However, as a rigorous intelligence operative, he should avoid letting irresponsible words like "seems" appear in his work.
So Amuro Tooru quickly followed up, "What was that woman's name, and how was the matter handled afterward?"
"Her name?" Kazami Yuuya froze for a moment, then belatedly realized something and muttered to himself, Wait, if Furuya-san was only asking out of concern, he wouldn't need to ask so much, would he? Could it be... could it be that I'm overthinking this?
His toe shifted, and he hurriedly reported as though nothing were amiss, "That lady seemed to have the surname... Hoda, I think. Right, Hoda!—Three weeks ago, when I was driving home after work and passed the overpass, she suddenly rushed out from a blind spot and hit my car.
"I braked in time, but she was flung away and fell off the overpass, dying from the fall below.
"There were surveillance cameras on that stretch of road, and my driving speed was within the legal limit. During the subsequent investigation, the police also found that the woman had written a Last Will and Testament in advance... so in the end, I wasn't held responsible. The matter was handled entirely by the insurance company. I heard they later paid the victim's family five million yen in condolence money."
Amuro Tooru: "..."
Five million yen. If he remembered correctly, the money Hoda Hideo had paid his creditor this afternoon had also been exactly five million yen.
—In other words, without that incident, he would not have had enough bait to lure the creditor he wanted to kill into his home.
Everything that had happened just now, that seemingly accidental Murder Case, had actually been foreshadowed long ago.
What a coincidence. Far too much of one.
So much so that it gave Amuro