Classic Tales Retold

"Getting fired is getting fired."

Sato Miwako chuckled. "Worst case, if I get fired, I'll go work with you as a detective and help out with odds and ends..."

As she spoke, she even quoted Fujino's words, teasing, "Didn't you say being a detective pays better than being a cop?"

"You're overthinking it."

Fujino replied flatly, "I don't have a habit of having assistants help me, especially not an old fierce woman like you. I'm not in the habit of paying employees' medical compensation after they beat someone up."

"Tch..."

Sato Miwako clicked her tongue. She had already grown accustomed to this sort of sarcastic needling. Looking back at Fujino, she sounded somewhat surprised. "But you really are acting strange today."

"I thought with the way a troublemaker like you does things, you wouldn't care who the other party was. You'd just rush in and arrest them."

"Sato, I'm not a fucking idiot. I know what I can do and what I can't."

Fujino glanced at her. "Under normal circumstances, if I were sure that guy was the killer, I really would've rushed to his house, tied him up, and carried him straight to the Metropolitan Police Department... But he's the Minister of Foreign Affairs' son. Even if I don't think about myself, I have to think about you guys."

"Oh~ so you were thinking about me..."

Hearing that, a gratified smile appeared on Sato Miwako's face. Then she let out a long sigh and said sentimentally, "The kid really has grown up. He knows to think about his big sister now."

Fujino: "..."

This fierce woman really never acted serious.

"Of course I considered what you said."

Sato Miwako noticed his strange expression, and her tone became more serious. "But even if it needs considering, these aren't things you