Ding-dong!
Several people were sitting on the living room sofa drinking tea when the detective agency's doorbell suddenly rang.
Fujino stood up and looked through the peephole, finding a bearded man standing outside.
Fujino opened the door and watched the bearded man walk in.
The man wore a polite, courteous expression. "Excuse me, is this the Fujino Detective Agency?"
"I saw the sign hanging upstairs."
Fujino gave him a once-over, nodded, and replied, "That's right. This is the Fujino Detective Agency. I'm Fujino."
At that moment, Hondo Eisuke suddenly ran over excitedly and asked, "Um, are you here to hire us to solve a case?"
"That's right."
"That's great!"
"I'm really lucky—I ran into a case the moment someone came through the door!"
"My luck must finally be improving, right?!"
"Ah—!"
Hondo Eisuke wore an excited expression, then promptly slammed his head into the frame of the half-open door.
The bearded man: "..."
For a first meeting, there was no need for such a grand bow, was there?
This kid was awfully polite...
The bearded man's name was Sanji Atsushi, and his request was to find his missing girlfriend.
The rough sequence of events was that he and his girlfriend had been a loving couple, but when he woke up that morning, he found that she was gone.
When he called her phone, she was not at home.
Her phone was switched off as well.
He believed that his girlfriend had run away from home because of the argument they had had the previous night.
As for what they had argued about, Sanji Atsushi had been extremely busy with work and had no time to keep her company, which had lit the fuse.
In the end, their argument became more and more intense.
Sanji Atsushi's girlfriend had shouted, "You've