Enraged, Yoruichi Toyama grabbed the black cat by the neck, cutting off the rest of his sentence.
"What kind of terrible idea is this?!"
"Listen to say goodbye... I wanted to stop her before she robbed the bank, not that she was robbing the bank right now. I went over to negotiate!"
"How can I tell her beforehand? Won't it arouse suspicion?"
"Hey, I have no idea which side this time-traveling elf is on. From the very beginning, you wanted me to go straight to the distillery. What good would it do you if Qin Ye shot me?"
Having accumulated too many complaints, Yoruichi Toyama suddenly became very talkative.
Unaware that the black cat in his hands was struggling desperately, unable to even meow, he didn't realize it.
"Wow, Mom! Look over there, is that big boy abusing a cat? It's so scary!"
It wasn't until she heard a childish voice that Yoruichi Toyama suddenly realized what was happening and quickly let go.
I also petted Taro, who had managed to catch his breath and was now sprawled out on his stomach like a pancake.
Turning my head, I saw a young woman holding a child's hand at the opposite intersection, looking at me with a terrified expression.
...No, there are more than one such mother and son or mother and daughter.
There seemed to be a kindergarten at the next intersection. It was dismissal time, and parents were walking out with their children in pairs.
Those who heard the child's shout all turned their attention to this side.
On every face, big or small, was an expression of "ready to denounce".
If we go any further, even if we don't let go in time, I feel like I'll be drowned out by their clamor.
Yoruichi Toyama shuddered slightly, then chuckled as he picked up the cat, hugged it tightly, and stroked it a few times.
"My cat... she's a bit of a chatterbox... we just had a fight..."
"But we've made peace now, hehe, hehe..."
Taro stretched and yawned as he gave his nonsensical explanation, making himself more comfortable.
The people who had been watching the area closely gradually dispersed when they saw that the cat was alright.
Yoruichi Toyama couldn't help but snort.
"And you said I was meddling... If it weren't for these people meddling, you would be..."
Just as Taro was about to retort after recovering a bit, he was suddenly pulled under Taro's arm, forcing him to swallow his words.
Then I saw Yuanshan Ye walk straight towards a middle-aged man.
The man wasn't very tall, and he was wearing a trench coat and a bowler hat, which was a bit too much for the warm spring day.
He was opening the car door next to him and beckoning to the little boy in front of him.
Yoruichi Toyama stopped the boy who was about to climb onto the car.
"Excuse me, sir, I just wanted to remind you that children should not sit in the front passenger seat; it's unsafe."
【puff--】
Taro, who thought he had discovered some suspicious person, couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of saliva.
I said, you're meddling way too much...
Ignoring his complaints, Yoruichi Toyama put on a friendly demeanor as she faced the seemingly impatient man.
"You'd better have your child sit in a child seat in the back..."
Yoruichi Toyama glanced casually through the car window and was a little surprised.
Don't you have a child seat in your car?
It's rather strange that parents who drove specifically to pick up their children didn't install child seats.
I remember that the Japanese were the first to invent child safety seats for cars.
But then I thought, maybe we live in a relatively early era and people's awareness of safety is still quite weak.
Even in the Conan series, there has never been a depiction of Conan and his friends sitting in child seats in a car.
Professor Agasa's car is often overloaded.
Okay, then it's fine.
Realizing she might have been nitpicking, Yoruichi Toyama decided to apologize and leave.
Before he could speak, the middle-aged man opposite him shifted his expression, seemingly a little guilty, and said, "Well... usually his mother picks him up..."
I see!
Yuanshan looked around at the women walking with their children and thought the explanation was quite reasonable.
In Japan, in families with children, women typically do not go out to work and become full-time housewives.
So, this family is probably a case where the mother had something to do and the father drove to pick up the child.
Having convinced herself once again, Yoruichi Toyama smiled at her father, who had been temporarily assigned to a task.
"Then..."
"No!" The little boy, who had been listening intently to the adults, suddenly spoke up. "My dad usually picks me up! My dad has a little chair in his car, but this uncle doesn't!"
Um?
A string in Toyama Yoruichi's heart suddenly tightened.
Before the man could react, she reached out and pulled the boy behind her, then stared at him and asked, "Sir, aren't you this child's father?"
Under normal circumstances, it's not a big deal if the child's father is unable to pick up the child and asks someone else to do so.
But the man's answer just now was problematic.
If he knew that it was usually the child's father who picked him up, he wouldn't have used the child's mother as a shield.
Unless he wants others to mistakenly believe that he is the child's father.
If you have nothing to hide, why would you impersonate someone else?
Having encountered a human trafficker once in her jurisdiction, Toyama Yoruichi's alert level immediately spiked.
So-called human traffickers don't necessarily have to be disheveled and dressed like migrant workers in the city.
On the contrary, wearing a suit and driving a car makes it less likely to arouse suspicion.
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