Takagi Wataru repeats word for word, types in Date Wataru's name, and presses enter.
A message popped up saying there was no such person.
With some difficulty, he said, "...No."
Four times in a row, there was no one, not even a duplicate name, which was strange, but not strange.
The strange point is: these four names are not particularly unique, very rare surnames and first names, actually in the entire Japanese police personnel archives are not a duplicate name?
What's not surprising is that, because people are reluctant to use computers and other electronic devices, a lot of information is not organized into computers, and even the information of Tokyo police officers may not be completely entered into computers, so it's normal that there are no duplicate names.
Because of the latter, Takagi Wataru was a little weak, and his voice was lowered, "The file in the computer is not complete, there is a file room in the police station, why don't I go to the file room and help you look for it?"
He made a mental note of the four completely unfamiliar names, deleted the fourth search record, handed the note back, and looked inquiringly at Ichijō Mirai: "So, the fifth?"
Ichijō Mirai: "What fifth one?"
"Searching for four is enough," He casually nodded his hand on his forehead and shoulder a few times to express his deep sense of silence, "there is no fifth."
And tried not to laugh.
-The shared suffering of friends is a joy!
Ichijō Mirai reflects to the system, "I'm sorry, I actually felt a little guilty when I read the news in [FBI Newcomer] and saw that the Japanese police were deliberately emphasizing the bright future and whereabouts of each of them, so deliberately that it was a bit abrupt."
The guilt is of course: there is definitely a ghost, just think about it and you will know that your classmates are implicated, definitely a 'bright future', and probably like him, they will be punished to the end and even their names will not be released to the public, but only become a secret of the darkness before the dawn.
And they probably went for it gladly.
"But now, it dawned on me that it wasn't my fault," Ichijō Mirai mused, adding, "At least it wasn't just one of my faults."
If it's just the game, and the students have a 'bright future', what does that mean?
It means that Ichijō Mirai, the water ghost who is saddened by the success of his classmates, is bravely dragging them down, watching them gurgle and bubble into the 'bright future' water.
But it's not just in the game, it's also in real life that the students have a 'bright future', so what does that mean?
It means that either they were bravely pulled down by 'Ichijō Mirai', or it was their fate that they would have become invisible even without Ichijō Mirai.
"It must be fate, who let them get into this kind of high police, a little bit of excellence, but also not willing to go along with the crowd, will be targeted, a little bit is a little bit, the main point is to die in disgrace," Ichijō Mirai sighed, "for the sake of not at all my fault, I actually feel guilty,"
"I'm so kind, as expected of Messiah."
System: [...]
If it's done something wrong, let the law punish it instead of listening to Ichijō Mirai's faceless babbling.
You can't spit, you'll be vindicated. You can't not spit, you'll be vindictive.
It's torture.
Ichijō Mirai doesn't care about the retard, he's going to take care of his classmates first. "I can't think of anyone else who would do this to me if I can't even find the clue to try four."
"I'm sorry for your trouble, Officer Takagi."
He said seriously, "Conan's here, Officer Megure and the others should be able to figure out how the killer left those marks soon, they'll probably be back in a few minutes."
"No trouble, no trouble," Takagi Wataru said hastily, "I'll close the archive then?"
It didn't close on the first try.
The archive seemed to be stuck in silence, and closed only after Takagi Wataru clicked it two or three times in confusion, and he was able to surmise from the timing of the unlocked access popping up that there was a listening device or something like that on their side, and vaguely sensed something.
For example, Detective Mirai seems to have some kind of connection with the police.
Not just any police, not just any connection.
It's a high ranking police officer who was able to mobilize the police to support Ichijō Mirai the first time he lost contact with them.
Takagi Wataru has almost confirmed that this strange 'snowstorm support' is for Ichijō Mirai.
And the relationship between that police officer and Ichijō Mirai seems to be... a bit subtle.
It's a bit subtle.
As if they hadn't met each other and were testing each other in silence, but as if they were familiar with each other, it was complicated and subtle.
Takagi Wataru thought, looked at Ichijō Mirai, and observed the expression.
Finding that the detective gentleman seemed to have noticed nothing but a nod of his head to agree to close the archive, he hesitated for a moment and apologized somewhat stiffly, "Electronic products are sometimes convenient, but sometimes they are also very inconvenient, and they often get stuck, crash and lose data and so on."
"I'll go to the archive afterward and look for these four officers for you, right?"
He picked up a slip of paper with four names written on it, "Do you know where these four officers worked? Knowing where they work would make it easier to find them."
Ichijō Mirai: "Thank you, but no."
If life were a puppet show, it would be boring and tedious, and filled from beginning to end with action sequences that would make the starring puppets protest.
But if 'Wake up, your classmates are coming to you' were a puppet show, then the frequent action would have been cut down to nothing but a subdued trial and error.
When is the first act of the puppet show?
In reality, there aren't many things worth caring about, and even fewer that managed to grab Ichijō Mirai's attention, just a few.
For example, Suzuki and Sonoko, the stalking incident, the neon customer's 'My girlfriend and I like you a lot, so can we go deeper together', the child who couldn't speak who came to the door to ask for help, and today's 'snowstorm' when the villa was lost and the police sent out a rescue team.
The probing was too subtle, and the information wasn't equal at first, so Ichijō Mirai first noticed a subtle difference when there was not only one operator, but also a young man at the time of the child's incident.
But now, looking back for clues, it was as if he were tugging at a rope, feeling each tentative knot a little, and with little thought, he quickly found the first one: Suzuki Sonoko said that a blonde waitress had inquired about Ichijō Mirai with great interest.
The second knot: Suzuki Sonoko, who was relatively close to Ichijō Mirai, had been followed, but when he checked, the stalker disappeared without a trace.
Third Knot: The long-haired customer who claims to be Moroboshi Dai, and has a lot of fun with his Japanese rants.
The fourth knot: the child who can't speak and the police try to find out if he can speak sign language.
The fifth knot: police support.