"Looks like my part is done. All that's left is the cleanup." Jiang Xia casually made something up. Then, remembering something, he invited his two colleagues, "Do you want to come along..."
He stopped halfway through.
—When he withdrew his gaze from the police and turned back, the space in front of him was already empty. The car was gone.
Looking farther away, he only caught sight of the car speeding off—Gin and Vodka seemed to have zero interest in murder cases.
Jiang Xia: "..." Tch, did they really hate the police that much?
Regretting that the Organization and the police rarely appeared together, Jiang Xia turned and headed toward the gymnasium to see what was going on.
At Naniwa Central Gymnasium.
Following the source of the commotion, Jiang Xia made his way to the villa and stopped in front of the Sports Warehouse.
Besides the police, several other people were gathered there—the same college students who had argued in the corridor earlier.
Though they looked like something had happened, a closer look showed that no police tape had been set up, and the officers' expressions were nothing like those of people dealing with a murder case. Instead, they looked somewhat helpless.
Nobody nearby was screaming or grieving. The college students were merely clustered around the warehouse entrance, chattering over one another.
"How could it not be there? I clearly saw it!"
"Me too!"
"...Could this be one of Tarumi's pranks? Nothing that guy does would surprise me."
"Should we split up and look for him? When we find him, let's beat him up! Who jokes about something like this?"
Jiang Xia passed through the crowd and spotted Hattori Heiji among them. "What happened?"
"..." Hattori Heiji's eye twitched. He really did not want to see Jiang Xia