No matter what, they were already in the car, so they could only sway along all the way to the crime scene.
Since they were both neighbors in Beika Town, the two places were not far apart. Before long, Jiang Xia saw the lawyer's imposing Detached House through the car window.
At the same time, police cars pulled up one after another on the other side of the road, parking along the narrow street.
Unlike before, this crime scene had a lively witness.
"The deceased, Maegawara Tsuyoshi, was twenty years old and a college student living nearby." Officer Takagi pointed at the body, then at the young woman trembling beside it. "This is his friend, Sugita Sanae."
He Flipped Through the information he had just gathered. "According to Miss Sugita, the deceased came here today to house-sit and feed the dog while the owner was away. The owner called a while ago to ask how things were going, and during the call, the dog suddenly lunged at the deceased and knocked him down the stairs. He broke his neck in the fall and died on the spot."
Jiang Xia glanced thoughtfully at his watch, then walked straight over to the dazed young woman. "Could you describe exactly what happened?"
Sugita Sanae jolted and came back to her senses.
The fashionably dressed female college student looked at Jiang Xia, then at the police officers beside him, and fearfully recalled, "Yesterday, Xiao Gang happily told me he'd gotten hold of a big house and asked me to come here to dance and listen to music.
"I usually live in an Apartment, and the neighbors complain if I make even a little noise. I couldn't really refuse when he said that, so I came over happily. It was a little after eight-thirty