Chapter 25: Mascara

Everything still has to start with the disappearance of Tomome Yano.

After establishing this principle, Shuichi Hayashi and Miki went to visit Mrs. Yano again. They are going to do a careful inspection of Tomomi Yano's room to see what kind of clues Yano left behind before he ran away from home.

"Ding Dong!"

Lin Xiuyi stood in front of the courtyard door of Yano's house and gently pressed the doorbell, and Mrs. Yano's voice soon came from the intercom system.

"Who are you?"

'I'm sorry to bother you again, Mrs. Yano!, my colleague Miki Nakayama and I asked you a little bit about your daughter last time......

As soon as Lin Xiu's words fell, the courtyard door in front of him automatically opened, and he gently pushed open the courtyard door and walked into the courtyard of the Yano's house with Miki. Immediately after, the two came to the door of the Yano's house, knocked lightly on the door, and soon the sound of the door opening was heard inside.

"It's you, please come in, have you caught Jimi's murderer?"

Looking at Mrs. Yano's expectant look, Lin Shuichi and Miki really felt a little guilty. Although everyone has been busy for a while, there has been no progress in the case.

"Madam, Zhimei's case is still under investigation, and we can't reveal anything for the time being! By the way, you said last time that Zhimei's room has remained the same since she left home, right, can we take a look?"

Lin Xiuyi looked at Mrs. Yano's look of wanting to speak and stopped, and couldn't help but feel a burst of sympathy in his heart. She knew that Mrs. Yano was eager to know what progress had been made in Tomomi's case, but unfortunately, until now, there had been no substantial breakthrough in the investigation of the case.

Mrs. Yano nodded in disappointment, it has been nearly a year since Tomomi's disappearance, and for the past year, Mrs. Yano has been waiting for Tomomi's news almost every day by the telephone. Every time there is a knock at the door, every time the phone rings, every time Tomomi's letter is found in the mailbox, it is a great comfort to Mrs. Yano. However, what Mrs. Yano finally waited for was one of Tomomi's arms, an arm that had been brutally cut off.

Lin Shuichi and Miki quietly followed Mrs. Yano upstairs, and Mrs. Yano gently pushed open Tomomi's room. The furnishings in the room are still the same as when they came back.

"When I'm fine, I'll come here and sit down, and Jimi doesn't like people touching her things, not even me, as a mother. So, it's still the same as when she left. I've been doing some simple cleaning every day for so long......"

Mrs. Yano's words sounded a little like talking to herself. Lin Xiuyi and Miki glanced at each other, and they didn't know what to say. Lin Xiuyi took the white gloves handed over by Miki and put them on his hands, and then the two of them bowed slightly to Mrs. Yano to express their gratitude, and then entered Yano's room again.

Miki nodded to Lin Xiu, then knelt on the ground and leaned down to check the items stacked under the bed. Lin Xiuyi started his investigation from his desk. In front of Mrs. Yano, he gently opened the drawer of his desk.

There were a lot of things in the drawers, mainly stationery and the like, Lin Xiuyi picked up a thick notebook casually, opened it and flipped through it. It seemed to be a note on academics, and Lin Xiuyi put it aside without looking at it carefully.

In the other drawer of the desk are things like hairpins, headbands and other things that girls like. Lin Xiuyi picked it up casually and looked at them one by one, and then put them back into the distance.

There was nothing unusual about the items in the drawer, and Miki was checking the clothes left behind by Tomomi Yano. This kind of thing is not very convenient for Lin Xiuyi to get started. So after searching the contents of the desk, he got up and walked to the row of shelves against the wall.

There were some magazines and comic books on the shelves, and Lin Xiuyi picked them up and flipped through them casually, and found that they were all some girl's manga and girl's magazines, which were very in line with the preferences of girls of Yano's age.

There are several small rattan baskets with miscellaneous items on the shelves. There are some electronic gadgets like headphones in there. In addition, there are some snow crystal balls, stuffed dolls and other things, none of which are anything special.

Wait a minute...... What is this? Lin Xiuyi suddenly found an iron box behind the plush doll. He picked it up and gently checked it, and the weight from his hand told him what was inside.

"Mrs. Yano, what's in this box?" Lin Xiuyi asked as soon as he picked up the box and asked Mrs. Yano, who was standing by the door to stop them.

"It seems to be a sewing box, I remember that there was a time when Zhimei was obsessed with the craft of needlework, and I went to the gift house to buy her a special sewing box. At that time, Zhimei was very happy and put a lot of hard work into this regard......"

Lin Xiuyi took a closer look at the tin box, although it has been a long time, and some places have lost paint, but the places where the paint has fallen have been covered by appointment stickers, and it looks like there is a strange beauty.

Lin Xiuyi walked to the desk, and then gently placed the tin box on the table. As Mrs. Yano said, this tin box is indeed custom-made. There is a bayonet at the top of the whole box, and after gently pulling open this buckle, the box splits from the middle and splits to both sides.

At the top of the sewing box are spools of twenty different colors. In the middle part are placed needle bags, scissors, tape measures and other items. It can be seen that Tomomi Yano should be a very well-behaved girl.

Just when Lin Xiuyi was about to close the sewing box again, he suddenly discovered a little secret on the sewing box. I saw that the black spool looked the most conspicuous of all the spools. There seems to be an unusually large amount of cotton thread on it. The entire spool is wrapped.

Lin Xiuyi picked up this spool curiously, and found that this thing seemed to be heavier than he expected. So he began to untie the black cotton thread that was wrapped around it. After a while, I noticed that there seemed to be some text on it.

"Shiseido majolica Love Magic Mirror mascara ~711 exclusive~ pure natural?

The curious Lin Xiu untied all the cotton threads wrapped around it. It was only at this point that the mascara, which was hidden as a spool, finally revealed its original face.

Because this sewing kit is custom-made, the spool that goes with him also seems to be a little larger than the ordinary spool, and if you compare it, it is really about the same size as mascara.

This mascara has the words "711 Only" written on it, which means that it should have been purchased at a 711 convenience store. But why did Tomomi hide it so deeply?

Lin Xiuyi stared at the bottle of mascara on the table, and unconsciously fell into deep thought.