Ito Misari: "!!"
The instant she hit the ground, a flash of insight struck her. She suddenly understood why, after gaining the upper hand, Jiang Xia had neither run nor arrested anyone, but instead blocked the attic's exit.
Ito Misari: "..." That vicious detective had never been trying to save anyone! He probably just thought beating people up this way was more fun... And those reports about Jiang Xia had actually called him "one who hates evil as an enemy, the embodiment of justice." What was even more unbearable was that she... she had actually believed that biased nonsense before!
But it was too late to realize that now.
Cries of pain rose and fell, accompanied by rhythmic thudding that gradually filled the attic.
Outside the attic window, beneath the dense shade of the trees.
A pale-faced figure silently slid down from the tree, feeling that he had accidentally learned far too much and was repeatedly dancing on the edge of being silenced.
Okiya Subaru: "..." Why did Jiang Xia have a hobby like "beating people up"?!
The radiant image of a "righteous detective" in his mind cracked at the corner with a snap.
Once a fixed impression was shattered, suspicion immediately came flooding in.
"..." Especially when he thought of how, not long ago, Jiang Xia had dragged out an unsolved case and watched Amuro Tooru get targeted by Uzo; how Jiang Xia had appeared near so many cases Uzo had plotted; and how, just now, even Uzo's cat had helped Jiang Xia kick away a gun...
Could Jiang Xia really be colluding with Uzo?
Okiya Subaru: "..." When Jiang Xia solved cases, his calm, unruffled tone and his fast-forwarded deductions with none of the flair of a stage performance were completely unlike Uzo's tastes. That made the