Jiang Xia entered the room closest to the Abandoned Building and pulled open the window. "Let's assess the situation first. If that wanted criminal shows any sign of escaping before the police arrive, I'll jump over there... Hm?"
It was as if he had suddenly seen something, and he cried out, "Mr. Yamaguchi!"
At the Great Detective's anxious call, Calvados instinctively looked over. In the shadows, the wanted criminal, equally startled by the shout, sprang up in alarm and swung his stick down hard.
There was a dull thud, followed immediately by a scream—"Mr. Yamaguchi" had taken a heavy blow to the shoulder.
Under normal circumstances, that blow probably would not have made him cry out in such pain. But he had only recently returned from the snowbound Mountain Villa, and the gunshot wound on his shoulder had not fully healed. The moment the criminal struck him, blood spurted from his shoulder.
The pain made Calvados's vision go black. A moment later, he suddenly remembered that the goddess was nearby and was very likely watching, and his vision went black again.
"..." How had things turned out like this?
...It was all that bastard's fault for launching a sneak attack!!
Terrified, the wanted criminal instinctively attacked the person who had intruded here, following the plan he had imagined countless times before.
But when he realized that he had actually drawn blood with a single blow, he froze instead. What was going on? Wasn't he holding nothing more than a broken water pipe? Had he somehow mastered some peerless martial art with an invisible blade during these four years of hiding?
...But this was no time to think about that.
—Since he had already knocked down the person in front of him, and the people in the building opposite had