A confessed ...... Mentally ill? From any point of view, Yusaku Kudo felt the need to take a look.

Five minutes later, Kudo arrives at the asylum building, and under the guidance of Officer Shiratori, who has been waiting for him at the door of the activity room, he meets the mentally ill woman who claims to have committed a crime—a young blonde woman sitting in front of a drawing board, an abnormal euphoria beating on her face.

"How do you know she ......" Yusaku Kudo hadn't finished asking, and the blonde woman had already looked at her, and the excitement on her face had turned to pleasure.

"You're finally here," she said with a smile. "God told me you came back, but I've been waiting for a long time."

There is no doubt that this half-breed lady is delusional.

"According to Dean Ochiai-sama, this Miss Neviah is convinced that she is the earthly incarnation of the archangel Uriel." Officer Shiratori whispered.

"Ochiai?" Yusaku Kudo doesn't care about patients. "Is it a relative of the director of the museum, Mr. Ochiai?"

"No, he's in charge of both buildings, but in practice, the young man is mainly in charge of the affairs here, and he's only in name." Officer Shiratori explained.

"Come and see, this is my treasure for you." Seeing that Yusaku Kudo and Officer Shiratori seemed to be immersed in their conversation, Neviah didn't get angry, just smiled faintly, and turned his frame in the direction they could see.

A demon wearing a rather edgy demon logo and shorts, wearing a demon with a mask obscured and horns like the dead, crucified, while Neviah's own image stands underneath the cross, holding a sharp sword against the demon's flank. But something is unusual about it, even though the tip of the sword is against the weakness, there is a longitudinal wound in the demon's neck that is bleeding - of course, Yusaku Kudo has a way of explaining the reason for this anomaly.

The reasoning for this is not complicated for those with sufficient medieval artistic attainment: while the painting's use of color may be somewhat bizarre due to the fact that the painter is mentally ill, the overall composition of the painting is based on a biblical depiction of Centurion Longinus stabbing Jesus Christ's body with his own gun to verify that he was really dead, and in that painting Longinus piercing Jesus in the flank.

Of course, Officer Shiratori, who could pass the first-class civil service exam, probably wouldn't be stumped by this kind of thing, so he focused his efforts on the real problem: according to Chiba's description, the deceased (most likely the demon depicted) was stabbed through the throat with a sword by the man in armor before he was burned by the flames, but they didn't reveal it to the public.

So why did this Miss Neviah deliberately add such a wound to her throat during the depiction? Maybe she heard about it from someone who didn't care about telling someone she was the murderer, or maybe it was ...... That wound was originally left by her own hands.

Raising his head, Yusaku Kudo looked at Neviah's unusually clear eyes. "So, it's all true, huh?"

"I'm here to show you the truth," Neviah smiled wider. "Maybe they've told you that I'm an angel, aren't they?"

"......" Kudo Yusaku thought for a moment and gave Officer Shiratori a look.

And just then, Officer Shiratori received a text message from the forensic team.

Grigory himself came.

……

Twenty minutes later, a temporary observation room in the psychiatric hospital was used as an interrogation room.

"I'm here to see which jihadist warrior is going to kill this demon," Gregory pestle with his cane in hand, looking through the glass window at Yusaku Kudo, who was communicating with Neviah. "Seriously, I want to see if I can get the murder weapon from him and go and exchange money with the Vatican."

"What does that mean?" Officer Shiratori asked, puzzled.

"The results of his horn sampling analysis include calcium, potassium, manganese and silicon." Grigory handed a report to Officer Shiratori. "At least we can't find evidence that this isn't really a bone...... Of course, there may be some very high surgical procedures. As for the tail, it should also be a real human tail, maybe it's atavism or something. ”

"......" Officer Shiratori's mouth twitched, and one hand drew a cross on his chest - although he was a materialistic detective, this did not contradict his own religious beliefs.

But now, the knowledge brought by religious belief and reality are joining forces to attack his materialistic beliefs.

"As for the other traces...... We found traces of potting soil and the seeds of [Christmas Rose] in the soles of his shoes. ”

"Christmas roses? Finally something that sounds a little gospel! Officer Shiratori breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the word Christmas, and said in a slightly lighter tone.

But he saw Gregory's expression rather subtle.

"But the scientific name for Christmas roses is ......," Gregory said, pronouncing the word in Japanese. According to Latin, hell-eborus niger "He deliberately reread the hell (hell) of sneezing root." "And this thing is said to be a key ingredient in making a demon summoning potion."

Shiratori Renzaburo's smile stiffened.

Just as Gregory was about to say something, he suddenly noticed something unusual in the room.

The blonde woman named Neviah, who claimed to be the incarnation of the archangel and was being questioned by Yusaku Kudo, was staring at him through the window of the interrogation room.

The places where there is a need in the psychiatric hospital should be installed with one-way glass - people on the outside can see the inside, but people on the inside can't see the outside.

But now the woman seems to be looking clearly at herself from the inside.

Frowning slightly, Grigory tried to take two steps, and found that the other party seemed to be able to see him clearly. "I ...... I always felt as if she could see where I was and stare at me through this glass......"

"Won't it?" Officer Shiratori was also taken aback, and hurriedly made some exaggerated movements to attract the other party's attention, and sure enough, he found that Neviah did seem to be able to see them. "This ...... Maybe this glass window in this room is like that...... Ordinary glass, not the common one-way glass...... but even the more he speaks, the more unsure he becomes.

"I don't think it's nourishing to continue watching their interrogation here," said Gregory, with a gloomy face, extending an invitation to Officer Shiratori. "How about letting Mr. Kudo continue his work, and let's go out and see if there are any clues elsewhere?"

"Of course!" Officer Shiratori nodded in relief, and then eagerly followed Gregory out.

Neviah glanced at the backs of the two men who walked out, then replied with a smile to Yusaku Kudo.

"As I said, God possessed me and gave me insight into everything and punished evil spirits for him."