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Kazami Yuuya: [Aside from a few children, most of the other passengers at that location have been to the Metropolitan Police Department. I marked them with numbers; you can check the corresponding records by number.]
[However, there was one passenger I couldn't find on the statement list—he seemed to have left midway.]
Amuro Tooru's gaze swept over his subordinate's message as he compared the photos with the statements one by one.
Soon, his eyes paused on an image separately extracted from the video.
The speeding bus had made the entire image blurry, but after some simple processing, the target's features still emerged clearly—it was a curly-haired man dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses. He lounged leisurely in his seat. Though his expression could not be seen, his relaxed posture made it clear that he had not taken the vicious hijackers on the bus seriously at all.
"Kurosawa..." Amuro Tooru murmured the surname with mixed feelings. "So it really was him."
When they had met at the Golden Mansion last time, Matsu... this "Kurosawa," who looked strikingly like Matsuda, had behaved suspiciously, making Amuro Tooru briefly doubt him.
He had also tried to investigate the man, but after that incident, the man had vanished into thin air. Even after mobilizing all of Public Security, they had failed to uncover the slightest trace of him.
Later, with too many important matters demanding attention, Amuro Tooru could only spare his subordinates, who were on the verge of dropping dead from overwork, and shift the focus of the investigation elsewhere... Yet unexpectedly, today, this man had appeared again—as a suspect connected to Uzo.
Could he really be Uzo? But why does he look so much like... like... Amuro Tooru recalled the many suspicious details he had found at the Golden Mansion last