"Did you see anyone entering or leaving this office?"
Miwako Sato, who had rushed upstairs at once, grabbed hold of the woman seated outside the door and questioned her anxiously.
The information Tamada Kazuo had provided was sufficiently detailed. No matter what, Director Moriwaki was certainly inextricably connected to the illegal trade.
But just as they had previously suspected, if he had not been acting alone and there were certain chains of interest behind him, then this act of lynching carried out right under the police's noses was very likely the work of Moriwaki Buntā's former accomplices or others in the same business. The nature of the situation became completely different.
"You mean the director's office? No, I didn't. What happened?" The two women sitting outside the door chatting quietly looked up, pushed up their glasses, and stood. "We were discussing some collaborative events with the director earlier. There was some commotion downstairs, and when we saw the director leave, we came upstairs to reconfirm the event details with him. We've been waiting ever since..."
Matsuda Jinpei, strolling lazily behind Miwako Sato, glanced at Shimabukuro Kimiye, who was dressed in a gentle, demure manner perfectly suited to a housewife, then looked away without speaking.
The moment he saw these two teammates, he did not even need to guess. He already had a rough idea of what had happened upstairs.
The two of them would not directly attack the director, of course. But if their leader had come over after noticing something, then the fact that he had not simply thrown the director out the window already counted as Tangze's condition being stable.
"No one has entered or left this place the entire time?" Miwako Sato looked toward the other officers on both sides. Receiving one fruitless shake of the head