“The police can always use the help on cold cases. Is there any specific reason you would choose the United Kingdom over Japan?” he asked as an after thought. It did seem rather strange to him, but then again, he realized that Saguru was raised in England.
They were a lot alike in some ways and then completely different in others. While Saguru wanted to work on cold cases, Shinichi was much more involved in the here and now. Organized crime had become his game, which wasn’t really all that surprising. Maybe he would go back to solving murders when they were finally put behind bars.
The question brought Hakuba to a near-stumble. “Ah, Kudou-san… Well, that is to say…”
He looked back at Shinichi, raising a brow, frowning somewhat. Either Shinichi was teasing him or he’d somehow managed to transcend mortality and was, as he might have guessed, an angel of equality.
Either way, he decided to err on the side of caution and answer the question seriously.
“Considering I look about as Japanese as a piñata, I’ll never make it past rank 6, and that’s only if I am incredibly fortunate. I’ll have a much better chance advancing in London."