No sooner had he decided than he acted. The next day, Jiang Xia called Amuro Tooru to ask about borrowing a tent.
"You're going camping with those kids?" Amuro Tooru instinctively wanted to tail him, but then remembered something important.
He cleared his throat and asked casually, "Where are you camping?"
Jiang Xia said expectantly, "The outskirts of Tokyo. It's very close."
Amuro Tooru: "..." The outskirts?
It sounded nearby, but it would still take nearly an hour by car. And that was under normal circumstances. If they traveled at the speed from the last time he and Jiang Xia had left Tokyo...
Amuro Tooru: "..." Come to think of it, Akai Shuichi had caused such a huge commotion not long ago. With his vigilance, he definitely wouldn't keep following Jiang Xia anytime soon.
That suspicious FBI woman had disappeared to who knew where as well. With those two absent, Uzo's inclination to stir up trouble would naturally lessen. There seemed to be no need for him to keep tailing Jiang Xia at all. Rather than waste time on that, he might as well finish dealing with the tasks at hand.
Having swiftly sorted through his thoughts, Amuro Tooru calmed down. "All right. Be careful."
Then, with a click, he hung up.
On the other end of the phone, Jiang Xia stared at the darkened screen. "...?"
That was it?
Shouldn't he have said something interested like, "Sounds pretty fun. Take me with you"?
"...The boss is becoming more and more of a homebody." Jiang Xia sighed and put away his phone. "I need to find a way to change that."
In any case, he had managed to borrow a tent that was suspected to carry a Case Magnet Constitution.
Jiang Xia told Haibara Ai and Professor Agasa about