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Mari Nishijima stood up after sending a message to Echizen Ryuya, "I made an appointment with him to meet at the school gate, so let's skip class this afternoon... What kind of eyes do you have?"

She looked at Noji suspiciously.

Noji coughed dryly, and said, "That's right, the surprised eyes! Because I didn't expect that a top student like Nishijima could talk about skipping class so naturally."

Mari Nishijima replied honestly: "No, I just have good grades, and my attendance rate has not been high."

Noji: "...Ha, haha—so that's how it is."

In the free time of physical education class, the teacher didn't pay much attention to the number of people.The two took this opportunity to sneak out of the school gate—Nishijima Mari originally thought that she should wait a while before seeing Echizen Ryuya, but she didn't expect Echizen Ryuya to arrive at the school gate earlier than her.

Looking at the tall and long-legged boyfriend standing under the shade of the trees on the sidewalk, Mari Nishijima walked behind him lightly.

Echizen Ryuya: "Milk tea, or Coke?"

He raised the two cans of drinks in the environmental protection bag in his hand and asked Nishijima truth.

Mari Nishijima poked the drink can inside through the recycle bag: "I want milk tea. How do you know it's me?"

Echizen Ryuya: "Just look at the shadow."

He took the milk tea out of the environmental protection bag, unscrewed it, put a disposable straw in it, and handed it to Xidao Zhenli.

Mari Nishijima looked down at the shadow on the floor, and found that under the sun, the direction of the shadow was in front of Echizen Ryuya.

Holding the drink can, she took a sip of milk tea and introduced the two of them: "Long Ya, this is the neighbor of classmate Hirakawa who has disappeared, Noji."

"Noji-kun, this is my boyfriend, Echizen."

The eyes of the two met for a brief moment, and Noji somehow felt that Echizen Ryuya was a bit scary.

He originally wanted to quietly ask Mari Nishijima what your boyfriend is doing—but Echizen Ryuya has been following Mari Nishijima all along, and he never gave Noji a chance to ask questions secretly.

With Noji leading the way, the three soon arrived at Maki Hirakawa's residence.

As Noji said, this is a two-story duplex building, and the outer layer is seriously old, as if half a foot has stepped into the ranks of dilapidated buildings.The strong sense of age in this house also forms a sharp contrast with the surrounding brand new buildings.

A police cordon has been drawn up around the gate of the house and around the fence, but there are no police officers patrolling nearby.

Xi Daozhen set up the cordon and crossed over, walked to the gate and looked at the lock: "This lock is locked, the gate can't be opened... the wall is about [-] meters high, Long Ya, can you go over it? "

Echizen Ryuya: "There is no problem with this height. I will turn over first and then pull you over."

Mari Nishijima and Noji nodded in agreement with this suggestion.

There was surveillance video on the street facing the gate, so the three went around to the side of the house without surveillance video.

Echizen Longya rolled up the sleeves of his clothes, stepped back a little distance, and climbed up the wall in two or three strokes.He squatted on the wall and reached out to them: "There are broken glass inlaid on it, be careful-who will come up first?"

Ye Zhi gritted his teeth and rolled up his sleeves: "I'll go first."

Like Echizen Ryuya, he took two steps back to clear the distance between himself and the wall, and ran up the wall in one breath after a short run-up; Echizen Ryuya grabbed his wrist the moment he fell, and directly pulled him up With a light push, it was thrown into the yard.

Through the wall, Nishijima Mari could only hear Noji's scream from the yard after he fell to the ground.

Echizen Ryuya, who was squatting on the top of the wall, stretched out his hand to Mari Nishijima again, with a smile on his pretty face: "True-chan, it's your turn."

"..."

It seems too late to regret now.

Putting the unfinished milk tea jar on the ground, Mari Nishidao took a deep breath, backed up and started running in one go; Echizen Ryuya immediately reached out and grabbed her when she was halfway up the wall, and pulled her up to the top of the wall.

Nishijima's sense of balance is not very good, and the moment she steps on the wall, she starts to sway left and right.But Echizen Ryuya didn't throw her off the wall like he threw Noji, but hugged her firmly.

