Inside a room on the second floor of a small building, sunlight streamed in through the window. A little blonde girl with twin tails lay sprawled across the desk, her steamed-bun-like face pressed against the tabletop, with a puddle of drool beside her mouth.
"This is terrible."
With a bang, the door was thrown open, startling the little blonde girl with twin tails into sitting up. With another bang, her knee slammed into the underside of the wooden desk. It hurt like hell.
"Ouch!!"
The little blonde girl's expression was a spectacular mix of bewilderment, pain, and confusion.
"Bonnie, you told me before, right? If someone from the Execution Agency came looking for you, I was supposed to say you weren't here."
The one who rushed into the room was a Gold-Rimmed Glasses Man. He looked refined and scholarly, with a somewhat timid air.
"Mm-hmm, just say I'm not here."
Isewei Bonnie was an exceptionally clever little rascal. Although she was a detective, she had absolutely no interest in cases involving ghosts. Even if those cases paid handsomely, she still had to be alive to spend the money.
"Someone from the Execution Agency came?"
Isewei Bonnie wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth. From her words and manner alone, no one could tell she was only twelve. Plenty of people would believe she was twenty.
"They're here."
"Just say I'm not here. Hmm~, tell them I went to Link City to solve a murder."
"Er~, well..."
Gold-Rimmed Glasses Man looked troubled.
"Stop hemming and hawing. Say it."
"I... don't dare."
"Huh?"
Isewei Bonnie froze for a moment. Then her pupils rapidly contracted as she asked, "An Awakened has come to the door?"
"It's their leader... Byakuya."
"!!!"
Isewei Bonnie jumped down from the leather chair and turned to