Later on, Jiang Xia remembered, Kudo Yusaku had inexplicably come to his house late at night, knocked on the door for a chat, and even mentioned a few things about Jiang Xia's current "work."
And to be more specific, if he remembered correctly, Kudo Yusaku had seemed to glance toward the end of the corridor before leaving.
Hanging there was a portrait of Jiang Xia Tongzhi's father—the handsome older man apparently had a wife who was obsessed with him, and there were quite a few paintings of him around the house in all sorts of styles.
After arriving here, Jiang Xia had not made any major changes to the house, and all those paintings remained where they were. Fortunately, Jiang Xia Longping—Jiang Xia Tongzhi's father—was decent-looking enough, and he seemed to have spared no expense when hiring the painters. The paintings had a certain artistic air to them and were not unpleasant to look at.
In short, taken together, this series of events had made Jiang Xia rather concerned.
—He always felt that Kudo Yusaku seemed to know something he did not. Something related to his "work."
Before this, Jiang Xia had privately muttered to himself: Two members of the Black Organization lived next door to Kudo Yusaku, yet Kudo Yusaku had been completely unaware of it.
At the time, he had attributed it to his "parents" being lucky, as well as there being no overlap between otaku and a 007 corporate drone.
But now, it seemed...
Jiang Xia: "..." Could it be that Jiang Xia's parents had secretly watered things down behind the scenes?
Matters involving the past were difficult to uncover even if Jiang Xia was curious enough to investigate.
Although the Jiang Xia couple had died a year ago and had lived with Jiang Xia