The police car stopped in the distance, and the boy and Kokarasuma walked into a coffee shop on the side of the road, of course they weren't going on a date.

This café was written in Akina-san's diary, the one where she and Ryuhei Aizawa met privately.

At this time, there were not many customers in the store, and after the two of them came in, they walked straight to the proprietress on the other side of the counter.

"Excuse me, are you the owner? We have something we want to ask. ”

The boy cut straight to the point and handed an investigation order to the proprietress in front of him.

Since he has not officially joined the police, the boy does not have a police officer card at present, which is why the boy used to be accompanied by two criminal police officers when he was investigating.

However, this time, in order not to bring some unnecessary negative impact to the operation of the store, the boy did not let the two criminal policemen follow up.

"Ah...... Good. ”

The proprietress in her forties looked at the investigation order, and then at the police car parked across the street outside the store, and immediately understood and nodded.

"These two came to your shop a week ago, and I don't know if you remember it."

Handing over the photos of Akina Kanda and Ryuhei Aizawa respectively, the boy asked.

Compared to the boy's skillful and calm attitude, the little Karasuma beside him was much more nervous.

Although I have followed the boy to many crime scenes for more than a year, and I have experienced many similar investigations and interrogations, those are basically private interrogations like the previous interrogations of Kukai Luko and Kida Ellie, and it is the first time that Kokarsuma has experienced a more formal occasion like today.

Therefore, from the moment she first entered the door, she had always kept a straight face, raised her head and chest, opened her eyes wide, did not squint, and had a completely "I'm serious now, don't joke with me" expression, leaving the boy next to her speechless.

"Ahh These two people! Remember to remember! ”

The boy thought that the proprietress still needed to recall, but she didn't think about it, she just glanced at the photo, then quickly nodded, with a certain narrow smile on her face, and said:

"I was very impressed with these two people! This little girl should not be an adult, she was still wearing a school uniform when she came, the man looked more than ten years older than her, he was in a suit and leather shoes, he was polite, he looked like a serious person, I felt that the relationship between the two people may not be ordinary, I'm afraid it's not a teacher and a student, hehehe......"

The proprietress raised her hand to cover her mouth and let out an incomprehensible laugh, probably because she was afraid that there was also a minor Karasuma present, so she didn't finish the rest of the sentence.

"What did they say or do here at the time, or it didn't seem like it to you...... Is it the right move? The boy continued, his words very tactful.

"If you really want to say it...... I don't remember it. ”

The proprietress recalled it carefully, then shook her head, and by the way, she raised her hand and pointed to a corner of the window in the store.

"Well, there weren't many customers in the store at that time, so they just sat in that position, that is, they came to drink some coffee, ate some dessert and left......

As she spoke, the proprietress took out a thick ledger from under the counter, flipped to one of the pages, and said:

"Two cups of coffee and a dessert to be exact, the dessert was ordered by the man for the little girl, and when they left at the end I remember the man paid for it......

As for what they said to each other, then I don't know, after all, the two of them were talking very quietly at the time, probably because they were afraid of me hearing something, although I was also curious, but this kind of thing is not easy to listen to, right?

Well, little officer, based on my experience as a passer-by, I'm not sure about the man, but at least the little girl...... She must have been interested in the man...... The way she looked at the man at that time was about to drip water...... Hehehe......"

"Understood, thank you for your cooperation."

After getting the general information from the proprietress of the coffee shop, the boy and Kokarsuma went to another barbecue restaurant that she and Ryuhei Aizawa had visited together, as recorded in Akina's diary.

Unlike the coffee shop that they went to a week ago, this barbecue restaurant seems to have been there by the two more than a month ago.

Because of the long period of time, the shopkeeper couldn't recall the photo of the two of them when the boy brought out the photo, and it wasn't until the boy said the classic combination of "teacher and schoolgirl" that the shopkeeper finally remembered it and nodded his head repeatedly.

"Oooh! Yes, yes, yes! Yes! I remember that it's been a long time, it seems like more than a month ago, I was very impressed, it's the police officer, the two people in your photo, the man I knew at a glance must be a teacher, the woman is still wearing a school uniform, obviously a student!

At that time, I thought that there must be some relationship between these two people, but we are also the ones who run a store, and this kind of thing has nothing to do with us, so I didn't think much about it.

Not quite a good move? I don't think so, maybe it's because I always have customers in this store, right? After all, I didn't notice it anyway......

But I'm sure they're definitely not a normal teacher-student relationship! How can there be a normal male teacher and female student who will come to eat privately after school! And it's so close when you walk...... I'm married and have a wife, can't I see this kind of thing? ”

“……”

After asking Kanda Akina and Ryuhei Aizawa about the two stores they had visited together in private, the boy went to the school again to find Ryuhei Aizawa.

The owners of both stores have deep memories of the two of them, and there are records of their consumption at that time in the ledger, plus Kanda Akina's own description in the diary.

These are enough to show that Kanda Akina and Aizawa Ryuhei do have a relationship that goes beyond normal teachers and students, but it is not clear how far their relationship has come.

Confirming this, the possibility of Ryuhei Aizawa's suspect has increased a lot, and the only thing that is still uncertain is the relationship between Ryuhei Aizawa and Sanae Miyamoto, another deceased.

If Ryuhei Aizawa is really the murderer in this case, then his motive may be hidden in it.

With these clues in hand, the boy decides that it is time to make an inquiry about Ryuhei Aizawa.

"Officer, I don't know what Akina-san's mind thinks of me, but I've always only thought of her as my student!

Qiu Na's grades have always been very good, and she is also the ace of our school's drama club, and she is the only one who has the ability to play the heroine of the Autumn Drama Festival......"

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