Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 5] by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou
Language: eng
Format: epub

Once they were in her apartment, the still-angry Kaname laid out to Sousuke everything that had happened.

“I see,” he said afterwards. “That’s quite ridiculous.”

“Right?! It’s so wrong! She might be an annoying old lady, but I can’t let them do this to her!” said Kaname, while she chopped the saury in half and slapped it on the grill.

“But the fact remains that there’s no evidence to the contrary,” Sousuke continued. “And I can understand the residents’ feelings of insecurity. Unless she can prove her innocence, the management agency’s response is understandable.”

“How can you be so cold?”

“My temperature is irrelevant. I’m merely evaluating the facts of the matter,” Sousuke said, grating the daikon radish.

“But you can’t be okay with it, right?” Kaname insisted. “You know that old lady too, right?”

“Affirmative.”

“And you don’t feel bad for her?”

“I can express my sympathy and concern, but it won’t improve the situation.”

“Still, I can’t stand it. If this were a detective manga, we’d find the true culprit and end everything happily, but...”

“Yes, but that likely won’t happen here,” Sousuke told her.

Everything he’d said was on target. Kaname was a total outsider, and she didn’t have any useful proof or leads. If the old woman wasn’t behind the burglary, then who was? It’s not as if Kaname knew everyone who lived in the apartment complex. It could even be a completely unrelated team of thieves.

A long silence fell. The only sounds were the grill burner and Sousuke grating radish.

“Still,” she said, “it gets on my nerves.”

“Just let it go. There’s nothing you can do. It’s finished,” Sousuke said at last, holding out a small bowl of grated daikon.

“I’ll handle the rest, then. You can go watch TV or something.”

“Understood.”

That was the end of their talk about the burglaries.

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