"The new director's surname is Moriwaki..." Hoshikawa Teru leaned closer to examine the photo on the board above the lobby. After studying it for a moment, he said uncertainly, "Why do I feel like this guy looks seventy or eighty percent like the original director?"
"It's not your imagination." Akemi Miyano pushed up her glasses and answered seriously, "I think this goes beyond an ordinary coincidence."
The original director, Shuji Tsugawa, was fifty-seven years old and had worked at Beika Library for many years, gradually rising to the position of director. It could be said that he knew the library's operations inside and out.
It was far more reasonable to say that he had used his modest position as cover for illegal dealings than to believe this new director, who had been transferred in out of nowhere, had gotten involved in such a thorny case.
Yet while he had been in office, everything had remained peaceful. It was only after Shuji Tsugawa hurriedly left the library that this new director, whom he had recommended and who had been transferred over laterally...
"Could they be relatives? Brothers, family, something like that?" Hoshikawa Teru guessed tentatively. "A criminal organization would find friends and family more reliable than ordinary people with no connections, after all... Hm?"
After speaking, he noticed that Akemi Miyano, who had been discussing the matter with him, had fallen silent. He turned his head in confusion and found her quietly looking at him with an indescribable expression.
It took Hoshikawa Teru a few seconds to realize that he seemed to have insulted both of them with that remark.
Whether it was him, Akemi Miyano, Tangze, or Ai Haibara, hadn't they all been innocently implicated by a criminal organization precisely because they fell within the category of friends and family...?