Usui Ritsuko grew cheerful again. She attributed the palpitation from just now to her conscience hurting.
Clearly, a guilty conscience did not require treatment, and for a lawyer bent on climbing the ranks, it did not really count as an illness.
So before long, in the hotel lobby, Curacao, who was keeping wary watch over every slightest movement around her, noticed a faint stir in the corridor.
She focused and looked over... and then saw a certain lawyer colleague of hers dragging Jiang Xia in, sneaking in through the Staff Passage, and entering the elevator.
Curacao: "...?"
She rubbed her eyes, pressed around her eye sockets, and looked over there again. But by then, the elevator had long since closed, and there was no one there anymore.
"Uzo was dragged into a hotel elevator by a woman..." Curacao repeatedly recalled and confirmed the scene in her mind, and finally could not help pinching her thigh hard. "Have I been too busy lately and started hallucinating?"
The real pain in her leg reminded her that this was not the case.
Curacao looked left and right again, and found that aside from herself, everyone in the lobby was perfectly normal and did not have any oddities.
"...So this isn't a hallucination. It's real?"
"Sure enough, just like the intel I received before, when Uzo gets carried away fishing, he won't hesitate to use himself as bait... So this time, what plot is he planning by putting on this appearance?"
After thinking it over, no matter what angle she viewed it from, the most amusing thing nearby seemed to be only her.
"...He's coming after me?"
The thought flashed through her mind. In the next instant, Curacao pressed her lips together and forcefully denied it. "No, don't be so pessimistic yet. Maybe there