"The little girl who appeared near the Metropolitan Police Department?"
In the office, Bai Heqing looked at Okino Mina who was walking towards the window, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Could it be an illegally abducted child?" he asked suddenly.
With Japan's economic prosperity in recent years, similar illegal incidents have indeed become less common than when he was young, but they are not completely gone.
"That's probably not the case. The child simply has a complicated family environment. He is probably the kind of elite single-parent family whose parents are very controlling."
"The child you mentioned came to the Metropolitan Police Department. Does she want to ask the police for help?" Bai Heqing continued to ask.
"I'm not sure about this either..."
After pulling up the curtains, Okino Mina turned back and raised her hand to her forehead with a wry smile.
"Although I have met the child twice, I am ashamed to say that I could not find a suitable opportunity to ask her about this both times..."
"Are you being controlled by a child?" Bai Heqing looked at her quietly.
"Ahaha, even if you guessed it at this time, you can't say it directly. Do you understand, Sir Shirakawa?"
After revealing this matter with a laugh, Okino Mina's expression became serious.
"The first time I met that child, I quietly followed her to see her. She was studying in a nearby elementary school. Occasionally she would come to the Metropolitan Police Department alone during the school lunch break. I did it twice before. I met her during this time period..."
"So you want to come to the Metropolitan Police Department to kill time just to find another chance to meet that little girl?"
Bai Heqing understood what she meant.
"After all, it's too boring to be alone, and I don't know when that child will come next time... I have no choice but to wait slowly in this stupid way." Okino Mina spread her hands and said.
"I see."
After figuring out the whole story, Bai Heqing nodded and asked no more questions.
"It's really not good to let a little girl wander around the street alone. Then Minai, just do it according to your own ideas. You can come to my office anytime you want... Of course, remember to use you new identity.”
"Huh? You put it so simply, Commander Shirakawa, aren't you going to intervene?" Okino Mina asked.
"I didn't see anything where I needed to step in."
After getting up and getting a glass of water from the water dispenser next to him, Bai Heqing replied:
"And since it's something you noticed, Mina, it's appropriate to leave it to you to deal with."
"Wow, I started calling people around again so soon..."
"Of course, having said that, if you encounter anything that needs help, you can come to me at any time."
"Yes~"
"..."
Okino Mina didn't have to wait too long. After she went to Shirakawa Kiyoshi's office for several days in a row, one day at noon, she met the mixed-race little girl again at the flower bed in the parking lot of the Metropolitan Police Department.
"Good afternoon, girl Jing~"
Just like the previous two times, the little girl just sat there by herself, raising her head and staring blankly at the Metropolitan Police building in front of her.
Okino Mina smiled and walked over to say hello.
The little girl seemed to have remembered her voice. She turned her head and looked over, with some doubts in her eyes.
"Police sister, did you go for plastic surgery?"
"Huh? Why do you ask?" Okino Mina asked knowingly, sitting next to the little girl very familiarly.
"I always feel that, Sister Police, your face seems a little different from last time..." the little girl said with a slight doubt.
It's normal for a little girl to feel like this. After all, the face Okino Mina used for her new identity was a slightly adjusted "new version" of the face she used to meet the little girl before.
After all, the owner of that face is also a detective from the Metropolitan Police Department. If he uses the same face as someone else, it will easily cause unnecessary trouble.
Of course, this is impossible to tell a little girl.
"Hmph~ Then is it possible that, Girl Jing, your memory of me is wrong?"
"Maybe that's the case..."
Unexpectedly, the little girl did not have any doubts about Okino Mina's far-fetched reason. She thought about it seriously and then nodded in approval.
"After all, I've only been in Tokyo for a short time, and I haven't gotten used to the faces of East Asians. I tend to forget things in a blink of an eye, and it's normal to misremember them... I'm sorry, I just said something strange to the police sister."
The little girl apologized seriously to Okino Mina.
From her words, Okino Mina noticed that potentially crucial piece of information.
I have only been in Tokyo for a short time, and I am not familiar with East Asian faces... Could it be that this little girl has always lived in countries such as Europe and the United States?
"Also, police sister, have you been promoted?"
While Okino Mina was deep in thought, the little girl asked again.
This time, her eyes fell on Okino Mina's police uniform.
"Eh?"
"Because, Sister Police, the police uniform you are wearing today is very new, and it is a little different from the one you wore last time. Sister Police, have you been promoted and transferred to the department for meritorious service?"
"Ah, this...well, that's right, that's it. I got promoted for many reasons..."
Facing the little girl's curious gaze, Okino Mina nodded, a little nervous.
Is this girl's observation skills really what a child of this age should have?
"Also, police sister, you didn't wear a badge today..."
"Ah - I know, I know! Sister, I will wear it when I go to work!"
So, stop staring at these little mistakes that you can’t help!
"..."
"Sorry, I said something that made you unhappy..."
Beside the flower bed, the little girl lowered her head and whispered back.
This little girl looks like a serious and mature adult on the outside. Only when she feels that she has made a mistake will she react like a child.
[There is a cute contrast between cuteness and cuteness. 】
Well, but at this time it’s better to coax him out first.
"The police sister is not unhappy."
Raising his hand to touch her long silver hair, Okino Mina smiled softly and said:
"I just didn't expect that Girl Jing, your observation skills are so good, it makes me a little overwhelmed..."
"sorry……"
"So I'm not asking you to apologize, Girl Jing. What's more, I'm not angry at all. If I have to say it, I actually feel quite happy in my heart..."
"Happy?" The little girl heard this and looked at her doubtfully.
"This is the kind of teasing between friends. It looks like they are angry, but in fact it is just a joke between friends..."
Saying this, Okino Mina subconsciously asked.
"Think about it, Girl Jing, have you and the friends you know also experienced such a situation?"
"Little...mate?"
As soon as she heard her words, the little girl's face instantly darkened.
【White teeth! Thunder struck! 】
Seeing her like this, Okino Mina's heart suddenly jumped.
This little girl...doesn't she have no friends?
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(End of chapter)
