Haibara Ai gulped down several mouthfuls of coffee. When her gaze landed on the formulas on the Computer screen, she gradually became absorbed in her actual work and stopped dwelling on what had just happened.
Next door.
Jiang Xia successfully got hold of the magazine. Haibara Ai really did have good taste—though they were both labeled "fashion," these clothes looked far more normal than the fashion Models he had searched up online earlier.
He grabbed Spider Lady and set her beside him, then solemnly studied them together with this Ghost who lacked modern aesthetic sense.
The night had grown late.
While the Spirit Medium stayed up working diligently for his new secretary.
In another corner of the city, someone else was also unable to sleep all night.
Though for an entirely different reason.
At Okiya Subaru's Apartment.
At the moment, Okiya Subaru was not the only one at home. Akai Shuichi had come over as well, intending to remind him of a few things before he left.
—The originally scheduled date for going to the United Kingdom was actually the day after tomorrow.
Akai Shuichi had originally planned to come the night before departure, to avoid leaking any information. But from the wording of Okiya Subaru's Emails, he had noticed that Okiya Subaru was growing increasingly anxious. To be safe, he had decided to come take a look today.
When he arrived, he saw that the graduate student about to make his escape was indeed nervous yet expectant. Okiya Subaru had even stopped reading the new professor's papers. Every few seconds, he gloomily refreshed the webpage, checking and recording all sorts of murder reports, trying to sniff out some familiar trace from the vast amount of information, find a pattern, and avoid danger.
Watching his database grow ever