The eight or nine-year-old blonde boy in front of him is named Yoni. Popov, his missing sister named Nova. Popov.

In the morning, the shelter had already asked all the questions, and no one had seen his sister today, and the person in charge of the shelter only took the little boy Yoni to the police station in nearby Edogawa Ward to register his disappearance, and then returned to the shelter without any follow-up.

The police officer who received him in the police station's inquiry room looked at the face of the little boy Yuni, and then heard that the other party was an orphan who had been exiled from the Grand Duchy of Shayash to the Wano Country Shelter in the north, and his attitude was obviously much more perfunctory.

After all, in Wano Country, there are too many cases of missing people every year, and some of them are either missing or temporarily running away from home, and if all the people in the police station take over the case and dispatch immediately, there will not be so many police resources.

Taking a step back, even if there were, the priority of these police resources would certainly be those missing children in their own country whose parents were squatting at police stations to urge.

If this is not done properly, those parents may use various channels to make the police station unable to live in peace.

But children like Yuni and Nova who have been displaced from the disintegrated Grand Duchy of Shayash have no father, no mother, and no one cares, so they can be dragged back appropriately, and maybe they will find their own.

Or... I really can't find it.

......

At this time, looking at Yuni standing at the door, nervous and nervous, his eyes looked up at Xia Li in front of him from time to time, as if this was the only lifeline he could find his sister.

Damn human traffickers.

Higashinohara cursed in his heart.

From Yoni's description, his sister Nova, who lives with him in New Tokyo, has a very normal movement and intelligence, and even if she goes out on weekdays, she will not forget the way home, let alone leave the shelter without permission, after all, there is still her brother who depends on her life.

And Nova also has a mobile phone on her body, even if she is really lost or encounters normal trouble, she can call her mobile phone for help.

In this situation, the only thing Higashinohara can think of is human traffickers, and Nova's is indeed the preferred target of those people.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara's gaze drifted to Xia Li again.

The little boy Yuni contacted her based on the contact information of the Aragaki Detective Agency, and saw her as the last straw for his sister.

If Xia Li refuses, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the little boy to find his sister in any other way.

Maybe many years later, on a morning foggy morning like today, he will think of his sister who disappeared into the morning fog that day, and then hate himself again for being weak and incompetent at that time...

But will the Tiger Girl Xia Li refuse?

"It's just too deceitful!"

Slap in the face!

Soon!

Xia Li patted the small square table on the tatami mat with one hand, and said indignantly:

"Aren't the people in the shelter responsible for every child? And the people in the police department, do they want to cold deal with the case and wait for the case to expire? It's so deceitful! ”

After finishing speaking, Xia Li turned around and said to Yuni seriously, "Don't worry! Now that my detective Xia Li knows, I will definitely not let it go, and we promise to help you find your sister. ”

"Really?"

Uni's little face suddenly lit up, and he stared at Xia Li excitedly.

My sister was the only one he relied on in this world after his parents died in the chaos of the revolutionary army.

He quickly lowered his head and rummaged through his pockets for a while, and finally found a small stack of crumpled green banknotes, and handed them to Xia Li with his hands blushing.

Higashinohara glanced at the currency that had been issued by the Grand Duchy of Shayash, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

The Grand Duchy of Shayash has long since disintegrated, and the banknotes that this little guy took out are almost the same as "underworld coins".

Yuni, who blushed and blushed, also seemed to know that these were worthless, and whispered, "My sister told me that we can't buy delicious food with our money, but that's all I have, and my mother only gave us these when she asked us to hide, oh yes!" ”

Yuni's big olive-green eyes suddenly lit up slightly, and he took the small gray schoolbag he was carrying from his body and put it on the ground for a while.

In the end, he took out a few bullet shells and glass balls, which were regarded as treasures by children, and held them in front of Xia Li more solemnly than before, and said reluctantly, "These... These are my most dear..."

