"It's right here."
The boy nodded again, certain.
He was sure.
"..."
The boy's confident words plunged everyone around him into a brief silence.
Then...
"It really is here."
"It's right here."
"How has that child still not been found..."
"I never realized it before, but now I really think this parking lot is huge..."
"What about the car keys?"
The police officer's eyes lit up slightly.
"You pulled the keys out of the car."
"Where are they?"
If they had the keys, they could find the car faster.
How had they not thought of that sooner?
Mainly because none of them had expected the boy to forget which car he had locked his little sister in...
It had only happened that morning.
How could he have forgotten after such a short time?
Besides, the parking lot might be huge...
But now that they knew the girl was in one of the cars in this parking lot, they had never worried that they wouldn't find her.
All they had worried about was whether they could find the trapped girl one second sooner.
And yet...
Who could have known... with the police and so many concerned people helping...
After all this time, they still hadn't found the child?!
The child was here. They all believed the boy wasn't lying about that.
So had they all gone blind?
Otherwise... no one would believe it if they heard this story...
How could no one have found the child after all this time?
Was this normal?
It wasn't normal at all.
The car keys?
The boy froze.
The car keys...
He remembered...
The boy rubbed his forehead hard.
"..."
"What?"
The police officer frowned.
"Speak up."
It wasn't that he wanted to be harsh with a child.
It