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"Me gone?"

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"Yes. I haven't seen him since noon today. I've been looking for him, but I can't find him.

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"You mean you don't see him in or near the building?"

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Yes. I told Mee-chan firmly not to go anywhere without permission. ......"

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"Okay. I'll go look for the rest."

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　Laura's mansion in the Orient.

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　There I was told that Mitya had disappeared.

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　Mitya seemed surprised to hear that Laura was going to live for a while in the Orient and that he would never see her again.

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　So she said she wanted to meet Laura, so we brought her here with other former orphans.

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　And since she was going back to New Barca today, I came to pick her up.

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　But then Laura told me that Mitya was missing.

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　If she was just lost, that would be fine, but I was concerned.

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　Besides, Hannah would be surprised to hear that Mitya was missing.

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　Maybe she would cry.

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　We need to find her and bring her back without incident.

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Ai, are you there?

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"Yes. What can I do for you, Mr. Alphonse?

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Contact New Barca Street. I'll track you down.

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Yes, sir. We'll get right on it.

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　As soon as they heard about Mitya's disappearance, they sprang into action.

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　First of all, I asked Ai to call for help from the new Barca town.

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　Though they are not people.

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　There is a being who is very good at tracking, so we call him in.

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"....... You're early."

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　The helper flew up in the sky and perched on my shoulder.

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　He is standing there, perched on my right shoulder.

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　It was a tracking bird.

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　It is a beast of burden born in Vulcania. It is sensitive to smell and can follow a person from any distance by following his or her scent.

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　It can also serve as a liaison using its ability, so that it can come to me in the Orient from the new Vulcanian town, as it is doing now.

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　However, the most common use is to search.

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　Incidentally, in Vulcania it was also used to find criminals, but this time I have called it in to search for Mitya.

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"Yes. Sniff this and learn to smell it."

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　I let such a tracking bird sniff Mitya's clothes.

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　Maybe this will help me track him.

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"But I still wonder if this is some kind of a case."

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"...... don't know. But a bracelet was found outside the building. If you had been wearing it, we would have been able to locate Mr. Ai."

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"I guess so. I guess it's one of those things that made everyone think it was safe."

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　While the tracking birds are sniffing, I talk to Laura.

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　In fact, if it were true, the location of Mitya and the other residents of the new Barca town would have been immediately identifiable.

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　When they lived in the new Barca town, they were given bracelets that served as their identification cards.

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　The bracelet has a magic circle engraved on it.

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　This enabled Ai to know the wearer's magical power, which he sensed from the bracelet, and to know who was where.

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　For example, Laura also wears a bracelet, but thanks to it she knows immediately where she is.

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　But this may have caught her off guard.

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　It is possible that they thought that if they could always know where they were, there was no need to watch them all the time.

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　And maybe it was the fact that everyone was not accustomed to the new environment.

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　Time had passed so fast that it was hard to know when they were gone.

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"Oh, it looks like you're ready. I'm going to go now."

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"Take care of Mee, won't you, Mr. Alphonse?"

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"Yes. I'll bring him right back."

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　A tracked bird that smells and remembers.

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　The tracking bird immediately started to move.

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　Seeing this, I call out to Laura and follow the tail bird.

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　I mounted my Valkyrie and followed the tail bird flying in front of me.

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"You're going out there: ......"

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　A tailing bird flying after tracking Mitya's scent.

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　The tracking bird followed the bird and kept moving on and on.

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　It did not stop even when it moved to a distance where Mitya would obviously not go, and the tracker bird continued to fly.

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　As a result, the tracked birds went out of the inner walls of the Orient, and even out of the outer walls.

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"The favelas, huh? You didn't go back to your old house, did you?"

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　The tracked bird exited through a gate in the outer wall and headed for the favela.

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　This is where Mitya and Hannah used to live.

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　It is also where they were born.

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　However, it is hard to imagine that Mitya would have traveled here of his own volition and on his own two feet.

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　If she wanted to go back to her parents' house, she could have told me or someone else.

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　And yet, the smell of Mitya is connected to this place.

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　That means that she was probably brought here by someone.

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　The problem is that it was not some small-time crook from the favelas.

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　Everyone here has done their fair share of bad things in order to make a living.

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　But it would be impossible for them to break into the inner walls of the city-state and bring Mitya here.

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　Then, did the beings who can enter the inner walls, but who also come to this favela, aim at Mitya?

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　Unintentionally, my body leaked out the heightened magic power.

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　I wonder if Mitya is hurt.

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　I have no intention of forgiving the person who kidnapped Mitya, who is now like a member of my family.

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　Gripping the magic sword that appeared in my hand, I went with the Valkyrie to the place where the tracking bird had led us.

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