Mutsuki: “Huh?!”
"Hush," Javelin hummed and came closer, whispering to the curious children, "That's right, so we came to investigate. Have you seen any suspicious people today?"
The word "suspicious" is a bit difficult to understand because children may not know its specific definition and form.
Javelin gave several examples, but failed to make them understand. Ayanami was more straightforward and just gave a name.
"...Dafeng, it means a suspicious person."
Children: “Oh~~”
Z23: "...I feel like if Ayanami were to be the teacher, she would be able to teach well."
Javelin: "Eh? Nimi-chan...are you saying that I didn't teach well?"
Z23: "That's not what I meant. Besides... most of your lesson plans were made by me, right?"
Javelin: "Well, I also drew a schematic for you."
Z23: "... a torpedo with a rainbow tail?"
Javelin: "The one they drew is the missile from Changchun!"
Ayanami blinked her eyes but didn't have time to say anything to refuse. Seeing the two of them muttering to themselves, she simply focused on the case and planned to resolve it quickly.
"...So, is there anyone suspicious?"
Three or five children answered immediately: "Sister Dafeng!"
Rafi thought that the boy had not yet gotten over the example, so he repeated it, but the answer was still the same.
The two men had a clue in their minds, so they turned around and pulled the Javelin and Z23 who were arguing over.
"...What did she do...?" Ayanami habitually took out her little notebook and started taking notes.
Mutsuki had never played a game of police and gangsters before, so she seemed very excited. "She sneaked out this morning! When I got up to steal candy, I heard her laughing. It was so scary..."
"Ah!" Mizunotsuki jumped out immediately, "So you are the guy who stole the candy, we caught you!"
Mutsuki then realized that he had made a slip of the tongue.
She did have this idea, but when she went to look through her sisters' schoolbags, she found that all the candies were gone, and only the kind of prank candies that were so sour that they made your teeth soften were left.
She lost her appetite as soon as she saw it, so she didn't steal at all. Instead, she was afraid of being discovered, so she spent a lot of time helping her sisters pack their schoolbags.
"I, I was just helping you pack your school bags and getting a little candy... that's not stealing, and I didn't get any!"
The little ones started chirping and making a lot of noise. Ayanami held the gel pen in her hand for a long time but couldn't put it down. She caught a glimpse of Longxiong running with his head down, so she simply changed her target.
"...Are you free?"
"Hmm? Are you talking about me?" Little Dragon Lady stopped and wiped the sweat off her face with the towel on her shoulders. "We are still in training time, but...what can I do for you?"
Ayanami glanced at the word "Da Feng" written on the notebook and asked her, "...Did you see Da Feng this morning?"
"Oh, that eccentric junior, right? I've seen him before. He seemed to be sneaking out with something in his arms. What happened?"
"...About what time, please?"
"A quarter to eight? I'm training in the courtyard."
Ayanami thought for a moment and asked, "...Didn't she say anything?"
Longxiong crossed his arms and recalled for a long time, then shook his head, "Yes, but it was all 'Commander, Commander' and the like. I used to call the lord by his name, so I thought it was normal."
Ayanami fell into deep thought, and the three people beside her were unable to help at all and could only stand there and stare.
There were very few cameras inside the port area, and it was impossible for Dafeng to reply to the message she sent, so the clues were almost cut off here.
But Ayanami seemed very patient. She closed the notebook and turned to walk out.
"Hey Ayanami-chan, where are we going next?"
"... back to the cafeteria."
"The crime scene? But shouldn't we go to Donghuang to check the situation now?"
"...If it wakes up, wouldn't it be better to just ask it?"
"...Ayanami-chan, my dream of becoming a detective will be shattered if this happens."
Chapter 1021: The Case of Killing Chickens in a Secret Room with the Door Open! (3
The four people who left the Sakura Empire dormitory tried their best to catch up, but in the end they still failed to catch up.
Looking at the crime scene with only a handkerchief and chalk marks left, the famous detective Javelin, who was on duty for the first time, seemed at a loss.
"Hey, this... Where is a victim as big as me?"
Z23 tried to comfort him, "Maybe... he was resurrected? There should be similar plots in those comics you read, right?"
Javelin took off his hat and sighed secretly. He finally had the chance to wear these clothes, but he didn't expect to have to return to reality.
"Well, since that's the case, let's change our clothes and make some snacks for the commander, right?"
Z23 just felt that javelin was not a good sport, but now he was worried about the other party.
Because they are teachers, they need to take some time out to prepare lessons and make lesson plans, and the related preliminary work is not that interesting.
Javelin is lively and likes to go out with his good friends, no matter where, but he doesn't like to stay in the house.
She had spent a lot of time marking homework and preparing lessons in the past few days. Today, she suddenly felt like doing something, probably because she had been holding it in for too long. Unfortunately, she still couldn't do it freely.
Z23 himself has adapted to this kind of life, but he is unable to get his good friends to adapt to it as well.
She looked at the javelin's torn mouth and said, "How about... I go with you to find it?"
"Eh? No need, Nimi-chan, I'm just a flash in the pan, let's just make desserts? Don't worry, I'm good at it--Wow?! What happened here...?"
Rafi looked up when he heard the voice and glanced at the messy kitchen. There was really no place to stay.
