Amuro Tooru hung up the phone and let out a silent sigh.
Forget it. He would just accept this loss. If something like this happened again, even if the road was blocked by other cars, he would go around them.
But if he really did that, would something hidden in the grass puncture his tires?
A Public Security officer kept forming theories, then overturning them. In the end, he stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.
A few hours later.
After playing nearby for a while, the Detective Boys began preparing dinner with Jiang Xia and Professor Agasa.
The College Students were delighted to have someone else doing the work and scattered off to play elsewhere.
Amuro Tooru had nothing better to do, so he began helping cook the curry. He was chopping the ingredients into chunks with a steady thud-thud when Jiang Xia returned carrying two fish.
Seeing him, the Great Detective seemed somewhat surprised. "Boss, why are you still here? Hasn't your tow truck arrived yet?"
"..." Amuro Tooru's eye twitched. At the thought that someone might have tampered with his car, a faint Coffee Flavor seemed to drift from him.
But there was no evidence for that theory. Perhaps he had simply been unlucky. This adult who believed in science could only take a deep breath. "There was a problem with the tow truck. It'll arrive later."
"Come to think of it..."
Amuro Tooru belatedly recalled something. He eyed Professor Agasa suspiciously, then turned to Jiang Xia. "Why didn't you brake back then? Why did you drive straight into me?"
"Well..." Jiang Xia was about to speak when he suddenly turned away and sneezed several times in a row.
Amuro Tooru glanced at him, recalling how he had been catching fish in the water with