"Still, this is a pretty good opportunity."
Akai Shuichi took a deep breath, forcing himself not to dwell on the vanished gun for now. He took James's phone and said to Teacher Jodie, who had gone stunned on the other end, "Are you still at the Metropolitan Police Department? There's something important I need you to do."
Teacher Jodie came to her senses. While feeling lucky she had not brought a gun today, she asked with lingering fear, "What is it?"
Akai Shuichi lowered his head and flipped through the things in hand. "Take this postcard to the Metropolitan Police Department and say you picked it up on the bus. Then identify Kobayashi Seiji's art style, and have the police ask him about his purpose and reason for drawing this picture."
A shocking bus hijacking and explosion had just happened, and immediately after that, someone was found to have drawn the scene in advance—even if this could not serve as evidence of a crime, it was enough to attract the police's attention and make them investigate it.
This group of FBI agents did not have formal approval, so their investigations in Tokyo were always constrained. Since that was the case, they might as well borrow the strength of the local authorities and use the police to cause their opponent some trouble.
Moreover, Akai Shuichi had spent quite some time inside the organization before, and he knew very well how wary those people who lived in the darkness were of the police. If that painter, or the colleagues around him, lost their composure because of a police investigation, perhaps the FBI could take advantage of the opening and catch some flaws.
Akai Shuichi: "..." Though with Uzo's methods, he was probably a rare outlier who did not fear the police... But