"Then why did you work so much harder than usual last night?"

"...Is there?" Serabelle looked confused.

"Have."

The British girl was very confident.

Perhaps Serabelle herself didn't remember, or she never made a serious comparison, but as the one being attacked, she felt it clearly.

Ever since her body shrunk, Serabelle has always been careful to control the intensity of each aerobic exercise, basically stopping at the right time.

But last night, Serabelle seemed to be overly excited. Mary Akai remembered it clearly and she almost "broke into the door" several times.

It hurts a little, but also feels inexplicably comfortable.

"...It seems like you don't remember much anymore. I can only use actions to make you remember."

Akai Mari snorted again, turned slightly to take the wig and voice-changing mask she used last night from the bedside table.

Huh? Wait, are we preparing for...morning exercise?

Serabelle finally reacted and leaned forward to get the remote control to turn on the air conditioner.

But she was stopped by the British girl who had transformed into a brown-haired girl.

"It's okay, you don't need to turn on the air conditioner, just wrap yourself tightly in the quilt."

"..."

Since Akai Mary said so, Serabelle naturally had no objection.

So a moment later, in the corridor in front of Sera's bedroom, noises far more intense than last night could be heard faintly through the soundproof door.

……

On the other side, in a seemingly abandoned basement somewhere in Tokyo, old incandescent lamps are hung on the ceiling by only a few wires covered with cobwebs. Warm light dimly shines through the dusty bulbs, illuminating the dark underground space.

Judy sat cross-legged on the white hospital bed, wrapped in a quilt with a heater next to her.

The gunshot wound on her shoulder had been properly bandaged, but in order to minimize pressure on the wound, she only wore a brown sports vest on her upper body.

The flickering light from the burning pine wood in the fireplace shone on the female investigator's face, and also illuminated the faces of the other two people opposite her.

They were Shuichi Akai, who had a slightly gloomy face, and another foreign old man with gray hair and beard who wore glasses and looked quite gentle.

"Mr. James, this is all I know about what happened last night," Judy said calmly.

The gunshot wound, the cold wind from being unconscious for so long at the dock last night, and the fact that she didn't get a good night's rest caused her to have a low-grade fever today.

But there is no way. As an FBI agent, there are always some things that are more important than your own health.

For example, tasks.

For example, the reporting work after the task.

"I roughly understand the specific situation."

The old man called Mr. James nodded and spoke.

"That is to say, Judy, you did indeed fish out the Thousand-Faced Witch from that organization last night, but you were ambushed by the other party during the confrontation. Although Akai arrived in time to save the situation, he was still defeated and was knocked unconscious and thrown into the container with his body. Judy was also knocked unconscious by the brown-haired girl after being shot."

"Although I'm happy that you all came back safely in the end, what I don't understand is why that heartless Thousand-Faced Witch let you go, when it was clear that one more shot could have solved the problem... And who is that brown-haired girl pretending to be? She's so powerful in such a small body. Even if the injured Judy wanted to knock her out with one shot, it would be..."

Unable to explain or figure it out, James shook his head and turned to the young man wearing a knitted hat next to him.

"Akai, the man you fought last night, did he reveal any information?"

"……Absolutely not."

Akai Shuichi said calmly.

Compared with Judy, the information he could provide was almost nothing. It was just that he was beaten up by the other party when they met until he lost consciousness on the spot, and finally he was thrown into a container with the body and saved his life.

It's embarrassing to say this.

"What about the girl with brown hair?" James turned to Judy again.

"Not sure." Judy also shook her head. "When I woke up, she had already left. So had the Thousand-Faced Witch and the mysterious sniper."

"So our only reward is an unidentified corpse..."

James sighed helplessly.

"It's okay. You've done a great job this time. Just take a good rest during this period of time. It's important to take care of your health."

"Ah."

Judy agreed verbally, but she lifted the quilt with her hands, dragged her injured body out of bed carefully, took her coat from the shelf and was about to put it on, as if she was getting ready to go out.

James was shocked: "Where are you going Judy? You just finished bandaging your wound!"

"It's okay, just going to school."

The female investigator turned her head and a forced smile appeared on her slightly pale face.

"It is definitely impossible to continue to attend classes in the short term with this kind of injury. Besides, it is not easy to use a gunshot wound as an excuse to take leave, so I plan to resign directly from the school."

"Oh, then you should be careful on the road and come back early..."

When he heard that they were going to school, James calmed down a little.

So Judy put on her clothes and quickly left the safe house.

When they reached the street outside, the female investigator looked up at the cloudy sky and gently blew out a puff of white mist.

She took out her cell phone and typed a message to Serabel.

[Are you free to meet? ]

More than an hour later, the message came back.

【Sorry, I’m busy. 】

Chapter 366 It’s Sera’s big cat time!

Serabel and Akai Mary did their morning exercises in bed until well after eight o'clock, almost nine o'clock.

