Takagi Wataru ran as hard as he could, but after all, he had started too late. In the end, he was still a few steps too slow, and could only watch helplessly as the robber charged into a narrow alley up ahead.
But after recalling the layout around here, Officer Takagi's eyes suddenly lit up again: past the alley, the other side was a park. It would be hard to hide in such an open place—even if the criminal slipped out of his field of vision for now, there was still hope of catching up!
So he plunged into the alley as well and ran out the other side.
But contrary to what he had imagined, when he reached the place and looked up, there was no bag-snatcher running wildly in sight. There was only a short old man sitting on the ground.
The old man seemed to have been knocked over by someone. He was now getting up in pain while picking up the glasses that had fallen beside him.
Officer Takagi hurried over. "Are you all right?"
"Takagi, wait for me!" Behind him, someone else came panting out of the alley. As soon as Takagi Wataru turned around, he discovered it was his colleague, Officer Chiba.
This chubby colleague had clearly also seen the robbery just now. It was just that he had been even farther away than Officer Takagi at the time, and had lost the criminal too.
At this moment, the two brothers in misfortune looked at each other, then turned their gazes in unison to the old man on the ground. "Sir, did you see someone wearing a helmet run past this way?"
The old man wiped his glasses and put them on. He did not disappoint the two police officers, providing a rather crucial