Amuro Tooru listened to the good news, yet showed little relief. Instead, his brow furrowed even deeper.
...This was far too smooth.
And far too coincidental.
Summed up in a few words, it was an obvious sentence: it reeked of Uzo.
"Wait a second." Amuro Tooru stopped the foolish subordinate on the other end. "Are there any cameras near the box? If so, find the footage first and see why the box ended up there."
Only then did Kazami Yuuya realize the issue and hurriedly began skillfully hacking into the surveillance system.
After a while, he hesitated. "The cameras from that period just happened to malfunction..."
As he said it, even he realized something was wrong—this was far too "convenient."
"Could it be?!" Kazami Yuuya had also associated that word with a certain terrifying executive who was exceptionally troublesome. As though afraid something might overhear him, he lowered his voice. "Furuya-san, could this be Uzo again?"
Amuro Tooru thought of Matsuda, then Hashimoto Maya, then this entire string of coincidences. His brow twisted into a knot.
But when he thought of the missing Jiang Xia, he could not simply ignore it—after all, if he had not suddenly decided to have him transported away, Jiang Xia might still have been sleeping peacefully in the café right now.
That bastard Uzo... Could he be trying to concoct some vicious script like "personally strangling a valued subordinate in the budding stage" just because I'm Jiang Xia's superior...?
He clenched his fist, radiating killing intent. Yet he had to make up for his own mistake himself. After a moment of silence, Amuro Tooru sighed. No matter what, he first had to find a way to get his hands on the box containing Jiang Xia.
Outside the Dessert Museum, Amuro Tooru eyed the box