Okiya Subaru: "..." It seemed that another question he had today had also been answered.
—So back in the attic, Jiang Xia hadn't been beating someone for fun. He had merely been frightened by the truck that crashed into the café, leaving him without the energy to restrain his urge to hit people.
"..." It still felt a little strange somehow, but Okiya Subaru thought, at least this was better than the possibility that "Jiang Xia is Uzo's accomplice."
Earlier, when Okiya Subaru had first encountered Uzo, he had run into Conan and the others, along with Jiang Xia, nearby.
Since Uzo wrote Scripts while Jiang Xia solved cases as quickly as if he were reading one, Okiya Subaru had indeed looked into some reports related to Jiang Xia afterward.
But at the time, all his attention had been focused on the victim's identity, as he tried to find common ground between Jiang Xia and Uzo. As for those baseless bits of gossip, Okiya Subaru had not examined them closely.
"'He acts strangely whenever he encounters scenes related to car accidents'—that sounds like some kind of PTSD." Okiya Subaru had attended a few Psychology Professor lectures before and had a tiny bit of rudimentary knowledge in this area. "Was Jiang Xia in a serious car accident? No, that can't be it. He moves very nimbly and has no aftereffects at all. He doesn't seem like someone who went through that kind of accident... Was someone around him in a car accident?"
Akai Shuichi said nothing. He fell silent for a while as though lost in thought, then unexpectedly lit the cigarette he had just stubbed out.
His heavy expression blurred amid the drifting Smoke, making him look weathered, as though he had a story to tell.
Seeing the FBI