Gathering Evidence

Jiren and Amaki finally tracked down a customer outside Shiba's Massage Parlor who remembered Koga Junko—

Zhui Jing looked fairly old and was also a regular customer of Shiba's, having gone there for massages almost since the place opened.

"Shiba may be handsome, but he's always had a strong sense of boundaries. That's one of the reasons I've always liked him so much. Whenever I go there, I always ask for him," Zhui Jing said resentfully.

"Looks like he really is popular," Jiren remarked.

"But later, his place started offering more and more add-on services. Sometimes, if you didn't order them, you couldn't even see him in person!" Zhui Jing sounded even more resentful.

"Maybe he serves customers like you too often and is afraid his wife will misunderstand," Jiren deliberately said.

"Hehehe, that makes sense too!"

Sure enough, upon hearing Amaki say that, Zhui Jing immediately took it as praise for her charm and became even more delighted.

However—

After finishing her sentence, Zhui Jing looked around, lowered her voice, and leaned closer to the two of them. "But his wife obviously has no eye for things. The people she drove away were completely wrong! I think—he might have had something going on with a piano teacher."

Amaki and Jiren exchanged a glance, knowing they had found the right lead. They quickly asked, "Why do you say that?"

"I actually ran into them once. They were talking in the hallway, and the atmosphere—there was definitely something suspicious about it!" Zhui Jing wore the expression of someone relying on "a woman's intuition."

Jiren asked, "Do you remember when exactly that was?"

"And what they were talking about," Amaki added.

"I don't remember very clearly. It was probably over a month ago. I don't know exactly what they talked about, but