"Wait."
Kushida finally couldn't hold back any longer.
She stopped and looked at Lin Mu, her expression shifting from confusion to bewilderment.
"Lin Mu, what are we doing in the dormitory?"
Lin Mu stopped in front of the elevator and pressed the down button.
"Looking for someone."
"Looking for someone?" Kushida caught up with him and tilted her head. "Who?"
The elevator doors opened, and they stepped inside. Lin Mu pressed a floor button, then answered leisurely:
"Airi Sakura."
"..."
Kikyo Kushida froze for two seconds.
Then her expression grew complicated.
The elevator rose slowly, the numbers ticking upward one by one.
Kushida watched Lin Mu's profile reflected in the elevator doors.
His short white hair, those eyes fixed straight ahead as if nothing mattered, and the lollipop that was always hanging from his mouth.
She opened her mouth as if to say something, then swallowed her words.
The elevator doors opened.
They walked along the quiet corridor. Kushida watched Lin Mu stop in front of a door, then finally couldn't hold back any longer:
"Lin Mu."
Her voice carried obvious suspicion, along with a hint of something she couldn't quite put her finger on.
"You said... Sakura was an eyewitness?"
Lin Mu turned to look at her.
Kushida crossed her arms and frowned slightly.
"Is your fortune-telling really accurate? I saw you in the classroom just now. You didn't do anything at all—you just leaned back in your chair and zoned out.
And after we got back to the dorm, all you did was wave that Crystal Ball around a couple of times. I saw it in your drawer, and then you decided the witness was Sakura?"
She paused, a little more helplessness creeping into her voice.
"That's way too far-fetched."
Lin Mu looked at her disbelieving face and