Next door to Amamiya House, there is a residence called "Miike".

"You said you would prepare dinner for Xiangzi-san in the evening, but Xiangzi-san didn't come back as promised?" Mitsuhiko was surprised.

"Yes," the Miike family's mother-in-law nodded worriedly. "We agreed that she and dinner would be at our place and stay at their own house...... Are you sure she didn't go to school, though? When I took out the garbage this morning, I saw her carrying her school bag to school! ”

"Huh?" At this time, the young detective group was taken aback. "Going to school?"

Since she only went out while she was taking out the trash, she should have had a chance to get that bottle of milk...... Why didn't she take it?

"Yes," the Miike family's mother-in-law nodded. "This morning, a little earlier than normal school hours, I wondered why she left so early! I asked her why it was so early, and she said she was going to go to the Sunday Mart convenience store around the corner first. ”

"Convenience store ......" Qian Yu immediately called up the map of this area in his mind, and at the same time locked the location of the convenience store - it was completely different from the direction of the school, and the other party usually had no reason to go there at all.

What's even stranger is that there is another convenience store on the way to school, so why do you have to take a long detour?

With this confusion, Chiba and the others arrived at the convenience store, but what they gained was even greater confusion.

"The girl we're looking for is here this morning, and she probably looks like this......" Chiba asked after handing the image of Shoko Amamiya sketched out in pencil to the store manager. Do you have an impression? ”

"Such a girl......" The store manager glanced at the sketch, and then his eyes swayed several times on the sketch and Gray Yuan Wai before making a clearer judgment. Oh, that girl, I did come once this morning, and I should have bought bottled juice, carton milk, and a portable knife......"

Juice and milk? Also bought a pocket knife?

Chiba felt that the whole incident was a little too weird - there was no doubt that Shoko Amamiya knew what she was going to do, and she had a clear idea. But for some reason, she was not able to get home on time.

In this case, if you want to find out where the other person is, you should first think about where the other person has gone - wait a minute, maybe there is another way?

If it was difficult for them to deduce where Shoko Amamiya wanted to go with these things, it would be relatively simple to deduce why she hadn't been seen for so long. As for why, it is because in this case, Shoko Amamiya's current situation is mostly related to a class of buildings.

That's the hospital.

Children often do not come home on time for two reasons, one is that they are obsessed with something and forget the time; The other is that you can't go home because of a certain situation.

If she was so obsessed with something that she forgot the time, it was unlikely that it would have happened to Shoko Amamiya: she had been out in the morning and had not heard from her for 10 hours now. Because she was carrying a school bag, she could at least assume that she was indeed planning to go to school after performing a particular act, and even if she was a little late because she didn't pay attention to the time, it would never have been delayed until now.

Well, it must be the second case - she buys milk, juice and a knife in the morning to perform some kind of work, and after the execution goes to school. But in the process, something happened that prevented her from going to school.

They were in a luxurious area of Tokyo, and Shoko Amamiya's original intention of going to school on time limited her radius, so if she encountered some kind of danger in this area, she would definitely be spotted by the pedestrians in the area and immediately taken to the nearest hospital (or to Rice Flower Central Hospital if she died of homicide). ）

So, what they should be doing now is to contact the ...... nearby

Thinking like this, Chiba's expression suddenly became subtle - because he suddenly felt that there was no need to discuss these matters anymore, at least there was a hospital that could be prioritized for investigation.

Because he received a phone number to call Shoko Amamiya's house, and it was from the new doctor's office where Belmode was.

……

"How can it be such a coincidence," the new doctor looked at Chiba in front of him with a wry smile. "Forget it...... You mean, she's your classmate? ”

"yes, why is she here with you?" Qian Yu also followed behind her helplessly. "So, where is that Shoko Amamiya-san?"

"Here." With that, the new doctor pushed open the door to a ward.

On the hospital bed, Shoko Amamiya, whom Chiba had seen in the photo, was lying on the bed and sleeping.

"Hmm......" Chiha's expression was quite subtle after seeing Shoko Amamiya. This ......"

"What's wrong?" Belmode sensed Chiba's abnormality and asked casually.

"I feel that if I close my eyes, I still look a little like Gray Yuan?" The corners of Chiba's mouth twitched. But I don't know why, when I looked at her photos at home before, I always felt that there was a kind of ...... The feeling that the image of the good gray plain can't be overlapped at all, it's a bit like ......"

"Silly?" Belmode immediately understood what Chiba wanted to say. "Do you think that this little girl obviously has a sense of innocence and lacks the sense of maturity in the big girl?"

"Do you think so?" Qianyu is like having found a soulmate.

"No, I think you're all full of cuteness," Belmode rather ruthlessly debunked Chiha's feel-good about herself. "Hmm...... Of course, considering that you are more or less a little older child, you may be a little less silly. It's only when you go head-to-head with the wise among adults that you show embarrassment, right? Unfortunately, it seems to me that you are just children who are not so naïve. ”

"Woo......" Qian Yu let out a little dissatisfied, but he was powerless to refute because he knew that what the other party said was indeed the truth.

"~" Belmode smiled and rubbed Chiha's head, and was about to say something, when she heard her phone ring.

With Belmode's frowning expression, Chiba gossiped about the phone number - and then he found out that the call was from Hoshino Kaede.

As for the content? That was something that surprised Chiba even more than Kaede Hoshino calling Belmode in person.

[Chianti's maternal grandmother was found abandoned in a lake, and after discussion, we believe that this may be a systematic revenge against members of the group.] All members of the Order are requested to stay as secluded as possible, and avoid all unnecessary nocturnal operations and covert meetings. 】