The woods beside the public restroom.
Feeling the vibration in his pocket, Amuro Tooru bent and jumped down from the treetop. He patted the dust from his hands, took out his phone, and checked his mailbox.
Seeing the message from Jiang Xia, the public security officer who had failed to find the gun sighed silently and replied: [Stall for another five minutes.]
Then he stuffed the phone back into his pocket and lifted his head, looking at the quiet woods.
—He had searched high and low, combed through the grass and the treetops, and was now just short of digging three feet into the ground. But reason told him that Calvados couldn't possibly have blasted a hole with one shot and then had the splashed-up dirt bury the gun.
"Where on earth did that gun go?" Amuro Tooru tsked. Clinging to the last bit of time, he unwillingly began pacing the area again, like a resentful earth-bound spirit. "Could someone have taken Calvados's gun during the brief two minutes I was gone?"
On the street on the other side.
After Jiang Xia listened to the account about the robbers, he glanced at the phone that had just received a new message. Then he looked toward Officer Takagi and spoke unhurriedly. "Tell me what happened. And the statements from those witnesses."
Officer Takagi: "..." That line felt awfully familiar. The person on the phone seemed to have said it too when he was impersonating Jiang Xia. That person really understood Jiang Xia. No wonder he had unfortunately fallen for it...
As his thoughts wandered, he obediently flipped through his notebook and told Jiang Xia the information written there. By the way, he also mentioned what happened after the mysterious person finished listening. "He told me to find the coffee shop