There was flour all over the floor, pots and pans were filled with weirdly colored paste, the inside of the oven was blackened, and the square grid tray wasn't much better.
The javelin that came in first widened its eyes and smelled a foul odor in the air.
"Huh?! Um... I, my nose seems to be malfunctioning..."
Z23 was stunned, took two steps forward and stood beside her, then sniffed, "Hmm, this smell is too pungent..."
Ayanami walked past the Lafite that had been uncorked to smell the stench, stepped on the flour with a normal expression, walked around the counter, and fixed her eyes on the tray in the oven.
The grid shelves looked like they were sprayed with black paint, or they were high-end matte ones, with only a few places maintaining their original silver color.
Ayanami looked through it for a while and roughly deduced that the areas that survived the disaster must have been covered by baked goods.
"Ningbo, did you find anything wrong?" Javelin, who had put on his hat again, pinched his nose and approached her, asking her in a muffled voice, "Are you still nagging us to clean up this place...?"
Ayanami put down the tray and said seriously: "...The situation may be more serious than I thought."
The frustrated detective seemed to have seen the future of using voice-changing bows. He let go of his nose and asked excitedly, "Then can we still do it? Wow, it's really, really weird..."
White Rabbit took two sips of red wine, "…What should I do now?"
Ayanami looked around the room and said, "...Try not to create new footprints. Take photos for evidence. I'll go get the barbarians to gather... "
Javelin: (⊙·v·⊙)b
"The current situation is very serious and can be described as full of doubts."
The javelin, wearing a monocle and holding a pipe candy, walked back and forth in front of a large group, secretly putting pressure on them.
"I asked you guys to come here... just to clarify a problem."
After saying that, Javelin stood still with his hands behind his back and looked sternly at the confused barbarians.
"Who is the deceased?"
Barbarians:???
"I admit that it was my fault for not leaving someone to watch over the body, but... you can't just walk away without saying anything, right?"
"Now, for the sake of the safety of the port area, I hope that the deceased in the case can honestly come forward and accept my questioning."
The barbarians looked at each other, chattering among themselves, but still no one took the initiative to come forward.
Javelin was anxious. In girls' comics, there were no plots where righteous people interrogated suspects. The protagonists all relied on their brains to solve problems.
Now that the reality has arrived, faced with the deceased who is unwilling to come forward to testify, the inexperienced theoretical contestants are really at a loss, and can only rely on exhaustive enumeration after struggling for a long time.
Javelin: "You look tense and your movements are stiff. Could it be that... you are the dead person?" (Note 1)
Barbarian leader:???
Javelin: "Or you? Let me feel your stomach. If it's hard, it means you are the victim who ate poisonous food and died on the spot!"
Sweeping and sweeping: (V° small)
The other three destroyers standing together were too embarrassed to disturb the Javelin's interest, so they stood aside and whispered.
Z23: "Is it okay? She seems quite happy though."
Rafi: "Ah...sleepy..."
Ayanami: "...It's okay, because that one isn't in here..."
Z23: "Huh?! You actually recognized it?"
Ayanami: "...basic skills."
Z23: "So... when should we tell her the truth?"
Ayanami: "...wait for Rafi to wake up."
Z23: "...?"
Rafi: “Huh ZZzzz….”
"Um... Nimi-chan, I can't find the deceased, the clues are gone..."
"...It's okay." Z23 patted his friend's shoulder, "Ayanami just said that she had a new idea."
Javelin was indeed excited when he heard this, and immediately asked, "What is it? Fingerprint recognition? Or is it the kind of spray that can show the blood stains that have been washed off with a 'beep'?"
In fact, Ayanami has been handling cases for several years, but has never used these high-tech methods, and her ideas and actions are relatively simple and unpretentious.
She took out her notebook and showed the tree diagram to Javelin, "...the victim is unable to speak at the moment, so we can only go back to Taiho."
Javelin wondered, "But we don't know where she is. Should we call her?"
Ayanami shook her head and rejected it. "...No, in this situation, we need help from others."
"Eh? Who is it?"
"... Let's go to the Sakura Dormitory again."
"Ayanami-chan, you really look like the heroine now. I'm just the intern who knows nothing. Hehe..."
"...In the movies, the interns, it's easy—"
"Wow wow wow, let's go, let's go!"
"Hmm? What are you doing...?"
Javelin, who was holding Ayanami's little notebook as his police officer ID, puffed out his chest and said proudly, "Sister Atago, this is a serious matter. We want to ask you a few questions. If possible, we need your help."
Atago and Kaohsiung, who had just returned from the dojo, looked at each other and agreed with interest, "Sure, what do you want to ask?"
Javelin held up his "police officer's ID" and read the lines from the cheat sheet on the back: "I want to ask Sister Atago, did you meet Sister Taiho today?"
"Hmm? Oh... I saw her in the afternoon, around one o'clock. She passed by the entrance of the dojo holding something, and she ran very fast."
"I see. Which direction did she run to? Can you find her?"
"She went to the back mountain, right? I don't know her exact location, so I may not be able to help her."
Ayanami pulled out the oven tray and stepped forward. "...You can help, yes."
Atago: "Hmm? What is this-ugh..."
PS: Note 1: From the latest issue of [STN Express]
Chapter 1022: The Case of Killing Chickens in a Secret Room with the Door Open! (End)
"So... are you really using me as a police dog?"
