Chapter 3233 3245 [Stay]
Thinking of the second-in-command who loved stamp collecting, Toru Amuro sighed inwardly and felt a little annoyed.
——Jiang Xia is, after all, an outer member of the organization. If Rum really values his reputation as a detective and comes directly to him to ask for him, things would be quite troublesome.
"Fortunately, Rum hasn't said anything to me yet. Maybe he thinks his subordinates are still his subordinates, so he's not that anxious."
After briefly analyzing the psychology of his moody boss, Toru Amuro shook his head and put the matter aside for the time being.
He poured himself a cup of tea and was about to ask Jiang Xia about what happened during the trip, especially the details related to Curacao. But at this moment, he suddenly noticed something, stopped talking alertly, and turned to look at the door.
——A middle-aged man was standing outside the door, looking up at the house number.
After seeing the big words "Detective Agency", he knocked on the door and walked in.
Amuro Toru's eyes twitched: "..." Why did the guest come at this time instead of earlier or later... It's such a coincidence that he came.
The word "coincidence" touched his sensitive nerves that he had developed during his journey. Amuro Toru looked at the visitor and began to be suspicious: Is this really just an ordinary guest? Could it be that after Curacao, Rum sent someone else to approach Jiangxia?
Across the coffee table, Jiang Xia had already stood up and greeted the guest very professionally: "Hello, please fill out the form first."
"Oh, OK." The middle-aged man looked him up and down, surprised, "So you are an employee of this detective agency. I thought you were a customer too."
——Just now, I looked inside from the door and saw two people sitting opposite each other. The middle-aged man thought that the student-looking person was here to come for a commission, while the dark-skinned mixed-blood man holding a teapot and pouring water across the table was the detective of this firm.
"I'm an employee here. The guy opposite me is the boss of our firm and also a senior detective." Jiang Xia smiled and introduced himself, then handed him the registration form and pen. "What do you want?"
Amuro Toru watched this scene with mixed feelings: Jiang Xia is really dedicated to his job as a detective. Wouldn't it be bad for him to interrupt his work and drive the customer away at this time?
...Forget it, I can ask about Curacao in a little while. With this in mind, Amuro Toru simply stood up from the sofa, gave his seat to the guest, and planned to listen to what he had to say with Jiang Xia.
——If under normal circumstances, he found someone coming to Jiang Xia to ask for a commission, he would definitely find an excuse to leave and do his own thing.
Amuro Toru: "..." But what Curacao did in the past few days made people alert. In this case, as an undercover agent, he couldn't ignore some dangerous signs just because he was afraid of something as vague as the event constitution.
…
After a brief period of struggle, finally, under Jiang Xia's gratified gaze, Toru Amuro stood silently in place and joined the detective team.
Next to him, the customer who came to the door had no idea of the complicated psychological process of this fake detective.
When he heard that Toru Amuro was the owner of this firm, he smiled sheepishly and said, "My request is quite simple - I would like you to help me find a lost watch."
Amuro Toru was prepared to hear things like “I keep smelling corpses lately,” “I keep hearing the sound of digging pits lately,” “There are cracks in the walls of my house lately and there’s always a bad smell coming out of them,” and so on: “…”
...What are you looking for?
watch???
This doesn't seem to be the same case as he imagined, full of hidden secrets?
Next to him, the dedicated Detective Jiang Xia doesn't seem to be picky about his commissions.
He did not show any embarrassment or impatience. He just poured a cup of tea for the middle-aged man, took the registration form he had filled out and said, "Tell me the details."
The name of the middle-aged man was written on the table, Hideo Goda.
Hideo Goda sat across from them, gently shaking his teacup and sighing, "The watch I'm looking for is a relic of my wife. It was a gift I gave her a long time ago - an old-fashioned clockwork watch."
Amuro Toru listened from all sides and always felt that this seemed to be just an ordinary commission. The only slightly special thing was that the man in front of him sounded like his wife had just died.
He then further inquired: "What is the specific brand of the watch? Was it stolen or robbed? When was it lost?"
"No brand." Hideo Gota scratched his head embarrassedly: "When I was young, I was very poor and couldn't afford a big brand, so I bought a cheap watch and gave it to her."
"She liked it very much. Even when her family became better off, she still wore it every day. She..."
After patiently listening to the middle-aged man reminiscing about the sweet times when his wife was alive, Amuro Toru finally lost his patience. He pressed his forehead and interrupted without leaving a trace:
"So, the watch you are looking for was lost by your wife accidentally when she went out, or was it because she treasured the watch so much that it was snatched away by an unsuspecting person? Wait, your wife didn't die because she fought with the criminals to protect the watch, did she?"
Jiang Xia glanced at him: "..." I didn't expect that Mr. Amuro was quite suitable for writing scripts, even though it sounds a bit melodramatic...
"Ah?" The middle-aged man was stunned. "It's not that dramatic. It's just a simple loss. Suddenly one day I couldn't find it."
Toru Amuro: "..."
The countless crisis scenarios in his mind were extinguished with a click. He leaned back in his chair in boredom and took a sip of tea to hide his embarrassment: "Then why did you suddenly think of looking for that watch?"
"Because..." Speaking of this, Hideo Goda's face changed slightly, "I don't know why, but recently my wife has been coming to me in my dreams every night, constantly asking me 'What time is it?', 'What time is it now?'"
"I just remembered that in her last few days, she kept talking about the lost watch." Speaking of his wife, Hideo Gota couldn't help but sigh again:
"At this rate, she won't be able to stay here peacefully, and I won't be able to sleep peacefully in the human world either. So I'd like to ask a detective to help me find the watch and find a way to burn it for her. That way, she should be able to rest in peace."
Amuro Toru thought for a moment and said, "Although I sympathize with your experience, I still suggest that you don't hold out too much hope. If the lost watch is an expensive brand, it may have been picked up and sold by someone, and then found through trading channels. But if it is just a cheap brand, it may have been picked up by passers-by, or even thrown away."
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Thanks to the big guys for the [monthly tickets] (σ≧▽≦)σ.
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