After forcing the senior Disaster Management Bureau investigator to give way, Han Su saw Li Yiting watching from the side. His expression didn't change, but delight was already flickering in his eyes.
The Doctor and Black Tiger remained expressionless, though both secretly sighed, What a show-off!
The Aries investigator behind them, however, suddenly looked terribly awkward. He might have been better off refusing to move; giving way on instinct had immediately robbed him of much of his earlier swagger.
The Disaster Management Bureau hadn't been around long, but it took seniority very seriously.
Of course, that was partly because investigator licenses were so hard to obtain and came with so much authority. Executors, whose positions were never secure, tended to see investigators through a haze of awe, as if they were unfathomable.
New investigators who managed to get their licenses, meanwhile, were awed by their seniors because of the Disaster Management Bureau's tendency to close ranks and the unfathomable depths of the Mysterious Circle. That reverence, in turn, reinforced the tradition.
And that was only the Disaster Management Bureau. In the Secret School, things were infinitely worse.
But that was how things were for other people.
Who was Han Su?
He was the star investigator who had shattered the Disaster Management Bureau's record for the past three years, a rising sensation so dazzling he was almost blinding.
With a record of completing seventeen assignments in three days, even the four great investigators had to give him room.
Having left the Aries investigator outside, Han Su saw no reason to show him even the slightest patience or courtesy.
He had seen the man before, at the club in Lilac Mansion. The man was clearly on the same side as Mr. Drunkard—
which made him Han Su's enemy.
Besides, the man's codename