After a nearly 20-minute drive, the group arrived at Beihu Town.
"Ah! I forgot to ask Mr. Genda where his antique shop is." Kazuha got out of the car and suddenly remembered this.
She said with some distress, "Don't we have to go to each and every one of them?"
"The catalog that person gave us should have the address of the antique shop, right?" Ai, who was standing to the side, reminded her after hearing what she said.
"That's true!"
Ai's mention of it reminded Kazuha of it.
In addition to the keychain, she also received a catalog from an antique shop.
Promotional gifts like these usually have the store's detailed address printed on them.
But then Ye suddenly remembered something and sighed.
"Sigh... I think I left that product catalog at the office."
When she was organizing things that day, she tossed the product catalog aside and didn't pay attention to it afterward.
Several days have passed, and if Ai hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't have remembered at all.
“It’s alright, I already know where the antique shop is.” Guangyou suddenly spoke up, pointing in a direction.
"Huh? Kōyū, how did you know?" Kazuha glanced in the direction Kōyū was pointing, then turned back to look at Kōyū.
"I just went to that bubble tea shop and asked them, and that's what they told me." Guangyou gestured to the bubble tea shop not far from them.
Finding a shop is much easier than finding a person.
Moreover, Genda Takatoku's situation is rather special, and given what happened a couple of days ago, everyone who owns a shop in this area knows about him.
I also know that Genda Takatoku opened an antique shop nearby.
You can find out the address by asking anyone.
"Then let's go." Xiaolan originally wanted to ask someone, but seeing that Guangyou had already asked, she called everyone to set off.
"Um."
...
After walking for about eight more minutes, Kōyū and his group saw the sign for Genta Antique Shop.
The shop was open, but there weren't many customers inside.
Only one slightly overweight man was cleaning, with his back to the door.
The commotion behind him made the man turn around and look.
Upon recognizing the newcomers, Genda Ryūtoku immediately smiled and said, "Oh, it's you all. Welcome."
"Mr. Genda, why are you the only one in the shop?" Hattori Heiji walked at the front of the group, his hands in his pockets.
“The employees are on holiday these days.” Genda Takatoku’s smile became somewhat unnatural as he recalled what had happened a few days ago.
"Actually, there aren't many people around usually."
Come to think of it, if antique shops were always packed with customers, then Genda Takatoku wouldn't have needed to personally go out and hand out catalogs everywhere.
However, most antique shops are like this, not just Genda Takatoku.
"If you don't open for business for three years, you can live off it for three years once you do."
This phrase is quite apt to describe an antique shop.
As long as you don't cheat on antiques, most people will just buy a cheap one as a souvenir, and the profit margin on these little trinkets is limited.
Large items with high profit margins usually don't attract many buyers.
"Oh...by the way, Mr. Genda, how have you been sleeping these past two days?" Hattori Heiji responded and began to change the subject.
Sleep quality is closely related to mental stress. People with high mental stress usually don't sleep well and sometimes have nightmares.
He subtly inquired about Genda Ryūnō's mental state over the past day or two.
"It's...okay." Genda Ryūtoku didn't know what Hattori Heiji was thinking, but he was an honest man, so he answered hesitantly, "I just had a few nightmares."
Actually, he's been having nightmares for a while now.
He started having nightmares after he realized he was an "arsonist".
Initially, the frequency was low, occurring every few days. Later, it became almost every other day, and eventually, it occurred every day.
This put him under immense mental stress.
He is inherently very sensitive and prone to overthinking.
The thought of his past sleepwalking problem, coupled with the "evidence" that supposedly proved he was the arsonist, caused him to break down after several days.
He later chose to turn himself in because he simply couldn't take it anymore.
I thought that turning myself in would reduce my mental stress, and that the nightmares, if not disappear, would at least stop happening every day, but the reality was quite the opposite.
He turned himself in that day, and it was already late at night when he finished giving his statement to the police at the police station.
After taking his statement, the police arranged a place for him to sleep.
Filled with unease, guilt, and self-reproach, he slowly drifted off to sleep.
At first everything was fine, but then he suddenly found himself in a sea of fire, and could vaguely hear the neighing of horses.
He even saw the shadow of a horse.
He couldn't see clearly through the sea of fire, but strangely, he knew the horse was red.
Then he saw the horse rush out of the fire and charge towards him.
He then woke up.
Thinking of these things, Genda Ryūtoku's expression became unnatural again, but he still forced a smile and said something.
"It's probably because I haven't been getting enough rest these past few days."
Anyone could see that Genda Takatoku was making excuses, but no one called him out on it.
"Then Mr. Genda, you must take a rest." Hattori Heiji nodded and said.
"Okay, okay, I will." Genda Ryūnō thought Hattori Heiji really believed him and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he quickly changed the subject, "By the way, would you like to take a look at the things in my shop? Maybe there'll be something that interests you."
“Uncle Genda, we’re still just high school students, we can’t afford anything too expensive.” Hattori Heiji understood the situation and took the opportunity to build rapport.
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