"What do you mean its back?" Oliver Davis flipped the folder opened as his met with the Japanese news article that was dated 2 days before. He soon realized that his past is haunting him after 8 years that he announced to his team that the case was unsolvable without his clairvoyant. He tried reading the Japanese article but his Japanese was becoming a little rusty.

"It doesn't mean that it is back." His hand flipped the folder closed as he handed her the folder.

"If you'll excuse me, I'll have to see my daughter." He buttoned the bottom part of his suit and walked towards the two doors as he thought of the whereabouts of her daughter.

"You won't reopen this case because you're too afraid of confronting your demons, Naru." Madoka sighed as she notices that Lin passes by Naru to see her.

"Lin, you're also here?" Madoka raised an eyebrow.

"I wanted to see what Naru's reaction was." Lin stood next to her as they watched Naru rushed towards the lobby.

"I assumed that you would. He's afraid to re-open the case because his guilt might kill him of what really happened to Mai." Madoka paused as she remembered the horrible image she found when she returned back to Japan because of a private investigator that Naru hired.

Oliver Davis stopped his footsteps as soon as he found his daughter standing in front of a gravestone.


4 years ago

The sound of the drill made Madoka cringe as she approached the scene with two people following her. Her heel drove its way to the ground, she tries to balances herself to avoid landing on the ground. She wobbled slightly but later notices a pair of hands behind her shoulder. The back of her head could feel the hard chest of the man behind her. She pushes herself forward to balance herself and pulled her heel away from the mushy ground. Upon regaining her balance she turned to her behind and smiled at the Chinese man who helped her.

"Thank you, Lin."

Lin took off his coat and let it hung on Madoka's shoulders. They were getting nearer the site that Oliver Davis' private investigator mentioned. Madoka stood as the men proceeded to the site. She watched the police and forensics team scatter out to find what she and her friends has been looking for, Mai Taniyama's body.

Her heart was pumping fast, she didn't want to believe that her dear friend has turned to a corpse after the case. She held on to Lin's coat as the two men that followed her helped with the search. The site was an old mansion about 80 km away from Chiba. The mansion was the typical haunted house look with the creaking doors, knocking branches, broken window, dirt stained curtains. Madoka stayed outside as she waited for the men to return.

"We found something!" Madoka could hear the forensics team from the other side of the site. She didn't hesitate on running towards the forensics team. Lin abruptly blocked her from seeing what the forensics found. He stood in front of him, they were only 10 meters away from the team.

"Noll has his doubtful look," Madoka mumbled as she tiptoed to check on her student's reaction.

"Tell me, what do you have here?" Hirota Seigi approached the head of the forensics team carrying a small notebook.

"Seigi-san, where's your assistant?" Ichigo Akai, the head of the forensics team asked as she squatted down to examine the remaining bones they found.

"He was out of the case because of his personal connection to the case. Tell me what you got here"

"Clavicle and tibia prove that the victim was in her adolescent. Decomp assumption, i'd say dead for about 4-5 years. Pelvic bone suggests female…" Akai said as she stood up. She took off her gloves and approached the raven-haired CEO, who was standing from a distance.

"Do you happen to have a photo of her? We will do a facial reconstruction to properly ID her." Oliver Davis pulled a photo from his coat and showed it to the forensics scientist.

"Thank you. We will inform you right away once we confirm her identification and what became of her."

Oliver Davis's eyes turned blank for a couple of seconds, he couldn't believe that there is a chance that the bones in front of him were actually Mai. He placed his hands back inside his pocket before walking back towards his two mentors.

"Oliver Davis, it's been years has it?" Hirota said as he watched him walk. The man glanced towards the detective and then said.

"Find the person responsible for her death."

However, as he stepped on the damp ground the detective noticed an odd texture.

"I found something here." Hirota took a step back as the team rushed towards him. He pointed at a white cloth hidden beneath the ground. They started to dig up the soil and then finally saw a plastic bag with blood stained clothes inside.


"Jean, here comes the train. Choo! Choo!" John lifted the pink spoon in front of the 3-year-old brunette. Her chubby pink cheeks were tainted with crumbles from the biscuit that she has been munching on snacks. Her hair was in pigtails so that food won't stick to her hair. The priest in front of her looked tired but willing to feed lunch to the toddler.

"Come one Jean! You need to eat up. This is healthy!" John said as the child folded her arms and then looked away from the spoon. "Your dad will come to pick you up soon! So please eat up!" John begged he was too scared of taking care of Dr. Davis' child because he knows how overprotective he is to his daughter.

"Father John." The parishioner chuckled as she stood by the door near Dr. Oliver Davis.

"Daddy!" Jean's eyes sparkled the moment she saw the all black clothing. She instantly knew that it was her father. Jean started to struggle away out from the tall chair. Her eyes started to glaze, she was about to cry.

"Daddy!" Jean yelled as Oliver Davis approached her and lifted her, carrying her on his arm.

