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Everything happening before Komatsu Hitoshi now felt far beyond his understanding:
The first love letter he had ever received in his life had been written on pretty stationery in lovely handwriting. Whoever wrote it had to be a cute girl.
He had prepared a whole speech to reject her without hurting her feelings. He had even planned to treat this little fangirl to a nice meal at the dining room and comfort her properly during dinner after her heartbreak... Yet now, with just a few words from Jiang Xia, that "shy, adorable girl" had suddenly become his tall, imposing friend.
And his friend, Yukitani Daisuke, was clearly an all-around, perfect winner in life. Yet according to the detective, his friend had actually disguised himself as a cute girl to write him a love letter, then planned to kill him.
"This is way too surreal!" Komatsu Hitoshi found it impossible to understand. "Yukitani would never do something like that! And why would he suddenly want to kill me? We're friends! Besides, there's nothing about me that could possibly get in his way... There must be some mistake!"
Compared with him, Yukitani Daisuke appeared much calmer.
The man who had it all raised his chin. His tone was calm, but it carried an unmistakable trace of contempt as he glanced sideways at Komatsu Hitoshi. "How interesting. Why would I have nothing better to do than kill someone like him?"
"Because to you, Mr. Komatsu was also a very useful tool." Jiang Xia pointed at Nagai Sakiko nearby. "He could become a tool for you to strike at Miss Nagai."
Nagai Sakiko had originally just been a bystander enjoying the gossip, only for the gossip to suddenly land on her. She froze. "A tool to strike at me?"
Jiang Xia nodded. "If