The Suspect Who Reversed

"Since it was just a false alarm, I'll be heading back first." After saying that, Akiba turned to leave, but then seemed to remember something. She said to Kawai beside her, "Officer, I had a lovely time with you today. Here, this is for you."

As she spoke, Akiba took two invitation tickets from her bag and handed them to Kawai. "These are invitations to my next performance. You can go watch it with your boyfriend!"

"W-what boyfriend? I'm still single!" Kawai said shyly, covering her face with the invitations.

"Then come with a good friend instead—see you then." Akiba waved to them both before turning and leaving.

"Congratulations, Kawai. You made a new friend," Shiraishi said in a deliberately praising tone.

"Chief, don't make it sound like you're humoring a child—" Kawai retorted.

"It's because Miss Akiba is so easygoing that we got along so well—ah, right, I need to call Senior Fuji and arrange a time for the concert—she should be interested, right?" With that, Kawai happily ran off to the side to call Fuji.

Shiraishi: ...

Was this a great yuri development or what?

Meanwhile, Fuji and the others were worrying over the Pegasus curse letters. After receiving Kawai's call, Fuji readily agreed to go with her. "A concert? I'm interested. We're not on duty that day anyway."

Yamada, who had picked up on something, could not help complaining, "Hey, hey, hey, don't go making plans like that while we're here with a headache over this—"

"We're just patrol officers here to help out. We won't be the ones pulling overtime on the case, will we?" Fuji said as if it were only natural.

Hearing the exhaustion in Fuji's voice, Kawai asked in confusion, "Section Chief Fuji, did something troublesome happen on your end?"

"It's still that