Volume 7, Chapter 9-2: Thunder Latter Part (2/2) (1/2)

[T/N: Yeah, okay. That didn’t take long at all xD Good job, guys!]

Here’s the second part of the chapter.

Maomao looked at the map and checked the placement of the paperweights.

(!?)

Maomao checked the details she had recorded just then.

She looked at each of the testimonies; the oldest son, the second son, and the third son.

“Maomao, what’s wrong?”

“What are your thoughts when you read this?”

She showed Yao the description. Mostly the part about the thunder.

“…hm? Isn’t it kind of strange?” Yao studied the eldest son’s description. “En’en, take a look. Isn’t it strange? The order here is different, right?”

Putting the eldest son’s descriptions together: “After the sky lit up, the evening bell rang, and the thunder followed.”

“Ah, this one too.”

The second son’s description had: “The sky lit up at the same time the bell rang, and then there was the violent sound of thunder.”

“Only this one is consistent. But we don’t know when the evening bell rang.”

The third son’s description had: “After the sky lit up, there was thunder that resembled the earth tremoring about four to five seconds later.”

“Could the eldest son and second son be lying?”

“No, that’s not it.” Maomao refuted Yao’s words.

(I see, is that how it is?)

Maomao looked at Dad.

Dad, with a gentle expression, seemed to be looking to see if the three of them had arrived at the answer.

“At least, two people have not lied.”

If Rihaku’s words are to be believed. It seems even though the large breed dog never got his turn, he provided them with some interesting information indeed.

The triplets will not cover for one another.

With that in mind, aside from the one who made a move on Boku’s younger sister, if they didn’t have a guilty conscience, they had no reason to lie.

In that case.

“Maomao, please explain what it all means,” En’en asked.

Maomao looked at Dad softly. Dad smiled, “Please explain.”

Hearing that, Maomao didn’t want to provide the wrong answer. She took a deep breath. She organised her mind to explain in a way that was easy to understand.

“Yao-san and En’en, do you know how far or close the thunder was?”