"Of course, the most precious things should be kept by yourself." Before he could finish his sentence, Xia Li interjected and interrupted him.

Shaking the green Shayash Grand Duchy banknotes in her hand, she said with a proud face, "It's enough to have these, your commission, my detective Xia Li next, don't worry, we will definitely help you find your sister, right, Higashino-kun?" ”

Well?

yes, what the hell is Higashino-kun?

Higashinohara was stunned for a few seconds.

Immediately, he coughed dryly and nodded slightly in Yoni's expectant gaze.

An extremely happy smile suddenly bloomed on the latter's face, as if he had only breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

Don't look at Yoni's age, only nine years old, but after experiencing such unimaginable drastic changes as the ruins of the country and the displacement of ordinary people, his mind is far more precocious than that of ordinary children.

There were a total of four people in this room, and from the moment he entered the door, he saw Higashimohara sitting on the tatami mat in this room facing the main seat of the door, Kolotia next to him from time to time to add food and rice, and Nishimaru Miri, who was about the same age as him, was also dominated by Higashinohara.

Even Xia Li, who acts recklessly and likes to boast, Yuni has noticed that every time this big sister with long ears on her head says a word, her eyes will glance at the big brother sitting in the main seat from time to time, and he behaves exactly like him in front of his sister Nova, and he immediately knows who the "talker" is.

Now that the speaker nodded, of course he was happy.

......

Higashinohara naturally didn't know that he had become a "talker" in the eyes of the little boy Yoni, and he would nod his head, and it was definitely impossible to get money.

Even if Xia Li gave half of the small stack of banknotes to Higashinohara, Higashinohara would have no value other than commemorative significance.

What will it be worth in a few years? At that time, the descendants of the Grand Duchy of Shayash were not there...

The reason why Higashinohara agrees is that he has had the experience of Nishimaru Miri last year, and he has always hated human traffickers.

On the other hand, the [Crime Manual] in his mind may not refuse these traffickers.

Speaking of which, the [Guilty Handbook] triggers the quest completely randomly, and the guilt value is only a reference, and there are no specific rules.

But the crimes of these human traffickers are definitely worth a lot of money, and if they can be caught along the line of Yuni's missing sister, they can try to save people at the same time, and Higashinohara naturally has no reason to refuse.

......

At this time, seeing Higashinohara nodding, Xia Li, who was holding on to her face, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Now the unscrupulous uncle of the Aragaki Detective Agency, Satoru Aragaki, doesn't care about anything at all, and retreats behind the scenes to be a charter company, and Xia Li is taking care of everything in the office.

But it's okay for her to follow up and vote for extramarital affairs, after all, the client provided a specific name and route, and she doesn't have to worry about being treated as an "idiot" as a girl, and it is effortless to track.

But the current situation is that apart from the photos provided by Yoni and limited personal information, they do not know anything about the missing Nova.

If Higashinohara didn't nod, then Xia Li would probably be a bit of a Muggle.

At this time, Xia Li immediately came up excitedly and asked, "Higashinohara... So what do we do now? ”

It can be seen that I have been having an extramarital affair for so long... Investigation, Xia Li, a famous detective, was also panicked, and now there is finally a "big case".

What now?

Higashinohara looked at the gurgling "Flame Demon Suki Pot" on the table, and then looked at the little boy Yuni who was standing on the other side of the table with a rumbling stomach, sighed and said, "What else can I do, let's eat first." ”

As soon as she heard what she was eating, Xia Li suddenly stopped being excited, and went over to serve a bowl of rice to Yuni, and moved her ass to Higashinohara's side, giving Yuni a little place.

Yoni's personality seems to be more introverted, and he is very embarrassed to see this, but his rumbling stomach really can't hide from everyone, so he can only sit timidly on the corner of the table with his butt timidly.

"Let's eat first, and when you're full, you have the strength to go to my sister!" Xia Li knows how to comfort and enlighten people, and when she looks at her like that, she knows that she must not be less enlightening than she is.