"Did you behave today, Jean?" The young child stopped crying and wrapped her arms around his neck before nodding. She didn't want to let go of her father even for just a few minutes. John took the baby bag and then hung it on Naru's other shoulder.

"She behaved today, Shibuya-san. Will you drop her off again tomorrow?" John inquired. Oliver Davis shook his head and then smiled as he looked at his daughter before it faded and then turned to the priest.

"No. We found her, John." Naru bounced his arm and caressed her hair as she fell asleep on his shoulder. "Lin will contact you and the others as well."

Flashback end


"Father, I know that I'm only 7 years old." Hearing her father's footsteps getting nearer, Jean spoke about a topic that he wouldn't like to discuss. "But, that doesn't mean that I have no right to know about my mother." Jean clenched her small hand into a fist as she read the name on the gravestone and then looked down.

"You have every right to know about your mother." Oliver Davis stood beside her and placed his hand on top of her head before caressing it. He watched as his daughter continued to mourn about the mother that she didn't even get to know.

"Then please, can you tell me? Who was she? What kind of person she was?" Jean started crying as she lifted her head and looked at her father looking down on her.

"I don't want to hear it from Aunt Madoka. And I don't care if you're not good in giving compliments to others" Oliver Davis couldn't help but laugh over her daughter's insight. It was the first time hearing her daughter so persistent on finding the facts about her mother. He couldn't blame her since he did teach her that facts and evidence are to be gathered first before making assumptions.

"Father?" Jean curiously tilted her head and then suddenly puffed her cheeks before throwing her arms to the air. "You're making fun of me, father!" Jean started to throw adorable punches towards her laughing father.

Jean grew up inside the Davis Estate. There were a ton of maids inside the estate to keep her company but she didn't really grow up with the maids taking care of her. She grew up with a father by her side. Luella and Martin Davis found it refreshing when Oliver Davis returned to England carrying a healthy baby girl in his arms. It has been years since the Davis couple took care of an infant. They were lucky enough to have a child such as Jean. Though she could be hard headed sometimes she was not hard to deal with then it comes to education. Whenever Oliver and his father were out to the field, it would take 3 hours for Jean to stop crying and just wait for her father to return home. Luella found it hard to believe that the child attached herself to a mere stranger that adopted her years ago. However, who was she to blame the child, Oliver and Eugene became attached to them when they grew up in the estate as well. Whenever Naru returned home, Jean was always there to surprise him with a huge smile on her face and with her arms lifted for his embrace.

"Jean, Shall we go back inside? I forgot that you have to change." Naru said as he touched the child's back. Jean obediently nodded and held his father's hand as they walked towards the main estate.

"Father, Can I sleep next to you tonight?" Jean sheepishly asked. Naru raised an eyebrow noticing that her daughter looked worried.

"It's not like I'm scared or anything"

Oliver Davis sighed as he nodded. The both stepped on the cement stairs before reaching the doors.

"It's alright to be afraid of something." He encouraged as they opened the door. Jean noticed a red-headed woman making her way to them with rage and a brunette man behind him.

"Naru! You bastard!" The red-headed woman stopped in front of them before lifting her hand up ready to give the pale man a slap on the face.

"Oi, Ayako not in front of a kid!" The brunette man suddenly grabbed the lifted hand of the red-headed woman. Jean couldn't understand Japanese perfectly but she knew some words that are not to be said by a child.

"You really are a bastard! We already agreed on you taking Mai's remains and now you have your own kid? How dare you!" Jean slightly understood what the red-headed woman was talking about, she instantly stood in front of his father and confronted the red-headed lady.

"Who do you think you are? Old woman!" Jean spoke angrily as the vases at the table nearby broke it as it something shot the vase. Ayako, Bou-san, and Naru were stunned upon seeing the vase broken down into shards by the child in front of them.

"Even they call you old woman here, Ayako" Bou-san laughed at the side, he found the child amusing.

"Jean!" Naru's cold tone made the child flinch.

"Yes, Father. I'm sorry, it was rude of me to call her names. However, it was rude of them accusing you of being a bad person."

"Ayako! Bou-san!" Madoka's cheerful voice echoed in the halls.

"What a pleasant surprise! Have you met Jean?" Madoka approached the couple and then stood beside Naru.

"Madoka, Naru really isn't feeling guilty of Mai's death." Ayako clenched her hand into a fist and then looked at him angrily.

"My mother's death?" Jean mumbled understanding what the priestess was saying.

"You knew my mother?" She slowly approached the red-headed lady in front of her and inquired.

"Mother? Are you saying this child is Mai and yours?" Ayako asked as Bou-san and herself looked at Madoka and Naru with a stunned look.


Side omake:

Jean: *Stares at Naru working on the computer.~

Naru: *type type type*

Jean: *Continues to stare~

Naru: *glance

Jean: *smiles widely

Naru: *glares~

Jean: *giggles.

Naru: *sigh and carries her in his arms.~