Uzo Knows Nothing About Hacking

Jiang Xia hitched a ride all the way to Okiya Subaru's apartment.

When they reached the room door, he lay on his new underling's shoulder and checked the door plate, memorizing the location.

Okiya Subaru had no idea he was being watched by his superior.

He returned home and hesitated between "preparing daily necessities for the cat" and "clinging to the FBI's thigh to survive." Thinking of the many potted plants on his balcony, which offered an environment not too different from the outdoors, and considering how late it was, he decided to buy cat supplies tomorrow and find a way to contact Akai Shuichi today.

Okiya Subaru shut the door behind him and set the cat down.

After hesitating for a moment, he took a Detector from the shoe cabinet by the door. Clumsily adjusting it, he casually swept it over the cat twice.

The cat froze, then kicked him disdainfully and ran off, jumping onto the windowsill to look outside.

Okiya Subaru did not pay much attention to it. The cat had merely happened to be nearby, so he had scanned it on a whim. He did not truly think it was hiding a Listening Device—who could use a cat for eavesdropping? Cats were not dogs. Dogs might be trained to find specific people, but once a cat was let loose, it would toss its owner's commands aside and run freely toward the horizon. Even Uzo could not control a cat's heart...

Okiya Subaru first used the Detector to scan himself.

Finding no suspicious signal source, he began circling the room again.

—In the past, Okiya Subaru had not actually had this habit.

But after hearing Akai Shuichi explain the organization's attitude toward traitors, along with the dangerous and treacherous high-ranking members, and especially after encountering one himself,