How to Properly Use a Codename Executive

Easy as it was, they still needed to stay on guard against Vermouth.

That woman would never run around for no reason. She had gone to the trouble of coming here and disguising herself as a female high school student—she had to be plotting something she could not let anyone know about.

Nearby, Matsuda Ghost was absentmindedly plucking at the Apple-Scented Killing Intent. For some reason, it suddenly felt much lighter, as though some invisible blame had been lifted from its shoulders.

It looked around in confusion but found no explanation. What it did notice was that after the Spirit Medium Master flashed a V-sign at his old classmate, killing intent had suddenly begun to rise from the classmate.

"...?" Though puzzled, Matsuda Jinpei acted before he thought. Following his instincts, he drifted over to Amuro Tooru, clung to the rare source of killing intent, and plucked at the Coffee-flavored Killing Intent it preferred.

At the same time, Vermouth watched Jiang Xia push her away and head over to Bourbon to talk. Her gaze narrowed slightly, then her shadowy eyes turned toward Amuro Tooru.

Standing between the two of them, Jiang Xia sensed the killing intent rising on either side and felt that even the dead leaves beneath his feet had become elegant.

Come to think of it, when there were proper organization members nearby, his boss could actually become like Gin and Vermouth, constantly giving off high-grade killing intent. This undercover agent really had potential. How many more surprises did he have that Jiang Xia did not know about?

Coming to the Amuro Detective Agency to mooch off a part-time job had truly been one of the best decisions he had ever made.

Silent gunpowder smoke seemed to spread through the woods.

Aside from the alert