But those days, he really felt ...... It's really a happy thing to have such a little girl with her, she won't be willful and noisy, although sometimes she will splash him with cold water, but it's very interesting.

The girl raised her eyes and stared.

'What's wrong?' ’

'It's nothing, you call yourself a teacher and I get a little scared. ’

'No, then...... Your name is Brother Akai? Brother Xiuyi is okay too. ’

‘……’

'Don't call? ’

‘……’

'Okay, okay, whatever you want...... Katerina, you seem to hate me a little? ’

This time, the girl thought about it very seriously, "Actually, you're still a pretty good person now, don't you hate it." ’

The question of who she was waiting for didn't wait for an answer after all, and his attention was subtly diverted by her.

That day, the case was solved.

By the next day, the atmosphere had become strange.

'I heard that it was the kid who discovered the key ......'

'The murderer killed because he had an unhappy childhood, right?' I heard that this child is also a very introverted personality who has no parents and has no parents. ’

"She found out what the murderer thought, could it be that she thought the same way......

'It's horrible, I'm going to keep my kids away from her.' ’

'Yes, when a child sees a corpse, she is usually frightened, and she can see the thoughts of the prisoner......

'It's horrible! ’

'That's the kid......

'That kid ......'

No wonder the first time I saw her, I felt terrible when I met her eyes. ’

'It's horrible......

'...... like a monster'

Rumors are like poisonous arrows hidden in the shadows, occasionally showing their edges, sharp and cold.

He was a little worried, and a little guilty, and when he found the girl, she was sitting quietly by the flower bed, and a group of children stood around her in the distance.

'Katarina, my mom said she wouldn't let me play with you, could you please walk away a bit?' ’

'My mom is ...... too'

'My dad said she was horrible......

'It's a witch. ’

'No, it's a monster. ’

'Look, people don't want to play with you, so you're not going over there?' Get out of our way! ’

As soon as he tried to stop it, the girl spoke, word by word, 'Here, mine, you have to go, you go, or I will eat you!' ’

The cold voice, unsurprisingly, scared a group of children to cry.

He just wanted to say sorry to the girl, but he didn't think it through, but the girl took the initiative to walk up to him for the first time, and he was even ready to be questioned.

Unexpectedly, the girl just said to him, 'Shuichi Akai, I'm leaving.' ’

'Gone? ’

'Go to school somewhere else. ’

His heart was like a stone, 'I'm sorry, I ......'

'It's okay, I don't blame you,' the girl didn't seem to understand where his guilt came from, and she was puzzled and calm, "I didn't want to play with them anyway, I just wanted to say goodbye to you." ’

Caterina is gone, abruptly.

He had expected to wait for the day to end, for her family to come to the school to explain the situation and then leave, but he didn't.

By the time he heard the news, the girl had been gone for more than an hour.

He heard that the girl went to the principal's office by herself and said something, packed her things, left the school by herself, went to the gate, waited for a car, and just got in the car and left.

Originally, he had planned it...... Even if he doesn't substitute teach, he can occasionally come over to see her before he graduates from college.

As a result, she walked neatly and left no chance.

In fact, he had a lot of questions that he wanted to ask the girl.

Like what......

Who was the person she was waiting for day in and day out?

Why can she be persistent and calm to wait.

Was that person running around, and why did she keep waiting.

Did the man wait when she left?

Another example......

Where is her home, where are her parents, who is in the family.

Why is it a person, why can you take it calmly no matter what you encounter, why don't you care about other people's opinions at all.

And also...... What the hell do you think of him?

He specially rummaged through the registration information, and if he wanted to find her, he should at least listen to her story.

The admission information was filled in by Katerina herself, but the address was fake, and her family's number could not be reached.

He was able to find out the face of the man who sent Caterina to school through the surveillance, and he couldn't see it clearly, but he could see the characteristics of the dress, height, physique, and the general outline of the face.

For more than a week, he searched, ruled out, and finally identified the most likely person.

When I searched for it, I heard that the man was dead.

Shot!

After his death, the house where the deceased lived was also burned clean.

When he asked about the girl, the neighbors told him in surprise that the dead man was single, had no sister, no daughter, they had never seen any girl at all, and they had not heard from the police afterwards that they had found the body of the little girl.

Why didn't the neighbors know about Katerina's relationship with the deceased?

The deceased was a trafficker? And then killed by the man who found Katerina?

No, Katerina left with the deceased of her own free will, and it was impossible for traffickers to send her child to school and let her hang out with others without surveillance......

Or did someone kill Katerina's relatives and take her away?

Similarly, the fact that the neighbors did not know about Katarina's existence also indicates that she and the deceased were not relatives.

