Chapter 19

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Since the incident with the rat monster, both Yusaburo and the other detectives in their team have become extremely confident in Yuto's abilities.

After all, even the people from the "Counter-Non-Natural Division" were amazed when they received the corpse of the giant rat monster. Yuto, who was able to slay it, must naturally be quite formidable.

After listening to Hina's explanation of the case, Yuto furrowed his brow, as he realized that if what Hina said was true, then there was likely another monster behind this case.

The case Hina described was quite simple, commonly known as "ghost blocking the way," and there were no casualties in this incident.

The gist of it was that a female white-collar worker at a listed company was working overtime on a Sunday. She had secretly drunk some alcohol because she was upset with her boss for making her stay late.

However, when she was about to go to the restroom, she saw a woman who looked exactly like her slowly walking out of the dimly lit corridor. The female worker was so frightened that she started running around the office, but she found that she couldn't escape no matter what.

The darkness gradually devoured the surrounding light, and the female worker, who had drunk too much and was overwhelmed by fear, eventually fainted.

When she woke up the next day, she found herself lying unconscious in front of the company's window.

Their company was on the 15th floor of a building, and if the female worker hadn't fainted, the outcome would have been unimaginable.

When she woke up, she naturally told her colleagues and boss about what had happened, but her boss thought she was just drunk and was talking nonsense.

In the end, the female worker, unable to bear the pressure and the negative impact on the company, was fired.

Everyone thought the matter would end there, as what a drunk person says usually isn't very convincing.

However, a similar incident happened again soon, and this time it was the company's boss who encountered it.

Although the female worker was fired, rumors began to spread, which was very bad for the company. The bold and confident company boss decided to stay in the office on a weekend night and turn on the surveillance cameras to prove that the female worker was just drunk.

On a weekend night, the company was almost deserted. The boss was initially calm, but after midnight, the lights in the room started to flicker as if they were malfunctioning.

As the female worker had described, the darkness began to consume the light in the room, and from a shadow in the room, a man who looked exactly like him slowly walked out, his footsteps silent.

Although the man who looked like him had a kind smile, to the boss, his smile was terrifying.

The boss's scalp tingled because everything was just as the female worker had described. She wasn't just talking nonsense when she was drunk; there was really something wrong with their company!

However, as the boss of the company and a man, his mental fortitude was clearly stronger than the female worker's.

In the darkness, the female worker had said she couldn't escape no matter what.

If he ran around, he might accidentally fall from a great height. The fact that the man didn't attack him suggested that his power was limited?

Thinking about how the female worker had gotten through it, it seemed she had fainted and slept until morning.

The boss was glad he had listened to the female worker's entire story instead of dismissing her as a storyteller of ghost tales.

Although he didn't know if it would work, seeing the man who looked like him approaching, the boss gritted his teeth and slammed his head against the desk, fainting immediately.

It turned out that the boss's approach was correct. Like the female worker, he woke up the next day in his office, unharmed.

Apart from a bump on his head, everything in the office was the same as before.

After this experience, the boss no longer thought the female worker's story was nonsense, as he had experienced it himself.

After ordering the employees not to stay in the company on Sundays, the boss reported the incident to the police.

He was at a loss and had even consulted fortune-tellers and monks, but they were all frauds and of no help.

To his surprise, the police accepted the case instead of dismissing it as a frivolous complaint.

This case should have been handled by the "Counter-Non-Natural Division," but due to a lack of personnel and the low threat level of the monster, it was put on hold.

However, because Yusaburo and his team handled the rat monster incident so well, the higher-ups decided to assign this low-threat case to them.

After all, they had faced such dangerous rat monsters, so the higher-ups believed they had the potential to become a support team.

Even if Yusaburo and his team couldn't solve the case, as the company boss had said, they just needed to knock themselves out.

When Yusaburo and his team received the assignment, they were dumbfounded. They knew their own limitations.

To be frank, if it weren't for the two talismans Yuto gave them, they would have become food for the rat monsters.

When they first saw the swarm of rat monsters, including Yusaburo, everyone was terrified.

Despite the higher-ups repeatedly stating that this case had a very low threat level, Yusaburo and his team were still uneasy. It's normal for humans to feel fear when faced with incomprehensible and unknown forces.

After receiving the mandatory assignment from the higher-ups, the joy of their promotion was instantly washed away. No ordinary person would want to encounter those supernatural beings again.

At this point, Yusaburo and his team naturally thought of Yuto, who had helped them deal with the rat monsters. If he was willing to help, the mission would be completed successfully.

After all, the higher-ups had said that this case was only a low-level "E" threat, while the rat monster incident, due to the rat king, was a "B" level threat!