Beside him, Sato Miwako poked Jiang Xia and showed him her phone screen.
Only after handing it over did she realize something was off—this was clearly her first time meeting this high school student. She should not have been treating him the way she usually treated Jiang Xia, immediately passing along any information she got and happily waiting for an answer. But... there was a faint sense of familiarity.
As Sato Miwako thought about it, she began to hesitate over whether to take her phone back. After all, this was Hayase family's private information. It seemed inappropriate to let an unrelated person see it.
But by then, Jiang Xia had already taken the phone.
He glanced at the message on the screen. It contained information about "Hayase Tatsuo," the deceased husband of the homeowner.
Hayase Tatsuo had been a bank employee. A year ago, while climbing a snowy mountain to take photographs, he encountered an avalanche and unfortunately disappeared.
During the time he was missing, he had actually been under police investigation for allegedly embezzling a huge sum of public funds.
Therefore, some people suspected that Hayase Tatsuo had faked his death to abscond with the money. But suspicion was only suspicion; no evidence had ever been found.
So, one year later, Hayase Tatsuo had still been officially certified as "dead"—normally, a missing person would only be declared dead after seven years. But if the missing person had clearly been caught up in a disaster or catastrophe, their status could be changed to "dead" after just one year.
Jiang Xia: *...Getting detailed records so openly this quickly really is convenient. Police subordinates are so useful. Where can I get one exclusively for myself... There is indeed a police officer among the ghosts, but he's already dead. If I want to