"Inspector, that wasn't a suspicious person. It was my disguise." Watching his own experience from a third-person perspective, Officer Takagi's face reddened with embarrassment. He whispered to Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, "Why did you film that?!"
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko innocently pressed his fingers together. "I-I don't know either. I just filmed it without thinking."
Inspector Megure hadn't noticed the commotion over here. He stared at the subordinate on the screen in surprise. "What's wrong with Sato? She looks like she's about to cry."
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The atmosphere froze. The officers of Investigation Division 1 stared at Takagi Wataru with the fierce, shadowy gazes of a pack of hungry wolves.
Officer Takagi looked as helpless as a rabbit surrounded by a wolf pack. "!!!"
Jiang Xia glanced at them and disappointingly found that, fierce as they looked, they had no real Killing Intent. So he pointed at the screen, interrupting these petty officers who were all thunder and no rain. "The street looks pretty empty."
"Right! Let's watch the Videotape first!" Officer Takagi was the first to respond. He leaned closer. "Across the street, beside my car—did two people walk past?"
Officer Shiratori stepped closer to take a look as well, then shook his head. "They just look like ordinary passersby. Your car was parked right beside the sidewalk, so people walking past it is perfectly normal—and from this far away, we can't make out what those passersby looked like at all. Unless the recording shows someone lingering beside your car for a long time afterward..."
But the moment he finished speaking, perhaps because the gossip was over, the Video Camera drooped again. Just as before, the frame showed only a small patch of ground and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko's legs.
Not long after, the recording ended.
Inspector Megure sighed in disappointment. "I thought we'd get to