"People who looked like complete nobodies were never worth my attention, let alone when I was waiting to return the phone and catch up on the gossip..."
"Huh?" At the mention of the phone, Suzuki Sonoko's expression changed slightly as she suddenly remembered something. "Right! While Ran and I were on our way to the café to return the phone, it received another text message."
"I vaguely remember what it said: 'Sonoko, if you can't make it, then go alone and offer incense on that person's death anniversary. Remember to place two factory Sunflowers.'"
Suzuki Sonoko scratched her head. "At the time, I thought that 'that person' meant the ex-boyfriend or something of that Miss Sonoko who shared my name. I even came up with all kinds of love stories, but thinking back now..." The message seemed rather creepy.
"A death anniversary?" Haibara Ai thought of the cases that usually surrounded Jiang Xia, and a whole chain of likely causes naturally formed in her mind. "A death anniversary means someone died. And if someone died, there may be someone else who wants to avenge that dead person."
Suzuki Sonoko: "!!"
Sato Miwako suddenly thought of something. "Bringing up a death anniversary during a confession between a man and a woman seems rather strange—what if the person messaging the phone's owner wasn't some boy trying to confess, but the two men who were at the café with you? In other words, the kidnappers?"
Suzuki Sonoko had never considered that possibility before, but once Sato Miwako mentioned it, the more she thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. Right! The café was out in the suburbs, and it was right beside a Tennis Court—at the time, even the café staff had gone to the match venue to watch the excitement. Other