"Is Hachijōjima Island considered part of the Izu Islands too?"
"Yes, that's right. The climate is very pleasant, and the scenery is beautiful. All in all, it's a nice destination."
"I get it. It's not like I said I wasn't going. You don't have to sell it so hard..."
Tangze withdrew his gaze from the map on his phone and burst out laughing at the slightly nervous Sonoko Suzuki.
Under the pretext of "celebrating the case's progress," Sonoko Suzuki had invited Tangze and the others to take a trip to Hachijōjima Island together. It was something she had mentioned back in Kyoto.
Now that they had returned to Tokyo with the materials, handed them over to Eri Kisaki, and settled all the details regarding the case's retrial, the trip naturally moved onto the agenda.
—Like Izu, although Hachijōjima Island was two or three hundred kilometers from central Tokyo, it still fell within the broader Tokyo metropolitan area. For Tangze, who was not suited to traveling too far while dealing with the case, it was indeed an excellent choice.
"Wasn't I worried you might have some reservations about Izu?" Seeing that Tangze truly showed no reluctance, Sonoko Suzuki let out a breath. "Strange things always seem to happen whenever we go to the seaside..."
"That probably isn't the seaside's fault. You can see the sea from Tokyo too," Tangze pointed out tactfully.
Sonoko Suzuki felt there was something off about his logic, but after thinking it over carefully, she truly had no way to refute it.
So it was probably just that detectives really had a high probability of running into trouble, not that the sea was to blame.
Thinking that, her tone relaxed. "That's true. Anyway, don't miss a chance to properly unwind. There are plenty of ocean-view hot springs