Rum nodded. "We had a very pleasant conversation. I could tell he admired me."
Curacao: "?"
Rum said, "You probably don't know who else I ran into—Bourbon was at the Gourmet Party too. The female boss who hired him is acquainted with Uzo. Heh, judging by the look of him, he probably still doesn't know why he showed up there today."
Curacao tried to follow her confident superior's train of thought. "So...?"
"So today's explosion was actually aimed at Bourbon." Rum seriously reviewed the Explosion Case:
"My appearance at the Gourmet Party was entirely spur-of-the-moment. If I hadn't been there, then after Jiang Xia arranged his own escape, even if Bourbon was curious about Uzo's movements and wanted to leave, he wouldn't have had a suitable opportunity—because at the time, he was the only one in the Food Truck. Given the dedicated image he'd maintained while working there, he couldn't just abandon that female boss's Food Truck and act on his own.
"In other words, according to Uzo's script, Bourbon should have been the one caught in the explosion. I don't know if you've noticed, but that kid always likes using the same methods on his colleagues, making them realize it's one of his vicious jokes.
"For example, Irish is always struck by people falling from high places. And Bourbon is always forced to appear at explosion scenes, narrowly escaping death. No matter how you look at it, Uzo's target at today's Gourmet Party was actually Bourbon. Yet in the end, he blew me up instead—what do you think that means?"
Curacao: ...It meant he'd been holding onto Uzo's new underling this whole time, building up enough resentment that the moment Uzo saw him, he immediately changed targets and let Rum replace Bourbon in personally experiencing one of his little