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The café that had been tragically hit by a car happened to be near the Haido Detective Agency.
As everyone knew, detectives—and the cases that happened around them—were often the best sources of news traffic.
Reporters had been staking out the area around the Detective Agency, and the truck crashing into the café had caused quite a commotion. Before long, reporters rushed over.
Real-time coverage of the case soon appeared online as well.
Vermouth returned home and was leisurely soaking in the Bathtub when her phone suddenly vibrated—a news notification that interested her.
After drying her hands and opening it, she found a report titled "Jiang Xia Encounters Another New Case."
Vermouth skimmed it, then suddenly froze.
She seemed to have spotted Bourbon in the footage—the owner of that runaway truck.
And...
The truck driver had allegedly made an operational error, causing the truck to roll downhill and crash into a café, killing two people?
...The déjà vu was strong.
She had gone through something similar only recently.
Vermouth recalled the car that had rolled downhill more than an hour ago, along with the child who had nearly been run over by it. Her fingers tightened slightly. "..."
...If Ran had not run out to stop the car, Uzo definitely would not have stepped in to help either. If her car had crushed that child to death, then before there was evidence proving it had not been her operational error, she would probably have had to make a trip to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The Boss would not order her killed over that, but it surely would not have been a pleasant experience.
Watching the righteous-looking Jiang Xia in the live broadcast, Vermouth could not help rubbing her temple. She regarded Uzo as friendly forces, yet Uzo threw