"Ms. Kasugano?"
"Hello, Mr. Nue."
Looking at Nueno Meisuke in front of her, Shizuku greeted him with a smile, while Nueno Meisuke scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Hello, long time no see, Miss Kasugano..."
"Hey, Ming, who is this beautiful big sister?"
Just as Nueno Meisuke was greeting Shizuku, two elementary school students suddenly jumped out from behind him. The leader was a lively-looking boy, and next to him was a girl with twin ponytails. Shizuku knew without asking that these were Tateno Hiroshi and Inaba Satoko from Nueno Meisuke's class.
These two people are the protagonists in the comics, and they are obviously fifth graders, but they are in love... Well, if it were in China, you would have been beaten up for premature love. But Japan obviously doesn't care about this problem. In fact, the law in Japan stipulates that marriage at the age of 16 is also based on reality. Getting married after high school is not a new thing in Japan. Of course, considering the future decline in Japan's birth rate, obviously not everyone likes to do this. But at least the Japanese cultural atmosphere is not as strict as China in preventing and criticizing premature love.
"Are you secretly dating another beauty behind Sister Snow Girl's back?"
As he spoke, Tateno Hiroshi poked Nueno Meisuke with a smile, while Inaba Satoko shook her head.
"That's impossible. There's no way such a beautiful elder sister would fall in love with Ming."
"Hey! You two!"
Hearing the students saying bad things about him, Nueno Meisuke gave them two slaps without mercy, and then introduced them.
"This is Miss Kasugano Shizuku, Shiragiku's older sister."
"Ah, is she Shiragiku's sister?"
The two people who heard Nueno Meisuke also looked at Shizuku in surprise, and the latter smiled and nodded.
"Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Shiragiku's elder sister, Kasugano Shizuku. Thank you for your guidance."
"Ah, hello, I'm Inaba Satoko."
"I'm Tateno Hiro..."
Facing Shizuku, the two children also returned the greeting obediently. Of course, they knew Shiragiku, and they were naturally impressed by the cute girl with white hair and red eyes. Although Shiragiku rarely played with them because of her inactive personality, everyone knew that Shiragiku seemed to have some degree of spiritual ability. Of course, in Nueno Meisuke's class, this was not a shortcoming, but a goal that everyone pursued.
However, Bai Ju himself didn't seem to be enthusiastic about this, which made everyone somewhat disappointed.
Nueno Meisuke then looked at Shizuku again and asked in surprise.
"So, Ms. Kasugano, what brings you here?"
"I originally wanted to find Ms. Honda Ai from this place to ask about the death call..."
Having said that, Shizuku looked at the phone in Nueno Meisuke's hand.
"But it looks like you guys are here for this as well?"
"Hey? How did you know..."
"Shizuku-nee, are you also a psychic?"
Hearing what Shizuku said, not only Nueno Meisuke, but also Tateno Hiroshi and Inaba Satoko were shocked. However, Shizuku did not answer immediately, but shook her head.
"It's not nice to talk standing in front of someone else's house. Let's go to a nearby store and talk."
In this way, the four of them came to a nearby family restaurant, and then Tateno Hiroshi and Inaba Satoko explained to Shizuku why they were here.
"The eldest sister of this family had a very good relationship with me, but just yesterday, she suddenly received a death call, and I was beside her at the time..."
"oh?"
After hearing Inaba Satoko's explanation, Shizuku couldn't help but look at her. Sure enough, the protagonist is the protagonist. In order to check this death call, she spent three or four days looking through countless death files, but in the end, she put it in someone else's hands and took the initiative to deliver it to her door... It's really annoying to compare yourself with others.
"Did you also hear the death call?"
"Hmm... it seemed like the voice of the older sister was talking about something disturbing, and then suddenly there was a scream, and then... it was gone."
"And her?"
"She herself didn't take it seriously, but it's really strange, isn't it? Why is her number on caller ID? Isn't this the death call Miki was talking about? If this continues, onee-chan will die tomorrow!"
"Xiangzi, I told you, these are just rumors."
Nueno Meisuke seems to have a different opinion.
"I checked the phone, but I didn't sense any spiritual energy or demonic energy. Maybe it's just a prank call."
“Woo…”
Hearing Nueno Meisuke's rebuttal, Inaba Satoko was obviously very dissatisfied. Then her eyes lit up and she looked at Shizuku.
"So what about you, Shizuku-nee? You're here to investigate the death calls as well, right? Have you discovered anything?"