Fortunately, today is Sunday, and both students and office workers are off. Otherwise, with the first class at Teitan High School, Masumi Sera would not even have time to eat breakfast.

So, the time came to nine o'clock in the morning.

After simply rejecting Judy's text message on the toilet, Serabelle finished washing up and came to the dining table and sat down opposite Akai Mari.

Breakfast is ready. Today's breakfast is fried eggs, steak, pasta, buttered bread and milk.

"...Wow, breakfast is so rich today?"

At this time, the door of the master bedroom opened, and the girl with tiger teeth, who was wearing only a coat over her home clothes, came out of the room in cotton slippers. She walked to the dining table, glanced at the food on the plate, and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

It looked like Sera Masumi had just gotten up not long ago. Judging from the faint minty scent coming out of her mouth, she must have washed up, but her short black, slightly curly hair was still a little messy.

Akai Mari looked up at her daughter and said, "Go back to your room and put on your clothes properly. Don't run out like this. Be careful not to catch a cold."

"Eh? But I'm not cold?"

The girl with tiger teeth put her arms into her sleeves and waved her hands in the shape of a big word.

"It will be too late by the time you feel cold, so hurry up and get dressed." Akai Mary said calmly.

"All right……"

Faced with her mother's strong demands, the girl with tiger teeth had no choice but to return to her room dejectedly. After putting on all her clothes, she sat down at the dining table and started to eat breakfast.

While having breakfast, Sera Masumi suddenly mentioned the news he saw two days ago.

"By the way, mom and brother, do you know what happened last week? There was an explosion in a music school called Domoto, and the entire classroom was blown away."

An explosion at a music school?

And in the classroom?

Serabelle bit her knife and fork, reminiscing for a moment, then shook her head.

"I didn't hear that."

He is really not the kind of person who pays much attention to the news. To be more precise, he doesn't like watching TV very much, because there are too many TV commercials. He often sees something interesting and then suddenly a commercial comes, and the commercial is quite long.

There is a torturous feeling called inch-stop.

Serabelle thought for a moment and added.

“But it sounds like it’s very funny.”

"Comedy..." The tiger-toothed girl widened her eyes, "Brother, is this okay?"

“But it’s really hilarious.”

Serabelle swallowed the fried egg in her mouth with force.

"Normally, there are only musical instruments in the music school classrooms, and most of them are folk instruments made of wood. They are flammable, but I don't think they will explode, let alone blow up the entire classroom."

"So the only possibility is that the Six-Fingered Zither Demon and the Loudspeaker Version of Lion's Roar were exchanging spells in the classroom, causing an explosion that blew everyone out of the window. Isn't it funny to think about it this way?"

Serabelle shrugged.

After hearing this, the tiger-toothed girl slowly began to sweat: "This is more outrageous than funny..."

However, Sera Masumi immediately realized that the topic had been misled, and she let out a slight "ah" and poked the plate with her fork, making a crisp clinking sound.

"That's not what I want to talk about. Like you just said, it's almost impossible for an explosion to happen in a music school classroom. So the most popular speculation on the Internet is that someone has a grudge against the Domoto Music School, so they launched this terrorist attack."

"……Oh."

Serabelle's reaction was rather mediocre.

Sera Masumi was immediately dissatisfied.

"What do you mean by 'oh'? It's such a big deal, don't you plan to go and find out what's going on, brother?"

"To be honest, I don't have such an intention."

As Serabelle spoke, she had already swallowed the last bite of pasta, let out a breath and continued.

"First of all, this happened last week. Even if there was any evidence left at the scene, it was taken away by the police. Besides, no one asked me to investigate this matter, so why would I go there?"

"Brother, aren't you curious at all that someone would actually attack a music school?"

"No."

“But I’m curious!”

The girl with tiger teeth revealed her cards fiercely.

"Besides, brother, you don't have anything to do today, right? Let's take the bus over there after breakfast."

"Uh……"

Sera Masumi was right about this point. Serabelle really had nothing else to do today.

But he really didn't want to go. After all, it was so cold, who would want to go outside for no reason... No, he had to find an excuse to get away with it.

"You guys can go together."

Before Serabelle could think of an excuse not to go, Akai Mari, who had also just finished breakfast, spoke.

"Mingchun has basically stayed at home on weekends these past few weeks. Bell, you don't have anything to do today anyway, so you two can go out and have some fun together."

Serabelle: "..."

Since Sister Mary has spoken, it looks like I have to go out.

"Oh, great!"

Masumi Sera clenched his fists tightly, and his white little canine teeth sparkled.

"Then mom, will you come with us later?"

"Just go ahead, I can't."

Akai Mari turned and walked into the kitchen with an empty plate, and the voice came from around the corner of the kitchen door.

"I'm still a little sleepy, so I plan to rest for a while later."

"Oh, too."

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