"Sato suspects me?"
Amuro Tooru froze, recalling the recording of the case being solved that he had heard from Kazami Yuuya yesterday. Now that Jiang Xia mentioned it, he suddenly remembered that Sato Miwako had indeed said, "Could there be another mastermind behind Tomonaga?"
When he heard that, he had even admired her, thinking that there were still competent people in the Metropolitan Police Department. Unfortunately, she had only brushed the edge of the truth and had no way to dig deeper.
But looking at it now... Jiang Xia actually thought that the mastermind Sato suspected was "Amuro Tooru"?
"..."
Reviewing everything he had done yesterday, Amuro Tooru fell briefly silent.
"Indeed, among the three outsiders at the scene besides the police, Editor Tomonaga was the murderer, Jiang Xia was Jiang Xia, and that leaves only me as the last suspicious person?"
Put that way, Jiang Xia's act of directing all their suspicions toward him was not excessive at all. It was almost considerate.
"Come to think of it, before leaving that bus stop with the Time Bomb, I really did tell Jiang Xia that I was leaving it to him..."
He had not expected Jiang Xia to handle not only the case, but even patch up the loophole on his side.
...But what use was gaining the police's trust to an undercover Public Security agent? The police could not possibly arrest him, and the Black Organization would not silence him over something like this either.
Amuro Tooru pressed at his brow, realizing that under the circumstances, this seemed to be the best choice Jiang Xia could have made without a great deal of crucial information.
He could only blame his own bad luck.
There was nothing he could say. He gave a few perfunctory responses and hung up.
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