63 Chapter 63
◎In Action◎
Chapter 63 [In Action]
"Well, do you agree?"
A group of members of my wife's family were waiting at the door. When they saw Hagiwara Kenji come out, they surrounded him and asked a lot of questions.
"Looking at Hagiwara-kun smiling so happily, I know everything will be fine."
Along with the female detective's words, Hagiwara Kenji's "ok" gesture was even more convincing.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and started joking with each other.
"Kogoshi Mizu, can you accompany Kosayuri tomorrow?" After answering everyone's questions, Hagiwara Kenji immediately seized the opportunity and asked the young high school detective.
"I knew you would ask that."
Nanatsuki Koshimizu chuckled, pointed to her phone, and said proudly, "So I asked my friend Mizuguchi Kana to come to Tokyo, so we can go out together."
Hagiwara Kenji gave a thumbs-up and praised, "Oh, as expected of high school detective Nanatsuki Koshimizu. You're so good at predicting things."
"Then, my wife, Sayuri, is not allowed to wear makeup for the entire day tomorrow, 24 hours."
"Don't worry, she won't have a chance to put on makeup in three days."
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The next morning, my wife Sayuri felt that she had barely closed her eyes when someone knocked on the door.
Because Kenji Hagiwara had delivered everything needed the night before, the girl subconsciously thought that the person knocking on the door was not Kenji Hagiwara.
She sat on the bed half asleep and half awake, doubting her life. The door continued to ring for perhaps five or six minutes before she reacted.
"Sorry, I'm not up yet. What's going on?"
"This is Koshimizu Nanatsuki. My friend is coming from Fukuoka today, and I was wondering if you'd like to go for a walk with us."
After introducing myself and inviting her out, the person outside the door seemed worried that my wife Sayuri would refuse, so he added, "Actually, I was thinking of trying my luck on the street. Maybe I could find the person you're looking for."
Agatsuma Sayuri turned the name over in her mind and finally remembered that this was the prototype of Sera Masumi in the original work, the "high school student" detective who created Detective Koshien and one of the few female detectives in the entire work.
[Could it be that her friend was the source of that case, being suspected by those around her and interrogated for so long that she couldn't bear the pressure...]
Agatsuma Sayuri couldn't remember the character's name, only that the innocent victim committed suicide.
"Okay." Perhaps the tragic ending of the original case made it difficult for the girl to refuse. She rubbed her face and replied half helplessly and half struggling: "I understand... Please wait a moment."
That case happened half a year before Detective Koshien, or at least three years later. And now, Nanatsuki Koshimizu is still a serious high school student, a period of time she is most proud of.
The fact that such a criminal from the original work appeared at the residence of my wife's family can only be considered that someone informed her of her future in advance and promised to help her change the tragedy.
Before Agatsuma Sayuri could respond, Koshimizu Nanatsuki continued, "By the way, Mr. Hagiwara asked me to remind you not to forget the agreement we made with him yesterday."
My wife Sayuri suddenly remembered what she had agreed to when she was so sleepy that she was unconscious yesterday.
She covered her face and felt terrible.
If she doesn't go out and is alone in her room, it doesn't matter whether she wears makeup or not. After all, she doesn't live in a social environment where makeup is mandatory. She just likes makeup and it's a habit she developed over time.
But now I have to go out with others without makeup.
No matter how you think about it, if Nanatsuki Koshimizu's friends came to Tokyo from Fukuoka, Kyushu, it would be impossible for her not to accompany them to travel around and see the sights.
My wife Sayuri suddenly wanted to refuse the invitation she had just accepted.
"I'll wait for you downstairs, hurry up."
Koshimizu Nanatsuki left her last words and walked downstairs briskly.
My wife Sayuri was left alone in the messy room.
The girl found a mirror in the room and looked at herself. She was used to wearing makeup, so when she saw her bare face, she felt like an unfinished painting, with only the rough outlines just begun.
