Having learned his lesson last time, the man wasn't sure whether the child's disappearance this time was intentional...
Or an accident?
Whatever it was, the most important thing was to find the child first.
Last time, the child had disappeared after seeing his car...
This time...
The man quickly ran to his car.
He found nothing.
Of course.
This time, he'd rushed over after getting a call from his elder brother.
But things hadn't gotten any worse.
He simply hadn't been anywhere nearby...
Although his elder brother and sister-in-law had already searched once...
He quickly pulled back his fist.
I think I'll head back to the Police Station.
The woman's panting gradually subsided.
"What's going on?"
I stopped in my tracks.
"I'm wasting your time."
The woman turned around.
The woman took a deep breath.
I thought I'd find something by my car this time, too...
What could this young man possibly know?
A growing anger welled up inside him.
He was grasping at straws, searching in desperation despite having found nothing...
Had he not listened to a single word?
He wouldn't have played a joke that made the little girl misunderstand him after seeing the child acting "suspiciously" by his car...
He felt he'd covered quite a distance, barging into every shop along the way and searching every nook and cranny.
After confirming it again and again...
This time, the child had gone missing before he arrived.
His elder brother and sister-in-law had only asked whether he'd seen Nannan.
Last time, according to the young man, the child had intended to go to the Police Station even without him—
He knew that suspicion of his was unreasonable.
The woman's pace quickened.
Maybe, like last time, the child wanted to play hide-and-seek with her eldest brother and sister-in-law...