Okiya Subaru refreshed the page over and over. With every refresh, he couldn't help picturing a new way Akai Shuichi might have died.
Worry was worry, but in truth, he still preferred to believe that Akai Shuichi was alive.
There had to be a reason he wasn't replying.
In fact, before setting off for the airport today, Okiya Subaru had received an email from Akai Shuichi—the fake "Okiya Subaru" had accepted a job and was currently busy with it.
Okiya Subaru had also taken on assignments the organization gave to Peripheral Members. He knew all too well that when things got busy, there was simply no time to check one's phone.
After refreshing his mailbox countless times without result,
Okiya Subaru could only suppress his impatience and switch back to the group chat.
The group he was looking at was the chat group for the film crew he had followed this time.
When he opened it, it was just as before. Those who had run off to spectate were gradually uploading news they had seen at the crime scene.
While silently praying that they wouldn't photograph Uzo and bring death upon everyone in the crew, Okiya Subaru carefully noted every detail of the scene, trying to analyze what role Uzo might have played in it.
As he thought, his gaze stopped on Jiang Xia and that little boy through the phone screen.
Okiya Subaru: "..." Come to think of it, why was it this group again?
Mr. Akai had said before that Jiang Xia couldn't be Uzo.
And based on Okiya Subaru's own observations, he also felt that Jiang Xia's personality was completely different from Uzo's. They were nothing alike.
But... this was far too much of a coincidence.
Okiya Subaru: "..." There were no coincidences without cause in this