Buzz――――

In the town of Celeria, while the children were playing hide and seek, one of the boys, John, suddenly disappeared.

Until the next day, John stayed up all night and left his father, Charlie, looking for him. But at the last sighting, no useful clues were obtained from any of the children's mouths, which made Charlie anxious.

Was this a kidnapping? or was it just an accident, and where is the missing little John now?

The only one who sees through the truth is that the body is a child, but the mind is an adult, a detective -

However, it is a great pity that Alice does not have the smart brain of a schoolboy detective, and she is completely confused about the current situation of the case.

Buzz――――

I can only say that graphic novels or something, they are really fictional. The original "boy" is the same age as "Kudo ○ichi", and now Alice is the same age as "Ke ○".

But the only similarity between the two is the setting, she neither has a nose that can smell the type of poison based on the smell, nor can she judge the estimated time of death by looking at the corpse, and she does not have a father who will teach her to drive a plane in Hawaii.

If you insist on finding any skills similar to her and the Grim Reaper elementary school students, it is probably a "flash of inspiration" in her mind.

"Boom-" A flash of lightning flashed through my mind.

It's just that "Ke ○" can solve the case with a flash of inspiration, and after a flash of inspiration, she breaks the bone with her bare hands.

Well, this is too far-fetched, because Alice wants to break someone's bones, and there is no need to flashes pompously at all, just a casual fist swing.

What else do you have in common...... That's right, football. Of course, Alice doesn't have the world-class ball control and shooting accuracy, but with the power to pump the ball explosively, she thinks she will never lose to "Ke ○".

Buzz――――

It turns out that not all the problems in the world can be solved with fists, and it is certainly not a superficial problem of "one punch is not enough to give two punches".

Don't use your fists, use your brains...... To find out where little John is, you have to do some reasoning.

Kidnap?

I remember my sister Sophia mentioned that the human slave trade was forbidden within the borders of the Empire. Of course, this cannot be used as a material to deny kidnapping, because in the past, the earth was also forbidden to trade in human beings, but the industry of human traffickers is still thriving.

However, Celia is a small town the size of sesame mung beans, and the townspeople were very familiar with it before, and it is impossible for outsiders to enter the city to tie up a child, and then go out of the city without knowing it.

Veto.

Buzz――――

So unexpected?

In the creek next to the secret base, John stumbled and fell into the river, and then drowned and was washed away - it was impossible.

It was a river, but it was just a knee-high stream, and the current was not turbulent at all, and if John was stupid enough to drown in such a place, it would be a miracle that he lived to be seven years old.

Buzz――――

"Ahh

The irascible Alice grabbed her hand with a punch, and the wooden door of the windmill tower next to her, which was originally a little dilapidated, was forcefully knocked away, "What the hell is going on on the top of this windmill tower!"

"Eh...... Miss Alice, do you hear anything?"

"It's the top of the tower, the top of the tower! That super annoying beep, can't you hear Uncle Charlie?

The buzzing sound shook Alice's eardrums for a moment, and Charlie shook his head.

"I heard it too~~Buzzing!So we haven't been near the windmill tower lately~~!"

"Me too~~!"

Surprisingly, the children gave a different answer than Charlie, and they all heard the noise coming from the top of the tower just like Alice.

"Haven't been near the Windmill Tower lately?"

"Uh-huh~~No~~!"

However, Alice looked down and found a clear, small footprint on the dusty side of the door.

This can be said to be the decisive moment in advancing the solution of the case.

Alice raised her gaze to the top of the windmill tower, and saw the sail windmill with bamboo support, slowly rotating in the breeze.

After a pretentious contemplation—

"According to my reasoning...... John should be in the Windmill Tower!"

It's not reasoning at all, it's just that a blind cat has met a dead mouse.

But no matter what, there is finally a clue.

"Really, really!?Miss!!John――――――!!"

Upon hearing this, Charlie rushed into the tower like an arrow.

But in the next second, in the scream of "Wow, a

Yes, although this is the first floor, and the windmill tower does not have a basement, Charlie still rolled "down".

Because the floor was gone, it was not because the wood was aged and Charlie had stepped on, and the floor was lifted along the neat cracks to the sides, and after swallowing Charlie, it immediately merged into its original state......

Simply inexplicable trap.

"Ahh

Alice shouted loudly, and hurriedly picked up her heels and buckled them down to the seemingly old floor. However, the floor was not pierced by the hard blow, but only left a deep dent, which quickly changed back to its original shape.

