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Returning from their visit to the professor's home after dinnertime, the detectives returned to their hotel suite in Ginza and found Tiffany lying there on the sofa. 

"OMG! You guys are finally back!" exclaimed Tiffany. "Where've been been all day? I was so bored so that I went shopping in Shinjuku but there was legit nothing fun there! No one speaks English here and everyone has an obsession with queuing! Queues at the metro, queues on the escalator, queues at the vendor! OMG! And I'm so fed up of sushi and sashimi! By the way, how's your investigation going?"

"Well, we managed to exorcise the ghost, but....." answered Blythe. 

"Well, that's fantastic!" interrupted Tiffany before Blythe could finish off her sentence. "Now we can finally leave this country! Imma go take a shower!" 

"This case is actually more complicated than I thought!" said Shaun pensively after Tiffany left for the bathroom. "I have a hunch that the reason why Yuki was reluctant to go to heaven is closely related to the baby's kimono found by the professor."

"But I don't see any possible link here!" retorted Jeffrey. "The story hadn't mentioned anything about babies. Could it've been Yuki's kimono when she was little?"

"You mean she's so attached to a dress which she wore as a baby such that she didn't want to leave this world?" answered Shaun. "That seems highly unlikely, unless......"

Before Shaun could finish his sentence, he heard a deafeningly shrill scream coming from Tiffany's room. Dashing inside, they discovered Tiffany trembling whilst wrapped in a white towel, with slippers and half-dried hair. 

"Gosh, Tiffany! What was that? What happened?" enquired Blythe.

"The...they're gone!" exclaimed Tiffany, her teeth chattering with fear.

"M....Ma snacks are gone!" answered Tiffany as she pointed to a white cabinet on the other side of the room, in which stored various belongings, including some empty packages of Japanese snacks.

"What's so scary about empty snack packages?" said Jeffrey, picking one up. "You've probably eaten them in the morning and forgotten all about it! Who else would make such a mess eating things other than you?"

"No! I swear, I didn't eat them!" exclaimed Tiffany. "It wasn't empty when I went to take a shower and when I left the bathroom, only the packaging is left!"

~To be Continued~

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After successfully exorcising Yuki's spirit, the detectives returned to their hotel rooms and took a power nap of several hours. Waking up in the afternoon feeling much more refreshed, they decided that they would like to solve the final piece of the puzzle - understanding why the professor had broken the seal of Yuki's Hokoro and let her roam free. It was a Saturday, thus the university was closed. Nevertheless, Jeffrey managed to charm the professor's secretary into giving them his personal phone number.

"またお前か？What do you want? I've already told you everything I know!" shouted Professor Kiriyama angrily on the phone after picking up to realise that it was the detectives again.

"いいえ, professor, you didn't tell us everything you know," answered Shaun calmly. "You haven't told you why you released Yuki's spirit and what you were doing inside the school campus at night with a pickax!"

"なに？いい加減にしろよ！What are you talking about?" denied the professor. 

"If you don't tell us what happened, we'll have no choice but to inform the police that you have been trespassing and damaging other people's property," replied Shaun gravely. "I'm sure there will still be your handprints on the Hokora, which can be used as evidence against you."

"くそ！How did you know about this?" cursed the professor. "Please don't inform the police. Come to my house and I'll explain it all to you."

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"We can investigate his motive later," said Jeffrey. "But the most important thing now is to get rid of the ghost so that it will stop its haunting. That's what Tiffany's father asked us to do, isn't it?"

"You're right!" answered Shaun. "The school cannot possibly return to normal if Yuki doesn't leave. Now the problem is: in what way are we going to remove the spirit? Do we want to do this peacefully, i.e. by persuading her to ascend to heaven by herself; or shall we do it forcefully?"

"I'd prefer if Yuki is willing to let go of her own resentment," replied Blythe. "That'd be the best method."

"I agree," said Shaun. "Let's go find her and see if we can persuade her. But where has she gone?"

"I saw her going up the stairs to the top floor," answered Jeffrey.

Nevertheless, Yuki's ghost was nowhere to be found when the detectives arrived at the top floor.

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