In the afternoon, there was rain in New Tokyo. In the evening, the setting sun cleared away the gloom of the sky, but the downstairs of the Aragaki Detective Institute's apartment was filled with a gloomy atmosphere.

"Mr. Nishimaru, please control your emotions first and cooperate with our investigation."

"Please! Please find my daughter."

"Okay, please rest assured that we will do our best to find your daughter."

After finally stabilizing the collapse of the man who called the police, two patrol officers from the Ogawa-cho Police Department breathed a sigh of relief. After looking at each other, one of them clenched his fists and coughed:

"Hello, Mr. Nishimaru, please be sure to answer the following questions carefully so that we can help you find your daughter faster."

Among the onlookers, Higashinohara looked at Shinmaru Shunsuke who was sitting on the ground. He was covered in messy hair and haggard face and nodded quickly.

"Your daughter's name?"

"Nimaru Miri."

"age?"

"Five years old...oh no! Six years old! Just turned six!"

"Okay, the time of disappearance?"

"In the afternoon, the school teacher called me and asked me if I had picked up my daughter home, but I said no."

“Have the school surveillance checked?”

"The surveillance cameras entering and leaving the school gate are not available, and the surveillance cameras in the school are not captured, as if they disappeared after lunch."

“What time was found in the afternoon?”

"It should be almost two o'clock. I'll check the records later. Yes, it's two o'clock."

One patrolman asked Shinsuke Nishimaru, and another patrolman was responsible for recording and handwriting to record important time points and details.

"Okay, then is there anything unusual about your daughter going to school this morning?"

"Is it abnormal? No... No, she went to school in the morning as usual."

"Did you give her?"

"Uh no, I can't get up at noon because I have to work night shifts. Miri is very considerate of me. In the morning, I always take the school bus to the school."

“…”

After the general inquiry, the two patrol officers looked at each other helplessly, and obviously they were unable to obtain any information that was conducive to solving the case from Shunsuke Nishimaru.

One person could only say, "Okay, Mr. Nishimaru, the information you provide is very valuable, but we will also retrieve the school's surveillance video. Don't worry, we will definitely find your daughter's as soon as possible."

Shinmaru Shunsuke seemed to calm down from his previous collapse at this moment, but he still grabbed the patrolman's hand anxiously, "Please let me know everything! My daughter has congenital heart disease, so please be sure to find her as soon as possible. I really can't live without her..."

As he spoke, Shinmaru Shunsuke began to sob again.

Do you have congenital heart disease?

Higashinohara frowned when she heard this. Miri Nishimaru usually looked soft and weak, but the little girl never mentioned it, and he never thought that she would suffer from illness.

As for the disease of congenital heart disease, ordinary timely surgical treatment will generally improve, but some more complex and even deformed conditions will not have much effect on the surgery, and there are even hidden dangers of arrhythmia and hypoxia at any time.

......

After finishing the transcript, the two patrol officers were also helpless. This case of missing without any effective clues is the most difficult to deal with.

Recently, Tokyo has not known why several disappearance cases have been solved in a row, and they don’t have much time to waste here. They can only reluctantly comfort them and then ask Shunsuke Nishimaru to sign a letter on the transcript and wait for a notice.

"We will go back and do further investigation first. Please keep the communication open. If you find any information, we will contact you as soon as possible."

Staying with this sentence, the two patrol officers from Ogawa-cho drove away.

The tenants around looked at the distraught Shunsuke Nishimaru. Although his popularity in this building was not very good, his daughter Nishimaru Miri was still very likable.

Many people went up and patted their shoulders to comfort him, and some even said that they had forwarded the search information on their social networking websites.

Shinsuke Nishimaru was stunned for a while. After coming to his senses, he hurriedly expressed his gratitude to the tenants who said they would forward the search information.

Higashinohara stared at him and retreated without moving as the crowd dispersed.

Suddenly, someone behind him pushed him.

Higashinohara turned his head and found that he was wearing slippers and holding a chicken coop. The unscrupulous uncle Aragaki Go. The guy looked over Higashinohara and looked at Shinmaru Shunsuke standing there, and said with a smile:

"This guy... is lying... right?"

After saying that, he turned to Higashinohara.

Higashinohara remembered the elusiveness behind Aragaki Goku in the morning. He probably saw it at that time, so he nodded and said, "Well, Komiri shouldn't be the school he went to this morning, he got up very early."

Aragaki Gobang hugged his chest with his hands, rubbing his unshaven chin, and a look of interest appeared on his face, "So interesting is coming... Why did he hide it? What do you think?"

Higashinohara knew that Aragaki Goku had worked in the Metropolitan Police Department before, and he heard that he was at the level of the Criminal Department.

