…Something was wrong.
And judging by the current situation, it was probably very serious.
However, Mai Mingle couldn't for the life of her figure out what she had gotten herself into.
She felt like she was walking blind through the night, surrounded by a silent, breathless audience watching her every move. Everyone knew where she was headed—everyone except for Mai Mingle herself.
'Are the police treating me like a potential suspect?'
She had only said she needed to use the restroom, and the chief, who just "happened to be passing by," insisted on personally taking her. Mai Mingle thanked her repeatedly and tried to decline, but the chief acted as if she didn't understand, politely saying she was heading there anyway, so they might as well go together.
The chief of police, no less, followed Mai Mingle into the public restroom in the first-floor lobby.