There are too many doubts.

It's just that all the clues were cut off by the fire, and he could only keep it in his heart in advance.

After graduating from college, when he went back to that school, Katerina didn't show up, and when he talked about the teachers and even the principal, everyone just said......

'Katarina? Does our school have this child? ’

It's as if Caterina didn't exist.

Everything was just his illusion.

It wasn't until he talked about the case that the teacher who was a teacher with him and experienced the incident of repeatedly coaxing children remembered it.

- Oh, the red-haired girl? I seem to have an impression, what is it called...... Beautiful...... Lina? I'm sorry, but there are a lot of children who transfer to our school every year, and there are a lot of transfer schools, so we don't pay too much attention to it...... I have a little impression of this girl, quite a special little girl.

It's a ...... School of indifference.

It's like seeing a girl isolated by a group of children, and there will be no teacher who cares about comforting her.

Even if it is that special girl who is like a fan, only he remembers it so deeply......

After he joined the FBI, he had access to the archives of the events of that year.

Judging by the location of the blood splattered and the deceased fell to the ground, the killer suddenly shot from behind, killing the deceased.

The deceased is Asian, 35 years old, not tall, about 168 cm, his father settled in country M, and his occupation is an ordinary office worker, but he is very generous.

He didn't know exactly what the expenses and income were, the source of some of the money, because many years had passed, and the investigation had not been detailed enough for him to know.

According to the autopsy of the deceased, the murderer was much taller than the deceased, was a left-hander, and was killed with one shot.

The scene had been burned so much that it had left no traces, but there were no signs of struggle on the charred bodies of the deceased, either by a surprise attack or by someone he knew.

He can still recall every photo of the scene after the fire.

The window locks are intact, they are locked, and the door locks are intact......

He can reconstruct the situation at that time.

First of all, the deceased was not Katarina's guardian, Catalina was fostered with the deceased, or rather, someone asked the deceased to help take care of her for a period of time.

And the deceased didn't pay much attention to Katarina, but was responsible for sending and picking up a trip.

Choosing a school with a large number of transfer children and not attracting attention shows that there is something about Caterina or the deceased that cannot be noticed.

After that, Caterina dropped out of school, and the deceased took her back, was it because the case brought Catalina to the attention of the outside world, or because Caterina's real guardian returned?

He didn't know.

However, combined with the person Caterina has been waiting for, and the deceased chose a school where his child transferred to a school with a high frequency of enrollment, perhaps both.

On the day that the deceased took Caterina back, Katerina's true guardian came, the three of them met, and the deceased opened the door to let people in.

Perhaps they talked, or they didn't, but Caterina's guardian, the tall, left-handed man, shot and killed the deceased, took Caterina and set the house on fire.

At this point, he suddenly thought of the calmness of Caterina when she had seen the corpse, the incompatibility and isolation of sitting next to her peers, and the night of looking up at the stars......

I was inexplicably panicked.

How old was she then?

Maybe with some personal feelings, ignoring her shortcomings, it can't be denied that those eyes are sometimes clean......

He knew exactly what kind of person Caterina was.

Even if she is isolated, even if she has no playmates, even if she will make a group of children cry and watch happily, she will lead the child away when she encounters a child who wants to touch the kettle, and when she sees a child about to fall, she will help her, and when she sees a child secretly putting a caterpillar in a crying little girl's school bag, she will pretend to take it out and throw it away......

One...... A girl with a gentle heart.

He asked......

'Katerina, why do you want to help them?' ’

'They're just kids, aren't they? If you can, you can help, it's just a matter of handiness anyway. ’

'Aren't you afraid of caterpillars?' ’

'There's nothing to be afraid of. ’

She spoke in an old-fashioned manner, as if she were not a child.

……

After that, he went undercover and infiltrated the Order.

During one operation, he saw the roof of another building through the sniper scope.

Gin stood on the rooftop, beside a man he had never seen before, with the same silver hair as Gin.

In the middle of the night, the wind was very strong, blowing the long silver hair of the two men.

The man could only vaguely see that it was a girl, not very old, sitting on the concrete platform on the rooftop, talking to Gin with her head sideways.

He subconsciously thought of Caterina sitting in a flower bed and looking up at the stars on a slide......

Why do you suddenly think of Katerina?

Gin is here too, but ...... Who is that person? ’

In the face of his temptation, Cohen replied to him on the side of the communication headset.

'Amorret. ’

'I've never seen it before, don't you look old, newcomer?' ’

'Newcomer? You're a newcomer compared to her, Rye, and you should be glad that she didn't interfere with some things when you joined the organization,' Chianti, who had been silent before, was a little weird, "otherwise maybe you'll enjoy what it is." ’