Kid agonized over it for a while, then suddenly remembered that it had already happened. The Crown had long since returned to the police, so there was no point dwelling on it any further.
So he simply put it out of his mind.
"More importantly..." Kid recalled what had just happened. No matter how he thought about it, he was still deeply bothered. He gloomily spun his white top hat. "Did Inspector Nakamori actually get a good look at my face?"
In short, harvesting the Energy Core had failed.
Jiang Xia temporarily retreated while controlling the Mist Tengu puppet, deciding to return tomorrow night.
Fortunately, judging by the timing, it would not be hard to get the Crown before heading to Osaka. By then, Kid should have shaken off Inspector Nakamori's suspicions—after all, Inspector Nakamori and Inspector Megure were equally muddleheaded, so it would not be difficult to fool them.
By the time he got home, it was already very late.
Jiang Xia yawned and got ready for bed.
Before sleeping, he routinely checked his phone to see whether any Clients had emailed him an Invitation Letter.
There were none.
However, there was a new message from Suzuki Sonoko—
[While packing just now, I found several tickets to an art exhibition that Miss Ichikawa gave me—Ayako-neechan said that art gallery is about to go bankrupt, and lots of non-sale items have recently been put up for sale. I'm planning to go in her place tomorrow. Want to come with me?]
"Miss Ichikawa" was the woman from last night's banquet in Mie Prefecture—the one who had injected poison into red wine and attempted to kill her father.
Before the matter had been exposed, she had indeed mentioned that she ran an Art Gallery when the two sides met, and