Chapter 51
Translated by: ShinigamiTori
Disappearance
The first time a child disappeared was in the middle of the second month of spring.
The boy had run away from home after an argument and didn’t return for a while, so his mother asked the patrol for advice.
When he first left home, the mother wasn’t particularly worried. She was sure he would come back when his head cooled down, but it was getting dark, and it was almost time for dinner, so she hoped they would find him.
The request from the family was very ordinary.
The patrol visited several of the boy’s friends’ houses and searched the plaza where he frequented.
It was about then that the search team began to realize that it wasn’t just a child’s temper tantrum.
Even after the children’s bedtime, the boy was never found. There weren’t even any eyewitness reports.
The parents, in a panic, began to look everywhere for the boy and asked everyone they knew.
In the end, no matter how hard they searched, they couldn’t find the boy. It was as if he had vanished like smoke from the city.