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Luckily, Kagura Hikaru and his colleagues, although they did not find the man-made path down the mountain, managed to locate the highway smoothly.
After jumping over a drainage channel from the mountain to the asphalt road, they waited for a short while before a white Honda sedan pulled up in front of them.
The driver-side window rolled down, revealing not Inspector Yamazaki's face, but that of a short-haired woman in a suit, who was a stranger to them.
She slightly frowned as she sized up Kagura Hikaru, as well as the two girls by his side and on his back, before shifting her gaze back to him: "Are you Kagura Hikaru?"
"Who are you?" Kagura Hikaru asked, furrowing his brow in response.
"Don't be nervous." A familiar voice came from the passenger seat, and Inspector Yamazaki leaned over from the other side, waving at Kagura Hikaru, "She's my colleague, working with me."
