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Of course, Asakura knew nothing.
Because from the very beginning, he hadn't taken this matter to heart.
As a transmigrator who had barely read the original work and only understood the anime from various short videos, although he had forgotten most of the plot, he still had a vague impression of the general story direction.
For example, in his already blurry memory, the plot of Yui Yuigahama baking biscuits was the type where nothing happened and it just passed very calmly and naturally.
It was precisely because of this that, with the thought that 'even without my involvement, this matter will resolve itself perfectly,' he hadn't specifically paid attention to Yuigahama's situation.
But now, things seemed to be getting a little out of his control.
Yui Yuigahama had been missing for two days, and Yukino Yukinoshita, after learning the news from Hiratsuka Shizuka yesterday, had not shown up all day today.
Even without evidence, Asakura believed that she was likely caught up in something while searching for Yuigahama, leading to her own disappearance.
"Can't you contact them by phone?" Asakura confirmed with Hiratsuka Shizuka.
"Forget about answering calls, their phones can't even get through..."
Hiratsuka Shizuka pulled out a lady's cigarette, but probably thinking it was inappropriate to smoke in front of a student, she irritably stuffed it back into her pocket: "That bald principal won't even let me call the police..."
"Huh, isn't the principal's hair quite thick?" Asakura asked in surprise.
"That's a wig. That guy's been bald for a long time, he just always wears a wig to cover it up."
Asakura: "..."
He felt like he had just heard some secret that he shouldn't have.
If it was exposed, would that principal expel him? Was this the so-called dark side of the school?
However, he could probably understand the other party's thoughts.
If the school reported student disappearances to the police, when it came time to assign blame, the school, as the reporting party, would inevitably take on some of the blame, which was clearly something the Soubu High School principal did not want to see or accept.
"Hiratsuka-sensei, can you tell me Yuigahama's home address?" Asakura asked.
"No, out of professional ethics, I cannot disclose any student's home address," Hiratsuka Shizuka shook her head, "Besides, do you think I haven't thought of something so obvious? I've already been to her house, but there's no one home."
"Hiratsuka-sensei, have you ever experienced something like 'sitting on the sofa watching TV but can't find the remote control'?" Asakura suddenly asked an unrelated question.
"Well, of course I have... What's wrong, do you suddenly want to watch TV?" Hiratsuka Shizuka asked, a little confused.
"No, what I mean is, 'If you don't stand up and let me confirm with my own eyes whether the remote control is under your butt, I won't be satisfied,'" Asakura said earnestly.
"At least give mature adults some trust..." Hiratsuka Shizuka said helplessly, understanding Asakura's unspoken meaning.
"Towards butts?"
"Towards the remote control!"
"Teacher, did you drop this golden Porsche remote control, or this silver one..."
"Are you some kind of lake god!"
"Or this silver ○ egg remote control?"
"Hmph!"
Hiratsuka Shizuka threw a quick and fierce jab at Asakura's chest, but he deftly dodged it.
"Damn it, why can't I ever hit him..." The fierce, older beauty teacher clicked her tongue in annoyance.
"Violence is opposed!" Asakura protested, emboldened.
"Can a teacher disciplining a student be called violence!" Hiratsuka Shizuka retorted, full of conviction: "Besides, I control the force so that it leaves no external injuries, and I can be acquitted even if sued."
"It's certainly not violence, it's completely vigilante justice now," Asakura scoffed.
After a while of fooling around, Hiratsuka Shizuka suddenly realized that it was not the time to continue discussing such meaningless things with Asakura.
"What I'm about to say is just me talking to myself," she glanced at Asakura and said loudly, "Yesterday, when Yukino borrowed the student roster and club application forms from me for investigation, she seemed to have recorded something in her frequently used notebook. That notebook should still be in the Service Club activity room's desk drawer."
"Thanks, Hiratsuka-sensei."
"I can't hear what you're saying~" Hiratsuka Shizuka pretended to be foolish and hurried away.
Asakura watched her disappear around the corner, then went to the activity room and found the notebook Yukino had left there.
This item was filled with the girl's daily reading notes, as well as some very girlish complaints about the book's content, and on the last, newest page, an address was recorded.
Asakura followed the directions and quickly found the house at the address.
From the 'Yuigahama' nameplate outside the yard, this should be Yui Yuigahama's home.
Just as Hiratsuka Shizuka had said, the house indeed felt lifeless.
However, unlike Hiratsuka Shizuka, who could only observe from outside, Asakura was not so law-abiding.
He directly commanded the Snakes secretly following him to crawl into the house through the ventilation ducts, then had them open the front door of the Yuigahama house from the inside.
As soon as he entered the house, he smelled a foul odor.
Fortunately, it was not the smell of a corpse, but more akin to the unique odor found in pet stores.
After walking a few steps further in, Asakura found the source of the smell.
It was a very weak-looking dachshund, and there were some dog feces and suspicious water stains on the living room floor.
"Come to think of it, Yuigahama does seem to have a dog..."
Asakura found dog food in the corner, refilled the empty bowl of the dachshund, and added some tap water to the adjacent water bowl.
The originally weak and listless dachshund dragged its body to the edge of the bowl and then began to devour the food, finishing all the dog food Asakura had poured in the blink of an eye, then eagerly lapped up the water.
Asakura also wandered around the house.
He vaguely sensed something, but he couldn't be sure if his feeling was correct.
"Magic is restless... There must be something nearby..."
Just as Asakura was feeling anxious, the dachshund, having finished its food and drunk a lot of water, began to circle in one spot.
"Are you trying to tell me to investigate here?"
Asakura looked at the still circling little dachshund, hesitated for a moment, then sighed as if having made up his mind.
"Don't disappoint me..."
With that, Asakura placed his hand on his right eye, or more precisely, on the eye patch over his right eye.
Then he gently used his fingers to pull off the eye patch, revealing the eye that had been hidden under medical gauze, its pupil an abnormally vivid red.
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