He hugged him so tightly that Mari Nishijima froze—

Echizen Ryuya: "Stand firm?"

Nishijima Mari came back to his senses: "Stand firm..."

Echizen Ryuya: "Then I let go first?"

He used a questioning tone, and his arms did not loosen.Mari Nishijima stepped on the wall under his feet and said with certainty: "Well, I'm standing still."

After getting Nishijima Mari's affirmative answer, Echizen Ryuya let go and jumped off the wall.

After he landed, he stretched out his hand towards Mari Nishijima: "Squat down slowly and jump towards me."

Nishijima Mari looked down at the height of the wall, feeling a little dizzy.She took a deep breath, squatted down cautiously, and slowly extended her hand to Echizen Ryuya - when her fingers touched Echizen Ryuya's fingertips, Nishijima Mari jumped down.

Unsurprisingly, she was caught by Echizen Ryuya, and with the remaining force of her fall, Echizen Ryuya staggered back a few steps.But Echizen Ryuya quickly stabilized his figure and supported Nishijima Mari's arm.

"I said," Noji rubbed his buttocks, and looked at them quietly, "Although I know you are a couple, should the difference be so obvious?"

Mari Nishijima: "...is your butt okay?"

Noji: "Thanks to your boyfriend, it almost broke."

After climbing over the wall, the house can be entered through the main entrance.

Of course, Nishijima Mari and the others didn’t have the key to the main entrance—Nishijima Mari touched the window on the first floor and looked at Noji.

Noji tried to come up with an idea: "Break a hole near the window switch, and then put your hand in to open the window from the inside. Is that all right?"

Nishijima Mari: "...Are we breaking into a private house?"

Ye Zhi plausibly said: "It's time for human life to be at stake, what's the point of using a little bit of drastic means!"

But everyone has already come here, and it would be a shame to go back without getting any clues.

Mari Nishijima turned around and began to pick and choose in the yard, and urged the other two to help: "Come and look for any stones suitable for smashing glass."

Echizen Ryuya: "You don't need to look for stones, it's faster to pick the door lock."

Mari Nishijima and Noji looked at him in shock at the same time.

Echizen Longya tilted his head and raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it right?"

Noji: "But I can't pick a lock!"

Mari Nishijima spread her hands: "I won't either."

Echizen Ryuya: "I will do it?"

He pulled out a piece of wire from the cuff of his coat, walked to the door, held up the lock with one hand, and inserted the wire into the lock hole.The whole process didn't even take 3 minutes. Echizen Ryuya twisted the wire and poked it inside, and the door lock opened in response.

Mari Nishijima was amazed.

Noji couldn't help asking: "Since you know how to pick the lock, why didn't you just unlock it and come in when you were outside?"

Echizen Longya glanced at him, and replied as a matter of course: "There is surveillance at the gate, and the appearance of opening the lock was recorded. At my age, I will be detained for half a month for trespassing on other people's residence."

Noji: "..."

I understand the truth, but why are you so proficient! !

The first floor of the house contains the living room and kitchen, bathroom, and utility room.

The area is not very large, but there are few things, so it looks empty.The walls of the living room are covered with various honorary certificates.

Mari Nishijima took a cursory glance and found that the owner of these certificates was not Maki Hirakawa, but Mayo Hirakawa.

She was a little confused: "Who is Mayo Hirakawa?"

Noji: "It's Hirakawa's older sister, but her older sister died a long time ago - Hirakawa's parents died in a car accident when she was very young, and it was her older sister who raised her while working and studying, so the relationship between the two sisters The relationship is very good."

"After Hirakawa's sister passed away, Hirakawa still kept her things in this house."

Nishijima Mari: "It's like this... how do we investigate next? If there are any clues left, the police should have already grasped them, and it is unlikely that it will be our turn."

Noji: "According to the usual style of those policemen, they must have only investigated Hirakawa's room, and the room of her sister and parents has not been lived in for a long time, so they may havetily skipped it!"

Nishijima Mari: "...But, you also know that their room has not been lived in for a long time. Even if Hirakawa-san disappeared, it is unlikely to find any information in their room, right?"

