Jiang Xia retightened the medicine bottle Yuki Aono had loosened.
At the same time, he glanced to the side and spotted several gleaming kitchen knives in the knife rack on the cabinet.
Those knives were not far from Yuki Aono. She could reach them with a single stretch of her hand.
They would be very convenient for...
Silencing a detective who knew too much.
Jiang Xia calmly withdrew his gaze, suppressing the anticipation hidden in his eyes, and got straight to the point. "You were the murderer this time?"
...Although Yuki Aono harbored considerable killing intent, her resolve was also rather wavering.
—Just now, Jiang Xia had returned to this apartment with the police. The moment he entered, before he could begin counting the vanilla ice cream-brand killing intent transferred over from Spider Lady, he saw Matsuda Jinpei and Mist Tengu rolling over from the bathroom like a snowball, pushing a fluffy, marshmallow-like ball of killing intent between them.
When the Killing Intent Cluster drew close, Jiang Xia took a contented sniff.
He had noticed long ago that this bundle of killing intent did not merely look like marshmallows—it truly carried a faint, sugary fragrance as well. Before Jiang Xia could store it in Mark Space, the Ghosts clinging to him had already dived into the pile of candy with utterly no restraint.
This killing intent had been shed by Yuki Aono.
Perhaps because real blood had splashed onto her while she was committing murder in the bathroom earlier, frightening her badly, her killing intent had sharply diminished, causing some of the killing intent on her body to fall away as well.
Then, when news came back that Kusano Kaoru had been successfully rescued, all the remaining killing intent on Yuki Aono silently drifted down in that instant.
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