As everyone knew, romantic relationships, coworkers, financial disputes... these were all factors most likely to breed murder cases.
And this man had somehow managed to hit all three by himself. Suspicious—extremely suspicious!
Kurata Seiji keenly sensed the danger and hurriedly denied it. "I did ask Kiyomi out and give her gifts, but she never accepted me! She had another boyfriend, someone she'd only started dating recently. It had nothing to do with me."
The police fell silent for a moment. "You were rejected, and she accepted plenty of your gifts without accepting you... Doesn't that make you even more suspicious?"
"It really wasn't me!" Kurata Seiji regretted speaking, then immediately glared at the female senior who had exposed him. "What nonsense are you telling the police?!"
The female senior snorted. "It's the truth. I wasn't lying..."
The noisy argument drifted into the next train car.
The young woman glanced at Jiang Xia. Embarrassed by her coworkers' quarrel, she said softly, "We usually get along very well. It's only because something like this happened today that things turned out like this."
Jiang Xia said, "You seemed to be arguing before boarding too."
"..." Mori Yukiko said, "Actually, Kiyomi wasn't the only one who died today. Our company president died too. The whole company is in chaos now, and everyone has to deal with a huge mess, so we're all in a bad mood."
Hashimoto Maya sympathized with her even more. ...He understood, he understood. This was all Uzo's doing.
But on second thought, there was nothing to be done about it. Who told this company to unanimously stop him from buying the land? Uzo had finally wanted to do some legitimate business, but there were obstacles everywhere. In the end, all those obstacles got snip-snap.
"Brother Hashimoto." An innocent child's voice