Vol 19 Chapter 1 (1/2)

Run-Jerry-Run

That evening, Meishen made a mistake

”Aaaaaah, oh no”

The reason for that was co everywhere The cafe that she worked at was crowded by a group of guests, and the cafe beca, and moreover the next day she had to turn in the homework fro work, all that was in Meishen's mind was her homework She had already mostly prepared the hoain With her personality, it was a natural thing to prepare to this degree Mifi who couldn't care as , and that was also her personality

Naruki orking at the City Police, so tonight she wasn't in the dorm - that was also misfortune

Meishen fell asleep at sos of fatigue and security became sleepiness in an instant, so the two of them fell asleep in Mifi's room

Meishen oken up by the sound of the rain

It rarely rained in the autono cities, because the air filter would break apart the raindrops

But today, rain was falling inside the city

In other words, a torrent that could break through the air filter was battering the entire city

”Aaaaah”

After being woken up by the sound of the rain, Meishen hurriedly rushed out to the balcony The clothes she had just washed were still hung outside Meishen would nor hootten to take them back because her mind was full of her homework business

Was this misfortune, or avoidance of further misfortune There would probably be tays to see this

Because of that, Meishen was able to reduce the loss she suffered to soree

But, she witnessed a scene

”Huh?'

After opening the sliding glass door and rushi+ng out to the balcony, Meishen saw soaze met with that person

As she took down the clothesline where the clothes were hung, she saw a er

Even in the darkness produced by the intense rain, light froazed at Meishen with sparkling eyes

”Nno”

In front of Meishen who had lost her breath, that person agilely jumped off of the balcony

In the next moment, a scream was released from Meishen's throat

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”An underwear thief?”

That phrase made Layfon show a confused expression

Even if he had already heard rumors, he had never seen a so-called underwear thief with his own eyes Of course, Layfon didn't have any intention to deliberately acquaint himself with criminals, so it was perfectly explainable for him to have never met that kind of person, and moreover he didn't know anyone as any other type of thief

A all kinds of thieves, Layfon had the hardest tiht”

Naruki nodded her head very seriously Behind her, Meishen whose figure had becorabbed on to her unifor classrooroups everywhere, chatting happily

The sun shi+ning through the s into the room was quite sinister The classroo class If the temperature continued to increase, school would be cancelled due to the students being unable to learn Moreover, because of the Military Arts Competition this year, everyone said that the school would make the decision to hold vacation early

Of course, at the sae a the vacation, under the name of self-study

In this kind of hot temperature, no one wore the full uniforht hadn't yet receded, the short-sleeved Meishen seeht?”

”Uh, nn”

”Oh, that's good”

Layfon first sighed in relief

”Actually, there have been reports all over recently”

Naruki lowered her voice

”But, the losses received haven't been that great It ritten in the reports that the victi”

”What does that mean?”

Layfon was unable to understand what Naruki was saying The victiht be wrong

”The cri, letting the victierie was bloay by the wind He only steals the target that he carefully selects”

”Really, what a joke!”

Mifi as sanding next to Meishen spoke angrily

In this kind of situation, the person who had the ot mad It seemed that the so-called underwear thief was hated that much by woht patrols in order to catch that person, so please lend us a helping hand, Layfon”

”Ah, nn Sure”

Naruki was agitated even while asking for help The fact that her good friend Meishen had encountered that kind of terror had definitely made her truly ht

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Starting in the evening, Layfon began patrolling the night with Naruki

Still, they didn't knohen or where the criminal would appear Formed had said that there was no reason to stop ordinary business, so Layfon could only patrol when his work cleaning the Mechanical Department was over

”Really, he hasn't learned his lesson at all”

Naruki ht In order to vent her anger, Naruki kicked the ground with force as she walked, and it seemed from this that she didn't plan to hide her presence at all

Then, if the criminal were nearby, he would be able to slip by

But, Layfon couldn't find an opportunity to warn Naruki about that at all, so he could only follow behind her with a forced sirl's underwear? Don't you think that we have to immediately arrest him even if we have to mobilize the entire City Police?”

”Ah, uh, nn Maybe”

Layfon had to go clean the Mechanical Depart clothes Because the weather was very hot, he had taken off the top portion of the outfit and tied it around his waist Layfon had stuffed his Dite in the pants of his working clothes, so he could draw it out at a suitable time

Layfon and Naruki walked around with the residential district as a center There were residential districts all over Zuellni, and the criminal hadn't chosen a particular one for his crimes

”First, let's focus on the reported district to carry out investigations”

Following Naruki's proposal, the two of them walked to the district that Layfon's dor, so there were very few girls living around here However, farther away could be found coed villas or aparte of the City Police, striding forth with killing intent surging up to the sky Just seeing that appearance, the students who had coht quickly fled away

Layfon alked behind her began thinking that everyone saw hiht back to the City Police for counseling, which gave hi

”Hey, Naruki”

”What?”