For such a wonderful phenomenon, Alice is deeply impressed, and the same is true of the practice square that was smashed by herself not long ago. The floor in front of me was no longer wood, but had been replaced with a special material.

And there is only one person in the entire city who can make such a trap - Alize El Crusner.

"Ai-Li-Ze-!!"

As he roared, he ran through the streets, his feet scraping a bright spark on the ground and leaving a pitch-black scorch mark on the pavement.

"Well, Miss Alice, what's the matter?"

Hilda, who was cleaning in front of the Lord's Mansion, asked.

"100,000 urgent! Ariezel is not there!?"

"No...... Miss Eliezer and Miss Sophia went out together today. ”

"Where have you been, do you know!?"

"I didn't tell you, I just said that I wouldn't go home until the evening. ”

"Oh, that's a good thing! those two girls just chose to go out at this time......! In that case, I'll have to rely on myself!"

With that, Alice sped along the same path, looking at the girl's back in the distance, and the puffs of green smoke rising from the road, Hilda tilted her head in confusion.

Back in the windmill tower, Alice struggled to break through the trap with brute force and jumped headlong into it.

At the bottom of the trap is a man-made passage, undoubtedly the work of Ariz.

"Love, Miss Alice?"

"Oh, Uncle Charlie, are you alright?"

It didn't take long to find Charlie, who had been killed, but John was still nowhere to be found.

Although it is now underground, the walls glow with an incredible glow, so that you can't lose sight of your fingers. Alice thought to herself that if John had fallen yesterday, he would have gone to the depths.

"It's okay, it's okay...... But why do you ...... too?"

"Of course I'm here to save you and John, after all, ninety percent of this trap was made by my naughty sister, I'm really sorry, uncle. ”

Alice bowed her head in embarrassment and apologized.

Then the two of them marched together towards the inside of the passage, and once they found John, they brought him back to the trap, and Alice was startled and told the children to get the adults to help, believing that soon someone would bring a rope ladder or something.

The road doesn't lead all the way, and there are several forks in the road that make the whole passage feel like a maze.

Alice couldn't help but complain in her heart why Alizar had to make such a troublesome passage under the town.

Soon, the two came to an end.

"Ah...... Dead end, hey......"

"Wait, Miss Alice, there's something written here. ”

"What's written!?"

Since Alice could not read the imperial language at all, after all, she was still young and did not have an education to read and write, and now she can only rely on Charlie's interpretation.

By the way, the reason why Ariezel was able to read and write smoothly was because she had the memory and knowledge of the sage Edward.

"I'll take a look...... The wall at the end, pierced by brute force—"

"Leave it to me!

"Absolutely not. ”

"Eh......!?whoa, whoa!!"

Alice's shoulder had just touched the wall, and the wall spun inward like a revolving door, swallowing her in. Immediately afterward, there was a rattling sound of water pouring from the opposite side of the door.

Pitfall.

"[Dragon Roar]-!"

A dazzling golden light pierced the wall, and the water gushed out with a thud, sending Alice and Charlie drift to a fork in the road.

Alice, who was drenched in breath, panted and looked unpleasant, but she finally forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart.

"Yes, I'm sorry Miss Alice!"

"Don't blame you, Uncle Charlie...... Let's go the other way. ”

The wet two moved in another direction, but they didn't go long, and what awaited them was another fork in the road.

"Miss Alice, there's writing here again!"

"Oh......?"

"Turn right ......"

This time Alice learned to be obedient and did not act rashly.

"Triggers the Shock Trap. ”

“...... Hum. ”

Alice has figured out her sister's pranks, which makes her smile proudly.

"So, keep walking straight ahead...... Find the button on the right-hand side. “

"Found it!"

"Don't press. ”

“.................................... I've pressed it, woo-woo-woo......"

It turns out that the so-called conditioned reflex is not so easy to overcome.

"Miss Alice!?"

I saw that countless gravel from the front was ejected.

"Don't panic!

Fortunately, these kinds of physical traps don't pose much of a threat to Alice. Her fists danced countless afterimages, shattering all the flying rubble.

"Whew...... It's disgusting! Elize, this girl, is making some trouble......

As if to cover up her successive failures, Alice clenched her fists and said hatefully.

"Miss Alice!, look over there!!"

Charlie suddenly pointed ahead and shouted excitedly, and following the direction of his finger, he saw the figure of a young man, lying there with his back against the wall.