Is the reason why detective is small for his age because of the abuse and neglect he went through?
Anyway it does make sense for him to adopt her as he has a clean record as opposed to ML who has a sketchy background of using fake names and bouncing from one job/home to another
I hope someone translating the spin off, I am interested to know more about Matsubase 😭 (I only saw 1 chapter translated though it's already 3 volumes available in Japanese now)