Lico stood on tiptoe a little and let me under his umbrella, and the
snow is accumulating little by little around us.

"...I can't blame you for that. You were still on the cruise ship at
the time."

"To be honest, that case was over a long time ago."

"Eh? What were you doing before then?"

"Following the progress of the game."

"Following?"

"Didn't we separate the cases at the beginning? Part of them
under Yui-san’s responsibility, and the other part under mine. In
this case, if I intervene in Yui-san’s cases, I would be suspected of
foul play."

"No, you wouldn’t! I really want your help."

"Actually, that does make me feel the itch, I really want to solve
the mysteries... but if I solve all of them, those who are watching
the game will be bored, right? I think that's boring too."

"It has nothing to do with those who are watching the game!

What do you mean by bored? Isn’t this a matter of human lives?"

I raised my voice. As expected, I cannot expect Lico to have the
ethics and sense of justice that a detective should have, but at the
same time, there exists a detective like Ryūzōji who treats all this
with a firm resolve—

Lico looked back at me as if he is looking at something strange