If going out is like exhibiting a work, then going out without makeup is like handing over a rough draft as a finished product.
Agatsuma Sayuri reminisced about the past, wondering when she started to find it difficult to go out without makeup. Even after work, makeup wasn't a must.
In other words, when you are too busy with work, going bare-faced becomes the norm.
[It seems that it was only after arriving here that I started having to wear makeup before going out.]
It’s as if I’ve given myself some kind of compulsory order: I can’t go out without makeup, it’s not considered getting up without makeup, and not putting on makeup is like committing a heinous crime.
If this compulsive consciousness did not appear after she lost her memory, then combined with the fact that Kenji Hagiwara specifically asked her not to wear makeup, it seems to indicate that "makeup" is a problem for Sauri Kazuma.
Perhaps, it is also related to her amnesia.
The girl pinched her cheeks. Her skin was in relatively good health for someone in her twenties. A closer look revealed no obvious flaws other than her pores and natural skin texture without makeup.
But without makeup, she couldn't adjust her skin tone, highlighting, or shadowing. Her features weren't deep enough, her nose wasn't perky enough, her lips weren't rosy enough, and she looked too innocent, like a student in an ivory tower.
"I look so easily fooled..." The girl complained to herself, poking her dimple with her index finger.
Without makeup, Agatsuma Sayuri looks like an ordinary girl who is a bit tall. How can she look so exquisite after putting on makeup?
[Forget it, forget it. I have to go out with guests today, so I'll just be a foil.]
What's more, the guest and her friends went out with the intention of helping her find her boyfriend, and my wife Sayuri was too late to thank them.
After a quick wash and a slight combing of her messy hair, making her bangs look slightly fluffy, the girl changed into the clothes prepared by Kenji Hagiwara.
Looking at the mirror again, Agatsuma Sayuri pouted, a little dissatisfied with her image.
Hagiwara Kenji has excellent taste, and his clothing is certainly on trend. But Agatsuma Sayuri, accustomed to seeing herself in vibrant colors, feels a bit daunted by the sight of herself looking like a student still uninitiated, like she's back in high school.
She didn't want to be asked why she didn't go to school when she went out.
Luckily, it was a holiday, and luckily, the people traveling with her were real high school students. They probably wouldn't mind her acting young, right?
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Nanatsuki Koshimizu's friend is named Mizuguchi Kana, who is 16 years old and a sophomore in high school like Nanatsuki Koshimizu.
Unlike Nanatsuki Koshimizu, Kana Mizuguchi seems to be unaware of her future.
It seems the Agatsuma family only took in Nanatsuki Koshimizu and put her in charge of some of Kyushu's affairs. In the past, they had made a habit of visiting Tokyo at least once a year, but usually only during the year-end holidays or when necessary.
This time, it was because my wife Sayuri issued a commission to find the whereabouts of Morobushi Kagemitsu that the high school detective came to Tokyo in advance to help.
The girl with pigtails was young and beautiful. When she called my wife Sayuri "my sister" in a crisp voice, all of my wife Sayuri's insecurity and anxiety about her appearance disappeared.
Her mindset quickly shifted from worrying about getting old to feeling like an auntie who saw young people as too dazzling, and she couldn't wait to buy a bunch of gifts for the little girl and take them home.
She held Nanatsuki Koshimizu's hand with her left hand, and her right arm was held by Kana Mizuguchi, and she walked out of the door in a posture that would surprise Japanese people, with people hugging her left and right.
"Are you relieved now?" Asano said with a smile to Hagiwara Kenji who was hiding behind the wall and peeking at him. The 25-year-old former bomb disposal police officer turned his head with tears in his eyes, showing an expression of an old father who was very relieved.
The graduate student gave a wry smile, "Why is that? Sayuri is clearly in great shape."
Hagiwara Kenji pretended to be an old father crying, but he was actually quite happy: "I hope it goes well this time."
