Naru and Gene drive to NISSAN Rental Palace Adachi, Tokyo, where the sibling rented the red sports car, to look for Wakamatsu Kanata. Lin and Madoka chose not to come, they stayed in the office to keep it open for any potential clients.
"Good morning, we are not yet open for –"
"We are not here to rent a car, but we are looking for Wakamatsu Kanata-san." Naru cut him off. Gene stayed in the car to take a nap. It's seven in the morning, and he didn't get enough sleep last night.
The man looked at him. "What do you want from me?"
Naru showed him a printed picture of a car. "Do you know this car?"
"Yes." Kanata nodded. "But it was rented out since the other day."
"I know. The two people who rented this car met an accident in Kyoto." Naru saw the man's expression changed. He suspected that he knew something. "They almost crash and died in Kiyotaki Tunnel."
The man visibly shuddered at the mention of the place.
"They claimed that they saw an elementary school boy." Naru continued.
Kanata trembled in fear. "N-No! It wasn't me! I didn't kill him! I didn't know they will go to Kyoto! It wasn't me! I didn't do anything." He clenched his head, trying to forget the unwanted memory from two years ago.
"I know, it was your friend, wasn't it?"
"H-How…"
"When you transferred here in Tokyo, you took the car with you. You repaint it after you modified the black spots car which took two innocent lives."
Kanata widened his eyes in shock.
"Come with us to Kyoto, Wakamatsu-san. This is the time to correct your past mistakes."
Wakamatsu Kanata nodded. He won't run this time.
Mai was all dressed up with her maroon Cambridge University hoody, black capri pants, with a pair of white sneakers. It's already eight o'clock in the morning and Naru called earlier, informing her that they are already on their way to Kyoto.
The psychic went to the dining hall for breakfast, she saw his brother waving at her.
"Good morning, Mai… How's your sleep?" He asked.
Mai groaned. "Terrible." She told him about her vision, and about the ghost of a girl who visited her. "And Naru and the others are on their way here."
"As expected of him." He snorted.
The siblings almost drool at the food prepared for them. The two murmured a 'thanks' at the blond waiter serving them before they dig in.
"Japanese cuisine is really good!" Daniel exclaimed in delight as he tasted the tempura.
"Right?"
"Excuse me, can I have a cup of tea, instead?" He asked the waiter.
"Sure, sir." He bowed before getting his request.
Seeing the blond waiter was nowhere in their sight, Mai spoke. "That man, he's not used to this job. He was gritting between his teeth whenever he speaks."
"Really? But I asked for a personal attendant when we checked in, and the owner gladly sent him for us. So, it can't be."
"Hmmm. Is that so?" Mai murmured.
They ate their breakfast in haste, they needed to prepare before Naru and the others will arrive in more or less an hour.
The ride to Kyoko was silent, tense, and uncomfortable. Gene was sleeping throughout the ride… until they are almost at the entrance of the tunnel.
"Gene? What's wrong?" Naru slowed down the car when he heard Gene suddenly gasped. He was clenching his chest.
"There are lots of people died in the area, and they were gathering inside the tunnel." The medium explained. He was caught off guard, and now the negative feeling he senses made him sick. "We're not even inside, and I can already feel them."
Wakamatsu Kanata gulped. He can still remember what had happened in this very tunnel two years ago.
"Prepare yourself, stupid medium. We're going in."
"Yes, yes," Gene grumbled.
Even at midday, it's dark inside. The medium noted.
"Careful at the exit." Kanata reminded Naru.
Gene's heartbeat was pounding on his chest. The strong negative emotions were trying to evade his senses.
"Watch out!" Kanata exclaimed when they are almost at the exit.
Naru cussed under his breath for spacing out before he maneuvered the car to the safe side.
"You felt it too, Naru?" Gene asked. "The strong feelings gathered in this place."
"Yeah… and I'm not even a medium."
"Feelings…?" Kanata asked curiously. He followed when the twins get out from the car.
"Many people have died here. The feelings of their family and loved ones, regret, sadness, longing, were accumulated in this place." Gene explained. Then a boy suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Kanata-san, the first boy that your friend killed, is he wearing black shorts, white shirt, blue cap, and a backpack?"
The man in question shivered at the detailed description. "Y-Yes…"
"He's here."
"Can you ask him to move on?" Naru asked.
"I'll try…" Gene mumbled. Reaching out to the ghost of the kid, Gene talked to him, but the kid only frowned at him. "If you enter that tunnel, it will only make you suffer more." The medium convinced.
Gene softly shook his head, as he watched the kid ran inside the dark tunnel.
"I can't make him move one."
Naru scoffed. "You're useless as ever."
"It's because I can't give what he wants, idiot scientist." He retorted.
"What is it that he wanted?"
"His life," Gene whispered. "The kid wanted to have his life back."
"No one can give that," Naru mumbled before climbing in the vehicle followed by Gene and Kanata.
