(Thud!)
After more than ten seconds, the driver's door clicked open a crack. The driver looked around, then cautiously pushed the door open and got out.
"This..." Inspector Megure found the man extremely familiar. Suddenly, he slapped his forehead and turned to Jiang Xia. "Isn't this the driver from the Kataoka Residence? Did you call Mr. Kataoka over too?"
As he muttered under his breath, the driver suddenly called out quietly, "Yoshizawa? Where are you?"
The police: "!"
"Isn't Yoshizawa the kidnapper's name?" Officer Takagi was astonished. "When we confronted Mrs. Ezaki at the Kataoka Residence earlier, this driver clearly wasn't there. How does he know the kidnapper's name? Could it be..."
Jiang Xia said, "We'll know if we go out and ask him."
With that, he stood up and slowly left that corner, which was filled with the scent of a bountiful harvest.
The driver gripped the heavy wrench hidden in his pocket as he warily searched for his dead-and-revived accomplice.
Then someone suddenly stepped out from the side and greeted him. "Mr. Kitayama."
"?!" The driver whipped his head around, only to find that it was not the dead accomplice he had imagined, but... someone who made his heart sink.
"Mr. Jiang Xia?" The driver tried hard to keep smiling. "What are you doing here?"
Jiang Xia looked at him and felt that this would have been the perfect moment to reach into his pocket and smoothly pull out a police certificate... Unfortunately, he did not have one.
So he could only reach behind himself, smoothly grab Inspector Megure, and shove him forward. "It seems we should be asking you that question."
Inspector Megure promptly put on a stern face. "That's right. What are you doing here?"
Faced with the imposing expression of the middle-aged officer, driver