Tatsumi Seimaru was contemplating walking behind Jiang Xia when they left later and secretly tripping him.
Who knew that at that moment, accompanied by a faint landing sound, the entire Mirror House suddenly erupted with a piercing buzz. The echoes reverberated off the walls, as though an alarm had gone off inside.
Tatsumi Seimaru froze, unsure whether to cover his ears or run first.
Jiang Xia looked around, sensed something, and suddenly stepped back.
The next instant, a frightened woman came charging down the corridor like a cannonball. She missed Jiang Xia, who had happened to step aside, and slammed into Tatsumi Seimaru with a bang.
The woman used the impact to stop herself.
Tatsumi Seimaru, meanwhile, flew out like a relay cannonball and hit the mirror ahead with a duang.
Amuro Tooru, eavesdropping outside the wall: "..."
Why had there been such a string of commotion? What on earth was happening inside?
Jiang Xia glanced at Tatsumi Seimaru plastered against the mirror, sympathetically pulled him down, then looked at the woman nearby.
She was also one of the group of four Announcers.
Jiang Xia said, "Are you all right? Why were you running so fast? What happened over there?"
Confusion and fear mingled on Makimura Akemi's face. "That sound is Xiao Yuan's. It's the Buzzer Alarm she carries! A criminal must have sneaked in over there!"
"A criminal?" A righteous Detective could not remain indifferent to that word. Jiang Xia immediately said, "I'll go take a look."
He identified the direction of the sound, ran through the complicated maze, and eventually stopped at a dead end.
—At the end of the path, a young woman lay on the ground. Her handbag had fallen beside her, its contents scattered everywhere. One of them was an oval object resembling a