That was... a gunshot?!
Okiya Subaru immediately identified the nature of the sound.
He tensed up and abruptly turned toward the door, only to see Jiang Xia had already followed the sound out of the room and headed straight for the stairs. The bespectacled child immediately followed him.
Seeing people run, Okiya Subaru instinctively ran after them for a few steps.
Once outside, the cold wind hit him, and he realized that he probably should not have come running over to join the excitement.
But the room was close to the stairs, and he was already on them. It would be rather embarrassing to slink back now...
Okiya Subaru could only grit his teeth and follow Jiang Xia—though, now that he knew he was not the real culprit, Jiang Xia, the detective who could accurately see through the truth, really was the only one who gave him even a trace of a sense of security.
"..." Still, he did not dare follow too closely. After all, that detective had just left a small shadow on his fragile heart.
The police reacted more slowly than they did and followed behind them.
The group went down the stairs from the 7th floor to the 6th floor. Yoshino Satomi was sitting collapsed in the corner by the elevator, staring in terrified silence in his direction.
Okiya Subaru looked at her, then followed her gaze back and found it landing on Jiang Xia.
Okiya Subaru: "?"
Why was she looking at Jiang Xia so fearfully? Could it be...
He froze, countless thoughts flashing through his mind again.
But soon, his sharp observation skills made him realize he had apparently gotten it wrong—Yoshino Satomi seemed to be looking not at Jiang Xia, but at the stairwell exit blocked by him.
The manager raised a