Hell's Kitchen, Fake Detective Agency.
There was a "Closed" sign hanging outside the office door. Jessica Jones collapsed on the table dejectedly, pouring beer into her mouth from time to time.
"Gudong, gudong!"
"This is a fucking life!"
The files that were originally neat on the table were now scattered and messy, and the entire office was littered with empty beer cans.
"Dudu..."
The phone message on the desk suddenly lit up, Jessica covered her head and glanced away, mumbling incessantly.
"Oh, leave a message, what a damn message."
"Maybe I win the lottery, maybe I get invited to be on a late-night talk show."
"But it's more likely that God called to make up for the terrible mistakes he made about me..."
Now she is really too lazy to deal with these crappy jobs. She spends her days either stalking her mistress or secretly filming her cheating. Bah, can't she have some nutritious and meaningful work?
Oh God, if you existed, please let these bad guys explode where they stood.
While Jessica was thinking about it, she picked up an unopened can of beer from the side, pulled the tab, and continued to pour it into her mouth.
At this moment, she vaguely seemed to see a long insect emitting a faint white light crawling in through the closed door of the office.
Um?
What is this?
Did she drink too much and get dazzled?
Jessica squinted her eyes and stared at the long insect in front of her, big eyes facing small eyes.
Outside the office.
Kikyo, who was wearing a miko costume, stopped and looked quietly at the closed door of the office.
Finally found.
Although she got the address of the pseudonymous firm from Matt, the place was so intertwined that she accidentally got lost.
It took a long time to send out dead soul insects to follow the aura left behind by Jessica, and finally found this place.
…
"Dong dong dong~"
Although the knock on the door was very soft, it was extremely harsh in the quiet Kana Office.
Jessica was forced to interrupt her affectionate look at the dead soul insect, shook her head, staggered to the door, opened the door angrily, and shouted loudly at the door.
"Where are your eyes? Can't you see the suspension of business sign hanging at the door? Why are you knocking..."
Her voice gradually became lower, and only then did Jessica see clearly who was standing at the door.
Jessica doesn't like the witch who can control people's bodies.
"What are you doing here?"
Jessica said stiffly to Kikyo.
She felt a little embarrassed that she had lost control before.
At the same time, because of Zi Ren, she deeply hates guys who can control people.
Kikyo looked at Jessica with apology in her eyes.
"I'm sorry for what happened before. I apologize to you."
Jessica was about to close the door when she suddenly froze.
She had never considered that the witch came here specifically to apologize. Wouldn't it be a little bad if she closed the door now?
Jessica, who was dizzy from drinking, hesitated at this time.
"Actually, I can understand your mood. I also have a past that I can't bear to look back on. Who can live without any regrets in this life?"
Kikyo seemed to be enlightening Jessica, but it also seemed that she specifically told these words to herself.
For some reason, Jessica suddenly felt a sense of sympathy when she looked at Kikyo in front of her.
The two of them...
They seem to be of the same kind.
It's just that Kikyo seems to have already understood something from the unbearable past, but she has not. Her life is still stagnant, living in a painful and struggling past controlled by the purple man.
"come in."
Thinking of this, Jessica's expression slowed down slightly, and she opened the door sideways, leaving a space for Kikyo to pass through.
Watching the long worm just now, very intimately surrounding Kikyo, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows curiously and asked.
"What's this?"
"Dead Soul Insect."
Kikyo explained simply.
"The resurrected servant can collect dead souls to fill my body."
"oh!"
The nervous Jessica nodded speciously.
She was so drunk that she didn't understand what Kikyo meant at all.
However, this did not hinder her sensory changes.
The effect of alcohol made Jessica more susceptible to infection. Coupled with Platycodon's soothing gentleness, these words, like magic, gradually calmed her down.
Maybe she had drunk too much. She felt like her eyelids were clenching and she felt so sleepy that she really wanted to take a nap.
"Phew~ I want to sleep."
Jessica walked back dizzy and lay on the table, trying hard to open her eyes and said randomly.
"Go to sleep. When you wake up, everything will be fine."
Kikyo raised her hand and stretched out her index finger to gently tap Jessica's forehead. However, within a short time, Jessica had already fallen into a deep sleep.
But the frown, the fearful expression, and the coldness oozing from her body all seemed to mean that she was having a nightmare.
This is Platycodon's hypnosis.
Use language to induce layers of information. Once the other party agrees with your point of view, they will lose their consciousness and fall into a deep sleep.
…
In the darkness, Jessica saw herself who had been controlled by the Purple Man and did one thing after another that went against her intention.
"No, no, I don't want to do that."
She closed her eyes in pain.
But the memory of being controlled by the Purple Man swept back again, and those memories that Jessica tried to forget deliberately appeared in front of her like a revolving lantern.
Anger, helplessness, struggle...
Various emotions were mixed together, almost completely overwhelming Jessica, and she felt like she was almost out of breath.
At this moment, a faint white light suddenly illuminated the surroundings of her body, and what Kikyo called a dead soul insect emerged from nowhere and circled around her.
As the light appeared, Jessica felt that the coldness in her body seemed to be dispelled by the light brought by the dead soul insects, and her hands and feet that were so cold that she had been unconscious gradually recovered.
The darkness began to melt in this light, and everything became calm.
…
Seeing Jessica's face gradually regaining its warmth, Kikyo breathed a long sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed.
Spiritual cleansing.
This is a technique unique to mikos like Kikyo who possess powerful spiritual power.
It can soothe the soul of a broken person, allowing it to be purified and gain strength.
"Now, you can have a good sleep."
Suddenly, Kikyo's face changed slightly, she turned her head suddenly, frowning and looking in a certain direction.
The dead soul insect she left wandering outside sent a message, and Matt seemed to have encountered something.
With the help of the Dead Soul Insect, she felt the gathering of death energy and resentment.
This is a sign that the dead have been manipulated and turned into something that should not exist in this world. Are those weird zombies appearing again?
"It seems..."
"Matt's got a tough fight over there, go check it out."
Kikyo glanced at Jessica, who was sleeping soundly on the table, and then was lifted up by the dead soul insect, left along the window, and rushed towards the distance.
