Before long, the group arrived and split up, each heading to the Murder Case scene they were responsible for.
"Secondhand furniture... It still looks pretty new." Officer Takagi examined the sofa lying on the ground, which nobody dared touch, and sighed. "Saving resources and cutting costs should have been a win-win situation. Which jerk had so little public decency that they stuffed a corpse into a sofa?"
Officer Chiba had finished escorting the robber and come over as well. Hearing that, he could not help nodding. "Secondhand things may be cheap, but they really do come with risks—after all, buyers have no idea who the previous owner was. Running into something like this today is just... unavoidable."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded in deep agreement. "My sister always likes hunting down secondhand villas too. Something goes wrong every time, but she never listens when I tell her..."
Officer Takagi said, "Yeah, I also..." Huh? Wait, hunting down what? Villas??
He turned around in shock and stared at the three students who had appeared out of nowhere. "Why are you here?"
Suzuki Sonoko flicked back her hair with flair. "Of course we came to help you—so hurry up and tell us what happened."
Officer Takagi: "..." Were they really here to help? Why did it always feel like they were here to cause trouble?
...Well, forget it. He would just treat them as accessories that came bundled with Jiang Xia.
The busy officer shook his head and quickly adjusted his mindset. He asked around, then returned to report to Jiang Xia. "The victim is this elderly woman on the ground. According to the witnesses—namely, the two Movers from the secondhand furniture store—they were carrying the sofa out of this truck."
He gestured as he described the situation. "One of them got distracted on