Suspicious Okiya Subaru

Jiang Xia remembered the killing intent wrapped around that driver—the high-grade killing intent that smelled of perfume.

"..." Theoretically, wanting to kill a cat shouldn't have produced that level of killing intent. Otherwise, Spirit Mediums would have far better prospects hanging around slaughterhouses than joining the Black Organization or anything like that.

Come to think of it, this was somewhat similar to a murder case targeting humans that he had seen before.

As he recalled, quite a few killers couldn't resist returning to the crime scene after committing a crime to take a look. If someone had killed a person nearby last night or even earlier, then returned just now, tightly covered up, to inspect the scene and clean up—and was spotted by the Bear children catching fish in the process... then everything fit perfectly.

As for why a poor dead cat had appeared in all this... perhaps when the killer was murdering someone, they saw a cat passing by nearby and caught it looking at them. Feeling guilty, they took out their anger on it and beat the cat to death too. Or perhaps they were simply excited or panicked after killing someone and wanted to relieve the pressure by beating up an innocent stray cat...

Just as he was thinking, someone suddenly patted his neck.

—Matsuda Jinpei had drifted off somewhere, then floated back onto his shoulder.

After catching Jiang Xia's attention, the police Ghost raised a hand and pointed toward a park bench in the distance.

Between the bench and their current location stood a row of neatly trimmed hedges used as a divider. At the children's height, their view was completely blocked, leaving them unable to see beyond it.

Jiang Xia could see it, but since the bench was still some distance away, he could only