While Yamazaki Yumi quietly pondered her future.
Elsewhere, Curacao returned home with the game she had just bought and began mulling over the recent news as well.
"If I remembered correctly, this female president seemed to have appeared in both the last case and the one before that. I hadn't heard that Uzo had acquired a new Peripheral Member..."
Her photographic memory quickly brought many details back to Curacao's mind. "Also, it seemed that this woman had orchestrated both of the previous Murder Cases, and every outcome had benefited her. Today makes the third time... Where is she heading?"
After pondering for a while, Curacao set the game aside for the moment, took out her phone, and began contacting Vodka.
"An acquaintance of Yamazaki Yumi's, a Tea Ceremony Master?" Vodka stared at the email, reading the information Curacao had obtained from lip-reading, and muttered to himself:
"That won't be hard to find, but why has Curacao suddenly become so proactive? If I remembered right, she'd lost every time. Whenever betting opened, she'd clutch that one Uzo Coin and agonize over it, wishing I'd open fewer scenes so she'd have fewer chances to agonize.
"Something's wrong. There's definitely something wrong here!"
But what exactly was wrong?
Though he couldn't compare to Curacao when it came to intelligence, Vodka had still spent quite a while in the organization as a desk officer.
Fixating on the keyword Yamazaki Yumi and reviewing the recent news again and again, he felt as though he vaguely understood something. "Could this female president have discovered something abnormal on the island, then boldly formed a hypothesis and boldly tested it, all the way until she traced it back to Uzo?"
The first time, she had taken the initiative to go to the island. The second time, she