Chapter 688 The End of the Journey
“…”
Toru Amuro turned off the device, took it off, and thought of a lot of things in an instant.
If the peripheral members were suddenly attacked after they had installed the equipment, things would be relatively simple - probably just a strange person passed by, tortured all the people hiding on the mountain, and then left.
But what if... the recording equipment was not installed by the peripheral members?
Is he an enemy of Watanuki Tatsuzo? Someone related to the murder case five years ago? Or... is there someone else working for the organization?
A figure suddenly appeared in Toru Amuro's mind.
A police academy uniform, fluffy black natural curls - Jinpei Matsuda's face.
After a pause, the face in his mind changed slightly and slowly became the mysterious man who called himself "Kurosawa Sa".
...I suddenly remembered this because Toru Amuro remembered that something similar happened in the Toujin Forest - the murderer who killed the fake "Jiang Xia" was beaten up by Matsuda for no reason. If Kazami Yu hadn't arrived in time, he would probably have been beaten up twice in a row.
And now, someone around was beaten for no apparent reason again... The victim was a peripheral member of the organization and a younger brother of Watanuki Tatsuzo. Both of them could be considered outlaws, just like the murderer in the Toushin Forest.
Toru Amuro: “…” Could it be that Matsuda is still following him until now?
And more importantly, what about the recording device on the tree? Is Matsuda really connected to the organization?
...No, we can't draw any conclusions now.
To figure this out, we must first determine whether the device was installed by an external member or by Matsuda. Otherwise, everything is just pointless speculation.
Toru Amuro jumped down from the tree with the dismantled recording equipment, wanting to immediately wake up the person on the ground and ask about the situation.
Although his identity of "Toru Amuro" was fake, during his undercover period, this identity was considered his "real body", and it would not be easy for him to expose the fact that "Toru Amuro = Bourbon" to other people.
In the end, Toru Amuro could only suppress his temper and prepare to send an email to inquire later.
Jiang Xia also scouted around and then walked back with the sound of dead leaves crunching on them.
A crisp sound interrupted Toru Amuro's thoughts.
He looked at Jiang Xia, who glanced at the recording device in his hand. It seemed that he still remembered "try to help your boss cover up", so Jiang Xia asked like a simple part-time detective: "Call the police?"
"It's okay, it's stopped." Amuro Toru lowered his voice and waved the recording device in his hand towards Jiang Xia, indicating that it was not working at the moment and they didn't need to continue performing, "Let's leave here first."
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On the way down the mountain, Toru Amuro took out his cell phone and sent an email to the organization members who stayed near the hotel, asking them to come up and clean up the scene as soon as possible.
He and Jiang Xia chose a route that would not allow them to meet those people and returned to the hotel.
The only people who had seen him and Jiang Xia just now were Watanuki Tatsuzo and his two younger brothers. After the three people fainted, they didn't know the time. You can imagine that when they lost consciousness, the two detectives' phones ran out of battery, so they had to go down the mountain to find a place to call the police. During this time, the peripheral members of the organization went up the mountain to pick up the leak - anyway, Watanuki Tatsuzo and his men didn't know that the members of the organization also fell to the ground around them and needed a lot of time to clean up. Moreover, the two sides would not communicate with each other. Watanuki Tatsuzo and his men would only stay in the hands of the peripheral members for a short while and would soon be transferred to other places. By that time, compared with the 5 billion yen lost due to Watanuki Tatsuzo's leak, the intruding detective would naturally no longer be the focus of the problem.
…
Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru wandered around the foot of the mountain, and only returned to the hotel after the outer members had moved all the people on the mountain away and packed up the corpses.
Then Toru Amuro returned to the room, checked and processed the recording, packaged it and sent it to the person in charge.
Jiang Xia sat opposite the coffee table and watched quietly.
When he saw Toru Amuro close his computer, stretch himself, and look like he was done with the job, he couldn't help but ask, "Is this how it's done?"
"Yeah. There are more professional people to handle the interrogation and aftermath. Our job is only intelligence and supervision." Amuro Toru responded, walked to the small refrigerator in the corner of the room, took out a can of ice-cold beer for himself, and threw a can of ice-cold orange juice to Jiang Xia.
Then he opened the can with a "pop", tilted his head back and took a sip comfortably, as a small celebration.
It was not difficult to complete this organizational task which was more formal than practical. What Toru Amuro wanted to celebrate was actually the end of another matter...
He looked out the window at the night, drank beer, and briefly enjoyed some leisurely adult time. Then he turned around and planned to let Jiang Xia go back to his room to rest.
But as soon as he looked at Jiang Xia, Toru Amuro suddenly discovered that Jiang Xia was looking down at the can of iced orange juice, touching the condensed water mist on the can, and he seemed a little lost.
"……?"
Amuro Toru was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly remembered something.
Speaking of which, I have only been out with Jiang Xia for a few days, and I have already been tortured by this pace of life. However, Jiang Xia has been living a similar life for a long time, often encountering cases, and having his life disrupted by various murderers, but he never rejects solving cases.
...Is it because only in this way can Jiang Xia find his value and sense of existence as a detective? Because only in this way can he completely immerse himself in the role of a detective and temporarily break away from his identity as a peripheral member of the organization?
Thinking of this, Amuro Toru reviewed it carefully and found that the cases they encountered during this trip seemed to be a little more than what Jiang Xia encountered on a normal day.
Jiang Xia may not have thought too much about it, but subconsciously he associated this journey with the "case", so now that he heard that the journey was about to end, he felt lost reflexively.
"..."Thinking of this, Toru Amuro felt a little emotional.
If he had more free time, he wouldn't mind accompanying Jiang Xia to encounter a few more cases.
But... but he is really busy and has a lot of things to do, so he must try to maintain a healthy mental state...
Recalling my situation a few days ago, Amuro Toru's invitation, "It's okay, let's go out together next time when you're free," was right on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't say it no matter what.
In the end, he just changed the subject guiltily and sent Jiang Xia back to the room.
Every journey has an end, and this one is no exception. It's a pity, but it's time to end it...
(End of this chapter)
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