You Don't Understand the Grim Reaper at All

Yamamura Misao glanced at the innocent old maple tree.

When he turned back, he saw Jiang Xia across from him with his head slightly lowered, looking somewhat guilty, as though he really felt they had been quite unfair in leaving Yamamura Misao behind.

Instead, Yamamura Misao felt that he was more at fault. He should not have said such excessive things, like cursing them to have bad luck. What if Jiang Xia had really forgotten at the time? Detectives seemed prone to ignoring what was happening around them once they focused, especially High School Detectives...

"We only heard something upstairs and hurried over to check. We didn't notice where you'd hidden," a voice beside him cut in.

Amuro Tooru did not feel guilty at all. Whether as Furuya Rei or Bourbon, he thought this muddleheaded policeman simply had not suffered enough beatings from life. Giving him a scare was already generous enough.

But now was obviously not the time to discuss such trivial matters.

Since they had run into him, Amuro Tooru simply asked about what concerned him more. "By the way, why are you here? Has there been any progress in the Toshigami Forest case?"

At that question, Yamamura Misao gave a snort, his momentum weakening slightly.

...In that case, the culprit who had killed "Fake Jiang Xia" had suddenly died of cardiac arrest. With video footage proving the murder, they could close the case. Yet they had never found the "perverted mysterious man" the culprit had mentioned. Nor had there been any word of the vanished Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha.

Finding those things would probably require a long search. Since the main case had already been solved, such minor details had inevitably been set aside. Yamamura Misao was, after all, a Reasoning Enthusiast, and he felt the case had been