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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