The squinting-eyed lawyer looked down at his phone, then up at the room door, momentarily stunned. "This... is a coincidence, right?"
As he spoke, he hung up. The ring tone inside the room stopped abruptly the next instant.
The squinting-eyed lawyer: "..."
Everyone else: "..."
Conan broke the pointless silence. "There's no mistake! I remember it clearly—this is Brother Jiang Xia's ringtone!"
At the same time, he secretly let out a sigh of relief. When he suddenly discovered that Jiang Xia had vanished and his phone was switched off, his first thought had been that the "Mysterious Client" who had invited Jiang Xia to Izu had finally made a move.
But now, Jiang Xia's ringtone was sounding inside this female lawyer's room. Thinking of the women who occasionally gave Jiang Xia strange looks, Conan felt somewhat reassured. "..." Being lured away by a woman was better than being set up by the Black Organization. It was troublesome either way, but at least it had not reached an irreparable point.
Still, now that they knew what was happening, they naturally could not let things remain as they were.
Kisaki Eri clearly thought the same way. The Queen of Lawyers had evidently never expected her colleague to lay hands on an innocent high school student. Her face darkened as she asked the waitress who had blended in among them, "Do you have a Master Key here?"
"Um..." The waitress hesitated, but soon nodded firmly. Entering a guest's room without permission was against the rules, but this was clearly an emergency.
She jogged off to retrieve the Master Key. Sliding it into the card reader, she heard a beep, and the main door opened smoothly.
But it only opened. The moment it had been pushed open a palm-width, it was caught by a