Takagi had been absent for a full day.
Which was strange, as Takagi almost never got sick.
It bothered a certain lady detective that her adorable and flustering partner was seemingly gone off the face of the earth.
Satou asked the keibu, who was reading some reports.
"Any news from Takagi-kun?"
"No, Satou-kun, but I'll tell you the minute the he calls."
He gave Satou a fatherly pat on the back.
Another red light.
Satou watched the car in front of her with a bored look on her face.
It would seem like she had gotten caught at every red light on her way home.
Maybe Takagi-kun supposedly found a new girl and look where it got her now.
Just because he didn't call me at all today and yesterday does not necessarily mean that Takagi-kun found a new girlfriend.
Well I trust that takagi kun won't.
She gazed out to the streets.
There were students walking down the sidewalk engaged in a lively conversation, a seemingly unconscious figure lying under one of trees in Beika district park, and a few blocks beyond that Satou could see her apartment.
Wait, what!
She looked and there it was, hidden like a shadow within the shade of a tree.
Before Satou could have made any guess at what was going on, there was a loud honk.
Oh, it's already the green light!
Satou turned the corner and parked her car alongside the road.
She closely inspected the figure lying on the grass patch.
There was blood on his hair, coming from a head wound on the left side.
He was suprising small, being that he looked not much older than first or second grade.
Satou gently picked him up.
He's pretty light…
Once she shut the door, Satou drove as fast as the speed limit would allow to the nearest hospital.