Besides the photos, the email Akai Shuichi received contained a few short lines.
[I will seal your treasure atop a spotless Pile Head on the Saturday night when the moon arrives late.]
"Saturday night when the moon arrives late? Today seems to be Saturday." Jodie looked at the cryptic sentence, half understanding it. "Is he planning to return the gun to you?... No, he wants to lure you there. It's a trap!"
James looked at the lines, feeling they seemed familiar. "This style does resemble the calling cards Phantom Thieves like to issue... Though they're both Riddlers, so it's only natural that they speak somewhat similarly."
Akai Shuichi stared at the email as though deep in thought.
"What should we do? Are we going?" Jodie was very worried. Then inspiration struck her. "Why don't we send more people to surround the place and try to capture him on the spot when he arrives?"
James felt that was inappropriate. "Could this also be his trap? He could send even more people over and surround us instead."
After a pause, he rejected his own proposal. "That doesn't match The Organization's way of doing things. Rather than sending people to encircle us, they'd be more likely to plant a large number of bombs at the target location and detonate them taking advantage of the chaos... But someone has to install those bombs. If we lie in wait there ahead of time, we may be able to catch their people in one go."
Jodie felt that proposal was reliable, but she soon remembered something. "Come to think of it... where exactly is this spotless Pile Head?"
While the FBI agents busied themselves solving the riddle.
On the other side, the group from Teitan High School had finished eating and gotten busy with their