The Right Way to Run into a Case

A group of them soon hurried back to the city, followed the address engraved on the Cat Tag, and found Masuo's home.

But no one was home. They seemed to have gone out.

Jiang Xia set the box containing the cat beside the mailbox. After thinking it over, he left a Business Card as well, so the owner could contact him. That way, the Masuos would not mistake it for some warning left by a pervert murderer, like, "Your cat is dead. You're next."

...Besides, this was a chance to develop a client. Maybe the cat's original owner would introduce some serial Murder Case for him to pick up.

On the way here, Jiang Xia had sent the children to take the train while he rode his Motorcycle back alone.

Taking advantage of the time alone, he successfully reached an agreement with the clever new cat that had delivered itself to him. They agreed that they would sign a contract once they caught the real culprit.

While they communicated, the cat kept staring at the pocket where he kept Ghost Mint and nodding eagerly. Jiang Xia vaguely felt that he might have been overthinking things... Maybe if he had taken out some Ghost Mint and lit a stick, he would not have needed to say anything. This cat would have simply followed him...

Still, finding the real culprit had been an easy side task anyway. After all, culprits often had ghosts or Killing Intent hanging around them.

So after fooling the newly caught cat, Jiang Xia did not give up on finding the person just because the cat had been easy to fool. He carefully compared the city map with the locations the Transmitter stuck to the car had passed through, committing the route to memory.

After delivering the