The female passerby who had just arrived at the shooting range was startled. She looked at the arrow in her hand, then at the minibus driver who had nearly been hit by the ricocheting arrow, and a wave of lingering fear washed over her.
Calvados also frowned at the passing vehicle. He had originally been complaining that it had no sense, but when he looked closely and recognized the person in the driver's seat, he froze. His heart began pounding violently.
Why is the goddess here?
"The arrow I shot actually flew toward her. This must be Cupid's Arrow of Love."
Calvados was secretly astonished. It seemed he really had been having luck in love lately. Since I've run into her, I might as well go say hello.
Thinking that, he happily headed toward the minibus.
After checking her disguise, Vermouth glanced out the window and thought, This is bad.
Before she could stop him, Calvados had already strode to the window and said to her with a decent-looking smile, "I'm terribly sorry. You weren't hurt, were you?"
Before "Dr. Araide" could answer, another voice came from beside her. "Mr. Yamaguchi? What a coincidence, we've run into each other again."
Calvados: "?!"
He jerked his head up and only then noticed that the Great Detective he had kept running into recently was sitting in the front passenger seat.
"Why is it you again?" Calvados's expression darkened as he belatedly realized something: running into Jiang Xia was no big deal, but why was this detective in the same car as his goddess?
...And in the most suggestive driver and passenger seats, at that.
In an instant, all his speculations about Jiang Xia from Osaka surged back into his mind. The killing intent that had been forgotten amid case after case