What seemed like a peaceful night passed without incident.
The next day, after finishing his statement, Jiang Xia carried over the cat one of his underlings had just found and arrived at the Detective Agency.
After flipping through the newspaper while waiting for a while, his client finally arrived.
Jiang Xia was about to make tea when he suddenly saw a tall man with a coral-like hairstyle enter alongside the client. The man stood by the door, peering cautiously inside.
Jiang Xia: "...?"
Coral Head had been inspecting the shop when he suddenly met Jiang Xia's gaze.
His eyes lit up, and he eagerly stepped forward. "Hello! Do you remember me? We met during that case at the Ceramic Artist's place in Izu—you even gave me your autograph!"
Of course Jiang Xia remembered. "Officer Yokomizo... Why did you come here from Shizuoka? Were you transferred?"
Yokomizo Sango said happily, "No, no, actually, it's like this—we have a difficult case. We've investigated it for days without any leads, and it's had quite an impact. The Police Station recently happened to have some extra publicity funding, so we wanted to ask you to come take a look..."
Among police inspectors, Yokomizo Sango was an unusually avid fan.
He enthusiastically followed several legendary Great Detectives, but Jiang Xia was currently the only one he had met in person and gotten an autograph from.
So, while at work, Yokomizo Sango would occasionally pull out that autograph and lavish it with praise. Perhaps his colleagues had unknowingly been brainwashed by him; when this case arose, everyone at the Police Station agreed with his proposal to "seek outside assistance."
On one hand, the case truly was urgent.
On the other, they also wanted to see what "Jiang Xia," this legendary detective, was really like in everyday