The Dean's Daughter nodded. "We've been dating for a while, and we agreed that we'd get married as soon as I graduated. But now that graduation is getting closer, I've been feeling more and more uneasy... So last week, I called him and refused this impending marriage."
She sighed. "Ever since then, he hasn't wanted to see me. Even when I went to the hospital to find him, he always avoided me—I just didn't want to get married so early. It wasn't like I planned to break up with him, but he..."
Jiang Xia stroked his chin as he listened. "..." You couldn't buy alcohol or cigarettes at eighteen, but you'd already reached the legal marriage age... Was that reasonable? Not reasonable at all. The age restrictions for the former should be lowered too—though he could now use Matsuda Jinpei's puppet to sneak into bars and order whatever he wanted, that felt completely different from going there himself, sitting beside the Bar Counter and savoring drinks slowly. Besides, that way he could chat up many Killing Intent Clusters of different flavors and witness their wonderful experiences firsthand... That sounded far more comfortable than simply taking a few drinks home and gulping them down.
While the Organization member silently condemned this unreasonable rule.
The others beside him had no such complicated thoughts. They merely muttered to themselves that high school girls were really easy to fool.
Several of the deceased's colleagues also sighed with emotion, not expecting their friend to have nearly leapt over the Dragon Gate. But soon, their attention returned to the case before them.
"No wonder—actually, my cup had cola in it too." The female clerk suddenly understood. "I was startled when I drank it, but the play had already started, and I couldn't just walk around in