"The murder that occurred yesterday in Kanagawa Prefecture has been cracked, and the suspect was arrested on the day of the cracking. The suspect's name is Tanaka Kusata, a descendant of the deceased Kyoichi Sasabe and a second-year student of the Department of Economics at Tachikai University, who poisoned the deceased with alkaloid poisons in a mock shop at the Gakuen Festival. However, when the reporter asked him about the reason for killing the deceased, he was reluctant to disclose it, saying only that the deceased was 'innocent of death', and he did not regret what he had done, and the deceased's classmates also gave the deceased a bad review. However, most of the deceased's classmates thought Tanaka's actions were 'irrational', and because of impulsiveness, he completely ruined his future as an excellent student at a major university.

It is worth mentioning that the cracking of this poisoning incident is entirely due to three first-year students of middle school. They were left at the scene as the first discoverers of the body, thus helping the police solve the case through their keen observation and strong reasoning, but later asked the police not to disclose their names. The only thing known is that two of the three of them were students at the Lihai University High School, and the other was a red-haired girl who spoke the dialect of the Okinawa region.

According to Mr. Ida, the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department, the unknown Okinawan girl played a decisive role in this case. She has been nicknamed the 'Catarina of the East' by the Kawaida Police Department because of her bright hair color and sharp interrogation style, and I look forward to more teenagers and girls with criminal investigation talents joining the ranks of police officers in the next few years......"

The beautiful host of the Nippuri TV station is singing with her beautiful red lips, and the background is the Tachikai Daema Festival, which has not been affected by the incident. Although such cases were not uncommon in this era of incidents, they were talked about by nearby high school students because of the presence of three first-year high school students, and then quickly spread throughout the country through the media. Although the Kanagawa Police Station did not reveal the names of the three teenagers at their request, their lives were invariably changed by this case to some extent.

"This is the Secrecy work of the Kanagawa Police Station......?

Nao, who was eating breakfast, was completely lost in her appetite by the news, poking at the fried fish on the plate and muttering in a low voice. The crowd around the table listened to the news report and looked at each other and turned their eyes to the only one who met the above keywords. Except for Sakurako's grandmother, who was still silently eating breakfast, the eyes of the rest of the people made Nao have to stop destroying the food.

She stretched out her chopsticks and silently put the fried fish that could no longer be seen in its original state into her mouth, and glanced around everyone with her seemingly innocent eyes as she chewed. Matsuda Jinpei stopped his chopsticks and looked at Nao, who had puffed out his cheeks, and did not speak, while Natsu, who was outspoken, opened his mouth with sparkling green eyes.

"Sister, that ......"

"Don't talk while eating!"

Nao interrupted her without waiting for her to finish, glanced at her grandmother without a trace, and lowered her head to eat the rice in the bowl. Natsu pursed her lips and cast her eyes for help to Aiko on the side. Aiko, who dotes on Natsu, receives her wet eyes and smiles softly at her.

"Nao, little Nao, children should be more relaxed at home!" Aiko wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin, tilted her head and said to Nao, "Today is the last day of the rest day, let's go to the cup household ShoppingMall to play together as a family! Of course, the most important thing is to accompany our little Natsu, as a sister, you can't always ignore your sister!"

"Love, Aiko," Natsu blushed and gently tugged at the corner of Aiko's clothes, "I'm not ......"

"Of course, of course, little Natsu is a good boy, and she won't hate her because her sister is always training, right?" Aiko smiled kindly, and without waiting for Natsu to finish speaking, she touched her head with a smile, stretched out her index finger and waved it from side to side, "But no, we must go out with the whole family today." Even the pirate queen who galloped the Spanish seas stood here, and today she has to listen to my son!"

"Poof, ahem, ahem!!

Nao almost squirted out the miso soup in her mouth when she heard this, and she choked after holding it dangerously. She hurriedly ran to the bathroom, and it is not an exaggeration to describe her movement as "rolling and crawling". Looking at the appearance of Nao wolf Bèi, Matsuda Jinpei finally couldn't help but chuckle and gave his mother a thumbs up.

"Mom, you're still the strongest. ”

"Of course, otherwise how can it be your mother?" Matsuda Aiko smiled with her red lips half-covered, "Xiao Nao has something to hide from us, and he needs to be punished, hehehe!"

"That, Aiko......" Natsu pulled Aiko's clothes, starry eyes burst out of her round golden green eyes, "Today, is my sister really going to the cup to the cup to ShoppingMall with us?"

"It's true!" Aiko pinched her face lovingly, "I know you've wanted to go with your sister for a long time, so it's set for today." Starting next week, Nao's club will be busy again, and it seems that the competition is almost there. ”

"That'...... Uncle Jinpei is going too?"

"Ah, I'll go too. Matsuda Jinhei smiled at Natsu, "The pirate must be jailed by the police, or she'll run off to training again." ”

"-Hmm!"