Later, I was dismissed for some reason, so I inherited my family business and opened this detective office in the apartment building. But I think there are still some connections within the Metropolitan Police Department, otherwise it would be impossible for my daughter Mai Aragaki to be in the third investigation team for internship after graduating from high school.

After thinking about it, Higashinohara looked at Aragaki Go and asked, "Did Mr. Nishimaru pay the rent owed today?"

"Well...yes, I paid the money at noon, so I'll make up for the extra interest." Aragaki Goku was stunned and said quickly, "He said he won a lot of money by luck, what do you mean..."

"I have no idea."

Higashinohara shook her head with a slightly cold face.

He never speculates on the evil of human nature, but he does not naively think that everyone has a bottom line.

Aragaki Goku was so straightforward. After thinking about it, he took out his cell phone and called.

After saying a few words, he laughed and cursed and hung up the phone, and said to Higashinohara with a smile, "I just contacted a friend from the Metropolitan Police Department, so... When he drives over, let's scare that guy together."

Scare?

Higashinohara didn't expect Aragaki Goku to think of such an unrestrained solution, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Is it illegal?"

Aragaki Goku smashed his mouth and said, "It depends on where the law is. As long as I can obtain evidence of guilt and let justice be enforced, it will not be violated."

Speaking of this, he looked up at the sky and said slowly, "Hongye Jun, you have to remember that if you want to do things, you can't be open and upright at all times."

That's no wonder you were dismissed - seeing the other party's appearance as a life mentor, Higashinohara couldn't help but complain in his heart.

However, he also wanted to find the little girl who sweetly called him "big brother" as soon as possible, so he could only hope for Aragaki, a middle-aged uncle with local connections.

After a while, a police car that came from somewhere was parked downstairs, and after opening the door, a young man in his police uniform, who was about twenty years old, jumped off.

The third floor of the apartment, Aragaki Detective Office.

Seeing the young man pushing the door open, Higashinohara was a little surprised at the other party's efficiency.

However, the man looked very good after seeing Aragaki Go. He just held back and didn't have an attack, and then looked at Higashinohara, who looked like a high school student.

"I didn't expect you to come so quickly, don't worry, you are my own people." Aragaki Goku, who was lying on the boss's chair, waved his hand and smiled.

Higashinohara occasionally works for him outside for him during this period, but he is really not an outsider. Moreover, he is also very concerned about this matter and nods at him with a smile on his face.

"To introduce this, this is my former proud disciple Atuo..."

Unexpectedly, before Aragaki finished speaking, a young man named Taku Morita complained with a stern face, "Master, please be fine! Let me go! I might be promoted next year. What if I am caught in the trap of these things? Do you want me to be a police station like you for the rest of my life?"

Aragaki Go's face froze and he shouted with a hint of disrespect, "What are you talking about by a bad boy? I also had the potential of the police chief back then, okay? Besides, I will only look for you a year... Cough cough... five, six, seven or eight times?"

"Atuo, you have changed... When you first joined the team for internship, holding my legs and calling me master intimately... I wasn't that impatient..."

Facing a greasy old fried dough stick like Aragaki, Taku Morita was obviously not an opponent, so he could only lose and sigh.

"Tell me, who is this time?"

Aragaki Goku, who was lamenting, changed his face quickly and immediately said with a smile, "I am worthy of being the master's good apprentice. I didn't love you back then. Let's take you upstairs. I'll take you upstairs. I'll be the resident of 505 above. This is the information I just sorted out for you."

As he said that, Aragaki Goku typed the print on the keyboard, and the printer next to him quickly spit out a few sheets of A4 paper, which also had photos of Shinsuke Nishimaru and his personal family situation.

Good guy...so fast?

Higashinohara just saw Aragaki Goku lying behind the computer and having fun. She thought this guy was watching Wano Country's featured variety show, but she didn't expect that it was surprisingly reliable at the critical moment.

Such a master in Takumori Morita's stall had already accepted his fate. He reached out to take the information and looked at it a few times, frowned slightly, "His daughter...is missing today?"

Taku Morita is the second department of the Criminal Department of the Metropolitan Police Department. He is mainly responsible for investigating and punishing fraud, counterfeit currency, and malfeasance of public officials for malfeasance and bribery.

The missing population case has never been dealt with.

"Yes, don't worry."

Aragaki Goku had already stood up and took Taku Morita out to go upstairs.

He walked and said to Taku Morita beside him, "When you knock on the door and go in, don't say anything, just say that you suspect that he has cheated on huge amounts of property. I have prepared all the evidence for you."

"Where is the evidence?"

Higashinohara, who was following behind, interjected.

"Oh, I just forged it."

Aragaki Goku didn't even look back.

“…” Higashinohara.

This guy was really a detective before?
To be continued...