Saguru Hakuba walked over to Inspector Nakamori and handed him the memo and earpiece.
Then he looked at the inspector, whose clothes were in disarray and whose hair was sticking up wildly, and fell silent for a moment.
For an instant, Saguru Hakuba suspected that some subordinate with a grudge against Nakamori Ginzo had taken advantage of the chaos to secretly beat up the hot-tempered inspector... but that was not the point right now.
Saguru Hakuba cleared his throat and gathered his wandering thoughts.
"Reports from all the other areas have come in, but I haven't heard anything about the area downstairs." He raised the tip of his shoe and tapped the floor, indicating the location. "Has the area below not been secured yet? There isn't much time left before Kid's announcement."
Inspector Nakamori was still immersed in the miserable scene of being toyed with by a cat and was angrily and embarrassedly straightening his clothes.
Hearing that, he waved a hand dismissively.
"No need to worry about the exhibition hall downstairs. There's no need to secure it at all—sensors are everywhere, and the power equipment is under our strict surveillance. Not even a..." As he started to say that old phrase, Inspector Nakamori seemed to recall something. A vein twitched at his temple, and he did not continue. "Ahem. In short, it's the hardest place to break into. Kid wouldn't be stupid enough to try it."
"..." Saguru Hakuba nodded slightly.
Still, while he should have trusted the power of technology, judging from past cases, he always felt that the more advanced the equipment was, the less useful it was against Kid. Coupled with Inspector Nakamori's certainty—Saguru Hakuba's instincts told him that Kid would truly choose the exhibition hall downstairs as his point of entry.
With that thought, Saguru