Natsu nodded heavily. The great joy of being able to play with her sister surrounded her, and even made her forget the question she wanted to ask, and she didn't notice who the pirates Aiko and Jinpei were talking about. Of course, "who is Katarina" and "being able to play with my sister" are not so important. It's just that Nao, who is in the bathroom, doesn't know that her sister didn't notice what she was doing at the Kaihara Festival, but just wanted to ask a common sense question.

On the other side, Nao, who was in the bathroom, wiped her mouth with a tissue and sat down on the toilet lid in dismay.

She, Nioh, and Yanagi made a request to the Yokozo Police Department "not to reveal their identities" after the Kaihara Festival incident, but they seem to have overestimated the police's secrecy. Although it is true that their names were not said to reporters, anyone who knows Nao will be aware of the identity of the "Okinawa red-haired girl" from the news.

"Hey, what 'Okinawa's red-haired girl', 'Katarina of the East'? don't be kidding-" Nao rubbed her face and muttered, "Now Shumi and the minister must know it's me." It's okay for the minister, if that guy Shumei finds out, he will definitely shout in the club when he goes to school tomorrow......"

Thinking of this, Nao immediately took out the portable phone from his pocket and dialed the number of Shumi Sakamoto.

She wasn't interested in splitting her energy to answer the inconsequential questions of her seniors in the ministry before the competition, and she had to cut off the source before the information could expand outward. Last time, she was still apprehensive about the chaos caused by accidentally provoking Kyogoku Zhen in the ministry, not only the seniors of the club, but also those who walked on campus would be pointed at, and there were even people she didn't know who ran up directly in front of her and shouted "Come on!";

Nao tapped her fingers on the white porcelain sink, a little anxiously waiting for Shumi to answer the phone. But the cheerful pop song sounded over and over again, and there was still no movement on the other end of the phone, which made her feel a little worried.

"This guy ......"

Nao bit her lip and hung up the phone a little impatiently. She stood up, splashed her face with cold water in the sink, hastily dried it with a towel, walked back and forth in the bathroom, took out her mobile phone and dialed the number again. This time, the phone went through quickly, and in the background was a little too noisy, a voice that didn't really sound it said "Moxi Moxi" vaguely.

"Golden Boar, why did it take so long to answer the phone!" Nao roared without waiting for the other party to react. The rough syllables characteristic of the Okinawan dialect blend with the shouts in the background, instantly shaking the person answering the phone speechless.

“...... I'm sorry, who are you looking for?"

After a long time, the voice on the other side of the phone finally rang again. Nao was stunned when she heard this unfamiliar voice, and subconsciously adjusted her language back to the Kanto dialect, "Excuse me, is Shumi Sakamoto here? I'm Saotome Nao." ”

"Sakamoto-senpai is training, you wait. On the other end of the phone was a young man who had not yet reached the stage of voice change, and his clear but slightly tired voice seemed to shout at the shouting crowd, "...... Sakamoto-senpai, your phone number is called Saotome!"

The boy's shouts echoed through the room on the other end of the phone, and the noise of the room was instantly silenced by his voice. Nao could easily hear the sound of Shumi running barefoot from a distance, and her screams that were shaking from running.

"-Nao!It's Nao!" There was a loud grinding sound of fingers touching the earpiece on the other end of the phone, and then Shumei's shout almost penetrated Nao's eardrum like a murmur from a microphone pointed at the speaker, "Nao!!It's you?!It's you?!I've been listening to it during training.,Walkman broadcast!"

“......”

"That rush...... Nao?"

She had guessed it, and Nao muttered almost like a whisper, unclear. But I don't know if it's her delusion, Shumei on the other side of the phone seems to swallow the words that have almost come out, and finally just softly calls her name, but the voice is hidden in the noisy shouts around her.

"Hey, I see," at this time, the young man on the side let out a teasing voice, "No wonder you were defeated by Tsukamoto senior again." ”

"Wow!" Shumei yelled angrily, "If I hadn't eaten enough for breakfast, I wouldn't have lost to that guy Shumei!"

"Stop!Stop!" Nao on the other end of the phone was confused, "Shumi was defeated by Shumi?

"No!" Shumi explained to Nao with a smile, "I remember the last time I told you that there was a disciple in our dojo who was in Teidan Middle School, wasn't it? That person's name is Tsukamoto Shumi, and it's just the same name as mine! ”

"That's right. So that ...... Shumi Tsukamoto, right, what year is she?"

"Well, second grade, one level higher than us. ”

"Oh, second year, so there's a good chance you'll meet us in the tournament?" Nao grinned, "Is she strong?"

