A Succubus Physique That Attracts Credit

Although Fujino himself was not particularly skilled at deduction, with his enhanced reasoning abilities, he had now become a qualified detective.

Deducing a few things came easily to him.

With some ideas forming in his mind, he asked Enomoto Azusa, "Azusa, after the first call came through, did they hang up before you had a chance to explain?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Enomoto Azusa nodded. "I only answered the phone and said hello. The moment they heard my voice, they immediately said they had dialed the wrong number."

"That confirms it."

Fujino was not surprised. He continued, "They never expected the call to be answered in the first place. Then the second call was obviously looking for this phone, since they said something about why the ringtone hadn't gone off... and then they hung up. That time, they probably didn't give Azusa a chance to speak either. Clearly, they were looking for this phone."

"No one could dial the wrong number twice, much less three times."

"The final call sounded furious. They obviously hadn't found the phone, so they were angry."

"Looking at it that way, this phone was actually left at the Beetle Cafe so that the caller would find it."

Fujino continued his deduction in a low voice. "Following that line of thought, the codes in the contact list are clearly abnormal. If I'm not mistaken, these people must be trading something, perhaps even carrying out extortion... otherwise, the other side wouldn't have been so angry."

"A transaction?"

Yumi Miyamoto paused slightly. "Could it be some illegal deal involving a criminal organization?"

Fujino silently nodded. "That isn't clear yet, but it definitely isn't clean."

Hearing that, Yumi Miyamoto and the policewoman who had come with her, Momosaki Toko, could not help giving Fujino a deep, complicated look.

They had