After reviewing the messages sent by his various subordinates, Amuro Tooru suddenly sighed.
If everything had gone according to Jiang Xia's plan, then both Hirukawa and Tomonaga would have fallen into police hands alive by now.
But...
"I had Inoue tail Hirukawa after he blew up the sewer, then had Yamanaka follow Inoue from a distance with recording equipment, filming every suspicious person and any unusual developments.
"As a result, Inoue alerted Tomonaga, who had intended to silence Hirukawa. So instead of hiding far away and detonating the bomb by the river as planned, Tomonaga risked staying nearby to spy on them—because of that, he spotted Jiang Xia and the others quietly approaching Hirukawa, detonated the bomb early, and caused Hirukawa's death.
"And Tomonaga's actions were captured by Yamanaka, becoming evidence to arrest him... If not for this precaution I took, we might not have caught either of them."
He had lost, but not entirely.
At any rate, it was better than coming away empty-handed.
"Pull the team back first." He gave the order wearily and was about to hang up when he suddenly remembered something. "Wait, contact the newspaper office and have them..."
Amuro Tooru lowered his voice and began muttering as he conspired with his subordinate.
Elsewhere.
Inside a bar that had yet to open.
A Phantom Thief was also conspiring with his all-purpose grandpa.
Jii Konosuke pressed a switch on the billiards table. Soon, a scale model of the Museum slowly rose to the tabletop, presenting itself before Kid together with the roads and vegetation surrounding the Museum.
That was also why Kid had only crawled through the sewer and had not investigated the other areas in detail—Grandpa Jii would naturally gather this ready-made information for his reference.
After studying the model for a while, then