First Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[A small boy, no older than six or seven, is peering into the camera with a look of deep concentration. Suddenly his expression subtly shifts into a childish expression of worry.]

Ne! Ne! Is anyone there? I just found this device here, and it seems a little like a cell phone. But my phone isn't working. Isn't that strange?

Is there a police officer anywhere? At school they said I should find one if I got lost.  And I can't find Ran-neechan anywhere!

Comments

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

[And this girl is eleven...]

You're really calm for someone lost. You better run inside an apartment building.

[video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Of course he was. This was hardly the first time he'd been kidnapped. He just needed to solve this case so he could get back to Ran and deal with that idiot thief.]

An apartment building? But none of my friends are here. There isn't anyone for me to visit.

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

Well... Ah...

[How to tell a kid he won't be going home soon?]

I'd worry about later because there's some bad monsters outside.

Re: [video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Monsters. Right. Apparently this was going to be one of those cases. Quick, he had to think how a child would react to something like that.]

Eh? Monsters? Are they cool monsters like Gojira?

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

.... [Oh right, one of those kids. Hoboy.]

Let's start finding you an adult to stay with. I'm so glad I don't live with adults.

[video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Why? I have to go back and find Ran-neechan. She gets really worried when I go off by myself.

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say this but, no one can go back home right now. We've been kidnapped by the scientists and have to live here.

Re: [video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Eh! Why would they do that?

[Good, confirmation on what he had already guessed. Scientists, huh. Now he just needed to find the motive. Was this related to Them? Or was it something else.]

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

Don't know. I've been here for a while now. Where did you come from?

[Kid, you're weird.]

Re: [video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I live in Beika City.

[video]

[waiting4niinii.livejournal.com]

Never heard of that. I'm from Hinamizawa in Japan. And everyone else here comes from different places.

Re: [video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Ahhh? I don't think I've ever been there. Beika City is in Tokyo.