Aikawa Kaze had not called, mainly because he was worried about alerting the enemy, so he had only sent a message. Not getting an immediate reply was perfectly normal.
Recently, Suguru Geto had started using all sorts of other methods for his "big cleanup." He really was quite busy. Who knew when he would have time to check his phone?
Hopefully, he would see it and hurry over soon!
Otherwise, Kaze would probably be forced to stay tied to Mahito for quite a while.
Aikawa Kaze kept a calm smile as he watched the little girl and the Cursed Spirit near her, continuing to watch Mahito childishly poke away the plush toys she was trying to grab.
One, two, three...
Kaze was rather curious. Mahito had definitely sensed him. After all, on closer inspection, his movements had a mechanical stiffness and repetitiveness to them-a sign of nervousness.
The little girl had fewer and fewer arcade tokens left, and her eyes gradually reddened.
But the culprit was not doing much better. Mahito was visibly growing more and more tense.
It was probably because of the miserable experience of that little boy earlier, followed by this little girl now!
The other children had originally wanted to play at the claw machines too, but after seeing this absurd string of failures, they had all been discouraged and gone off to play something else. Now, this girl was the only customer at the claw machines.
Cold sweat dripped from Mahito's forehead. If the little girl left, he would no longer be able to keep doing this to maintain his outward composure. He had to make a decision!
Reason told him that the best option was to take the little girl hostage before the other man acted. That way, he would at least have a