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"Also, the last killer who murdered Doctor Utsumi once mentioned that his motive was that Doctor Utsumi had used evidence of his crimes to threaten him into doing certain things. Besides him, there were quite a few others who had been threatened as well."
Jiang Xia analyzed haphazardly over the phone. "It could be a coincidence, but I still feel that, for a Doctor, the deceased 'Doctor Utsumi' had evidence that was far too detailed. And it was even something as persuasive as 'video footage'... It was practically as if he knew someone would commit crimes and had staked them out to record it in advance."
When Amuro Tooru heard that three killers had emerged from the doctor’s group within 24 hours, he initially felt that it was too much of a coincidence.
But on second thought, the person on the phone with him was Jiang Xia. Around Jiang Xia, this sort of thing seemed perfectly normal—wasn't it because of Jiang Xia and his classmates' Case Magnet Constitution?
The thought flashed through his mind for an instant.
Amuro Tooru quickly shook his head and cast it out.
Amuro Tooru: "..." It was hard to deny that something like a "Case Magnet Constitution" really did exist in this world.
But as a fairly professional intelligence agent, he could not always think in that direction.
—There were so many murder cases happening every day. They could not all possibly be caused by a Case Magnet Constitution.
No, rather, a Case Magnet Constitution was not the killer at all. It merely made cases more likely to appear around certain people. Behind it all, there had to be another true culprit.
Though many thoughts ran through his mind, Amuro Tooru merely said steadily, "I understand."
After a pause, he recalled something else and