Suzuki Sonoko suddenly understood. "Could it be that not everyone from their family has arrived yet? Well, that makes sense. It suddenly started pouring this afternoon, and the roads around here are difficult to travel. Maybe that person got stuck somewhere on the way."
As she spoke, she remembered that she herself had been stranded as well and sighed helplessly. "Luckily, this family has plenty of rooms, and we have nothing to do tomorrow morning, so we can make do here for the night... But is this place really safe?"
Curacao's ears twitched as she caught the key word.
Unsafe?
She held back and held back, but ultimately could not stop herself from asking, "Why would you say that?"
Suzuki Sonoko furtively glanced outside the door and lowered her voice. "You may not know this, but Miss Haruna received a lot of harassing messages—things like demanding that she come out alone to meet someone, or calling her a thief. And judging from the messages calling her a thief, the sender must be someone from this family!"
"Thankfully, Jiang Xia took the case and came here with her. There are so many of us that the Ogata Family wouldn't dare make any rash moves. Otherwise, Miss Haruna might have been tied up and dragged into the Basement the moment she arrived, then harshly interrogated about the stamps' whereabouts!"
Haruna Yuki: "!"
Thinking of all the questioning she had endured during dinner, then imagining the terrifying scene Suzuki Sonoko had described, she suddenly looked at Jiang Xia with boundless gratitude.
Curacao looked at her, then at Suzuki Sonoko, and then at Jiang Xia. "..." He had even brought along someone to play straight man while winning people over. Uzo truly had plenty of ways to manipulate others, alternating between soft and hard