The slap in the face comes too fast, like a tornado. At this moment, behind Kōyū, Conan is looking at the former with a complicated expression.
He witnessed what had just happened, and his heart was filled with mixed emotions.
I feel speechless and helpless.
If it were just him here, that would be fine, since he's used to it. But there are other people here, can't they be more considerate?
There was also a hint of envy mixed in.
If he could be as proactive as Mitsuyu, the situation might be very different.
But in reality, he can't be that proactive in this regard.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore." Conan shook his head, banishing all these thoughts from his mind. "After all, I'm not Mitsuyuki."
Just as he turned around to continue watching the fireworks, Conan inadvertently noticed some strange marks on the ground to his right.
After a brief hesitation, Conan's expression turned somewhat serious.
Then he strode toward the marks.
Everyone's attention was on the fireworks, and no one noticed Conan's departure.
"This is definitely a fantastic spot to watch fireworks," Professor Agasa remarked, his hands behind his back as he gazed up at the beautiful fireworks bursting in the starry sky.
“Yes, we stumbled upon this place four years ago when we were camping around here,” Haruka Tendo said, looking up at the fireworks with a smile.
“This place hasn’t been developed yet,” Iiji Takuto said with a smile to the group. “It’s a secret spot that not many people know about.”
"However, after we graduate and enter the workforce, we may not have the opportunity to go on road trips together like this."
As she spoke, Fukuura Reiji put his hand on Tendo Haruka's shoulder and said with a hint of regret, "Ah, time really flies."
"It feels like just yesterday we were about to graduate." Iihei Takuto sighed, then glanced at Tendo Haruka and Fukuura Reiji, who had his hand on her shoulder, out of the corner of his eye.
I don't know what he was thinking.
"By the way, where did Taimi go?" Fukuura Reiji didn't notice Iihe Takuto's gaze. He looked around, but couldn't find Shirafuji Taimi on the mountaintop.
Before dinner, Shirafuji Yasumi had disappeared. They had assumed she had gone to the mountaintop to wait for them, but it seemed that wasn't the case.
There was nothing obstructing the view at the top of the mountain; it was just a flat area, so it was easy to see people on the top.
At this moment, there was no one else on the mountaintop except for them.
It was precisely because they hadn't seen Shirafuji Yasumi for a long time that they assumed she had arrived at the mountaintop before them.
In addition, he was in a daze after suddenly bumping into something, which is why Fukuura Reiji thought he had bumped into Shirafuji Yasumi, who had been missing for several hours.
"I don't see any bicycles." Iiji Takuto put his mind at ease, looked around, but found nothing.
Conan, who was examining the traces, turned to Fukuura Reiji and the other two and said, "Come and look, there are bicycle tire tracks here."
"What?" Fukuura Reiji turned his head and looked at Conan, a hint of surprise in his eyes.
“Right next to this broken fence,” Conan said to the group, squatting down and looking at the tire tracks left by the bicycles.
Upon hearing Conan's words, the others forgot all about watching the fireworks that were about to end.
"Could it be that Taimi fell from there?" Iihe Takuto looked at the marks, swallowed hard, and guessed.
"Takuto, don't talk nonsense!" Fukuura Reiji didn't believe this possibility, or rather, he dared not believe it.
"If that's the case, then Taimi should have fallen on our way here."
After saying that, Fukuura Reiji felt much more at ease.
“But…” Iihe Takuto took out his phone and looked at it, his brows furrowing tightly as he said, “But there’s still no news from Taimi.”
He didn't really want to believe it either, but apart from this possibility, he didn't know how to reasonably explain Shirafuji Yasumi's sudden disappearance for several hours without replying to messages.
"It must have been broken by someone who recently came here and accidentally crashed into the fence while riding their bicycle," Fukuura Reiji guessed.
"Is that so?" Haruka Tendo asked, looking at Reiji Fukuura.
"Taimi won't be that late," Fukuura Reiji reassured the others. "Don't worry, Taimi isn't a child."
...
"How is it?" Kōyū walked to Conan's side, squatted down, asked a question, and then turned his gaze to the tire tracks.
"I have a feeling things aren't that simple," Conan said slowly, staring seriously at the bicycle tire tracks.
"Please be more confident. If you put your feelings aside, it's definitely not that simple." Guangyou reached out and gently touched the tire track.
"Judging from the moisture level of the soil, these tire tracks must have appeared within the last few hours, and the estimated time is around the afternoon."
"So what do you think?" Conan nodded and then asked.
"Is it... I can't say for sure right now." After thinking for a moment, Guangyou suddenly changed his mind, "There are too few clues to make a judgment."
His sudden change of heart surprised Conan.
However, Conan didn't delve into it further. Recalling what Mitsuyu had just said, he nodded in agreement.
There are too few clues at the moment to determine the specific situation.
We can only make a preliminary judgment on the approximate time when these wheel tracks appeared, and because the time is not accurate, this information is unreliable.
At most, this information tells us that these tire tracks were formed today.
Actually, Mitsuyu initially thought there might have been an accident here, but considering Conan's special status, he changed his mind.
Some things shouldn't be said too definitively.
It's especially important not to bring up the question of whether the case was an accident in front of Conan.
However, Ayumi and the other two didn't hear their discussion because the sound of the fireworks explosion masked their conversation.
Seeing that the fireworks in the sky were dwindling, Ayumi called out to everyone, "Conan, Mitsuyu, come and see the fireworks! They're almost over!"
"Oh!" Conan responded, but after glancing at the tire tracks again, he got up and walked among the group.
"Coming right away!"
Upon hearing this, Kōyū immediately got up and returned to Ai's side.
After Kōyū returned to Ai's side, the latter looked at the fireworks blooming in the night sky and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"No." Just like Ai, Kōyū's eyes were fixed on the fireworks. He shook his head and said, "I didn't find any useful clues."
"I have a feeling something's about to happen," Ai said softly.
"Yeah, maybe, but I don't want anything to happen." Kōyū's eyes reflected the colors of fireworks as he responded softly.
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