Nana Shou Anjo had owned extensive assets. After looking into them, Louis decided to investigate his former property in Ward 6 first. Kiyoko Itori had once mentioned that Kanou might be hiding there.
It was a deserted estate. Beyond the iron gates, a road led straight to the central villa, flanked by greenery that had gone untended for a long time. The whole place looked rather desolate.
The estate was so large that his spreading cold could probe only half of it. He found no ambushes.
Louis had come alone. He had to search the place without compromising his own safety, so he walked slowly inside.
"No one in the house, either..." Before entering, Louis had already gotten a rough sense of its layout. It had three floors, with living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens, but still no trace of anyone.
"Wait..." About fifty meters from the front door, Louis suddenly sensed a crystal responding deep underground. This was no ordinary crystal, but a specially made ice crystal that never melted-the kind he had once hidden on the Yasuhisa sisters.
The one here was probably one of the tiny crystals he had secretly planted on the Yasuhisa sisters to track their locations and prevent surprise attacks. Its detection range was three hundred meters, and now it lay deep underground ahead of him. There was only one.
The crystals he made were unlike ordinary trackers. Instruments could not detect them, and most people would have trouble finding them.
In other words, at least one of Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa was here. Either way, that was good news. Furuta had given him a real address.
After confirming that no one was in the house aboveground, Louis strode over. The front door was locked, but virtually any lock with a keyhole posed no