"Well, I guess it's okay...... But there's still a gap compared to me!ahahaha!!" Shumei's classic, tongue-throwing, wavy laugh burst out of the earpiece, and the exaggerated laughter seemed to sweep away some of the gloom in Nao's heart. The corners of her mouth curled up and she involuntarily chuckled low on the phone.

"Ahaha-no! Nao, you change the subject!"

Suddenly, the laughter stopped abruptly. Shumei screamed as if someone had stepped on her tail, "You haven't answered me yet!

"Hah, Shumei, your head was kicked by another Shumei? I didn't listen to the radio, how do you know what program you're talking about? Nao sat on the edge of the tub with her legs crossed, and laughed at her in a good mood, "When you ask someone a question, do you have to tell the cause and effect completely?

"Wow, what a nasty way of talking...... Nao, can you not talk like Uncle Mizushima?" Shumi on the other end of the phone pursed her lips as if she smelled something bad, and her nose wrinkled together, "But it's a long explanation, and I'm going to continue training soon......"

"Then chew the problem and swallow it in your stomach first, and then talk about it when you go to school tomorrow!" Nao breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately put on the appearance of the club boss and said to Shumei gloomily, "You are not allowed to think about it again in the next training, and you are not allowed to listen to the radio again! If the minister knows that you have lost to our opponent in the future competition...... Do you miss my training, Xiao Shu Mei?"

"Absolutely not, not at all, never!" Shumei hurriedly shook her head as if she had thought of something terrifying, "I will train hard, and I will never lose again, please don't sue Minister Sù, ahhh

"That's fine. Nao nodded in satisfaction, "However, remember what you promised, my phone has a recording as proof." ”

"Uh......h It's still recording...... The person on the radio is definitely you......"

"Did you just say something?"

"Nothing!ah! I'm going to train, see you at school tomorrow, bye-bye!"

- click—— beep - beet.

"Tsk, I actually hung up...... But forget it. ”

Nao took the phone and smacked her lips, put it in her pocket and stood up refreshed, the pressure that had been deposited since she saw the news swept away like a balloon that had burst its skin. It seems that even Nao, who has been used to nervous tension since arriving in Tokyo, has not forgotten the way they get along with each other in the peaceful ancient field, and this method of communication is more suitable for people here than for them.

If it's Natsuki Ujikawa, she'll return everything you said with a blank face, maybe adding some "gentle" body language. But as long as it doesn't involve comparisons with the men's division, most of the time it's peaceful.

If the subject is a Mukaidake, his reaction will be a hundred times more fierce than Shumei's, and his speech will be mixed with countless words such as "hateful and hateful" and "you guy". But if you want to win against him in a bad match, it's very simple, you just need to be 100% sane and calm. If it's as flammable as he is, it will only end up being a schoolboy quarrel.

But if the object is Nioh Masaharu, the whole process of harming each other can rise to the level of art. He will follow the pace of your speech with great affection, gradually transform simple ridicule into academic discussion mixed with psychology, and control the boundaries of his own speech and that of the other party. You never have to worry about him inadvertently hurting you (but that's often the case). But if he's the real enemy when you...... People with heart disease should prepare the heart pill as early as possible. - Of course, this is just Nao's inference based on his character.

As for Shumi Sakamoto...... Well, it's better to call it unilateral oppression for Shumei.

Simple, hot-blooded, natural, tendon...... Anything like that can be put on her, and she's Nao's first ray of sunshine after entering Kabido Middle School, completely clearing away her distrust of creatures like "classmates".

Nao stood in front of the vanity mirror and tightened her ponytail, smiled at herself in the mirror, and smiled at herself in the mirror, turned around and twisted open the bathroom door and strode towards the living room.

It's okay, there's nothing to worry about, she said to herself.

Shumei didn't ask questions on the phone just now, and she didn't get to the bottom of it, although it seemed like she was bullying her with so-called evidence, but in fact it was Shumei's unique way of caring and tolerating. Her heart is as full of sunshine and clean smell as her appearance, and she can always sense the other person's mood most directly, and use her own unique dryness and heartiness to suck up the water in the other person's heart like a sponge.

She pinched her phone through her pants pocket and exhaled softly.

As for Yue and Minister Ujichuan, they didn't call her to ask her at the first time, so they must have been waiting for her to explain to them. Even if you don't get along for a long time, you can keep the mood for each other's sake.

Gentle people, everyone is.

"Oh, it's a different person when you come out of the bathroom, Miss Nao. ”

"Sister, we're all ready, it's up to you!"

"Really, Nao-chan, good sister can't make her sister wait too long—you say yes, Sister Sakurako?"

"Hmph. ”

"Backpack OK, hat OK, camera OK, target - Cuphu ShoppingMall, Let-go!"

Looking at the joyful Natsu, Nao lowered her head and took her soft palm, and laughed softly.

Family, friends, partners, karate, sister – her one qiē.

"Well, let's go. ”