture chaic chamber” (both termed by the media) that reseround

And after a thorough search, a giant “freezer” was discovered behind a concealed door deep inside the black ic chamber

An innumerable amount of――severed human heads, entrails, skin tanned like leather, bare lass jars, and skeletons with flesh clinging to them were methodically sorted and carefully stored within the freezer

Furthermore, many of the severed heads were ony and terror

According to the police, the corpses that were discovered numbered a hundred at the minimum

It was announced that a DNA analysis was currently in progress, and the numbers may increase further based on the results

“Based on the notebook found in the so-called “Black Magic Chamber” of modern necromancer Kizaki, he believes in a fictitious God known as Evil God Mongue…sues――”

“Monguenues, isn’t it”

“Ah, yes, Monguenues

It seems like Kizaki offered that flesh, blood and entrails to the fictitious God thus named

――This is a copy of Kizaki’s notebook that was released to the public the other day”

Saying that, the commentator tapped on the studio panel

As befitting of a doctor, displayed inside the notebook were accurate sketches of stolen property, hat looked like annotations written in tiny characters densely packed around it

But that wasn’t what caught my attention

“――Magic symbols!”

That’s right There were ic symbols written down in the notebook

There were mistakes here and there, but there were letters that spelled out “Evil God Monguenues” in Marquekt’s coe

Next to that was an annotation in katakana saying “Monguenues”

“Muroki-san, what are these unfamiliar characters?”

The announcer inquired

“According to Kizaki’s annotations, they are the letters of Marquekt, another world where the Evil God Monguenues resides in”

“Another world, is it…”

The announcer’s face looked as though they were trying to suppress their laughter

“Of course, they’re just Kizaki’s delusions

It’s unclear when Kizaki was first enslaved by this delusion, but there are anonymous posts online who claim to have deciphered Kizaki’s notebook and it has become a hot topic