nd walks to the bathroom cabinet, where she withdraws a bottle of aspirin. She puts two pills into her mouth and swallows them with some water. Closing the cabinet, she glances at h

s feel like?” she thought to

o make breakfast, enjoying every bite. She kept encouraging herself to stay positive, no matter how hard the situation was,

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avoured the taste of plain coffee on a Tuesday morning, scrolling t

,” came a voice from behi

one of the new recruits in the station, wondering why he

eeds you in his office,” he said, h

ion for the superintendent’s office, making sure to walk at a norm

otes on his features. Henmi didn’t seem like an officer for one. Instead, he looked like an intern for a newspaper. He was one o

g after him…. Kei stood before the office door, the words Yamamoto Ooishi gleaming in bright gold. He knocked before entering. This was a crucial case that called for his father’s involvement. He walked up to the only empty seat in the room and sat

commenced with Kei giving records of the last encounter he had with Lucinda and all he got from her with accurate details. “So Hayashi is t

was noted that she was the one to have opened this case, but then it had mysteriously closed, with her disappearing with all the evidence and a child that was a major link to the case, it was truly mysterious, this intrigued Kei

” asked Yamamoto Ooishi, looking out the win

lied, to indicate

needed?” Yamamoto a

say. He finally said, “I want Officer Sosuke to join me

super intend, he left the office with Henmi trailing after him….. They got to the parking lot,

tions. He looked a bit confused, but he’d heard about his senior and his weird col

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f the house, he’d gotten there when Lucinda was just walking out of the house, he’d made sure Henmi parked at a secured hidden corner that no one else would suspect them of being trespassers…. Hours of sitti

e was and that he was on duty, “follow the green Mercedes,” Kei said,

hey followed her, they spotted a signboard on the sea dock market with the words Nakashi fish market written on it. They’d parked a few miles away from

e note of her surroundings, especially when she spotted that something was off. She looked through her rear-view mirror and noticed the car was trailing after her; she smiled and slowly stepped on her accelerator, taking t

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was trailing after her and decided to play his game. ‘Well, this investigation isn’t over,’ he thought to himself. It was already 8pm by the time they drove

stomer left the bakery, Kei stepped out of the car, looked into the side-view mirror, roughing his hair a bit, he upturned his collar, to make

“come get me from Higashi-Mai

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stead, she cleaned up the last table, when she ran out and tapped his shoulder, sure of herself that it w

re?” she asked, giggling in the p

and decided to pass by, hoping you’d notice,

ooking at each other, waiting for the other to talk, when Yuri

helping Lucinda say what she couldn’t say. Blood rose to Lu

suitcase and wrote down his number. Under it, he wrote something else

me more before run

she shouted as she made

t friend in the entire world is good enough,” Yuri said, still laughing at Lucinda. Ignoring Yuri, Lucinda lo

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