Vodka watched the new topic about "Business Cards" rapidly unfold and sighed wearily.
Business Cards were indeed useful intelligence—they could be used to tell when some unlucky person who had met Uzo had come into contact with him... But the Business Card Yamamura Misao was showing off was utterly worthless to Vodka.
"Got one newly issued Business Card and you're already proud of it?" He snorted disdainfully. "What a short-sighted fool."
Vodka had known what this Business Card looked like long before it went into use.
...Because he had hacked into the print shop Jiang Xia frequently used.
Whenever a design blueprint arrived, Vodka received word soon after. No one got the information faster than him.
So now, Vodka had no interest whatsoever in this so-called new Business Card. "Shouldn't the focus be that mysterious person who solved the case instead of Jiang Xia? Why are you praising Jiang Xia? I know far more about him than you do, so get to the point already... Cops are so annoying!"
As Vodka grumbled inwardly, he watched the chat boxes rapidly refresh and pile up.
Seeing the enthusiastic reactions from the other fans, and even some purchase requests, he suddenly understood.
This cop was both smart and stupid. Yet when it came to being stupid... he somehow knew exactly how to read the room.
—Yamamura Misao had probably instinctively realized that, in a place where Jiang Xia's fans gathered, he should not praise a Detective who had taken advantage of Jiang Xia's cold to solve a case. That was why he had only mentioned the "mysterious case-solver" a couple of times to the reporters, while focusing on showing off his relationship with Jiang Xia in the group chat.
This won't do...
Having grasped the key point, Vodka shamelessly yanked the topic back: