Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Monster in the Department Store

The business card handed over was printed with "Katsuichi Kurokawa, Social Affairs Department, "Toyo Shimbun".Before parting, the Kurokawa reporter wrote down the names and home addresses of the two. Kurokawa did not break his promise.The next day, the report on "Airman" occupied most of the social section of the newspaper, and also published large photos of Shimada and Kinoshita.From following the wax figure to writing, until the wax figure took off its clothes and mask in the broken house, and finally disappeared, everything was reported in detail, even with a map.

On this day, it seems that the whole of Tokyo is talking about this miracle that science cannot explain-a transparent person who comes and goes without a trace is in Tokyo.Since it is invisible to the naked eye, be extra careful.Maybe the Airman was eavesdropping and giggling while people were talking about him. Jewelers all over Tokyo locked their glass cases and windows.Art and antique shops have removed valuables from their window displays along the street and tucked them away.The most urgent thing is the bank.Maybe the "air man" will come sometime, and he will take the bundles of big bills on the cash register, and the loss will not be small.

Unexpectedly, a week after the incident was published in the newspaper, nothing happened.People began to wonder if it was fake news: "It is impossible for people who are as transparent as air to exist. The newspaper reporter and the two children are most likely possessed by evil spirits, otherwise they will just write nonsense and sensationalize the public." They were wrong.This time the "air man" appeared in a place that no one expected. One Sunday, Kinoshita-kun accompanied his mother to a department store in Nihombashi to buy fabrics for suits.Kinoshita-kun is not interested in fabrics, so he has his own wishful thinking: he will take his mother to the book counter later and buy a few books.

The mother and son went out early, and when they arrived, the mall had just opened, and there were very few customers in the spacious store.The two took the elevator up to the third floor and walked quickly to the fabric counter.I saw a piece of woolen cloth like a colorful waterfall, and on a circular platform stood mannequins in various clothes, men and women, adults and children, pleasing to the eye.These dummies have high nose bridges and big eyes. They look a bit like foreigners, but they have yellow skin. They seem to be made in the image of Japanese people. There were five or six other customers around.The mother and son walked slowly around the round platform, admiring the styles and colors of the clothes on the models.Kinoshita-kun felt bored, and began to carefully examine the appearance of the dummy.It didn’t matter this scrutiny, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath—there was a dummy model that was different, the others were all yellow-skinned Japanese, but it had the appearance of a foreigner with rosy white skin, and, only it It is made of wax, with a sense of transparency.

Kinoshita-kun couldn't help but stop and look at the model.It was dressed in an elegant tuxedo, and its dress had been changed, but that face—wasn’t it the wax figure gentleman I met that day!Kinoshita-kun's eyeballs almost popped out. At this time, a clerk passed by, and Kinoshita-kun subconsciously grabbed his sleeve.Seeing Kinoshita-kun's panic, the clerk shuddered and glanced at the mannequins. "Uncle, why doesn't that foreigner's wax figure have eyes? There are only two black holes." Kinoshita-kun whispered. The clerk took a closer look and almost cried out.It turns out that this eyeless mannequin just appeared today.Besides, the store doesn't use wax figures as models at all.The man waved to his colleague opposite, and the two discussed in low voices. One of them stepped onto the round platform and approached the wax figure—suddenly, he froze, unable to move forward anymore, as if even he had become a wax figure.Because the tuxedo wax figure actually moved!

"Ah—" "Boom!" The two female models fell to the ground. The "wax man" is running!The dummies that stood in the way were pushed down.Look, he jumped off the round platform in a hurry, the hem of the tuxedo fluttered up and down, passed by Kinoshita-kun, and ran to the distance.The crowd over there screamed "Wow!"The two shop assistants managed to regain their senses, babbling something, and ran to catch up. This monster ran left and right all the way, as if entering no one's land - everyone was scared away by his face.He ran and ran, ran to the narrow staff stairs, and disappeared.The number of pursuers behind him had grown to seven or eight, and they were jostling each other, running down the stairs noisily.

On the second floor, the first floor, and the basement floor, the monsters are as fast as skating.He sprinted along a corridor that didn't branch off, leading to a warehouse with closed doors.There were interceptions in front and pursuers in the back. He opened the warehouse door and broke in. "Great! Let's catch a turtle in a urn!" Shouted to the strong man at the front.He ran over and slammed the door shut, resisting firmly. "It's all right now. There is only one entrance and exit to the warehouse, and iron bars are installed on the windows. Even if the guy has wings, he can't fly. Hurry up and call the police."

"Okay. I'll call the police, but I can't let him run away." A clerk volunteered.The rest gathered in front of the warehouse door to guard against death. Thinking about coming to this "wax man" was also a mistake, and ran into a dead end.Even if he is an "air man", he cannot escape through the cracks in the iron bars of the windows.After all, he is not a ghost. Although he is invisible to the naked eye, he still has flesh and blood.