Yuni, who had been keeping his head down after sitting down, heard that he was looking for his sister, so he barely cheered up, picked up his chopsticks and ate two bites, but he rarely saw him hissing.

This is the Flame Demon Suki Pot.

The little one is not afraid of spicy?

Higashinohara looked at it twice before he reacted.

It's not that I'm not afraid of spicy, I'm afraid I've never eaten such delicious things, it seems that life in the overseas juvenile shelter is not easy.

.....

After eating, Kolotia removed the pot and cleaned up the dishes, and Xia Li pulled Higashinohara and began to discuss how to help Yuni find his sister Nova.

Although Higashinohara is not a famous detective, he also knows what it means to be a smooth vine with strong logical thinking ability.

The current "vine" is not in the police station, and it is estimated that the case has not even been opened there, but in the shelter where Yuni and Nova live.

"That's right!"

Xia Li clapped her hands, her eyes flashing with a burning light, "That shelter is so irresponsible and accustomed to it, it's definitely not the first time that the child has gone missing, maybe they still collude with someone outside!" ”

Looking at Xia Li's conspiracy theory look, Higashinohara shook his head.

Without further ado, since he decided to help, Higashinohara said hello to Kolotia after eating, changed his clothes and prepared to go out.

In the hallway, Charlie and Yoni were ready to go.

Unexpectedly, Nishimaru Miri didn't know when she also changed into a coffee-colored suit, wearing a pair of small black round-toed leather shoes, and her golden wavy hair was smoaning in the sun.

"What? You're going with you too? ”

"Uh-huh!"

Nishimaru nodded decisively.

Higashinohara hesitated.

Then I thought that Nishimaru Miri had been bored at home for many days during spring break, just like him, and he didn't neglect to exercise on weekdays.

Now that there is a big chaos in the country of Wano, it is impossible for me to protect her all the time in the future, and it seems that it is not bad to take the opportunity to experience it.

"Okay, let's go together." Higashinohara nodded immediately.

Nishimaru Miri's little face suddenly became happy, revealing an extremely happy expression.

Higashinohara has always been a loner, and rarely takes her with him.

The person who is always protected also wants to do something even small for the person who protects her.

......

Located in the northeast of Shin Tokyo, Edogawa Ward is known as the "Shitamachi Three Brothers" along with Adachi and Katsushika Wards, and is separated from Chiba Prefecture by the wide river "Edogawa River", making it a common living area that is very different from the center of New Tokyo.

In layman's terms, the price of goods is low, the rent is cheap, and the transportation is not very convenient, but the crime rate is quite high, and even some wealthy people in New Tokyo think that Edogawa Ward is considered the Tokyo metropolitan area, but it is not part of New Tokyo.

The Overseas Juvenile Shelter is located near Koiwa, Calamus Garden, Edogawa Ward, a few streets away from the Aragaki apartment where Higashinohara lives.

Higashinohara and Natsuri rode on the landlord Satoru Aragaki and her own motorcycle, carrying Nishimaru Miri and Yuni respectively, and arrived at the juvenile shelter in a short time.

It was a small courtyard on the second floor that looked a bit like a nursery school, and when Higashinohara and Xia Li parked their cars and knocked on the door, they could hear the noisy sounds of children playing inside from time to time through the gate and the fence.

The door was opened by an aunt in overalls, probably in her fifties, who was a little strange when she saw Higashinohara and Xia Li standing outside the door.

They are all homeless, fatherless and motherless children from abroad, and under normal circumstances, few people come to visit, not to mention that Higashinohara and Xia Li look like locals.

But at this moment, she looked down and saw Yuni hiding behind Xia Li, and was stunned for a moment before reacting.

Higashinohara stepped forward to explain the situation to the other party, and Xia Li stared at the other party from behind.

She decided that there might be something wrong with the shelter, and was ready to salute before soldiers after being rejected by the other party.