The staffs were buzzing when the twins arrived, to make it worst, Gene sometimes winked at the waitresses. They immediately greeted by one of the senior waitresses and guided them to the dining hall where the siblings were waiting.
"Narruuuuu!" Mai called, waving her hands when she saw the familiar two, plus one.
"Geez! Can you come without making a ruckus?" Daniel grumbled when they entered the hall.
Naru smirked and took the vacant seat. "I can't blame them."
Daniel rolled his eyes. "Narcissist."
"That's my name, thank you." He smiled.
"Why you!"
"Now, now." Gene immediately came in between before their teasing will go out of hand. "Let's have a breakfast first, we're hungry."
Their third person, Wakamatsu Kanata, was suppressing his giggle. Daniel called their personal waiter to get their orders.
Kanata gasped when he saw the waiter. "You are… Fuwa Sho!" He exclaimed.
"Good morning, dear guests." His smile was forced, and his eyebrow was twitching in annoyance.
The other three blinked at him. "Fuwa who?" Gene and Mai tilted his head.
"Are you living in a cave?! Fuwa Sho is one of the top musicians in the country!"
"Oh… Never heard of 'em." Gene stated honestly.
"Hmm… I think I heard his name once or twice." Mai seconded. "What about you Naru?"
"Not interested." He said bluntly.
"Ah, no wonder why Mai said that you are not used to this kind of job," Daniel said. "If you are a celebrity, what are you doing here?"
Sho gripped the pen. "I'm on a vacation at the moment, sir."
"Yeah, it's in the news that you took a sudden leave after the actress, Kyoko-san's unfortunate accident…" Kanata mumbled loudly. "You and Tsuruga Ren-san baffled the reporters when both of you took a sudden vacation leave, they were speculating that either one of you was taking care of her at the moment." He continues his rambling. "So if you're here, then it was him who was on her side right now?"
Sho gritted his teeth. This costumer doesn't know how to shut his mouth up. "I assure you, sir, it was purely coincidental and no connections at all."
"Are they famous?" Mai whispered at Gene, who shrugged in response.
"I dunno."
Naru closed forcedly close the menu. "We are not here to talk about this nonsense."
The others flinched under his glare.
"Yes, sir."
"Wakamatsu-san, call your friend right now, tell him to meet you," Naru ordered.
After their breakfast, the siblings showed them the car, the damage was not that bad. The headlights were broken, several scratches, and large dents in the hood and fender. Really, they're lucky they only got moderate damages.
Daniel was the one driving the SPR van back to the tunnel, while Naru asked Kanata lots of questions.
"When did you bring the car in Tokyo?"
"A-After my first year in college. Two years ago."
"You helped your friend covering his crimes." It wasn't a question, it's a statement.
"I was scared, okay?!" He exclaimed defensively. "T-T-T-There's so much blood and I was just admitted to the university."
"If you rushed him in the hospital, you could've saved him." It was Mai who said that.
"We panicked."
"What's that?" Daniel asked when he saw two cars and few people near the entrance of the tunnel.
Kanata gasped. "That's Retsu." He announced. "What is he doing here?"
Daniel parked the van on the side before they all climbed out.
"Retsu!" Kanata rushed to his friend, it looks like he fainted. "Oi Retsu, wake up! What happen?"
The guy slowly opened his eyes. "Kan-chan?" He gasped.
"What happened here?" Gene asked curiously.
"Huh? Who are you punks?" The Inspector Gotou grumbled. "I'm the police." He showed them his badge.
"We have a business with that man over there." Naru glanced at the two men.
"Yakumo! It's a child! I saw a child possessing his body. It's not Retsu-san's fault!" A woman who was with them said to the young man.
"It's natural that the kid wanted him dead." Yakumo stated, glaring at the skinny man.
"Eh?"
"He's the one who killed that boy."
"Y-Y-Y-You have no evidence!" Retsu exclaimed. "Just because the kid possessed me doesn't make me his killer."
"We have a witness and the evidence." Naru interjected. "The car that killed the boy." They snapped their heads at Naru.
"What do you mean? Witness? Who?" Inspector Gotou grasped Naru's shoulder. "Tell me, young man!"
"Isn't it obvious, Gotou-san?" Yakumo asked. "It's none other than, his own friend."
"Kan-chan… no!"
"I'm sorry Retsu… But the car…" Kanata clenched his fists. "The car that took that boy's life made its way back here in Kyoto."
The young man paled.
"We rented the car in Tokyo," Daniel informed them. "And yesterday, in this tunnel, we got in an accident."
"It seems that you will spend several years of your life in prison." Inspector Gotou cuffed the metal on his wrists.
"No please! I didn't mean it I swear! There are lots of things I wanted to do!" He cried.
Haruka's hand suddenly flew to his cheeks for a loud slap. "That kid also has a lot of things he wanted to do! Did you even think about that?!"
