The female owner had just woken up. Dazed, she opened the door and came face-to-face with a criminal holding tools outside.
They stared at each other for an instant, but the battle-hardened criminal reacted faster. He struck down the office worker before him, tied her up, forced her to reveal where she kept her money, and began ransacking the house. Since she had seen his face, he stabbed her several more times before leaving, killing her on the spot.
Amuro Tooru: "..."
Though such a tragedy was pitiable, he had to admit that his current predicament had somehow been resolved just like that.
"What good luck." The tension that had been weighing on Amuro Tooru's heart these past few days finally eased. Then something felt off. "Why does this way of solving problems look so familiar...?"
A codename that had left a deep shadow on him sprang into his mind. Amuro Tooru's eyelid twitched, and the heart he had just relaxed tensed up again.
He immediately opened his mailbox and carefully checked the inboxes and trash bins of every email account... yet he found no messages at all.
"I must be overthinking it." Amuro Tooru had pondered it all the way through today, but seeing that everything around him remained peaceful, he finally slowly let down his guard. "Thinking about it carefully, Burglary and Murder may not be common, but it isn't unheard of. Besides, if that guy had really done it, he should have come looking for me long ago..."
Just as he was thinking that, footsteps approached, and a figure stopped in the corridor ahead.
Amuro Tooru abruptly snapped back to his senses. At the same time, he heard a surprised greeting: "Boss?"
Amuro Tooru: "...?"
He silently raised his head and saw his outstanding detective employee