Toyama Kazuha and Hattori Heiji briefly reported the situation to their dads back in Osaka, then were urged by the Tokyo police to head to the Police Station to give their statements.
After all that chaotic running around, night had already fallen.
"Ugh, I'm so busy."
In a café in Beika Town, several high school students sat around a table, discussing the events of the past two days.
Toyama Kazuha leaned against the bench and stretched wearily, unable to keep a look of existential doubt from appearing on her face. "Did I really come here on vacation? I don't think school usually wears me out this much."
"Seriously. You ran into one thing after another the moment you arrived." Mouri Ran looked sympathetically at her friends who had come all the way from Osaka. Although Ran herself had encountered even more cases yesterday than Kazuha and the others had, after thinking it over, she still felt that compared with her relatively easy role as a spectator, Kazuha and the others' experiences had been far more draining.
"But thankfully, it's all over now." Ran sighed with lingering fear. "Officer Sato said they found several barrels of fuel at Lawyer Ito's house—those people were probably planning to set the house on fire after getting the answer to the riddle, burning everyone who knew too much to death inside."
"Hmph, it wouldn't be surprising if that vicious woman did anything. She even said she was going to chop off my fingers before." Kazuha looked at Jiang Xia beside her, feeling that he had still gone too easy on her. "Next time something like this happens, untie me first and let me handle it!"
As she spoke, she could not help rolling up her sleeves and clenching her fists.
A passing waitress heard