April First kept his head lowered as he said this, not daring to meet Angel's eyes. He looked extremely guilty.
But Angel knew he was probably telling the truth.
He had merely concealed some facts.
Angel said, "Though this is only our second meeting, I don't think you're the sort to barge into the Public Security Headquarters for no reason."
"Even if you wanted to investigate information about a missing relative, you could have gone through the proper channels..."
"That's impossible!" April First abruptly raised his head, but when he saw Angel's calm, deep-water eyes, he instinctively lowered his gaze again. "I... I reported this to the Public Security Department five years ago, but I never received any response."
"I went to ask every year, but they always said there was no information."
"But how could that be possible? My sister was a living, breathing person. How could she just vanish without a trace?"
April First lowered his head and muttered softly, "We're just ordinary people with no influence. The only thing I could do was trust the Public Security Headquarters. But all that trust got me was a blank void."
"I really couldn't take it anymore, so I... barged in."
The heart of April First's words was sincere and earnest, but when he reached that final sentence, Angel still detected a faint trace of something unusual through Extrasensory Perception.
Everything he had said was true.
But if the whole truth was not told, the facts could still be led off their track.
"What you said was very sincere, but..." Angel parted his lips slightly. "Why today, of all days?"
April First stared downward from the corner of his eyes and stammered, "N-no reason. I... my grievance had been piling up in my heart for a long time, and today