Digging into Jiang Xia's Persona-What Does It Have to Do with Uzo?

"You shouldn't be angry. Although Jiang Xia is a detective, he's still just a high school student. Students tend to follow the rules and don't want to cross legal boundaries. He wasn't deliberately targeting you."

Okiya Subaru put on the air of a mediator, trying to make Koda Masao lower his guard. At the same time, he quietly slipped in a question of his own: "Come to think of it, why did you think of going to him? Things like this should really be left to older detectives with more experience, the kind who are better at navigating gray areas."

Koda Masao had his own thoughts at the moment.

Seeing that Okiya Subaru did not ask why he had used a telephone booth instead of his phone, and only brought up some trivial matters, Koda Masao was happy to steer the conversation elsewhere.

Following Okiya Subaru's question, he casually said, "I couldn't find any evidence that Mian Guan Yi Yi had buried a body, and the police wouldn't believe me. I investigated alone for a long time without finding any leads.

"Later, I went to Beika Department Store. As I passed a shop, the television inside was playing a detective variety show, and it happened to feature Jiang Xia. I'd heard of that detective before, so I thought I might be able to hire him. Afterward, I checked out the Detective Agency where Jiang Xia worked, found it wasn't far away, and went there."

After Koda Masao finished, he had assumed Okiya Subaru had brought up the matter because he wanted to recommend a detective who would dare dig up a corpse with him.

To his surprise, after pondering for a moment, Okiya Subaru abruptly asked, "Why did you go to Beika Department Store that day?"

After a pause, he