Without paying much attention to Tatsumi Seimaru's bewildered expression, Jiang Xia turned to the person in charge and asked, "When the victim's legs hurt normally, would she perform with medicated patches on?"
The person in charge belatedly sensed that something was wrong and recalled something. "That's true. Last time, even when her legs hurt, she only wore medicated patches during practice and removed them before going onstage. We only learned about it after finding the used patches in the trash can."
Jiang Xia nodded. "The lights were very bright during the performance, and every detail of the Mermaid would be magnified. The color of a medicated patch was different from skin tone, after all. The victim cared greatly about how she looked onstage and wouldn't have performed while wearing one."
Hashimoto Maya: ...Whether her legs hurt or not, she still had to make way for Uzo's stage effects... Even a random passerby who had wandered into the Theater was such an overachiever. Just how much did this new boss like overachievers?
No wonder there were so many detectives in Tokyo, yet Uzo always kept his eye on Jiang Xia when creating cases—other detectives were either in school or had hobbies like vacationing, betting on horse races, and racing. Only Jiang Xia seemed to treat solving cases as his hobby, so obsessed with it that he did not even attend class.
...With a boss who loved Overachievers like this, perhaps he would never again have a happy moment to slack off.
A bitter tear slid through Hashimoto Maya's heart.
Jiang Xia glanced at the barrel of iced black tea, which had inexplicably begun to churn, steadied himself, and continued his deduction. "Also, when we met the victim today, she was wearing high heels and walking smoothly, without any sign of leg