While the two of them kept providing martial arts footage on the pier.
Inside a distant command vehicle.
James quietly watched Akai Shuichi's situation while picking up his walkie-talkie and anxiously asking his other subordinates, "Any luck? Have you found her?"
—Akai Shuichi had not come alone, of course. Rather than a lone wolf, he was more like the alpha of a wolf pack. Once he found his target, all it took was one call to summon the entire pack.
So after Akai Shuichi followed that strange little girl all the way to the pier, James and the others quickly arrived as well and hastily set up an encirclement. They wanted to intercept Vermouth while also stopping Uzo, who was hiding somewhere unknown.
The former was simple enough. Even if they did not use their brains and simply rushed her en masse, a numbers advantage would easily solve the problem.
The real trouble was obviously the latter.
Therefore, to prevent Uzo from encircling them while they surrounded Vermouth, James had deliberately spread the net wide, expanding the search area as much as possible.
The expanded range was obvious, and so was its drawback—Vermouth, with injuries to both her leg and arm, had driven such a large car while carrying a child, yet somehow vanished from the massive net their subordinates had cast!
"Are you sure nobody slipped through those key routes?" James was so worried he nearly pulled his hair out. He gulped down some coffee from his thermos, then thought for a moment.
"Then tighten the encirclement! Shuichi said Vermouth was hit several times. In that condition, she probably could not have gone far. That's why she didn't leave through the routes we were watching—she must have stopped somewhere after leaving the pier. Search for her. Focus on concealed