Paine's game

"Call the police first and let the police check the surveillance cameras on nearby streets to see if they can find any clues."

Paine also agreed with Shinozuka Kaoru's inference, but the strange behavior of this intruder really made him feel a little unsure.

What does that line mean? Does it mean that you replaced Shinichi Kobayashi, or does it mean something else?

With the help of Sayuri Inoue, Paine called the police. After learning that a burglary had occurred, the police took it seriously and quickly sent a police officer to investigate the scene.

But after the police arrived, they could not find any more clues. The police said that due to the opposition of surrounding residents, the surveillance cameras originally installed on nearby streets had been dismantled. So the police just made a record for Paine and extracted the intrusion information.

bags of food left behind by the attacker, as well as possible fingerprints on the bedroom window.

But the policeman did provide Paine with a new clue.

"If you want to climb up from the bedroom window, it happens to be across the street from a convenience store. There is surveillance at the entrance of the convenience store. You might be able to capture something."

"Then why don't you call up the monitoring first?"

The policeman shrugged, "This requires the authorization of the chief of police. I am just a forensic police officer and have no right to ask the convenience store owner to cooperate with me. I need to return these physical evidence to the station first. It will take about a week to go through the process."

.So I suggest you go directly to the convenience store to negotiate, lest it takes too long and the monitoring records are overwritten."

Paine was dumbfounded, not expecting that bureaucracy was also prevalent in this world.

"What should I do now? Negotiate with a convenience store?"

Sayuri Inoue frowned and said, "The manager of that convenience store is not an easy person to deal with."

"No matter how difficult it is to deal with, you still have to try."

Paine said that he had a vague feeling that the strange intruder might have some kind of secret hidden in him.

"What's more, if I don't find that guy for a day, I won't dare to come back and live here for a day."

So the three people came to the convenience store and asked to see the surveillance camera at the convenience store entrance. As Inoue Sayuri expected, the store manager on duty refused their request without hesitation.

"Of course not! If a random person comes up and asks to see the surveillance camera, how can I do business? Besides, who knows if what you are saying is true? What if you are not good people and want to check someone's whereabouts through the surveillance camera?

What should I do? Even if what you say is true, the police should be the ones to communicate with me!"

The store manager is an elderly man with a very bad temper.

"The three of us are all students of Dehong High School, how can we be bad people?"

The old man looked a little unnatural when he heard about Dehong High School, but the expression only passed by for a moment.

"What's wrong with being a student? There are no bad guys among students? There was a thief in my store last week who was a student. He stole two lunch boxes from the store! Good people and bad people are not written on their foreheads. I see you

He doesn’t look like a good person.”

The old man pointed at Paine and said, "I remember you kid, you have never come to my place to spend money before. You don't look like a good person."

Shinozuka Kaoru smiled, she found a lot of food from the convenience store and piled it in front of the counter, and handed over a large bill.

"Store manager, check out. Can I check the surveillance camera at the entrance of the convenience store? I promise it won't cause you any trouble."

The old man's expression changed and he said seriously.

"According to principle, I shouldn't show it to you, but I think you are a very kind person and I believe you are a good person. In this case, I will make an exception and show you the surveillance!"