britishhsdetectivehakuba:

Hakuba blinked when he noticed the young boy all by himself and walked over to him, crouching down. “Hi there kiddo, where’s your mom and dad, are you lost?”

Kaito blinked, startled into backing up a couple of steps when the stranger suddenly came next to him.

“Well… I think my parents are at home… And no, I’m not lost. But do you know when this place got here?” He looked at the building again. It was a bookstore, but he definitely would have remembered if there was one close by. “I don’t remember seeing it before.”