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Chapter 124: A certain girl’s tale 2
When I'd read up to that point, I looked up. "So this was your real first meeting with Kimihiko, Mistress Siesta."
Mistress Siesta was still sleeping peacefully on the bed. I wondered what she was dreaming about. Was it Kimihiko, whom she was still calling "Boy K." at this point in her journal? He appeared and vanished unexpectedly at crime scenes, so I imagined it wouldn't be odd for him to turn up in others' dreams as well.
"What did you think of Kimihiko back then, Mistress Siesta?" I knew she wouldn't answer, but I asked her anyway.
From Mistress Siesta's journal, the impression I got of Kimihiko was that he
was a very clever and interesting person. Or maybe she'd thought of him as a mysterious boy who was rather lonely and fragile. A boy with many secrets as well.
Either way, she probably hadn't been thinking of making him her assistant yet...
Still, the environment in which he'd been raised and his way of connecting with others were similar to hers. Mistress Siesta must have found him intriguing. Meanwhile, what had Kimihiko thought of Mistress Siesta—or rather, the mysterious Fiend with Twenty Faces? I didn't have access to his journal, so I had no way of knowing. In any case, their interests were compatible, and they
were about to embark on a journey in pursuit of Danny Bryant.
Had this been the first time Mistress Siesta and Kimihiko worked together?
The world's Ace Detective and her trouble-magnet assistant—if those two were together, something was bound to happen. Mistress Siesta must have known that as well.
And perhaps she had already suspected a certain truth at this point in time... but maybe I was jumping to conclusions there.
In any case, the tale of those past few days—which I was about to resume reading—hadn't been pointless for the two of them.
After all, their three-year adventure had its beginnings here.