In the afternoon at this time, Shinobu and Nezuko were both still at school, so the house was empty.
Jotaro glanced at the open window; the hand turning the key paused slightly, and a bad premonition rose in his heart.
Perhaps due to working in medical research, the woman Shinobu was extremely meticulous in all aspects of life.
Closing the windows and locking up before leaving the house was her habit.
Leaving with the windows open, Jotaro didn't believe she would make such a low-level mistake. In other words, someone had illegally broken in while they were away from home.
'A thief?' He would rather hope it was a thief tempted by riches.
But the other party's goal clearly wasn't the money in the house.
His gaze moved away from the neatly arranged furniture. Jotaro half-squatted beside the drawer and found no signs of it being touched.
"What exactly was this guy's objective?"
Jotaro slowly stood up, eyes flickering, in an instant, it was as if he thought of something, and turned around, running toward the basement.
Bang!
The basement door was directly kicked open by him.
His gaze swept across the empty room, and he muttered, "As expected, that woman Rize is gone."
Coming up from the basement, Jotaro's expression was cold as frost. Star Platinum floated behind him, carefully examining the surroundings.
"There are no marks on the ground, and no fingerprints on the window handle…"
"Yare yare…"
He sat at the wooden table, gazing out the window, resting his cheek in one hand, and spoke in a low voice, "The person who took Rize clearly planned everything carefully."
"Why would he know Rize is with me?"
Other than himself, only three people knew about the ghoul imprisoned in the basement, Shinobu and Nezuko, who shouldn't leak something like this.
'That woman Touka, then?'
This way, her suspicion was indeed the greatest.
As for Touka's motive, he couldn't be bothered to think. This kind of thing could be solved just by finding the person and asking directly.
After being beaten senseless by him that time, Touka hadn't gone back to school. Since her injuries still hadn't healed, going to school would only arouse suspicion.
"In any case, I'll check her place first."
With that decision made, Jotaro was about to get up, when a figure swept in with overwhelming killing intent.
It came fiercely, passed through the window at an extremely fast speed, cracks instantly appeared along the window sill.
"Star Platinum!"
"ORA!"
Star Platinum instantly appeared from behind Jotaro and punched the intruder square in the chest.
To avoid messing up the house, Jotaro made sure the intruder exited from where they entered.
The figure let out a painful scream and flew backward through the open window.
"Ghoul…"
The feeling from the hit told Jotaro the attacker's identity.
'Is this the guy who took Rize?'
He braced one hand on the shattered window sill, leaped gracefully out, and approached the ghoul lying on the ground.
Because he didn't know the person's identity at first, he hadn't used full force. Even though he took a punch from Star Platinum, he quickly recovered.
The ghoul agilely flipped up from the ground. The lips exposed outside his mask trembled with rage.
"You dare! You dare! You dare hurt Lord Shuu!"
"I'll slaughter you!"
He charged again like a crazed wild beast, radiating killing intent.
The Rinkaku twisting wildly behind him looked like angry bristled hair.
Jotaro frowned. A surge of Haki had already climbed onto his fist. Under the opponent's fierce assault, he found the right timing, and launched a punch at the enemy's face.
This ghoul was even stronger than Tsukiyama Shuu, their strength wasn't on the same level.
Just as his punch was about to land, the ghoul tilted his head away, and at the same time, the Rinkaku behind him launched a rapid attack on Jotaro.
Such a vicious fighting style, every strike from the Rinkaku targeted a vital point.
Jotaro's retreat was blocked, and because of his previous attack, he had no time to defend.
The sharp and hard kagune was about to pierce Jotaro's body.
"You damn!"
Wait a second, if he called him a damn pest, then what would that make Lord Shuu, whom this guy follows?
Kanae Von Rosewald paused slightly. 'That would be a serious disrespect to Lord Shuu.'
He quickly corrected himself, "You damn investigator, how dare you arrest Lord Shuu!"
"He must be suffering so much inside that cold prison of Cochlea!"
"Just thinking about it, ahh, my Lord Shuu!"
He tilted his head back and spoke emotionally, as if Tsukiyama Shuu could hear him even now.
"Please hang in there a little longer! Once I kill this bastard and wash away your humiliation, Kanae will personally come save you!"
"You must be trapped in darkness now, please rest assured. I will definitely bring you light."
'Only I can bring light to Lord Shuu! I will be the first one to open that cold iron gate for him!'
"Die! But before that, I'm going to tear you to pieces!"
The Rinkaku on his body suddenly tensed and all at once lunged toward Jotaro's body.
'Two fists can't fight four hands!'
Jotaro had already fallen into a desperate situation, if he didn't think of something, he'd be torn to pieces just like Kanae said!
Haki was a mysterious thing. Compared to breathing techniques that squeezed out cellular energy, it could improve cellular strength at the fundamental level.
In other words, training Haki could let a person break past their physical limits.
Jotaro's body constitution at this moment was absolutely not inferior to that of an S-rated ghoul.
But his opponent was clearly stronger, likely already SS-rated.
SS-rated was just one level above S-rated, but their power had undergone an earth-shattering transformation.
Calling it a world of difference would not be an exaggeration. In front of an SS-rated ghoul, an S-rated one would absolutely be instantly defeated.
"ORA!"
But Jotaro wasn't a ghoul.
Star Platinum's fist instantly burst from his body and smashed directly into the opponent's face. The mask shattered into countless pieces, revealing underneath a handsome foreign face.
But in the next second, that delicate face looked like a painting by Picasso.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
Shattering every incoming Rinkaku, Star Platinum followed up with a rapid barrage of punches.
Kanae had no power to fight back, only stunned confusion.
His limbs instantly lost mobility. Without strength to hold himself, he fell on his back like a rootless duckweed drifting on water.
Jotaro grabbed the front of his shirt, cold eyes staring straight into him, and asked, "You're the Gourmet's companion? But the one who took Rize wasn't you, right?"
To Jotaro's question, he didn't respond, just trembled continuously as if struggling to escape.
Jotaro struck his face with a punch and said blandly, "I don't have time to waste on you. If you still want to see this so-called Lord Shuu again, you'd better answer my question honestly."
As soon as he heard the words "Lord Shuu," Kanae instantly calmed down.
Staring into Jotaro's cold eyes, he felt as if he were standing in hell. The meaning was clear, if he didn't cooperate, he would be killed right now.
Lord Shuu was still imprisoned in Cochlea, how could he fall before rescuing him.
So to Jotaro's interrogation, he could only answer honestly.
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