Temperature Control 39

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Chapter 39

High School Trio

After accidentally losing his bicycle, it became much more difficult for someone to go anywhere.

At the Sakugawa Junior High Girl tram station, he queued up to buy a one-way ticket, which was only one-third of the price of a regular public bus. Although trams have speed limits in the city, they are twice as fast as regular buses.

The location of the field trip was not particularly far from here, but Natsume Enako found that there was a tram arriving near Sakugawa Junior High Girl, so she was too lazy to walk over.

The tram is not much different from the general Japanese Shinkansen. Most of the tracks are built on viaducts, separated from the living area below. In the past, Natsume Enako was worried that these trams would suddenly derail and fall, but she had never seen such news in all these years.

On the tram, Natsume Enako found that it was empty.

There were not many students wandering around at this time. On the contrary, it is more common for faculty and staff who do not need to participate in club activities.

“The first club activity has been completed, and now we need an investigation report.” Natsume Enako was thinking about the club activities. After handing the investigation report to the president, Amakusa Shino, she could get the credits for this month.

Natsume Enako was not in a hurry about the investigation report. Anyway, there was still a lot of time this month, and the first task was to investigate the case of the mysterious disappearance of the bicycle.

“It has been included, and the action is really amazingly fast.” Sitting on the train, Natsume Enako opened the urban legend website and looked at the latest section on it with some reluctance.

[Eating whales, what kind of secrets are hidden behind the disappearance of bicycles for no reason]

Another clickbait?

Natsume Enako clicked on the link to the topic page. In addition to the specific introduction and investigation situation, various related posts can be found below, which fully and objectively record a series of blood and tears.

[According to reliable sources, A careless Tokiwadai girl’s bicycle mysteriously disappeared when she was withdrawing money from an ATM. The author of the post sent a report to you on the spot]

[Seventh District Third Commercial Avenue, a girl who was on the phone saw a ghostly bicycle moving while buying a cake]

[A third-year student of Sakugawa Junior High Girl’s savings for a year went to waste, and her newly purchased bicycle mysteriously disappeared]

[My bicycle was lost, so unlucky]

……

Ignore the last post that is just a complaint. Natsume Enako feels that there must be a traitor around her. As expected, it is herself, a careless Tokiwadai girl.

Natsume Enako silently sent a link to a post to Senior Maeda, and soon the other party sent back a picture of busy work, with no intention of answering directly.

Originally, she thought she could make an urban legend based on these bicycle disappearance cases, but the power of the gods was no match for fate.

“Natsume-san, are you there?”

On the train, Natsume Enako had just closed the website when she received a message from Senior Kongou.

It has been almost a week since Senior Kongou was attacked, and she don’t know if the ink on Senior Kongou’s face has faded.

“Yes, Senior Kongou, what’s the matter?”

“Natsume-san, due to some reasons, I can’t go out for the next few days, so I have no choice but to ask you for a small favor.” Senior Kongou continued to send messages.

“What favor?” Natsume-san tilted her head.

“Just help me buy some things.”

“So it’s buying things, No problem, Senior Kongou, what can you help buy?” Natsume Enako agreed without hesitation. Although she didn’t know why Senior Kongou didn’t let the helicopter at home deliver the food directly, she must have her own reasons.

“Please help buy some food that little Catherine likes from the pet store. She has eaten all the food in the dormitory. As you know, little Catherine is growing up recently and her appetite is getting bigger and bigger.”

From the words of Senior Kongou, it can be seen that she is not calm, as if she is happy about the growth of little Catherine.

“Twenty bags of vacuum-packed frozen white mice, a total of sixty.”

“….Okay, no problem, I will deliver it when I come to school tomorrow.” Natsume Enako’s finger paused on the send key for a while before sending it out.

To buy mouse strips at the pet store, Natsume Enako silently muttered in her heart. Although she has a natural fear of snakes, insects, rats and ants, But if it is packaged, it shouldn’t be so scary.

The train arrived at the station. Since most of the passengers are students and faculty, the stations along the way are basically named after various schools.

“We have arrived at Shanding Middle School.”

Natsume Enako recalled the map that Uiharu just showed her. The area near this middle school is where thefts are active.

The door of the train has not yet opened. Natsume Enako carefully checked her appearance. A figure with sparkling eyes was reflected in the glass of the train.

Passing by an unknown mountaintop middle school, you can see junior high school students participating in club activities from afar. The members of the track and field club are closer to the school fence, and they look at this stranger whose uniform doesn’t fit in with the school through the fence with some curiosity.

“In addition to this junior high school, there are five high schools nearby.” Natsume Enako thought silently. The nearby student dormitories and faculty dormitories are basically for these schools.

However, Natsume Enako’s target is not these schools, but the nearby student dormitories and faculty dormitories.

“Although it looks so small on the map, the actual area is larger than the school garden.” Natsume Enako couldn’t help complaining after just a few steps.

There are dormitory buildings everywhere, and the nearby shops are also fully equipped, but the most worrying thing is that there are many high school students here.

High school students in Japan are a kind of magical creatures. They can save the world, and of course there are also guys who skip classes and club activities to stroll around.

Natsume Enako didn’t walk far before she saw three high school students who had skipped at least some club activities coming towards her. She were arm in arm and looked very close.

“Akami, I skipped class to accompany you to find your bike. We are being nice, aren’t we?”

This was a high school student with light blue sunglasses, wearing a school uniform, tall and with a yellow hedgehog hair, but he looked like a bad boy.

“Yes, Akami, we skipped class today because of you. You have to treat us to dinner this week.”

A high school student with blue hair and earrings said immediately, while hugging the necks of the two people around him, with a warm smile on his face.

“Blue-haired guy, you still dare to say that. If I hadn’t bought you instant noodles, how could my bike have been lost?” The black hedgehog head walking in front said angrily. He was already miserable enough, but these guys still wanted him to treat them.

“Oh, It’s an elementary school student, is there an elementary school nearby?”

The blue-haired high school boy with earrings also saw Natsume Enako coming towards her, and whispered to the two people on the way to work.

“What elementary school student? This is Tokiwadai’s school uniform, and your whisper is too loud.” The boy with Black Spiky Hair couldn’t help but say, he was troubled by that junior high school girl many times, how could he not recognize that school uniform.

“That’s right, it’s Tokiwadai’s school uniform, bun, school girl, rich girl.” The blue-haired high school boy muttered to himself.

“You two-dimensional, keep your voice down.” The black hedgehog said angrily.

It’s really outrageous.

Natsume Enako gritted her teeth secretly, and glared at the three people fiercely, indicating that she would not argue with her, and that her own affairs were more important.

The two sides passed by each other in a friendly manner, as if there was no disturbance at all.

“There is still no clue, but I will not give up.” After taking a sip of soda, Natsume Enako, who finally recovered a little energy, encouraged herself.

After walking around in a circle, Senior Natsume Enako almost broke her legs, but fortunately there was a small park nearby, so she bought a bottle of soda from the vending machine and sat on a bench in the park to rest.

It was time for the class to end, and the junior high school and high school students who had finished their club activities returned to the dormitory one after another. Even in the small park, groups of students had passed by.

“Hi, hi, hi…”

The neat rhythm sounded in Senior Natsume Enako’s ears rang.

Not far away, a little girl in a pink dress was struggling to drag several oversized shopping bags, stumbling through the park. She accidentally dropped a few cans of drinks from the shopping bags.

“Is there really an elementary school nearby?” Natsume Enako had some doubts in her head. If there was no elementary school, there would basically be no elementary school students nearby, after all, there were no parents here.

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