New Subordinate: Akai Shuichi?

By that logic, Akai Shuichi should still be Akai Shuichi.

Even if the reality of this world often differed from what Jiang Xia remembered, and even assuming Mizunashi Rena and Akai Shuichi had severed ties... Jiang Xia still had not heard any news lately along the lines of "Akai Shuichi is dead."

—If there had been, the boss definitely would not have been so calm. He would at least have bought a string of confetti to celebrate, then immediately investigated whether Akai Shuichi was really dead. If he was not, he would put in more effort to kill him... In any case, since Akai Shuichi was still alive, where had this "Okiya Subaru" come from?

Considering Gin, Akai Shuichi's mortal enemy, was sitting in the front row, Jiang Xia did not keep staring at Okiya Subaru's file.

He maintained the same pace he had used to examine the previous two bystanders' files and briefly skimmed the résumé.

Then he closed his phone.

He decided to investigate exactly what this "Okiya Subaru" was after getting out of the car and returning home.

Oh, right. He also needed to check whether the neighboring Kudo Residence had recently gained any strange residents.

After putting down his phone, Jiang Xia raised his head and looked at Gin's back, his expression somewhat complicated.

...No matter how he looked at it, this "Okiya Subaru" was highly suspicious.

If he really was Akai Shuichi in disguise... then there was no need to elaborate on the implications.

And if a person called "Okiya Subaru" truly existed in reality...

Thinking it over carefully, Jiang Xia found that this did not seem impossible either.

—There was no time to verify Okiya Subaru's history now.

But as a seasoned member of the fake-ID circle who had bought a set of