What Sonoko Suzuki meant was, of course, the pile of things Eisuke Hondou had been carrying earlier.
The countless paper airplanes that had appeared yesterday and the day before had already made the news due to their inexplicable nature, and plenty of people were discussing the matter.
"Is Mr. Subaru interested in this too? Come to think of it, I have a paper airplane here as well..."
Without hesitation, Sonoko Suzuki, who had promptly taken the liberty of calling him by name, pulled a paper airplane similar to the ones Eisuke Hondou had brought from her commuter bag.
No one knew where this batch of paper airplanes had come from over the past two days. The media alone had interviewed people about and collected over a hundred of them. Naturally, the Suzuki family, which owned more than one property in the city, had found some too.
Sonoko Suzuki had mainly carried it around for fun. It was a hot topic at the moment, and being able to participate in it was interesting in its own way.
"The pattern is the same as several of the paper airplanes here." Taking it from her, Subaru Okiya examined it carefully, then handed it to Eisuke Hondou as well. "Eisuke, take it and have a look together."
How could Eisuke Hondou dare refuse? He could only accept it with a stiff expression.
Fine, so collecting these things had nothing to do with Shuichi Akai caring about the news. His sharp agent's instincts had kicked in, and he had sensed the presence of intelligence in these strange paper airplanes.
Shuichi Akai, who was enthusiastically playing instructor, felt this was a good subject. It would be more effective than dryly teaching cryptography, so he had assigned investigating it to Eisuke Hondou as a midterm final project.