episode_0172

“Jeff? You’re not going to eat any more?”

Amy waved the chocolate in front of me with a worried expression.

The chocolate, which showed off its sparkle reflecting the warm sunlight, was giving off such an alluring fragrance.

But now is the time to endure.

I swallowed hard and answered.

“Now, now I have to stop eating!”

“Suddenly?”

Oh, was it too sudden?

Can I eat a little more?

I looked at Amy’s expression, put out my mouth, and took a bite of her chocolate.

As I was tasting the chocolate melting in my mouth, I felt the feel of my cell phone in my pocket.

“Um, Amy, please take a look at this.”

I had to do something.

It’s already been a week since Amy gave me the mission.

I had to report something to her.

That was the minimum conscience I had.

I held my phone out in front of Amy and showed her the picture.

I’m talking about that photo that’s so broken and blurry that you can’t really see it.

“Wow~ Jeff took really good pictures~”

But Amy started complimenting me.

I opened my mouth in shock.

She knew I took this picture.

As I was staring blankly with my mouth open, Amy started stuffing chocolate into my mouth.

Once it’s in my mouth, I’ll eat it, but…

I mumbled with an expression on my face that made me neither laugh nor cry.

“That’s not it!”

But there was still a lot of chocolate left.

Amy kept putting chocolate into my mouth.

I was so annoyed by the mouth that just took whatever was given to it.

“Give me some too.”

This time, chocolate started to enter Shine’s mouth.

I melted all the chocolate in my mouth and said to Amy.

“Amy! Look at this. This is information I got from the publisher. Oh, why did I go to the publisher? Well, first of all, I have to start the story from the library…”

I started explaining with great effort.

Bring up the story of going to the library and briefly describe what happened there.

A thick book containing the city’s records.

A suspicious thing I found in the book.

As I went up to find the suspicious spot, I found a publishing company.

As my explanation continued, Amy became more and more absorbed in my story.

“This is a photo I got there. Look, this is a photo from the museum, right? And they say the publisher’s president and the museum director are close…”

“Okay. Ah~”

“Ahh…”

A large lollipop is thrust in front of the mouth that is speaking earnestly.

It looked so delicious, sparkling like the Milky Way, that I took a bite without even realizing it.

When I roll the Milky Way candy in my mouth, my cheeks puff up.

I muttered, gently caressing my cheek.

“That’s all I found out… Actually, I found out a weird number, but I don’t know what it’s used for…”

I took out my notebook and showed Amy the numbers.

■■■ 77995. Could this be a password somewhere?

But Amy looked at the number I gave her and answered right away.

“Isn’t this the vehicle number?”

The words thrown out lightly sent ripples through my head.

Yes, why did I forget that simple thing?

A puzzle piece that didn’t fit together flies in and falls.

The painting that could not be completed because it was missing just one piece has been completed.

I jumped up from my seat.

“Car!”

I immediately installed a license plate search app on my phone and searched for all the cars in Zone 2 that had that license plate number.

The numbers coming up are in the thousands, but we catalog the most suspicious of them all, the type of car that seems to have a museum connection.

As I took out my notebook and started scribbling something, Amy seemed interested and came over and sat down next to me.

“Jeff. What are you doing?”

“I think I found some very important information. I need to find the car with this number among the cars heading to the museum.”

Amy lifted my body up and sat me on her lap.

It wasn’t uncomfortable, but I squirmed a little because of the strange feeling, and Amy’s chin came up over my head.

“You already found out that much?”

Her gaze fell on my notebook.

I nodded and continued writing down the license plate number and model.

The handwriting is crooked, but it is legible. If it were just a little more polished, it would be a beautiful handwriting.

Dozens of passenger cars and a large truck were on board the ship.

I eliminated all the cheap models and re-sorted only the expensive models.

“Um…”

Five passenger cars and one truck.

I looked through the entire list after it was sorted.

If the vehicle was registered under an individual’s name, detailed information did not appear, but if the vehicle was managed separately by a company, the name of the company to which the vehicle belonged appeared.

All passenger cars were registered under individual names, but the large trucks were different.

It is a company vehicle.

White Peace.

A company name I’m hearing for the first time.

But somehow, it felt familiar.

I rolled the words “white peace” around in my mouth.

As expected, the pronunciation felt a little familiar.

“Amy, have you heard of this company?”

“White Peace?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm… No?”

Amy also seemed to have no information about this company.

I immediately searched for a company called White Peace.

But there is absolutely no information coming out.

A few images came to mind, but they were all white clothes and shoes.

