"Miss Hanai." Jiang Xia casually handed her a business card, then asked, "You saw the scene where Takei was kidnapped?"
The female secretary's face turned pale. "Not exactly the scene. That day, Miss Naoko and I had arranged to go to the movie theater, but I waited outside for a long time and she never showed up. I thought she had gotten the time wrong, so I messaged her to hurry her along, but she never replied."
Kinoshita Yoko hugged her notebook and sat beside Jiang Xia, diligently taking notes. She looked more like a secretary than the actual secretary did.
Thinking of the police officers Takei Katsuhiko had disliked, she asked thoughtfully, "Then you called the police?"
But the secretary shook her head. "The criminal called me using Naoko's phone. That was when I learned about it. The kidnapper told me not to call the police, so I immediately came back to find the president. He decisively called the police, and then..."
Then the police intervened, and both the hostage and kidnapper sank into the water. They had most likely drowned.
Tears pattered down the secretary's face as she burst into sobs. "If only I hadn't arranged to see a movie with her."
Jiang Xia had intended to offer some token comfort, but he couldn't think of anything to say. So he gave up and asked directly, "Why did you go to the movies with her? Were you close? And from the sound of it, Mr. Takei was very decisive about calling the police."
He had put it rather tactfully.
Beside him, Amuro Tooru was much more blunt. He looked at Takei Katsuhiko. "Calling the police was indeed the correct choice. But in actual kidnappings, after being threatened with things like 'Call the police and the hostage dies' or