"I knew it..."
After searching around and finding nothing, Takuya Mifune returned to the villa. Having received the latest news, he slapped his forehead and made a goofy "See? I told you this would happen" face at Tangze.
A group this large looked quite imposing when they moved together, but once thrown into the mountains and forests, they amounted to nothing at all—especially with several spoiled young masters among them who knew next to nothing about wilderness survival.
Looking for someone? It was already impressive if they did not get themselves lost.
"So, you're saying Nikaido got lost while looking for someone?"
"We split up." Gojo Osamu shook his head. "We argued a little, and when I turned around, he was gone."
He knew why the detective was asking, which made him feel especially wronged.
He and Nikaido Yuji had been moving together. After they split up, Nikaido was alone, but so was he. They faced exactly the same danger, so why make it sound as though he had lost Nikaido?
"I wasn't deliberately provoking him. If anything, he was the one shouting about how the fiancé had already been chosen, and it was definitely going to be him..." Gojo Osamu pressed his lips together in exasperation. "Who knows what suddenly got into him?"
The argument itself was not strange. They had been competing over Reika Shifui for a long time, so it was only natural that their relationships had become tense.
But in a place this complicated, where getting lost could mean never being found again, he had still been so stubborn that he turned around and left in a huff. That had truly stunned Gojo Osamu.
"What he said may have been true." Kazue Takashi merely stated calmly, "Have you forgotten what happened to Yaeko two years ago?