Jiang Xia watched for a moment, checked the time, and cut in. "Looks like this is all we can ask. After all, he isn't a real person. When an NPC in a game has had all its clues squeezed out, it just repeats the same line over and over. This guy should be the same."
Gin gave a thoughtful hum.
Then he fired a shot, efficiently silencing the man. There was no more information to be had anyway.
As he expertly dealt with the corpse, he recalled what he had seen inside the bubble. Then he realized that Vodka had never appeared the entire time, nor had the police mentioned that unreliable underling.
Gin frowned slightly. Though he didn't think he suffered from face blindness, he asked the other two beside him just to be safe. "Did Vodka appear in those memories?"
Jiang Xia shook his head regretfully. "No."
Vermouth said the same.
"..." Gin fell silent for a moment.
So where exactly had Vodka gone?
It felt like Anonymous was brewing some sort of conspiracy...
Tachibana Goryu was a famous and formidable figure, while his killer was a Great Detective with some notoriety.
The news quickly reached the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo.
"Did you hear? That Tachibana Goryu was killed in Karuizawa! The murderer was that High School Detective named Jiang Xia. He even helped us solve quite a few cases before."
"...You really can't judge a book by its cover. Sigh, young people are always prone to acting on impulse."
"The culprit ran off halfway through. Although the case happened in Nagano Prefecture, since it was committed by someone from Tokyo, we can't just ignore it entirely. Hurry up, pick a few people and go after him!" And take a look at the excitement while they