They silently looked at the black-haired woman as she left the library after her warning. When she was out of sight, the trio went silent again, eyeing each other. Neo spoke out to break it.<br/><br/>"Well, dat was fast as shit." he commented.<br/><br/>"I have plan now." Rattus said. "Yukina?"<br/><br/>"Yes?" she acknowledged.<br/><br/>"I will assign you the computer since the woman said that it is finicky and very at risk of technical malfunctions." He ordered. "Please search for any news articles online that feature criminality or peculiarity from this town, especially when it comes to the occult."<br/><br/>"Yes, I will." Yukina nodded.<br/><br/>"Neo?" Rattus called him out.<br/><br/>"Yeah?" he responded.<br/><br/>"I want recent articles from physical media, as well as any possibly relevant myths surrounding this town." he instructed.<br/><br/>"Yeah, yeah. I fuckin' get it." Neo indifferently replied. "Newspaper clippin's and folk shit printed on deadwood."<br/><br/>"I will search the archives and history of this town. We all have a hour, since the woman warned us about a possible violent anomaly in this town during the night hours. I want them printed and photocopied on letter-size bond paper. Now move."<br/><br/>Upon that signal, the three of them split into their own ways to their assigned corners in the library. Rattus did not include the librarian into their research plans due to an oversight, but they managed to gather enough materials in order to examine the circumstances of the town closely. After they compiled the needed papers, Rattus put them in his briefcase and the three of the public library in due haste.<br/><br/>They arrived in the motel room they reserved and laid out on the dining table all the materials they compiled, along with a map of Arc Diable. They marked certain points of the map with a black felt-tip, and there were many spots marked in the map.<br/><br/>"So," Rattus began to explain. "Following the news articles about the most recent various murders from this town, it appears at all of the bodies were found near the forests, outside the developed parts of the town."<br/><br/>"And the same fuckin' modus, too." Neo said. "The unlucky asshats who got 'recked literally got fuckin' butchered. In fact, som'body's so damn hungry, he was eatin' people and shit."<br/><br/>"Could it be a serial killer?" Yukina asked.<br/><br/>"I'm not fuckin' done yet, so shut the fuck up." Neo snapped back at her. "Where the victims were last seen are so fuckin' far from where they were found as deadmeat, for shit's sake. The boys in blue even said shit's so unreal."<br/><br/>"I think that it isn't unnatural at all, Neo." Rattus intervened. "If this was a serial killer, the killer could do such via motorized transport. The method of execution and consumed organs can be explained as signs that the killer is a mentally disturbed individual with a cannibalistic leaning."<br/><br/>"Well, I thought you fuckin' looked fo' sumthin' 'bout the history of this jerkwater shithole, man." Neo complained. "There must be sumthin' in dere, righ'?"<br/><br/>"Indeed, I have a particularly curious article here from a few years ago." Rattus admitted. "It is about the disestablishment of a group calling themselves as the Arc Diable Historical Society."<br/><br/>"They sound like a history club for the town, Rattus-san." Yukina said. "But why did you bring them up."<br/><br/>"The article offhandedly mentioned the older controversies surrounding the group, such as it being a front for an occultist gathering that performs rituals involving the murder of civilians." Rattus said. "It could be that the killer may be connected to the society, but that is simply an unfounded speculation at this point."<br/><br/>"Well, this is where I come in, Ratt." Neo said. "I've collected a few shit here about this town havin' a habit of losin' their fresh crotchfruits back in the 90s and earliest incident I've found was this little baby niglet named Gabriel Culkin bein' missing back in 1989."<br/><br/>"Does this mean the history club is kidnapping babies for killing rituals?!" Yukina was, for the second time of that day, surprised.<br/><br/>"Possibly." Neo answered. "And the latest and possibly last baby missin' here was in 2003. After that, the newspapers probably said 'fuck it' and stopped bothering with missing babies."<br/><br/>"And this article about the Historical Society being disbanded dates to 2004, a year after." Rattus said. "Our serial killer is most likely to be a former member of the Society, if the group was decisively connected to the disappearance of infant children."<br/><br/>"But I found something on the Internet here, Rattus-san." Yukina pointed to a printed article on the table. "It said that the murders we have right now started in 2005 and someone is always getting killed every two or three weeks here. It has been going on for ten years like that!"<br/><br/>"I suppose now that there is a viable reason why townspeople here not likely to go outside their residences." Rattus then took out his hip flask and drank from it. "But it does not explain why truck drivers are avoiding this town."<br/><br/>"Well, what do we kno' 'bout their shit?" Neo said.<br/><br/>"Have we tried asking them?" Yukina suggested.<br/><br/>The two men suddenly turned their heads at Yukina upon her last statement. They looked like they have realized something and she made them do so with a few words.<br/><br/>"...I saw a truck stop on the way 'ere. Wanna have a crack at 'em cum-guzzling faggots?" Neo questioned.<br/><br/>"Ask them any question that will reveal anything about their attitudes to this town in general." Rattus said. "I am giving you the permission to do so at once."<br/><br/>"Whatevah ya' say so." Neo then stood up from the dining table and immediately left the motel room.<br/><br/>Yukina then looked at Rattus and said, "What do we do now, onii-chan?"<br/><br/>"We wait for him, schwesterchen." he replied. "We wait, then we move. I have a hunch about that woman we met earlier. What do you think about her?"<br/><br/>"She looked... strange." she said. "Hey skin had the color of a dead person. And she wore tattered clothes too."<br/><br/>"I noticed the same." he agreed. "If she isn't the serial killer, then she could certainly give us more answers. For now, we rest and recreate."<br/><br/>Yukina nodded at him, as a sign that she was to be obedient.