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"Sherlock Holmes conducted all kinds of chemical experiments at home at all hours of the day, suddenly played a piece on the Violin whenever the mood struck, occasionally practiced shooting at home, and could have people coming to his door 24 hours a day to ask for help or provide information... Jiang Xia, on the other hand, had none of those bad habits, but he was still a high school student under twenty and couldn't independently open a Detective Agency."
All sorts of information flashed through his mind, then swiftly came together.
Hashimoto Maya suddenly reached a conclusion. Looking at Amuro Tooru again, he abruptly understood: Uzo had placed the Beika Town Irregulars beside Jiang Xia, placed Watson there too, and before all that, there naturally had to be one indispensable person—the landlady, Mrs. Hudson.
"You are..." Hashimoto Maya glanced at the distant Metropolitan Police Department and swallowed the word "colleague" with difficulty. "Boss Amuro?"
—Colleagues did not always mean companions. They might be someone trying to grind you beneath their heel, like that elementary school student next to Jiang Xia.
And since this was Hashimoto Maya's first encounter with Amuro Tooru, he did not dare draw any conclusions about the man's character.
Besides, "Amuro Tooru is Uzo's subordinate" was still only a deduction and could be wrong. No matter how he looked at it, he could only treat this man as an ordinary citizen for now.
...Though this man did not look like an ordinary citizen at all. That punch just now had looked strong enough to blast cracks into the wall.
While Hashimoto Maya's heart was in turmoil, Amuro Tooru was in no better mood.
Though the facts proved that the man before him was not Akai Shuichi, the fury of "Akai Shuichi came knocking" mixed