"You didn't mean to kill the first kid because you were drunk, but the second kid… you're not intoxicated at that time." Mai stated.
Inspector Gotou grabbed his shirt. "You killed another kid?!"
"No! She's lying!" He denied fearfully.
"Brown hair with pigtails wearing a blue dress." Mai described.
Retsu paled. "H-H-How?"
"You buried her in an abandoned building when Wakamatsu-san refused helped you."
Naru glanced at her. "You have another one of those dreams last night?"
"Yup!"
"And you didn't bother to tell us about it?" He narrowed his eyes.
Mai cringed. "I'm sorry!"
"Can you still remember where the place is?"
"Yup! I can take you there!"
"Good. Let's go."
"Oi Yakumo, can we really trust them?" Inspector Gotou asked. They were following the black van that's going to the site where Retsu supposedly buried his second victim.
"Can't you read the writings at the back of their van, Gotou-san?"
"'Shibuya Psychic Research'…?" Haruka read the English writing.
"Unlike me, they are professional in dealing this kind of things."
"You mean… related to spirits?" The middle-aged man asked.
"I overheard that man in black asked the girl if she had another one of those dreams."
"Meaning…?" Haruka and Inspector Gotou tilted their heads.
Yakumo sighed and starts explaining to them about the different kinds of psychics.
"Oh…"
Inspector Gotou slowed down when he saw the van in front of them slowed down and entered a private property lot, there was indeed an abandoned building!
"Even if it's daylight, it's still creepy." Hakura shivered, climbing out from the car.
Yakumo gasped when he saw a girl… just like what Mai described – a brown-haired girl with ponytails, wearing a blue dress.
"There is really a second victim," Yakumo mumbled. His group joined the others.
"No! Please! No!" Retsu screamed in fear.
Mai took several steps, looking at any signs on the posts. "Here." She mentioned on the ground she was standing. "This is where he buried her."
The men tried to look for something that they could use to dig the ground while Mai, Haruka, and the handcuffed Retsu watched in the sidelines. Retsu glanced at them, they're busy digging the ground. It's only a matter of time before they will find the body, then his life will be totally over. He glanced at the group once more, they're no longer paying attention at him, this is his chance!
He slowly took steps away from them before he ran.
"AH! He ran away!" Haruka exclaimed.
"Mai!" The twins called.
The said girl was fast on her feet. "You!" Mai raised her hand and sent a restraining spell at him. "Bakufu!"
Retsu felt an invincible chain seized his whole being. "Wha –!"
Mai shook her head. "You tried to run away in my presence? What an idiot!"
"I can't move… what's happening?"
"I restrained your movements." She smiled at him. "So don't make another silly attempt okay?"
Retsu sweatdropped.
"Ah…" Inspector Gotou gasped when he saw brown locks. "It's really here…" He immediately called for a backup when the body is already confirmed.
"Onee-san…" Mai turned when she heard a familiar voice.
"You…" Mai approached the girl's ghost. "You can finally go home." She smiled at her.
"Thank you…"
The group all heard her last words, and Retsu sobbed, knowing that the girl didn't hold a grudge against him.
Retsu was put in the jail, Wakamatsu Kanata is willing to stand as a witness of his crimes and he decided to impound the car. He reimbursed the siblings for their rental fee and paid Naru for helping him 'solve' the case. Naru asked Inspector Gotou not to mention their names during the investigation for their privacy.
They checked out in the ryokan after they've taken their lunch, and Daniel gave their personal waiter a tip, which irked the blond man. The four of them went to see the lake – Mai and Daniel's original purpose why they wanted to be there in the first place, they sighed in disappointment when they reached another dead end.
"Ne Naru, how come the girl didn't turn violent, unlike the boy?" Mai asked. They are on their way back to Tokyo, and as usual, Daniel took the wheels.
"The boy was killed near the tunnel." He said, and Gene explained to her that it was the negative emotions of the tunnel that tainted the young boy's soul.
"Is it really alright to pass thru it now?" Daniel asked when he saw a familiar road, they are on their way to the tunnel.
"Yes, you are no longer driving the car, and you are not Retsu-san," Gene assured him. Daniel took a deep breath before he speed up. They were all silent as they pass thru it, and Daniel was cautious on his surroundings, they all breathed in relief, they didn't even notice that they're holding their breaths until they made it out safely.
"That scared me." Mai breathed.
Madoka immediately hugged Mai tightly when they arrived in the office after they settle their bags in their apartment, she and Lin were so worried when they heard the news about their accident.
"I'm so worrriiied!" Madoka exclaimed. "I wanted to come with them but Naru glared at me!" She whined.
Mai chuckled. That's so Naru.
"We're alright, it's nothing big."
"Now, now, Madoka, you're going to smother her." Daniel separated her sister from the senior ghost hunter's bone-crushing hugs.
Naru came out from his office. "What is this?" He asked Madoka about the files.
The pinkette grinned at him.
"I accepted a case for you."
