Elite police officer Vodka led his men away at a brisk pace.
In the empty office, the walls suddenly writhed, and several idle Ghosts drifted out.
The Ghosts took a deep breath, catching the sweet scent of vanilla ice cream that filled the room, and silently gave their clever Spirit Medium Master several thumbs-up.
Meanwhile, at the villa on the border between Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture.
Gin discussed the matter with the other two, but failed to find any trace of Vodka.
After thinking for a moment, he gave up the search.
—If Uzo or Vermouth had gone missing, that would have been worth worrying about. But Vodka...
Whatever Anonymous was plotting, Vodka alone would have a hard time interfering with their clearing the game and leaving. If they could not find him, they would let it go for now.
Gin had always been a pragmatic man of action, more concerned with the problems in front of him.
So he cast aside the matter that had led nowhere for the moment and looked at Jiang Xia, remembering that this guy was, after all, considered a Great Detective. "You saw the entire course of the crime just now. Who was the killer?"
Jiang Xia froze, then showed a helpless expression that seemed to say, Don't be unreasonable. "Solving a case requires evidence. Obviously, Anonymous would not present a complete set of evidence in a memory—so how could I possibly know the answer already?"
"..." Gin glanced at Jiang Xia, whose case-solving speed had suddenly dropped to that of an ordinary Detective, and sneered inwardly. He became even more convinced that all those cases Jiang Xia had solved in the past had been Scripts Uzo personally arranged... This guy always claimed those cases had merely been "chance encounters," but compared