A Scientific Urban Detective

“An underground arena? Is there really such an exaggerated competition?”

In Aiho Yomikawa's office, Lin Wuming and Touma Kazari learned the specific details of the earlier "interrogation."

Both of them expressed surprise, but quickly accepted it.

In Lin Wuming's view, this was Academy City after all, so nothing was surprising. Even ordinary cities had underground boxing matches, let alone a metropolis like Academy City.

Besides, between an underground arena where contestants' lives were at stake and an illegal experimental institution that treated humans as test subjects, it was hard to say which was more inhumane.

“They robbed a bank to raise reward money…” Lin Wuming was speechless. During the battle, he thought the trio wasn't stupid, even quite clever and cunning.

But now, what kind of brain circuit could come up with such a method?

“It's said that a member of their group, SKILL OUT, was caught up in that underground arena and then went missing,” Aiho Yomikawa said. “They were trying to rescue their comrade and find information about the underground arena.”

Actually, professional matters should be left to professionals. Hanzo Hattori, with his ninja background, was an expert at gathering intelligence.

In fact, he had already collected all the information available on the market. That's how he confirmed the existence and basic operating model of the "underground arena."

The remaining task was to find this underground arena and infiltrate it to search for their missing comrade.

And this was beyond the scope of "urban legend" level intelligence.

Due to their leader's personality, SKILL OUT couldn't be as widely connected as "Big Spider," with numerous contacts to borrow.

"Big Spider," led by Mitori Kurozuma, could barely be classified as an "unregistered hobby group." The biggest "evil deeds" they committed were staying out late and gathering to race on empty streets, without touching any strictly illegal activities.

Otherwise, Miwei Konori wouldn't have joined in the first place.

But SKILL OUT was different. Although they only committed the pathetic crime of stealing and reselling iron plates, it was still a crime. And because this fundraising method was so stupid, even other similar delinquent groups looked down on them.

This led to SKILL OUT being the loner type, without friends, even among the many "armed powerless groups."

The only reason they weren't bullied by their "peers" was that their leader, Komaba Ritoku, was strong and intimidating.

So, naturally, they couldn't get effective intelligence support from other groups at this time.

Out of desperation, they had to choose the most direct and crude method—a hefty reward for information.

And then, things developed into this situation.

“…In short, that's the way it is,” Aiho Yomikawa said. “We will continue to follow up on the investigation. Thank you both for today's work.”

“Don't worry about it, it was just a small effort,” Lin Wuming said. “You can come to us directly if you need help in the future.”

Touma Kazari also nodded repeatedly: “Yes, Yomikawa-sensei, Wuming and I will help.”

Except for not being able to defeat Hanzo Hattori, and even suffering a small loss at his hands, which made Touma Kazari feel unhappy, she was generally satisfied with today's activities.

—Compared to Judgement activities, which are all about patrolling the streets, helping people find things, giving directions, etc…sure enough, tense and exciting battles are more suitable for me.

—Even Wuming must be more willing to fight, right?

Touma Kazari looked at Lin Wuming, but saw that his eyes were vacant, his mind wandering, not knowing what he was thinking.

“By the way, is Kazari planning to go back to her own home?” Aiho Yomikawa asked again.

“Yes.” Touma Kazari nodded, “We are going back to do some cleaning, because Sakurai-sensei may be coming home soon.”

After thinking for a while, Touma Kazari added: “Of course, Wuming and I will still come back tonight. And until Sakurai-sensei fully recovers, I may have to continue to bother Yomikawa-sensei for a while.”

“Don't worry about it, you can stay as long as you like,” Aiho Yomikawa waved her hand casually. “I'll have Tetsu-sensei take you later. The things you bought are still in my car.”

Initially, Touma Kazari moved into Aiho Yomikawa's house mainly to find her a strong guardian and prevent this mentally unstable girl from going berserk again.

This was actually a disguised "restraint" measure; therefore, strictly speaking, even if Doctor Sakurai recovered, it wouldn't be so easy to regain custody.

Of course, considering that Touma Kazari had been behaving well recently, was emotionally stable, and had joined Judgement, it could be judged that she wouldn't lose control easily, so letting her go home might not be impossible.

“We're leaving first, Yomikawa-sensei.” Lin Wuming said goodbye to her again at the door before leaving the office.

“Okay, be careful on the way.” Aiho Yomikawa nodded.

Their eyes met, and then they separated naturally.

After they left, Aiho Yomikawa clicked her tongue and said: “As expected, I couldn't fool him…”

The colleague next to her asked: “What did you say you couldn't fool, Yomikawa-sensei?”

“Of course it's about that underground arena,” Aiho Yomikawa said. “Although I tried to bring up the topic as naturally as possible, that kid Wuming still noticed it.”

Just now, she spoke lightly, as if the “underground arena” was just a footnote to this ATM robbery case, but in reality, it was the opposite.

The clumsy SKILL OUT trio wouldn't be severely punished—after all, all the stolen money had been recovered, and they had actively cooperated to admit their mistakes and repent, so they could be given a lighter sentence.

The "underground arena" that they dragged out was the real big deal.

Just now, some colleagues had begun to investigate the relevant information about the "underground arena." Many previously ignored pieces of information were finally connected into a line under the prompt of this intelligence.

Not to mention anything else, according to the information that has been sorted out so far, there are at least thirty cases of missing persons and "accidental deaths" that there is reason to suspect are related to the "underground arena!"

Without a doubt, this would be another major case, and the Anti-Skill would definitely investigate it to the end.

Before that, Aiho Yomikawa was worried that Lin Wuming and Touma Kazari couldn't help but want to intervene and help.

After all, Lin Wuming was a “hero,” so he might take action, right?