He tried to save the fallen girls, but they came after him instead.

“Yes, that’s right…” Shirakawa felt a little guilty under Jackie’s gaze. “Don’t try to hypnotize me with that.”

There is no three hundred taels of silver here.

"I know, I know, I was just kidding, go on, go on," Jackie continued with a mischievous grin.

We absolutely must not let Jackie get her hands on the pocket watch.

Shirakawa cleared his throat and continued, "This third point is especially important. This Anshi Hiroshi probably doesn't want to make a big fuss and let the police or people outside the school know what he's doing."

"Can we call the police and have them arrest him?" Yako asked.

"Impossible, impossible. We can't let outsiders know what happened at the school. The risk is too great. At best, it might just cause a huge uproar in society. At worst, we might be silenced. Besides, that An Shihongzhi can hypnotize the police, can't he?"

Furthermore, Shirakawa does have a police officer line, but the female police officers in the eroge world...

It's hard to evaluate.

"Could you tell your friends outside of school about hypnosis and ask them to help you?"

“They are unlikely to believe it anyway…” Shirakawa opened his phone.

Actually, strictly speaking, it's not impossible.

Clinging to a sliver of hope, Shirakawa opened LINE and found Akaza.

That almost invincible being.

Shirakawa: Akaza-nee, are you there?

Shirakawa: It's urgent.

Shirakawa: Please reply upon receipt.

...

no reply.

It's almost afternoon, what is she doing?

"How is it?" Jackie asked.

"Let's not get our hopes up yet." Shirakawa turned off his phone. "The best solution to this whole incident right now is to find An Shi Hiroshi first, then suddenly attack him when he's not paying attention, steal the pocket watch, go to the radio station, gather everyone in the stadium, and break their control."

"So we need to find Anshi's location without being discovered by the other students," Yako said, seemingly deep in thought. "It's like a spy infiltrating."

"Yes, that's right, you can understand it that way. And the three of us should try to stay together as much as possible. That man even forced his way into the women's changing room by using hypnosis. If the two of you fall into his hands, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"And what about you, Xiaobai?"

"Me? I don't need to worry. At most, he'll just beat me up..." Shirakawa said, a little guilty. He felt that this Anji Hiroshi was just using hypnosis to create various doujinshi scenarios with girls. If he were really caught by him...

Will I get oral sex?

Really? A high school shut-in would go to such extremes?

But this is just one of the yellow hairs in the butter... we can't judge it by common sense.

That policewoman was a bit crazy.

Hard to say.

Seeing that Shirakawa was deep in thought, Jieqi stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, no matter what happens, I will protect you."

After saying this, Shirakawa felt a warm glow in his heart and was deeply moved.

"After all, you'll still need to pay for that meal over the weekend..."

.....

You owe me back for all the emotion I felt!

“Now all that’s left is to find the search locations.” Yako took out a piece of white paper and three pens. “Each of us will write down two addresses we most want to investigate, then show them to each other and explain why we want to go to those places.”

It's a good strategy that allows each party to provide suspicious locations without interfering with the others.

“Write one down,” Shirakawa said, taking the paper and pen. “We’ll have to learn to walk like them, which will definitely slow us down. We won’t be able to investigate so many places. We’ll try our best to resolve this whole incident before school ends.”

If those students go home looking like that after school, they're all doomed.

Jackie and Ayako nodded in agreement.

Each of the three wrote down a location on a piece of paper.

Then display them simultaneously.

Shirakawa is a sports equipment warehouse.

Yako is the rooftop.

Jackie is in the women's restroom.

"Uh, the women's restroom? You're not kidding, are you?"

"No, no, if I were Hiroshi Anshi, since Shirakawa is a danger factor, I would hide in a place he would absolutely not want to go. Besides, isn't the toilet where we're hiding quite safe?"

"Have you ever been in the women's restroom?" Ako asked Shirakawa.

"Yes, yes, Little White is still climbing..."

"Alright, alright, pass, pass. There are toilets on every floor of this teaching building, and more than one. Searching for them one by one will take too much time."

"And your sports equipment warehouse is so far away from here..." Jackie raised her arms, stretching out a long distance.

"This is also based on my personal experience. I think the sports warehouse is a place that must be investigated. It's convenient for hiding, and it's also convenient for that otaku... you know?"

The two women understood each other, and Jackie was also persuaded. Many of the script plots took place in the sports warehouse.

“I think the rooftop is better. It has a wide view, which can prevent surprise attacks. There’s only one staircase, which is also easy to defend. It’s an excellent terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack,” Yako explained.

“I think it’s a good idea. The sports storage room and the rooftop are two relatively far apart locations. Yuzuru, you can lead the way and visit all the suspicious places along the way. We should be able to find him.”

"Then my daughter..."

"I can't go, I really can't go, Sister Jieqi," Bai Chuan said with a wry smile.

"Well, okay then..." Jackie threw away her sticky note in frustration.

"Okay, then it's settled. We'll go to the sports storage room first, then to the rooftop."

"receive."

Jingle bell bell~

The bell rang for the first class in the afternoon.

I could faintly hear noisy footsteps coming from the teaching building.

This means that most students have returned to the classroom for classes.

Now is the perfect time to deploy!

53. Infant?

Shirakawa and his group went outside and headed towards the sports equipment warehouse.

Just past noon, the sun was shining brightly, and willow catkins were flying everywhere; it was the hottest time of spring.

The people playing soccer and baseball on the playground have changed, but their spirits seem even more listless and dispirited due to the hot weather.

Fortunately, Shirakawa was some distance away from them and it was safe. They were also concentrating on their so-called "sports activities" with their limited energy, and their field of vision was quite wide. Any extra movements were insignificant.

Outside the sports storage warehouse, several tall, strong male students were pounding on the warehouse door.

Shirakawa squinted and looked out; there was nothing locked or secured outside the door.

The warehouse must have been locked from the inside.

"Could there be survivors inside?" Ako leaned closer and asked in a low voice.

“It’s not impossible,” Shirakawa replied in a similarly low voice.

It is possible that normal people were surrounded and attacked by these hypnotized individuals, and were forced to flee to the sports equipment warehouse.

However, the real culprit is most likely not inside, since he has an all-powerful pocket watch and would not allow himself to get into this situation.

"Our primary goal is to find An Shihongzhi and get his pocket watch. It seems he's not here, so let's hurry and go somewhere else." Shirakawa Miao glanced at the time on her phone; there were still about three hours until school ended, which wasn't much time.

Assuming there are survivors inside, rescuing her would require luring away the male students at the entrance, calming her down, explaining the situation, and successfully rescuing her. All of this would take at least an hour to complete.

The most important thing right now is to find An Shihongzhi and the pocket watch.

Prioritize things. Shirakawa shifted his body slightly and turned to leave.

"Wait a minute," Jackie suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Maybe he's in the sports storage room?"

"Huh? What do you say?"

"During the previous meeting, An Shihongzhi was rejected by those two girls. Does this mean that his hypnosis cannot make the students fully obedient?"

"so what?"

"So, is it possible that An Shihongzhi brought a few girls into the warehouse, and the men at the door were their boyfriends...?"

It's a low-probability event, but it's not impossible.