Layfon opened hisin all directions

”Did Mei catch what that cri of which, it see very important

”I didn't say?”

”Nn”

”Really? Is that so?”

Naruki's , she didn't look towards hiht lowered the visibility outdoors a lot, so Mei didn't see very clearly”

”Ah, that's true”

Speaking of which, it had indeed rained last night At the ti the Mechanical Departround, he had helped to inspect the reservoir that prevented water overflow, so he also clearly remembered it

”But the criminal was small, and moreover he jumped off the balcony in an instant So that person shouldn't be a normal person, but a Military Artist”

”Hmm”

A Military Artist deliberately became an underwear thief?

It wasn't i

If that were true, then that person was truly wasting his ability - Layfon felt speechless, thinking that in his heart

”Come to think of it, why does he want to steal underwear?”

”Ask the cri, hoould I knohat that pervert is thinking”

After speaking those words, Naruki focused her vision somewhere

Someone had just turned the corner

”Ah Fe Senpai”

It was Felli, andin her hands Layfon as about to say her naed his words, and that response made Felli stare at Layfon with an unhappy look

”What are you two doing?”

”We're patrolling, what about you?”

”Can't you see just by looking?”

Felli slightly raised the plastic bag in her hands, where the name of a nearby store was printed The contents seeazines and juice

”I went out to buy so, so can I ask senpai whether you've seen any suspicious people?'

”Who knows”

After Naruki asked this, Felli only tilted her head slightly and showed a confused expression

”Did so happen?”

”Nn, it seems that there's an enemy of women around”

”? Is that so?”

Felli see of that phrase, but she still walked past Layfon and Naruki

”Is it alright not to tell her?”

Watching Felli's back as she departed, Layfon asked this after confir that she had disappeared behind the aparth we can't confirm it, I think that criminal wouldn't harm Felli-senpai”

Naruki's proclamation held an inexplicable confidence, which made Layfon show a confused expression like Felli before

Layfon looked at the tio clean the Mechanical Depart with Naruki, Layfon strode towards the entrance he normally used

After so sounds

Along with screams

The sounds that entered his ears were truly soft When he had been patrolling with Naruki, Layfon had constantly used internal Kei to iht by his lowered hearing

Layfon quickly ran over

The apartment of Felli that he had just parted as over there

In Felli's apartnated for laundry use Washi+ng machines could be used in every room there, but there seemed to also be quite a few people who only used dryers

That was information that Felli had told hilar alarm, Layfon met back up with Naruki on the road, and arrived at the scene together This place gave off a tidy feeling, completely different from the dorround was inlaid with various colors

The clothes, underwear, and towels that had been placed in the washi+ng irl - she was probably the one who had screa in the entrance The tenants who had also heard the sound also came to see the situation one after another, and the narrow entrance was filled with people in a lass as set in the outer wall of the laundry roolass shards fallen ahts of the room

Layfon and Naruki cautiously walked into the rooh the brokenAfter Naruki showed that she was part of the City Police, the girl who had just screa sounds, but things beca here just now, but it jumped out from there in a flash”

”Felli-senpai”

Naruki let out her voice Felli understood Naruki'sless”

Felli could return to her rooanizing the situation after those events would be far too difficult Nevera Military Artist, even if he were a normal person he would be hard to find

”And I was unable to see the criminal's looks, so since I have no clues at all, I don't knohere to start looking”

Felli's words ret, but she ied her mindset and took the necessary formalities

Soon after, support frolar alarm still sounded The nearby police had already received reports even before Naruki had arrived

Two patrol officers also cain of the police siren, it didn't take much time for the nuroup

After the police issued the order to preserve the criirl who had screamed and Felli obviously showed a dissatisfied expression, since after all what had fallen on the ground was not just ordinary cloth Felli whose gaze had instantly dropped into the world of absolute zero glared at Layfon for so to do with ”

”I can't do it”

Losing to that soundless pressure, Layfon opened hiswith the police who had coarerie, so Naruki as also a woitated as she convinced thereed to let the owners first confirs had been stolen

There had only been two people using the washi+ng machines

”Fellisenpai, how many clothes have you accumulated?”

”You're noisy, shut up and don't stare at a woman's laundry, you idiot”

The tone suited Felli's quiet style, but coarse words that didn't suit Felli's speaking style flew out

The laundry that had scattered were als, and were probably about three laundry bags with regard to quantity

It was definitely necessary to use the washi+ng

”It's a bit more comfortable to wash bit by bit”

Layfon made a proposal, but Felli turned her head to the side and didn't regard it

”Have you seen anything one!”

After Naruki asked, Felli shook her head Right then, the other girl screairl had also accumulated a heap of unwashed clothes like Felli, with a quantity of about two laundry bags However, after that girl picked up her clothes, she stared horrified and with a pale face at the bare floor

”What's gone?”

