Something had happened!
The same thought flashed through everyone's mind at once.
They instinctively looked at one another.
They all saw the tension creeping across each other's faces.
"Officer."
Seeing the young man, the old man and the others all turned their eyes toward him, their looks silently urging him on. The Middle-aged Man twitched the corner of his eye and hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he asked what they wanted to know.
He was curious himself.
"What happened?"
"Did you find something inside the house?"
The Middle-aged Man was the first to speak. The young man followed with his own guess. "Did you find Fanfan?"
"Or..."
Thinking of the expressions on the White-collar Woman's and the policewoman's faces, the young man lowered his voice a little.
"Did something happen to Fanfan... Did it die?"
He glanced carefully at the little girl.
To his surprise, the little girl's face didn't look very good either.
Uh...
If something really had happened to the parrot, it was only natural that the little girl would be upset.
The little girl had even gone to the police station on her own to report her parrot missing.
That showed just how much she loved it.
"Fanfan?"
The Middle-aged Man's expression changed drastically, and his voice even cracked. "It died?!"
The White-collar Woman hurriedly covered the child's ears with her hands.
Then she glared fiercely at the Middle-aged Man.
Why was he talking about death in front of the child?
What if the child misunderstood?
Fanfan being missing and Fanfan being dead were two completely different things.
If Fanfan was missing, she could comfort the child by saying that Fanfan was living happily somewhere they didn't know about.
Fanfan had just been too curious about the outside world.
One day, after