Faced with Nishijima's doubts, Noji held back for a long time but couldn't come up with a suitable line to refute.Even the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Nishijima's words made sense, and he shouldn't have investigated the Hirakawa family first...

"Let's go to Maki Hirakawa's room first." Echizen Ryuya looked up at the stairs leading to the second floor, and said, "The police who cleaned up the scene, we have never been to Maki Hirakawa's room, maybe the police There are also omissions."

"You're right!" Noji regained his energy and walked ahead to lead the way. "Hirakawa's room is the third on the second floor. It's impossible to rely on the police. It's up to us to rescue Hirakawa!"

As he spoke, he waved his fist to cheer for the temporary trio.

Echizen Ryuya looked at his back, was silent for a moment, then turned his head and asked Nishijima Mari in a low voice: "Second secondary illness?"

Mari Nishijima said euphemistically: "His idol is Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective who has become very famous recently."

Echizen Longya understood and nodded: "I understand."

The wooden stairs that have been in disrepair for a long time will make a slight 'squeak' sound when stepping on them.

Echizen Ryuya walked in front of Nishijima Truth, without looking back, but suddenly asked, "Where's Truth Sauce?"

Nishijima Mari was at a loss: "What?"

Echizen Ryuya: "Will Truth-chan also worship that high school detective?"

Nishijima truth is decisive: "There is no such thing, I just occasionally saw his picture when I read the newspaper."

It's true that the high school student detective is really handsome, but it's only to the extent that she sighs, 'This high school student is pretty good-looking'.

Hearing Nishijima Mari's definite answer, Echizen Ryuya suddenly felt much relieved.

They went up to the second floor, and Noji walked to the door of Maki Hirakawa's room, trying to open the door—he pushed the door, then turned the doorknob, frowning: "This door is also locked."

Echizen Ryuya: "Let me try."

Noji stepped aside obediently, and Echizen Ryuya half-bent down to look at the keyhole, just like when he opened the door downstairs, he pulled out a piece of wire and inserted it into the keyhole to fiddle with it.

Mari Nishijima also bent slightly out of curiosity to watch Ryuya Echizen unlock the lock.

Mari Nishijima: "Is this an ordinary wire?"

Echizen Ryuya: "It's just an ordinary wire."

Mari Nishijima looked at the keyhole and said, "This lock seems to be different from the one downstairs?"

Echizen Longya smiled and praised her: "Zhenzhen-chan's observation skills are so good, they are indeed two different locks."

Noji, who was on the sidelines, showed a blank expression.He looked at Nishijima Mari, then at Echizen Ryuya, and couldn't help complaining in his heart: Do normal couples praise each other like this?Is there really nothing wrong with Nishijima-san's boyfriend?

It took a little longer to open the lock this time, but in just two to three minutes, the door was successfully opened by Echizen Ryuya.

He was about to put the wire into his coat pocket, but Nishidao Mari tugged at his sleeve: "Long Ya, can you show me that wire?"

Echizen Ryuya: "Do you find it interesting?"

Mari Nishijima nodded repeatedly.

Echizen Ryuya smiled, and handed the wire back to Nishijima Mari.This time he didn't remind Nishijima that he could just nod his head once - anyway, she would forget if he reminded her, and it was so cute.

Seeing Echizen Ryuya walked into the room first, Noji finally couldn't help it, leaned over to Mari Nishijima, and asked her in a low voice, "Your boyfriend has no criminal record, right?"

Mari Nishijima: "Of course not!"

Noji: "...he is so proficient at picking locks, it's really nothing—what about being on the run?"

Mari Nishijima frowned. In order to justify her boyfriend's name, she opened her eyes and uttered nonsense with guilt: "No, Long Ya just has a lot of skills and doesn't seem easy to get along with. In fact, he is very law-abiding. , very kind and honest!"

Noji: "...Really?"

Mari Nishijima swears: "Do you think I look like a liar?"

Noji looked at her suspiciously, and then at Echizen Ryuya.

Echizen Longya who was standing in front suddenly turned sideways, put his index finger on his lips, and signaled them to keep quiet: "Shut up, someone else came in downstairs."

-Complete-