Naruki asked this Frouessed the answer

”My bras”

The girl mumbled this

Naruki raised her head to look at the sky, her hand clenched tightly into a fist

That girl's bras had all been stolen

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The criminal was a pervert who stole bras

Layfon couldn't understand the situation Bras? What would he do with the at all People's likes were truly inexplicable - he couldn't help but stare into the distance

”Unforgivable”

After school the next day, Fellihall Everyone had been carrying out group exercise to prepare for the Military Arts Co Sharnid ould never participate in this kind of voluntary training obviously was not there In the space reserved for the seventeenth platoon, other than Layfon and Felli, there was only Nina and Dalshena Naruki was in the City Police, participating in the manhunt with an abnormal enthusiasm

”Underwear thieves are indeed the ene Felli's remark, Nina nodded her head

”Is it Sharnid? Ha, if it is, then we should go punish hi her lance spiritedly, Layfon could only think that she just wanted to find an opportunity to beat up Sharnid, but he didn't say so, because Felli immediately opened her ”

”What did you say?”

Felli's words made Dalshena show a surprised expression

”Nor can you understand this kind of hu that in a low voice, Felli went silent She see on? The three looked at each other, completely unable to e

Felli hadn't had anything stolen froood luck, and should ments The normal Felli would do that, but her response wasn't this way, and Layfon really couldn'tof which, Meishen had clearly been a victie were evident The three of theood friends from the same home city, and moreover Meishen had that kind of personality, so it wouldn't be strange for her sense of fear to be stronger than her anger But even Felli had beco that some mystery was hidden in this

”Can I ask why you're sohonestly, Layfon received Felli's stare

”First, you need to arrest the culprit of this as quickly as possible Also, he should be given a suitable punishht now”

”By 'we', youto help?”

It was treood for the Psychokinesist Felli to express that she wanted to help

However, Felli shook her head

”Not only me, but Captain and the others as well”

Felli said this, and Nina and the others ere listening silently by the side showed surprised expressions

”What did you say?”

”We're also helping?”

”That's an obvious thing The opponent is an eneh she said it like it was natural, Felli's tone didn't have a hint of joking

Later, it was night

Naruki and Nina were side by side, and Layfon was behind them Felli spread out her Psychokinesis froht now, s

Why were things like this Layfon didn't say it, because it was no use to say

Several days had passed since then Even with Felli's Psychokinesis and the City Police's investigation network, no one was able to find the whereabouts of the cri criet was really only bras

Moreover, after seeing that horrible situation, Nina and Dalshena also understood Felli's anger Layfon also understood that it was so he would never understand

Dalshena understood those kinds of feelings, but still had left the investigation for some reason Honestly, Layfon envied Dalshena veryout, Layfon had felt that she showed a subtle expression of guilt

”We'll definitely catch that criminal today!”

Nina shouted this froorously, and even Felli shouted through the flake

That was i definitely wouldn't happen normally

Layfon couldn't keep up with the pace of the others Though he couldn't keep up, he could only choose to keep up

Layfon had only tried anything like backing out once That had happened yesterday, and after all Nina who had even or than Layfon had also joined the patrol Moreover, Layfon felt that he had been lacking sleep, so he tried to make a proposal to leave, however-

”Oh you want to back out?”

”Really, Layton's friendshi+p is only at that level”

”How lacking”

”Sorry, I was just saying it”

The three of theazesof surrender

When Dalshena had said she was backing out, clearly no one had opposed her

No

”Huh, you really are on that side, I see”

At the time, Felli seemed to have said that kind of unreasonable line If it were the normal Dalshena, she should have retorted at that sentence, but at the tiuiltily

Rather, for some reason the other two hadn't stopped Felli's rude remarks or reproached her, but it see that

Layfon truly couldn't understand it

What kind of situation was he in right now?

Moreover, that night Layfon had to leave early because he had to go clean the Mechanical Department

Like that, the criry howls of woht sky

”Really, what's going on”

The next day, Layfon had slumped lifelessly in his seat in the classrooh it was very hot, it was a bit better than yesterday According to rue te Because of this, Zuellni's summer break provisions had not coet a long break

Dissatisfied catcalls and other sounds bounced around the classroo that kind of situation, Meishen walked over, putting a cup of juice on Layfon's desk

”Sorry”

”No, it's not Mei's fault”

It see ratefully took the drink, drank all of the juice in the cup, and then chewed on the pieces of ice that had fallen into his mouth

”But, if we don't hurry up and catch the criht not be able to take it”

It wasn't his physical strength, but histhe actions of an underwear thief, nor did he understand the reasons why Naruki and the others were so dedicated to this

”Right, what about Mi-chan?”

”Uh She said that she'd keep her ears open”

Mifi hadn't joined the ranks of the night patrol, but she was listening everywhere for information to help catch the criminal