The reason the police had come to find them this time...
was clearly different from the previous times they'd been involved.
And the nature of the incident was in a league of its own.
This incident might well concern a girl's... safety.
The police knew the girl had been locked in the car, right?
Otherwise, why hadn't they shown the slightest surprise when they saw what had just happened?
But...
The two security guards were puzzled.
If they already knew the girl had been locked in the car...
were they watching the footage to find the person who'd bullied her?
The boy was very quiet.
And he'd kept his head down when he came in.
The guards' attention had been on the police and the married couple, so they hadn't paid much attention to the boy.
Thus, neither guard recognized that the boy in the footage was standing right beside them.
Had that girl been rescued?
She had, right?
The two guards kept asking and answering themselves in their minds.
They wanted to ask.
But the atmosphere in the room made them hesitant.
The police looked very serious.
What were they waiting for?
The unchanging footage left the two guards puzzled and a little impatient.
They wanted to ask whether they should fast-forward the surveillance footage...
Just as they hesitated—
the image on the screen finally changed.
"Ah?!"
"Huh?"
The woman and the guard cried out almost at the same time.
The surveillance footage... had turned to static?!
"What's going on?!"
The woman's voice rose unconsciously, growing much louder.
It even sounded a little shrill.
"Where's the picture?"
The woman was both anxious and confused.
They'd been just about to reach the crucial part...
Her face was almost touching the screen.
She reached out and