Kisaki Eri froze for a moment, then gave a dry laugh. "Oh, that. Actually... I was testing him. If he still wanted to get back together, he would definitely notice right away that I wasn't wearing my Wedding Ring. But it looks like it was just unnecessary after all."
Jiang Xia glanced at her hand, lifted his juice, and took a sip. He felt that this wasn't a big problem: it was a lie. Kisaki Eri had actually lost her Ring by accident. Back on the beach, she had still been wearing her glasses while drying her hair because she was searching everywhere for the lost Ring.
Mouri Kogoro had probably already noticed that, so he had silently gone to search the beach. Once he found the Ring and brought it back to Kisaki Eri, facts would speak louder than words. The two of them would naturally clear up the misunderstanding about "not noticing the Ring," and then...
Just as that thought reached halfway, Jiang Xia suddenly spotted a Black Cat with White Paws appearing at one corner of the corridor.
Its entrance was accompanied by a faint metallic "ding—" as something hit the ground.
—Eating Cat had picked up a sparkling little loop from who knew where. It had completely forgotten Jiang Xia's task of searching the beach for someone giving off Killing Intent, and was now happily batting around the expensive Ring, driven by instinct.
Jiang Xia: "...?"
Amid the noisy café, the commotion of a cat scampering about wasn't especially noticeable. But the fact that "something was moving in the corridor" would inevitably begin to draw attention.
Seeing Kisaki Eri notice something and start to turn her head in that direction, Jiang Xia silently set down his glass of juice.
Then, with lightning speed, he took over