Both rumors had a certain degree of credibility. In any case, this ring should have been lying in the Police Station with Maki Juri's corpse, not in the hands of an Organization member.
Gin suspected the one in his hand was fake. A misguided gift was worse than no gift at all. "You're giving me something a dead person wore as a souvenir? And I heard this ring might not even be genuine."
Yet Jiang Xia seemed to know more than he did. "The ring Maki Juri wore on her return trip was indeed fake, but the one she used during her Stage Play performance was real.
"On the night of the Stage Play, Kid showed up, and Irish was lying dead on the street outside, so things were rather chaotic. After the performance, while Maki Juri was changing clothes, someone took the chance to swap out the ring she had removed for a fake. Later, the cat I keep happened to snatch the real ring back from the thief. So the one in your hand is genuine."
"As for whether a dead person wore it..." Jiang Xia imitated Gin's cold scoff. There happened to be a cigarette at hand, allowing him to perfectly recreate that mocking gesture and expression. "The most valuable treasures have often been passed down for centuries, even millennia. Every one of them has come into contact with countless dead people. The treasure is never at fault. The problem is its former owners, who were unworthy of it."
Vodka: "..." Stealing something back from a thief was still stealing! At most, it sounded a little more like a righteous thief.
But that wasn't the point. The point was, had Uzo's hobby actually shifted?
Was it because Phantom Thief Kid, the "Magician Under the Moonlight," looked especially