Mikoto listened. Seven children in one month. Suzuki assumed that it was a youkai or other spirit, and it could very well have been one. But there was still the possibility of a human doing this. He decided to speak up. "Given that we're all involved with what humans would deem the supernatural, I can understand looking at different spirits and monsters spiriting off children," he said to the club president. "Could be some [i]onibaba[/i]. Could have been a [i]kappa[/i] who decided kids taste better than cucumbers. Hell, for all we know, they could have been ambushed by a bunch of [i]tsuchinoko[/i] and carried off into the mountains. That we can get involved with. But what if it's a human? Some sicko just kidnapping kids for their own amusement?

"I'm not against looking into this case, Suzuki-san," Mikoto went on. "I just want to rule out the possibility that we're not dealing with the supernatural. If we are dealing with some kind of youkai, then by all means, we should look into it. But if it's some pervert or killer, we should leave it to the police."

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