Chapter 307: Business is different, please don’t meddle in other people’s business
Someone is watching me.
Almost instantly, Katsuki Uehara, who was familiar with telescopes, realized this.
Although the reflection was only fleeting.
"What's wrong, Katsumi?"
It was the first time for Sato Miwako to participate in such a high-end banquet, and she suddenly became confused when she saw her boyfriend suddenly froze in place.
Looking in the direction he was looking, she didn't see anything of note except the attendees walking back and forth.
"Someone was looking at me with a telescope just now, in the room in the building on the left front."
Katsuki Uehara, who casually put the champagne aside, raised his finger and pointed out the location: "I'm going to see what's going on."
"What did you say?"
Sato Miwako, who never expected to get such an answer, suddenly frowned: "I understand, I will help you look outside, please be careful."
As a police officer, Sato Miwako's instinct told her that something was not right.
This is a banquet hall. If you want to meet people, just come up and make friends. What's the point of hiding in the room and looking through binoculars?
"Um."
After giving his girlfriend a reassuring look, Uehara Katsumi walked straight towards his destination.
Sato Miwako, while lowering her head to sip champagne, secretly glanced at Moritani Teiji who was talking to Mori Kogoro and his group not far away.
This banquet was organized by him, and everyone was invited by him.
If there is anything unusual, then this famous architect is her first suspect.
"He seems to have discovered us."
At the window edge of the room, Pramya raised her eyebrows, put down the telescope she took from Monáe Minamihara, and stuffed it into her pocket, preparing to take it out later.
"He is indeed very sensitive to things like being followed and stared at. I have a say in this."
Minamihara Monáe, who had followed this man during the police academy, was not surprised by this, but immediately stopped Pramya after noticing her hiding things - and then grabbed the small telescope.
"Don't put it in your own bag. If someone like him, who doesn't play by the rules, doubts you, he may find an accident to check it out at any time."
After hiding all the equipment, Nahara Monáe stood up. Dressed in a maid outfit, it was enough to show what identity she used to sneak into the Moritani Emperor's Second Manor.
Pramila curled her lips in disbelief: "You really understand him."
"Stop the ink stains, it's time to go."
After finding the handbag that Moritani Teiji had placed in this room, Minamihara Monáe directly stuffed the small telescope in her hand into it.
When Katsuki Uehara arrived, all he saw was a maid busy walking back and forth at work. Behind this maid, several maids were also entering and exiting various rooms, changing the sheets and bedding.
"I'm sorry, sir, you can't go in here unless you get Mr. Moritani's permission."
The moment she saw Katsumi Uehara, a conscientious maid immediately put down her work, stood up, and came to block him.
"Oh, really. Well, I'm sorry, Miss, where is the bathroom? I may be lost."
Katsuki Uehara showed an awkward yet polite smile and used the urine escape method. The maid who heard this enthusiastically pointed out a clear path for him.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, Officer Uehara."
"you know me?"
"Of course, I watch the news. It's not just me, my brother also admires you. Ah, let's not talk about it for now, Officer Uehara, I have to go to work first, otherwise I will be scolded later."
The maid patted her head as if she had thought of something, with a drooped face showing a hint of distress between her brows. After reluctantly saying goodbye to her idol, she pushed the cart covered by a heavy sheet and left.
Pretending to leave, Katsuki Uehara deliberately slowed down his pace. After watching the maid walk in front of him, he turned back and glanced at the corridor where no one was walking around at the moment——
After just a few steps, I happened to see a maid pushing a bedding cart and walking out of a room next to her.
"..."
As their eyes met, Katsuki Uehara, who looked slightly embarrassed, coughed: "Well, um, I'm sorry, Miss, where can I go to this bathroom? I seem to be lost."
"Oh, just go this way. Turn left at the end of the corridor and you will see the sign for the bathroom, sir."
The polite maid stepped aside to make a way and pointed to the end of the corridor, which was inaccessible to ordinary people.
——?!
The moment he heard this answer, Katsuki Uehara's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately turned around and chased the "maid" in the direction where he left!
"Eh? Sir? Sir?!"
The unaware maid shouted loudly behind him, but Uehara Katsumi, who was intent on chasing, had no intention of looking back and ran all the way along the route taken by the maid who had stopped him before——
Unfortunately, it was a step too late in the end.
A trolley placed in a large open space was reflected in the man's eyes, and a maid uniform was scattered on the ground.
Uehara Katsuki stepped forward, but unexpectedly saw a rectangular piece of paper on his clothes, with a line of words written on it: [I'm sorry to disturb you, dear Officer Uehara. You and I have different business, so please don't meddle in other people's business.
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Business is different?
Rubbing the card in his hand, Katsuki Uehara narrowed his eyes slightly.
Not long after, Moritani Teiji learned the news that a thief had broken into his home——
"After an inventory, precious jewelry with a total value of approximately 300 million yen was lost."
After calling the police, someone from the Second Investigation Section who had extensive experience in catching thieves took over the case.
Moritani Teiji's face looked ugly.
He was in a good mood. At today's banquet, he used the child next to Mouri Kogoro to try out the password to the gunpowder magazine, but in the blink of an eye there was a burglar at home.
The entire party witnessed the embarrassment of a burglar in his home.
Damn it, what do those security guards who pay a lot of money do?
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"The prisoner is probably in his twenties to thirties, with an oval face and short hair, almost as long as the ears."
Facing his colleagues in Section 2, as the only man at the scene who had met the thief, Katsumi Uehara described the "maid" he saw: "She was wearing a maid uniform and flat shoes at the time, and she should be about 10cm tall.
About 65 meters.
“My face and body are relatively average.
"Oh, by the way, she has a mole under her left eye."
"Is that so, Uehara?"
The colleague in charge of testing and writing held up a portrait, but it didn't look very similar to Uehara Katsumi.
At the same time, in an apartment in Tokyo.
After returning to her footing, Nahara Monáe tore off the extremely realistic human skin mask on her face in one fell swoop, opened the curtains, and looked up at the blazing sun hanging high in the sky outside the window, allowing the sunlight to instantly shine into the messy sky.
in the room.
On the messy floor, a large number of bottles and cans with nameless labels were scattered here and there, which was particularly eye-catching.