The two of them were talking in the room without trying to lower their voices, and Kashimura Hiroki, who was sitting in the activity room, overheard them. Seeing that their conversation had come to an end, he hurriedly called out, "Hagiwara-nii, Aso-nii, come and help—"
They can't rely entirely on Agatsuma Sayuri. If the plan doesn't succeed, plan A still has to be implemented.
Because the commission came so suddenly, the divorce of the Kashimura couple did not affect Hiroki as much as he had imagined. He had no free time at all, and no time to think about his parents' divorce.
In reality, having spent years within the Azuma clan, Hiroki Kashimura is no longer the brat he was in the original story, obsessing over what his classmates and teachers thought of him. He's an IT tycoon with vast amounts of data, a leader in the Azuma clan's artificial intelligence field. School and homework only occupy a tiny fraction of his daily life.
Because he has too much daily work, school time has become his main time to catch up on sleep.
Do you care about who you have a good relationship with when you sleep?
I only care about who disturbs me when I sleep.
"Here I come—" Hagiwara Kenji grabbed Masato Minoru who was trying to escape, and the two sat down next to Kashimura Hiroki and began to analyze the data again.
"Are we continuing to analyze the distribution of people in residential and commercial buildings today?"
"Yes." The boy unceremoniously summoned an adult who was more than a generation older than him. "Aso-nii, please help input the resident data. Hagiwara-nii, check the file and remove any abnormal data. Noah, automatically generate an abnormal data warning email to stop our companies from fabricating impossible data."
It seems that Agatsuma Sayuri's feeling that some emails in her work mailbox were handled by other people was not an illusion, but that Noah and Hiroki Kashimura were helping her.
The three of them were working hard, but Hagiwara Kenji wasn't one to keep the air quiet. "Hey, Hiroki-chan, where do you think my classmate is? Why did he suddenly disappear?"
"Based on the missing person's identity, the last time their phone was located, the location they were located, the duration of their mission, and the time they disappeared, we can infer that the mission they participated in is strongly correlated with the death of the legislator. By adding in parameters like the time of the incident and the time of the legislator's death, we can determine the sniper's location at the following points..."
It wasn't Hiroki Kashimura who answered the question, but Noah's Ark. On another computer in the activity room, it displayed a map of downtown Tokyo, zoomed in on key roads, and circled several points in red.
"There was no camera footage of him disappearing, so we can infer his movements based on the coverage of the camera surveillance..."
Several traversable areas are marked on the map in another color.
"Incorporating real data from local jurisdictions and field investigations..."
The passable area was greatly reduced, and then several collapsed roads that were passable on the map but had actually long been impassable were removed, leaving only one passable area.
"Thank you, Noah's Ark. However, you showed us this map before, but we continued to check the surrounding surveillance footage and still couldn't find Jingguang..."
"It is recommended to conduct on-site investigations, add more data to facilitate deduction, and double-check whether the input results are correct."
The first point goes without saying; the actual situation is different from maps. The second point is that aerial, underwater, and surface routes aren't always shown on public maps, and it's not impossible that Morobushi Kagemitsu used some means to move from outside the building. The third point serves as a reminder that the information provided by Furuya Rei isn't necessarily accurate; he could be deceived.
Just like the data they collect themselves, there are also abnormal data, and screening of this data is also necessary.
The purple eyes were not very clear under the reflection of the screen. The man who was laughing in front of my wife Saya was not so happy at this moment. When he was not smiling, the slightly drooping arc of his eyes made him look more like he was sad.
This wasn't the first time the conclusion about Noah's Ark had been revealed, but it would change each time as more information came in. Today was the first time there was only one path left.
Kenji Hagiwara raised one eyebrow and made a "hmm" sound in his throat, thinking very hard.
"I'm wondering... we've been contemplating the location of Morobushi Kagemitsu, but haven't considered the reason for his disappearance. Is it possible that his disappearance is directly related to his mission?"
【Author’s words】
①The person least likely to accuse the heroine of pretending to be young is Nanatsuki Koshimizu.
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