At that thought, a dark silhouette named "Uzo" seemed to slowly emerge in Amuro Tooru's mind.
He stared at that illusory figure, his gaze darkening. He believed that one day, he would pierce through this fog and see Uzo's true face.
And that day would surely not be far off.
As Amuro Tooru remained wary and curious about what Uzo truly looked like,
elsewhere, in Okiya Subaru's apartment.
Okiya Subaru returned home and only turned on the lights after some time had passed.
He pulled the curtains tightly shut, hesitated for a moment, then glanced outside through a gap in them.
Naturally, he saw nothing.
A tall man wearing a knit cap stood in the corner of the room.
Akai Shuichi had already slipped into the apartment with practiced ease when he had warned Okiya Subaru that someone was following him.
Seeing Okiya Subaru secretly peering outside, he quietly reminded him,
"Stop looking. The way you checked your phone just now was too obvious. He should already know that the tail has been exposed."
"...I see." Okiya Subaru nodded with mixed feelings. He withdrew his gaze from the window and carefully tucked in the edges of the curtains.
Only then did he turn to Akai Shuichi and say wearily, "I actually ran into Uzo again—four consecutive attacks in one night. Luckily, I only encountered two of them. It seems Uzo wasn't targeting me."
Okiya Subaru sighed as he spoke.
He had once always thought that his Case Magnet Constitution was extremely powerful. It was only later, when fewer and fewer of the people he knew remained around him, that this "Case Magnet Constitution" gradually quieted down.
But now, it seemed that even at its peak, the "frequent Murder Cases" that had troubled him were nothing compared to the