Chapter 10 - Tricycle

It was almost 20:00 o’clock when Makoto finished her volunteer work. Today, she decided to drop off the siblings named Haruhisa and Touma to their home. Therefore, she would come home late.

“Eh, you’re going home with . They said you are cool.”

After interrupting the mother’s speech, which seemed to continue if she did not stop it, Makoto left the house where the siblings lived. After making sure that the door to the sibling’s house was closed, Makoto descended from the 6th floor using the stairs. One floor had ten homes in it. Makoto walked slowly from end to end. Maybe because many residents on that floor had small children, there always was: bicycles, kickboards, or a set of tools to play in the sand near the front door. Makoto looked at these items one by one. Finally at the eighth door, Makoto found the tricycle that did not seem foreign.

A tricycle with a yellow color.

Makoto stopped in front of the house, and sharpened her hearing. Faintly, she heard the sound of a boy and a girl. The girl was still crying. Makoto read the name written with a marker on that tricycle.

Sanbongi Satoshi.

Makoto raised her head to check the ceiling. There was no surveillance camera on it.

“Oh, I see.” Makoto nodded alone.

Suddenly one of the doors opened. A woman came out carrying a large plastic bag with both hands to throw out the trash.

“Good night.”

When Makoto greeted her with a smile while bowing, the woman bowed back with a normal bow and then entered the elevator. She didn’t consider Makoto, that was standing there with a school uniform, strange.