"That's right."
Shizuku nodded, then she opened the file bag and took out the death file in her hand. Then she explained the results of her investigation in the past few days to the three people. After listening to Shizuku's explanation, not only Inaba Satoko and Tateno Hiroshi turned pale, but even Nueno Meisuke's expression became serious.
"So the death calls really happened?"
"At least I don't think this is a coincidence, and I found this place from the dialing records in the phone information of the previous deceased. If my guess is correct, then this lady will die unexpectedly tomorrow, and after her death her phone will randomly select a person in the address book and make the next death call to that person."
"So, it was really done by an evil spirit or a monster, Ming?"
At this moment, the two little ghosts also looked at Nueno Meisuke worriedly. The latter put the seventh plate of food aside, then wiped his mouth with a serious expression.
You've already eaten seven plates of omelette rice. Are you dying of fullness?
"But I didn't feel anything was wrong..."
"Neither have I."
"What about the signal tower?"
"You mean the base station? I went to investigate, but I didn't find anything."
In response to Inaba Satoko's question, Shizuku shook her head again. At this moment, Tateno Hiroshi beside her suddenly had his eyes light up, and clapped his hands vigorously as if he had discovered something.
"Oh, I know! It must be the work of the company that makes the phone!"
"Why?"
"That must be the case. They must have used the phone to cast a curse or something, so this kind of death call appeared! Yes, that must be the case!"
Tateno Hiroshi crossed his arms, sighing as if "there is only one truth", while Shizuku looked at him as if he were an idiot - no, he was an idiot.
After all, he is the winner of zero points a hundred times.
"That's impossible."
"Eh? Why?"
"Because it is my company that manufactures and sells mobile phones."
Shizuku stared at Tateno Hiro silently and spoke.
"I don't recall any curses in the circuit boards and chips I designed."
“Ah…Ahahahahaha…”
Hearing Shizuku's answer, Tateno Hiro broke out in a cold sweat. Inaba Satoko next to him also quickly covered his mouth and kept smiling apologetically - after all, this lunch was treated by Shizuku, and even the dumbest person would know that he shouldn't say such things to the person who treated him.
"Then, then, Sister Shizuku, you came to investigate this matter because..."
At this moment, Inaba Satoko hurriedly changed the subject with a wry smile, and Shizuku didn't care and just shrugged her shoulders.
"Of course, if this rumor gets out, it will have an impact on the company's performance and profits. And I'm also a consultant to the Metropolitan Police Department, so I need to get to the bottom of this."
After the incident at Higashiyama, Shizuku asked the Metropolitan Police Department for the title of consultant, and the latter nodded in agreement. Now Shizuku is also considered a non-staff member of the Metropolitan Police Department - but she is very familiar with this, after all, in the Conan world, Fang Zheng also does a similar job.
"I have no idea at the moment."
When it comes to non-joking things, Nueno Meisuke is still very serious. The problem is that he acts funny more often than he is serious.
"If we can find the original source..."
"I've sent people to check it out, but it's a big project."
Shizuku shook her head. As she said, it was not easy to trace back the source of the death call, but it was not impossible. Since the death call was randomly selected from the address book, it meant that the other party's phone number should also be in other people's address books, so Shizuku could only use the most ancient and clumsy method, which was to read the user information according to the mobile phone number, and then find the deceased from these user data, and then use the mobile phone information of the deceased to investigate the previous victim who had contact with him, that is, the victim's name in the address book...
This was a very troublesome and time-consuming job. Shizuku was too lazy to do it herself, so she handed it over to Hinasaki Shinku and Kurosawa Aise. The two were also very motivated - after all, it was rare for them to actually do what an assistant should do.
Although nothing was discovered, the two agreed to come here again tomorrow to closely protect the target of this death call. As long as they can ensure that the girl does not die tomorrow, then even if the death call is not eliminated, at least they can protect the other party from harm.
"Then if possible, please give me your phone number so we can contact each other tomorrow."
When leaving the restaurant, Shizuku also said something to Nueno Meisuke, and then she saw Nueno Meisuke's expression change.
"Hahaha, um...you mean mobile phones? Um...um...as a teacher, I don't really approve of using these things in school..."
“…”
Shizuku had forgotten that how could a guy who was so poor that he had to rely on food picked up from the roadside to survive at the end of the month be able to afford a mobile phone and pay the phone bill?
"Well, let's meet here tomorrow."
Faced with such a poor guy, Shizuku had no other choice.