────Breaking news: A XX-year-old male (female) resident of the prefecture, identified as you, has gone missing. Police are treating this as a kidnapping case and are currently conducting search operations…
Several years ago, this news story was widely reported, but ultimately the investigation was closed, leaving it an unsolved mystery—and now, everyone has completely given up on it.
The final blow came from the police themselves:
“The perpetrator remains unidentified, and not only that, but not a single trace has been found.”
Hearing those words spoken with such apologetic and agonized tones, people around the world began to say one after another:
“If even the police can’t solve it, then there’s really nothing we can do…”
And so, everyone gave up—but in fact, the culprit was right under their noses all along.
