Halfway through sorting things out, Vodka's phone suddenly vibrated. He had received an extra news alert.
"Hm?" The familiar vibration made Vodka's expression shift slightly, and his whole body tensed. "Why is there another news story about Jiang Xia in the middle of the night? Doesn't that brat Uzo ever sleep? Was Calvados not enough to satisfy him just now? ...Damn it, he isn't going to suddenly show up near me, is he?"
Nothing took priority over this. Vodka immediately stopped what he was doing and opened the news.
The moment he saw the words on the screen, the corner of his eye twitched. The good news was that Uzo had not cooked up a new Murder Case, nor had he secretly crept up beside him.
The bad news... Calvados had actually shot and killed the culprit from the earlier case right outside Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters!
"The media now suspects that the Bride's younger brother was involved in some sort of illegal arms deal, and the police are investigating the criminal organization potentially behind him. The Bride's younger brother has nothing to do with our organization, so no matter how they investigate, they won't trace it back to me, but..."
But that meant Osaka's already tight security would definitely become even stricter. And as an organization member currently carrying out a mission here, that was obviously an enormous threat to Vodka!
"That idiot Calvados got to vent his anger, but what am I supposed to do?" Vodka gritted his teeth. He had originally thought that after leaving Tokyo, he could finally carry a gun with him again after so long. But now...
Vodka touched his waist, silently removed the gun hanging there, and carefully wiped every inch of it clean of fingerprints. It was a gun he had just