Beside him, "Dr. Araide" adjusted his glasses and looked at Yamamura Misao with a slightly complicated expression, silently adding Gunma Prefecture to the list of places that required vigilance.
Two minutes later.
A photo quietly appeared in some mysterious fan group.
The photo showed a dark business card decorated with black feathers around the edges, with a streak of pitch-black tree trunk running across the bottom. The tree portion had the texture of bark.
Monster Hunter Mr. A-Yama: [Ran into Mr. Jiang Xia and received a new business card. Sharing it for everyone to admire!]
The keywords "Jiang Xia" and "ran into" made a phone somewhere in the distance buzz twice.
An Organization Cadre lurking in the fan chat group abruptly opened his eyes and picked up his phone. Seeing the message the other person had sent, he felt a pang of sorrow.
"Back when I controlled the store responsible for printing Uzo's business cards, every new design had to pass under my eyes before it was released.
"But now..."
While feeling upset over losing that source of intelligence, Vodka could not help muttering to himself again as he thought of it: Come to think of it, why did Uzo change stores back then? Could he have discovered that I secretly hacked into that store's computers and cameras?
That possibility made Vodka shudder silently.
"Looks like I need to watch out for things like 'hacker murder cases' for a while. I should also temporarily stop using any identities related to programmers."
Vodka silently wrote this down in his mental Anti-Crow Notebook. Also, I remember this so-called 'Monster Hunter' is a police officer from Gunma Prefecture, right? Is Uzo in Gunma Prefecture now?
After recalling his recent task list and confirming that he had no assignments requiring a trip anywhere