"Kuangyou?" Sonoko asked, somewhat puzzled. "What happened to him?"
"A few days ago, Guangyou used his own pocket money to buy gifts for me and my parents," Xiaolan said with a smile. "So I wanted to buy him something too, since it's the change of seasons!"
After tearing open the wrapper, taking a bite of the hamburger, and swallowing it, Sonoko said:
"That kid Kōyū is really something!"
After she finished sighing, she muttered to herself:
"Speaking of which, Ran, I've treated Guangyou pretty well, haven't I?"
"Why didn't this brat prepare a gift for me?"
Hearing Sonoko's rambling, Ran chuckled a few times, then said:
"Why weren't you prepared?"
"He gave them all to me that day, I'll bring them to you later."
Upon hearing that there was a gift for her, Sonoko dropped her deliberately resentful expression and said:
"Looks like all my good treatment of him wasn't for nothing!"
Seeing her like this, Xiaolan could only smile helplessly.
As the two were talking, the long queue moved forward a little bit.
"Alright, Sonoko, we should move on now," Ran reminded Sonoko.
"Okay, okay!" Sonoko casually took a bite of her hamburger and followed.
...
Time is running out.
The work to decipher the code has made no progress.
The group had no ideas other than the coded message and the animal connection.
Clutching at the possibility that Kinoshita might be waiting at the zoo, the group went to the information desk of the nocturnal animal enclosure and asked the zoo to broadcast a missing person announcement.
"Ms. Kinoshita! Ms. Kinoshita!"
"Mr. Agasa is waiting for you. Please go to the Nocturnal Animal Museum to meet him as soon as possible."
“...”
Nearly five minutes had passed since the broadcast ended, but no one had come over.
The staff at the service center told Dr. Ali:
"It seems the person you were looking for hasn't come."
Upon hearing this, Professor Agasa felt somewhat disappointed.
But he pretended to be nonchalant and said:
"I'm so sorry to trouble you."
"It's alright," the staff member replied politely before going about their own business.
No one came over; that's a bad outcome.
"I thought this method would definitely work," Mitsuhiko sighed.
He felt the location should be the Tokyo Zoo.
But why couldn't we find them?
"Doctor, haven't you remembered yet?" Ayumi asked. "Is this zoo the place you agreed to meet?"
"Actually..."
After hesitating for a while, Dr. Agasa finally revealed the truth:
"Actually, this is my first time here."
Upon hearing this, Ayumi quickly asked:
"Huh? Doctor, didn't you come to this zoo with the girl who wrote the postcard?"
"This must be your first time here."
After thinking for a moment, Professor Agasa said:
"However, she told me she really wanted to come here."
These words made everyone understand one thing.
From the very beginning, they came to the wrong place.
"Why didn't you say so sooner, Doctor?" Genta said with some resentment.
They searched for a whole day for nothing.
"I'm sorry," Professor Agasa said apologetically, "I saw that you were looking very hard, so I didn't say anything."
Although he felt disappointed, so much time had passed.
The excitement I felt seemed to have subsided considerably.
He looked at the group of people who had worked so hard for him, sighed, then smiled and said:
"However, that's enough."
...
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