No matter how hard I searched, I couldn’t find any information about the company.

This is it.

I struggled to get up from my seat, gripping my notebook tightly.

“Hey. Let go of this~”

Arms and legs flailing.

But Amy just smiled faintly and didn’t let me go.

“Jeff is really great.”

It felt good to be complimented, but right now I had work to do.

“Stop, stop praising me.”

“Why?”

“That’s…a little embarrassing…”

When I answered with my head down, he hugged me tighter than before.

The wind escapes from the mouth with a “hiii” sound as the stomach shrinks.

“Don’t worry.”

“Huh?”

“Because Victor is already gone.”

I just blinked, not understanding what Amy was saying.

Where did Victor go?

By the way, Victor was nowhere to be seen.

I thought I was sleeping until now, but thinking about it again, it was strange to sleep for this long.

“Oh. Wait a minute…”

Amy, who had been holding me tightly, suddenly let go of me.

My suffocating arm was freed and I was able to take a deep breath, but I felt a little sad about the empty space where my arm had been.

Amy was tapping away at her phone.

It looked like he was exchanging messages with someone.

“Um… I guess I should go out for a bit.”

Amy’s troubled expression turned to me.

I nodded my head and stepped forward to meet her gaze.

Me too. I want to go too.

As I reached out my hand with that meaning, her large hand rested on my head.

“Can you wait well?”

I didn’t answer.

“Is Jeff a good boy who listens well?”

I didn’t answer this time either.

The corners of the mouth droop and the lips protrude slightly.

I don’t feel well.

When I looked up with that meaning in mind, Amy smiled slightly and said.

“I’ll be back soon.”

Was I not trustworthy to her?

I worked hard to help, I worked hard to gather information.

Has it all become useless?

The hand holding the notebook became stronger.

Amy got up from her seat and quickly ran off, leaving behind a message for Lane to take good care of me and Shine.

Bang-bang-bang-the sound grew louder as her feet hit the pavement.

As Amy, who was getting further and further away, became as thin as a finger, a white current of air exploded from her body.

I jumped up from my seat.

“Jeff?”

“I have to go to the museum!”

“But Amy told me to wait quietly.”

Rain said that and stood in front of me.

I shook my head and passed Rain.

Amy ran towards the museum.

“No!”

“I’m going!”

“No!”

Rain stopped me with a stubborn look on his face.

She had a duty to keep Amy’s word.

“Shine!”

“Shine!”

Rain and I sang Shine at the same time.

Shine, who was sitting on the mat and eating candy, blankly raised her head.

“Why?”

“I have to go!”

“We have to stop it!”

As Rain and I shouted at the same time, Shine opened her mouth.

“Jeff. Why do you think Amy told you to be quiet?”

“That… That’s dangerous?”

“That’s right. It’s going to be very dangerous there.”

“But!”

“But that’s not it. Amy told us to wait because she was worried about us.”

I trembled at Shine’s words.

Because she was right.

“But, I want to help Amy!”

“Being quiet helps.”

The body that was trembling slowly calms down.

She was right.

It’s true.

However, children sometimes do not listen to adults even when they know it is wrong.

Maybe now is the time?

As I raised my head with a strange smile, Shine got up in a hurry.

She knew and sensed what I was thinking.

And so did I.

Dismissal-

A blue flash envelops the entire body.

The cells in my body move quickly as the electricity bursts out after a long time.

As I lightly kick the ground I was standing on, my vision changes in an instant.

I looked at Shine and Rain from a distance.

A blue electric current crackled where I had been standing, showing me that I had been there.

On the road just off the house’s yard, with no cars passing by, there was nothing to disturb me.

“Jeff!”

Shine’s expression becomes distorted.

Ignoring her worried gaze, I turned away.

“Jeff!”

Rain and Shine run towards me.

I’m going!

Dismissed-!

A long blue flash of light appears.

My body also runs along the path of light shot forward.

The surrounding scenery stretches out and disperses into afterimages.

My legs are hot.

My heart is pounding so hard it feels like it’s going to burst.

Still, my mind was calm.

We see our surroundings not with our eyes, but with thin, wide electric fields.

Avoid the car running in front by a width of paper.

Sparks – The vehicle starts to malfunction due to a spark that flows out while brushing past, causing the vehicle to veer abnormally.

A car that braked suddenly while going the wrong way skidded down the road, crossed the roadway, and crashed into a large utility pole.

bang!

I continued running, leaving behind the small explosion.

The speed is getting faster and faster.