"?!" The old lady abruptly covered her mouth. Too terrified to look any longer, she tremblingly shut the window.
She scrambled back to the Buddhist Shrine, knelt down shakily, and began praying fervently to General Shuyū outside.
At the same time.
In the guest room, Curacao silently opened her eyes.
Someone was in the courtyard!
...But what did that have to do with an ordinary, slow-witted lawyer like her?
Miss Shirai pressed her ear to the floor to listen for anyone entering the room to attack her, while breathing evenly and pretending to be sound asleep.
On the bedding next to hers, Jodie silently opened her eyes.
She glanced at the lawyer beside her, whose pillow had been pushed aside and whose body was crooked halfway across the Tatami. She fell silent. "..." This person really had terrible sleeping habits.
But if this suspicious person was sleeping so soundly, perhaps it meant there was actually nothing going on tonight?
Thinking like this, Jodie slowly closed her eyes...
Then she abruptly opened them again.
Jodie: "..." No, she couldn't let her guard down!
"First, this lawyer might not be an Organization member like I suspected. This woman's actions might not mean anything at all.
"Second, even if she really was an Organization member, an accomplice of Uzo or Vermouth... this appearance of deep sleep might just be a facade meant to fool me."
I can't sleep. I need to hold out a little longer, Jodie reminded herself. I'd rather stay up at night and catch up on sleep during the day around Jiang Xia and the police than lose my life over a little sleep.
Separated by a wall, there was another sleepless person.
The three knew nothing of one another, yet shared the same vigilance, stubbornly staying awake from