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I think solving that was worth 45 picarats.

I think I may have understood it now all of a sudden… basically says something along the lines of “This time it’s an unusual three-part series”. Gōshō put the kanji for first/before (前), second/middle (中), and third/latter (後) all together before the kanji for volume/chapter (編) to form a slang word meaning it’s divided in first, second, and third chapter. Basically it’s a single compound word that doesn’t turn up anything in dictionaries but has that meaning, I think. I’ll go put that on the wiki, anyway, if anyone has something against it you can bring it up to Fujiwara or something.

It is certainly true that James' alibi will be broken if Gin received orders from Rum. The question now is did Gin receive orders from Rum? This is what Gin said to Chianti. Chianti: Are you telling me to quit after coming all the way here!? Gin: Yeah, I just got ano kata's approval. We are changing targets. The alibi is broken if Gin regularly refers to Rum as "ano kata", the same as the boss of the Black Organization. If it turns out there are two ano katas running around then it is going to confuse a lot of issues. Like which ano kata is Vermouth the favorite of?