Previously, Akai Shuichi had suspected that Okiya Subaru was overthinking things: what happened today might have been nothing more than an ordinary murder case.
But now that Bourbon had appeared, he recalled Bourbon being trapped in the Twin Towers a few days ago, and gradually dismissed that possibility.
--Okiya Subaru's intuition might have been right.
Uzo was very likely involved in this seemingly ordinary case.
Akai Shuichi: "..." So this was the opponent he was about to face personally—the one who could leave Bourbon scrambling and toy with everyone in the palm of his hand...
Fighting spirit slowly rose within him, and he could not help showing a faint, anticipatory smirk.
Just then, Jiang Xia suddenly looked up in his direction through the scope.
Akai Shuichi froze. Hidden behind cover, he did not move.
--The observation point he had chosen was dimly lit and extremely concealed. Forget the naked eye—even if Jiang Xia looked this way with Binoculars, there was no way he could find him.
"..." Who knew whether Jiang Xia had looked over by coincidence or had truly sensed something... Such sharp instincts. As expected of that man's son.
Akai Shuichi: "..." Come to think of it, with a Detective like Jiang Xia helping him, Bourbon at least would not be easily set up by Uzo in those "everyday cases."
...If Bourbon truly could not bluff his way through today and was reduced to having to flee, then, for the sake of being fellow Undercover Agents with a common enemy, he could help provide cover with a few shots.
Akai Shuichi slowly withdrew farther into the building, changing locations while assembling the gradually taking shape gun in his hands.
Several hundred meters away, in front of the half-collapsed café.
The Ghosts suddenly muttered that they vaguely sensed