Jiang Xia nodded. Before Kazama Hidehiko could walk over, he lowered his voice so the other man could not hear and said to Amuro Tooru, "I met him when I came here last time. I remember his name is Kazama Hidehiko, Moriya Teiji's apprentice—oh, right, you know Moriya Teiji, don't you? He's an architect I happened to run into before. We had a bit of contact."
Amuro Tooru: "..."
An architect you had a bit of contact with?
You meant that obsessive-compulsive master you beat into Prison, who later shouted that he was going to sue you?
...Fortunately, the matter had been suppressed in the end. Maybe Moriya Teiji was timid, or maybe Jiang Xia had scared him into submission. In any case, things had ultimately been much easier to handle than expected.
Recalling that incident, Amuro Tooru wearily rubbed his temple—Moriya Teiji had planted a large number of bombs on the Loop Line and at the Municipal Center. If they had detonated, the consequences would have been unimaginable. He had indeed paid close attention to that case.
And whenever he thought of Moriya Teiji, Amuro Tooru could not help scrutinizing Kazama Hidehiko as he approached. What did the apprentice of a bomb-crazed lunatic want with Jiang Xia?
Jiang Xia watched Kazama Hidehiko approach, equally unsure why the man was acting so familiar.
—Could it be that after his master went to Prison, Kazama Hidehiko, whose ideals differed from his master's, had finally found a chance to show his own abilities, and therefore looked especially favorably upon him, his "benefactor"?
Kazama Hidehiko was indeed quite friendly toward Jiang Xia.
He quickly crossed the banquet hall and stopped in front of Jiang Xia. Glancing at the french window beside them, he asked, "Why did you come over here? I thought