But unexpectedly, the shelter did not refuse their visit, and their attitude was very kind.

The elderly aunt quickly led them into the reception room of the shelter and made them tea as she left.

Xia Li glanced at the tea, hesitated for a moment, picked it up and smashed it twice, and suddenly leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Dongye, will there be medicine in this tea?" ”

The corners of Higashinohara's eyes twitched, but he didn't speak.

Do you dare to drink it if you suspect that you are drugged?

After a while, the head of the shelter walked in.

It looks like a woman in her thirties, dressed plainly, and her appearance looks very kind and kind.

When she walked over, the children playing in the yard stopped to call her aunt when they saw her, and they were very popular with the children.

Xia Li was a little stunned when she saw this.

In her imagination, the person who came in should be a fierce and vicious person who would not be easy to get along with at first sight.

With a strong sense of justice, she must have struck hard, and after a set of Tianhu Six Styles is completed, it is no problem to do it again with two, two, three, four.

But the woman in front of her has a gentle temperament, and there is a faint feeling of Kolotia, and the children also like her, which makes Xia Li a little passive...

Fortunately, Higashinohara never had a preconceived idea that containment was a problem, so it was no surprise at this time.

After sitting down and saying hello, he asked in detail about when Yoni's sister disappeared this morning, when the shelter found out, and whether Nova had been bullied recently.

After some inquiry, Higashinohara was silent and asked, "So... Two days ago, Nova had a conflict with a girl named Xia in the shelter, saying that she was going to leave here one day? ”

The woman sitting opposite smiled helplessly, "Well, many children heard it at that time, children at this age have strong self-esteem and are prone to conflicts, although I called them to mediate once after the incident, and the two little girls also shook hands and made peace, but I didn't expect Nova to suddenly leave the shelter today." ”

Higashinohara glanced at the little boy Yuni who was a little stunned in the corner, he didn't seem to know that his sister Nova had quarreled with someone a few days ago, and his eyes suddenly became a little flustered, like a puppy afraid of being discarded.

Higashinohara retracted his gaze, continued to look at the woman opposite and said, "Then you mean, Nova is running away from home?" ”

"I can't guarantee it."

The woman shook her head and said helplessly, "It's just that this kind of situation has happened before the shelter, some children come back on their own in the evening or at most the next morning, but some children... Alas..."

She sighed and didn't continue.

Higashinohara looked at the woman's expression, not like she was lying.

In fact, if you think about it, their job is to take care of so many children, or foreign children with different eating habits, and it is not easy to make so many children like her.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything else, Higashinohara nodded, then got up and said, "Excuse me, thank you for your time, then we'll go first." ”

Seeing this, the woman also got up to see her off, and said that if Higashinohara and they found news of Nova, they must contact her as soon as possible.

When she went out, Xia Li seemed to be a little embarrassed because she had been imagining the other party to be a vicious villain, so she turned her head and bowed solemnly, and hurriedly turned around but almost hit the door frame.

This second cargo...

The corner of Higashinohara's eyes twitched.

He sighed and glanced at the children playing on the slide in the yard.

He suddenly had an idea in his heart, and he was going to ask a random child who "Xia Xia" was, and find the other party to verify what he had just said.

A teenager is not yet mentally mature, and it is difficult for him to lie in front of him.

Unexpectedly, when he went out, Nishimaru Miri, who was following behind him, quietly pulled the corner of Higashinohara's clothes.

Higashinohara turned his head,

He looked at Nishimaru Miri with some confusion.

Nishimaru Miri turned around and quietly pointed to the woman in the room behind him who had personally cleaned up the tea set, and whispered in a low voice, "Big brother, she lied." ”

Lied?

How do you know?

It stands to reason that Higashinohara should have asked.

But he didn't ask.

Because Higashinohara remembered the ability of one of Nishimaru's twin talents.

Talent Sequence 28 Listening.

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