It was close to 4 p.m., and parents began to gather near the school gate.

There are also more vehicles and Pokémon parked on the side of the road, and they are lined up along the streets in a staggered formation, just like the armies that children put together randomly in a sandbox game.

I just jumped from the clock tower of the school, and went to the bathroom of a nearby restaurant to change into a mature blue, so I naturally mixed in.

This time she squeezed to the front of the crowd and tried to talk to the security guard standing at the entrance of the nursery school.

"There don't seem to be many staff and teachers in this school, and in terms of the number of people, the underground garage under the playground should be relatively small, and there should not be a few parking spaces, right?"

After a few brief greetings, I found that Mr. Security was in a state of panic, and the acting detective lady directly threw out the question.

There is probably no security guard in the world who will be bored enough to measure the depth of the underground garage, but idleness is idleness, and instead of waiting for the children to get out of school with eager parents, it is better to have a casual chat with the staff to gather information.

However, in the face of Bilan's inquiry, Mr. Security shook his head with a very serious attitude-

"The garage also doubles as an evacuation security system for nearby residents, so it's designed to be spacious enough to park dozens of private cars. When the garage was first built, many nearby residents would park their cars in the kindergarten at night until the school re-established the rules for admission. ”

"Huh? Isn't the garage empty now? Bilan asked with interest as she pushed her disguised flat glasses.

"I use it a few times when the school has a sports day, and the rest of the time is really idle. However, it is better than when a natural disaster strikes and the children cannot find a place to evacuate. The security guard replied as a matter of course.

The ancient kingdom of the United States was once destroyed by the legendary two-headed dragon, and ancient books record the scene of divine fire falling from the sky and thunder raging the earth in black and white. Dynasties that have lost their ideals are bound to fall, and kingdoms that have abandoned reality are bound to collapse—in a sense, the inhabitants of the United Nation today are all survivors of that catastrophe.

At the end of the mythology, the world-destroying monsters are simply asleep, not completely dead, and there is no guarantee that they will not awaken again and punish the current United Alliance.

As a result, the urban designers of the United League are more anxious than in other regions, and have even tacitly set an unwritten rule - "Rather than having all the coalition politicians from now on implement their ideals and respect reality, we might as well build a few more bomb shelters."

After all, in addition to legendary Pokémon, some rampage Pokémon will also attack the city, so it's important to be prepared. In addition, the possibility of a large-scale laser weapon on a city by terrorists on a space carrier cannot be ruled out......

"I happened to be studying a related subject in college, so I was a little concerned. If it is used as an air defense facility, the garage should have at least two entrances and exits, right? ”

Turquoise recalls the building codes she had seen in passing while consulting sewer maps in the past, and while hiding her motives, she shifted the conversation to the structure of the garage.

The security guard took a deep look at the girl in front of him: "You know a lot, but it's not a big deal, and it doesn't matter if you tell you." In addition to this ramp next to the gate, another exit is behind the playground. ”

"Is it near the bell tower?" Blue's previous investigation didn't see another exit from the garage, so it was a bit of a surprise.

"Inside the bell tower, it's a safe passage up and down the stairs." The security guard looked at his watch and saw that there was still some time before the end of school, so he yawned and continued, "The route up the stairs and the bell tower is staggered, and few people even the teachers in the school know about it. ”

The stairs are misaligned with each other, and it is because the steep stairs of the bell tower do not meet the current standards, so they are set up separately from each other.

Bilan complimented heartily, "You know so much." ”

"I was a security guard here before the school playground was renovated, and watching that garage dig up day by day, smelling the smell of dirt and ash all summer vacation, it is natural to see clearly."

I didn't expect that a security guard at the school gate could provide so much information, and the inquiry of the relevant person was really an important part of the case investigation.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Security, do you know how many meters the ceiling of the underground garage is from the ground?"

"It's more than two meters, at least the cross-section you saw when you built it is so thick, what's wrong?"

The two-meter-thick physical partition can't drive the children on the other side, even if it is a powerful "teleportation". In addition, almost all of the psychic manipulation moves could not penetrate this thickness of concrete, and the ghost-based skills were very reluctant......

Blue vetoed the possibility of the superpowered elf manipulating the young child underground, and replied with a smile on her face-

"No, it's nothing, I'm going to take my relative's child down there in a while, is that okay?"

