Akai Shuichi Suddenly Appears

--This probably wasn't their own choice. Miss Anonymous sometimes wore sunglasses to hide the Pattern Seal beneath her eyes, and Xiao Bai kept a scarf around his neck year-round. Clearly, neither was satisfied with where their tattoos had been placed.

Following that logic, if the tattoo locations had been designated by that perverted Boss, and Jiang Xia was one of Anonymous's people, then his "z" tattoo should also be somewhere normally exposed. But she had never actually seen it... Hm?

...Wait.

As Haibara Ai thought it over, her gaze shifted and landed on Jiang Xia's left wrist.

--He wore a Wrist Guard there all year round. It was supposedly to cover a scar. But actually, it seemed like it could hide something else too...

Jiang Xia casually stroked the cat that had burrowed into his arms, then looked up and noticed Haibara Ai's strange, complicated expression.

"What is it?" Jiang Xia looked at her.

...As far as he remembered, Haibara Ai also seemed to enjoy wildly imagining things. And she did know rather more than she should about Anonymous.

But Jiang Xia didn't think it was a big deal—Haibara Ai had no allies, was hardly aggressive, and unlike 100,000 Whys, she wouldn't keep chasing people around with questions.

No matter what conclusion she imagined, she would only end up scaring herself. Besides, in this regard, Haibara Ai happened to be a good person in the conventional sense. She would rather die herself than expose the secrets of friendly forces, even secrets she had made up in her own head.

So, seeing the look in her eyes now, Jiang Xia didn't feel much of a sense of danger. He only found her jumpiness rather amusing. Besides, imagining things was ultimately just imagining things. In reality, Jiang Xia was merely an ordinary