Takagi scratched his head, unable to figure out what he had done wrong to incur workplace suppression from his female superior.
He could not help looking at Mori Ran and Conan. "But if we might run into kidnappers, isn't it too dangerous to bring a child along?"
"Why do you have so much to say?"
Sato Miwako stared at the bewildered Takagi, speechless, and shot back at him.
Takagi: "..."
I already took the blame, didn't I?!
Why do I still have to stay at the scene where there's no credit to be earned?
Takagi looked somewhat aggrieved.
Sato Miwako, seeing this, rubbed her forehead slightly.
She felt that Takagi really was a little too oblivious.
Was it really that hard to notice that she had sent everyone else away and deliberately left a man and a woman alone at the scene?
It was already obvious enough, wasn't it?
Sigh... Takagi was Takagi, after all.
Sato Miwako sighed inwardly and did not say anything else.
What else could she even say?
She was one step away from outright saying she was trying to set the two of them up!
Afterward, she led everyone away, leaving only Emoto Aya and Takagi alone in the empty room.
The atmosphere in the room was a little awkward. Emoto Aya gave Takagi an embarrassed smile.
"Officer, would you like a bottle of soda?"
Led by Emoto Masashi, everyone headed to the home of his friend suspected of kidnapping.
The first person they visited was Rokuda Takuji.
Rokuda Takuji's life was clearly not going very well, as could be seen from the shabby six-tatami apartment he lived in.
The door was opened by a man in a red tracksuit, his bangs held in place by a headband. One look at him made it obvious