Previously, Bilan had already contacted the parents of the little client, and they agreed to have the boy escorted from school by a reliable detective lady, and she could also take the opportunity to enter the school for the second time.

Mr. Security waved his hand indifferently, indicating that the next time was when parents could enter the school freely, and if they were just moving around the underground garage, there would be no problem at all.

Miss Detective made small talk to the security guard a few more times, trying to hear about the school's past. However, Mr. Security's understanding of the history of the school is far less than that of seeing the garage built with his own eyes, and after not chatting twice, he fell into a situation where he didn't know anything, and the girl had no choice but to give up.

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Nursery school is finally out.

The bell that once shook the blue eardrums rang violently again, and this time there was finally no need to plug the ears with cotton.

The guardians who had been waiting for a long time began to stir.

Mr. Security pressed the button, the school gate slowly opened, and parents poured into the school like a school of weak tench, walking to the corresponding class to claim their children.

After all, this is a preschool school, and even if it is only after school, the school does not dare to let children run around the campus. Therefore, there will be a teacher in each class who will not leave the classroom until all the children have been picked up by their parents.

Blue arrives at the client's class, and among the children, she sees the familiar little boy - and Sachiko's child next to him.

"Detective...... Big sister! ”

Before Blue beckoned, the boy spotted the surrogate detective, left the little girl, and rushed forward.

Bilan didn't even take off her disguise glasses, and the boy found her first.

"Mom and Dad are in a bit of a hurry today, so they entrusted me with the task of escorting you from school, and asked me to pick you up and take you home."

Feeling a bit like a kidnapper abducting a minor, Bilan touched the boy's head in a friendly way, explaining her intentions to the boy at a volume that the teacher could just hear in the distance to prove her innocence.

"Is that the one you said earlier?"

The acting detective pointed to the little girl she had seen in the bell tower in the morning, and asked the client in confirmation.

The girl lowered her head, still looking introverted, wearing an extra white coat than in the morning, and the jewelry on her chest was also covered.

She was looking this way, too.

"That's right, big sister, listen to me......" The boy said to Bilan with some excitement, "Today, during the morning activity class, Sachiko disappeared again. ”

"Huh?" The acting detective tilted his head in confusion, "Do you have two activity classes in the morning?" ”

There was no way that there would have been a disappearance when he was free on the playground, and since the boy said so, it must have happened again after that, right? The Pokémon that caused this incident is really a needle......

"No, there is only one session in the morning activity class. At that time, we were playing grid jumping in the classroom, and then, Sachiko suddenly disappeared. ”

Only one activity class in the morning?

Bilan raised her eyebrows, feeling that something was wrong.

"I'm not disappearing!"

Turning her head at the voice, Bilan found that the girl named Sachiko had also walked to her side, which was the first time the acting detective had heard the girl's voice.

The girl was a little scared, and instead of facing Bilan, she said to the boy—

"When you were playing with the grid, I traveled to a parallel time and space, and I went to the playground with you in the parallel world, huh...... I didn't move much, but I just sat in my chair all the time. ”

"Ping...... Parallel time and space? So, you too today? The little client turned his head and looked at Sachiko in surprise.

"Yes, on the playground, I've been talking to you in parallel time and space for a long time. Although it's just you talking to me. ”

The girl and the boy chattered and described the time of the time.

Bilan looked around with a headache, and one parent after another was pulling their children out of the class. In this kindergarten classroom, where everything is one size smaller, the world seems to have a subtle dislocation-

Why did Sachiko disappear from her class?

Where did the girl go after she disappeared?

What was the "parallel time and space" she saw?

What is the sight that Blue herself sees from the bell tower?

Who caused this whole incident and for what?

Inhale.

Exhale.

Between the entanglement of thoughts, Bilan took a deep breath, and then asked the boy one last time-

"Didn't any of your classes leave the class this morning?"

"Yes...... If Sachiko isn't included, that's it. She's time-traveling, and she doesn't know if it's a departure from the classroom. The boy replied honestly.

It's a trip through time.

Did you follow Sachiko and "travel through time and space" together?

Hmph, what an interesting case.

As the first case of Detective Azure, it is really suitable.

I saw the corners of the bespectacled detective Detective's mouth hooked.

The right hand was slowly raised, and the clenched fist was raised in front of the boy's eyes.

Then, with a snap of his fingers.

"I see, the fog clears. I have solved all the mysteries of this commission. ”