If I were Lain, the most prestige would be to follow this quest. I, Edogawa Conan, thought this while in the Scientist's Mini. For some reason, the auburn haired girl decided to follow us. I heard from the professor that she was alone in the street in front of the house. When he asked if she was friends with me from school, she affirmed. So, he let her stay in the house.
"You see, I'm good with puzzles. I decided that I'll help you two."
"It's past ten you know," I was against her accompanying us.
"Well, I... my sister is coming home late tonight. I'll feel safer with you. I think you could understand me..." and she added in a smaller voice, "and my situation."
I didn't have time to worry about her since the quest was due to expire at midnight. At some of the places the riddles described, we found QR codes. We used the professor's smartphone to process them. They led to websites that gave out hints to the next point. At some points, where the scientist and I were stumped, the auburn hair was useful particular with the medical terms. The process was eating up time and we hadn't run into Lain yet.
The red light on the Scientist's smart phone was blinking.
The auburn hair noticed it and spoke, "We need to save the power for reading the QR codes. That means any research we need to do would have to be at a net cafe we find on our way."
"It isn't like we have a choice at this point. There's only an hour left to midnight." I admitted.
"Ah I see signs for one," The scientist drove into a parking spot and put a few coins in the meter. We walked briskly following the signs around the corner. The place we were led to looked open.
"We want the high-speed access option," I told the scientist.
The scientist promptly paid for the terminal's code. Auburn hair and I went to find an open room, but just as we were passing the first room, a middle school girl wearing her hair to oneside fastened by a white clip slammed the door open and ran out. I went and looked at her screen which hadn't been logged off. There was a forum that read: Shillings. It would be inappropriate to see what else the girl was reading so I stopped there.
I went to log out and saw the following: 'Does USER NAME: Lain want to sign out?' I ran after white clasp with auburn hair chasing us and the Scientist calling our names, bewildered by the sudden development.