Ah, so mochi-pounding was going to be interrupted after all, in the name of doing MYO work. Shooting a sympathetic glance towards Aoi, who should be off-duty all things considered, Hiraku flipped out his own phone, confirming that the group-wide text that Ren sent had actually passed. Yup, there it was, even if it didn’t seem like anyone else in the group checked that out yet. Should he call? Naw, they were probably just too busy walking around to notice the buzzing of their cellphones. Though in Makiko’s case…

Hiraku smirked. She probably took the whole mantra of ‘don’t bring your cellphone to work’ too seriously and left it somewhere, if that exorcist girl even had one to begin with.

[b]“Reading memories and searching through the crowds is good and all,” [/b]Hiraku said, nodding at the parents, [b]“But the town DOES have a PA system we could use. Didn’t the police set up a Lost Child Station or something? Maybe someone brought her there?”[/b]

It'd make much more sense than dragging a kid around the district-wide festival hoping to bump into her parents, at least.
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