Uzo's Cat

Okiya Subaru almost never went out with anyone. He did not have many senior or junior fellow apprentices, and even the professor—the person most likely to cause trouble—came and went in a hurry every day, nowhere to be seen.

As for the rest, every one of them kept to themselves, like background props who ordinarily would not even get an extra second of screen time.

Jiang Xia: "..."

How had things turned out like this...

This stagnant stakeout life was far more boring than he had imagined. Even his expectations for Akai Shuichi could not make up for it.

Using his cat Persona, Jiang Xia let out a bored yawn and gradually came to a decision.

When Okiya Subaru started clattering away at his keyboard again, Jiang Xia, utterly uninterested, slipped out onto the balcony, fiddled open the window latch, squeezed through the gap, and silently jumped downstairs.

...Forget it.

Akai Shuichi would end up drawn into the heart of an incident sooner or later anyway, and most likely through Okiya Subaru, the point connecting them.

Since that was the case, they would meet if fate allowed it. Whether the Blind Box was opened sooner or later did not make much difference. Besides, Jiang Xia thought, the time he had wasted on Okiya Subaru might have been enough to pick up several more bizarre cases.

Besides, Jiang Xia had other things to do these past few days.

—Since the fake "Uzo" had gone to see Okiya Subaru, he naturally had to visit the other new underlings assigned by the Organization one by one as well, giving them a few instructions. He had to treat everyone equally and absolutely not discriminate against suspicious people.

Moreover, whenever Uzo assigned missions, every underling received one.

And some time ago, when Jiang Xia