Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 602 Dangerous elements
The next morning, when Haixing woke up, Naruse and Takikawa Hikari had already gotten up, and the former had prepared breakfast for everyone.

"If you want to find someone, look for it carefully. Don't mess around, and don't wander around. Don't forget that you are still skipping school... If you have accurate information, tell me."

Song Qianqiu still had work to do today, so he explained it and left in a hurry with his assistant.

After Haixing, who got up last, finished his breakfast, Naruse tidied up and took the two of them out.

"The cat hero's home address is at Setagaya Sakuragaoka 2-chome..."

It was already past nine o'clock in the morning. When he got on the subway, Naruse looked down at the map and said, "I haven't been there either. Let's look for it slowly. Well, you still have to walk for a long time after getting off the subway. This road looks more complicated. Closer..."

Takigawa Hikaru sat aside and watched, then raised his eyes to scan the other passengers in the carriage.

"Speaking of which, today is Wednesday."

"Yes." Naruse responded, and quickly raised his gaze to look at her again.

"Harumi knows how old the cat hero is?"

"Listening to the voice, it sounds like a student..."

The two looked at each other.

"Hello, student. If you are too old, it will be difficult to cope with it." Haixing said.

Hikaru Takigawa looked over at Naruse and said, "But the problem is, under normal circumstances, students are going to school today."

"Ah...ah!"

From getting up to now, everything has been so natural. Only then did Haixing realize that he actually skipped school today.

"That trip is not in vain..."

"Let's go take a look first and then talk." Naruse sighed, "If she is really a student, we can only wait until she comes home from school."

More than ten minutes later, the tram arrived at the stop where the three of them wanted to get off.

“Chitose Funabashi—Chitose Funabashi, here we are—”

After coming out of the station, Naruse looked around, identified the direction, and then walked towards one of the roads with Haixing and Takikawa Hikaru.

"I always feel that it's so crowded here." After walking for a while, Haixing turned to look at the buildings on both sides of the path, "Houses are piled up next to each other."

"It's always more crowded next to the station." Naruse looked down at the map on his phone, "Let's keep going. It's still a 10-minute walk to get there."

After walking out of the path and walking along Chitose-dori Street for a while, a row of taller apartments appeared on the roadside.

Naruse compared the addresses and said to the two of them, "This is it."

The entrance to the apartment was still on the other side, and the three of them walked around it. Hikaru Takigawa said, "There shouldn't be any way to get into an apartment like this."

"Yeah." Naruse walked in and looked around. There was a small park underneath the apartment. "There will be an automatic door underneath. If you are not a resident, it will not open."

"Then how do we get up there?" Haixing asked.

He stopped, walked to a small park nearby, and asked Haixing to give him his phone.

"In addition to the automatic doors, there will also be a manager underneath, who will open the door for us."

"Eh?"

"Give me your phone first."

"Oh……"

Haixing handed over his phone, and Naruse entered the phone number he got yesterday, then looked at the time, "Just wait a while."

The three of them sat down on a cold bench in the park, and Hikaru Takigawa asked, "What are you waiting for?"

"Waiting for Cat Hero classmate to finish class, it's still class time and she can't answer the phone." Naruse said, "If she is a student."

"Do you want her to come back now?"

"It depends."

After waiting for a while, it was time for most schools to finish classes. Naruse used Haixing's mobile phone to make a call.

"Hello."

"Who are you..." Maomao Hero asked a little warily. She had received several inexplicable phone calls in the past two days.

There was a commotion on the other end of the phone, and Naruse was familiar with it. This was the noise during recess in school.

"I picked up something at Sakuragaoka Apartment Park. It has a name and the current number on it. Did you lose it?"

When he heard the name of the park downstairs, the other party immediately believed it, "Hey, what is it?"

"Yes...before that, I want to confirm your name first."

"Nakazato Ryoko."

Naruse let out a breath.

How could he be deceived so smoothly...

"That's the name. It seems like this is indeed your thing..."

He paused and a new idea came to his mind, "But I'm sorry, I can't tell you what you lost yet."

"Hey, why is this..."

"This thing is more expensive. I have to see you in person before I can take it out." There was silence over there, and there was another rustling sound, as if they were looking for something. After a while, she asked again: "Is it my student ID card?"

Naruse's heart skipped a beat, and after thinking for a moment, he felt that the possibility of the other party testing him in turn was low, so he said, "That's right."

"Ah, I remember leaving it at home... Well, could you please send your student ID card to the apartment manager?"

"No, in order to be responsible for the owner of this thing, I must see him in person."

"Hey, but I'm the owner...I'm in school now, and I won't be able to come out until noon at the earliest."

Naruse breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"It's okay. I happen to be on a business trip nearby and I won't leave until tomorrow. Please contact me again at noon, Nakazato-san."

"All right……"

He didn't give her a chance to ask more questions and hung up the phone.

Haixing and Takigawa Hikaru were watching him from the side, and suddenly they both took a step back.

"Crafter."

"It's so skillful... It sounds just like the real thing, even though there's nothing in my hands."

"Dangerous elements that affect social security."

Naruse rolled his eyes, ignored them, got up and left the park.

"Where are you going?" The two of them quickly followed.

"Find a warm place to sit. Your butt won't feel cold if you sit there."

There was a coffee shop not far away. The three of them went in and found a seat by the window, and each ordered a cup of coffee.

Seeing Naruse looking down at the map again, Haixing asked, "What else is Harumi looking for?"

"The girl said she could come back at noon, and she agreed quickly. The school should be very close to home... From the map, the nearest one is the Sakuragaoka District Junior High School, which is 100 meters away."

"middle School student?"

"It's so easy to deceive, so it must be."

"Haixing is also easy to trick." Hikaru Takigawa said with a smile.

Naruse also smiled, "He looks like a middle school student."

Haixing was dissatisfied, "It doesn't look the same..."

"It's like everywhere."

The three of them sat in the cafe until noon, when Haixing's phone rang.

"It's that girl!" She handed the phone to Naruse.

He gets on the phone.

"Well, I'm back from school, where are you..."

"Wait a moment, I'll be right over."

"Oh……"

After leaving the coffee shop, the three of them rushed to the apartment and saw a girl in uniform in the park below.

"Nakazato-san?"

"..."

As soon as she saw Naruse, she couldn't take her eyes away and looked at his face blankly, "Yes..."

The three of them went over together, and Haixing saw him wink at Takigawa Hikaru, who then stood behind the girl.

"I'm sorry, Nakazato-san, I didn't find your student ID card. You should still keep your things at home."

"Ah, okay...eh?"

Naruse stopped in front of her, "Do you remember those two strange phone calls yesterday afternoon? The first one was from me. In fact, I came here from Aomori specifically to find you."

"Aomori..."

The little sister, a middle school student, was already a little dumbfounded.

"Cat Hero, this is Nakazato's username on Amazon."

"what……"

"Last month, you bought a stuffed animal on Amazon. It was sent from Aomori Tsumae, right?"

Seeing her nodding blankly, Naruse felt relieved.

Shangzi has been missing for more than half a month, and now he has finally truly grasped the clues connecting her hiding place.

He took a deep breath and put on the gentlest smile on his face.

"Nakazato-kun, I have something I want you to help me with. Let's go to the coffee shop over there and have a good chat."

"OK……"

(End of this chapter)