Chapter 32

"...but they closed it to accelerate the investigation, so other police stations across the city are left open for public use."

Oboro sighed, leaning back in his hospital bed while grabbing a book from the stand and opening it.

"I wish you well."

He gave a faint smile before looking down at it. Aizawa grabbed the paper he wrote notes down on before stuffing it into his pocket and heading out of the booth.

"So, should we check out the crime scene to see what's up?"

Shinso asked, speeding up to get next to Aizawa, he simply turned to look at him and nodded.

"No, let the police do their thing. Although we should need to get the ingredients for that control serum that Officer Palau gave him, you have the ingredients, right?"

He turned to look at me, I nodded while pulling out the small note and handing it to him. Aizawa read the note for a few seconds before handing it back to me.

"How about you go to the market to get the ingredients, we'll go find Officer Palau and see if he knows anything else, ok?"

Aizawa took a few steps towards me and laid his hand on my shoulder.

"Just don't talk to any sketchy looking people, ok?"

I was about to respond when Shinso spoke up.

"Shouldn't I go with him? He's still new to this place and I don't feel comfortable with him going alone."

Aizawa looked towards Shinso and sighed softly, nodding.

"Ok...I'll go find the officer while you guys get the ingredients for the potion."

We all collectively nodded as we went our separate ways.

"Actually I have a different plan."

I looked towards Shinso while gripping the ingredient list in hand, he looked towards me with a raised eyebrow.

"Me and Oboro went to see someone this morning, he mentored Oboro in this kind of thing."

Shinso fell silent for a few seconds before speaking.

"Why are we getting these weird ingredients to begin with, I'm surprised that Aizawa didn't question you about your body temperature."

I instantly felt my gut drop like a roller coaster, I had to put on a placid face as I explained something that could jeopardize our trust.

"W-well, while we were shopping for ingredients I came across this weird stand which was selling miscellaneous items, so I took a potion and drank it."

Shinso's eyes widened.

"What does the potion do?"

I looked ahead for a few moments, putting my hands in my pockets in an attempt to act casual.

"Well, it gave me Routeway abilities, or it gave me access to a Routeway, I just don't know which one...I don't know anything about Routeway except you can get hurt."

Shinso's expression only got more pronounced.

"Get hurt?"

I nodded.

"Yes, I don't know much about it, but it allows me to hear strange voices, and they can reveal to me information that I wouldn't normally gain access to."

Shinso fell silent, I could hear his heart pumping in his chest.

"So what's this guy gonna do?"

I shrugged nonchalantly.

"Whatever he can, he seems a lot more adept than the police, although I don't know where Palau got that potion from."