[You are cordially invited to Hongye Apartment, 18 7th Street, Beiliang Town, to witness a grand display of fireworks painted red with blood.]
"Fireworks?"
As Amuro Tooru looked at those mysterious, malicious words on the invitation letter, an unpleasant memory flashed through his mind.
—Not long ago, Uzo seemed to have sent him an invitation, inviting him to watch fireworks at the Twin Towers in Nishitama City.
He had gone, and the entire building had exploded into a sea of flames. If he had not risked everything on a sports car back then, he would now be a corpse lying in a coffin.
"...The same trick again?"
Amuro Tooru slowly clenched his fingers, crumpling the letter into a ball with a crackle.
But...
After exuding Killing Intent for a while, the organization member, who reacted so strongly to Uzo, suddenly recalled something. He unfolded the invitation again and looked at it once more.
Then he realized that these two invitations were not quite the same—the previous one had been addressed to him, but the recipient on this invitation clearly read: "Great Detective Jiang Xia."
"Is this aimed at Jiang Xia?" Amuro Tooru wondered suspiciously. "Or does he think targeting me directly would be too obvious, so he's using Jiang Xia as a cover to take another roundabout shot at me?"
Thinking Like This, he took out his phone and opened his address book.
Just as he was about to tap Jiang Xia's name, Amuro Tooru's fingertip instinctively paused.
But in the end, reason prevailed—at a time like this, who had time to worry about nonsense like Jiang Xia's Case Magnet Constitution? What mattered most was finding out what this "fireworks display" on the invitation, or rather, this explosion, was all about.
Amuro Tooru viciously pressed the call button, then turned