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Chapters 3731 & 3744 [Hashimoto Maya's Land Adventure] Requesting monthly votes ヽ(〃〃)~
Amuro Tooru had a vague idea: Could it be that this policewoman had also seen that guy who looked a lot like Matsuda?

The "Sato Miwako defense line" was not airtight. With a direction in mind, Amuro Tooru quickly found out about this mysterious date.

So he arranged his time and skillfully sneaked into the amusement park to work.

"Could the person Sato is meeting be the one I'm thinking of?" The plush bear stood at the entrance of the amusement park, being petted by passing children as it frowned in thought. "When did these two people first come into contact, and what is their relationship?"

Just then, Amuro Tooru spotted a familiar figure wearing a knitted hat.

Knitted hat, black clothes, tall figure, mixed-race features...

A multitude of keywords intertwined in my mind, and in the blink of an eye, a clear name emerged: Shuichi Akai!
The plush bear's eyes sharpened, and it suddenly glared at them with murderous intent...

Then I realized I might have mistaken someone for someone else.

Amuro Tooru: "..." At first glance, he does look a lot like Shuichi Akai, but upon closer inspection... isn't this the guy who shamelessly sneaked into my detective agency!

"Speaking of which, it's been a while since I've seen him." Amuro Tooru's murderous intent subsided slightly, but a faint aroma of coffee still lingered in the air. "According to intelligence, this guy seems to have been causing trouble on that island at sea. What's he doing at the amusement park today?"

Could it be related to the recent bombing and Miwako Sato, who is about to arrive at the amusement park?
While pondering, Amuro Tooru glanced at the person traveling with Hashimoto Maya.

She was a woman in her thirties, with a gentle demeanor and beautiful face. She was whispering something to Hashimoto Maya, and the two of them did not notice the bear-like doll staring at them, and walked straight into the amusement park.

Although they weren't very familiar with each other, Amuro Tooru, being an intelligence operative, had an excellent memory and quickly recognized her: wasn't this the unlucky yet fortunate woman who was cheated on by her husband and sister, then her husband was imprisoned for murder, and her sister was accidentally killed by her husband?

"She really is connected to Uzo." Amuro Tooru slowly narrowed his eyes as he looked at the person walking with Hashimoto Maya.

“I knew something was wrong with that case. This woman was not just lucky. She sensed her husband’s murderous intent beforehand and also discovered the affair between her husband and her sister. So she turned the tables and used a trap to kill both of them at once.”

The sudden appearance of two henchmen who are definitely connected to Uzo here must have some hidden story behind it.

"Hashimoto Maya is here, follow her."

Amuro Tooru didn't move himself, but instead gave orders to Kazami Yuya through the microphone hidden in his hood.

"Yes!"

Upon receiving the order, Kazami Yuya didn't move. Instead, he picked up the walkie-talkie beside him and, mimicking Mr. Furuya's tone, gave the order to another informant: "Hashimoto Maya is here. Follow her."

—Recently, he was forced to go through a round of police investigations and was seemingly smoothly bailed out. Although the general bailing process was fine and discreet enough, it's best to keep a low profile for now, just to be on the safe side.

Fortunately, as a civil servant, he wasn't fighting alone, but with a group of people—besides his colleagues and subordinates, he also had some reliable informants. He could easily find a few to carry out the task of keeping watch on people in the amusement park.

Thinking of this, looking at his team, Kazami Yuya showed a relieved smile.

Then there was a crackling sound from the walkie-talkie. The informant on the other end waited a while, but when he realized there was no further response, he hesitated and asked, "Who is Hashimoto Maya?"

Kazami Yuya: "..."

He took a deep breath: It's normal, it's normal—an informant can't always keep up with the intelligence on your side, so it's normal to know less. As long as they can be useful when tracking, that's fine.

He quickly regained his composure and said calmly, "That tall person wearing a knitted hat and all black clothes just passed by the door. You'll know when you see him."

“Knitted hat, very tall, black clothes…” The informant glanced at the target and quickly locked onto him.

He hid the microphone, put away the newspaper he was holding, and, like an ordinary middle-aged man, casually followed after them with his hands in his pockets.

……

At the entrance of the amusement park.

Officer Takagi, dressed in inconspicuous civilian clothes, followed suspiciously beside Officer Shiratori and asked guiltily, "Officer Sato hasn't arrived yet, so why did we just walk in?"

Officer Shiratori adjusted her knitted hat to cover the conspicuous white gauze, then glanced at him speechlessly: "What else? Are we supposed to wait for Sato to come before we go in? —Aren't you underestimating her observation skills?"

I actually took this idiot seriously as an opponent before... Well, that makes sense, what if Officer Sato just likes idiots?

But then again, the police officer Matsuda who died three years ago doesn't seem to be an idiot at all... Sigh, women's tastes really are diverse.

After a brief lapse in concentration, Inspector Shiratori refocused on the present. He glanced around, didn't see the drug dealer, then picked up his phone and whispered:

"The area around the entrance is safe. The command vehicle can come in now. Put on your delivery uniforms and you'll be disguised as delivery vehicles. The rest of you will come in in batches and go to the positions I arranged beforehand."

Replies quickly came from the group chat, and a large number of suspicious individuals began to enter the park.

Officer Shiratori put down his phone and walked towards the nearby open-air cafe, intending to sit behind the greenery and observe the entrance to determine when Officer Sato would enter the park.

Suddenly he frowned and glanced around discreetly: "..." Why... do I feel like there are some strange gazes on me?

……

Another corner of the coffee shop.

Jiang Xia found a comfortable spot to sit down, ordered some food casually, and then tossed his main body into the shop, creating a puppet in the restroom behind the coffee shop.

Soon, a curly-haired man dressed in all black and wearing sunglasses appeared in front of the bathroom mirror.

"Hmm?" Just as he was about to drive the puppet away, Jiang Xia glanced at the mirror and noticed that the familiar puppet seemed to have something added to it.

He stopped and looked closely, and found a white paper shikigami on his chest—compared to its oni form, this shikigami had now become part of his clothes, hanging on his black suit like a paper decoration.

"..."

After a brief moment of confusion, Jiang Xia realized: Matsuda must be playing with his good brother again. When he was making the puppet, he pulled Matsuda Jinpei out and threw him into the puppet clay, along with Hagiwara Kenji's cold noodle shikigami, which then turned into this rather strange ornament.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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