Meanwhile, however, the gang had already arrived at the address. On the outside it looked like any other house you could find in Japan.
"If they live in a house like this, they mustn't be too rich." Nakadai remarked.
"What do you mean by that?" Ryouga asked.
"I'm just saying." Nakadai replied, "Should Doyle want to see them, he might have expected something different."
"But you do bring up an excellent point." Yukito said, "If they aren't that rich, they must've spend their entire fortune to try and find their son, given those many copies you find of those missing-notices."
"A parents love can bring them so far..." Ryouga stated.
"Maybe." Yukito still doubted, "But if all their money is spend, then what home is there for their son to go to?"
"Will you three knock it off!" Ranru intervened, "We're trying to help someone here, and here you guys are debating over his parents wealth!"
Nakadai laughed: "Right, we wouldn't want to insult your abductor's family do we?"
"Will you ever let go of that?" Ryouga wondered.
Ranru answered Nakadai by saying: "If it makes you feel any better, I don't see him as..."
"Then what is he to you exactly?" Nakadai couldn't stop laughing.
"What this ruckus about?!" somebody shouted through the front door of the house they were at.
All four of them looked into that direction, when Ryouga decided to say: "Sugimura-san?"
The man in the doorway looked up: "You're the one who called?"
"Yes, we are." Ryouga replied, "I'm Ryouga, this is Yukito, that's Ranru, and this is Nakadai-sensei."
"Sensei?" the man sounded surprised, though relieved, "M... our son fell in the right hands then."
"Yes, he sure has." Ryouga replied, "Can we come in now?"
"Of course." the man, Sugimura-san, replied as he lead them in.
Though, out of all four, only Nakadai hesitated. Ranru noticed: "What's the matter?"
"I don't know." Nakadai answered, "There's something familiar about that man. I just can't..."
"Maybe he just reminds you a little of Akakuro-kun... Shogo." Ranru tried to explain.
"Maybe." Nakadai replied.
Suddenly, there was another voice, that called: "Ranru! Can you hear me?"
Ranru, naturally, recognized the voice, coming from her Dino-brace: "I'm here. What is it... Shogo?"
Back at the Dino-house, from which Doyle was calling her, Doyle looked up at the sound of that name.
"That's what they said your real name is." Emiri explained.
Doyle shook it off, then continued: "Ranru, listen to me. These people are not who you think they are!"
"Are they really?" Ranru replied, "Or are you just afraid to meet them?"
"I'm afraid for you to meet them." Doyle replied.
"Look, put this every which way you like, but I'm going to help you no matter what. You understand?"
That's when Doyle couldn't hear her reply to him any more: "Ranru? Ranru?!"
Asuka had a different perspective at this: "Why exactly did you call Ranru, of all people?"
Doyle looked at Asuka, with a matter-of-fact expression: "If Mahoro were among them, wouldn't she be the first you'd be calling?"
"Yes." Asuka replied, "But that's because she's... are you saying that...?"
"Can you seem them with your computer?" Mahoro asked Emiri.
"Let's find out." she replied, as she pulled on the secret key that changed the entire room into a sort of high-tech base. With this, they tried to see the other four at the house. They only just managed to see them enter the house, on one of their screens.
"Can you look inside?" Ryunnosuke asked her.
Emiri pressed a few buttons... more than once, but nothing happened: "No, I can't."
"They must have found a way to block everything." Mahoro decided.
Doyle, however, suddenly had something else in mind: "Er... where does this come from?"
"Doesn't matter!" Asuka said, "We now know for sure they're in trouble!"
"We can ask them that later." Roxton told Doyle.
"You're right." he whispered in reply, "Better get going!"