The Disappearance of Amuro Tooru

Koda Masao frowned thoughtfully, feeling that Jiang Xia had a point.

But he was still uneasy. "What if Mian Guan Yi Yi refuses to let us in? And what if we alert him..."

"Since you're convinced the body is buried in his yard, you must have already tried talking to him, right?"

Seeing the client nod, Jiang Xia continued, "So if we're talking about 'alerting him,' you've already done that. Besides, this is only an attempt—what if, to prove he has nothing to hide, he really lets us in? Wouldn't that be ideal?

"Even if it fails, there's still next Saturday, and the Saturday after that... Though it may not sound nice to say so, after a body has been buried for a month, many valuable clues have already been erased by time. Whether it's a week earlier or later may not make much difference in the end."

Koda Masao pressed a hand to his temple and pondered it, hesitating for quite a while.

In the end, he nodded. "Let's do it that way."

Based on the usual schedule, there was still over an hour before Mian Guan Yi Yi headed to the hospital for his routine checkup.

Koda Masao urged Jiang Xia to leave as soon as possible.

—There really were plenty more Saturdays ahead, but Koda Masao did not want to waste this one.

So he planned to first visit Mian Guan Yi Yi's house as Jiang Xia suggested, and try to get in by taking advantage of the man's concern for appearances. If it did not work this time... Koda Masao actually had other plans as well.

To avoid wasting time, he wanted to try Jiang Xia's "visit" before Mian Guan Yi Yi left home. If it failed, there would still be time to carry out