The ordinary investigation quickly concluded.
After all, the police participating in the investigation here didn't know about the Mirror World, so they still had no clues.
On the platform, Sato Ichiro and Kondo Motoki looked at the witnesses who couldn't provide any effective information, their faces full of helplessness.
The technical team, armed with various instruments, scanned the train car and the platform, but the screens showed nothing, as clean as a park in the early morning.
"Police Inspector," Sato walked over to You Hong, who was leaning against a platform pillar as if daydreaming, and reported in a low voice, "There are no signs of a struggle, no bloodstains, and surveillance shows… the target person never reappeared after entering a surveillance blind spot in the train car.
It's like… he evaporated."
He paused, then added, "It's exactly the same as the previous cases."
Kondo also leaned in and whispered, "That reporter, Kido Shinji, is still over there arguing with the officers maintaining order, insisting he saw everything clearly, wanting to provide clues, and saying he wants to follow up on the report."
You Hong didn't even lift his eyelids, just lazily hummed, his gaze sweeping over the platform's smooth, mirror-like glass curtain wall, then checking the watch on his wrist.
The hands ticked, pointing to 5:01 PM.
He suddenly straightened up, stretched with a big yawn, his bones crackling softly.
"Hmm—!" He let out a long sigh of relief, his face instantly switching to a relaxed "off-duty" expression, "Alright, got it.
Good work, both of you.
Pack up!"
"Pack… pack up?" Sato and Kondo froze simultaneously, thinking they'd misheard.
They had only just sealed off the scene, and hadn't found anything yet!
"Yeah, time to go home," You Hong nodded as a matter of course, patting Sato's shoulder, "Clues?
Isn't it obvious?
'Vanished into thin air.'
Just write that in the report.
Leave the scene to other colleagues for follow-up; we SPID are a special department, we need to focus on 'special' points.
This kind of… hmm, regular phenomenon, just file it."
As he spoke, he was already striding towards the platform exit, casually adjusting the collar of his police uniform, as if he hadn't been dozing against the pillar just moments before.
"Police Inspector! We…" Kondo watched You Hong's departing back, then looked at the chaotic scene, anxious to catch up.
Sato pulled him back, shaking his head, a wry smile on his face: "Forget it, Kondo.
Let's listen to the Police Inspector."
He had come to understand that this young Police Inspector acted erratically, but always seemed to have his own reasons.
Kondo watched You Hong's figure quickly disappear into the crowd exiting the station, and could only sigh in frustration: "What kind of situation is this…"
You Hong didn't care about his subordinates' grumbling.
He briskly merged into the rush-hour crowd and vanished.
At 6 PM, in an ordinary apartment building.
Iida Megumi returned home, dragging her exhausted body.
She was an ordinary office worker, and today's work had been exceptionally busy; she felt like her bones were about to fall apart.
She habitually went to the bathroom, wanting to wash her face to freshen up.
Turning on the faucet, cool water flowed over her fingers.
She looked up at the mirror above the sink, wanting to tidy her slightly messy hair.
The mirror was clean, reflecting her slightly tired face.
However, the moment her gaze met her reflection in the mirror, a sudden change occurred!
Several sticky threads appeared in the mirror.
Iida Megumi curiously reached her hand towards the threads, and a miraculous scene unfolded: the threads actually extended from the mirror, following her arm.
"What is this?"
Iida Megumi curiously held the threads in her hand, examining them closely.
"Is this spider silk?" Just as Iida Megumi was wondering, she suddenly felt like she was being watched, so she slowly looked up.
And as Iida Megumi clearly saw the scene in the mirror, her movements instantly froze.
A giant monster, whose lower body was entirely like a spider, stood in the mirror.
A chill shot from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head, and all the blood in her body seemed to freeze at that moment.
She quickly turned around, but found nothing behind her, just as she was feeling strange.
Suddenly, she widened her eyes in terror, her throat seemingly blocked by something, unable to make any sound, yet from the mirror, one would see her neck was bound by a string of spider silk.
The next second!
Boom!
The mirror surface violently rippled and distorted like water!
A huge spider leg, covered in cold metallic carapace, suddenly thrust out of the mirror!
Following closely behind were the cruel glint of crimson compound eyes and a massive maw full of sharp fangs, dripping with viscous saliva!
"Ah—!!!" Iida Megumi finally let out an extremely shrill scream!
But her Growl lasted less than half a second.
The giant spider Mirror Monster's powerful forelimbs shot out like lightning, instantly coiling around her body!
An irresistible force pulled her whole body fiercely towards the mirror, which resembled the entrance to Hell!
Iida Megumi's figure instantly vanished from the real world, leaving only the lingering echo of a desperate scream in the bathroom, and rapidly dissipating ripples on the mirror's surface.
At this moment, downstairs from Iida Megumi, a figure in a black coat was startled, quickly got off his motorcycle, and came to a mirror.
He took out a card box from his waist and aimed it at the mirror in front of him.
"Henshin!"
A suit of armor attached to his body.
This armor was a streamlined deep blue with silver lines, the helmet was a distinctive bat shape, and the compound eyes glowed with a cold blue light.
Indeed, this figure was the Kamen Rider—Night Knight, Akiyama Ren!
...
Mirror World, cold and desolate streets.
The giant spider Mirror Monster let out an angry Growl, as if something very important had disappeared.
It looked around in confusion, as if searching for something.
Just then, a cold mechanical voice sounded behind him.
"Nasty Vent!"
A huge sound wave attack came from nearby, striking the spider Mirror Monster.
The spider Mirror Monster clearly didn't react in time and let out a painful wail after being hit by the attack.
But the attack clearly continued.
Akiyama Ren inserted a card into the Dark Visor.
"Sword Vent!"
Buzz!
The Wing Lancer instantly appeared in his hand.
"Fall down for me!"
Night Knight roared, and the Wing Lancer, with a shriek that tore through the air, fiercely slashed towards the spider monster's head!