The investigation of Shuichi Hayashi and the Kuwashima Police Department is in a difficult situation, although they have recently interviewed many people who were familiar to Tomomi Yano before her death, but because Tomomi Yano herself was the target of bullying at school, she did not have particularly close friends at Morimura Middle School.

There is one thing that remains unclear, and that is why Tomomi Yano suddenly became a popular person in school before she disappeared. According to the description of Yui Arai, a tutor at the Morimura Junior High School Music Club, after Tomomi Yano was promoted from the middle school to the high school, she became a popular classmate in the school. Lin Xiuyi was very concerned about what kind of reason there was before.

According to common sense, if Tomomi Yano suddenly becomes a popular person in school, then there is no reason for her to continue skipping classes. But in fact, after entering high school, Tomomi Yano began to skip school even harder. What is the reason for this, it is really intriguing!

But it's a pity that although Lin Shuichi and Kuwajima are eager to start from this aspect and continue to pursue the case of Tomomi Yano. But the harsh reality tells them that this road will not work at all.

Why? Why can't they be traced when they have an idea of investigation? If nothing else, it is only because the target of Lin Xiuyi and the Kuwadao Police Department is a group of high school students under the age of 18.

The only people who can know the reason for Tomomi Yano's popularity after the summer vacation are those who are in the same class as her. The teachers at Morimura Junior High School would not know why. But the question is, is it really feasible for Lin Xiuyi and the Kuwado Police Department to directly contact these students without any evidence? And is it possible for this group of children to tell the police what they won't even tell the teacher? The answer is naturally no.

The Kuwashima Police Department has sent a notice to each police station under the Metropolitan Police Department requesting assistance in the investigation, hoping to find clues after Tomomi Yano ran away from home, but this needle-in-a-haystack investigation method will do nothing but try your luck. As for the physical investigation, Chiyo Tanaka and her colleagues have found hundreds of fingerprints from the letters left by Tomomi Yano, but unfortunately none of these fingerprints have been found to have a criminal record, which is really a bit unexpected by Lin Shuichi.

The investigation was once again at an impasse, and although the Kuwadao Police Department was in charge of the case, Lin Xiuyi still felt obvious pressure. According to his previous experience in handling cases, Lin Xiuyi will always continue to look for all the clues that the suspect may have left at the crime scene. However, unfortunately, the location where the body parts were found is only the place where the body was dumped, not the scene of the murder. Lin Xiuyi's set of experience on the spot a hundred times seems to be useless at all.

With no one to investigate, the Kuwashima Police Department can only pin its hopes on a large-scale police investigation. This kind of waste of police power is definitely not Lin Xiuyi's style, and Lin Xiuyi's special search department only has two people, so it can't help at all in this kind of large-scale investigation. Therefore, after obtaining the consent of the Mulberry Island Police Department, Lin Xiuyi decided to quietly sort out all the clues so far.

In the office of the special search department, Lin Shuichi and Miki stood quietly in front of the whiteboard and began their own analysis work.

The whole case started because of school bullying. Because she was bullied by other classmates at school, Tomomi Yano chose to skip school frequently. After that, it's time to run away from home. At the same time, this sparked a conflict between Tomomi Yano and her mother. If you think about it from the perspective of the victim, neither home nor school is a place where Tomomi Yano can be happy.

And this raises the question, where did Tomomi Yano live after running away from home? In any case, she must have a place to stay! This needs to be further investigated.

According to Mr. Arai, after Tomomi Yano was promoted to high school at Morimura Junior High School, she suddenly became a popular person among her classmates. This also means that for Tomomi Yano, school is no longer a place for her to feel uncomfortable. If you resign according to common sense, Yano Tomomi shouldn't have to skip class frequently at this time. But the truth is completely the opposite, and Tomomi Yano will still skip class. Of course, the reasons for skipping classes and the reasons why Tomomi Yano suddenly became popular are clues worth investigating.

After Lin Xiuyi wrote down the two key points of skipping class and running away from home on the whiteboard, he suddenly stopped the pen in his hand. For a moment, he felt as if he had overlooked a crucial issue. Is Tomomi Yano, who ran away from home for the last time, really running away from home, or just being coaxed by a criminal suspect into leaving home and not being able to return home? Although these two sentences sound similar, there is a very important difference. That is, does Tomomi Yano know that she can't go home?

If Tomomi Yano really wanted to leave at that time, she should have taken care of her own affairs first, at least bringing a few changes of clothes or something. But if Tomomi Yano didn't think she would never return, then she probably wouldn't do it.

"Miki, arrange the car, we're going to Mrs. Yano's again!"

After putting down the oily pen, Lin Xiuyi suddenly turned his head and said to Miki, who was meditating.

"Police, did you make any discoveries?"

Miki heard Lin Xiuyi's statement and immediately asked curiously.

"I can't talk about the discovery, I just think that we are going directly to investigate the kidnapping case now, and the conditions for the homicide case are not yet ripe, because there is no crime scene at all. So I decided to look into the case of Tomomi Yano's runaway from home first!"

When Miki heard this, she couldn't help but feel a sense of surprise. She suddenly asked Lin Xiuyi in surprise:

"You mean, in the case of Tomomi Yano's runaway, the scene of the crime still exists?"

"That's true, and I wonder if Tomomi Yano's running away from home was forced or voluntary. If she had done so voluntarily, then she would definitely have taken some personal belongings with her. But if it was forced, then it is very likely that Tomome Yano was just called out by the suspect and then kidnapped her. If that were the case, Tomomi Yano's personal belongings would have been left in her room and kept in good place by her mother. And it is possible that we will find some useful information from these objects......"